skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diseases and fascists are however entirely different, so I'm not sure your example proves anything.
My counterpoint would be that before the widespread availability of chat and things like that, it was considered perfectly normal in most workplaces to swing by someone's desk. The modern obsession with "deep work" in some circles is mostly a modern invention. (At least in places that didn't commonly have offices where you could open or shut the door as a signal.)
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I dont get the point you are making. It was not a distraction, it made the skirmishes front and center.
Yes, that's why police should be retrained/reformed and better funded, but it is not considered an option, currently it's either more (bad) policing or less (bad) policing, not better policing. Everyone sees the problem, but doesn't want harder good solution, only easier bad solution.
I read the article and was referring to the use of words in the body like "surveillance" for a one time collection of required KYC information.

It has more "thrilling" words as well.

But generally, over the years the EFF has lost my support and is viewed as yet another fringe voice with eccentric overtones.
Quid pro quo strongly tied to the balance of power. Tiny Co. will probably not only refuse to hire people coming from Huge Co. but may may go the extra step and give Huge Co. a heads up in an attempt to gain favors with them. Plenty or such small companies got burned by getting on the wrong side of much larger companies, and ended up crippled by being denied contracts, or having their best people poached.

The rest is the classic collusion between companies who see no reason to compete over people because this only drives salaries higher and raises payroll costs.
Unfortunately, if the window is larger than 90 days, they become NSOs and the difference between the strike price and the FMV is considered regular income, with withholding required immediately. You then have to pay capital gains when you sell, so you're actually taxed twice.

This is not true with ISOs (it is considered income for AMT but that affects fewer people and you can get AMT credit to claw it back in future years).

The tax laws around stock options really need to be reformed, they encourage employees to take on undue financial risk, especially for non-public companies.
This is a loaded question, because it implies it is a matter of legality, instead of a matter of ethics.

I think it is not ethical to mandate it, because that is essentially forcing people to trust the authorities and scientists. People don't have a rational reason to trust these entities.

So it is quite obvious that it is unethical and a violation of basic human rights.

It is up to each government if they want to protect the basic human rights of their citizens, and do things that can gain the trust of the people, or just apply brute force in a time their population is vulnerable and might give up their basic rights in return for the promise of improved protection from disease.
> the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors responded to the subpoena with a letter stating they have already provided much of what has been asked of them in subpoenas filed at the beginning of this year and late last year.

> They also stated that some of the materials that have been requested are in the custody of the recorder's office, which was not named in the subpoena, according to the Republic.

> "Specifically, providing these routers puts sensitive, confidential data belonging to Maricopa County citizens - including Social Security numbers and protected health information - at risk," Thomas Liddy, civil division chief for the county attorney's office, wrote.

None of this seems unreasonable to me. An aside, but I'd think a tech forum like HN would be interested in a more critical examination of the conspiracy theory around internet routers containing proof of electoral fraud. Every angle I've read on it sounds like utter nonsense. Let's not pretend it's anything other than a fishing expedition aimed at sowing doubt in voters minds.
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I disagree with that analysis. That basically means running some binary yourself, with the alternative being buying a SaaS product that is hosted by the developer. You may think that "self-hosting" means having your own physical server, but I have never heard anyone else use the expression like that.
Is that really true, given fitness/smart watch sales?
I don't really know. I thought there would be difference in concentration.

That concentration depends on the person: A person with more fat will show a higher concentration for a longer amount of time. If you don't smoke often, you might find that you get it out of your system rather fast. In short, tests aren't all that helpful with pot, and you won't realistically be able to tell if they smoked last night after work or last saturday during off time.

> Does it matter if it is a "heavy" drug (say, mushrooms?)?

Mushrooms are not a hard drug. Fentanyl/heroine and crack are.

Mushrooms and LSD are classified that way by many folks, though - including the US government. Fentanyl isn't instantly addictive - if it were, they wouldn't use it in hospitals. People do heroine occasionally without being addicted, too (most folks don't shoot up). Same with cocaine. I don't know as much about crack, but there was a time when folks did meth on a more recreational basis instead of all the time (I've never personally done it, no desire).

And that's the issue. "Hard" depends on some combination of use, effect, and what frequent use does. Regardless, plenty of people do "hard" drugs occasionally and you'll never know. And if it is better to you that someone do some cocaine - generally accepted as a hard, addictive drug (through propaganda) - than be drunk all weekend, in some ways, you already know this. A drug test isn't gonna help most of these, though.
Start setting boundaries. Start with something small and I think you'll find it's quite addictive.

Another thing is to find out who your supervisor is and what their priorities are. Sync yours with his/hers. Some tech companies make it hard to do that, but you can always look at your paycheck and see who signs it.
> why this is happening

They hope that the emotions get attached to the person fired so the company can get rid of it.

I don't think there is any information who has done what, so someone has to go. Severance will probably make for a soft landing.
There are plenty of ways to convert to cash anon

Most miners join pools. A single asic will never mine a block, so miners pool hashpower together and you get paid out your share of the hashpower.
Ten years from now...same story but Amazon and multiple targets.
Well, - has 56 dependents, so that ship has sailed.
Right, but I wouldn't have expected that processes outside of chrome could get at its internally managed db (or encrypted properties), especially if it's using an authenticated (chrome) user profile.

Windows doesn't have any application firewalls by default? I thought that was the whole thing that came in with Vista that people were upset about. (Of course, thinking it through, Linux isn't any better, assuming the process is running as the same user.)
Companies are not people.

If your business is taming wild animals, should you have metal bars around them?
I'm not sure that dating "not requiring commitment" is the issue.

It's difficult to commit to dating when you are time-poor and struggling to even get close to the financial trajectory that your parents were on.

It's too easy to blame the kids or whatever, without considering that the kids had and have it harder in many ways than the old people did. Being a millennial in the '00s was pretty good, being a millennial after '08 has not been good (unless you happened to get a sweet high-paying tech job in the '10s).
I love how easy it is for enterprise organisations to make the smart moves once shit the fan. Two good choices for leadership both based on their previous work and the fact that they are new within Blizzard and aren’t tainted by the horrible working culture like every other current high level manger.

Of course it’s something they’ve likely prepared to do as a contingency since January.

I don’t agree with people calling J. Allen Brack a scapegoat considering his role in this. There are YouTube clips of Blizcon WoW panels being lead by him where the named director that I can’t recall the name or is making misogynistic jokes that the panel continues with. He’s also worked so close to these people that he must have known and failed to act, unlike the head of Activision. Bobby Kotick may be disliked, I don’t know much about him other than that, but anyone that’s worked at the higher levels of an Enterprise organisation knows that the key decision makers are so far detached from reality that it’s sometimes painful to work with them. Not that they are delusional or incompetent, but they simply operate on a whole other plane than the rest of the organisation and that means you have to trust your governing body.

Maybe Kotick needs to go as well, but I don’t see any reason Blizzard shouldn’t be making this move and they should frankly be replacing every single manager and middle manager that has been anywhere near the disgusting bullshit if their goal is to alter the culture.
Private debt is deflationary as people prioritize paying it off, reducing the velocity of money that would otherwise be spent.

The causality is reversed for public debt though - governments react to deflationary environments by increasing public spending to compensate for the private sector's propensity to save - as a "spender of last resort" as it were.

That's how Japan ended up the way it did.

Arguably it should have spent even more to offset deflation in the 90s.
Meanings can evolve over time. I tend to think of self hosted as installing from code and managing myself, whether on local hardware or remote.
He's also easily the most publicly hated manager at Blizzard thanks to his "you think you do but you don't" speech. Perfect scapegoat.
I believe you should have some crypto (some percentage of your net worth). At the very least Bitcoin, maybe also a bit of Ethereum.
I write technical stuff to convince myself that I understand a topic. I'll write a tutorial for myself on it, and during this, ask questions that someone who doesn't know it at all would ask, sometimes I don't know the answer so I need to research more.

But at the end I can end up with a pretty good, in-depth, tutorial / notes / blog post.

I just don't publish them to the internet. But I find it's a pretty good way of checking how well you understand something. Like rubber duck debugging with yourself in a way.
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Uber knew they were carjackers?
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Duress is covered by the other reply, I think. Imbalance of powers is part of something called "Unconscionability" in the USA. There is an example in the link below too.

Basically, courts can throw contracts out when they feel they're not fair and that a side with power has taken advantage.

I guess that means if you have a heart attack, someone can bill you for cpr, but they can't bill you $100bn for cpr, even if they stand there doing nothing until you "agree".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
> I think MS knows damn well that they've forfeited the ethics of their code generation. There's a reason they've trained the model on Github repositories instead of, say, the Windows kernel driver tree. They know their model arbitrary copy/pastes other people's code

Microsoft can of course create Copilot using the GitHub code. It’s not publishing any derived work on its own - and this type of access to the code is likely a large part of the reason for buying GitHub in the first place.

The only ethical issue for Microsoft here is if Microsoft sells this service (they don’t - yet) and risk including nontrivial code without attribution (seems likely, given the behavior of the preview but if ms for example limits output to a few lines or prevents generating too large chunks verbatim the issue almost disappears).

Ethical/legal issues and risks for users of Copilot are much larger, such as if they use it to conjure up a nontrivial snippet and then not research the origin of it. It’s no better than copying it from the original location.

Microsoft could probably throw in parts of their closed source in copilot - but not even Microsoft controls that. Third parties have copyrights that prevent it too.

But people who keep code in public GitHub repos (I assume) let GitHub do things like train neural nets on it, and Microsoft obviously don’t keep much of the windows or office sources in public GitHub repos.
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I'm quite curious if this works efficiently as well. The question is, is the amount of excess heat that the rigs give off and sustain the energy needed to keep the mining rigs working 24/7?
I mean you can have reproducible builds while being on the upgrade train. `package-lock.json` eixsts for a reason. And the tiny pains of upgrading packages over time mean that then you don't have to deal with gargantuan leaps when that one package has the thing you want and it requires updating 10 other packages because of dependencies.

Node is a special horror because of absolute garbage like babel splitting itself into 100s of plugins and slowly killing the earth through useless HTTP requests instead of just packaging a single thing (also Jon Schlinkert wanting to up his package download counts by making a billion useless micropackages). But hey, you're choosing to use those packages.

I think if you're using them, good to stay up to date. But you can always roll your own thing or just stay pinned. Just that stuff is still evolving in the JS world (since people still aren't super satisfied with the tooling). But more mature stuff is probably fine to stick to forever.
Pip also supports packages hashes so you can be sure you're getting the exact same package that you got last time.
You can't expect people to wear masks forever.
According to China, one solution is to kill after school for-profit education, which is crippling families due to unbounded competition.
Interesting that all the noted examples assume a Windows host. I like that, people that use Windows deserve the drama the get ;-)
I'm not suggesting traditional financial return on infrastructure, but genuine demonstrated need and use regardless of return. If you build an unprofitable but highly utilized HVDC transmission line to avoid CO2 emissions for somewhere than can't generate their own clean energy (ie the Faroe Islands, for example, which hovers constantly at ~40MW of electrical generation using oil with occasional reliance on pumped storage), that would be a win imho. Japan's rail infrastructure is another prime example (although profitable if I recall). Avoid boondoggles, avoid status seeking projects, avoid nepotism and corruption, but deliver value.

Edit: As someone else in thread pointed out, renewables should be invested in.
> Fair trade is based on pretty fundamental ethics, such as fighting slavery.

Not really, no. Again, lots of non-"fair trade" products exist and those are not against fighting slavery.

> Can you point any such concept being foundational to Free Software?

Seriously? Their whole stick is fighting software practices they consider unethical. You might disagree whether that is fundamental ethics, but to them it is and it is rude and dishonest to pretend that is not the case.

For example, I am not vegetarian, but understand that there are people who feel strongly about that. That is fine and if you go "vegetarians are pushing their agenda which has nothing to do with ethics" that says more about you than about them.
Interesting, I had not heard of this before. If anyone feels inclined to send me an invite, I'd like to check it out. This is me, computer music open source indie hacker: https://github.com/iainctduncan/
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I have worked as a tech lead at a startup for just over 2 years now. The product is targeting the enterprise space and we've been in talks with clients since I joined but haven't had a paid pilot project yet. Clients put us through their preferred supplier programs and audits, but nothing comes of it. We've won lots of awards, we've been on accelerators/incubators run by potential clients, we're "in the process" with pretty much all the big players.
We've recently raised more funds and are growing the team. Investors seem to have faith, even though we're pre-revenue, but frankly I'm less optimistic.

I feel like we're building something no one may ever use. We don't have users for the product we're monetising and there isn't much in-house industry knowledge, so we may be building something no one wants. We could remain in the sales process forever. This is really demotivating and I'm not the only one who feels so. After the fundraising, we're trying to grow the team but it feels surreal building and growing this system that no one is using.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? I am thinking about jumping ship, but I feel some guilt as my leaving would be a big blow to the company. The equity I have would barely compensate me for the reduced startup salary over 3-4 years and that's if we exit.
Blizzard has not been run as an independent studio since 2008 when it merged with Activision. The head(s) of BLizzard are just a layer of management under Bobby Kotick who has been the leader for more than a decade. I can't see this as anything besides blame shifting.
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I wonder why they refuse to rip off oil companies? Too well connected & therefore too risky?
Just as you shouldn't roll your own crypto you shouldn't implement your own end-to-end encryption.

This is a great library, supports async and soon, I hear, no_std as well which could make this portable to embedded environments too.
My biggest problem with copilot is not how it's trained, but with it's targeting of microsoft coding tools.
I don't use visual anything, and I don't know anyone who does. I code a lot of python, html and JS, and I use neovim. If I need a smart 'crutch' I'll whip out pycharm.

Mostly I don't feel the need for such things, but it would be fun and interesting to see just how good copilot is.

Not fun enough to install visual whatsit though.
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> What everyday users? There’s nothing you can do with this stuff except speculate, gamble and build obfuscated Ponzis.

...

https://compound.finance/

https://pooltogether.com/

https://polymarket.com/

https://app.uniswap.org/

https://rarible.com/

https://axieinfinity.com/

...

Anyone who has access to the internet can use the above (and it's just few examples, more on https://ethereum.org/) without any arbitrary restrictions set by any governments.

How can you look at these things and not be in awe?

And how on earth can somebody be so confident about something yet know so little about it?
Au contraire, it's the _ability_ to make changes and build new things in an existing society that is so impressive. The US (let's say NYC specifically) cannot build a lot of new core infrastructure like fast subways because it's expensive and difficult to get the home owners and community on board.

Seoul the city and metro area are both more populous than NYC. And yet you see them rapidly pivoting to fast new lines like this Bundang line. You see them demolishing old buildings and building new ones. You see them switching their entire payment system to digital-first.

On reflection I think this is mostly enabled because 50M is still a small-ish population and the country is fairly culturally homogenous. Combine that with a desire to compete with their bigger neighbors (Japan, China, the US, etc.).

I think Korea (like smaller countries in Europe) has a pretty unique ability to pivot existing society into new technology.
Though there are similarities, the US and Japan have very different circumstances. The US runs twin deficits, has extreme inequality compared to its peers, and extremely high costs for healthcare and education. This is not a recipe for stability.
That's the point, if you need to coordinate things down to the millisecond, leap seconds are incredibly harmful, and if you don't, they are irrelevant.