skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The union is free to pay Amazon employees $15 an hour to watch their propaganda videos.

This paternalism of low wage employees needs to stop. They can make up their own mind and actually have skin in the game as opposed to some tech worker making 10x as much telling them they're being brainwashed
Well, when someone does not respond on IRC, send them an email.

Still nothing?

SMS?

At this point, maybe they are not responding for damn good reasons?
By far the easiest way how to "operate" is to avoid bad neighborhoods and police them only very lightly, leaving a power vacuum for the local gangs to step in. Criminal-on-criminal kills do not elicit as much public response.

Of course, the result is what the French call "lost territories of the Republic".
Reddit is not that bad with regards to scraping. You can append `.json` to any URL and it will return a JSON representation of this page: https://www.reddit.com/.json

As for API tokens, that's unfortunately just the current trend of basically every other site with user-generated content. It's unfair to single out Reddit in particular when nearly everyone else does this too.
The average premium for a family is over $1,000. The average family deductible is around $7,000. The numbers I quoted are high overall, but people absolutely pay those amounts. This topic of conversation is edge cases, anyway. The average person paying average costs wouldn’t likely be interested in going cash for healthcare.
The irony is when running their product on your site you are opening yourself up to an MITM attack from them. https://docs.sessionstack.com/docs

To be fair most SAAS javascript products (google analytics, stripe payments, etc) are going to work like this and they also offer an on-premise solution that presumably doesn't have this issue.
Wouldn't that just incentivize sloppy development practices for a basic product to make you move to the better-designed premium product?
> pointing out truths

What truths has she pointed out, exactly? Her screed is less about the covid pandemic and more about her virulent hate of India, Hindus and Modi. And it is riddled with both lies of omission as well as those of commission.

The anti-Modi axis within India and without cannot contain its glee on seeing bodies piling up in India. Every single agitation, protest and riot they manufactured to unseat Modi has failed. This time, it will work, they believe. They are wrong. Then we have Rahul Gandhi of the Congress, who is unable to win elections on his own merit, explicitly calling for US intervention in Indian politics.[1] Just like the Mughals did by inviting Ahmed Shah Abdali/Durrani to invade India and protect them from the Maratha Empire.

1. https://www.news18.com/news/politics/rahul-slammed-for-deman...
> you can't get full "viewpoint diversity" and full "identity diversity" because some viewpoints are hostile to some identities.

I've heard variations of this idea and I personally disagree. Yes, some ideas are hostile to some identities, including mine (black), but hostility we can live with.

It's disheartening to see society devolve to a state where being offensive is considered being harmful. If you believe that, then you'll likely also believe that "hate speech is violence", or that words can be "harmful" (yes, they can, but not in a literal sense). It's unlikely that you can have viewpoint diversity in an environment where people believe that someone's opinion has the potential to cause actual harm. I'm not talking about someone inciting violence against individuals or groups based on their identity, beliefs, etc.

When I've been called the n-word, it's hurt my feelings and offended me, amongst other things to unpack, but it would be wrong to equate that with violence, independent of what anyone's opinion on the matter might be. So yes, I can definitely speak and have spoken to people who hold racist views (I mean actual neonazis, not conservatives) and we've agreed to disagree and we've had actual interesting conversations (at least, interesting to me, because I'm interested in understanding how they think, where the hate comes from, how it was learnt, etc). They get disrespectful, they insult, we disagree, etc. It's disappointing that people would think that I, because of the colour of my skin, am unable to hold -- never mind being interested in -- hearing these fringe points of views and opinions that can be offensive. That my personality is somehow override by my identity, as if it were some sort of basic instinct. I don't understand how you otherwise intelligent people can make such assumptions about "some identities" and not see the irony in that.
> If we can't ask the AI to explain how it came to its conclusion it is not really intelligent, is it?

Will it matter whether the AI is "really" intelligent when companies that implement the black box to spec thrive, while the companies that insist on having a human understand everything fall behind and fail?
China's Baidu to launch paid driverless ride-hailing services in Beijing
It was particularly interesting to observe with respect to the Covington Catholic affair in which the whole of the media apparatus took the exact same still-frame out of context in exactly the same way all the while the actual 2 hour video was widely circulated and freely available on the Internet. For so many media outlets to make the exact same egregious error in such a short timeframe is remarkable. See also the Google Memo fiasco.
Blockchain with Proof of Elapsed Time
They need to allow me to operate my own store, or I’m suing.
Facts every Web Dev should know before they Burn Out
"US" should probably be in lower-case. I was slightly confused by the headline.
Like what happened to trump eh?
How is that? Lots of sites server their code to any client, but the data contained within the service is still secure.
It is not that complex actually, you just have to learn more about it and read a lot of information on the internet. Right now cryptocurrencies might not be that popular but in the future I am sure that they will replace regular currencies, but for now people don't really trust the technology. Many years ago when credit cards came out, the majority of people didn't trust the technology and preferred using cash, I still know some people who are like that. So invest in it now before it's too late.
I love Plant UML.

I appreciate the C4 diagrams specified in UML for software developers ( https://c4model.com/ )

And all the diagrams that are downloadable ( eg. For Azure : https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/Azure-PlantUML , AWS : https://github.com/awslabs/aws-icons-for-plantuml , GCP : https://github.com/davidholsgrove/gcp-icons-for-plantuml , ... and so much more)
That's just your own private imaginary wall that you built up in your mind. Nobody else had a hand in putting it there.

Just tear it down and resist the urge to be always available. It gets much easier over time, I promise.
I've always been surprised by how bad patreon's website is after so many years. The UX sucks and has barely evolved. I use them a lot to sponsor artists I like but that's because I have no real other choice, I'm amazed at how terrible the platform is.

Just as my own list of pet peeves:

- Comment UI is really terrible

- There's no great display of the different kind of medias. For example, I like to give money to some web novel writers, the way chapters are displayed in the Patreon mobile app makes it hard to read. I like to give money to webcomics, images are displayed too small for it to be comfortable when reading.

- It would seem obvious for them to have a video hosting option instead of forcing their users to host outside of Patreon.

- For a long time the mobile app didn't have a full feed of all creators in a single timeline which is utterly stupid.

And this is as someone who is not a creator on that platform. Creators I've talked to have been much more scathing.
You got the woke culture to thank for.
The main issue I still see with JavaScript crypto in a Website session is how you can verify the Code running in the Browser isn’t tempered with.

I got no issues with it inside a browser extension, because a Website cannot change the Code running there, correct?

What I mean is, an advertisement could simply override the crypto API and do whatever it wants with it.
> Do you think people must not really want Joe Biden as president because he had to spend $6 billion to persuade them through campaigning?

Unironically, yes. But that doesn't mean they would have wanted Trump.
While Uber and Lyft are selling their autonomous driving units, Baidu launches driverless service. Have they figured out how to do it right or just regulatory?
I don't think so, you can cancel any time, but even with private insurance, I don't think you can enroll anytime.
Why on Earth would I feel comfortable 'bringing my whole self to work'? I don't want my colleagues to know about my hobbies, I don't want them to know about my personal life. I certainly don't want them to know my views on big-tech monopolisation, taxation, and intellectual property law. Choosing to present this as a bad point is doing it to create a springboard into the real point, complaining about other's politics. Which Hacker News is gladly leaping from.
A rail network is only part of the solution: It certainly won't visit many small towns. A robust bus service truly needs to be in place as well so that folks can travel from town to town to train.

Heck, trains don't even have to be fast for much of it: Simply making passenger trains a priority would be a huge improvement - right now, passenger trains have to wait for freight trains.
Old news but definitely good.

No downsides that I can see for the consumers.

Sadly we have since started seeing all big companies move to a SAAS subscription-based model so in practice it seems to become less relevant with time as it's only meaningful on software under perpetual licenses.

But at least Windows Server is still a big one that can save a lot of money -and that can also help struggling/downsizing companies by allowing them to sell licenses they no longer need.
No, it doesn't. :)

I happen to use an email client with better search and tagging than Gmail.
I just finished Sam Walton's Book "Made in America". It's about Walmart, but I heard somewhere it's required reading for all Amazon managers. Anyway, it's a fantastic book, and there's something about their Anti-Union stance in it:

"I have always believed strongly that we don’t need unions at Wal-Mart. Theoretically, I understand the argument that unions try to make, that the associates need someone to represent them and so on. But historically, as unions have developed in this country, they have mostly just been divisive. They have put management on one side of the fence, employees on the other, and themselves in the middle as almost a separate business, one that depends on division between the other two camps. And divisiveness, by breaking down direct communication, makes it harder to take care of customers, to be competitive, and to gain market share."

I just post this because I the vibe in discussions on those union-related posts always seems so aggressive and stand-offish.. It's good to understand many perspectives before picking a side, if any.

(Also this is just an excerpt, there's much more about employee compensation in the book.)
Source that the first story was not proven to be false?

I am under the impression that confidence in it occurring was downgraded, not proven to be false
The only value of Slack is receiving messages independent of presence (no need for a bot to keep you online), providing server-backed message history, and providing a UI that allows modern creature comforts like emoji and native images. If those are baked into an IRC client/server combo that achieves broad adoption, we might well see IRC come back as a "poor man's Slack".
This is actually how it is done for new pools. They overbuild them by a couple cm and then adjust the touchplates. But the rules should work for the 50y old pools too.
I am American, and I understand how health insurance works, and the fact that people are put into a position where it doesn't make sense to buy health insurance is the problem, not that individuals make that choice.
You need to tell them that...
I don't get the "billionaires buy property and leave it vacant, because it's more valuable as an investment" trope. Billionaires like to make money with their money. Sure, property prices increase, but rents are significant. If you can make 5% a year from your real estate appreciating, you can make 10% by renting it out. That's the difference between a mediocre yearly return and a fantastic one.

Maybe at the absolute top end, there isn't enough rental demand, eg the $90m apartment mentioned may not fetch $400k/month in rent. But I hear the same argument for middle-class apartments in moderately expensive cities: rich people buy $600k apartments in Dublin, Vancouver, Sydney, but turn down $2500/month in rental income even in red hot rental markets.

I don't buy it, though I don't have a clear alternative explanation.
A decentralised ledger with smart contract is just tech.

It's not that impressive and it's not a ponzi scheme.

Any currency which is not backed by real resources is a scam. Including fiat in the last decade - albeit fiat is a scam backed by state actors with armies, making it a bit more trustworthy
Imagine how much nicer the cities of the world would become with many of the offices turned into residential. There would be a rebirth of local community.
> This was the era when in the US Eminem had lines like "nobody listens to techno", while in Europe

Perhaps it will add a little context to note that Eminem, like Techno, is from Detroit.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies at 90
Just do the needful like you always do.
It worked great for Andersen as well. Their conviction was overturned https://text.npr.org/4673930
I check my work email once every 4 days on a good week, and my personal email nearly once every 2 months. Email isn't really a good channel for urgently getting in touch for some people.
Great, now if we could also agree that people are allowed to sell their ebooks then that'd be amazing.
I think this may literally be the same argument as the one for banning D&D for corrupting the minds of youth. I suspect most (nay, all?) paraphilics have the ability to differentiate between reality and a page of text - just like many of us have avoided going full Don Quixote after reading Lord of the Rings.

Maybe they'll get addicted to reading. Society will not crumble, and no children will be harmed.
>"While an initial analysis did not find any shared code with any previously-known malware samples, Kaspersky has recently re-analyzed the files and said it found that “the samples have intersections of coding patterns, style and techniques that have been seen in various Lambert families.”

To the writers of these things:

In the future, would you kindly NOT name your malware after terms in Physics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_(unit)
That is true. I guess you can take my comment and replace "criminals" with "assholes" ;)
At Satoshi’s Tea Garden
Assuming these reports aren't psychosomatic, it is beyond implausible to believe that the CIA is uninterested in determining the source of something specifically targeting their own personnel. Not to sound too conspiratorial, but this sounds like the pretext to funding portable detection devices for all state personnel (both at home and overseas) in addition to years of both defensive and offensive research.
The Big Empty
one of my big issue of placing google analytics or some kind of font js on your web site!
Yeah I'm thinking about it now and there's probably a lot of kids out there who only have a phone, so being able to play fortnite with their friends on it is great. When I was a kid we didn't have any games consoles, but I had a PSP - I remember the ability to play games like Battlefront 2 or GTA was absolutely mindblowing, yeah in hindsight the PSP was not the best platform to play either of those games, but to a 14 year old me that was the craziest stuff ever.
One Billion iPhones Is an Asset of Apple AirTags, and This Can Be Easily Misused
You generally wouldn't put adverts on a site that's dealing with security.

You should also add subresource integrity as a defence in depth. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
Will New York Come Back?
Judging solely by Betteridge's law of Headlines, the answer should be "no", but maybe that's just referencing the "official" part.

But yes. It's a failure. Throw some more money at A-10s and F-22s (or upgraded versions).
The MMR vaccine contains "live" weakened virus. The kid sometimes get some small red points in the skin that disappear in a few days.

The oral polio vaccine "Sabin" has "live" virus. It's stronger than the injectable polio vaccine, but there is a small risk that the virus can escape and mutate and after a year or so cause polio to another person. So countries without polio cases, only use the injectable version "Salk" that does not contain "live" virus.

The first smallpox vaccine was just a similar virus for cows. The latest smallpox vaccine also used a "live" virus.
Slack can be truly overwhelming within some companies (ask me about it, I can go on for hours about it), but the very idea of ignoring reams of email signatures and no proper threading in email makes me shudder about using it in a work setting. I'd rather take Slack than that.
CSS Hell: Common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them
I would like to add information that I believe is very relevant.

During the pandemic, the congress approved a law (Article 16, Law No. 14.124/2021)[1] that defines a limit period of 30 days for Anvisa to approve or disapprove the vaccine. If, after 30 days, Anvisa does not issue its final recommendation, the vaccine is automatically approved. I think this law is absurdly stupid, but let's get back to the facts.

Days before denying Sputinik's authorization to use, Anvisa asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to suspend the 30-day period alleging that the data received were incomplete and information was missing.

A supreme court judge denied, on March 26th, the suspension of the deadline saying that this possibility was not manifested in the law.
And he added that Anvisa's decision must be technically based, "not admitting the mere allegation of insufficient documentation or the simple allusion to potential risks". And if Anvisa does not decide on import and distribution authorization requests within 30 days, the interested parts are automatically authorized to import and distribute Sputnik V [2].

One day after the judge denied the suspension of the term and one day before the deadline, Anvisa denied the request.

[1] https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/lei-n-14.124-de-10-de-mar... [pt]

[2] https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/saude/noticia/2021-04/lewan... [pt]
Yes, see for example http://mesa.sourceforge.net/index.html which is a stellar evolution code used a lot in astrophysics.
That's not what they mean by it. It might be what you understand by it. It's not meaningful (!) to talk about what it means in an absolute sense.
As others have mentioned, this pandemic isn't actually over yet and even when it is there could be lagging effects.

Similar to celebrating how the economy is doing better than ever during covid, but the actual bill for unprecedented government spending hasn't come due.

edit: typo
Having less people (other than the temporarily aging issue) is good for the country. You really do not need 1.4 billion people. Each couple should be free to make decision. And most developing countries has couple decided to do less birthing.

The strange thing is a census need to be waited. Is it a fact or ...?

China.

Btw I am not thinking about the rumour there is usual amount of death as well. Can’t be ... can it?
> - The Appstore model will eventually have to change so that people can resell the apps they purchased

Unfortunately, courts have upheld the special protections that DRM measures are afforded. So while you may in theory be able to resell software, DRM may still prevent you from making use of that software. Afaik that is unfortunately still legal.
Why don't you rent out your car on Turo when you're not using it, or resell your items when you're done with them rather than throw them away? I suspect, for the car example at least, it's for similar reasons. The liability of damage and hassle of managing a tenant is greater than the potential upside of rent for them.
Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial
Yes, this is most recent information that I have found https://www.itassetmanagement.net/2016/10/31/secondary-softw...
It works well for business processes, e.g. here's one I did: capture credit application; do auto check for credit worthiness; do rules check for amount requested vs credit worthiness to trigger auto approve, auto reject or manual approval gate; submit save approved loan details to mainframe for money issuance.

The tools I used generated a system using storage-backed messaging between every step for reliability, and then I could plug in a UI or an integration where needed, and generating monitoring screens to illustrate where in the process things are, cycle times, etc etc.

If you use it like that, as a config language you can use to drive creation of other things, it can work well, and it's a pretty mature standard, so it can describe lots of possibilities.
Sometimes, as in when it happens, people might still be talking about it decades later (I'm only slightly exaggerating)

But all spectator sports seem to gain much their appeal from the imperfections that make them special. In road cycling, it's the imbalance of many hours of what computer gamers would call mostly cooperative PvE serving as a buildup for the few seconds of the finish (unless it's a solo, which is super attractive for the audience because it's rare, but would be rather boring if it wasn't).
I think some combo of mdx and kroki should come close...
They asked for learning resources, not paid certifications most of us ignore on CVs.
Why software engineers don't write documentation – it's bloody difficult
If anyone wants to skip right to "why are we laying off people" go to 2:36 in the video
Isn't it a completely rational fear that Amazon would just fire most employees if they unionize against Amazon's wishes. Even if this isn't exactly legal, it would take years to sort it out in court. Rent's due Monday, no one has time to wait for justice to prevail
yes, this represent progresive activist learning lesson from group like KKK. what was the KKK strategy? burn crosses, hold hostile marches, lynch people for to intimidate beyond their numbers. what is progresive strategy? yell on twiter to get persons fired/canceled beyond their numbers. obviously there is not lynching or equivalent here: become incresingly loud to ocupy mindshare past number of people behind the cause.
Why are you deeply concerned about paternalism from tech workers who aren't even in contact with the employees in question and are just posting on a message board, and not concerned about potentially-illegal paternalism from the bosses of the employees?
1987: Plundered Hearts
Right to Protest:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sent...

We will no longer be allowed to exceed a certain noise level with protests.

This is done at the same time that the government annouces a 'War on Woke'.

I'd laugh at how blatant the hypocrisy is but having my civil rights eroded spoils the punchline.
Craig Federighi Explains iOS 14.5's Privacy Feature
The "clients" are de-facto Gmail and Outlook. Those two aren't going away anytime soon.
Maybe! If so, a free, fair, and legal vote will tell us that!
yeah, see also mdx, and kroki
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