skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m saddened to hear that French supermarkets were doing something that stupid. Most of the rest of the world doesn’t do that. I also don’t know how that law is supposed to work; when I worked in a grocery store as a teenager, most of the food I threw away was rotten or moldy. There’s no way I would willingly give that food to a charity. Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps the bleach was just an attempt to cut down the amount of mold spores people were exposed to.

The problem isn’t a lack of regulation either. The problem is just humans making mistakes. A human decided to try to sell product X, but couldn’t do so. Their stock was sitting in a warehouse racking up storage fees, and it would also cost money to ship it somewhere else. Adding regulations won’t reduce the number of mistakes that people make, it will only increase the cost of those mistakes. That cost will simply be passed along to the rest of us, making everything more expensive to buy.
She likely said it because she calculated that it was more important to get votes from X portion of the population rather than Y portion of the population that would vote for her anyways.

I didn't say anything about being racist in my comment, but I think it's pretty clear that the only reason #AllLivesMatter became a slogan was because people were uncomfortable with BLM. And I don't think it is a big stretch to suggest that people's documented subconscious biases against black people had something to do with the rise of that slogan.
If your job requires you to put on a public performance on social media -- do exactly that.
The whole talent hoarding strategy by big tech sounds anti-competitive as all hell, in spirit if not by any applicable letter of the law.
> There is no person with more interest in maintaining the current system than someone in charge of the fed.

Sure there is; Fed Chair is a job, not an investment, and its a job taken by people who are politically well connected and likely to get other jobs, should they want them, based on those connections.

There lots of people who have proportionately more to lose from problems in fiat than the fed chair.
Fair. In the end, we'll find "well, _everything_ is suffering!" and be forced to just embrace it or pretend we never asked.

However, I do see the unpacking/evaluation of assumptions inherent in the debate as valuable … "why is ending a life that can experience suffering the way humans do more ethical than a life that doesn't?" and "what does it say about us that we want to prevent animals from suffering?" and so on …
I was commenting on the causal relationship. The fact that vigilante social pressure is easier today is technically true, but not really addressing my point about the fact that people wanted (and did) do this. Your example is a guess. I promise you, in 1990 if I wanted to ruin someone's life, I could have (go check out the movie Fear).

The Salem Witch Trials were cancel culture. Jim Crow lynch mobs were cancel culture. The Red Scare was cancel culture. Same idea, new execution.

(Edited for spelling error)
There has to be some incoming header / query param to indicate the resolution the browser is asking for in order know when to stop delivering bytes, so that can be used to vary the CDNs cache key.
Why do you assume that paying the athletes will have any meaningful impact on expenses? I will be using my numbers from [1]. Coming in at 65 on expenditure, University of Kansas spends $14 million on football. At the time of the article, they hadn't been to a bowl game in a decade and the drought has since continued. I'm sorry Jayhawks, but the program isn't good at all. First, no school is going to remove scholarships because that's an easy way for the university to pay their athletes. Paying the football players $10k per year would only cost an additional $1.05M for a 105 man roster. That's less than 10%. That is easily covered by increasing price of tickets by $2 in their 50,000 capacity stadium over the course of the season. But students watch for free? Well, not really, they already paid in their student fees. So fees have a one time increase of $2. But more realistically, these are football players that will never go to the NFL. They are happy for a free education and the Jayhawks would never pay them in additional to what they give them already. These rules apply solely to the top 10 teams that wish they could pay the top recruit of the nation $100k. I say that all of this is easily fixed by giving the players 10% of their jersey sales. It is completely insane that the NCAA can make money off of a person's likeness and not pay them which is illegal in most states.

[1] - https://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/2017/08/which_school...
I was contacted by an Amazon recruiter and did a brief interview. Rather than a screening call like most companies I've interacted with, the recruiter wanted me to immediately fill out their application and start on the technical assessment, as if it didn't even cross her mind that I might not be interested in working for them. I filled out the app as it seemed required for the initial call, and then when I explicitly asked, I learned that supposedly most people work 40h weeks. I don't blame her for doing her job and trying to get applications, but the complete lack of sincerity was astonishing. I had already decided I'd never work for a FAANG based on other experiences I've learned about online and through friends, but it was especially impactful to experience the culture personally.
Rate of return trumps initial capital for any long-term horizon. Do the math of that:

$100 initial capital invested at 50% annual returns becomes $330K after 20 years. This is like a successful startup on its growth curve, or some of the very best hedge funds (eg. Medallion). It's less than most cryptocurrencies (eg. Bitcoin has returned about 70% annually over the last 7 years).

$10K at 20% annual returns becomes $383K after 20 years. This would be a very good active investor or someone who hits a hot company. Most FAANG stocks have returned about 25% over the past 10 years.

$100K at 7% annual returns becomes $386K after 20 years. This is a typical index fund return.

$250K at 2% annual returns becomes $371K after 20 years. This is a typical high-yield savings account return.

$1M when you lose 5%/year becomes $358K after 20 years. This is typical of somebody who holds mortgages or student debt where their asset value & income isn't increasing, or someone who has credit card debt equal to a quarter of their net worth.

Most people underestimate the power of compound interest and exponential growth, which is one of the things that a financial literacy course really needs to teach.
They are perhaps aggressive, or maybe you could find a reason to argue that the claims they are citing are unreliable, but what part about their posts are "trolling"?

>Bait them, and ignore them - priceless.

This is a nearly exact definition of trolling.
API with NestJS #37. Using Stripe to save credit cards for future use
Fair enough ..

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network that does not rely on any third party to function - hence no counter-party risk. Bitcoin operates based on rules, but has no rulers, only participants of various flavors.

Bitcoin doesn’t understand or recognize borders. There is no country-code input field in a bitcoin transaction. Bitcoin doesn’t care if you are sending Bitcoin to your friend across the street or North Korea, Iran, <insert scary nation here> - international transfer risk is non-existent for Bitcoin as Bitcoin does not recognize political borders.

Any human anywhere with a computing device and internet connectivity can create an address and transact with anyone else in the network.

Bitcoin is a censorship resistant monetary network open to all 7.5 Billion humans. No bank can compete with Bitcoin on this dimension.
Personally, I'd work for Amazon and already be looking elsewhere the moment I signed up, given how random it seems in terms of being fired. They're going to fire you anyway.
I find myself self-censoring more and more here on HN. I never had a problem until someone on here accused me of being a racist because my company consisted of primarily white people. It really messed with my head for a little bit. I mostly try and shy away from any contentious topic online now. I haven’t felt this pressure IRL (yet?) because people that know me know that I’m a very reasonable person who doesn’t hate anyone or any group.
You're free to have opinions, and we're free to call you an asshole for the opinions you have.

A more eloquent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/
I would argue what you're describing isn't "skipping" a meeting, but communicating about process and changing required attendees to optional, which is very much not what was being prescribed above ("Just hit decline like a grown up").

What you're describing is fine, but also not what we're talking about.
What makes you say more thoughtful activism dont exist anymore? Whede I followed activists, their activity did not went down with these. Occasionally they uses them, occasionally not, occasionally they disagreed. But I did not seen them stop original activity or complain about memes all that much.

It is way more often people who did not cared about activism who complain about lack of it due to memes. Like, not everyone has to care about activism, but it is odd to claim it dont exist anymore.
There really isn't a consequence here, it's just taxpayers paying off other people's student loans.
Or you just haven't realized which actions you've taken are predatory yet.
Not sure about Doge, but BTC and ETH especially have revenue (transaction fees)
Just wait, one day you will have an update to linux and suddenly your whole system wont boot. This doesn't happen often, I've only had it happen 2 or 3 times in 10 years. It is good practice to have a restore thumbdrive around ready to go just in case.
Additionally:

“ However, experiments to date have only documented very short-term effects on public concern (lasting up to a week), leaving open the question of whether agenda-setting has the power to yield meaningful political consequences in the course of ordinary daily life over the longer term.”

https://pprg.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009-Handbook-o...
100% agree. "You'll have a direct path to promotion in _x_ time" is a common sales tactic recruiters use.
There is a deauthentication attack which can really annoy people, and I think WPA2 can be broken pretty quickly, but I don’t know enough of the details to answer that question.
It did not work like that at Microsoft at all. Stack ranking happened at an organization-wide level, so the total pool was hundreds of employees. It was perfectly normal for one team to be full of high performers, and vice versa. And being ranked in the bottom bucket didn't mean you were going to be fired. In most cases it wouldn't even lead to a PIP. It was simply a lower bonus, that's it. I have no idea about Amazon but at Microsoft the whole manager having to fire 1 out of 5 employees every year was 100% a myth. I worked there for many years and out of many hundreds of coworkers maybe 2 or 3 were ever fired for underperforming (while it should have been way more).

Funny enough the move away from stack ranking was very unpopular at Microsoft, since the performance review process became very opaque and way more political.
If you can pass Amazon's interview you can pass any other fang's interview which will give you the same CV prestige with probably less hassle. The only people I know who went to Amazon picked it just because it was the only fang they passed at and they didn't want to bother doing another round of interviews or wait for the cooldown period.

Sure, other fangs have similar internal politics nightmares - but Amazon seems to be consistently the worst.
> So a manager might make a bad hire because so they don't have to fire any of the people they like.

This is well documented behavior, even in Jack Welch’s book. He was the one famous for cutting 5% every year at GE.
If Amazon downsized by 90% then they couldnt drive by my house two to three times a day so I can quickly get my prime widgets.
To be clear, there's no discrepancy between "the larger community was essential" and "daily life revolved around the homestead and kinfolk groups". The former doesn't refute the latter. Indeed, I grew up amid the Amish, and both were true: their daily work was on their own farm or else they were helping their kin farm and their communities were very important to them. I suspect that's also the case with the other hominids you're referencing.
>> Except everyone publishing software today that isn't a game developer is targeting the web.

What?

Even your example (Creative Cloud) has an iOS and iPadOS app.
I constantly see “Unable to parse commit info” for like 10 seconds now before everything loads.
Indeed, it’s totally nuts to suggest that the world’s most capitalized company might be focused on revenue growth instead of the “metaverse substrate”.
Bitcoin tumbles 11% after China steps up crackdown on crypto mining
Why is it so hard to implement a git undo? You have a previous state, and a current state. Just roll it back.
>This isn't news, but what they don't mention is managers will set up their own "private" PIPs to frighten workers into doing what they want.

Diabolical thing.
I remember laughing (other place, other times) as my manager friend told me about a manager in the org practicing it. It was an exception though, and I see how it may be a regular practice at AMZN.
I know, right? It's gotten to the point where even men who do nothing more than admit to harassing women and pressuring them into sex has resulted in actual consequences!
Wow. Reading the home page of gitless made me both excited to use it and angry at how poorly designed git’s UI and UX are. Thanks for sharing this!
Yes, TFA which explicitly singles out "contemporary meme activism" as the problem.

> TFA even includes an example from centuries ago.

Oh, you mean the abolitionist example? Yeah, too bad those guys never achieved any lasting, positive gain.

You can't have it both ways.
That's because web developers seem to have the notion that if it's not complex and hard, they have a hard time justifying their pay. So they make it complex, and when something like accessibility or browser support inevitably fails, they can charge more to "fix" it --- by of course adding even more complexity, and the cycle repeats.
From personal contacts, the same happens at Facebook. If your performance is good, it means you're not being pushed enough and you need to increase your workload. What a despicable work culture that you have to expect to be told that you're not meeting expectations and that you have to be worked to that extent.
If the weird offspring are really bitter, stop eating them!

You probably won’t die but you’ll be quite miserable. Apparently, once a gourd starts not breeding true, it can revert to a form with way too much bitterness - we humans have trouble with the chemical and get quite sick.

https://www.anses.fr/en/content/beware-inedible-gourds
> I presume that if we had a UBI, then we wouldn't also have social security

Why do you presume that? Its common for UBI advocates to advocate it (at least as it matures) replacing means-tested benefits; its a lot less common for them to advocate it replacing other things, including earned benefits.
Kats: A kit to analyze time series data
I also like how it can make a machine unusable for like an hour after an update while it rebuilds the indexes. I have some laptops where it will take upwards of 45 minutes to log in after a patch. Windows 10 really hates slow spinning HDDs, and these are machines with plenty of memory (8GB) to avoid paging.
How did you manage the technical degree and full-time athlete duties? Did they occur at the same time?
Everything is a ponzi scheme, the only question is whether the speculative bubble is the majority of the value.

The "use value" of a house is living in it. The "market value" from the housing market speculation may be multiples of that.

There are two sectors in the economy... the productive one, which creates wealth for society (startups, new technology, reusing what works, cross pollination, economies of scale) and then there is the zero-sum one (exchanges, trading). Sure, it may enable more efficient capital allocation and help society somewhat, but over time, with financial derivatives, most of it is just a giant casino.

When you come into a casino, and walk away with more dollars than you came in with, someone necessarily walks away with less. The casino doesn't print dollars. Same here. The exchanges don't issue dollars (they aren't banks, after all ;-) ... so for someone to win X, someone has to lose X. Have fun losing to the institutions. The investing game is over in whatever assets already appreciated 50,000% .. move on to newer projects, and better yet, try to focus on that first sector of the economy, the one that actually helps society!
This is a rational reaction. It's also a great example of the chilling effect on speech, that cancelling can have.

And when the chilling effect is strong enough, it atomizes and isolates individuals, makes them feel powerless, and creates a false sense of consensus around a particular issue.

Domination and coercion over genuine persuasion -- that's the point.
> people are happy to talk about beliefs without any of that translating into real world action

That’s exactly what is decried by the original article as being detrimental to activism.

The point of activism is to take action to effect meaningful change in the world.
just curious, how do they even know you were even "violating" their patent? or does something like saving a JSON count as a "remote database?"

or they sniff your app with some MITM proxy?
Work for a public utility... lack of talented employees was stated explicit in the interview.
Yep. Write a grep and find (IO-loop, filesystem), a shell (child processes, signals), a simple nmap-replacement (network, DNS), a forking and a multithreaded webserver (more network, more children, synchronisation), a clock with seconds display and something that synthesizes and plays music on keypress (timing, waiting).

Everything just in the simplest sense, no fancy features needed: the grep just needs a string parameter to search for and some files, the shell doesn't need completion, scripting or variables, just execution and background jobs. For the webserver, just serve some static files from the URL, ignore security, concentrate on getting lots of clients served at the same time however. Bonus points if you make the main process/thread gather meaningful statistics/logs and not screw up concurrency. Make sure to learn the right synchronisation primitives and use them properly. For the clock, make sure to explore sleep-based, loop-based and signal-based approaches and compare them. Get all three second-ticks to be in sync with your pocket watch and not skip/delay/hang. The music exercise is similar, just event-based (you get to handle key input and buffer low or tick events), either with something like select/epoll or multiple threads. The music itself is not interesting, a simple sine or rectangle signal suffices. But of course reaction time should be low and sound should be glitch-free.

What is missing from the above but important are the security aspects of systems programming, most of which are either problems with certain languages (learn how to avoid, recognize and exploit a simple buffer overflow, format string exploit), security aspects around file creation (especially temporary files, but also general symlink attacks), SUID-bits, permissions/ACLs/MAC and generally privilege separation. Those aren't easy to put into learning-by-doing exercises, because you would need an attacker to slap you over the head when you make a mistake there ;)

As a programming language, for Linux/Unix I would strongly recommend using C, not C++, not anything else. Use libc or plain syscalls, nothing fancier. When you have mastered the above in C, you know how to appreciate other, better languages, but also know where those may be lacking. If you just do the above in Python, you learned nothing about systems programming and everything about Python lib idiosyncracies
> This is just a huge amount of labour, and it proves that home cooking is fundamentally inefficient

It doesn't seem all that more laborious than, say, keeping a sourdough starter? (Or at one of the other ends of the food prep process, a compost bucket).
I've actually seen it more the other way - like they ask you what you want, and if you say, then they will be like okay how about 90% of that?

I had one job offer where I absolutely nailed the interview and basically walked out with a verbal offer, and then the founder decided to offer me $10k less than what I asked for. I didn't respond for a week, and then he offered me what I asked for. But because of that, I didn't even respond to the second email, I don't want to work for someone who will screw things up over small points like that. Again, like you say it was just about them trying to screw me over because they felt like they could.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and please drop the tedious meta complaints about downvotes and whatnot? None of that is helping.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Turnover at amazon is high. In my org the rate of turnover is probably higher than 30% every 5 years. On a 10 person team losing 2 people in a year is 20% right there. My experience of the turnover is that it is much higher than 6% a year.
> Whats the difference between having sex and being a sexual predator?

I don't think it's necessary to answer this because "sexual predator" was literally Noah's description of himself and his behavior (in those words) in the apology post that led to Wizards no longer wanting to work with him.
Sorry, to clarify, anyone targetting Windows users, is probably only doing so by proxy, because there's no compelling reason to create a first-class Windows desktop application over just a web app.
Wasn’t one of the MIT students seeking to strip Stallman of his positions, claiming that she had only heard of him acting inappropriately (as she was too young to ever interact with him herself), yet when challenged on the matter, refused to provide any specifics?
I knew exactly whete this eould go after reading that opening line. You just don't care.
I can relate on a small scale. People feed on chaos. Their evening primetime dramas aren't enough to sustain them so it spills out on twitter. No amount of apology or understanding will stop them because if they accept the conclusion, their favorite reality show ends with a thud.

I got canceled in the group I founded. 12 years ago I started a reddit community based on my relationships and attractions. After building to 28k subs 10 years later, fb groups and meetups around the country. Animosity toward leadership and mods began to form. A small group of users formed resistance and started a scuffle in a post, then threats toward meetup attendees directed at mods started appearing on the discord. Complaints started appearing on the facebook group. There was no reasoning or logic to their complaints and they almost seemed incorrigible... like a bloodlust. In the end, I was forced out and exiled. I would later learn that the resistance was mostly unstable crazed users who fed on drama. Since the event their reddit and facebook profiles document a life in chaos for each of them.

It's weird not being able to speak in a community you designed and built over a decade. Even as your face/likeness and artwork is still in use in all the published materials. Thankfully things have mostly calmed down now.