skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure this is what bosses and major corporate unions will tell you, but i don't think it's so simple... at least as long as you have provisions that make it illegal for a boss to fire someone on the basis of their union activities as we do here in France (although they still do, and it takes years to get compensation through special tribunals).

First, because the boss has no idea whether you're gonna join an union before you're actually employed, unless you tell them to their face. Second, because having a single major union goes against workers best interests by adding gatekeepers (the union leaders) who have interests in keeping the status quo and putting away proposals deemed too radical.

Second, because it's a useful construct to demonize unions. As you can see here on HN, lots of people in the US (i don't think this is true elsewhere) have examples of stupid union-mandated rules that apply to everybody. As long as the boss makes the rules, we're all happy to be against the boss for their soulless management. But when stupid rules are proposed and enforced by the single union, it's very convenient to keep everyone divided and not looking at who's profiting from the situation.

All in all, the single union appears to be a manipulation by the bosses themselves, or by the more authoritarian stalinist components of the workforce, and i don't see any benefits to it. Maybe i'm being a bit conspirational about it, but it sounds really at odds with the history of unionism all across the planet, for example the IWW in the USA which was the biggest union for i reckon a few decades, promoting sabotage and expropriation of the bosses alongside workers self-organization.

Voting for some stuff can be useful, though. In France it's common for people as individuals to go on a strike, but when it's part of a more global social movement, "joining the general strike" is usually put to a vote, as a measurement of the workers agreeing that everything needs to change and production should be entirely halted, and the workplace blocked. But voting or having a majority should never prevent people to struggle for emancipation.
From a career in professional VFX production (albeit software engineering side) - you'd be surprised...

As an example loading anything and everything, such as starting Maya, is done from the shell (different projects would have a myriad of different settings - usually stored in env vars), so picking up a few Linux skills can give your average artist some serious productivity (and hence career) gains. The work is often distributed globally - wanna check the state of something a bit non-standard in another site without transferring heaps of data over? There's a nice tool for that ;)
You know some people got a blank check and went on a rampage. And if asked they invent justifications and requirements and generally fire smoke grenades to confuse the public.
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> Is this a normal rate of suicide in these circumstances?

Absolutely not.

For real numbers:

> For 2019, the [Blue HELP] calculated the officer suicide rate at 22.4 per 100,000 population.[1]

...and that is an annual rate.

> Is there anything to indicate that these are instead murders in order to hide something?

No, there is nothing to indicate that.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/24/facebook-p...
Suicide is something that happens due to a cause, generally mental health issues or extreme physical pain. “died by suicide” removes culpability from the person who has lost their life and allows a discussion about the disease or disorder from which they were suffering.

Consider a case where someone got shot. Should the headline read, "died by stepping front of a gun" or "shot dead by a gun"?
You don't have to go back to the 1700s to find African Americans being treated poorly by the judicial system.

It's a weird shifting of the sands that isn't necessary to the conversation, when the context is a subject that is causing real harm now.
I don't miss these arguments: I much prefer a short stint of BS, followed by searching for facts - which is often followed by a different conversation. Before it was just folks trying to convince others that they were right with no conclusion.
You miss the point. We don't have a computer process that establishes factors such as the level of remorse expressed by the offender or their claimed motive, whether their misinterpretation of the relevant law is plausible or not, or the magnitude of the harm caused to the victim or whether the plaintiff's claim of monetary losses suffered is plausible or not so the "algorithm" is a thin veneer over a human determining which factors are and aren't relevant... so you get exactly the same level of bias before plus noise from the human judge making these determinations not knowing exactly how the algorithm works and a false claim of greater impartiality.

It's probably even worse if you try to pull the human out the loop altogether and throw an ML black box at the testimony, which doesn't understand the actual situation the defendant describes at all but does pick up the statistical association between African American vernacular words used and higher sentences in its training corpus. Much easier to train a model that picks up the prejudice in sentencing factors than the situational nuance...
> Can you give example of a cryptocurrency startup which innovated anything useful?

This is a trap I've seen many technical folks on HN fall into - they define "useful" along the lines of "beneficial", or "productive", or "worthwhile", rather than simply "is used". Think of casino tokens. They have no intrinsic value, and can only be used within very limited set of environments, so you could think of them as useless in the strict sense. But that doesn't stop large numbers of people using large numbers of them on a regular basis, and the operators make hundreds of billions a year from the people using them, so they are "useful" in the sense of "being used" to serve a strong human desire (just not to make the world a better place).
I hope so, the pay rate for cleaning up per line of code better match per line of coke.
Otherwise my sanity can't recharge.
Looking at how banks handled these kind of issues in the past, they'll shut down all operations for these few seconds and throw away anything that still came in these seconds as invalid.

It sucks for their customers and partners, but that would be a decent conservative option I think.
There's plenty of angularjs still around, for projects that can't or don't want to move to angular 2. The official end-of-life keeps getting pushed back, and I won't be surprised if someone r eventually forks it.
This is very interesting, thank you for teaching me a bit about logic today. Also, it looks like the headline was amended.
3. Tether

7. USD Coin

10. Binance USD

Crypto seems rather reliant on USD. The crypto narratives are always so flimsy.
Microsoft gives its 36 year-old Paint app a fresh update ahead of Windows 11
Ohh you talk about call pipelines, I totally missed the point. You are talking about time-constrained systems where an answer in the timeframe is required, right? Otherwise the timeout does not make sense, or would you do such precise timeouts even in non-time-constrained systems?

Anyway, seems to make sense to plan for this timing-wise. Allows addressing and seeing performance bottlenecks. Thank you for spelling it out for me!
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One of the biggest security concerns isn't listed which is to avoid doing 8000:8000 style port publishing because it'll open your service up to the world on most cloud providers unless you explicitly block that port using a cloud-level firewall. If you're hosting on a place like DigitalOcean you could very easily not be using their external cloud firewall.

Even if you use a cloud firewall it's worth avoiding 8000:8000 for the sake of being explicit with your intentions.

The reason you'd want to avoid that is because you'll probably have your services reverse proxied by nginx, in which case only 80/443 need to be published because the internet will be hitting nginx, not your internal service at example.com:8000 or whatever port it's running on.

This topic and many other security gotchas / best practices were in my DockerCon talk from a few months ago at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/best-practices-around-product..., it goes over patterns how you can use a more restrictive and secure 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 value in prod but still use 8000:8000 in dev so you can check it on multiple devices on your local network, all with the same docker-compose.yml file.
Spite begets spite.
A simple logic of NOT “-“ would have blocked any reintroduction/upgrade of unintended “-“ package, coupled with a inertiazed package replacing the accidentally-introduced “-“ package.

Yeah, those who depend on the original but accidental “-“ package for its functionally should suffer any consequential breakage that may have resulted from it.

*insert*fake*tear*here*
I wonder if you could get it small enough to use with CPUs. Could extend the battery of a laptop for example. I’m also thinking of AC units, where it could lower the power consumption at the same time as lowering the heat we diffuse into nature, especially in big cities where the most rooftops feel like saunas.
I think we are using “obvious” in a different way, I mean like if I want to write an if statement or something that is easy to write, it does it for me.
> That may be, but Occam's razor suggests that it would be a good idea to ask why that still hasn't been done. Surely there are some reason why such obvious and useful things still haven't been implemented, right? I may be wrong, but i'd like to suggest that there are certain interest groups behind all of that, for whom such changes would be bad for business.

Clearly there are, we want cheaper Brazilian beef, Indonesian palm oil, Cambodian agricultural products. But let's say we tax imports from countries that don't clamp down on crop burning, I doubt the average consumer would feel any difference. The last flood in Germany is estimated to cost 10 billion Euro. Overall the benefit would outweigh the cost.

>Also, what makes you think that both approaches couldn't be utilized? Use less resources, increase taxes to compensate the drop in prices that would otherwise follow and gradually stop subsidizing things like meat production, at least to the degree where the price at stores is artificially lowered. At the same time, attempt to subsidize wind, sun, geothermal, nuclear and other forms of getting electricity and see whether things are better or worse in 50 years.

I think using less resources can certainly help but to a degree that it almost doesn't matter. Especially if it's just about irrelevant stand-ins. For example the EU will forbid the sale of fossil fuel motorbikes in 2035. This is about something that has an effect on 0.1% of the carbon emission of a single economic area. And with motorcycles the benefits are way way less than cars as they are driven a lot less than cars and the increased CO2 of production takes years to result in CO2 reductions of the lifetime.
So a whole industry is forced to build new factories develop new models for the smallest of the small reductions, while the big stuff is left on the table. Or SUV's. SUV owners are demonized, while millions of tons of CO2 are emitted shipping Chinese made goods around the globe.

> Those approaches are not mutually exclusive, as long as you have plenty of legislative bodies on your side. Sadly, we don't and probably won't, at least until a generational shift takes place. As Planck's principle states: "Science progresses one funeral at a time", which could be attributed to social policies to some degree as well.

Agreed and this is what I want to achieve. A science driven approach not one of pandering to envy and the industry groups.
Thanks for educating me, while I was aware of the strong judgements against suicide (in particular based on religious justifications), I did not connect that to the use of language. Maybe I was jumping to conclusions too quickly.
My guess would be the rise of supermarkets. Newsagents, post offices, grocers, sweet shops I suspect have been decimated by supermarkets and more people with cars to get to them.
So the only way is to accept it?
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Could this become something people can't program without? Like imagine being stuck recycling the same programs and paradigms, not being able to move to something new, because Copilot hasn't seen it before.
The problem is that posix needs the conversion between 'posix time' (seconds since 1970) and the split out year/month/day/hour/minute/second format to work for the future as well.

Given that we don't know when there will be leap seconds in the future, this conversion is imposible if we want to take leap seconds into account.

So the solution is to either ignore leap seconds (as posix currently does) or have a regular rate of leap seconds (just like leap years). Unfortunately, the rotation of the earth is are not regular enough for a fix rate.

At the scale of a human life, leap seconds are completely irrelevant if you want to know the position of the sun.

So it is bizar that our civil time has leap seconds. Looking back, that seems to be a historical mistake.
It's not a "digital law", because I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

It's not "hidden". It's part of a law. Same font size as the rest. Everyone newspaper is writing about it.

The law isn't about "highways". It's about infrastructure. And these provisions, specifically, are one of the attempts to raise the funds financing the investments specified in that law.
Both mammals and reptiles that live in the water use very similar methods even though they are not at all closely related. It is an example of convergent evolution.
Quite possibly valid in its interpretation. Rooting anything in supposed behavior of hunter-gatherer societies of 10,000 years ago is fraught with error, unless there is actually evidence that the author fails to trot out. We really have no idea how societies back then functioned, do we?
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With sympathies, that's not your counterparties' problem. You're not entitled to a good-faith interpretation of your arguments online, and when you're accusing others of acting in bad faith, you really aren't.

Expecting everyone to know "what you mean", especially as a journalist whose literal skillset is writing, is poor.
> And the formation of multiple unions and competition between multiple unions and individuals may be healthy.

It depends. When a union renounces its revolutionary ideals and becomes a pawn of the bosses, then it's really counter-productive. For example in France, the CFDT and CGT used to be pretty radical, but nowadays despite some local section still practicing sabotage, nation-wide these two unions are pretty reactionary and will want to peacefully talk to the boss about getting slightly better improvements, instead of organizing workers with the explicit goal of the social revolution and self-organization of all aspects of life.

How could an anarchist union (see Émile Pouget for example, about the history of the CGT TV won't tell you about) become a counter-revolutionary force whose security service is well-known (and documented) to attack undocumented folks and other protesters in demonstrations, siding with the cops against the people?!

Back to the point, yes i believe diversity is useful for unions, though not competition. If only, because when your union turns bad you're free to make your own.
Hooks are way easier to use than everything that came before them.
Time to air-con the world, I guess
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As opposed to defining “useful” along the lines of “generating profit”.

So, sure, cryptocurrency startups can innovate a new way of making money. But it doesn’t make them useful. One could argue it doesn’t even make them not harmful.
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How do you draw the line between allowed learning and disallowed learning?

You don't think it's unethical for a human to learn from open source code and then write their own private code, surely?
Gee whiz, thanks America.
>Otherwise, I hope copilot makes it big. It'll create a new generation of developers that are dependent on these tools to do their work.

There's definitely other scenarios, like my preferred one of Copilot being legal itself but devs being responsible for using code generated from it, same as if they were using a more direct copy-paste or search tool.
It's like they want to push everyone to use privacy coins at this point.

Even if this passes succeeds, it helps the privacy coins anyway. Just wait until the BTC maximalists realise that BTC is traceable and not private.
Writing an if statement takes a couple of seconds anyway though, doesnt it?
> no content category is off limits as long as it doesn’t effectively break the laws of the jurisdiction under which our platform operate

You should then indicate clearly in the About page in which country your company, or servers, are located?
Interesting. Isn't that a good fit for macros though? Particularly for the future maintainers sake. With macros, future maintainers will only need to tweak macro invocations or macro bodies, instead of having to do a huge copy paste job all over again
Just stick with TAI and convert times to UTC when displaying them is required. The real crap here is the C and POSIX time_t type and its related functions, which are massively out of date (like the 70% of the C standard library). The ISO C standard committee is way too scared of breaking stuff, and when they add something is often utter garbage (look at the whole _s functions fiasco in C11).
There should be a law that states for any subscription product I should be allowed to buy a fixed-term version with no auto-renewal. In the past two days I've had the following experiences:

* Wanted to buy a Font Awesome "Pro" license for their icons. The only way to do this is a 99/year subscription. Reading the fine print says that I can buy it and cancel it the next day and still have lifetime access to the version at the time of my purchase. Why make me jump through the hoops?
* I wanted to support a writer on Substack by subscribing for a year. But I can't, I can only start a perpetual sub. So I subbed and canceled 1 day later. Then I got a "why did you cancel?" email. I didn't really
* I saw a cool open source project I liked and wanted to donate. They only had a Patreon link. Patreon only has recurring subs. So I had to email them and ask for their PayPal so I could send them $100.

I really wonder how much of SaaS revenue is people who have forgotten to cancel. I would guess 25% industry-wide.
> Doesn't have selectable or negotiable algorithms and constructions.

NSA likes that.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/10/22/a-riddle...
MIT, BSD, zlib and Apache license also all require the copyright notice and license to be retained when copying significant source portions.
You are asking your child to behave like you did while growing up, without taking into account that your son would be doing things considered rude now.

I'm a fully grown adult over the age of 40. I don't answer my door if I'm not expecting someone. They can call from my driveway if they want. I don't answer phone calls in general, and hate talking on the phone. Few have issues with this as they understand that house visits and phone calls is me asking you to stop what you are doing and talk to me, someone who is just going to talk about something minor that can wait if you are busy. Email is just a letter, cold and impersonal, and isn't a way to communicate with friends, though I'll use it from time to time if it is my last resort.

I'm sure they'll adapt if smartphones actually went away, but that's not what is going on with your son.
Read the Senate's roughly $1T infrastructure bill
A great deal of tax avoidance strategies used by the rich are illegal, but the IRS either doesn’t notice or frequently chooses not to prosecute them.

A recent great example of why they don’t notice. Rich individual 1 was paying for an employee’s children/grandchildren to go to school while deducting that money from his salary via a second set of books. Rich individual avoids payroll tax, employee avoids income tax, and on the surface it looks legal except the second set of books made it a clearly illegal action. It’s exactly that mix of personal and business activities that makes such criminal evasion so hard to track.

Another interesting example of not prosecuting, personal Roth IRA’s may not invest in companies under specific conditions and transactions must be at the fair market rate. Rich individual 2 broke both rules, but the IRS investigation decided to leave it alone. This is adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars in tax fraud, but if the IRS chooses not to prosecute then he’s free and clear.

PS: Names redacted to avoid political discussion.
> I’m also thinking of AC units, where it could lower the power consumption

Nope, if you use this on hot side, AC will have to work more to get rid of heat, but this device will still provide less power than ac must now use. Design criterium for AC's is that hot side should be as cool as possible (so it has a big fan to cool it down), but thermoelectrics require hot side to be as hot as possible.

AFAIK compressor units are still way more efficient than this device, so no reason to bog them down with something with less efficiency.
How could you not care if people are treated unfairly? This is not a good baseline value that we can all share. Are we all going to hope that other people, who disagree with us on some social or business issue, are treated unfairly? Is politics going to be relegated to a forum to wage a never-ending battle against each other?

How about live and let live?
In my experience, copilot is good at boilerplate and common patterns, but will not help you with the novel stuff (where it will predict the boilerplate and not the interesting transformation that you actually intend)
Sorry none of those are corona virus, that's what covid is in case you were not aware, so your empirical evidence is nonsense.
Suicide is ultimately executed by an individual who makes the choice to do so. Obfuscating or minimizing that fact and refusing to shame it will remove social pressure preventing and dissuading that act.

Shame and fear of my father finding my body is what prevented me from doing it years ago.
Matrix/Element's UX is abysmal, it's not a viable alternative to anything. I continue to get 4 popups (two of them modal) every time I login, and I have to login every time I open it because it doesn't remember logins. And it happens not on just one system, but on two different browsers on two different PCs.
Rather than increasing efficiency, I'd be concerned about loss of function in the error checker. This would spike the mutational rate (and the mutational load).
This use case wouldn’t be affected in any way by the proposed legislation because banks already know their customers.