skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Management is not only hard but also populated with sadists, because they are the only ones willing to manage.
> Apple intended to clear a path to E2EE of iCloud Photos with this

Here’s one problem with that idea: They would have to support scanning on the device for everything they are able to scan in the cloud today, in every country. Without changes, their current scanner would not do the trick (unless, of course, they’re lying about how it works).
yes, yes, yes, yes, no
Not on my Excel 2019. You pick "scan first 200" and it sets first rows to headers. You set it to all text, and it disables first row headers.

There is no checkbox in the wizard.
Isn't employment that way? It is basically a two week cycle renewable indefinite agreement that either party may terminate for any reason at any time.

I am not bound to deliver anything at all as part of my employment agreement. There are no set deliverables. Maybe others have different experiences.
> is the quality actually better, or is it post-processing tricks to make it seem better

Serious question - if the experience is the same, why does this distinction matter?
We don’t. We hire for a job that needs doing for a price that someone is willing to do it for.

If no one applies to do it, you’re not entitled to go out and impress someone into service: you keep looking or you do it yourself.
I notice that, even with this move signaled in advance by two consecutive administrations, there was never any talk in Europe about stepping in. The U.S. only had a few thousand troops there, it is not as if France or Germany could not have replaced them. They did not, and likely never even considered the idea, and they were correct not to.
Yes, this excuse doesn’t work for personal calls and interviews, but most of my vendors seem to understand.
https://archive.is/36Gjn
As much as I oppose this, calling this the “biggest breach of the dam for the confidentiality of communication that we have seen since the invention of the Internet” is a joke.
I can see how apple ‘thinks’ everyone is misunderstanding it. Other service providers have implemented these measures (apples is the least invasive) already a long time ago, and nobody seems to care with them.
When an employee becomes that integral to your business then a way to manage that employee is to allow them to buy into the company or give them a small piece like 1-5% so they have an interest and responsibility in it's success.
What seems likely to me is that it’s faster with social media. That maybe every form of social change is faster with the internet. Whatever is going to happen without social media can happen faster than it would have.
Toilets should be redesigned to be easy to clean.

https://d18qs7yq39787j.cloudfront.net/uploads/solutionfile/6...

Currently toilet cleaners are so cheap that the efficient use of their labour is not considered.
My point was very clear, so I have no idea how you misinterpreted me.

My primary point is that masking takes from your quality of life, and that it's not worth giving up a lot of quality of life to gain a little bit of life expectancy.

As for masking's potentially negative effect on life expectancy, we don't know if it exists and what it could be, but we cannot rule it out, as extended masking in children has never been tested to see its effects, let alone its long-term ones.

So you completely ignored my primary point about quality of life. Did you really misinterpret my reference to quality of life as being about life expectancy, or are you deliberately trolling me?
> I think having an employee that is not interested in money, is also not interested in the success of your business. Its that simple.

They are obviously far, far more interested in the business than someone who's just there for the money (most people) and that will leave as soon as someone else gives a little bit more.

Having a salary doesn't mean one is any more interested in the business – the only concern that provides is whether or not the business will be solvent to make payroll.

If you are giving founder-level stock options, then you can demand a similar level of "interest" as a founder. Anything else, it's just an exchange of money for labor. That's it.
Specialization of labor. 200 is a big company to have none.
>Is that a serious question

yes

>Do you consider C-suite executives exploited indentured servants?

No, but I fail to see how this answers the question. If I'm asking you what the difference between a kid and an adult is, and you reply with "do you consider 80-year olds a kid", it doesn't tell me anything about what's a kid or not.
From the article:-

> Your correspondent recently suffered the indignity of having to board a red-eye from JFK airport entirely sober because all the airport bars were still shut.

What a Karen.

TFA is the usual superficial Economist tripe - there's no analysis there.
You say minima and I say maxima; They say maybe over there ... no left a bit.
Probably the camera and microphone on by default.

I remember people pleasantly surprised that they just clicked a link and everything worked, instead of minutes of “click that button to enable video”.

I find Zoom’s interface terrible, but I’m not a good reference for average user.
In my employment, we signed a basic contract, upon employment. Also, those goals and whatnot that are set in employee evaluations? They are contract milestones. At the company I worked for, HR was run by the General Counsel. Fun bunch.

Generally, the more "intellectual," or "knowledge-based" a job is, the more likely it is to have a well-established (and enforced) contract.

Most C-levels work on contracts.
Not necessarily, currently there are a lot of Wall Street companies buying real estate at any price (Zillow, etc). That is contributing some to the price inflation. My house has increased insanely in just the past 30 days for no obvious reason.
Other service providers. Meaning when the data goes through their hands. This is different.
The exit was fucked up but his decision to leave was a good one. There should have been a better less chaotic plan assuming that is possible.
You know how in the early and mid 20th century people were predicting all this cool stuff about how the world will be post-scarcity some day soon, nobody will have to work more than a few hours a week, etc?

There is a reason why the "people in power" (hand-waving over who they might actually be) never want that to come to pass.
Even funnier coming from places like the EU, which allow govt access to all sorts of communications.
Not necessarily, if I take “any other” literally.

Tritium’s low molecular weight means that a bomb can disperse it over a large area. It has a half-life of 12.5 years and its beta radiation is known to be carcinogenic from animal studies. An inhaled, microscopic bit of tritium will be irradiating your lung tissue for many years, although the actual effects of this are not known. However, it is very strictly controlled, and you need all kinds of special licences and certifications to use it in your laboratory, for these reasons.

So the lure for the terrorist is just that: it’s good for terror, because of the psychological effect.

“What about when compared to the general damage caused by mining and burning coal?”

If the choice were between coal and fusion, for me there would be no contest. We would have to put everything into developing fusion power. Fortunately, there are alternatives that are better than either and are already working.
My attempt, although I called it a cyber toilet.

https://d18qs7yq39787j.cloudfront.net/uploads/solutionfile/6...
I think you link the webfont as an external resource on their site. I'm just speculating, however.
Hanlon's razor is a great principle to apply to personal relationships, but it falls apart in these situations.

You can explain away any deliberate malice or negligence using it, even when there are clear incentives to enage is such behavior, unless there's absolute evidence of malice. By then it's too late because you've already been swindled, and the principle ignores the lengths organizations will go to cover that evidence up.
> building takes time

It does not have to take nine months (the national average) to build a house or a hundred houses. Housing can be and in times of necessity has been built rapidly and well. My favorite example is Hilton Village in Newport News, VA, built to house workers at Newport News Shipyard at the tail end of and after World War I. Five hundred units were constructed within two years, and they were built cheaply yet with a randomization to the sequence of models and detailing that kept the houses from feeling like a cookie-cutter development, avoiding pitfalls into which many suburbs today fall. A hundred years later the homes remain occupied and in fact prized today for their charm.

The barriers to affordable, desirable, swiftly built housing are artificial.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

In particular, please don't copy the most objectionable thing in an article and then paste it here to indignantly object to it. That's a trope of shallow discussion. We're hoping for something more interesting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They could still have cross-platform versions of the same library and choose which to use at the linking phase.
Our society is full of roles people only fill because they need a job to feed and house themselves. If everyone was financially independent, nobody would clean the shitty toilets.
The truth is that the owner feels trapped because he doesn't want to pay/doesn't have the money to pay the wage of two people to replace this one employee. Once the owner gets past that, then he'll be empowered to say no to the request.
she would have simply quit, and that would be disastrous for the business because of the institutional knowledge she holds and all our clients love her and always sing her praises. We would also probably have two hire two people to replace her, because she’s very versatile (graphic design, copywriting, strategy, account manager, etc).

Her "not needing the money" is not the real problem here. She would have them over a barrel even if she was a divorced single mom because she is critical to their business and not easily replaced and replacing her with two employees likely means paying more money for less net benefit which potentially could kill their small business.
n=1 but I've submitted to Ask A Manager, and Alison didn't change a word when she published my question.
That sounds great if the technology and/or the requisite number of people exist, but what if they don't?
The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
"A bloodthirsty history of the demented dictators and cult heroes who contributed to the formation of modern Romania will leave you gasping at the fact that this benighted country has come so far"

Perhaps I'll worry about the ordinary people of Afghanistan instead.
It not only examines all processes and arguments - it leverages the microphone to act on ultrasonic cues for "integrations". Zoom is a privacy dumpster fire.

https://devforum.zoom.us/t/ultrasonic-connection/3318
This is very cool. I was going to suggest running it inside a container/namespaces but I didn't know about bubble wrap.
I think it’s likely that ‘conservatives’ (and New Age enthusiasts, and others) wanted to hear anti-elitist messages, messages that discredited experts, which anti-vax messaging is congruent with.
There's an expression for that. Tough.
who cares what the headlines are saying? If Apple does, then that's just unfortunate.
>"While billed by the U.S. military as a means of tracking terrorists and other insurgents, biometric data on Afghans who assisted the U.S. was also widely collected and used in identification cards, sources said."

>“We processed thousands of locals a day, had to ID, sweep for suicide vests, weapons, intel gathering, etc.” a U.S. military contractor explained. “[HIIDE] was used as a biometric ID tool to help ID locals working for the coalition.”

~~

>"“I don’t think anyone ever thought about data privacy or what to do in the event the [HIIDE] system fell into the wrong hands,” said Welton Chang, chief technology officer for Human Rights First, himself a former Army intelligence officer."

Related:

https://www.reuters.com/article/afghanistan-tech-conflict/af... ("Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics")

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/world/asia/in-afghanistan... ("Afghanistan Has Big Plans for Biometric Data") [2011]
OpenAI Codex and GPT-3. Why it’s such a big deal
Really? I thought that was one of the best parts of the article. Nothing wrong with slipping a joke in, it doesn't have to be all serious. That's one of the things I appreciate about the economist
Not really. Modern phones have fast-charging standards that often mean they won't work with any old charger, you'll need one with USB-PD that supports the correct voltage and for some very fast charging phones or phones with higher efficiency charging systems you will need special chargers for the best performance.
It's an exciting project. Breakeven isn't some magical barrier that we somehow don't know how to break, so it's headline milestones are not what excite me. It will be a platform to really look at divertors. We'll see just how the first wall at the tiny strike points in a large machine age. We'll also learn a lot about burning confined plasmas.

After working with a 50 kW gyrotron and 1 m major radius machine, the raw industrial scale of the project is awe-inspiring [0]. ITER has 20x 1 MW gyrotrons and a 6 m major radius. Every system in the machine is fascinating.

All that said, it is a slow and expensive project. The issues are mostly political. The design is very old at this point. All of this is fine, but in the context of potentially scaling up HTS supply chains to make a reactor that is much smaller, it becomes clear that the ITER path is not the one the first generation reactors will take. It's an important stepping stone in terms of plasma science and public opinion. It's going to be a lot of fun to follow its successes.

0. https://youtu.be/cvsj0nqHwic
It's difficult to design whole languages (you won't get anywhere close some adoption in production at important places under ten years I guess; if you're lucky of course). Having already something that proved its merit and strong foundations is for sure a good starter for a "new language" (as it would streamline the process to create such "new" language drastically).

People are carving for powerful, safe, fast languages. So there is a market.

If it's "only" about the verbosity and some cumbersome edges this could be fixed with some "overlay syntax".

To be honest I'm one of those people that looked a few times at Ada as it was said to be powerful, fast, and safe. But it looks so awkward in my eyes; even I know I should not judge languages by syntax! The look-and-feel is just a strong point. I guess it's not only me…

So I suspect a syntactic make-over could give new life to an old but powerful language. Just by making it look more "modern" (whatever this means).
And was that for NASA's Lunar Loo challenge by any chance?
"I’m concerned about the timing because we won’t have a way to cover Y while you’re out, and I’m concerned that we’ll be setting a precedent where if we approve it for you, we’ll have to approve it for others."

Always the lamest of the lame excuses. If you are a business owner, never use this lame reason.

Every agreement between an employee and a company, is just that. An agreement with a specific employee and a company.

Companies take on part time workers if they want. Or quarter time workers. Or interns. Different pay rates.

All a business owner has to do is say that it is the agreement between the employee and the company.

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The reality in any business is that you have A-level employees, B-level, C-level, and "fire that slacker" employees.

A good business person will bend over backwards to keep the A-level employees. The A-level employees actually should have total control over management, and management should kiss their asses. It's just the way it is. Those employees are the boss.

In most things, the Pareto principle, which states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. So if you have 100 employees, that's 20 employees that do 80% of the work, and 80 employees that do 20% of the work.

The A-level employees always have options, so if you fluck with them, they are gone, and you are stuck with your 80 employees that don't do crap.

So if you hire an asshole manager or CEO and they treat A-level players like shit, then the A's will leave. Maybe after 2 years, you only have 5 A's. Then your whole business will start spiraling downwards.

Give the A's what they want. They are the golden goose. If other employees get resentful, f them, they are easily replaced, much easier to replace them than A players.

So treat A's like gold.

I mean, if they're a serial killer, or grab titty all the time, then, no, but other than egregious sh-t, go to great lengths to keep the A's. If they want more money, fire 5 of the C-level employees. Whatever you have to do.

This is for all you business owners, current or future.
While it's not quite Minecraft, there is an open source game (or rather, game engine) in a very similar style named Minetest[0] with a diverse community and a variety of game designs and mods to choose from.

[0] https://www.minetest.net/
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Isn't Tinder aimed mainly at hookups and Bumble/Hinge at relationships? While I've not used any of them it feels surprising to hear that most of the attractive women on Tinder moved to Hinge and then again to Bumble.

As an aside, I'm curious if there's still any dating websites worth spending time on (no phone app install required).
And what about communal/public toilets?
You've very concisely explained the bits that were unclear to me. Thank you.
Just for comparison please consider that a jelly donut contains about 1.6MJ.
Healthcare provider expects to lose $106.8M following ransomware attack
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"200 is a big company to have none" I can't parse this sentence. Are you saying 200 people without managers in untenable? Because I know for a fact that is not true.
You propably would want to reuse referenced definitions like domain and IP which are not email specific. But yes all of our JS could be much shorter if we used APL but most of us like readability :P

I kind of not get why TLD should be validated. Does it matter anymore than if sub domain is not registered of if IP is not reachable. I think valid as potentially deliverable and actually deliverable should be distincted (like well formed XML and schema validated XML).
"Fact is stranger than fiction."

I had a coworker whose very well-compensated husband told her she had to get a job to pay for her extravagant vacations. They paid cash for cars, etc and she had been a homemaker for a few years and they had no kids. But her penchant for spending a month in places like Bali was more than he was comfortable with.

She got a job. She totally took a month off to go to Bali.
The unions don't help but they reflect largely the interest of their members. Who doesn't want constantly improving pay and conditions and no possibility of redundancies? In effect you have to bribe the train union / its members to land automation that they perceive as potentially weakening their future bargaining position. They don't care about notional safety -- or at least no more than most individuals do in practice -- they care about their personal outcomes. One common bribe for drivers is time set aside for "education" that can be done at home and isn't assessed. Say you give drivers 30 minutes per week for this "education", well, now you've got 0.5 hours per driver of driving needed, you can't hire the necessary drivers quickly enough to cover that, so, you pay overtime to cover it. Lo and behold every driver is keen to do the extra overtime. Now your workers are doing the same job for more money, but when asked about it their union can say it's not that you paid more money, it's because you agreed they needed time for appropriate "education" which is quite different and will contribute to improved safety.

My favourite example of how unionised workers whose union invariably presents their preferences as "safety" care little about actual safety was signallers. Historically some mainline rail signallers (same unions) in the UK worked 12 hour shifts at outlying boxes. So you maybe do 3 x 12 hour shifts = 36 hours that's a week's work or take an extra as overtime for 48 hours. Roster maybe a dozen people to work a box and it remains open 24/7. Annoying scientists said, wait a minute, humans don't remain useful and attentive workers for 12 straight hours, especially at night which explains these incidents where a signaller makes a grave error at like 0400 after 10 hours at work. So the safety regulator wants to limit shifts to 8 hours like for air traffic. The unions are apoplectic because if you're a member working a mixture of 3x12 and 4x12 and now they want you to work 5x8 that's up to two days per week extra. Suddenly railway safety vanishes as a concern...

It is possible to make gradual progress. When I was born there were still guards on tube trains. Why? Well there had always been guards on tube trains. Today of course London Underground does not have guards. It just took a long time to make it happen, with I believe the Northern Line being last to stop having guards.
We're all going to test positive at some point.
Also "my employer" lololololololoolol
Well, first, I read a very different conclusion from the paper... They say, for example:

"That realization prompted us to reconsider the economics of energy. What’s needed, we concluded, are reliable zero-carbon energy sources so cheap that the operators of power plants and industrial facilities alike have an economic rationale for switching over soon—say, within the next 40 years."

In other words, it's absolutely an economics question. It's also a policy question: Subsidies and penalties can radically change the economic realities for power plant operators. They're saying it's a very hard road. But notably, their graphs are not delta functions: There's paths between the best case and worst case scenarios, and excellent progress on the renewables front can, indeed, change the direction of the curve. Pulling carbon back to pre-industrial levels absolutely requires active sequestration, though, and there are efforts on that front, though the second law of thermodynamics tells us it's a hard road. But again, some progress is better than none.

Your last 'graf sounds like unmitigated tinfoilhat-ism, I'm sorry to say. We should absolutely expect fluctuations in co2 measurements based on geography and proximity to large volumes of co2-spewing vehicles. There are standards for the calculation of average co2 ppm, which are helpful for knowing the overall state of things, and trends over time.
If the USA were really worried about unfilled job openings, they would downsize the TSA and other fluff "job creation" programs.
Thank you for some sanity.
Because per user pricing is in line with the value you are receiving as a customer. If you are not receiving $XXX dollars per month in value, why use the service at all?

You are trading money for time and efficiency, after all.