skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a very intriguing and sensitive subject that I personally don’t think is a waste of time and there is an awful lot more to the documentary than the first 20 mins.
I'm curious if it's the same reason I put up with !@#$ earlier in my career: I don't have the luxury of taking risks and I'm just really not interested in upsetting my employer.

You tell me there's a better world on the other side of the hill, but I'm just trying to keep my children from starving this month. I can't even begin to think about the uncertainty and risk of trying to get there.

Some commentary: I think this is one reason why social safety nets are tremendously valuable. The reason I eventually took the risk was because being without a job was not a potential death sentence. I would have unemployment insurance for a while and universal healthcare would take care of my kids if they had sudden needs.
> 0b1111_1111_1111_1111

That's just 16 bits and will result in the value 65535, not -1.
Are birth, death and marriage records not public?
If $600.00 a year is peanuts to your company I would invite them to send me $600 dollars a year.

It is not like $600 dollars is going to bankrupt your company. Their would be something seriously wrong if your company couldn't send me the money.
New Genomic Study of Placenta Finds Deep Links to Cancer
> Why would vote against your own benefit?

I guess they disagree with you on what the benefits are?

If the goal of the vote was to give these workers a voice then... I guess mission accomplished. You can't reasonably then say you don't like what they say with their voice!
My experience of Heroku has mostly been the pain of migrating to a different platform once you grow to the point that their pricing (and abstraction) starts to act against your growth.

Heroku is great for general applications, but if you're trying to do something that isn't a standard CRUD app, it can really start to bite you in the arse.

Their DB pricing in particular is incredibly inflexible compared to AWS RDS. Among other issues we had with Heroku at my old job, was having a DB that was hitting its storage limits, but was miles away from hitting its memory or connection limits. There was no option but to upgrade to the next tier, with additional memory etc., even though all we needed was additional disk.

That's not to say that Heroku is bad, but like any tool, you need to be aware of the long term costs that are often associated with term convenience.
If I had a thinkphp install it would of been hacked 10 times a day.
If you could find an xkcd that sums up your position that would be great.
Calling people stupid is a great way to get them to agree with you.
By that definition, you can call any paradigm-shifting invention a "platform" and drown all remaining meaning of the word in buzzword-speak. Let's just call it how it is - it's a new kind of peripheral, or a new interaction paradigm that unlocks new things. It's revolutionary, yes, but that doesn't make it a platform.
-take what you need. Need more? get more.

-eat within growing seasons. bananas in Greenland have a much larger distance to travel, loss of stock increases.

-aesthetics, a wonky looking apple is less likely to make it into the grocery store(even if taste and nutritional value is no different)
I'm confused, why did they need a vote to start a union? Here in the UK pretty sure if a load of workers want to start a union, they can - irrespective of whether they're in the majority or not. Sounds to me like the circumscription of a need for a majority itself comes from anti-union legislation.
>It's not a long-term problem because they're going to have to add support for RCS at some point, meaning Android users will have a similar experience to iMessage with their iOS friends.

Except it won't be encrypted. And the social stigma, as stupid as it is, of "green chat" or whatever teenagers are calling it, isn't going away.
From what I understand most "Alternative Medicine" can be chalked up to the placebo effect combined with a self fulfilling prophecy of patient expectations.
> No one checks close()'s result because it lies.

And since nobody checks the result of close and very few check the result of every single write operation, many "disk full" errors go unnoticed.
> Given that, as far as I know, we don't have a single human case documented before those in Wuhan - something which a) should have been likely

Um... why? The virus has to jump species somewhere. If the first documented case was in Shanghai, you could make the same argument.

I think what you're trying to say is that the jump had to have happened in Yunnan, because that's where that particular bat sample was found. But that's not what the data says at all. The Yunnan virus was a relative, not an ancestor. There are uncounted millions of wild coronavirus strains we don't see for every one we sequence. There is no reason at all to believe that some Wuhan-local bat, say, had a related strain that became the covid ancestor. Or some other species, etc...

Again, that's the way viruses evolve. It's the way pandemics start. It's the way pandemics have always started. Demanding that this is somehow a crazy engineered virus dropped on us by a despotic foreign government is... how pandemics start in bad movies.
I created Kupla about a year ago when the pandemic started and have regularly used it with friends and family. It was meant to capture some aspects of socializing in real life which "Brady Bunch" video platforms obviously lost. Specifically I observed that most real world group socializing is not one big group conversation but many few-to-few conversations that can fluidly branch and merge. We've enjoyed it a lot, so I wanted to share it, so others can enjoy too.
My guess is the messaging about dues. Lots of people focused on the short term hit to their paychecks. Most of the stories reference $500/month. That does seem high.

Data I can find for other unions shows somewhere between 1 to 4 percent of gross pay as typical for union dues. Assuming $15/hour, 4 percent of gross pay would be $144/month. But, if $500/month is accurate, it's 13.8% of gross pay for $15/hour workers, and 10.4% of gross for $20/hour workers. That's very high.

Edit: $500/year. There were many news stories with the inaccurate $500/month quote.
You're not toxic shocking your gut with alcohol?
"Expected" != "Acceptable" though, IMHO.
But the distance inside China is the equivilant of a known bat virus in a remote location somewhere in Budapest, where only farmers live, and ground zero of the virus beeing downtown London streetfood market.. (were all the food and everything tested negativ..)
I don’t think the authors claim is about it killing money making potential.

It seems to me the authors claim is that HyperCard did not belong to Jobs’s vision of a computer as basically an appliance. HyperCard fit better in a vision where a computer was more of a tool.
> That is a gross oversimplification

It's really not. I've used this successfully for Javascript projects (running npm and yarn), Python projects (running pip install), Scala projects (running sbt), Haskell projects (running cabal), Racket projects (running raco), Go projects (running go get), etc.

It's pretty much like writing a Makefile, except we have to specify the buildInputs, and there are occasional annoyances like tools trying to write to $HOME (requiring an `export HOME="$PWD"` line at the top of the script).

> the nix build environment does not have network access unless it's computing a fixed output

Yes it does, if we avoid the sandbox. This used to be done by specifying a `__noChroot = true;` attribute; I don't know if that's changed in more recent Nix versions.

> Also on allowing network access in the sandbox requires elevated privileges

Sandboxing is a sensible default, but for practicality I usually set it to "relaxed" on NixOS and disable it entirely on macOS (since that often uses stuff from the host system).

> which means you cannot do that method on environments you don't have full control.

Could you give an example of where that would ever be an issue? The only thing I can think of is hydra.nixos.org, but there's no way in hell such a derivation would be acceptable for nixpkgs, so that's pretty irrelevant (similar to how it's really easy to make a .deb package from a directory and a control file; but there's no way in hell it complies with the Debian project's packaging guidelines)

> And it would create builds that are likely not reproducible.

Yes, that's why I mentioned we might want to factor out the input-fetching at some point.

> Then you still have to figure out how to combine it all together.

That has nothing to do with Nix. As long as a project has a build script, or a Makefile, or a list of commands in a README, or whatever, then we can plug it into that template and see if it works. Are you complaining that the Nix package manager doesn't have specific documentation for how to build every random application ever written?
I guessed that was the context, but I didn't understand how the Queen "forced" the Supreme Court to rule in that way.
I absolutely do not understand why you would vote against your own collective interest for a small amount of union dues. That is not snark, it's a real statement. I legitimately do not understand it.

Can someone who works/worked one of these jobs please explain it to me? I am so confused by how lopsided this was.
What exactly is ffmpeg's one thing?

Or curl's for that matter?
I don't think that this is something that Facebook is against... so you would need to get a lot of people talking against it for them to do something about it.
Researchers should be discussing it. Until conclusive evidence is found, the only reason to post it on social media is to add fuel to the conspiracy fire, a fire that's inspiring people to kill people that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the origin of the virus.
So, leaving aside why someone would or would not want to join a union, why is this a majority vote? If 49% of a workforce wants to unionize, why can't they?
The Pandemic’s Terrible Toll on Kids
Allowed.
Former V8er. We moved the vast majority of V8 documentation to public sites. What is non-public is mostly design docs, proposals, strategy, experiments, etc, i.e. the inner workings of the team mechanics. The technical details of V8 are not secret in any way. They may be radically complex, but not secret.
This is dumb. You are not meant to be anyone. You do not become a person who you are currently not. You are you, always, and you change throughout your life. Now here, next there. There is no percentage bar to fill up. No 'ding, grats' at level 60.
Carnivorous plants are only edible in the most technical sense. They grow in low nutrient environments and slowly digest prey - meaning you'd be eating something that is mostly small leaves coated in rotting insect goo.
That short term hit can have long term consequences.

If I'm scraping by already, I'm not looking forward to taking another hit to an already stretched paycheck.
Also:

"Coaxial cable was used in the first (1858) and following transatlantic cable installations, but its theory wasn't described until 1880 by English physicist, engineer, and mathematician Oliver Heaviside, who patented the design in that year (British patent No. 1,407)."

https://lemmatalogic.com/HeavisideUKPatent1407.pdf
|maybe they didn't actually know how to rewrite it for OS X?

Carbon existed in OSX.
In other countries not hiring someone because of their union affiliation is flat out illegal. (Thanks to union and political struggles to protect collective bargaining as a right)
Archive link: https://archive.is/DZZay
OTOH, security researchers do inflate the value of any given exploit (chain) vs. broad mitigations.

Still, 200k seems _low_ for a bug that should imperil the reputation of a many-billion dollar company. And a few years ago it seems like that would have been $1000 and a firm handshake...
Do you think that the alternatives failed because they weren't 'spot on'? Perhaps they failed because it's a much harder problem than they recognized when they started out.
I had an accident that left me with some pretty nasty nerve damage on my left hand. It's essentially a non-stop tingling/buzzing sensation with intermittent electric-shock like pinching.

I switched to a Keynesian Advantage 2 late last year and it's been a tremendous help for dealing with pain. It took a while to get used to though. It was probably a good thing too because I always knew how to touch-type but I don't think I'd ever learnt it in a systematic way, just sort of pickedi up as a kid in the 90s. This time around I put in a lot more thought about finger placement etc.

The Kinesis has key remapping, macros and a whole lot of features I'm probably not using. It's great.

I still need a daily stretching session and stress-ball use to keep my hands feeling lose and healthy, but the Keynesis has reduced my hand pains quite significantly.
I'm not seeing how your point relates to bezoz's point...
Its proprietary
Whoa, I found someone who actually believes in the "racists attacking asians because they created the virus" narrative. Holy shit.

Black people are attacking asians. You say that's because of this idea that Asians created the virus. Do you have any actual evidence of their motivations?
I have installed my own switches in rentals. For example, I installed a timer switch for a vent fan in my last apartment. Very easy to undo when it comes time to move, if necessary.
That every programmer today can build and train an ML model is one of the biggest advancements of ML engineering in the past 10 years.

But as you say it's GIGO, the difficulty today is to know what to feed it and to know what that means for the real life performance. There are no great tools for that yet.
Unions don’t always contribute to a better outcome for their workers, and it looks like working conditions wasn’t a strong enough driver for the majority of the workers. It’s hard to motivate a vote for unions when Amazon pays double the federal minimum wage.
it's not xenophobic, but xenophobic people really love to talk about it. that's the problem with the discourse.

of course the irony is that it doesn't even matter. We already know China (1) tried to cover it up, screwing the rest of the world, and (2) has poor wet market sanitation practices that seem designed to cultivate these kinds of diseases. Those issues are already bad enough.
> people discussing services to help voluntary migrants get into another country.

That's a disgusting way to frame the plight of minors that have no consent in the journey they are coerced into taking.

And, no, I'm not talking about people offering advice and posting safe routes. I'm talking about coyotes for cartels promising safe escort for thousands of dollars. Which is a lie. They will let these people die if necessary. Then they'll hold them hostage if they do make it, by threatening to kill their families back home if payment is not received.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/human-smugglers...
This is the Hemmingway trick, always stop working before completion of a sub-task, to avoid writer's block the next day.
Four Bytes of Power: exploiting CVE-2021-26708 in the Linux kernel
Even though the article sounds like it's written by educated person, it puzzles me that the author:

> Installing packages with APT is not atomic: APTs updates files in-place one by one. Because we start Python processes many times per second, if one started during a deployment, it could import a mix of the old and new code. This regularly lead to puzzling bugs

Don't you stop all your services in preinstall and start them again in postinstall? Or, if you're packaging your python libs in deb pkgs, just stop the services before upgrading the system and start them again once you're done.
Ha, yes you're right. I'm on my phone and got tired of writing ones. I'll edit when I'm next at my laptop.
That's not the point. The point is that Adobe are being extractive assholes, and they know it. Setting the price point this high basically communicates that they consider anyone unable to pay this much a pleb, where all of their competitors don't. This is quite insulting, considering that we're talking about a graphic manipulation program rather than some hyper-specialised piece of enterprise financial markets software that only a few can use to its fullest.
I have a fairly comprehensible left leaning rb tree implementation that I've been porting along my travels.

I keep it around for situations where a binary searched array isn't doable or good enough, but I still want ordered set functionality that isn't in the stdlib.

https://github.com/codr7/whirlog/blob/main/rb.lisp

https://github.com/codr7/libcodr7/blob/master/source/codr7/t...
hmmm this one I didn't know :D
You could move workout to the morning when your testosterone levels are highest during the day-night cycle. Easier gains.
I find such whataboutism reprehensible. It's common in my home country, where a lot of people in response to pointing out our history of repressions against Jews start pointing fingers at other countries with a vague "they were worse", or worse "we were provoked"; instead of admitting to the past and learning something from it. Pointing out someone's shortcomings shouldn't trigger a review of the shortcomings of others.
You're probably well aware but most of those places will try to give you free credit to "start off", keeping the crack dealer reference going. It's never enough to really figure things out but it's still a good deal to take.

Know your product ! Figure out if you want traffic or subscription (are you willing to take a signup loss for long term gain ?) or leads and how qualified.

When you use adwords, they keep offering you to talk to a google representative every couple of month, to review your account and make suggestions. I found those a massive waste of my time when I had a campaign going well, but when I had trouble launching something new they were often a very decent (and free !) help. Make sure to use that and ask any questions you may have then.

Like I said they want to extract as much $ from you as they can, but they clearly know they need you to make money from it too. It's a love / hate relationship, but it works for me.

Best of luck on your venture
Most people on HN are temporarily emberassed billionaires who see the royals as peers.
Thanks for studying this, your emphasis is noted - aside from this particular bullet from the "notable limitations," are there any other short-comings that you feel are deal breakers for you?
You have everyone arguing about whether $600 is too much for photoshop, but everyone should note that you can also get it for $10/mo. It doesn’t get you all the other adobe products, just photoshop and lightroom, but that’s fine for a ton of people.
I have been banned?
The BSL prescribes the precautions that must be taken to maintain safety, but it's up to human oversight to actually enforce those practices. It's not uncommon for viruses to escape even BSL4 both in the US and abroad.

Both labs in Wuhan have had accidental contamination incidents while collecting field samples in caves. Working with hazardous materials is always dangerous, and history has no shortage of lessons to teach us.
In California, it's about $81k per year per prisoner.

https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost
Monkey plays pong with his mind
You don't think bats exchange viruses between Budapest and London? That's nothing. Viruses in interacting populations are routinely continent wide.

Let me flip this around: do you have even one example of a virus within a compatible species spectrum that does not expand across continent scales over the "few year" timeframe we're discussing?
Boeing grounds some 737MAX as electrical issues discovered
In the same boat. I started using PS in 1998. Never felt right for UI design, but nothing has ever really felt right for me, even Figma/Sketch/etc. I’ve tried them all.

I don’t know precisely what I’m looking for, but they aren’t it.
I would guess, fear of retribution from amazon. If the voting was nationwide it could have lowered the fear that amazon could treat one location better in things like expansion.
We should have a designated shit talker on everyone's wake. Someone who only purpose is to bring every bad word said, bad deeds, remember the unreturned books or any item.
The post I replied to was talking about multiple Abode products, so I don't think the focus on Photoshop is my fault.
Georgia Secretary of State Defends State's New Voting Law
I don't understand what your argument is. Can you please expand?
Not just refugees. The racist nationalists over at the Danish People's Party also passed sweeping reforms during their reign that made it cripplingly difficult for Danes like myself to sponsor their partner for residency.

We've been stuck in the system for more than a year now, $17k saved for the pound of flesh they demand.

The current PM, Mette Frederiksen, has lead the charge in morphing her party into a milder form of the People's Party. I never expected to see my country turn into this hyper-nationalist racist bastion but here we are.

Meanwhile I've had two of my bikes stolen in the last year so from this subjective point of view everything is worse.
From an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26749927
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/why-cov...

Similar article which made the same case. This one provided a few more interesting stories about just how close we have come to potentially similar leaks in the past (and based in US labs).
Comprehensiveness is one of Adobe's differentiators, the other is specialised products that seamlessly interoperate. Illustrator is "Photoshop, but focus on vectors", InDesign is "Illustrator but for page design", Animate is "Illustrator, but for animations", Aftereffects is "animate but for video". All of them seamlessly interchange files with each other.

Adding tools with the sole purpose to give a less powerful, more intuitive interface would have fit perfectly into the Adobe ecosystem.
Though not everything on HN is tech related, you could argue Prince Philip was a bit of a tech icon as this article did: "Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99" https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/09/prince_philip_obituar...
Yep. The vote on this was cancelled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748191
Hey, for me, what prevented me from starting work is the massive scale of the project I was setting myself out to do. This was totally scaring me into inaction. Like a deer in headlights.

Then someone told me: "just try and see how far you can go". And that completely lifted my inability to start working. I don't really understand the psychological trick there, but somehow it worked well for me.
I get the impression that most people download their opinions from whatever pa system is loudest and closest to them. Perhaps that explains this...
I'm almost inclined to believe that the relationship is inverted from what many assume.

Amazon will bend over backwards to accomodate a company spending $500 mil a year on hosting (apparently what Snap spends). Sure it's only a fraction of its revenue ($386 bill for AWS), but half a billion is half a billion.
There is no point in getting the M1 Macbook (which is last year's model) since they will either announce a M1X or even a M2 Macbook this year

A tool that exists is far more useful than a tool that does not exist.

Or as they used to say in the olden days: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
> the Postgres needs to be multi zone

we need it to be multi-master, clearly. those writes need to go somewhere!
I don't think this matters too much. It's the overhead of an added call/return that is hot in the cache and the CPU has enough cycles of twiddling its thumbs while it's grabbing the next tree level from a lower cache or main memory...
The vote was to unionise the workplace, not to form a union.

You can form a union whenever you want, like you can form any other group of people a club. You just can't unilaterally force an employer to deal with you.