skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair nitpick, but my reply to the parent comment still stands - that the regulation was about pollution, and not engine performance.
The first model in the Voltswagen line should be called the Eggcorn.
BP tried something similar in the early 2000s, but abandoned the new name after their incidents in the following decade:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2020/08/04/bps-n...
I've seen this example going around because it's such an egregious example of attributing to hard work what was essentially just gifted, but I think "wealth is accumulated through habits" is not wrong. It's really just a statement about compound interest, that if you live frugally and invest you'll end up with tons of money.

The statement is better characterized as something like "wealth is the product of habits and opportunity", where the only measurement we can quantify is a person's wealth, and our society is struggling to reconcile whether unwealthy people simply have poor habits (their fault) or poor opportunities (society's fault).
How are you still doubting that this is anything but astroturfing? How can it possibly be true that "only people with a box emoji in their names are real Amazon employees", and that every single Amazon employee worth trusting has "@AmazonFC*" as their Twitter handle?

It is laughably amateurish, it's actually less believable that Amazon management and the union-busters are stupid enough to entrust this to such a sloppy operation.
>Hotels in the Union Square district generally hit the “Gouge The Attendees” button, on WWDC week.

But how much of that directly impacts the local economy vs going into corporate coffers which are not necessarily anywhere near the convention site?

Giving $100 to each of ten employees at a chain restaurant would probably have a bigger impact on the local economy (or at least the micro-economy of the employees) than spending $5,000 on food at the same restaurant.
Carp seems to be a modern compiled lisp with some traction.
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I don't see anyone here jumping excitedly. A prepared France is good for global stability. All countries have had their major shortcomings, but France has still been a paragon for enlightenment values. Without defense, authoritarians have the leeway to bully and kill whoever suits them, as Crimea is aware of.
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> we'll always need shitty job to keep people busy

People have been worried we'll run out of jobs ever since farming started to decline from being 90% of jobs.

People will always want better things, whether cell phones or TV shows. There are ALWAYS jobs to produce those better things.

There's no need to "keep people busy". People just always want better things and will work for them.
Somewhere in another thread someone suggested that amazon had a program and incentives for employees to represent them positively online so maybe it is just poor PR on their part. Still, these days it's hard to take anything at face value.
So, two competing hypotheses:
1) France knows something we don't know about the likelihood of them getting into a high-intensity war
2) France's military is worried about the civilian government cutting their budget until they are irrelevant, as happened in most of the rest of European NATO, and wants to look relevant
FWIW I don’t think you normally refer to forced conscripts as “vets” unless they’ve actually been in combat.
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World. It's written by a retired British general. It covers how war changed during the industrial revolution, then with the creation of nuclear weapons. The main point of the book is that conventional warfare is all but obsolete, but high level commanders don't know how to conduct anything but conventional warfare, and that the media can win or lose a conflict based on the narrative it pushes.
Yes, maybe I misinterpreted, but I understood his grievance to be that many books focus too much on preserving US influence relative to Chinese influence. Apologies if I misunderstood.
I was appalled when I just tried to upgrade my Lenovo laptop's WiFi and was greeted with a BIOS message telling me the hardware I inserted was unauthorized and to remove it or it wouldn't boot.

What Microsoft did there takes the cake though...That is truly disgusting.
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It's just a trope. Drill instructors mostly yell so there's no chance the guy at the back didn't hear them and to instill the appropriate urgency. Maybe if you screw up enough you'll get the 6" away forehead vein popping out type yelling. I wasn't describing the literal experience of boot camp. It I wanted to do that I would have said "getting rained on while jogging for 90 days".
Major conflict is a relative term, but I'd call Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and Armenia major conflicts that happened in Europe within last ~20 years.
20% is more accurately described as 'big chunk' than any argument you can make for 'all gang related'.
They could also accept pebbles and sand as payment, hold them forever, and pay the merchant with their massive cash reserve or 0% interest debt. Profit.
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Just what are you trying to find out with this question?
I've had similar complaints about HN and the Baptists, but I never would have connected them had it not been for this comment.
> tooling that manipulates the way people think.

... this, being perhaps the most troubling part.-
I've found that OpenNode is a pretty reasonable hosted-checkout bitcoin processor. They support Lightning, and BTC to Fiat at time of purchase.
We're quite close to the Redwood team - the community there are awesome.

> what's your perspective on the GraphQL (and Prisma)?

Every Supabase project is a full Postgres instance, so you can connect Prisma to it (we provide the Postgres connection string in the Project Settings). There is a potential issue if you are using serverless functions with Postgres (because connections are expensive in Postgres), but look out for an announcement soon which will solve this ...

> I'm not really satisfied with Auth0 and would love to use something else

You can also choose to use a single part of Supabase (just the Auth). I'm biased, but I think we are a lot simpler to use. We have a long way to go to catch up to their enterprise offerings though (compliance, SOC2, etc).
This is one reason I far more trusted email workflows around darcs than I do with git. In darcs patches were first class objects (including a ton of context information), but in git that sort of information has to travel in manually and in parallel in the email thread.
Imagine being worth 185 billion dollars and still obsessing about your workers advocating for better pay and conditions?

What a miserable existence that must be. Bezos has always struck me as a man who cares about nothing else only his own personal wealth and success.

There is no joy in his life.
> the French will be on the front lines, and landing on beaches.

They have never done so effectively in the past (Vietnam? Algeria? Suez?) and I don't see them doing it now or any time in the future.
> but it does put them back on par with just about every other auto manufacturer in my mind

I'm not buying this.

Edit: I stand (mostly) corrected:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
> "We were worried about Getty because they're all about copyright, but after talking for years and waiting for our daily uniques to grow, they've agreed to our terms re: valuation."

FIFY
According to my therapist if you look at your phone while walking, you're severely addicted and need to consider having no-screen days every once in a while.
Well, I use WSL so the distros don't matter much (not like I have a desktop environment), but I like Ubuntu because as the biggest Linux distro, almost everything has been entered into the Ubuntu or Debian repos and/or is available as a .deb.
I have distant family that works for Amazon and they say their warehouse in the middle of the US is full of people who love it there. That the vast majority are very happy and the rules are pretty lax as long as you do your job.

Why is is shocking that there are people who work at Amazon who are happily employed?
In a house I rented years ago, I told the landlord what I wanted to do with Ethernet cabling and jacks and he was more than happy to have me do it (for free), as it added value as far as he was concerned. Just do the job in a workman-like manner. So that might be another option if your landlord isn’t a faceless property management company.
I wonder how much of it is part of the increased NATO requirements for a putting a increased percentage of GDP into defense, pushed in part by the US wanting to lower it's international defense outlays. And, to some degree, I wonder if the strategic change is driven by more erratic and less long term stability in the US's willingness and ability to defend the EU.
Article incorrectly claims that calling a method on a nil value results in an error. Only attempting to dereference the pointer does. It’s fine to call methods on nil and that’s part of the “make the zero value useful” philosophy.
That's a nice theoretical definition of "fraudulent intent" but you're not going to get a court to agree with it, I don't think.
The cynic in me says that they were just beaten into submission and after 5 years they said 'fuck it', because they weren't getting any better offers.
See also

ifconfig.io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17168415

ifconfig.in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4070133

ifconfig.me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6429921

ipinfo.io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5604476
Drill instructors shout. They never yell. They are generally some of the most calm and level-headed people i have working for me. Spend 90 days days surrounded by armed teenagers operating on little sleep and you too will be slow to anger.
Lovely article, plain sense made entertaining. However, the entire argument arises from an error in living conditions: these people lack hounds.

A proper lifestyle shared with loyal hounds ensures that silly sanitation issues such as these never even arise. "5 second rule?" hah! food don't bounce twice, even if the hound was outside when it was dropped.
Turkey is part of NATO at the moment, so it would not trigger an automatic NATO-wide engagement.

But for a Baltics invasion, it would.
I understand it but realized I haven't knowingly seen it. Are there any good examples of Reddit or HN comments that are not genuine? I don't do "posts", but do participate in comment sections / conversations, and would like to see some examples of conversations where one party is confirmed to be a bot or troll.
Yes, if you are fortunate enough to have a job that allows you to save money--that's less than half the working population of the US, where the median bank account value is under $6k. Someone with a bank account that low isn't investing $2000/year starting at 20 years old to achieve a $1M (pre-tax) portfolio at age 67.

That's the whole reason people object to these "just start saving and compound returns will make you rich" myths. The fact is that only people near the right-edge or beyond of the curve in terms of income will ever "invest and be rich" in a given lifetime. It takes a combination of extreme luck and risk-taking to achieve wealth in this society.
Buffet’s dad was a federal congressman with his own investment firm, and grandparents were owners of a grocery store. Not saying he didn’t work for any of it or didn’t deserve it, but you’re not going to be Buffett by socking away 20% of your pay in a retirement account (you might be nominally if US gov keeps printing money, but not in real terms).

He certainly is an outlier in terms of intelligence and work ethic, but I would assume connections from his dad helped, as well as the family being able to afford sending their kid to good schools and NYC for further networking and education, all the way from Nebraska in the 1950s.
Mystery brain disorder baffles Canadian medicine
You might consider the Unitarian Universalists. They welcome everybody, including atheists, and they're pretty good people. I mean, people are people everywhere, but I don't think you'll find the same kind of problems that you find with other faith groups.
not being able to believe anything you see online because you know everything can be fakes isn't super healthy either.
Yes, that's their ambassador program. But I doubt that the ambassador program would tell the members to create unverified accounts and try to pass them off as official amazon ambassador accounts.
It could also be people behind the cause who aren't affiliated with either party. I think your point is worth noting, though I fully support the workers trying to unionize here.
The Chinese propaganda says they're just defending their territory, but as far as I can tell it's just expansionism in disguise. That is to say, they've been taking areas that even China considered to be part of (say) India, rewriting the past so that they're not only part of China but always have been, and sending in troops to claim them. In many ways their claim to the South China Sea is like this too.
> That's real, proven, global power projection

No, it isn't. Libya is just across the Med from France, not in the Pacific.

> The number of other countries in the world capable of that can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Well, really on one finger.
SCR systems are very expensive in modern VWs as well. Especially to repair. With the additional pressure on the engine because of restrictive exhausts engines also don't last as long. EGR systems on diesels are known to gunk up. VW used SCR systems since 2009 if you didn't know.
What makes people uncomfortable is that the US is a democracy, and the leaders are chosen by the population. China's military and social power is wielded by a very small group of elites in the CCP, which makes it hard to trust. The nature of US policy has been shaped over the centuries in the open, whereas China's policies and doctrines are sometimes changed overnight.
>Of course nobody would tolerate being subject to those record keeping requirements for private sales. But nobody wants to get the pigs knocking on their door asking who they sold a gun they recovered from a crime scene to so people want to be able to call up the NCIS system

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you aren't comfortable selling a gun to a criminal or someone with a potentially dangerous mental illness you need to do a background check there's no alternative. Maybe for your specific gripe, which I don't find compelling, you disconnect the background check from the specific gun being sold but you still need to do it.
One could preface it or postscript it with some commentary instead of implicitly endorsing it as a good idea.
> - Paddleboard breakouts at East Meets West

Can be done as online gaming events

> - Asking Vinod a question about next-gen registers at Program Synthesis Conference

Can be done using a microphone and camera attached to your device

> - Animated discussion about cpu design over beers post conference in SF

Animated conversations can be done via microphone and video

> - Talking to a startup about IOT management on the roof of an Accel event

Can be done as a vendor breakout with a virtual background of a roof

> - When I was a college student sitting on a folding chair and chatting with a nice woman about the startups pitching at TechCrunch40 (turned out to be M Mayer)

You can always sit in a folding chair and chat with M Mayer in a slack room for the breakout

> - Drew pitching me on Dropbox before launch in Cambridge (boring, I thought)

Drew also has a microphone and camera I bet, but it probably won’t make him less boring

> - Nate pitching me AirBedAndBreakfast in Mountain View (loved the idea from the get go)

Who would ever want to actually go to Mountain View? (N.b., I lived there for many years)
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It's a way of generating a stable income and something to do for those losing their jobs to automation.

Isn't the US military also a huge employer?
The context of large military operations is not necessarily new. It's about being prepared and not necessarily aggression.

>In his strategic vision for 2030 published last year, however, General Thierry Burkhard, the head of the French army, outlined the need to prepare for high-intensity, state-on-state conflict.

Flipside when the military gets a 46% boost in budget... that's politicians making it abundantly clear that this is more than operations. This is

Now place this in context.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/france-thousa...

Anyone remember the Yellow vest protests? Ya they went away after the French government arrested them all.

>Between November 2018 and July 2019, 11,203 Yellow Vests protesters were placed in pre-charge detention.

As the link points out... France declared martial law pre-covid and has gotten significantly worse during covid.

So it makes me wonder. Is this just a continuation of martial law or escalation? Or do they expect their military will be up against other states?
>The issue is that offering halfway decent internet to people in rural areas would cost them lots of money

Oddly enough, once competition appears, their inability to build out a half decent network disappears.

>Time and time again, however, telecom has shown a willingness to compete on both price and service if a better municipal network pops up. Many cities with fiber networks are suddenly seeing massive investment from incumbent telecom providers—often, telecom will increase speeds and drop prices below cost. After Wilson, North Carolina built a fiber network, Time Warner Cable dropped rates within city limits and then, to subsidize the loss, it jacked up prices in neighboring communities, where it still had a monopoly. In Chattanooga, Comcast now offers 2 Gbps connections, which is faster internet than it offers anywhere else in the country.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezpk77/chattanooga-gigabit-f...
I mean its not okay to be exploitative but its totally unacceptable to be exploitative and this stupid.
Essentializing all unions based on the behavior of a few of them, vs summarizing a single company's behavior who has a visible and obvious track record of breaking up unionization efforts via nefarious and underhanded tactics, are completely incomparable.

If you want snark, have some back: where did the big bad union boss touch you?

> What other explanation is there?

Hired a shoddy offshore bot-writing and astroturfing outfit who are obviously not up to the job. It's a very simple, and one of the most likely, explanations. Occam's razor comes in handy occasionally if you just take the time to think a bit.
Meh, social network mixed up with some sort of cryptocurrency bullshit. Hard pass from me.
I think she was looking for a non-biased overview.
Mate, that’s why I stated forthright that this is a me problem and made no bones about it.

The “e” is from 「絵」and “moji” from 「文字」, transliterated as 「えもじ」, “e” + “moji” gets you “picture message”. It was a stroke of luck that it was similar enough to emoticon to neatly fit into our existing lexicon and be understood at a glance by an English speaker, at least the gist of it. A picture message is a little bit different than an emote icon if you think about it because there’s many more pictures which are not emotes per se, but can be used within a message alongside the emoting emoji. :)
I think it's safe to say they intend to do that, though, in the event of an outright invasion or hostile coup of one of their closely-tied states in Africa or the Levant, or an attack on Europe. Which explains the exercises.
They are always doing what they do for the sake of profit, it's just that being profitable is harder when the planet is fucking on fire.[1][2]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/triple-bottom-line.asp

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgBFYkBZ6E
>seems way less pretentious

Or you could help do your part in normalizing pronouncing things correctly instead of perpetuating the perception that it's somehow "pretentious".
> we should be teaching critical thinking in schools, but we already do this and we have been teaching it for decades.

This is news to me. What countries are you referencing?
At least in Finland people aren’t really vetted. The “determined unfit for service” thing is more of an opt-out, nobody will force it upon you unless you’re obviously disabled. You have to go to the doctor and ask to be deemed unfit, you’d have to do something crazy to have that forced upon you against your will.

I don’t think Swiss is any different.
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I don't think verified identities would address the fakeness/authenticity problem because you could simply pay someone to shill with their verified account. Sure, you would know 'who' posted the opinion but you could never be sure if they were being compensated to do so. You also run into the issue of people being seemingly authentic with their views, but also being paid to promote them. Brooklyn Dad Defiant is a great example, he's consistent with his views, he's not anonymous, and he also got paid $60k by a PAC.
But at least this time it fits with their fairly new "Democracy Dies in Darkness" tagline.
> does anyone seriously think that a Chinese global hegemony would be better

I welcome Chinese non judgemental policy especially internal matter.
Are you going to prove it?
Artificial situations? Like seeing how fast they can run 40 yards? Can they hit a home run? Can they stop 3 penalty kicks?

Sports interviews are way more atuned to the actual job than software interviews.
As much as the idealists in me would like to, I can't disagree. How do you go about achieving that in a democratic society though?

Misinformation is like a virus, and it spreads through a population easiest when they accept and share it. All that takes is for it to confirm some preconceived idea or to flatter them. Critical thinking, or at least base line skepticism, seems like the only inoculation.

You're not wrong that that may be too much to expect from people though.
> What if we did get to a point where nearly all the tedious, unskilled jobs were done by machines -- what exactly is the barrier to taking all the humans previously doing those jobs and leveling them up to do jobs machines can't do as well?

Because history repeats itself. Yesterday's factory workers are now slaves of the service/gig economy. These things have been discussed in basically any economy book since the 60s. Automation in itself just moves the problem, if there are no societal changes to assist it you're just running in circles. Politicians of the 70s were promising 5 hours work days and 3 days of work per week thanks to automation, last time I checked we work as much as back then (if not more because retirement age is going up)

> It seems the barrier is that generally it's not economically beneficial to do so

It's not economical because in today's world you need an army of cheap labor to generate big money for the sharks on top. And this is exactly why you'll always have shitty jobs paying the bare minimum for insane amount of work, it'll take a looooong time before a 7$ an hour worker gets more expensive than a robot for any task remotely difficult.

I'm not saying UBI would solve these issues, or any at all really, it's just something we should at least give a shot. But the problem is that in our societies being a worthy human being = working 8 hours a day 5 days a week, and as long as this is default we'll never get rid of shitty jobs, no matter how much we automate, we'll always have to find new occupations for people, and by definition these jobs will be more and more abstract, less and less stimulating, &c.