skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If one has double the employee count it can make some of the reported injury rates go lower. [...] Not sure if they figured out ways of mixing in management / white color jobs into the warehouse numbers.

Or just hire a bunch of part time people? Or do the numbers already adjust for FTEs?
Hrm - what if the US Government were to be that billionaire - each year it'd collect a portion of Amazon's earnings (maybe as direct cash instead of stock) and redistribute that to workers. This might even be considered some kind of action to support the well being of the society at large. /s

I think the OP was being pretty sarcastic but I absolutely dislike solution propositions that rely on billionaires being charitable. If it's a thing that should happen don't rely on good-will - tax people and fund it.
Could they potentially integrate the existing StackExchange content, given that it’s creative commons licensed?
For 'normal' coffee this is indeed super nice, but I'm into the taste of espresso so I like what my Cafelat Robot produces more. Fairly simple manual espresso routine. Kinda hard to explain me I'm wrong because a) it's a bit of an apple/oranges comparison and b) taste is subjective anyway :)
This doesn't necessarily mean that it's really 80% higher, just that the reports show it's 80% higher. When a company has a really strong safety attitude it leads to more reporting of minor issues which can look worse, but actually tend to make the place safer.
If you're talking about iOS, if you can run WASM, you can run JITted JavaScript.

I highly doubt that it's possible to beat the performance of JavaScriptCode (in JIT mode) with any WASM-based implementation.
That was a very good explanation, thank you.

> Width/height: auto require a layout to know the size, so I don't know if we'll ever get that either

Surely the browser ultimately knows what the size is going to be?
Why didn't Microsoft go after this? it seems like an incredibly powerful community that blends really well with linkedin AND github
having the government buy American is popular according to that link, not actually doing it yourself.
If I get bored of music, I just find some new stuff. Sometimes it takes a while, but yeah no, no idea what this guy is talking about.
The study is based on self-reported data to OSHA.

Obviously that could make the data suspect. But more broadly I don't think we want to be punishing companies for reporting their data accurately and incentivize industry to hide injuries more.
Yes, coffee equipment is best rinsed. Mokka pots even explicitly instruct you not to use soap and let the residues build to mask any potential flavor from the metal.
Ouch. Are you always this cranky? Someone suggests a startup idea and you instantly revert to name calling? The linked BI article is gated, and no, I am not going to spend a penny on that POS publication. While I would be generally curious in learning what your gated sources at Amazon have to say, it's ridiculous to be mad at me for not having done that research. If there are interesting patterns that can be extracted out of internal Amazon forums, then I would hope that a journalist would have a go at it and earn their living with rigorous reporting as opposed to skating on the edge of libel boundaries.

And btw, when you call people names, be aware that this often says more about you than the person you're trying to insult. Seems like you have a particular aversion against people with startup ideas, which automatically means that you were never successful with any of your own - people who make startups work for them don't have as much of a chip on their shoulder. That's ok, startups are hard and most people don't win - I have a lot of respect for anyone who even gives it a try. But please use your experience to help other people as opposed to just being bitter about it and putting others down.
this is curiously similar to https://halite.io/ by Two Sigma
Maybe that's true but tbh I'm kinda over Hegel, I don't imagine there will ever be a time in my life where attempting to seriously understand Hegel will be worth the time.
Does it seem like "GRAND" in that last paragraph was a hint at what they're building for the data issues he mentioned in the second to last paragraph?
I remember back in the day Jeff or Joel came on the somethingawful forums and started talking about their idea. They were resoundly trolled about how horrible their site idea is. Why would we want un-certified randos on the internet giving people advice?

Stack Overflow succeeded and SA is just kind of limping along. Though maybe now that Lowtax is gone it can just kind of maintain.
While I'm happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst.

From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise.

Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to extract the purchase price, and whatever additional additional returns they intend. Everything costs something.

So what will it be?

Subscription access?

Less favorable signal to noise?
they aren't "purely virtual achievements", they're, as you say, points in a game. i can (and have) spent hours at a time playing scrabble or civilisations, and they aren't for "fake scrabble points" or "fake civ points"; similarly here, for the people who do get more into the gamified aspect of stackoverflow, they aren't chasing fake internet points, they're accumulating real stackoverflow points.
That depends on what it costs you—not just in money, but in up-front and daily effort—to take the job. If it would leave you slightly better off financially, but physically and emotionally exhausted and beaten down, that may be worth it to some people but not to others.

There's more to living than just surviving.
> Why not just establish a baseline income, eg. $30,000, and pay the difference to those households that don’t reach the baseline as a result of their employment: a basic income, reverse tax or employment subsidy? 10 million households * $10k is $100 billion per year.

Some sort of gradient would be better. Like if you make 0 you get 20, if you make 10 you get 15 if you make 20 you get 10, if you make 30 you get 5 (otherwise no incentive to work more). Also i'd change the number from 30k to 50k, but again some gradient, at 50k you get 5 (0 you get 30, 10:25, 20:20, 30:15, 40:10, 50:5)

> How about a guaranteed bank account program, so that everyone has the ability to establish a financial history, borrow money, receive electronic payments, etc? Can this be open-source developed and crowdfunded? Cost should be minimal.

I was reading Andrew Yang's campaign policies. Under anti-poverty, a people's bank [1]:
"Our City faces a crisis in banking accessibility. New York City is the world’s leading financial center. Yet over 350,000 City households — almost 12% — have no bank account. That is 50% higher than the national average. Another 780,000 City households are underbanked, meaning they have a bank account but still rely on nonbank providers of alternative financial services (AFS) such as check-cashing services, prepaid debit cards, and high-interest loan services. Households that rely on such services pay high fees for even basic financial transactions — an average of over $600 per year just to cash checks."

To me this is absurd. Agreed we need better support for getting households banked at near zero cost. I've tried looking into process of starting a bank or a credit union, the former is nearly impossible or not recommended - you're better off buying a bank (Goldman Sachs did this for Marcus), the latter is somewhat manageable, but I felt too far in the deep end to get into it. If anyone has expertise and wants to chat, I'd love to learn more.

1 - https://www.yangforny.com/policies/a-peoples-bank-of-new-yor...
Have you thought about adding paid features or anything like that? I made a service that makes it really easy — https://extensionpay.com It's open source and works across all browsers.
I think very aggressive karma decay might work. Let's say your karma that is older than 1 year does not count for moderator powers. That means you need to be actually productive member of community to have the moderation powers.
Using funds to pay for colo costs (and possibly staff) is not "skimming". The entire purpose of raising funds is to pay for things.
Likely what they are referring to is how UEFI has greatly complicated the nature of a computer's boot process by essentially inserting a firmware runtime into what was a simpler to understand chain of POST->Hand off to program at address.

I had issues wrapping my head around this as well with regards to things like Network Boot etc, where I could not for the life of me understand or justify a boot process having a runtime capable of doing all this extra cryptographic/network nonsense when all I bloody wanted was my OS, up, now.

Not to get nostalgic, but that magical era for a user around Windows XP with a <5 second boot was just that; magic.

I know all the oldtimers will come out of the woodwork with horror stories of competing, sloppily specified BIOS implementations, the pain of malware hiding in CMOS, the threat of rootkits, etc... And the admins will chime in with "How do you expect me to power on the thousands of servers in my datacenter without network access during boot"?

Those are valid and real situations in isolation I can stomach. I cannot, however, stomach a boot process whereby a non-owner arranges things in a way where it is guaranteed that they get the final word in deciding how hardware you paid for is used, which requires the composition of those services.
It's fine to analyze Inc's reporting with a skeptical eye, but did it strike you at all that you're essentially doing the same thing you're accusing Inc of doing (taking information at face value without digging too deep), but with the parent's comment?

Parent's comment is not fully correct, yet you are taking it at face value and not looking "too deep underneath the carpet", and in some ways are "pick[ing] up someone else's lie and expand[ing] on it without bothering the verify the fundamental thesis".

The fact of the matter is that the Amazon HMs who decide on firing often are the same people who decide on hiring. Amazon may desire for that not to be true, but in practice, it is. And GP's comment doesn't actually provide any evidence against that.

I've added more context here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371455, but the gist is that Bar Raisers are supposed to be an independent hiring evaluator, but IME they often just serve as meeting facilitators that will just back up whatever decision the HM makes, which makes the HM the ultimate decider.
> How about a set of guaranteed healthcare and childcare vouchers for every household? How about $10k for both? Have these vouchers work like an HSA—specifically for medical, dental, vision and childcare. Cost is about $100 billion per year.

This would further degrade the system and promote rentiers. Our problem is a private / public health care system, and there is no good solution. Obama famously said around 2009, post recession, "I had two options, reform healthcare, or save millions of jobs, I chose the latter" (best as I can remember). Health care has become a jobs program by way of insurance companies. Median insurance prices have sky rocketed as far as I can tell, and insurance company stocks went up >4x post recession in the coming years (e.g. NYSE:UNH).

> And finally, how about breaking up the silly higher education system by not allowing kids to borrow any more than $10k per year and a maximum of $20k over a 4-year degree program? If the school admits the student, then the school has to agree to the student’s limited financial situation.

It's simpler than this. Simply allow bankruptcies to discharge student loans, the market will take care of it self, giving preference to better degrees and smarter people. We can still have scholarships and fund other things like liberal arts.
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The anti-vaxxers are certainly misguided, but I don't see how this constitutes "hate." You could apply the same logic to the anti-GMO and anti-nuke crowd.
If you've got good stories please do share them - this article is about warehouse workers specifically but SDEs at amazon are generally assumed to have exceedingly cushy jobs - please do shatter that conception if you can.
Disk encryption is only really practical when you never need to reboot. Found that out the hard way, like most others did at some point :-)
it is promising, but there's not enough data to say this for sure. decriminalizing it will make running studies easier.
The parallel is more striking than your post suggests.

Experts Exchange had no paywall for years. Endless people built the site up, provided help, then suddenly?

All their posts, content, and more were one day monetized, and locked away. Same thing happened with IMDB too, at the start. It was all, all of it, user contributed.

Then one day, they locked it all up. Of course, IMDB has grown a lot since then, and allows you to download the database if you wish regardless...

But point is, this sort of thing happens all the time...
No one is attacking personal success here - it's important and should be celebrated. But the opportunities in the US are absolutely not equal, far from it.
Uhhh... what competitors at that scale? Walmart? Wayfair? Ingram-Micro? Maybe Target?
> People get credit checks to even rent an apartment now

Why wouldn't they? If you are entrusted with any asset, people want to know you can pay for damages.

> not being in debt is not good enough criteria to have "good credit"

A history of no debt is meaningless if you've never borrowed anything - I've never once failed to return a million dollars in cash when given to me; I've also never been entrusted with a million dollars in cash.

Truth is, the best assurance that someone will pay, is they have assets you could go after, and no other creditors that might come first. The more you limit the ways creditors can recover their losses, the more upfront assurance they will demand to cover the risk.
The decimal proposal is a
vague enough that it is unclear if it would improve on that; if it was arbitrary-precision decimals, that would be an improvement. If it is limited precision but better than Number (seems unlikely), it would be an improvement. If it is limited precision but not better range/precision than Number, just decimal rather than binary floating point, its probably not an improvement. The proposal is vague enough that any of those would fit.
looks like an expensive online goodwill
The poor scribes having to write QR codes on that papyrus must have really cussed at their tasks. "Oops, I wonder if that stray drop of ink will cause problems. Not my problem though, so oh well." Then the next scribe making a copy of that scroll...
>Time to revisit my assumptions with respect to how companies are owned.

And what would those be? I'm curious
from the site:

"""
You say you are volunteers, but now you have all this money. Are you keeping some? Bonuses?

We're thinking about it.
"""

Bonuses for the lads off the back of a major donation deal isn't colo costs or sustainable staff hiring. I have no problem with either of those.
I keep hearing about these beasts, but I am really struggling to see that after all these years it makes more sense to use a 20-30 year old CNC instead of spending the capital to buy a new one. To me the cost tradeoff seems pretty clear, even up to replacing a $20K device.
I used to use a moka pot but eventually I decided it was far too strong and my tolerance got too seriously high. My teeth definitely looked worse than when I was binging french press instead.
This is true, and while you can still change @name in the options, it is sort of buried in there.
You know what is unnecessary material harvesting? Having coffee.

But I suppose a disposable filter is slightly more.
Dude, it's literally my neighborhood, which I've been in for over a decade. These people are mostly my neighbors. They're who I talk to at the corner store, at the cart pods, at the bar when we're watching the Blazers games.

Just. Stop.

I never made any claim about blanket superiority, just described factually what this place is like. You'll find plenty of people and even data supporting that characterization if you want.

Likewise I did not claim anything about equality with Texas, just that your utterly naive assertion that the customer base for the food cart I mentioned must be slanted a particular way, based on literally nothing. It is not.
Is this to signal the company culture?

Have you been to the warehouses or talked to workers there?
That's the disappointing thing. They seemed more interested in implementing cute little badges and stuff than working on features that benefit the core function of the site.

If you're doing web development, IMO SO is doing a disservice to people at this point. It's either totally useless if you're a seasoned dev or very misleading and harmful to beginners.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure they have the incentive to really fix things because all the obsolete answers probably still bring in a ton of traffic. The only way to fix it might be to tell people to stop using it.
if (!memory[s1.id]) {
memory[s1.id] = 'harvest'
}

ought to do it.
SpaceX ramps up Raptor production as Starship rocket will have 32 engines
I'm out of the loop, what did Shopify do?

EDIT: ah, you're probably talking about https://shopify.engineering/shipit-presents-how-shopify-uses...
After trying many methods, the French Press + grinder is my conclusion too. Quick, simple, makes good coffee.

It also makes it easy to brew coffee with cinnamon, hot spice, or whatever else you like with your coffee. Blends it all together nicely.

Cleaning is not quite as easy as it is with an Aeropress or other paper filter device, but it’s close.
"Imagining racism" is pretty much exactly what I would call the way you are judging other people's tastes in music.

Why people like what they like is complicated. Often it's connected with what the people around them listened to. There is also research suggesting that aesthetic preferences can be tied to certain personality traits (which themselves are somewhat heritable).

To suggest that one might prefer music by white people is the result of conscious animus towards non-whites is reductionist in the extreme, and provides essentially no useful insight.

And even if that preference is rooted in racism, is what someone prefers to listen to in the privacy of their own home really something that should be a collective concern? I really doubt it.

Regardless of the motive, calling someone's tastes is music "racist" is probably the least effective way to get them to try out other kinds of music.
This is a difficult question to poll because in a great sense actions speak louder than words, but what information I can find suggests similar preferences among consumers themselves: https://review.chicagobooth.edu/marketing/2020/article/made-...

See also: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-buyamerican-poll/amer...
> You should not do that since there is no reason to disallow the user from doing what they want.

For desktop computing ("personal computing", if you like), anyone here will agree.

But the article is specifically talking about securing appliances, and generally when talking about appliances, you're talking about rackable machines sold to the enterprise. There, they don't care a jot about being able to muck around with the machine - the whole point of an appliance is that you plug it in and go; that is more or less manages itself.

And for many of these customers, and of course any operating in a high-security environment (e.g. defence), this level of security is a feature, not a hindrance.
Lol no, it clearly works. It's call de-sensitization.
I've made my coffee using this same method for over 2 years with a plastic V60. It is super simple and requires very little thinking for a consistent cup. The only variables I have to adjust when I get a new bag is the grind size.
Ok so you won’t read the article. Sorry to waste your time by suggesting you do that before proclaiming the reporter (whose reporting you didn’t read) isn’t doing their job.

Startups are great, but their chances of success are higher when the founders know what they’re talking about.
InfoPath is end of life and PowerApps is their replacement.
Napster has a track record of buying companies, squeezing every single penny out of it and then toss them around to someone else to do the same.

We might see aggressive monitization and closures of sub sites with cost saving concerns.

This will fast become the Yahoo Answers of technical Q&A probably.

Also, it is smart on the part of former owners of stackoverflow to sell it off as the product is past its prime time. A downfall was inevitable.
Get rich. Is that really what the point of all this is?
Is Babel still relevant for TypeScript projects?
Force yourself to sit in silence and meditate. There is no easy solution. Just do it.
I've used depop a fair amount, I think it's a big leg up over eBay because of it draws some useful features from social media.

The feed allows you to follow and discover sellers whose style suits you, and stay informed of their offerings. You can see who they follow, and so on.
How an Indian car salesman made it to the NBA Hall of Fame (Twitter)
I had almost no connection to my mother, so you might like to call it traumatic. However, I was not telling my whole story. The reality is, I have a disability since childhood, so I always had "more complicated" problems then death to deal with. Thats why I insist calling the death of a family member trauma is exaggregation. There are things in life which are far more problematic to deal with.
Lots do monthly/quarterly vesting. But all have 1 year cliffs. With the idea that you get nothing if you don't last.

I had the wonderful experience of being hired at Google many years ago, and pulled into an SRE role. I was in the roughly half that they do that with that don't work out. And I didn't work out for exactly the reason that I initially expressed doubts about. (I don't task switch that fast - not a problem in a SWE but a major problem for an SRE.) I was let go 5 days before my 1 year cliff.

That is one of the reasons why I, personally, discount equity compensation.
I was tired of paying a bunch of money for 5-second user tests on the bigger UI testing platforms, so I made a free option. https://isthisclear.com/
The 'ole "they're a private business, they can do what they want" defense.

I try not to whip that out because it's all fun and cool til they do somethimg you don"t like.