skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having dealt with these things before the rules that the company is required to follow are very strict and even a single person from "management" could make an honest mistake and cause the election to be invalid. The union has to abide by almost no rules in this case...even highly pressured visits to your place of residence are not out of the question.

The addition of a USPS box in view of the surveillance cameras is questionable, but the ballots are not visible and Amazon would clearly want as many votes as possible so how would they know which way the individuals were voting?

I also really don't believe Amazon was tracking who picked up anti-union material at their mandatory meetings...thats never a good benchmark for if someone is pro or anti union. For all they know the person taking the material was doing so to take it back to the union to show what the company is pushing (it happened at my company with emails sent to all).

As we usually see, there will be never ending objections to the election until it slants in the union's favor and then that one will be the final one.
So is selling alcohol.
90%+ is both the middle and lower income classes. That’s more than 1.2 billion.

> 600 million is not "90 percent"

600 million are people making 1000yuan or less a month.

> do you think 2/3 of China are uniquely brain-washable

Yes. Everyone is brain-washable.

> ..that they're living in really bad conditions yet believe they're good...

No. It’s more complicated than this.

> is it possible... way better than 30 years ago

Yes. Due to Deng’s policy, which Xi has been reverting. My parents have both experienced the cultural revolution. We know how bad it was. My grandfather (who I never met) committed suicide.
> Putting in low effort during your billable hours is a personal character weakness that you are cultivating. You should avoid it because it's bad for you

Why is it a character weakness? Why is it bad for you?

By putting in low to average effort and switching jobs often, I doubled my salary in 5 years. All the while, I've had tons of time for vacations, hobbies, and having a life outside of work. And I've never gotten a single negative performance review. All my 1 on 1 feedback from managers has been glowing.

If a company could use half the labor to get twice the profit, they'd do it in a heartbeat. That's the purest essence of capitalism. Why should I behave differently? The guy on my team who works nights and weekends to get assignments done gets paid the same as I do. He's just more miserable for it.
Genuinely curious why this is on hacker news?
It's an in-demand skill, supply and demand.

However, lots of folks leave for a while, get some new experience, and come back with a big boost in salary and maybe title. Give it a try if still interested.
thank you! We’re starting out of the gate with COPPA and will fast-follow with GDPR so we currently cover the United States (in English).

re: spoofing. this is a tough problem to solve and no existing solution guarantees this. we would be able to see suspicious behavior though like multiple verification attempts, time between submission and verification, etc.

Changing regulations is tough. We work with a privacy lawyer to keep us abreast of changing policy and have researchers maintain a database of applicable state, federal, and international laws as well as recent lawsuits.

Financial KYC is interesting for sure. Right now we’re focused on child privacy and very much believe there’s a lot of work to be done there still.
The value of tribal knowledge is even more apparent when 'engineers' describes a) traditional engineers (EE, mechE, chemE, civilE, etc), or b) software types with deep specialized skills that grow with domain experience (e.g. image analysis in medical/pharmaceutical, signal processing in audio/radar/telecom, or finite element analysts in weather/mixture modeling).

The experience gained with years in roles like these isn't just in the use of computer tools, but in how to approach and solve proprietary domain problems with constraints that often aren't obvious. Knowing the pitfalls or conventions inherent in complex or regulated domains like automobile or pharmaceutical safety takes time to learn, making those with such experience more valuable to retain.
Nothing, but it’s not existentially fulfilling.
The problem is not the science or the mechanics. The problem is the economics. And not just the economics of any single builder, but of the construction industry as whole.
You can't cancel cash.

Therefore, cash shall be cancelled.
He was clinging to the CEO position because he wanted to be in charge and call the shots. Anyone who got in the way of letting him do whatever he wanted was excluded from future meetings and then quietly let go in the next round of layoffs.

Disagreeing with him meant the end of your employment. One of several reasons why most of us left.
> What is the damage that has been done?

Runoff from crops getting into aquifers, rivers, reservoirs which turns into drinking water for humans. Later it will rain contaminated water all over our properties, gardens, bodies
Amazon's historically had pretty good favorability ratings, especially compared to the rest of tech.

Last year, before the pandemic upended everything, it was at 91% according to the annual Verge Tech survey (no, I don't think they've posted the 2021 iteration).

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21144680/verge-tech-survey...

Axios-Harris (Dec '20 - Feb '21) polled Amazon at #10 with a composite score of 80%, six ranks above Apple (and far above others like Facebook and Twitter, which ranked in the bottom ten slots). But even Twitter's composite score was 63%, which means people can't hate it _that_ much.

https://theharrispoll.com/axios-harrispoll-100/
In 2007 I was considering a move to the Bay Area and I focused my job research first on Amazon. You can find negative anecdotes about any large company. But still, without even remembering the details, I remember that research resulting in a strong takeaway that I wanted to have nothing to do with the company.

So then it was sometime around the early 2010s that the first wave of bad press came out about the way they treat workers, and I remember being unsurprised.
thanks! so far the companies we’ve talked to are delaying full-blown reviews as long as possible because of the stage of company they’re in.

We certainly do work very closely with each company to work through their product and integrate as seamlessly as possible. whereas we don’t offer an official security review as of now, it is something we’re considering for the future. would love to chat, DMing you now!
Ask HN: Am I crazy to take a career break?
I started a new gig ~6mo ago and I'm basically getting bullied out by people below/beside me. I'm not happy with how my manager or the execs have handled it and while it's technically resolved, I don't want to stay in an org that allows such behavior.

I going to trash about 400k in equity to leave and that's acceptable to me (nothing is vested), but with hiring and salaries being crazy right now, is it insane to take a 6mo-1yr career break? I have savings, but I've only been making 150k for the last few years and I'm worried the opportunity cost here is too high to ignore.
Just so there's no confusion, you linked to the "NOTE-WBEX" which is europe-only. If you're interested in countries covered, it's best to look at "NOTE-NBGL": https://dev.blues.io/hardware/notecard-datasheet/note-nbgl-5...
nested H3 tags with:

h3 {
font-size: 1.17em;

"(historically the em unit was derived from the width of a capital "M" in a given typeface.). The numeric value acts as a multiplier of the font-size property of the element on which it is used."

So this used to work and look normal.
That's fair, actually. This is an argument in the article. I would summarize it as "focusing on long-term risks necessarily means un-focusing on short-term ones, and that's bad". Would you agree?

The latter part however ("and that's bad") is not well supported at all. That's what the article argues by emotional appeals. For a counterexample, most of the harms of climate change are still in the future, so addressing it is focusing on longer-term risks. And wouldn't it have been easier if we had started addressing it 20 years ago?

To use the same example, extreme harm from climate change (e.g. thousands dead from heatwaves) is very likely, but ultimately still hypothetical -- it has not happened yet. The only difference with existential risks is the degree of hypotheticalness. And when the harm is high enough, why not take the somewhat supported hypotheticals seriously?
Post a link to your project or landing page
And yet, almost no houses at all are 3D printed.

People are very good at bricklaying, and are paid a reasonable rate by the hour. No one has made a machine that can beat that feature set.

edit: more great features of human brickies that robots are terrible at: very small working volume; very small and agile footprint; safe for other humans to work near; half-day built-in power supply.
The last few decades I've seen a lot of bigger buildings have slab concrete walls with brick veneers. This seems a quicker and cheaper way of doing it. Would seem like a good place to try to automate the veneer placement.
Seems to be a law since 2017

https://9to5mac.com/2016/04/26/indian-government-will-requir...
Yeah, I don't think it really has to be mandatory, but it certainly should be allowed and encouraged.

In the case where people were objecting to being re-shuffled, did they get to pick where they went? Or were they just told? a little agency can help a lot.
but that still has a human loading it and arranging the bricks, which i presume is amongst the largest time sink, sometimes 2. It is probably a vast improvment in terms of human-power required though
Or TSA or other law enforcement. In the US, you cannot be compelled to give your password (compelled speech), but the law is less clear on biometrics. Some courts have treated thumbprints like speech, but higher courts have not yet weighed in. The one sure thing is that passcodes are speech and cannot be compelled.
Quick true account story. I swear to the universe this happened as described below:

In the middle of the last decade, I moved from a town to which I had just moved, in order to get away from a stalker. I wound up moving into a celebrity's house: a multi-room unit. I listed a room for rent on craigslist, and was contacted by someone closely connected to this celebrity. That evening, I used FB DM to contact an old far away associate about an unrelated matter. The next day at a local coffee shop, a couple sat next to me and started loudly discussing both this potential rental share from the connected party, as well as the content of that private DM.

This was extremely unsettling. If you've never experienced this multiple times, it's difficult to convey how traumatizing this is. I started to question my own sanity/vanity/mental health. "Maybe I'm being self important. Maybe I have an undiagnosed mental illness." This caused me significant life damage, because it was not the first nor second time (nor the last time) that such an unattributed event occurred.

I still don't know if this was due to a corrupt FB insider feeding celebrity friends, hacking, shoulder surfing, or what. FB insider is the most logical guess. I sought help from the local tech community. Shortly thereafter, my landlord and his associate wound up threatening me -- seemingly out of context, but in a pre-meditated fashion -- with murder. Then, I was threatened by a friend of this celebrity when he promised to ruin my career if I "talk(ed) about what happened". This was highly traumatizing; I was alone, scared, and silenced. I eventually talked about it on FB. Thereafter, I was retaliated against with threats of violence and defamation from a local gang member. Based on these escalations, it seems exceedingly unlikely that the initial stalking/harassment was due to my imagination running wild.

In a seemingly unrelated matter in the same timeframe, I was stalked and targeted by two men, related to my failing startup. This occurred at a large, well-connected public establishment, also using supposedly private data (ostensibly gleaned from email this time, related to contractual matter for new client in the five figure range).

There were other incidents of harassment that occurred thereafter, particularly during the last administration. I live in an area with heavily polarized political leanings and entrenched long term racial/cultural tensions.

I did contact the police, who were unresponsive. After extensive complaining, I eventually did catch the attention of the FBI, who did offer to help, but it's been a long time and the damage is long since done, with little hope to prove anything. Testimony alone is insufficient to prove a pattern of malicious behavior by others. I've also had traumatizing experiences dealing with attorneys and courtrooms and don't wish to pursue civil action anyway.

These incidents occurred in a small, tightly knit community to which I was a total outsider transplant.
Combine ML with a wire system used for stadium camera, and you get a cheap robot that is both strong and have a long range

Wire camera example:
https://youtu.be/j0K3XUqZI9w?t=187
Maybe try NextCloud?
Lebanon: Worst economic collapse in 150 years
I think the thing that this article misses is that per capita growth (the thing that's important for people's experienced life satisfaction) can essentially grow a lot further with fewer atoms under cultivation if you increase density. Humanity probably doesnt have much more area under cultivation than 300 years ago, but it has several orders of magnitude more people. The way i see the future going is less people, but each one is a billionaire. Kind of like how when stars run out of fuel they don't just wither away, but turn into very hot, dense and fast spinning white dwarfs.
That's normal. If you move to Poland from wherever, don't expect you'll ever become Polish. Not really. Even if you are slavic as f. You have a better chance if you speak flawless Polish with flawless neutral polish accent (and look slavic as f). But as long as people know you came from other country and didn't have any polish ancestors you'd still be foreigner. But we will respect you for doing well to blend in.

Only America is a country where you can call yourself American after living there for few years.
You call those cans "spaceships"? They can barely get to your moon and back.

"Humans can't even excrete flexible ceramics. They need air. They need heat. They can't stand up to ionizing radiation. This isn't biology, this is physics!"

Cephalopods have got onto land at least twice. Nothing says they can't do it again.
>there are many more competent lawyers and designers out there

Curious if you could elaborate on how you came to this conclusion? According to ONET [1] there are 819k lawyers in the U.S. but 1.469MM software programmers.

If you come from a software background I wonder if it’s easier to spot an incompetent programmer than an incompetent attorney which could bias the heuristic. Or do you think there’s something else at play that makes the proportion of competent software developers inherently much lower? E.g., there’s no “bar exam” for programmers to ensure a basic level of competence

[1] https://www.onetonline.org/
I cannot believe that Archegos was "too busy" to read a request for additional collateral. They knew exactly what was going on, and they were hoping to buy more time and pray that the market would change in the direction they needed.

This sounds like a desperation play that didn't succeed, and Credit Suisse was left with the loss.

Now, I'm not much educated in finance... but risk is risk, and whether you have models or you have tarot cards, sometimes things just do not go the way you thought they would. If you're betting 1x, you can lose what you have. If you're betting with leverage, you can win bigger, or lose 1x (and potentially the creditor can lose the remaining Xx). Unless the creditor can automatically liquidate and close out a client's position if they can't make a margin call, it seems you would have to be crazy to be a creditor for leveraged clients. Eventually you will lose big because of a client.
> like the kind of person who purchases an Apple product is more likely to make a meme about it

I addressed this misunderstanding of the word "meme" in a parallel comment.
Given that algorithms are designed to avalanche (e.g. changing one bit of the plain text causes tons of bits to change in the ciphertext), I don’t see what they expect to find from the encrypted data itself. Two similar encrypted sets of data would be similar essentially by accident.

They would have to get information from other observations, e.g. the fact that you send (encrypted but nonetheless observable) messages to certain people at certain times and frequencies, telling them something about the apparent importance of that relationship.
Which is still infinitely more than 30 years ago.
You're a parent; would you be fine with saying, "I mean, I berated my kids and had them work in a way where one of them could've really easily lost an arm, but the quality of their completed chores really speaks for itself"? Would you be fine with them becoming adults and being treated like shit by their boss despite producing results you find enviable?

And as another user put it, it can be both - they achieved great results, and they're assholes.

Edit: Hell, would you be OK with being berated and asked to work in an unsafe environment?

Edit 2: Just four days ago you posted about how much you dislike the way that Bezos and Amazon treat(ed) Amazon employees. I am having trouble squaring away that sentiment with the sentiment in your post today.
> It's difficult to measure employee productivity. Sometimes, managers don't care. Sometimes employees make every effort to hide their lack of productivity.

The former is the employer's problem and as far as the latter, I assume in this discussion that the employee isn't committing borderline or outright fraud with respect to the job description laid out in the contract. Considering how many people get hired to do flex work like security guards or to deprive competitors of talent, plenty of employers are aware of this dynamic.

However, my goodwill only goes as far as "at will" employment protects me, which isn't very much.
Ironic, because the comment you are replying to is completely wrong.

Labor laws are stupidly complicated and a single one liner from an HN comment is almost guaranteed to be wrong in some way. You shouldn't believe anything you read in an HN comments thread about them, on either side of the issue (including this one, because I'm probably wrong in some fashion too!)
Illegal recreational drugs are usually used by the buyer in a way that will only affect themselves. So they can't complain to the police if things go bad and they certainly won't if things go good. Enforcement is a huge problem.

NSO style products are used by one entity against another entity. As a result enforcement is a fundamentally different sort of problem. There is a complainant.
> You could literally use one of those bog standard black PC laptop chargers as a weapon and it would be fine. Those things are indestructible.

These fail. And good luck getting an OEM replacement if it's more than a couple of years old and from a low-end laptop.
This has been the case for most orgs I've been at, I tend to tie it to poorly managed growth and planning.

it's shocking the number of developers I've seen left standed in their carrer progression (to quit eventully) due to overhiring and ending up siloed away somewhere

but I guess that's just kind of the way it goes working for other people though
Young french people are not buying "BD Franco-Belge", but mangas.
Right, exactly. And besides the examples you mentioned, the differing income tax brackets on married couples is also a big example of this. If only one spouse is working, and the second spouse is deciding whether to get a job, then having all of the second spouse's income taxed at a higher marginal rate from the get go can easily influence people's decisions.
Busta Rhymes on Masks
Fuck your mask.
Wtf are you talking about? An Internet cafe can afford the $100/mo cost and that has nothing to do with import/export restrictions.

> I personally don't think Starlink is viable in the long run.

It’s sustainable on just capturing US rural underserved markets. Why don’t you think it’s viable?
> You could literally use one of those bog standard black PC laptop chargers as a weapon and it would be fine

The cable itself may last, but the connectors sure as hell don’t. Barrel jacks are well known for getting loose and making poor connections over time.
Nice. I imagine it's early to be asking this, but any (approximate) idea how much the KrakenSDR units will sell for?
Mostly unrelated, but the headline reminded me of this very satisfying video.

https://youtu.be/-BTWiZ7CYoI
> The idea that anyone is actually offended or feels harmed by that paragraph we're talking about is absurd

It surprises me that you don't see that language like this is the same language used against marginalized groups. Nobody but the person that is offended gets to decide how they feel.

We as people of lots of overlapping concerns have to be empathetic or we'll get more factionalism instead of unity and inclusion.
There is no engineer shortage
Uber doesn't have a 'business model'.

Uber is a scam to soak both its investors and its drivers, while the 'management' creams off as much cash as possible, laughing all the way to their own banks.
Does HN not have rules against clickbait titles?

Edit:

> ... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait
Exactly. And if you're curious what this says, I'd recommend reading Spender and Locke's "Confronting Managerialism". It's a great look at the dominant ideology of MBA-style management. And for me Rother's "Toyota Kata" was a good inspiration as to how to think of management not as control layer, but where teaching and support are the most important functions.
Great read.

This kind of reminds me of auto manufacturing. It's almost unintuitive how difficult, expensive & error prone paneling is. Also painting. Stamping out panels, painting and installing them is a very hard job to do with robotics. Most of the space, treasure and expertise invested into an auto factory is panel related. The "possible, but perpetually difficult" space can be a deep valley for robotics, it seems.

...And bricklaying, while conspicuous and important, is still just one job in construction.
My brother-in-law believed that Bezos had $200B in a FDIC-insured bank account until recently.

It seems like it’s in the interest of everyone to be financially literate in how the ultra-rich operate in order to form better thought out policy positions.
Bricklayers do not get paid as much as programmers.
There's no such thing as not using a framework in a large application.

You either use a framework that someone actually designed to be reusable, or you use an ad-hoc framework that you pull out of your ass as you go.

I'll stick with the one that was designed by someone who knew what they were doing.
> The Magsafe chargers were among the worst rated products on Apple's own online store

I mean, you'd expect that. Nobody is buying a new one for fun. ~Everyone buying a new one has had one fail on them, so poor reviews are absolutely expected.
I would argue that the stagnation option is the most likely. After all, the exponential growth in technology and economics is made up of a series of smaller 'S' curves in individual technologies and industries. Each goes through an initial period of slow growth, followed by a rapid expansion, and then a slowing and leveling off of growth. We're already seeing this same pattern on a larger scale with population growth. Certainly a significant drop is possible. I suppose a 'singularity' is conceivable as well. But an S curve, with growth leveling off over time, seems like a good prior. (Of course, it won't be perfectly smooth. Zoomed in, it might end up feeling more like the sawtooth graph.)