skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IN THE 1890s one of the biggest pandemics in history, known at the time as “Russian flu”, swept the world. It left 1m people dead. Russian flu is now thought to have been misnamed. It was probably not influenza, but rather a coronavirus.

I don't see how this article can say "probably" without so much as a citation. It is at best, from my understanding, a "maybe":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic#I...
It has become socially inappropriate to not want to talk about certain things. A company policy prevents things from getting personal.
30% is like ~a dozen employees
I made no comment regarding DO allowing your info to be exfil'd.
I was opining that the spammers that are comfortable on DO networks deserve any spamming that might come their way.
Compiling Tree Transforms to Operate on Packed Representations (2017) [pdf]
Your point about electricity cost is true. Once plotting is done (which takes hours per plot, few days for most drives), the only power draw is on idle drives. The transactions don’t require endless plotting the way proof of work would require endless mining.
> They mistook their relationship with their employees for a feudal one, they have now discovered it was not.

Does this square with offering people half a year's salary if they wanted to leave rather than continue working there?
XProtect has a wider scope than notarization, though, and its detection rules are different. Notarization and XProtect are both focused on stopping malware but they don't actually operate on the same principle, notarization happens in the cloud before deployment (to stop malware from being deployed) and XProtect happens continuously in the operating system (to stop malware from running), checking for malicious signatures. That functionality intersects with notarization, but it's not equivalent.
+ it's "Green" (but not really) + an understanding of advanced stochastic memetics, a.k.a. multidimensional hype
You get a VM running with many other peoples VMs on some arbitrary server in one of their data centers.

Doesn't that make it even harder to do any sort of specific attack on anything? From what I understand, these side-channel attacks depend on being able to predict the addresses you'll read from and an idea of what you're after as well as a stable environment in which enough timing information can be collected, and any small changes in the environment will mean you can start reading something completely different without even knowing; a CPU that could be running literally who-knows-what at any time seems like it wouldn't let you collect much in the way of coherent data, and of course the VM you're doing it from could itself be moving uncontrollably across CPUs.
How is it better than existing water purification tabs or a filter like lifestraw?
I didn't realize that anybody didn't use squash, tbh.
I think in this case it's likely that Apple is drawing attention to the stalking concerns on purpose. Bring on the regulation and the public outrage! Just let it be directed at Tile for not doing this sooner.
Yeah, the whole thing was like a joke from the beginning. Initially they wanted to start our with 3nm chips within 2026. Now this. What a joke.
Where is that?

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7072/Amendment/94...
I've twice clarified what the central thesis of my post was, and you've now twice ignored my clarifications.

The democracy point is a side-point. But if you're interested in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory

My main point is:

1. Trade is NOT a useful deterrent for war.

2. We have a (seemingly) superior recipe for peace: the Democracy Peace Theory. I don't think its perfect, but its a superior theory to the Trade-Peace Theory.

If you disagree with #2, that's fine. It doesn't change the fact that its a well regarded theory of peace. Either way, it doesn't really change my #1 point about the Trade-Peace Theory seemingly being busted.

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The point is that democracies do not go to war WITH OTHER DEMOCRACIES. That's the democracy peace theory, and so far it has held true.
For anyone using iOS or MacOS app HACK, pool and whoishiring endpoints will be added in tomorrow's update. invited endpoint is already available.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...
Guess Facebook is installing a roller coaster soon
Do you have a link to the ableist controversy? I havent seen that.
Twenty so far, actually. Including Sam Stephenson, who seems to have been their longest-tenured developer. Also their head of design, head of marketing, and head of customer support. And their entire iOS team.
School is different because the participants, by definition are not yet mature adults. The solution in that case is education.

In the workplace, respect for others is an expected part of the role of each person. If a person asks to be identified by a particular name, or by the use of particular pronouns, then no other person in that workplace has the right to argue that they can't/won't because of their personal beliefs.
Having `zsh` as a default shell, and having two different versions of `bash` are very different things. That's a bit like saying "macOS ships with IPython as the default Python interactive interpreter" when someone says macOS ships with Python 2.7 when 3.x is available elsewhere.
...but consumes orders of magnitude more drive space.
There is some overlap here with the plot of a science fiction book Accelerando. I guess the singularity is here but it's not what we expected.
The reason DHH mentioned for 360 reviews was that they didn't contain any real criticism because you're critiquing your co-workers (I'm paraphrasing

This part stood out for me. This is a very simplistic view, and I would expect more from company leaders.

Of course peer feedback is colored. But that doesn't mean it's without signal.

A statement like "Sandra is great, her work is consistently on time" can be ignored. It's essentially no data.

But a statement like "I couldn't have completed feature X without Susan. She did X, Y, and Z, and these things weren't even part of her job. Everyone needs to be more like Susan." Well... that statement tells you something. And you now have a basis of comparison between Susan's work and Sandras. Give Susan a bonus and Sandra a thumbs up.
India records over 400k Covid cases in 24 hours: Official data
Apple has pulled Safari 14.1 update for Mojave and Catalina
Ask HN: What are HN's metrics? number of users, DAU, session length etc.
I know of no major corporations w/ a web application system, that do not discriminate against those w/o a job history. Pay does not seem to be a factor in this equation.
You say that as if the team spent literally all their work time debating these issues during those months.
This reads like a wish list.

In all seriousness, the entire concept of money has always been created by people.

IMO, cryptocurrency seems like a religion. I’m seeing a lot of belief of what said religion will do for you.
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Yeah, sounds like a pretty big fuck up then on Basecamp's part. Weird that they didn't see this coming, I can't imagine being so out of tune with a large portion of senior, long-standing employees.
I do not believe this to be the case.

This will not play out well for FL in courts. Just because you can sue someone does not mean that you should, as you can fail and waste taxpayer monies in this scenario. There is a U.S. Supreme Court case out of MIA that is almost directly applicable [1].

[1] https://casetext.com/case/miami-herald-publishing-co-v-torni...
You get paid what you're worth, not what you need.
There are some minor tweaks to what port range syntax is acceptable: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade69.html
Lots of people believe in the Just World Fallacy[1]. Everyone who disagrees with me is incompetent, and everyone who agrees with me is highly skilled.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...

"The tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF) is a hypothesis in the crisis theory of political economy, according to which the rate of profit—the ratio of the profit to the amount of invested capital—decreases over time. This hypothesis gained additional prominence from its discussion by Karl Marx in Chapter 13 of Capital, Volume III, but economists as diverse as Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo and Stanley Jevons referred explicitly to the TRPF as an empirical phenomenon that demanded further theoretical explanation, although they differed on the reasons why the TRPF should necessarily occur."

Consider that if the rate of profit tends to fall, and shareholders require greater profits each quarter, how that affects "inputs" such as labor?
Historically, religion and human rights activism are closely conjoined. Anthropologically, religious proselytization and ideological activism are nearly indistinguishable phenomena.
I don't pretend to know what the culture is like at Basecamp, nor do I have a dog in this fight, but as a general observation I have found the recent openness of people to discuss their feelings and opinions about anything and everything at any place, including at work, a bit...weird. I guess growing up an emphasis was placed on knowing my "place," so it is a foreign concept to me in that regard. I do not judge people who feel otherwise, but I cringe when I see it even when I agree with the sentiment.

I understand that there are often real issues at hand and positive movement that people want to make in the workplace, but it is career suicide, and always will be, to join a committee that makes demands of leadership.
How would suing them work?
This is true, but irrelevant to discussion of AirTags. AirTags give much finer grained location once you are close, as it uses the new iPhone's ultrawideband hardware to give you accurate bearing and distance to the tag, based on live information.
Perhaps in the short term it is, but in the long term I think you care about company culture more than spending the $$$.
"Do what I say or I'll cut off your income, depriving you of food and shelter" is exactly the kind of authoritarianism I'm talking about.
I'm on pretty shaky ground hypothesizing further, but if it were the case, they must believe whatever they cede through allowing the circumvention is worth the outcome. Would trading Chinese-mined BTC (on equipment largely produced in China) for USD necessarily be good for the dollar?
Was it wrong on DHH's part, though? Here's how I read it:

DHH: "Making fun of names is wrong and clearly a failure on our part that we didn't stop it. Please don't take extreme views though, it is not genocide, we'd like to believe we'd fire genocide-inclined employees

Employee: continues to argue that making fun of names leads to genocide

DHH: points to employee making fun of names

Employee: surprised pikachu face

What was DHH supposed to do? Acknowledge said employee, and fire them?
Going closed source with something directly derived from MIT-licensed code contributed from the public seems... not very legal?
> The first amendment makes it clear that the government cannot regulate what a business AKA free enterprise can or cannot say.

This is effectively saying you can't refuse service on social media platforms. It's similar to protections provided by the civil rights act.

I agree this will be litigated, but I think it'll be fine in the courts OR the civil rights act will be in jeopardy (and would go to the supreme court). I'm not 100% sure how the supreme court would rule on this either.
> People are being harassed to be explicit about the contents of their character.

Cut the maudlin allusion to Dr. King. Your character is revealed by your actions, not by whether your Instagram profile is set to a black square.
The employee who refuses to use them. They are being deliberately confrontational. If, in 2021, with all of the medical, psychological and sociological evidence, you refuse to accept that gender identity is an individual's choice, and to respect that choice, then you are at fault.
"If this causes less business entrepreneurship, then so be it. A business that cannot pay employees is not a business that adds value to society, and nothing of value is lost. This is a fundamental tenet of capitalism, the same way we say that businesses that cannot sell their product also deserve to fail."

This is a false and dangerous, in that it ignores that the world isn't a free market, wage markets don't exist in a vacuum. Businesses might be able to pay higher wages if they weren't hindered by high rents, or if other restaurants raise prices in unison (e.g., in reaction to higher labor prices).

Just because a business can't pay a living wage in some setup doesn't mean it has no contribution.
The ‘zon????
India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
Which are the biggest app using firebase ? I guess firebase is gaining traction, does google reports it’s revenue ?
When my scout troop is teaching the Emergency Preparedness merit badge, we often do an exercise on bulk treatment of water beyond what is practical to filter with the portable filters we take on backpacking trips. We use alum as a flocculant, then sand to filter, then battery-powered UV sterilization (while noting that leaving clear water out in full sun for a few hours will accomplish the same dose as stirring a UV lamp through a bucket for a minute or two). Alum isn't exactly a common household item these days and the UV lamp certainly isn't, but it does make for a cheap and compact kit that can treat a lot of water with relatively little time and effort.
It's great to see articles on this. I've been using it to increase productivity in general really, if you get the dose right. I would add Sour Diesel and Durban Poison as my top strains, if you get good crops with high percentage, you start to feel like Prof. Xavier with psychic powers.
The answer to “why now” is that they turned on their mainnet in March, so the farming for real coins began then. It got some press, at least in crypto land, and it’s very accessible to start small scale plotting by yourself. Everyone has spare disk space.

The ability to trade coins (but not necessarily their listing on exchanges) will begin in a matter of days.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bittorrent-creator-bram-cohens-cryp...

Regarding China... crypto speculation is popular there? Big mining pools want to own something that could potentially become big? Unclear.
It's in the BBC article.
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Yes. I am very critical of the culture that led to this. But my-oh-my did they shoot themselves in the foot on this one.
it increases security per unit of energy significantly making the amount of energy needed to secure the network orders of magnitude smaller than bitcoin. its also asic resistant, and having a lower barrier to entry makes it so the people with 0 cost basis just filling up extra space on their drive will outcompete & push out any large data farms increasing decentralization as well.
They'd be interested if drug activity in that house were reported. Then they could raid the house, and keep whatever goods weren't broken or burned in the raid for themselves.
The original "Changes at Basecamp" post banning political discussion: "You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit"
When Wiener Met Einstein
Nope. Has everything to do with P&I death figures being expanded to CP&I (coronavirus, pneumonia & influenza). Thanks for playing.
I wonder how much environmental damage making a drive incurs. Does anyone have any numbers about this?
Please think about the holistic nature of your argument. The sum of it's parts essentially suggests that taxpayers should subsidize the employment costs of businesses, which is ridiculous.
The decision was probably somewhat pre-made by Ben Gurly, the ingenious designer of the PDP-1. The displays coordinates are simply a memory word with a precision of 10 significant bits. So it’s managed quite "naturally" by under-/overflow wraparound. The art is really in withstanding the urge to introduce any boundary checks, like, "why should it bounce, space is infinite". (However, there were clones that introduced bouncing, including the Atari 2600 cartridge version.)

Another decision probably dictated by the display hardware was the speed of the spaceships. Because of the long persistence of the phosphor, you get these iconic trails for moving objects. If you make the ships go too fast, you'll see distinctive outlines "stamped" onto the display. So you automatically want to make this as smooth as possible (so that the individual plots merge into a solid trail). This is on the other hand facilitated by the fact that the display coordinates provide 8 fractional bits in a standard PDP-1 18-bit word. So you can move and turn things by really small ("subpixel") increments.
In your opinion, when do such "improvements" tread the line between important and related philosophical questions to ideological glory-hogging and metooism? What you describe generally sounds like technical issues and computational philosophy in relation to the backend. That's appropriate to discuss even if there is confrontation involved. But what do think about Twitch's policies with regards to its frontend? Should employees have a say in how they get to interpret Twitch policies? Is it hypocritical that Twitch's moderators should go after unflattering speech (pogchamp, etc.) in the name of improving the platform when hiding behind a veil of ignorance with regards to so-called "booba"? A company can do what it wants and, in a more limited context, so can its employees. But shouldn't there be a point where a company's higher-ups or a single differing employee can do their business without being required to buy into the koolaid that ever improvement is supposed to be for the perceived good of the company/fellow employees/the cause/the world/etc. in every way possible? Especially if such a way is outside of one's actual depths? In short, when should people stop expecting "more" out of you?
MIT isn't a copyleft license, they are free to take it closed source and all future changes can be proprietary. What they aren't able to do is "change" the existing license, and for example, sue WinterCMS for forking the project.
Go ahead and post your video. Show us what horrible things you saw anteefa do.
This is amazing. As someone who has lived in conditions where safe water isn't freely available, this costing 3.5 cents and being manufactured in an emerging market is life changing.
How does that get around the free rider problem? If someone is polluting the air, they're making everyone's life worse by epsilon. If I'm to sue them, all the cost of the lawsuit is privatized, and all the benefit is socialized
You could more concisely say that it is useful for completing transactions that are illegal, which encompasses nearly your entire list but I guess doesn't sound as nice.
Is it just my browser or is the research page empty?
Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)
It seems like an interesting denial of service attack against storage. Part of the challenge of the surveillance state is that it is "easy" to keep everything since storage is so cheap, but if you wanted to make storage expensive, and could not dictate the market prices, you could create a system that consumed massive amounts of storage and removed it from being available for other uses.

That said, people burning up SSDs by writing stuff to them seems, kind of par for the course. I wonder if these same SSD vendors exclude video surveillance from their warranties? After all storing HD video 24/7/365 is a lot of writing and typically way more than the "normal" use.
What I think it is missing here is a concept I discovered very late in my career, after a burnout which took me over 1 year to pass over: psychological contract.

Which is defined as "Psychological contracts are defined by the relationship between an employer and an employee where there are unwritten mutual expectations for each side. A psychological contract is rather defined as a philosophy, not a formula or devised plan."

So I don't know what happened at Basecamp but here is how breaking a psychological contract feel to the employee from my experience:
A leader representing the company does something, an action, takes a decision.
You, the employee, feel that a wrong was done to you, even if the rules, law and contract says the one who took the action has the right to do it.

And in the beginning no amount of explanation about the action will alleaviate this feeling. Logically you will agree that they can do what they did, but emotionally (psychologically) at the end of every meeting or discussion you will still feel that somehow a wrong was done to you, a balance is unbalanced ...

Shortly you lost the trust in the company that what they will do has your best interests at heart.

It takes a big amount of effort and trying to put yourself in the shoes of your leader to try to understand how they got to that decision/action and if indeed was done in good faith you might overcome this. If not, then the best is to leave.
Labor shortage. For my beer garden, I couldn’t find part-time workers. However, I could hire people with full-time jobs who wanted to work 1-2 standing shifts each week in a fun place with a respectful community. I think we are more the exception than a Dale’s (article reference), but this answers the labor shortage vs. terrible jobs question for me.
I respect your position.

When I was a kid my best friend called my sandy toes because my last name was Santos.

If my name sounded like a Swedish curse word I wouldn’t be mad because a Swede laughed at my name.

Maybe part of healing division as humor and laughter. If we can’t take a joke we can’t share the connection of humor with others.
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This will not play out well for FL in courts. Just because you can sue someone does not mean that you should. In this scenario, the state is risking taxpayer monies with every new suit.

A case out of Miami, FL that reached the U.S. Supreme Court is nearly directly applicable [1].

[1] https://casetext.com/case/miami-herald-publishing-co-v-torni...
> Discussing how to handle issues like the "Best Names Ever" list that are internal to your company isn't "politics", it's called running a company.

If you read the full context, the list was condemned by management. Apparently multiple times. A group of employees would not let it go for months and it developed into a huge internal distraction. So yes it was not about "politics" in the sense of Republican vs Democrat, but rather it was woke ideology.
Well, for one you get 10 l of water at a time. For another, most water purification tablets taste horrible, and don't do anything about sediment.
It sounds like Apple is getting into competitive behavior with the smaller companies. Much like Microsoft did in the 1990s.
Not sure why you are getting down voted. Occam's Razor is heavily abused and misused in the majority of cases, treating it like some axiomatic mathematical principle and misapplying it to human behavior.
Yeah, honestly this seems like addition by subtraction. The last thing I would want at work is to navigate around ultra-sensitive trigger-warning micro-aggression seeking activists. Not that all the people leaving were that, but it sure sounds like a lot were. At work I just want professionalism and respectful behavior, along with people that have moderately thick skin and don't seek to find offense everywhere.
Added in the last amendment. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7072/Amendment/81...

Also it's in the full text of the final bill, lines 470-473 right here https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7072/BillText/e1/...