skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed

I never saw the definitive source on this, but around the time when the unionization vote was happening, people claiming experience in the logistics industry described Amazon as a place with low starting wages, but aggressive bonus structure for high performers. They also offered health benefits on day 1, which is unheard of in logistics.

Other warehouses in the area might have different compensation schemes, and people would generally gravitate to the one that suited their work style better.

The unionization vote seemed like it corroborated this thesis - it wasn’t even 52/48, but something definitive, like 70/30 against the union.

Perhaps someone is aware of the data that incorporates take-home compensation with benefits and all, not the base rates advertised in job ads.
Does anyone knows any company that will hire US devs but will allow at the same time remote work from anywhere(in the world)?
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Per Tom Ellis (https://twitter.com/ProfTomEllis/status/1420798929269149698):
"Stable data storage and gene assembly all with L-chirality DNA They made an L-DNA dependent RNA polymerase too.

next they want to do a ribosome but first they need to make a DNase because nothing gets rid of their L-DNA once it’s made."
If they target you specifically, sure. One can play the odds of being in the 99% and staying under the radar.
>Marketing costs for movies today are as much as the film budget itself.

I think I will have to fact check on this when I have time. Seems to be off to me as the numbers and scale dont make much sense.
I used the word culture but I really meant population in the sense that the original commenter used it (i.e. a group of people replacing or displacing another, rather than imposing their customs on another).
> then work the person to death so they become dependent on that job.

Any evidence for this? Especially in COVID times when there's massive unemployment checks programs, if that were remotely true nobody would be working for Amazon right now.
That is crazy fascinating. It seems windows xp and celeron and amd fx chips with 2 to 4 gigs of ram are where it's at.
Texas Gov Abbott bans Covid vaccine and mask mandates
The affluent Western minority is led by an anti-colonial rebellion whose record on this issue, while nowhere near perfect or even an absolute good, is the best of any major power in the history of humanity.

When China says "You know what, China? No. We will not break our own agreement. How could you even suggest that? Hong Kong is sovereign" (as the United States recently did in McGirt v. Oklahoma), then we can talk about whataboutism. Until then, that kind of argument is utterly unconvincing.
Other tailwind component libraries I track:

- https://github.com/thedevdojo/tails

- http://tailwindcomponents.com/

- https://tailwindui.com/components

- https://merakiui.com/

- https://www.gustui.com/

- https://mertjf.github.io/tailblocks/

- https://shuffle.dev/ Tailwind visual builder

(from my resources list https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/)
For the climbers out there, this is an analysis of cams, or "Spring Loaded Camming Devices" as the article and Wikipedia calls them. I have never heard of a cam called an "anchor" in contrast to the article title and the HN title. Wikipedia does not use the word "anchor" in the entire article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-loaded_camming_device
Hybrid, like Apple is allowing, seems a decent compromise, though I think the balance could reasonably be at 3 or 4 days WFH instead of 2. And if someone has a good track record why not let it be all WFH?

I do see some value in having a presence in the office, at least for myself in my own position: My boss & I have to work extremely close together, and that goes more smoothly in person. But it doesn't need to be everyday, and it still works out okay with phone calls & texts & adhoc Zoom meetings.
Did you do any research of your own to validate these claims, or do you just spout libel on command?

Disgusting.
Says who? There are plenty of different ways to order production without leaving it in the hands of unaccountable sociopaths. The options aren't extractive capitalism or the stone age. Endless growth isn't inevitable, or even possible.
The article got a bit confusing around halfway the post. If I didn't google the software it reads like I would need a configured Raspberry Pi in addition to this software...
You'll never see it. People will sell their homes after all the flooding happens, not before. At that point, there's no beach.
> The article is full of some funny quips, too:

Neither of those quips is funny. They show what should be an embarrassing level of ignorance if not outright stupidity. The state of the world even six months ago was COVID vaccines were only available to the most vulnerable groups. Six months ago clamoring about states opening up and people returning to offices was asinine. Six months ago a small enough portion of the populace was vaccinated that the danger of COVID spreading was the same as the preceding six months.
They're a public employer though, no?
It's not true. He got 50.8% of the vote. Even if you just look at the first round of IRV he got 35% of first-choice votes (https://ballotpedia.org/District_Attorney_election_in_San_Fr...)
Might offline maps be helpful? For getting around when Internet access is pulled, convenience but also if you actually want to see how to get to another town or country without taking the obvious roads. Downloading relevant maps from osmand.net/download.php onto a hard drive and knowing how to load it on your phone might be a way to do that. Or just keep it on your phone if you have the space.

What about power, do you think they'd pull power from regions so you don't have mobile phones to communicate anymore? Phones are efficient enough that hand charging should be pretty doable, so you can charge whenever you need to access any info (be it a map, or other offline info that you downloaded).
Are those 'vulnerable' populations not able to get vaccinated?
Still a bit early to celebrate. You really can’t trust aggregate review scores these days—even if you scan them with a 3rd party tool.
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Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.
> the devs should be using Rust.

Yes, they should. Or several other things depending on what exactly they need.

> C is a sharp knife with no handle; this is it's purpose as a language and tool.

Help me out here HN resident survivalists, carpenters, maybe circus knife throwers. What is the "purpose" of a "sharp knife with no handle" exactly? How often have you thought, "Man, it'd be so much easier to gather firewood, carve decorations or score a bullseye if only the blade would sink into my own flesh while I was using it because it doesn't have a handle" ?

Historically the argument was, "We're using C because alternatives like Java or Python or whatever aren't fast enough or capable enough". OK. But, somewhere in the last few years it moved to, "We're using C because alternatives aren't dangerous enough" and that's crazy.
Hey, Vineet here, one of the HomeBreeze cofounders. Really appreciate you sharing this. We've seen a lot of #1, #2, and #4. We haven't seen too much with landlords yet and would love to learn more...What kind of unit do you rent (single family, large managed apartment, from a big company or single owner, etc.) And what repair issue did you have?

I'd be down to trade emails to chat live too, if you're open to it - myhomebreeze at gmail
I see they've updated their estimate to the more cautious (and less precise) figure of "sometime between 2030 and 2080". A more readily falsifiable prediction, therefore, is Harvard University professor James Anderson's 2018 claim that:

"The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-p...
I ignored this because I considered it a disingenuous question, but maybe I should tackle it instead because this sort of misrepresentation is poisonous.

No, I obviously do not think "it's alright to put someone in jail because you don't like them". There's no reasonable way to construe that from what I said.

I think the intent of my comment was clearly to express surprise that people take him seriously as a commentator; as someone who has been unfortunately very aware of his views for a long time, it seems obvious to me that he is an unreliable narrator and any information he presents is something we should be extremely skeptical of.

I do think that it can be acceptable to imprison people for contempt of court. I am pretty familiar with the case in question, and I have no reason to think that any conspiracy was required in order to convict him. I watched him do the things he's been convicted for as they happened, and his intent seemed reasonably clear.

So yes, to answer your direct question – I do "support" putting Murray in jail, in the sense that he appears to have received a fair trial for committing a crime, and I don't see any evidence that his conviction was unexpected or unreasonable.

Spinning this as me saying "it's alright to put someone in jail because you don't like them" is obviously a bad-faith representation.
The Qing Dynasty lost Formosa to Imperial Japan in 1895.
Was this seriously discussed or considered? I never heard it mentioned before.
My goodness, all viral colds have a whole slurry of symptoms that some unlucky few get. I remember when some kid in my mom's second grade class died one weekend because of an infection he caught on Friday. Shit happens, the world is weird. We used to live our life while ignoring all the various terrible things that could happen to 1 in 1million people.

> And it's not like the people who _are_ older than the HN demographic are out there getting sick by licking doorknobs and wombats. COVID is being spread to them by the decisions of people who are unwilling to take the harm of spreading the virus seriously.

Ultimately, at some point, these vulnerable people need to be the ones to go on lockdown. We cannot shut the world down to accommodate a very small segment of the population. We never made everyone stay inside with AIDS
You think CEOs get formed as easily as engineers coming out of a bootcamp?
[Some time later] I'm glad you contacted me Ahmed. Lesson #1: Don't trust random people on the internet. The secret police are everywhere. Now come with me down to the police station so we can get you booked and interrogated.
Arguing that the moral standing of genocide is a matter of cultural construction is a pretty tenuous position.
Considering how many remote employees have their pick of companies they can work for remotely, good luck convincing people to return to what are now the highest taxes in the country.
Formalizing anything in a proof assistant such as Coq multiplies the amount of work required by orders of magnitude. Proving something on a computer almost universally requires way more ingenuity than proving it on paper.

> Is anyone trying to fill the gap?

I don't think that the state of things is likely to improve because automatic theorem proving is equivalent to the halting problem.

What you're describing is work that is best suited for computer algebra software.
1 day too late...
Fair. I probably should have chilled on this one :)
Please sell me on the value of unionizing.

At the moment, I don't support engineers unionizing in tech. But my mind is open, and I'm ready to change my view on this.

Here's why this is where I stand:

System/software/hardware engineering is one of the most highly-compensated and least-regulated careers out there. It's the only career where an individual can make over $100,000/year without having to complete years of additional training or apprenticeship. Unlike consulting (also non-unionized), you don't even need to graduate from target schools to get paid in this industry! I'm not talking about pure cash comp, either. Tech and tech-adjacent companies typically offer very good insurance policies with low/no-cost, great long-term disability benefits, great vacation and time-off policies, and more.

Engineers have also been in a seller's market for a long time. "Recruiters fill my inbox so much, I have to ignore them" is a common trope in this industry. Engineers very much have the option of leaving a company if they disagree with work conditions.

All I see are companies spending more money on bolstering their legal and HR departments to implement union relations. Which means less money and benefits for us.
Thanks for the source. Even if I were to try the best interpretation of the claim above, which would be that Boudin got 14% of the vote in the first round of a ranked choice scheem, that falls flat. Boudin was the first choice of a plurality of the city. This claim falls extremely flat.
I love that it took facial expression software for people to understand this. All anyone had to do was talk to a dozen internationally competitive athletes to understand this. Happiest competitor is the one who wins. Second happiest is the one who finishes third. Third happiest is second. Fourth happiest are all the finalists who didn't medal and didn't take fourth. And fourth place... Yeah. Fourth place SUCKS.
One thing you need to do is establish a set of pre-shared keys or passpharses with someone you trust outside of the country. Take a look at https://www.openkeychain.org/. You can take a look at a guide I wrote for people travelling into hostile network areas and adapt some of it to your perosnal circumstance: https://www.anomie.tech/craft/secure-tunnel/ Get yourself a good high gain directional wifi antenna to support physically distant network connections. Make friends with any HAM radio operators in your country. Maybe buy your close friends some out-of-band communications tools such as https://gotenna.com/ If you'd like more advice feel free to reach out to me. [EDIT] forgot to add, it is very much worth having a satellite channel for basic communications. The cheapest, most consumer friendly is the Garmin https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/inreach/personal/
> Is it that difficult to imagine the amount of value it created for those communities, too?

"Value creation" generally reveals itself through a rightward shift in the distribution of household incomes, increased standards of living, and resilient supply chains. At least that's what Adam Smith had in mind when he wrote "The Wealth of Nations".

If the only "value creation" KPI that ticks up is corporate earnings in offshore tax havens, the system starts to look like a non-governmental tax authority.
Discussed at the time:

Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18568641 - Nov 2018 (46 comments)
Do you have any thoughts on litigation funding as an investment portfolio component -- e.g. via Lexshares, Burford, or Pravati?
So what you're saying is "She was asking for it", "She shouldn't have been wearing such provocative clothing"?

Yeah, that's...not a good look.
The author argues in two directions that you either fail to recognize or ignore. First, it is still possible to change something for the better, it is not yet "inevitable". Second, should this not happen, then it is not about "some places" and "some species" but about the quality of all biological live, including all of us humans. And then it is no longer done with a bit of adaptation as Darwin suggested, but really all (except maybe a few billionaires who prefer to be shot in a rocket to the moon) will have an existential problem. So, do not think how can we make the best of what's to come, but try everything to minimize the damage as long as we still have a hint of control. I plead that this is what makes us rational beings.
This math is far above me, but I get a feeling like there's some relationship between the Fisher Information Metric and Kalman Filters. I think I'll take another look later tonight
That's exactly the fundamental attribution error. You're under-emphasizing situational explanations, and over-emphasizing disposition/personality based ones.

Following your logic, could we explain all crime the world just because criminal 'dont have agency'?

I doubt it
I remembered the time when I was a kid, I was siting in my mom's office, in front of a Windows XP box and browsing through all different screensavers, themes, start button styles, etc.
Good memories.
> but what bigcorp doesn't try to bust unions?

I know it's slightly off topic, but in some areas of Europe it is considered essential for any big employer to have a healthy union. The employer encourages unionization, and there are certain benefits for them too.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
In defense of those in senior management, they really like the huge bonuses & exercised stock options they get for themselves when cutting labor costs & boosting stock prices.

But WFH? Less control! No easily tangible up-side! Workers might be happier? So what, how do you quantify that and what will it do to their bonuses, and OMG how can you trust the unwashed masses of anyone below C-levels & their direct reports? /s
I don't care for Schiff, but central banking and the modern monetary system is fundamentally problematic. Just because we haven't experienced a black-swan event doesn't mean that it's not possible, whether that be a market crash or a pandemic.

Some cycles take longer than decades to play out. Some things take hundreds of years. First principles thinking (and common sense) tells us that no party should be able to create money out of thin air, it almost breaks physics, but it doesn't because the value comes from diluting every else's money. It breaks the social contract by taking from others without consent or transparency. And so no one complains because they don't notice it happening; my accounts stand as complete as they were yesterday. A powerful tool that over time, inevitably gets abused and mismanaged.
SATA support is now built in to Raspberry Pi OS
Related post 89 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
(Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster)
Might it be better to present plausible alternatives, in a reasonable timeframe?

Like, if we implement cap & trade amongst developed countries, with a tariff for those not participating (probably china) and with an annual cap reduction.

If not enacted in 15 years we expect: these non-exaggerated bad things
If enacted in 15 years we expect: these bad, but not as bad changes

Can we give that a pithy name? I heard things like Climate-shot, but we can do better.

And can we identify the consequences with a few good metaphors or slogans?

Politically if we could make it competition, would that have broader appeal? Such as, is there a way to get candidates on the right to argue over how their version of the plan will totally outdo whatever China is doing, or remake our industry to that much better than China, or otherwise be exceptional on some kind of madeup benchmark.
Please don't fulminate or call names on HN. You may not owe a rogue patenter better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

Please review the site guidelines and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
What about "Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office" by David Pressman?
Yes - on the rpi4s, you can enable booting from usb devices directly using raspi-config, although raspbian is only 32 bit, so I wound up having to do a weird dance of using raspbian to enable usb boot and then installing ubuntu on the drive to get a 64bit OS
> It's business, you shouldn't take it personally.

I don't want that distinction. I am a person. Why should I want to pretend otherwise?

What you're saying is similar to the "work/life balance" trope. My work is a part of my life, just as are friends, food, physical health, and the environment around me. I don't want to drive these things apart. I love it when the food part of my life overlaps with the friends part (social eating). I love it when the environmental part overlaps with the personal health part (outdoor exercise). Yet people speak of work as if it uniquely ought to be an exception. As if work is a thing you do only in order to allow you to do other things. HN is home to enough enthusiasts and tinkerers and people who actually enjoy creating things. Why drive this wedge between my desire to create and my personhood?
Can you be more specific? Saying how to identify someone sounds like a generic piece of useful information.
This is likely more appropriate.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/52858-picking-up-the-chi...

Also related to the 3.06GHz P4 launch were rumors that Intel has secretly included x86-64 support in the new P4 in the form of disabled circuitry on the chip’s die. Such circuitry is allegedly the product of Intel’s skunkworks Yamhill project, which is intended to give Intel some flexibility in responding to the potential threat posed by AMD’s upcoming x86-64 “Hammer” line of processors.

Intel has repeatedly denied the existence of Yamhill, insisting that the only 64-bit instruction set they plan to support is IA-64. So will we see Yamhill publicly unveiled in 2003? It’s possible, but not likely.

https://www.theregister.com/2002/01/25/intels_yamhill_itanic...
Wow, what a journey. I'm glad the original authors took such a rational and mentally healthy approach to such a frustrating situation.

On the plus side, I'd never heard of Chibitronics, but it seems so approachable that I am now strongly considering getting some of the starter kits for my 8 y/o nephew :)
"Invasive testing" fits for me, and it's not cute.
Google can simply decide to revoke your account and delete your data. I've seen a number of first-person accounts online of people who rubbed some tech giant the wrong way (or were just suspected of doing so, or were characterized as such by some ML model) and only afterward realized how much they stood to lose.
I'm also from Ontario.. I dont think this is the issue at all.

These stories are not referring to "growth in Ontario" but unoccupied multi-million dollar homes in Vancouver with questionable ownership, and paid in cash.
>The home repair market is a market for lemons

I thought a good idea would be home owner insurance that provides vetted contractors. So vertical integration.
Ugh, me too. These are really dark memories though.
And your citation is from a chapter on child psychiatric truama.

That rather flies in the face of your statement "It's offensive to me that it's been culturally-appropriated to apply to overly sensitive college students and other too-fragile people."

Perhaps your moral sense of offence is a poor scientific guide?
With most PHP setups, you can usually skip the restart part.