skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a well sourced refutation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5XUH4LuzCw

summary:

* The documentary distorts facts and in some cases even outright lies:

1. They claim that the oceans will be empty by 2048, but that claim is based off widely refuted (by even the original authors!) paper from 2006. A 2020 update says the global fish stocks are improving.

2. They claim that 40% of seafood caught is "bycatch", but they define bycatch as "anything that's not sustainably managed". No reputable scientific organization uses that definition for bycatch.

3. They claim 250k sea turtles are killed per year as a result of bycatch, but the source cited for this is some random blog post. Actual studies show the number is closer to 4600.

5. They claim that 46% of plastic in the ocean is from fishing nets, but that's based off a study that shows that in a specific area of the ocean (great pacific garbage patch), fishing nets make up 46% of the floating plastic.

* The documentary allege corruption but their evidence amounts to "well they could be faking the numbers". A company could be cooking the books (it happens all the time, eg. wirecard), but that doesn't mean it's a widespread practice. Independent studies have verified that msc certification is a reliable and overall beneficial program.

* The documentary's interviews are misleading because they ask simplified questions to complex problems, then play them back out of context in an attempt to create gotcha moments. The movie has received criticism from the people interviewed, even the ones that were portrayed positively.

* The creator doesn't seem to be interested in sustainability at all. In one segment he visits a bunch of whale fisherman. He concludes that the practice is totally sustainable, but he still doesn't like it and goes on to say that sustainability is not how we should care for our oceans. The documentary doesn't end with ways on how to make fishing more sustainable, it instead lists reasons why you should go vegan.
For a shell? To launch other programs?

You're right about the modern part. :-)
You’re making it way too complicated.

Workers have alternatives. That’s your answer.
> From personal experience, the hardest part of an office job is putting up with all the conformity and bureaucracy and politics.

Sorry, but this is just a staggeringly awful FirstWorldProblems/Karen kind of thing. I mean, sure, maybe that's the worst part of your "office job" (which I'm guessing is, like many people here, a six figure development position in a career you genuinely enjoy), but you say that because you've never had to be on your feet for 8 hours straight bagging groceries or emptying trash cans or entering orders from cranky customers into a POS terminal.

Good grief. Bad training meetings are what you choose to complain about? Really?
I'll spare you the years of money + research, the majority of it all funnels back into "mean reversion" as the core operating principle. Ceteris paribus in terms of information advantages of course.

You can get good at eeking out those advantages and exploiting them, but you're talking about making it your job to find financial "security holes" where the reward is printing cash. And there's a lot of really smart people spending a lot of time doing that. And you have to consistently find new holes as each one gets closed by market participants as you reveal your hand. And then you have to ask yourself if that's how you really want to contribute your time to the world.

If you don't think it's your calling, best to find products/companies you really believe in and make calculated risk-taking investments. As Carnegie would say "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket"
No. The greed of the short-sighted wealthy is funding these projects at the expense of everyone else in the country.
Agreed, but in the context of governments hoping to clone DARPA success, it's more about the innovations than the "D" part.
That report is about mining cobalt, which has many applications including lithium batteries.
If there is no work to do, I'd rather go home and watch a movie of my choosing, or anything else I feel like doing. Idle time at work is excruciating.
Leave it to Microsoft to use cryptic abbreviations and character limits even in URLs…
Neat, which city? I live in Washington DC which is in a similar position, where an EPA consent decree to clean up the river and deal with old sewer overflow is driving lots of neat infrastructure and cleaning up the waterfronts rather dramatically. No low head dams that I’m aware of, however, though maybe there’s one on Rock Creek.
Game of thrones certainly is an articulation of US cultural norms, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
That’s not how it works. Most fast food restaurants are franchised, not company owned. An average McDonald’s owner (franchisee) only makes about $150k per year off it [1]. And that’s after investing a rather large sum of money into the business in the first place. I’ll let you do the math on how much wages could go up for workers before that number turns into “I would make more money doing anything else with my capital”.

[1] https://work.chron.com/average-income-fast-food-franchise-ow...
The ACLU has been the premier organization fighting for free speech since its inception. This transformation is like the staff of the Muscular Dystrophy Association deciding it really ought to put its energy into fighting herpes. There’s nothing wrong with fighting herpes, but if staffers did that they’d be stealing the organization.
Literally every version for the last 5 years people say "Firefox has really gotten better for real now with version N", and every single time, I try it and immediately find it's still an order of magnitude slower and more power hungry than Chrome.
This is America.. where employers (small and large like Walmart) schedule workers for part time just so they don't have to provide health insurance. Where low wage workers live paycheck to paycheck, get no time off, and if they get sick they would still be expected to show up for work.

Economists cant seem wrap their head around the idea that being a front line worker being exposed directly to sick people during a pandemic seems to be worth more money than when there wasn't a pandemic.

Incredible. It's like people--including low wage people--understand there's a pandemic going on.

I wonder when economists will catch on.
It reminds me a bit more of talking about p50 vs p99 latency times but where we’re not measuring production data, more like what we’re guessing production loads will look like.
Are you playing my "game"? My question is pretty simple: what's a more fundamental right, life, or speech? Which one would you select if you could only select one? Which one is it possible to have without the other?

You simply cannot exercise free speech without life, you cannot fight for free speech if you are not alive. Free speech is totally dependent on existence.
A div looks like nothing by default. It’s probably about the same amount of effort to make a button look good.
I think your link should be:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fqzcomp/

needs a space before "and".
This whole damn list can be boiled down to "how to communicate effectively" and isn't very actionable at all by the reader. Which isn't too much of a surprise to me because that's the exact way I felt reading Manager's Path. It's even a bit insulting that it's targeted at engineers, furthering the narrative that engineers are bad communicators.

Much better books in this space are "The Making of a Manager" by Julie Zhuo and "Elegant Puzzle" by Will Larson. Both very insightful and actionable. The latter is a bit dense though.
> When I interview as a candidate I put everything else aside for that day so that I can be rested, fresh, calm and focused.

And you must realize that you are in a ridiculously privileged position to be able to do so, right?
Totally agree with you, that’s all I can say.
Just because virtually none of the best-regarded security teams haven’t implemented yet doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t implement it.

Honestly, I thinks it’s a case that most people don’t know about it, so they don’t know to implement it. The same goes for DMARC as well.
Such a fun resume.

I'd love to set one up like that.

Since I have mostly Windows Experience, it would probably need to be a .chm file :)
I have a question about the Walmart thing - is healthcare not pro-rated according to how much you work? Or is this casual work where you get a higher hourly loading to compensate?

I'm trying to translate it into the Australian work context, but we don't tie healthcare to employment so I'm a bit confused.
TikTok users expose the horrifying reality of the 'Troubled Teen' industry
It is sometimes explicitly used by the government to bring down sites: see the "Great Cannon of China"[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cannon
Send them to Taiwan, because then the Chinese government can’t admit that they don’t have jurisdiction there internationally.
Flyover towns, generally, don't have those jobs though.

The people who are looking to employ are not in those towns, they're in the places where living expenses are high.

The idea you're going to cut rent prices by a factor of 5 is about as detached from reality as it's possible to get.
Idle time is nice if the alternative is heavy lifting or dealing with rude customers
Kay has promoted many different definitions of "object-oriented", over the years, and many disjoint variations on Smalltalk's early history. It is probably best to stick to the very oldest interviews if you care to learn the real history.
Riparian rights vary state by state, and can be attached to a piece of property and defended by the legacy of the property.

I am no expert in water rights at all, but this seems to be a pretty clumsy example.

I do get that you are trying to give an example of the "tragedy of the commons", but you are comparing civil liberties which while not ensconced as "inalienable rights", are supposed to be applied equally and non-revocable.

Almost every tragedy of the commons example I can think of is subject to government just doing its job and coming up with the best compromise (once they even realize it is a problem). In many cases what seems best for everyone today may change in the future.

How would you even apply this collective right to any other amendment from the Bill of Rights? Only give a fair trial if an entire community is arrested? Only stop unfair search and seizure if its for an entire town?
I can tell you which ones not to use based on which registrars have had domain names stolen frequently.
The best thing that 'documentary' highlighted was that fishing isn't necessarily just for human consumption, there's likely a large portion of fishing that's done for feedstock of fish farms.

It's a global problem but there's one bad/reckless actor (China) that needs to better police the issue internally.

To be honest, I don't know if a 'global' effort of physically policing the oceans is possible (given they cover 2/3rds of the Earth). I do think it in the short term it will eventually come down to fishing crew being arrested and boats confiscated and sunk, with the crew being given one way flights back to their home country.
> 1. automate

Won't work. Customers are generally not going to figure out your UI, and even when they do a special case is going to come up once every five or so checkouts that requires employee intervention.

> 2. become a charity

This is a better idea. They should include e.g. 50¢ in the price of every Big Mac that will be donated to the workers who cooked and served it.
Yeach, you're right, all of packages are hard code in backend, you can found it here: https://github.com/zhyd1997/Eorg-Server/blob/209a142c687a566...

Also, you can download the source code and compile it by your local machine, which can add any packages you need.
> I always thought the problem with European startups was lack of a VC critical mass and risk taking ethos. So I thought the globalization of VC would help, but this sounds like it’s bleaker than ever.

Europe only makes 10% of the world population, and the EU population is a bit over the half of that. I don't have the numbers, but I'm confident the EU gets more per capita.

> Is it the absurd bureaucracies? Taxes? Red tape?

All of that plus Europe is quite developed. VC wants a high return and under-developed emerging countries can give more for your buck.
> Everything these companies do is geared towards making us develop (often for free) the features their users want on their devices in a way that their users increase their appreciation for them, not for us.

Be careful what you wish for. MS and Apple constantly build new OS features that 'borrow' ideas from third-party developers.
I am very much in favor of getting rid of no knock raids. I believe the NRA or other pro gun groups should defend any person who shoots cops who do no knock raids. If we are going to have no knock raids I believe they should be heavily restricted and need approval from the mayor, governor or president (depending on the law enforcement agency).

However, I do not believe a pro gun group should work to get rid of no knock raids. I think a more generalized civil liberty group should work on that. I am very much in favor of NRA working on 2nd amendment cases (and those related like 4th amendment cases where they are taking a person's gun). I am not sure what other activism you are talking about, but if it is not about guns I don't think the NRA should work on it.
You just proved his/her point, there is no beauty without humans.
Back when I was a kid we would boogie board on one of those hydraulic jumps. If you were good you could stay up for several minutes at a time. It was somewhere in between the safe and dangerous examples he gave. No injuries or deaths, to my knowledge.
My bad for not reading it further than VSCode.
I don't think your conclusion that the majority of the left has adopted that position is founded, but I agree that this is a very interesting tension that you've perfectly described.

It's easy to be principled when it doesn't matter. To anyone who didn't live through it, the Nazis are an ancient demon that feels as relevant as Darth Vader or the Devil. What do I care if 4chan wants to name a soda "Hitler did nothing wrong" for the lols?

It's a lot harder when you perceive the speech that your principles would have you save to be a tangible threat to your safety. If some on the left (rightly or wrongly) see e.g. unmoderated alt-right social media activity as a risk factor for something bigger than 1/6, there would be an inherent tension between principles and pragmatism.

I'd be interested in seeing evidence as to whether the left has trended toward a particular side, but it's a shame that this has to become an issue in the first place.
I was mostly trying to say that you shouldn’t stop trying to learn just because you got hired :)
A country leasing would care just as little about overfishing.

But yeah, don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. But who would be willing to mess with China?
One area of non-progress in the last 20 years is "chat" applications, which seem to disrupt themselves on a regular basis.

It seems the cycle is something like this:

(1) Something comes out that is really cool, like AOL, Skype, or MySpace

(2) Thanks to network effects this service doesn't adapt to competition

(3) ... until it is too late. Now Facebook is cool and Zoom is cool.

Now there is Facebook instant messenger which is hard to tell apart from AOL instant messenger, ICQ, Skype, Skype for Business, Paltalk.

If the industry had settled in on a standard, there might have been innovation in chat clients. Instead we keep getting the same chat client as 20 years ago except now it is tied to Facebook and the other is tied to AOL.

Social platforms might burn out naturally. For instance, young people were attracted to Facebook when young people where there exclusively but when it became a way to update your grandma about what you are doing, kids switched to other platforms, which Facebook bought.

Facebook badly wants to make a social network aimed at the under-14 set because they think they can escape the obsolescence treadmill this way.
Writing HTML/CSS is one of the hardest and most frustrating things I've done as a programmer. It sucks. I would actively break my website to get the job done without losing my mind.

I would need to be very _motivated_ to change my behaviour.

I amended my comment to be less snarky I was coming on a bit to strong.
Do you have any ties to Apple?

That is the most ridiculous implication.

'We did not expect anyone to read the terms of the product, so we shouldn't have to deliver on what we promised.'

That is not resonable.

Apple is using weezle-words like "should" which gives them wiggle room, but I guess it will be up to a court to decide.
If you were to rewrite this list what are the 10 best things to do for a small company to do to protect themselves?
"But, even though they pose little danger in the event of a breach, low head dams create a public safety issue that has caused more fatalities in the U.S. than all dam failures in the past 20 years."

Good article generally, but that's a super misleading statistic, or at least easily cherry picked to support a point. Dam failures in general are pretty rare, and fatal ones are even rarer.

Imagine if there was a bad but not Johnstown level fatal dam failure 25 years ago. You can tell two radically different stories if you choose to compare deaths over the last 20 years vs last 30.

The author's point would be more convincingly made if they talked about fatal dam failures over time and demonstrated that they had nothing up their sleeve before making that comparison.

Incidentally, you get naturally occurring keepers as well. I'm not privy to the full details but there was a drowning in the BWCA in 2002. AIUI somebody took a dip in a hydraulic below a falls along Horse Portage and wasn't able to escape. They went through too many times and could not be resuscitated. As I understand it, they were pulled out in an extremely risky and improvised rescue attempt, but it was too late for the victim.
Before we laud him as a saint, wasn't Cicero the guy who felt the plebian/patrician divide was just and right? My (poor) memory is that he was across the aisle from Caesar under the auspices of "no commoners" as well as "no dictators".
Oh, that’s good.
You can also set port options in /etc/make.conf. I find this easier than the /var/db/ports solution because you can see all the configuration in a single file, rather than file-per-port.
I highly recommend Interactive Linear Algebra for learning undergrad-level linear algebra mostly in the R^N. It has a PDF version available, but the real magic is in the interactive embedded 2D and 3D visualizations.

There's a couple of variations available - it was written by some professors at Georgia Tech, one of which moved to Duke and teaches off of it there - but the UBC version is my favorite, as it makes some changes in the lesson order to teach vectors before matrices.

https://www.math.ubc.ca/~tbjw/ila
I mean, it takes me more than the 2 seconds I’m willing to expend to understand how the UI works.

In theory it should take zero.
> you've probably got $100 to spare every month.

Wow, that's more than enough for child care.
Pre-WFH, there were several groups of crows near my office covering distinct territories around my building. I made a habit of feeding and interacting with a few of these groups, every day for several months. Here are my experiences:

* I did indeed see a crow "anting" one time, and was initially as bewildered as the photographer in TFA. Surprisingly I was able to get much closer to the bird than they normally allow, but stepped back as soon as I saw it wasn't actually in distress.

* The best way to get close to a crow is to back up towards it; they are extremely wary of eye contact and will immediately become alert if you look at them or move towards them with your body facing forward. Over time, I used this method to get close to them and demonstrate that I wasn't a threat. I "trained" the crows to recognize that if they let me get close, I'll drop some food for them. After a while you don't have to do the backwards shimmy, but it's a good default strategy for approaching naturally skittish creatures.

* If you feed crows in exactly the same place every day, they will recognize you and fly to the "feeding spot". Crows pay very close attention to your movements and behaviors, and like most animals will try to develop a mental model to figure out when you're going to feed them. If presented with consistent causal behaviors, the birds will essentially train themselves.

* Crows are very sensitive to changes in appearance and behavior. I switched jackets one day and was met with immediate suspicion.

* My most fruitful experiment was right before the lockdown. I would stand in a specific location for a little while and watch the birds (watching them from a distance piques their curiosity and alertness to you). With them watching, I would pretend to plant food somewhere nearby and then move away. The crows would fly over, and I would immediately reward them. After a few weeks of this, I began gesturing towards nearby objects with my hand, and the birds would investigate the object immediately after I move away. After consistently rewarding this behavior, I was able to advance to "pointing to a semi-nearby object with my arm". One crow eventually figured out how to fly to the object I was pointing at, and I did a few successful tests to make sure the crow would fly specifically to the object I was pointing at, and not at some other nearby object. I have yet to train them to land on distant objects, but I'm hopeful!

* Crows like pistachios (they have multiple techniques for cracking the shell), and love cashews and peanuts (unsalted are best for the birds). They'll almost always opt for the "more convenient" snack, especially when they're competing with other crows. I try to reward the "bravest" crows first, by slowly moving away from the food pile until one crow moves in. Like other animals, crows also learn by observing the reward loop from a distance, and you can use this to get a large number of them to trust you.

* Crows are very curious when they feel safe, and it is mutually entertaining to set up unusual scenarios (such as hiding food inside or under tricky objects, like empty water bottles or closed paper containers).
Job may require you to have a car/commute or pay for public transport, pay for services you'd otherwise have time to do yourself, to pay to put children into childcare (my childcare is AU$122 per day, per child).
I think Erdogan just vowed to fix climate change. Great!
Fujitsu rolls out fanless 500GB hard drive (2008)
There’s a very dangerous low head dam in DC area just upstream of chain bridge. It is used to divert water for drinking. Fortunately clear warning signs on the water have prevented any recent fatalities, but there were a number in the past.
Devil's Advocate: If I could trade quality UBI for some restrictions on speech I'd probably take the deal. The ability to tell a bad employer to go fuck himself/herself without the threat of homelessness, decent healthcare without bankruptcy, or a guarantee of affordable housing, is worth far more to me than the ability to spew racist or conspiratorial crap on forums, for example.
Possible to allow dragging the video directly to the timeline?
Probably because your only options to get them on mac/windows are to download binaries from some random guy off the internet (who the hell is "Marmaduke" and why should I trust him?), or compiling it yourself (~1 hour build time on a mid-tier desktop CPU).
sorta like employee Tetris but the goal is to prevent the blocks from adding up to 40
Neither Rahman and Mattis worked for the ACLU and are having the book thrown at them (potentially 50+ years) for burning an empty NYPD van.

The rest of your comment is trite Taibbi-parroting about cancel culture.