skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like an HR policy to reduce labor costs. As long as Amazon keeps a steady supply of labor behind you and at least some of them don't have other comparable options, they're going to agree to these terms and their hiring teams are going to continue this nefarious practice. Some may agree to it alone in an unconscious sunk cost fallacy.

There really need to be laws with teeth about false advertisement from both employees and employers so we can skip this sort of non-sense false advertising.
I'm a parent to two small children. Sleep is incredibly important but I think I probably have another year at least of seven hours interrupted at least once as my normal.

It sucks.
Absolutely, and I'm usually perfectly cool with some nice B&B having some janky third-party website or even, gasp, having to call them on the phone to make changes etc. I'm not fine with Marriott not having a streamlined mobile app, a loyalty program, 24-hour customer service, etc.There are certainly economies of scale with companies generally but there are also costs.
The point is that you can drive the car onto any road, not that it would be any good at it. I can buy a Camry and drive it off a cliff into the ocean. It's my right as its owner to do that. If Toyota said, nope, even though you paid full price for this car we're still not going to let you drive it off a cliff, I would be upset at that limitation. Even if my intention is not to drive it off a cliff.

It's about allowing the consumer to use the device however they see fit, there's no expectation that the car should be able to do everything outside of its operating range well.
No contradictions here. You don't even have to go to the animal realm. There are some humans who are capable of empathy towards some people but happily inflict pain on other people. This however should not be an argument for the rest of us to behave in a cruel manner towards anybody.
Then how do companies have DEI policies for hiring and promotion?
Nah. That's not "the free market". And that's not how most employers are. Wanting extra useless billions even if it immiserates others isn't commerce, it's sociopathy.

Even sticking with industrial titans, look at Henry Ford, who insisted on paying his workers a living wage. That was revolutionary at the time, and put America on the road to having a significant middle class.
I've heard some people in the Netherlands work 4 days a week but 9 hours a day. Would you consider this OK? I doubt one can be mentally productive working 9 hours unless their job is very simple or unless they have an a sleeping break. I work 7 hours but already feel stupid and demotivated during the final 2-3 hours.

I would love to have a holiday every Wednesday though. Never working more than 2-3 days in a row would rid me of the feeling of living in the office.
Well, if they had to provide the same service guarantees without charging people for it, then you can bet it’d be factored into the initial price - I’m sure warranties heavily increase the price of cars since they have to do more engineering validation and testing.
The level of abuse and mismanagement I put up with before I got older is pretty shocking. Young people have a much higher tolerance for BS, in many cases because they don't have enough experience to know that their workplace is broken.
> But in India, jobs are careers for life, and your employer is part of your personal brand.

In the last decade, I might have very rarely seen a resume with more than say 10 years of experience at a single place. The average would be somewhere in the range of 1-4 years.
I know. But I spoke of devices that can actually use telephony. Not VoIP, that was possible all the time.

This for example: https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-dongle/
It just becomes so obvious and blatant for these remote roles. There are a lot of other justifications to not have an office in a state.
My performance benchmarking workflow
> "But people don't have that many apps, storage is cheap and we have plenty of ram."

Appliance maker: "Electricity is cheap and there's plenty of it, who cares if all the devices we sell costs the consumer on their electricity bill and causes power plants to pollute the atmosphere more."

Car manufacturer: "Fossil fuel is cheap and there's plenty of it, who cares if all the cars we sell cost the customer extra at the pump and adds to air pollution."

There was a reckoning for both of those fields and there will eventually be a reckoning for software development as well.
A catalog file (.cat) has a bunch of file hashes (think file identities) in it. Signing that means indirectly signing all of those files.

Signature validation means checking an embedded signature if it exists, then looking for the hash in the installed .cat files and, if found, checking that signature.

Authenticode signatures like this are PKI-based. They can be revoked if determined not to be valid later.
This. I keep hearing about undepaid teachers, but in my immediate social circle this is simply not true from avg. hh US perspective.

Naturally, statement like that usually then gets attacked as 'but not enough'. Based on results alone, CPS teachers are actually paid too much.
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More like: "8 completely ordinary examples of late 70s, early 80s design". From what I remember stuff looked like that back then.

There is nothing particularly "Soviet" about these examples. Doesn't mean that Soviet Design didn't have its idiosyncrasies, but the examples presented here are completely unsuitable to show that. For example the "Boiling Wand" was ubiquitous in Western Europe in the 80s. The "Aesthetics Journal" shown in the article is - apart from the Cyrillic lettering - Swiss Design par excellence.
Orcas are known to play with seals they've killed and never eat as well. Chimps also participate in clan wars [0]. I'd venture to say that the more intelligent an animal the more capacity they have for needless killing, or at least killing for reasons other than food. What that says about humans specifically I'm not sure, but what I dislike about these conversations is the need to feel like we are so special compared to other animals. We are unique and I'm positive we'll reach a point where we won't need to kill animals for food, but we're not there yet and until then we'll need to be a responsible component of the natural food chain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
I’m very irritated about Scott’s foray into funding ethnic activist organizations. Her basic strategy is to give to organizations with expertise in an area, and she projects that onto giving money to identity-based organizations, on the theory that those organizations are “experts” in the ethnic groups they purport to speak for.

> Because community-centered service is such a powerful catalyst and multiplier, we spent the first quarter of 2021 identifying and evaluating equity-oriented non-profit teams working in areas that have been neglected. The result was $2,739,000,000 in gifts to 286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.

But if you look at the list of say Asian organizations funded by Scott, many are Asian progressive activists. I’m a card carrying Asian and I’ve never heard of any of them. As Matt Yglesias has pointed out, progressive activists are unrepresentative of the minority groups they purport to speak for: https://www.slowboring.com/p/yang-gang

For example, one organization Scott funded tries to teach Asian kids to dismantle the “model minority myth.” As far as I can tell, what they define as a “myth” is just how my Asian parents socialized their children to be.

The problem is that selecting particular Asian identity groups for funding is itself an exercise in using wealth and privilege to pick winners and losers. In this case, Scott is showering Amazon bucks on one side of a debate within the Asian community itself, distorting that debate.
Well - luckily that’s not the typical neighborhood in Denmark - we have a lot more building-diversity…!
We can't decide because we don't have a machine that objectively measures consciousness. But it's safer to err on the side of mercy than to accidentally create hell on Earth.
Note that OP did not say "without causing pain." He/She said "respect" which is descriptive of both of your positions.

There is a tendency, in animal welfare discussions, to ratchet. As the conversation tips forward and back, meanings are interpreted a little more strictly each time.

Backyard chickens is a respectful way to have eggs and meat. Battery raising is disrespectful. Wasting meat is also disrespectful.
Major discussion about this issue a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27233073 (446 points/30 days ago/395 comments)
Yeah, I can develop and test for both platforms on a machine with Linux installed so your whataboutism is both disingenuous and factually incorrect.
It probably depends on the accounts, and the algorithm. If the comparison algorithm uses some sort of distance calculation between 2 users to figure out how close they are, then you could have single directional relationships.

If my comments are on an island of weirdness, you may be the closest person to me while still being really far away. If your comments are relatively normal, you might have a lot of people around who are closer than me. That would make you my doppelganger, but not make me yours.

Edit: I just checked my doppelganger (barry-cotter), and I'm not even in his list :p. I've seen that username appear in a couple other comments under this post. I wonder if there are a few super normal users that a lot of people are closest to.
Warren Buffett explains long-term stock prices, in 5 minutes:

https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/comments/l9hpo5/buffett_explai...

I blame the education system. Basic investing theory should be taught in high school.

We have to think of a share price as a number that is a sum of all future earnings, divided by powers of an interest rate according to how far in the future those earnings will be produced. That allows us to evaluate whether a share price is reasonable or unreasonable.

This concept is complex and most people can't understand it without formal education.

That education doesn't occur, so we have a huge mass of investors who have no idea what share prices mean. How can they possibly make good decisions?
What? Help me connect the dots here.
Thanks!

I'm looking for an Android app unfortunately, sorry :|
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There's a huge difference between compelling not lying vs compelling disclosure. We do require disclosure in some cases like in the ingredient example you mention, but even the it's limited to what's necessary: companies don't have to disclose exact recipes and can hide a lot behind the "flavorings" label for example. I'm not sure if forcing disclosure in this case is good, but I do like keeping a high bar on that in general.
It’s not unreasonable to assume that if a nervous system is present and similar pain signals are send, similar suffering is experienced by animals as humans. Simply because suffering is a motivation to take action. There might be a difference in that most animals, like baby’s, wont be able to seperate themselves from their suffering/pain. I am suffering vs suffering is all there is. If thats the case, pain for animals might even be worse then humans. That might be backed up by the fact that most animals are very pain avoidant (makes them really scared), where some humans seek it out, and most of us are able to accept a bit of pain to get something better. (There seems to be some indication that other animals have a sense of self, like dolphins, certain birds, elephants etc) (Also seems that pain for animals, same as with humans, is not felt when they are filled with adrenaline and in fight mode)
So, if I created 'whitedevhub.io' and wrote the following:

Together, we're changing the face of tech.
Support White and European-American talent in tech on the first-ever White-owned social job network built on blockchain technology.

I'd be flamed out of town for being racist.

Now, as a non-American, I don't have the same viewpoint as Americans do, but surely the answer to the worlds racist problems is more integration not more segregation ?
Well, let's see. Colorado is 84% non-hispanic white, to the nation's 60% white, so yeah, there will totally be a disparate racial impact on white people. They're also 33% unaffiliated with religion, to the nation's 23%. Looks like the sex ratio is more or less identical to the national level.

I wish you luck making your case to the EEOC.
Ask HN: given that school education in USA is so complicated is there a guide that the good folks here can suggest for kids and parents on how to successfully navigate the education system in USA?
so then no real reason for the terrible person to improve? Now that they've goaded someone into a suicide they're unforgivable, regardless of their remorse/regret/introspective consideration?

i'd rather live in a society that gives bad people a motivation to improve, rather than one that condemns all people who commit bad actions as tainted forever by their previous regretted action.

a terrible person who has improved through introspection and societal nudging into a decent human being is society's trophy for a job well done. It's exactly the desired outcome; to continue to condemn the apologetic and rehabilitated individual is useful for nothing except for petty vengeance between the victim's social network and the perpetrating individual - it serves little to no societal good.
I have to meet the first employer that does the hotel bookings for me. I always need to sort it myself and expense back. The only thing the employer did is arranging a discounted room price.

Normally, meant that I spend at least one day a month doing my hotel/travel expenses. That's ~40-46 lost working days :)
>Our findings thus consistently relate to loss of grey matter in limbic cortical areas directly linked to the primary olfactory and gustatory system.

Looks like the loss of smell is due to an impact of the virus on brain tissue. It would be interesting to check if it ever comes back to normal months/years later.
Best answer I could find from the thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/307
> Citizenship

Perhaps this category can be rescoped to include subnational citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship#Subnational
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27557463
Are you arguing against deciding?
Interesting idea. (Years ago someone once took the source code for Slashdot and created their own clone.) And a while back someone asked if the source code for Hacker News was openly available.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685

And there's also an API.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

There's lots of Wikipedia-like software available, too.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "build" a community. (Though if you're trying to do it online, the key is going to be comments and maybe also individual accounts.) You could just try starting your own subreddit.

Another option is just announcing meetups -- maybe an online (or live?) book club for geeks or programmers, or a geek discussion circle.
I have multiple thousands of personal TODOs, so it is impossible to manage that size of a workload without proper UI for moving, sorting and filtering according to priority, location, project, etc.

But thanks for your suggestion anyway :)
What is work exactly? Is studying on my spare time (often during work hours) work? It's focused and productive, but it's to no advantage of my employer. Humans will always naturally do the bare minimum for others, while maximizing benefit for themselves.
This is not a fair fight, however. Do you know how often US lawmakers talk on the phone with a billionaire? About once a week. They get the preferential treatment, they get the laws passed, and if the "normals" want to do something crazy like organize to negotiate working conditions, then it's a code-red emergency in Washington the sky is falling somebody do something.
Granting your premise that you can pay zero tax by donating half your wealth (which I'm guessing assumes you have zero cost basis for your assets), wouldn't that still leave you with... half your money? It doesn't seem worth it unless you're paying 50% in income/capital gains/whatever tax.
I could extrapolate to 2 or 3 months given I've done a month or so (whether pure pleasure or a mix of business and pleasure) a number of times. But even the practical issues aside, I think I'd find much more than that tiresome after a while.

I've known a few people who jumped into the digital nomad thing and by and large it didn't last too long.
You have a profound misunderstanding of Ayn Rand and, I suspect, Jeff Bezos.
This super-short article leaves out the real issue. It's not just about disclosing salary ranges on job listings, which is easy to work around by listing wide ranges. The Colorado law has many more smaller provisions that companies need to follow for their internal operations.

The problem is that by opening the remote job to Colorado residents, the company now has to navigate the entire new Colorado employment law, not just the bit about posting salary ranges. For small employers especially, it's daunting to have to let a different state's employment laws and procedural requirements for various things infect your company's operational requirements just to advertise a remote job to a state with less than 2% of the US population.

Even the salary range listing is more of a burden than it sounds for certain jobs. When we hire for many positions, we're open to a wide range of experiences from junior employees through seasoned veterans with decades of experience. This can translate to salaries ranging from $80K to $300K. Do we just put $80-300K on the form and be done with it? Or do we have to split the job listing into separate salary ranges and experience levels? Do we have to make a separate job listing for Colorado and one for everyone else? Do we have to overhaul our other internal processes to match Colorado law just to list a job in the state, or can we wait until we hire someone from Colorado to invest that time and effort?

Then at each step I need to involve the lawyers to make sure we're not violating Colorado law in not only the listing, but now our internal business practices. We're not located in Colorado, so I either need to work with a Colorado lawyer who is familiar with the law or pay my legal team to come up to speed on Colorado law and then work with us to make sure various HR practices comply. It very quickly costs mid 5 figures or more just to post that Colorado job listing, along with countless hours of making sure we've checked all the boxes of the law. When you're a small company, it's easier to just exclude the <2% residents in Colorado and play it safe.
So? The whole idea of disparate impact law is that the reason doesn't matter, only the effect.
I guess feeling pains by that definition isn't really an useful test, being sentient is. We dont know what animals have sentience, but the prevailing theory is a central nevous system makes it possible.
I confess that “make me” feels more like a retort.

sandwich:
@echo "make me"
Author here, I just had to get some thoughts out and complain how bad these portable air conditioners are.

I just don't understand why the appliances space attracts so little innovation or startups. Even though they are at least 400€ a piece and could generate lots of revenue on mass.

On Friday I listened to the newest Macrovoices episode with Philip Verleger [1] where they argued that America has far too few engineering students to even create a green energy revolution in America. The expertise was transferred primarily to software engineering jobs.

Dr. Verleger apparently was one of the key players in created the oil futures markets, so he probably knows a thing about this space.

[1] https://www.macrovoices.com/983-macrovoices-276-philip-verle...
The only good thing about TripleByte was the structured quiz and interview process. Everything else--inability to edit key portions of profile, the most boring set of tech jobs imaginable, very few companies on there--was a joke.

The quizzes weren't quite a fit for ML, nor was the interviewer or job density there for the domain, but the immediate half-hour call with the promise I'd passed a technical screen was extremely efficient, even if Triplebyte lacked any basic level of market liquidity.
Yeah, I really appreciate excellent rollout strategies, although I suspect a lot of them are more developed out of self defense by SRE teams. I see it as a series of safety nets: I'm still going to write tests for my code so that I don't have far to fall if I make a mistake. But I also want a safe rollout so if I miss the first net I don't splatter on the pavement.

And I totally agree with out about developer productivity. It's just not a consideration in most places. For example, in a factory or a restaurant, meetings are things that happen rarely and in constrained time slots, because everybody realizes that production is primary. But in most software companies, actually getting work done is second priority to meetings.
Programs to increase diversity at the top of the hiring funnel (e.g., outreach to universities whose students are mostly from underrepresented groups) are legal, but taking race (or gender) into account for the actual hiring decision is not.
Why do people think that the cruel behaviour of other creatures should give humans any pass in their own cruel behaviour? People don't seem to apply this logic when it comes to rape and murder (both very common in the animal kingdom) but when it comes to torturing other animals, suddenly it's all good for some reason.
Dolphins gang rape their females. Would you advocate that humans therefore do the same?

If not, then obviously the normative argument of “well, lots of animals do it...” isn’t nearly morally sufficent for human behavior.
The only two I have seen in most places are Slack and Teams.
Actually using a 0 to $1MM range is asking to be shot down. OTOH, "$80k-$160k, experience dependant" is probably defensible and achieves almost the same thing... especially if the range is generic for the company.
I find https://finviz.com/news.ashx to be mostly useful. "Real" news on the left, "opinion" on the right. Some of the blogs, like calculated risk, are actually very cut/dried just the facts. ZH for anything other than bond markets is for amusement value only.
For those who are interested here are some links to examples of curations done by implementers:

http://iiab.me/jamaica/

http://iiab.me/mexico/

http://iiab.me/haiti/

http://iiab.me/en-medical/
In China people like Jack Ma are essentially the "white glove" of someone else or something else that have access to power if the company grows big enough.
while labor rates do play role, they are not the primary reason and are often over stated as the reason for off shoring

Other governmental regulations including environmental regulations are far more impactful then raw labor rates, or taxation

Even some of the manufacturing that is not directly impacted by these regulation will move as they want shorter supply chains, so if key core components move, often times the final consumer goods those components go into will move as well. The inverse is also true, if something causes finished goods to off source the manufacturing of the components in the item move with it
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