skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the warehouse worker is neither seen nor heard by the customer; at least at Walmart, you go to a store and you see the workers — you know they exist.

This made me think of the movie 'The Island' where in one scene, somewhere in the beginning of the movie, they show us the work our protagonists do in their community. There are tubes coming out of the wall on one side of the room and out the other; tubes which have a flowing liquid inside which the protagonists and their friends are trained to perform an action on, which is essential for some kind of process.

Only later do we find out the awful purpose of these tubes.

There is an increasing level of alienation that is hard to describe to anyone who has been lucky enough to be a labor aristocrat for most of their lives. I honestly think everyone around us is capable of so much more. Our current system, through Intellectual Property types such as copyrights and trade secrets, has made it hard to ascend 'intellectual ladders' because the intellectual ladders used by those in power have kicked them away (after they were used by them). In other words: there is a lack of diversity of methods and approaches and opportunities due to the commodification and privatization of knowledge (i.e. technology and science overall). [1],[2]

I believe the human needs for growth and play are foundational to a happy society, and in modern society, those needs go massively unmet, and the working class is being squeezed and squeezed like never before (not to mention the workers in the global south who I would argue are exploited to an even greater extent [3]).

It's also ironic that Amazon calls their production facilities 'Fulfillment Centers', because the most important people they do not create 'fulfillment' for are their workers... you know, the people who are actually creating all the value:

> If class is a social relation and the working class is made and remade daily, that formation is increasingly happening inside the massive structures that house Amazon’s warehouses, where workers face capital embodied in the whir of machinery and barking managers and the beeps of the scanner in their hands, prodding them to pick up the pace. It is happening in the parking lots outside, where people smoke and linger and chat and dread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25753856

[2] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley

[3] https://anti-imperialism.org/2012/09/18/understanding-and-ch...
> Agile assumes as a first principal that including the customer throughout the development process will align the building team and the customer to come to the same conclusion.

The only thing that is less likely to have the building team and customer come to the same conclusion is to add many more layers in between.

I’ve seen where that ends. It’s not a good place.
A key aspect of company towns is that there's only one serious employer. This then gives that employer a very dangerous amount of power, which is why we don't like this structure.

Possibly this is true in don't places with Amazon, but the article doesn't make the argument. The closest they get is saying that Amazon is a large employer in Seattle, but that's not enough -- the city is large enough that there are tons of non-Amazon options.
the whole point is that they only need to shut off the stations which are at risk of flooding

PS. I think only the stations build as the first phase of the first line (planned in the '70s-'80s and finished mid '90s) have this feature.
Not an answer to your question, but maybe interesting:

A colleague of my father made some etched copper plate images from photos. I don't have his full process, but he photocopied the original photos a few times to get an image made from black and white regions. This he photocopied onto a transparency, which he then used to etch a copper plate using a circuit etching kind of workflow.

The final plate had smooth or matte copper areas corresponding to light and dark.

Quite striking and I guess it should last a long time.
Not just clubhouse. I get the impression that a few of the major apps are dying. FB - nobody really seems to be posting anymore. Insta - two people actively posting on my feed (I think, hard to tell under all the ads pretending to be posts).

Twitter and tiktok appear to be holding their own though. Seen more "delete twitter" sentiment lately though
Agree. People use personas for protection. Discussions are both fully exposed and so often quickly become contentious. It’s rare to find a safe space within which to develop a view.
Your view is totally wrong. There are largest hospitals, bridges, airport in Istanbul. I bet you have never been in Istanbul
So what? The EU and other similar institutions require their branding to be present in classes too. I'd rather have obviously absurd corporate branding than slow but sure political indoctrination (e.g. the EU makes it look like the local government is incapable of doing anything on its own, while the fact is that everything worked pretty well before the EU and even today 90%+ of funding is local - but the EU flag must be displayed prominently!).
> but it´s not "paid by the government", it´s paid by the compulsory insurance everyone is paying

Is there really all that much of a difference; isn't that insurance pretty much just another name for the state?
Maybe 5-10 years ago, but from my experience you rarely see physical bullying anymore. Its has been cracked upon way to harshly for it to really be the huge issue it once was. I have personally seen a physical form of bullying maybe a few times in my whole entire high school and middle school experience. And I went to 3 different high schools with each one being made up of students from completely different backgrounds, ethnicities, and socioeconomic levels.
If that's your ideal then just LineageOS. For those that want a Linux distro first and only want the Android apps part of Android, wait for Anbox support on these mobile Linux distros.
VPC: Amazon Virtual Colocated Rack

What in the world? Why would I want a rack in the world of a cloud.

I want a virtualized private cloud, which not so oddly is named Virtual Private Cloud.

I feel like the person who wrote this got into web dev back when I started in the 90s, then never left the time frame. This dude, much like this webpage, clearly have not kept up with the times
You mean full-precision integer representations?

A percentage is effectively this -- and floats are often multipliers on integers which are "holding the precision".

However it isn't clear what standards sorts of arithmetical use cases storing two integers helps with (over, say, integer & float, etc.).
Yep definitely. I appreciated it and didn’t know it previously. So cheers.
>Can it be used as a manure or is it safe to be dumped underground or in rivers?

Absolutely! A danger of human waste is that it carries a lot of pathogens that might be benign or beneficial in the lower intestine of one person but cause disease in the stomach of another, but the solution to that problem is to let it ferment/decompose for a bit and let all the bacteria kill themselves off through starvation and cooking in their own metabolic heat, and during that process is when you collect the methane. You'll often see large piles of cow manure composting in big piles for similar reasons, though the methane isn't always captured.

The danger to dumping any kind of waste into a river, treated or not, is that it will start killing anything that finds it toxic (most likely your fish and amphibians) and feed anything that finds it nutritious (algae, bacteria), which can cause ecological imbalances and generally screw up your ecosystem. For an adjacent example, look at the Gulf dead zone caused by fertilizer runoff from the American corn belt: Fertilizer feeds algae, which then chokes out other plants fish need to survive and absorb oxygen when the algae dies off, leaving a large swath of ocean without fish or anything that relies on fish.
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> "The level of cognitive underperformance was also associated with the level of illness severity, with those who were hospitalized on a ventilator showing the greatest deficits."

If this is true then the medical treatment needs to be analyzed as well. The point being, in extreme cases perhaps the medicines and procedures do some harm in the process of treating the patient.

For example, my father had a stoke and was on a respiratory for a week. The tube down his throat led to a lung infection. That meant antibiotics and so on.
Is there an argument for not having Amazon as an employer in these towns?

Is there an argument for not having Amazon support the local school system?

I understand that working conditions are rarely ideal. Many would prefer to enjoy leisure and collect a paycheck as the ideal source of income. Jobs pay because workers need an incentive to provide labor.

What exactly would JacobinMag.com's alternative to Amazon employment look like?

Why aren't they providing this alternative?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_soluti...
> I don’t think that people who don't write or never wrote software should have a place in a software development team

This is no guarantee any more. Newly minted managers coming from a development position that have only ever worked in dysfunctional organisations (and got promoted from within) will only reinforce the existing bad practices.
The point is that UTF-16 is the worst of both worlds. It's not ASCII compatible like UTF-8, but it still has the disadvantaged of being a variable length encoding.

Every problem that UTF-8, it shares with UTF-16. It also shares every problem with UTF-32.
That bias might explain why there's no gifted schools / class-years in smaller school districts which add still large enough to have several schools.
That's the price of 2 houses. If I had that student debt right now, there's no way I would be able to buy a house.
The mafia made a killing from the destruction of Italy’s south
Dynamic Binary Translation was shown effective back in the 90s

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-77.html
never a day goes by without my mourning Google Reader
I did know you can turn it off. But I want setting a default browser that supports the Custom Tabs protocol (ex: Firefox) to make that browser be used any time an app asks for a custom tab, without any additional steps.
It’s on Jacobin, so this is to be expected. Not exactly a neutral publication.
This is great ! Thanks
Yup, just basically living from hand to mouth, with the illusion that you're really well off. That is a dangerous mindset. You may be doing OK - but far from truly wealthy.
River – A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
This looks to me very masochistic, so much pain to setup simple stuff like screen resolution, refresh rate, issues installing operating system.
40 minutes where I spend the time reading in my Kindle. I've done car commutes before and I don't ever want to do that again. Public transport commutes are something else (assuming the environment is decent, which I think it is).
I wish Apple would make a Safari for Windows or Linux. That the only way to test that your site works properly in Safari is to buy Apple hardware is certainly a contributor to sites being broken in it.
Gold isn't even an inflation hedge in the scale of one's lifetime, why will Bitcoin be different?
I don't know what to tell you other than you probably haven't used any recent version of these software. I know many people who are not tech-savvy and use OpenOffice, Gimp or Blender daily. They're both reliable and function (in some aspects) on par with the commercially available stuff.
Where to Start with Self-Hosting – A Beginners Guide
United Corporations of America
You are excellent at explaining this stuff. You're bringing some clarity to things that typically sound like abstract gobbledygook to me. We need more people who can bridge that gap.
A nice example of Baudrillard's hyperreality. Reality and its representation blend together, so it is unclear where one ends and the other begins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
I'm always amazed by just how much community tooling is developed for Windows. From PowerToys to SysInternals, those two package managers, TerraCopy, etc. All things that improve on what Windows ships with because Microsoft refuses to put any effort into doing it themselves and it's not open source so you can't exactly open a pull request and do it for them.

I guess that kind of approach quickly hits an API ceiling when it comes to administration tools. A lot of them need pretty low-level access to things that MS doesn't provide good APIs for and few people want to develop a product on top of entirely unsupported reverse-engineered APIs.
There's all sorts of interesting and sometimes subtle negative impacts on the real world that inaccurate depictions in fiction have. I think these mainly happen for situations people are likely to only see in fiction rather than reality.

A mundane example is people turning up to court and behaving incorrectly because they're used to Hollywood depictions.

Another one is people thinking someone using a command-line on a computer must be “hacking”.

More troublesome is dramatically unrealistic depictions of minorities.
Reminds me of some German Youtuber, the "Zirkeldreher".

He talks about living without money, but basically mooches on his parents.
Yes, agree. That is why it is OK that it is not the best at this point: there is not much competition.
> require their branding to be present in classes too

No they don't.
slimmer cheaper librem.
Isn’t almost anything that’s not powered by nuclear energy flying only with the heat of the sun with extra steps? If you include the definition of “some sun” then even nuclear energy is the same, just with a multi billion year cycle.
>$15 an hour, Amazon’s starting wage, is below the average for the warehousing industry

Where are they getting this information? The average wage in the US is lower, like $13-14.

https://www.indeed.com/career/warehouse-worker/salaries

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Warehouse_Worker/Ho...
I find these and the low tech magazine articles fascinating, though I sometimes feel that either I'm a) falling victim to an elaborate prank, b) unknowingly supporting the output of someone's mental health issues (though I feel that about some of my best loved musical acts too).

Now that's there's two sources, I'm further confused as to whether one is mocking the other, but if they are it's possibly too subtle for me to catch.
An extremely efficient and competent corporation doing everything it can to deliver goods cheaper and faster to hundreds of millions of people while creating value for tens of millions of shareholders? And now it has more and more impact running social services too?

How dare they do this travesty without democratic oversight. Clearly the best way forward is to regulate them so that they are on a level playing field with other democratically overseen government services.
IIRC FirefoxOS did it differently. Apps were local bundles of web tech. Not only pinned links to open a browser.
Amazon Queue Service.

Or pubsub.
>>while the fact is that everything worked pretty well before the EU

I don't know where you're from, but as a Pole I do not share this sentiment at all. Seeing the EU flag displayed everywhere makes me proud to be an EU citizen and it's a great thing to see.
I don't see how taking from everyone and giving very little in return is moral. If everyone did this we'd all live in a far worse world.

This is basically the antithesis of my own moral code to give more than I receive. I relate to him in that I value money very little as a medium to facilitate my own happiness, but I still want to make a lot of it so I can give more.

He seems sweet though. I think I would get on with him were we to ever meet.
Agreed. “Users, Keys and Certs” neglects the whole roles / permissions aspects of IAM, which in my experience is by far the larger part of IAM.

The users & keys part is actually just a tiny part of it.
It's the other day around. You should be asking them what beamers they would be able to use on their Linux systems with good support and that does not require complicated tools, instead of buying something that is not supported (yet!) and claiming later that Linux is crap because it doesn't work for your particular type of hardware.
I think SQS was the first AWS offering. In that context “simple” means simple compared to other offerings of the 2000s/rolling it out yourself. I agree it’s a little convoluted for newcomers in 2021 although probably unintentional.
https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html
Why can't they have subtle impacts?
We're seeing similar in the United States. Parents are expected to take on 6 figure debts to pay for their children's college education. If you don't have a college degree, with few exceptions your career is vocational. We could stop looking down on this alternative vocational path, and we could have a free public higher education system but there's too much money to be made in selling degrees and dreams.
Long Term Deadlines that are conjured up from thin air make no sense. That's why tools like a burn up charts exist.

Extreme Programming suggests having a customer on site. In Scrum the Product Owner is merely a substitute for the Customer.

The agile manifesto values working software more than comprehensive documentation, but does not forbid documentation.

So why do companies and their devs misunderstand this?
Honestly, I was hoping Amazon was actually making housing for its workers. I think high density housing within walking distance of your job is the realistic solution for lowering co2 emissions.
Yet they won't allow anyone to have a look for the source of the sars-cov-2 virus.

I wonder why they are still preventing research into its origins?
More lotion.
To be fair, this can also be because one random developer suggests this, management hears a fancy new term for their buzzword bingo, and they decree that that tech shall henceforth be used.
Amazon has AWS regions in six continents.
Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis
State of DevOps Report
It was at a place called Cypress Valley outside of Austin, TX. https://www.cypressvalley.com

Note this was many years ago...
How dare workers ask to not be treated like shit! /s

You do know Amazon has been caught union busting right? I'm not so sure what your definition of democracy is when workers can't voice their concerns.
What's a boring descriptive name that people wouldn't want to turn into an acronym for "Identity and Access Management"?
This is a common enough nuisance that someone wrote a plug-in to address it. Amazing
Not sure I understand what you're trying to say here. Do you agree people are influenced by movies or not?

I think we all immitate and there's very little, if any, truly original... thoughts/behaviours
They keep releasing versions that break backward compatibility forcing whole app rewrite left and right, that counts too
> Librem 5 is already there

Again. Just because it 'is already there' is just not good enough. That alone still doesn't tell us how well it runs. For example, the Librem 5 itself is just as sluggish when running general apps and also running Android apps in Andbox. [0]

Leads me to think that neither the Pinephone or the Librem 5 are ready for production use or recommendation to the Android user who wants to know if it runs the same apps on it, or even runs better than their Android phone to justify the switch.

To Downvoters: So in [0], you are saying that this product runs apps better than a Google Pixel or an iPhone 7? Are you really prepared to recommend Android or iOS users to switch to this even if it the experience is in fact worse than their previous phones?

I get that the main selling points has been about privacy (In light of the NSO hacks) but many users won't want to be beta tester of a product that feels unfinished and sluggish. The smart thing to do is to wait for them to improve it over time before coming out as a serious alternative.

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/anbox-on-the-librem-5/
Sounds just like the East India Company.
Presumably they're being disingenuous and comparing the average salary across the entire industry (including senior positions / management / etc) to Amazon's salary floor, while you are making the appropriate comparison to a warehouse worker.

And even then comparing an average to a minimum would still be disingenuous.
That's how it always felt for me, yeah.

At peak, and in multiple independent courses, the teacher would step through a well-made AES key schedule visualization while none of us are (even planning on) doing the heavy math studies necessary to design a successor to or find vulnerabilities in something like AES. Most of us would be software engineers, sysadmins, or perhaps a handful of us might go into security fields like forensics or pentesting. The internals of AES are completely irrelevant. A curiosity maybe, but not something to be quizzed on. Then I went to do my master's and the teacher started about caesar ciphers...

All formal cryptography-for-non-cryptographers education I've ever had was completely useless (I was in tertiary education in the Netherlands between 2010 and 2018, in case anyone is wondering how dated this is).

The concept of authenticated encryption was mentioned in passing I think, though in one course I had to prompt the teacher to mention that as what you would want to be doing, but got far less attention or practice than doing things like a Caesar cipher or AES key schedule by hand.

Merely knowing that you have to look for the keyword authenticated encryption (when you want to do encryption for some reason) would already be enough in my opinion, from there you can find good answers. Or for secure connections, keyword searches should include something about key distribution/verification and, if you want to use something configurable like TLS, also configuration choices like enforcing allowed protocol versions. Which versions those are, that changes over time and there is little point memorizing it. You should just know that you should look into this when you need it.
Because it's a socialised health system in a population of 25 million, half of taxpayers pay no net tax.

If you get sick, you're treated 'for free', yes it's great, but there's no market prices or competition to drive innovation.

It's all paid for with state royalties from coal and iron ore (currently A$220/tonne) and national debt (currently on it's way to $2 trillion by 2024)

When the socialist party sweeps the next state and federal elections they've promised to shut down coal mining. ($90 billion in royalties gone)

When the Chinese Communist Party gets its iron ore mines in their African colonies up and running we'll go back to $40/tonne.

emdawg should stop watching the ABC.
Humans have a long, deep and broad history of being told and shown stuff, whether epic poetry, puppet shows, political oratory, folk singers, etc., so it’s not new. What’s new is the precipitous drop in access to, and consumption of, medium- to long-form written materials.

The collective cognitive limitations of a culture of non-readers are truly terrifying. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25311662