skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the true greatness of the US though. Finding a balance between provision for the rule of law, enforcement of contracts, protection of civil liberties, and environmental/food/drug regulation alongside the right to do whatever the hell you want personally. It's why many things like our homicide rate, car fatality rate, and poverty rates can seem third world in nature, yet our institutions and regulatory agencies are the gold standard for the world.
This is the kicker with every one of these discussions, really.

The ceiling on bad behavior is set by management, because they can do all of those bad things people claim unions do, and more - right now. The union gives you recourse
> Even if something is unavoidable, it can still be a barrier to freedom

If it's equally possible in completely free and completely unfree scenarios how can you use it as a metric to show something is not free?
At the risk of sounding snarky, if the oversight worked there wouldn't be all these stories.

Look at the F35 thread that appears here now and again. Loads and loads of congressional districts involved, loads and loads of people with a stake. It still ended up costing an insane amount more than it needed to.

With private actually I don't think it's all that different though, the difference is some of the private ventures are allowed to die once the failure is complete.

Totally agree that public interest ought to matter, just I don't see that it actually holds people to account.
Interesting. I didn't know meth was cheap enough for this to be economically viable. It reminds me of hearing about cooks who took up smoking because smoke breaks were the only way to get breaks at all during service. From a short-term standpoint, it's got a logic to it.
@legg0myegg0 thanks for bringing up Dremio. Can Dremio connect with different databases RDBMS, Kafka, DataLake PRC file formats? Is the use case limited to certain data stores? Is the use-case primarily a united query engine (so that the code remains consistent across DB engines) or is the use case query acceleration?
Blinkenlights German, perhaps?
Yes, my understanding is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Singhal wrote the first version of Ascorer and named it after himself.
I use socat a lot, especially when wanting to transfer files without incurring the ssh encryption overhead or rsync daemon setup.
Just tar | scocat and voilà,
Superfast whole directory tree transfer.
Sprinkle a bit of mbuffer or openssl on top and you can do a lot!
You're right but what you're actually describing is an indicator of freedom.

If I can compell you with the stick i have no reason to offer you a carrot
How is anyone buying into the complete false statement/propaganda that what Elon said is a threat?

Has anyone commenting here even read Elon's tweet in question?

"Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare." - Elon, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808

Edit to add: lots of Elon hate blocking critical thinking here on HN.
Oh noes, they ran out... now the cows have to produce more :(
They’ve sold it all if you were hoping to get some monkcheese.
After crime plummeted in 2020 ... “The era of ‘tough on crime’ prosecutors is over in Baltimore,” Mosby said

I didn't see an updated graph for 2020, but in 2019 Baltimore set a record for homicides. A graph of the past 30 years is illuminating: https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20190803_USC48...

Baltimore's homicide rate at around 58 per 100k people makes it the 11th most violent city on earth, second only to St Louis in the USA and over 10x the national average rate (which itself is 5-10x the homicide rate in most other OECD countries): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

Doesn't necessarily argue against ending prosecutions for minor non-violent offenses, but I find this story's framing and blanket rejection of "tough on crime" odd. You could get the impression Baltimore is a major success story in depolicing resulting in a calming peace, rather than it having a (perhaps stochastic) 1 year decline from historic and globally record levels of violence, when the murder rate has been bumping up and down by similar amounts while hovering around an absolutely ghastly level of death.
> And while you can observe this progression in most Western democracies, the US sticks out. So the question becomes: Does the US have particularly bad journalists - or - are there US specific factors that fuel the decline of independent journalism in the US?

On most things post WWII, the US has lead the Western World by 5-15 years. And they also have a culture of very public, very loud debates.
That seems like a straw man argument.
also, looked at Snowflake's most recent quarterly results. They spent over $1.7 million/day in sales & marketing.
Meth is an extremely effective stimulant. Its use is quite common among workers who are required to be active for prolonged amount of time
He doesn't speak, read or write Chinese and has been caught manipulating, confabulating and straight up lying multiple times. He is a Christian fundamentalist, and has described other belief systems to Christianity as “ultimately inspired by Satan". He's also openly sexist and homophobic in unambiguously hateful ways.

The article is over 3 months old and posted now for some reason.
DjDSL: Variable Domain-Specific Software Languages
Never heard the first one, but it makes sense.
> One user wrote: "To confirm, you are calling for an investigation into big tech collusion while you are colluding with the FBI against your platform members?" Another user wrote: "This is NOT an example of a free speech platform. Parler is a fraud."

There it is. What these users want is not free speech, but rather no consequences.
It is unfortunate, but US shot itself in the foot by proving that it is not willing to be a neutral third party, which it was perceived as in the 90s.
Regarding the string type in Zig, in case some people are interested by this you can read those two threads from the Zig github repository to understand a bit better previous discussions (I would recommend reading them, they are both interesting):

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"Improved handling of strings and unicode", https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234

Andrew answer:

> I'm not convinced that this is a language change rather than a standard library feature.

(source https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234#issuecomment-28927...)

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"Proposal: Add String to the type system", https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7734

Andre answer:

> We won't have a string type in the language.

> OP problem can be solved with a better std.fmt.format API which better communicates intent. This is a deficiency of the std lib, not the language

(source https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7734#issuecomment-7581...)
That is indeed beautiful but also a sad reminder that current copyright systems have frozen this situation in time - we can only ever use antique art freely in this way, and all recent art is locked behind pseudo-immortal copyright terms.
Politicians should not be threatening to silence people or companies, regardless of whether the latter are lying or treating people badly.

If Amazon is breaking employment law or anti-monopoly law or anything else it can be fined or broken up. What it should not be is silenced.
Good god am I fucking sick and tired of the 'they're a private platform' argument
A lot of this is starting to remind me of the way Galileo and Darwin were treated for announcing their breakthroughs. I know nothing about this drug Maduro is touting, but I can't help worrying that one of these days somebody is going to find an actual cure and the world will never know about it because big social media companies exile them for wrongthink.
You're not considered a low grade commodity like these companies consider their workers.
If you are not a publicity machine then you are doing a disservice to the people you serve because you have no hope of spending the money as effectively. I work in non-profits and the worst thing is having no attention paid to you. You can help people still, but you are not getting as far. There is nothing more pure about charity that does not have publicity.
This is a very interesting question though your question can be framed with a less provocative example ;)

The same reason we criticize other democracies for the most minor of offenses but give Saudi Arabia a pass. We needle those who are needled but avoid those who DGAF or have levers of power over us. The Chinese just DGAF and they have amassed an immense amount of power.
I agree that they shouldn't be unduly influenced by the company when contemplating joining a union.

But if they're paying the workers part in cash and part in options, and the union organizers are pitching that they'll raise their wages, I think it's fair for the company to point out that that is likely to result in moving some of the comp from options into cash.

The UAW and representatives can certainly make statements today. Here's one: https://uaw.org/statement-uaw-vice-president-cindy-estrada-d...
This free market you speak of is in fact fairly sensitive to initial conditions, and will never reconcile the interests of the rich and poor on its own.
Besides what everyone else says, just a reminder:

Humans are always the weakest security link.
>"Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare." - Elon, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808

This is literally textbook union busting BS. It's been the same line for 200 years.
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Nice. Hopefully this becomes the norm.

Just one anecdote: During a VIP tour of a museum, eg browsing the warehouse of stuff not on display, I asked about digital archiving. Blank looks. I'm guessing it's just not part of the curriculum for minting new archivists, curators, historians. I hope I'm wrong. Surely the younger cohorts know this stuff...?
Obviously they can and they do. We are discussing whether that is a good thing overall, which is further complicated by the political issues surrounding Venezuela and its current.. dual government.
Next step would be the need to upload pictures before and after so you have the ability to contest any false claims.

I'm partially kidding, but seeing how much time I spend 'starting' and closing a car in a car-sharing app (making pictures of all corners, all areas), a better approach to these processes would be welcome.
Does the first joke refer to the fact that if they wanted the Ferrari they’d have bought it already, or that if they really wanted the Ferrari, they’d have chosen a more lucrative profession than economics?
Some people think TPB is a comedy. Others know it's a documentary.
I assume I can’t buy this from the USA because customs rules...?
I love these detailed text format FAQs - hearkens back to the old days of trading files. Something about having it all in one large file seems so much more usable than having it broken up into thousands of pages on an unmaintained Wiki somewhere as seems to be the standard now.

(I remember printing the Doom FAQ and the Star Wars FAQ years ago on my dad’s LaserJet IIIp - probably not the best use of 500 sheets of paper)
There is a sensodyne toothpaste with novamin that supposedly repairs enamel. I’ve heard it’s only available in Europe and Asia though.
It's not infantile to believe that one of the roles of government should be to protect individuals from the gargantuan power amassed by corporations. There is no way to avoid capitalism through personal responsibility.
Well, this thread gives an example of a private initiative that provides a better alternative. :)
You don't announce the discovery of a miracle cure via social media, you announce it via clinical trial papers.
Why has this article been [flagged]?
I would like some ECC with that, please.
I tried that for a while. Some time later I found out that they source their products from the same factories and the only thing I've done is prove that marketing works if you wanna convince people to pay premiums for imaginary differences.
SourceForge is to software as maggots are to meat. Don’t know how the people behind it have an ounce of self respect.
I see this being downvoted.

A gentle reminder to everyone on HN, Not everyone lives in US, and even if they do not everyone is well versed in everything going on in US.
Why would they not get stock options? Sounds like a punishment for voting union?
I think it might be fine, but they are sold out.

> all cheese regulated by the FDA (that is, all cheese that is transported across state lines) must either be made from pasteurized (heated) milk or aged at least 60 days.
So why hide the 'good' version?
Tangentially related, but I had a Windows FTP client back in the day called LeechFTP that I loved and I miss it.
Calling this tweet "anti-union" seems like spin. It is pointing out facts that one might want to consider before deciding to unionize. The fact that employees lose stock options when they unionize isn't so much a threat as it is a fact about how unions work because historically unions are against any kind of incentive or merit pay so they refuse options as compensation. It is a fact that UAW hasn't negotiated options as part of the pay for it's members at any of the other companies where it represents workers.
Good thing modafinil isn't a stimulant though
I think the threat is that union members wouldn't get stock options.
Before I got into software I worked mostly food service and sometimes found myself in a position where it would have been literally impossible to complete the duties assigned to me in the time I was given to do them without severely compromising safety. And at other times, impossible to do them even while compromising safety.

I always wondered if firings due to those types of situations should be legal. The failure is obviously on the bean counters who demand a certain amount of work done with inadequate labor, but blame often falls on those performing the labor.
I was gonna put in an order just for having a sense of humor about the whole thing but they are sold out...
Social media isn’t really the proper avenue for vetting science.
How do UPS USPS and FedEx drivers tackle this issue ? Restroom access is a problem and it's important to come up with some proposals especially if we want more women to be able to work these jobs
I use these two socat commands for MITM all the time on my own stuff so I can see the traffic:

socat -v TCP-LISTEN:666,forever,reuseaddr,fork TCP:example.com:8080

socat -v TCP-LISTEN:8080,forever,reuseaddr,fork ssl:example.com:443
In a sense, we already had some taste of tech-powers-that-are blocking information that ended up being true ( Biden's Hunter drug issues ).

edit: I am going to add some sources, since I am not certain why the downvoting is taking place on this particular comment. Not sure how the statement is controversial.

[Biden himself admits issues with drugs]https://www.businessinsider.com/hunter-biden-opens-about-add...
[Same thing only in his book]https://people.com/politics/hunter-biden-to-release-memoir-d...
Whether right or not, Glenn Greenwood has gone all-in on conspiracy. Now it is either win or die, but there is no middle way anymore.

Here is Glenn on the CIA, NSA, DOJ, and the FBI infiltrating the news industry:

https://youtu.be/l8pkCZBjgrk?t=252

Here’s Tucker Carlson on the Biden story that Greenwald has gone all in on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgO7L0rcAQ

Unfortunately when people go all in on exciting conspiracies of scale, I’m inclined to believe they are making a self immolating bet. It’s notable that to mitigate liability, Tucker Carlson’s lawyers have characterized him as a mere entertainer, and that no reasonable person would believe his entertainment show.
Since Amazon constantly tracks their employees, they could mandate that they take their breaks or be penalised. They would rather not do that and try to deal with biology some other way.
Last time I compared the two Filezilla was a lot faster on fast connections. Grabbing the same bunch of files from the same server it was as at times literally twice as fast as WinSCP.
In addition to everything else here...

Don't forget that if you were to suddenly abducted by aliens or fell into a time portal your work would replace you, quickly, and the jobs would go on.
A lot of recent f35 is trash reporting is mixed up in lockmart competitors trying to to make clean sheet f16 proposal a thing. f16 also lockheed, so conceivably lockheed gains even if f35 failures need to be plugged by f16s.
Indeed. There are examples for making local/remote shells. It can make a pty, use setsid() to be a daemon, reset the terminal state, then listen(), etc, all in a one liner. Or route a serial port over ip via ptys in raw mode, again, with a one-liner.
How come a link to REUTERS article, with the exact headline is flagged?
People have completely different and non-compatible definition of "a simple tool" and "simple solution". It's often more about familiarity than anything else.
I thought there are 'out of pocket maximums' set by the government to avoid that? The most that individuals will have to pay out-of-pocket in 2020 is $8,200 and $16,400 for families.
It's not particularly intellectually stimulating and likely to cause a flame war.
People promoting ivermectin have been making claims with appropriate expressed confidence. It seems to have decent evidence, too.
Someone needs to start urban truck stops. Convert storefronts in centralized areas into a space with bathrooms, showers, maybe some snacks and sundries. Keep it clean and climate-controlled. Maybe it’s a gas station too, but the idea is to have them scattered around town and easy to build/operate, so maybe not.

Work out a deal with UPS/FedEx/Amazon but also Uber, Lyft, Postmates etc where they pay a membership and all of their drivers can use the space.
"Departures" a Japanese movie from 2008 deals with this phenomenon in a very pleasing way. I recommend it.
I’m also curious. Lots of other countries they ship to. With the US has some weird import laws, or they just figure Americans aren’t interested in these products.
My guess is pretty well. Basically humidity and light are the biggest enemies.

During the peak pandemic craziness we’d buy more fresh produce than normal and keep in a dark corner, even stuff like lettuce lasted for a week without any loss of flavor and no apparent ill effects.
Looking at download filenames only versions for Windows have "sponsored" variants. Can I presume that version for macOS is clean?
This explanation makes sense to me until (as seppel mentioned below) I think of a webcam. A webcam (minus any software) isn’t flipped at all—but looks like a mirror if you flip it along the x axis, as many programs do by default.
Second independent audit of SecureDrop Workstation completed
I agree that it's reasonable to ask one's government to intervene against a powerful and possibly monopolistic corporation. However, I think this should be accompanied by the personal responsibility of avoiding that corporation. I'm sure there are people that really rely on Amazon deliveries, but for most consumers it comes down to it being slightly cheaper and slightly more convenient. It seems like such a small amount of personal responsibility to ask of people to divest from this particular company if they think it's bad.
comedically broke take isn't it
This is the first time I hear about Amazon News account, but from a factual perspective, they are right, despite one like it or not. Sanders is indeed a powerful politician, which is what they said in the tweet. $11.75 vs. $15 is a 20% gap, which is quite a lot and is also a fact. Again, I'm looking at it purely from a factual perspective. It seems to me that the criticism mainly comes from people not liking AmazonNews being blatantly honest in their tweets and not giving a shit about political correctness. My impression is based on quickly glancing at the most recent tweets, so I could be wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Open Source is not a business model, it is a development methodology — and that development methodology invites modifications by users under a license which upholds a set of conditions friendly to such modifications (spelled out in OSI's Open Source Definition).

Nobody has to write software that abuses its users with freakin' adware, proprietary or open source — and any creator who does so should be shunned. All the more so if they simultaneously abuse us and invite open source collaboration. This isn't starving people being driven to steal food.
It's supposed to be :-D
They're referring to https://auntymuriel.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/medusa.jpg?w...

This is the part where we all laugh and the credits roll out

Someone not knowing the two can't make the connection. Can AI?
I think any organization that actually incentivizes employees to complete small, objectively-measurable tasks quickly will have stories like this once you've got enough employees. Unless you keep cameras on them at all times, I guess.

These stories are always framed this way as if only someone truly desperate would stoop to peeing in bottles. But to many people, peeing in a bottle is actually not a big deal and is, in fact, preferable to getting home fifteen minutes later.
See also earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26580978
He's an assistant professor, so although he's probably not rich, I imagine he has pretty good career prospects in general, and is probably financially secure already. I'm sure he could use the $60,000 (he was applying for it in the first place after all!) but I suspect that getting or not-getting that money isn't going to be really life-changing for him. So it doesn't seem so foolish to me.

Besides, what's the point in principles if you're not willing to sacrifice anything to stick to them?
Absolutely.

> While it was controlled by the Church they worked really well for almost two hundred years. With the democracy the political parties said that as public institutions, it needed to be controlled by "the people". The people meaning of course politicians and unions.

Furthermore, while so many so-called "charities" are really just fronts for the enrichment of those administering it, Catholic charities spend extremely little on administration. Over 90% of funds go toward the actual people they're serving. Many of those involved have even taken vows of poverty themselves. The Catholic foundation behind them have the effect of giving them a strong, principled direction that charities running on vague, sentimental motives will necessarily lack. Meaning, the people involved are more likely to be motivated by doing actual good and "squandering" their own lives for the good of those they are serving because it is part of the Catholic understanding of reality itself.

> humanitarian NGO

NGOs are a hotbed of dysfunction. Take, for example, donated and second-hand clothing and so-called "mitumba". African cotton, textile, and clothing industries have been utterly destroyed by the influx of free clothing from the West. Now, this is likely just the result of ignorance and thoughtlessness, but if I were a foreign cotton magnate worried about growing competition from African cotton, or perhaps rising costs in my supply chain which runs through Africa, I might want to encourage "charities" and ragpickers that flood the African market with free clothing to eliminate that competition. Better to give your used clothing to local charities that serve people at home (I believe St. Vincent de Paul does this; would avoid Goodwill).