skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People running factories have been exploiting and overworking the people working in their factories since there have been factories. There's nothing new here.
Maybe those jobs don't pay enough to save up to move.

That and the logistics of moving. Not to mention, having a job beats not having a job. And moving often means not having a job to start. Especially when your only work experience is retail, factory floor, and farmhand.

You can't really afford to take a week off of getting paid.

And if you're constantly working to make ends meet, you don't really have time or energy to work on developing marketable skills.
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The principle of blameless postmortems is not supposed to absolve anyone of the responsibility to change anything, it’s supposed to foreground that serious failures are organizational failures first and foremost, because it’s the organization that has an obligation not to fail, not individuals, who fail all the time as a rule.
"making it in bad faith. "

No, I wanted him to actually list some counterpoints, not just asking pointed questions without concrete points. You cannot answer a "Ha, have you heard of X?" question in any meaningful way.
Every time I see the NAS study mentioned I feel compelled to mention it said that while a psychogenic cause was entirely possible, as they never performed psychiatric evaluations they could not conclude that was the cause.

How they then conclude that a microwave attack is the most plausible is beyond me.
Great job! Gorse reminds me of the now-retired Apache PredictionIO recommendation engine: https://predictionio.apache.org/templates/recommendation/qui.... Have you evaluated why it took off and why it was later shut down, so that your project can avoid its mistakes?
What you may see are efforts to convert short-haul flights to electricity where the limited range is less of an issue.
This cannot be done on the keyboard (unless with a macro that uses a different layout like I added in the update part of the text). I could do it with a software like Karabiner-Elements on the (mac)OS side, but I'd have to do it separately on all my machines. In the end, I shouldn't have to work around deficiencies in Teams. :)
Ask HN: How would you react to a applicant who does not believe in Covid Vaccine
Would a choice of 1) not believing in Covid disease/virus AND/OR 2)Covid vaccine (and thereby not getting vaccinated) factor into your company's selection process?
Like this Super Mario World modded to widescreen

https://github.com/VitorVilela7/wide-snes
Because a human being had to put that ink to paper, and presumably, did so in an educated way. Automated machines are fallible, especially when the same algorithm might apply to walking directions in the streets of NYC, and certainly doesn't benefit from human scrutiny for every possible route it might suggest.
I'd take "This place looks super safe, I think I'll have my babies here" as a compliment!
They are being very smart, by striking and standing up for their rights.

I think forcing people to work that many hours should be illegal, like in the EU
I think you are overestimating the importance of "revenue impacting incidents" to company employees.

If the company makes a couple of million extra or less this year it doesn't effect the majority of workers. Their bonus isn't going up or down etc. And remember this incident has already happened.

By contrast if a report comes out blaming the loss on a worker, department or division then that could have major consequences. No matter how "blameless" it is, come next round of bonuses, promotions or layoffs everybody knows it'll be factored into the decisions.

So people don't have an incentive to make themselves look bad and unlike with the NTSB there is no legal powers or fear of causing deaths behind the investigation.
Times have changed, methods have changed, too.

Google does not invade or colonize anyone and yet their control over spread of information is probably better than whatever former great powers could boast.

In the same way, countries like Greece can be kicked around by troika without a single shot fired.
>>The fact that a bit of paper easily destroyed by some water

You do know most outdoor maps are laminated, right? The ones you'd take with you on such a journey anyway. A phone can break in a dozen different ways, or just simply run out of charge. Slightly harder with a paper map.
>my most delightful interviewing experiences have been take home projects to demonstrate ability to reason about a domain that pertains to the job for which I’m applying

I can't figure out if you're being serious ... or if that's raining sarcasm
Besides some of the obvious reasons such as the previously mentioned location limitations and low education limiting possibilities, I'll throw out another one. Once you're in a job like this it kind of limits your ability to branch out into less physically demanding and better paying work. Your resume kind of pigeon holes you with respect to future employment and the fact that you're working long, exhausting days means its very hard to find the time and energy to build your skills outside of work.
What you said was (my emphasis):

> My shop uses Rust, and all our hires are aimed at Rust, and it's still not easy - there's not a ton of people who know Rust.

Which rather implies that you are trying to hire people who already know Rust. You then asked rhetorically:

> So we should hire to bring on people who want to work in PHP, and then force them to use Rust?

Suggesting that you saw this as the only alternative to hiring people who already know Rust. I was pointing out a third possibility which i thought you had omitted.

So i wouldn't agree that this was exactly what you said. But, of course, i am very happy to hear that this is what you are doing!
I would say at latest when people convicted because of it had their names cleared - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56859357
Sovereign countries can exit anything they decide to, unless overpowered by force.
If you're joining a big/complicated/legacy project, and want to make changes (or even get anything done), Chesterton's Fence applies.

https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/

There will be many things that don't make sense or look wrong initially. Its possible that they *are* wrong, and you can improve on them. The key to productivity is being able to demonstrate that your prospective changes don't break anything, and do in fact improve things.

I doubt people are "withholding information" from you, probably the people who made the decisions left, or are busy with other things now (management). It's your job to gather the information you need with what you have. It may be the case that you need to invest heavily in testing, logging, instrumentation and debugging skills on the current system to understand how and why it works as it is, and whether your changes make things better or worse.
Could you please elaborate about your side business - what is it about, how is it doing financially etc?
The EU is an interesting creature. It's not exactly an empire, but it's not quite not an empire either (both when you look at intra-EU relations and relations with third countries), and it is definitely a club of many former imperial powers who get to collectively set global policy.
People with poor formal qualifications or habilities not longer marketable have little choice except double shifts to raise a family. Just imagine being 40 years old, no college or technical education, having only retail work experience.
Best to keep them at $0 value. Even when there is an emanant IPO there are so many variables that can keep the options at $0 that it's best to look at them as having no value. To top that off, all cases are different so your best bet is to consult an experienced attorney. You might want to get together with others in the same situation so you can share the costs. But don't make a general announcement. Your bosses might not like it.

Remember, companies are looking at their interest 1st, yours second, if that. So chances are that whatever happens, the company will come out ahead.
Even OSM (which tends to be better than Google Maps for hiking trails) has far from 100% coverage for hiking trails. (Though I'm guessing it's likely pretty good for a popular destination.)

It still doesn't tell you anything more about the route--for which a map by itself is probably not enough. It's also more prone to failure than I want to depend on in a potentially hazardous situation.
Do you also worry for kids who use planners and encyclopedias? People who say things like this seem like they either don't know how or don't care to change their workflow by incorporating new technology.

Hey Alexa isn't the problem. It's the corporations behind them and their data collection policies.
Why on earth do you think US Intel would allow an American citizen to run a "a sex trafficking ring in order to collect blackmail material on powerful people" when those people includes ex-US Presidents?
There is no job that won’t work you for as much as they can. They pay you low enough to where you’re dependent on them paycheck to paycheck. The turnover is high and if you don’t like the conditions they get rid of you. There are a ton of people in line for your job who will put up with worse working conditions so you either lick boots or you aren’t making ends meet this week. The culture at every job is that if you aren’t sweating from 6AM to 6PM you’re “lazy.” Don’t want to work overtime? You either won’t make ends meet or you will be fired. If you don’t make ends meet in America you will be homeless unless you are married with children or can live with your parents.

The only way to remedy this is to go to college or trade school and hope your degree makes you valuable enough that you can bargain for a realistic work/life balance.
I remember that discourse but not really having a problem at the time. I was generally able to see the screen. But I did recently go back to playing an original GBA after years of backlit screens and it was close to unplayable.
You have me there, it's not like I am Scottish and spend most of my time navigating the Scottish outdoors or anything ...
This is very relevant. I believe we have to evolve as society and start talking about universal minimum income before we can move to talk about true dedication to art.

If I had to grind away for hours maybe I wouldn't have the energy to evolve in creative areas. This speaks more against big capital and normalized poverty than my comment though.

Edit: I wanted to go and say that I am aware of my privileges. I had time in my childhood to study, did minimal work with my parents, went to a military school and then, with the better education, I got to go to college, which in Brazil is free if you pass the tests. I have some merit in this, but mostly it was due to circumstance. I have to believe, however, that true art transcends all these social barriers.
It is, in an older sense, "remixed", much as some older music was remixed by taking the original sub-tracks and re-combining them in a different way with different audio levels and balance and similar. It certainly doesn't qualify in the modern usage of "novel music inspired by the original".
Reinforcement learning itself is a dead-end on a road to AI. They seem to slowly starting to realize it, probably ahead of academia.
A dockerized database server is something I cannot understand; I understand bare metal, I can accept virtualized, but I cannot find a good used case for a mid sized or large server (dozens of gigabytes to dozens of terabytes) dockerized and I don't know why a smaller server is a problem.
Not yet. I have a four wheel drive robot I designed with four 4k cameras feeding in to an Nvidia Jetson Xavier. [1]

Just getting it to navigate itself using vision would mean building a complex system with a lot of pieces (beyond the most basic demo anyway). You need separate neural nets doing all kinds of different tasks and you need a massive training system for it all. You can see how much work Tesla has had to do to get a robot to safely drive on public roads. [2]

From where I am sitting now, I think we are making good inroads on something like an "Imagenet moment" for robots. (Well, I should note that I am a robotics engineer but I mostly work on driver level software and hardware, not AI. Though I follow the research from the outside.)

It seems like a combination of transformers plus scale plus cross domain reasoning like CLIP [3] could begin to build a system that could mimic humans. I guess as good as transformers are we still haven't solved how to get them to learn for themselves, and that's probably a hard requirement for really being useful in the real world. Good work in RL happening there though.

Gosh, yeah, this is gonna take decades lol. Maybe we will have a spark that unites all this in one efficient system. Improving transformer efficiency and achieving big jumps in scale are a combo that will probably get interesting stuff solved. All the groundwork is a real slog.

[1] https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/277

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8

[3] https://openai.com/blog/clip/
realtime audio and good color management are two things a lot of people use macOS for..
It will get much worse I think. More and more companies are hiding behind algorithms and other computer systems while cutting support staff. If you are wronged you have nobody to talk to and they make no effort to correct the situation. the only recourse is a lawsuit which is way too expensive for most people. And even when they are caught the fines are usually only nominal.

I think we are building up the ultimate faceless bureaucracies.
They are not making that much as it’s unpaid overtime or “suicide” as they colloquially call it according to the article.

Edit: sorry I’m wrong. I read “kills you over time” as “kills your overtime”
Nobody gets paid if you're an autodidact.
Look at the Western Balkans. Russia, China, Turkey and the EU play a game of influence there, leading to some very weird spending. Given how the region usually works, bribes must be involved.

This definitely looks like low-key imperialism, because the EU does not really have a reason to pay for an absurdly expensive Chinese-built highway in Montenegro, other than limiting influence of a competing power in that territory.
And they didn't take any pictures or movies?
I have been working on rewriting a monolith into individual services during past year at work - and what we finally implemented for consistency across different databases of services was that we keep a signal queue - where whenever we encounter an inconsistency, a doc is pushed containing the info and we have a corrective service always reading from that queue and doing the necessary updates to tables. We made a heirarchy of source-of-truthness and we use that to decide what to do with inconsistent data. Though, users sometimes have to see a error messagge "We had an error and we are fixing it in few XXX time" based on current queue load - but it has been working fine mostly for us.
The trick here is that literally anything at all will put you ahead of most other candidates in my experience. It doesn't have to be ground-breaking, or even original. It just has to be evidence that you are capable of doing some aspect of the work.

Bugs that are trivial to everyone else almost certainly aren't - and the value there is in describing the process you went through to get to the fix.

One of the reasons I like publishing TILs is that it helps emphasize that even with 20 years of experience you can still be learning new, potentially trivial things every day. I wrote one a few weeks ago about discovering that console vim has mouse support! https://til.simonwillison.net/vim/mouse-support-in-vim
This is very true from what I've seen, but it doesn't mean managers who only do 3 hours of work aren't worth their daily wage. There are many programmers who only realistically do 3 hours of programming, but spend others thinking about the problem, researching, ect.

Good managers in my experience have three important jobs: Scoping projects and getting the team together, motivating employees and handling their compant interfacing problems (talking to HR for them, managing account access issues, ect.), and most importantly talking with clients/stakeholders in a sympathetic ans professional way that many developers just won't do at the same quality. All of that might only take 3 hours of video calls per day, but for the good ones, it's a full day's work. For some, certain functions they're doing aren't needed, but most of the managers I've had have done valuable work that I wouldn't do as well and wouldn't want to have to do which would distract me from my work.

Could professional football teams likely also have the players figure out training schedules, plane flights, diets, plays, recruiting? Probably, and some might be pretty good at it. So why don't they? Probably the reason those teams have coaches is the same as why managers in the tech space aren't all going to be proven useless working remotely, because they actually aren't.
Interesting point about observing conciousness changes in ourselves - that does indeed give us some insight. Though I'm not sure we could use this tool for a lot of the answers, it doesn't seem terribly precise (and doesn't let us know much about concious states that cannot be achieved with human brains).

> why should we jump to the conclusion that it somehow exists outside the bounds of the physical world rather than assuming that it's just one of many physical phenomena we have yet to fully understand?

I don't believe the cause of conciousness is magic or supernatural, it'll surely be a physical phenomenon. Just not sure if it emerges via some phenomenon that we haven't discovered yet.
how the british justified their empire, in the 1930s. that last bit is important.

Like most things, the justification changed over time. In the 16th century, it was all about the king trying to finance his massive spending habit.

Then it was about trade. Then it was about re-enforcing that trade. Then the east india company fucked up, and india because a colonial possession. Then the missions tried to convert the heathens.

after that I'm not sure. We don't teach empire at all. The problem is that nowadays its difficult to find readable history that isn't there to either totally damn or justify the empire. Even less so ones that draw on first party sources from the british and locals.
The only logical conclusion is that it is related to some secret anti spy device installed at US embassies around the world and not some outside disturbance covering Vienne to Havana?
> This unexpected “Starfish belt,” which lingered for at least 10 years, destroyed Telstar 1, the first satellite to broadcast a live television signal, and Ariel-1, Britain’s first satellite.

TIL. I wonder what type of effect a “space nuke” would have on modern constellations. I would assume they have better radiation hardening now, but I’m not sure to what threshold that matters.

What are the odds a country gets pissed off by spacex and tries the shudder the constellation.
Exactly. My take is that these reports are of work-place injuries. Something that the Government employees are doing, or have had done to them, is causing the problems.

Examples from the past: Gulf Syndrome in the 1990s caused by anti-gas warfare antidotes, and the Agent Orange cancers and other birth-deformities inflicted on VietNam vets.
Yes, true. Perhaps the bar is no higher for censoring a paid account and a free account.
You can take the maps printed on paper ... and "print" them on a screen!
> It’s not like it has any useful effects on anything either politically or militarily.

You genuinely don't think creating paranoia for and generally antagonizing US diplomats is of any potential political or military value? If anything this creates additional stress, and demonstrates the US's total inability to defend itself from such things making it appear weak/incompetent/vulnerable to the entire world, to say the least.

Surely you're joking or feigning ignorance here, right?
Road maps have never contained the hiking route up Ben Nevis. If you try to get hiking directions off a road map, you're going to have a bad time.

this fact is not unique to digital maps.
Laws are only binding on sovereign states to the extent they choose to follow. Any Euro zone country could simply change their internal laws to adopt a different currency. The EU has no way to stop that, although they could potentially impose some sanctions.
Now the question is: are you still a sovereign country if you pooled your currency with N other countries that exert a common decision power through a central bank over it?

Having power over your own currency, in good or bad, is a typical attribute of being sovereign. There are minor exceptions (like Kosovo adopting euro unilaterally), but they are very untypical.
I choose to not claim several deductions to which I am entitled. E.g. Use of vehicle for business, Home office deduction, etc. I could easily defend these deductions, but claiming them would increase the odds of an audit. I don't want to waste my time and money dealing with an audit, so I pay a little more and decrease my odds of having one. I do not view this as a "donation".
Age of Empires (all of them).
I think it depended on the game. Games designed with very high contrast art worked well, but games that didn't make that choice upfront were painful. My favorite game on the device was Mario Kart, which was pretty hard to see.
I had my family stop by a few years ago because I had heard about it in a What-If? https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/

I wouldn't recommend it. The route we took was through a residential area. The neighbors did not seem like they wanted us to be there. We went to the water's edge, smelled the "objectionable," "noxious," "unique," and "pervasive" odor (as described by the US Geological Survey), looked at the shitty beach, and left. There's not much to do.
The Hubble was also a redesigned spy satellite. The main mirror design was chosen so it could be built with existing mirror tech made for military imaging satellites.

There's probably a dozen satellites out there right now with optics an order of magnitude better than Hubble. They're just pointed down
I don't think anyone here is arguing that people should discard modern technology because it isn't authentic or something like that. I and others are arguing that you shouldn't be wholly dependent on an electronic map or someone coming to help you because you're tired and cold. (And, by the way, if conditions are hazardous, search and rescue may well elect to wait un til the next day if they'd be putting themselves in danger.)
Jeez! 59 year old guy with the same salary for the last 10 years. People working in 100 degree temperatures with no air conditioning.

This is depressing to read :(
I don't use paper maps but always look at maps on gaiagps and alltrails to compare. I also look at guide books or articles about the route.
I keep seeing people claim there is no bad faith approach being made on their end on HN and instead flipping the accusation on another person and claiming their post is indecipherable, even when opposing person's argument is quite clear if even a small effort is taken to gleam meaning from it.

I'm not going to pretend that person spoke in hieroglyphs, and if you are, then it's clear you are speaking from a place of bad faith. I've even spelled it out to you and you've refused to address the original person posing the question and instead brow beat on what you think you can get away with regarding nettiquette - the most uninteresting part of the conversation possible.
+1. I couldn't get it to understand the partial derivative symbol ∂, unless it was drawn in a very specific way.

But really cool idea, name and execution!
I'm sorry, I'm not 100% sure what you are saking. You haven't seen anything similar to bosses not publishing their employees salary? Or US law protecting the rights of employees in something?