skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US they pay for your college (at Arizona State University) if you work at least 20 hours a week, and offer you stock. Their base wage is well above the competition and minimum wage in most locations here, before tips (another US oddity).

There are always reasons to form a union, but I would be surprised if adoption was particularly high. Starbucks ranks highest in employee satisfaction among national fast food chains. https://www.comparably.com/companies/starbucks/happiness

> are fired the moment they declare they are pregnant

In the US this is illegal and a really easy lawsuit to win. Does Switzerland not have laws protecting workers from being fired for being pregnant?
>The answer is 4794820
how do we get the answer from here?
I've been shadowbann'ed for espousing a viewpoint a few months ago which is now common on HN.

I have no recourse but to continue posting dead until someone feels the urge to vouch for me.

This is pretty rank censorship.
In this case the device was operating for months (blocking emergency frequencies?!?!) before they bothered to look for the source. Something on a timer would be much harder to discover due to the intermittent nature.
I've never seen it until a few days ago, then of course saw it here!
Lawns are a waste of water, but on the other hand, I wonder what would summer be without the smell of freshly cut grass.

"Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and turn you away from all the people in the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you’re all to yourself that way, you’re really proud of yourself for a little while; you get to thinking things through, alone. Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher." - Ray Bradbury, "Dandelion Wine"
Does that mean:

A - They have unShadowbanned all previously Shadowbanned users?

OR

B - They are no longer actively shadowbanning users, but previous victims of Shadowbanning are going to stay that way?

Am asking since there is a big difference between the two.
I'm a little annoyed at how anti climatic it was. I had a windows 95 machine (chunky IBM laptop) when I was 12, there's plenty of ways the crash could've been shown off a little more. System freezing all of a sudden was a daily occurrence, not much to write home about.
People in invest in crypto because the gains have been ridiculously good. However some people have lost their money because of bad security or scams. You can mentally it like, you invest $1000, plan to exist when the value hits 10x and have 5% probability of losing it all, you can calculate the expected value and decide if the risk is for you.

Better analogy would be "it is not worth living because you might die"
Shadowbanning is a political tool. It ensures that the politics of the forum remain in a sphere chosen by the moderators.

It is the velvet glove around an iron fist.
No, only "morbid obesity" includes a morbidity in the definition.

Other than that, body fat is an indicator not of personal health, but of personal risk.
Juries can be stupid and/or biased. There is no double jeopardy. She needs to be acquitted only once.
It has this effect only on roughly a quarter of the population though.
I don't remember the work law being so simplified 20 years ago. Has it been reviewed?

Or was I lucky with the kinds of contracts I had?
the tweet appears to be intentionally deceptive. They cropped the first picture just to remove the exclamation mark.
This is how I deal with recruiters and people who email me about SEO for my website. It removes 95% of the emails, with no false positives found so far.
Please ban this simple idiot.
Dunno why the down votes...I thought it was funny..
needed some line noise at the end though :-P
(A perl one-liner should do nicely!)
What firewall do you use?
Using O_DIRECT and other features still makes you reliant on the OS cache, even if all you're doing is keeping it empty and out of your business. I've only run into a few that manually manage block devices directly.
even real places produce real bulls.
An uncensored internet would become an unusable cesspit.
On climate, Bill Gates offers direction, not solutions
This problem must be taken in the full context. This wasn't a free-form "explore the infinite bounds of mathematical expression" lesson, it was part of a worksheet. Worksheets are meant to be completed as proof of mathematical ability, and the relationship between one's ability to complete a worksheet and their intellectual potential is a poisonous lesson to teach to anyone. (Reference the past few pages of A Mathematician's Lament [1], or the whole thing if you have the time).

I am not opposing the idea that to do math, you must occasionally "get your hands dirty" as another commenter says; I am opposing the idea that it is useful to set this question in front of third graders in the form "find the solution and move onto another problem". As OP's article proved, there are many, many interesting implications that arise from this problem, and an investigation of those implications requires much more care, passion, and analysis than is implied by the form in which the problem is presented (as a solvable worksheet). For what it's worth: if you want to teach the lesson "sometimes you have to just start adding things up", just write that down in plain English and teach that. Put this question in a giant book of trick problems with an explanation of why each question is a trick, don't put this on a worksheet for of children who are required to attend class and then expect them to pick up on the subtleties of instruction after they write down the answer and get their grade back.

I am not a very smart mathematician; I am a middling intellect and have been my entire life. It was not until I was two years out of my engineering degree that I started investigating the world on my own and began to find out the true size and power of mathematics, and now it always angers me when I see the shallow imitations of real pedagogy and instruction passed off on the world's children as "useful math worksheets". My self-esteem and lifetime mathematical achievement were butchered by worksheets just like these.

[1] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
Hey, check out Artemis. It's the exact same genre as Star Trek: Bridge Simulator, but takes the concept seriously.

https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/
Why would a random Chinese retailer keep such a list or even coordinate with western authorities?
IBM Code Engine and IBM Cloudant: Serverless Data and Infrastructure – IBM
American Starbucks also throws in tuition (if you're comfortable going to the one school they're partnered with and tying your education to keeping that particular job) and healthcare (while employing a sizable number of people young enough to be on their parent's still.)

Oh, and they'll hook you up with a Spotify subscription and a Lyra subscription.

Basically just a whole bunch of nonsense when all you really want is to see resources thrown into A: staffing more people on the floor, and B: giving your existing staff the hours they need so that they can afford to remain your existing staff.
"Do a second of objective thought" was plainly attacking another user. Everything else you've written is irrelevant to the moderation issue here.

The moderation issue is simply that you're not allowed to break the site guidelines like that. It has nothing to do with your opinions about business or anything else.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
3-4 with Namecheap. All are in active use.
> Humans conform to the norms around them. As weight went up and it became normalized there's no feeling of being alienated.

This fails to account for many properties of the obesity epidemic. I mentioned some elsewhere, but perhaps the most glaring flaw with your theory is that it doesn't explain why the epidemic began in the first place, and how it grew while it was still rare.

> Unfortunately, it's not acceptable to mention someone's weight. And the less that was allowed the more normalized it came be.

The actual reason it's not acceptable is because this angle has been studied, and it has been found to be actively harmful. Obese people don't become thinner by being told they are ugly, undesirable, about to die, lacking in willpower, or that they should eat more salad. If anything, this can lead to feelings of depression and more weight gain.

> And here we are, in the middle of a health pandemic and we are unable to discuss some of the root causes of worse outcomes.

This is true and it is a shame, but arguments like yours are exactly the reason. Instead of digging deeper and asking why are people overeating in the first place, 99% of discussions on obesity focus on lifestyle changes (the right diet, how to exercise more, lamenting modern trends etc). We're basically treating obesity mostly like we used to treat mental disorders (and still do to a great extent), and refusing to even try to look for environmental or other factors, that are much more likely for such a tectonic shift in the prevalence of obesity.

It's again important to remember that people didn't start getting obese with the advent of industrialization (1850s) or even modern automation (1940s-50s), but much later. Obesity was stable for thousands of years before 1980, and then it went from 1-3% to 30%. And this is not happening only in rich countries, it is happening in poor countries that work in the global economy. And it is not uniform in the populations of these countries, but geographically clustered and professionally clustered as well.
> Citing the syndrome known as intimate partner abuse, the lawyers claim: “Mr Balwani was controlling with Ms Holmes, that Ms Holmes was isolated by Mr Balwani, that Mr Balwani was combative with Ms Holmes, and that Mr Balwani was often physically present in Ms Holmes’ office, all tactics that … are abuse tactics used by abusers.”

First off, I want to say that I am sorry to any survivors of abuse that have to see this.

Being "physically present in the CEO's office when you're the president is considered abusive now?
The elephant in the room: I have a fear because she is white, female, young and manipulative she will get a much less harsh sentence.

I hope the jury sees past that and brings justice where justice is deserved, and sets a precedent for anyone in the future looking to emulate Holmes.
So that got winners of the C Underhanded Contest working there?
I'm aware, but standard major university press release exaggeration is different from penny stock pump and dump or whatever.
I doubt it's nostalgia. Ive used windows 10 more than I used XP. I'm 28.

XP just felt robust - almost like it was hardware itself.
The review has subsections Usability and Cameras but lags the Surveillance h2
They also incentivize different consumption patterns, such as owning a more fuel efficient car, flying less or installing better isolation in a home.

Looking at the chart of US Prius sales the last time oil prices went up a lot is really telling
How to run multiplayer games with EC2 Spot using Aurora Serverless
I instinctively went to add this to my tech fave videos on YouTube, and was proud to discover that I already added it so long ago I forgot I'd done it already.
If you have such a device at hands, go ahead and use it.

I understand the suggestion to go "minimum wage + phone camera" as "do whatever is prudent so stuff is archived _now_ in whatever quality, it doesn't even cost the world."
Absolutely not. In typical Emacs fashion they took a serious complaint, fixed it and then went on to overdo it, making it unusable overkill and slow. One step redo would have been enough.
I have thought similar things about Whiplash. On the one hand, I find that J.K. Simmons's character was a monster, one who I would have a hard time not coming to blows with if he treated a family member in the way he treats Miles Teller's character. On the other hand, he leads the most elite student band in the (country?), and anyone who could make it out of the other end of his tutelage with their mind intact would be an incredibly proficient musician with the tenacity to endure many different directing styles of various intensity. I am reminded of the Chinese students that I met during my undergraduate degree who breezed through math that kept me up late into the night. Yes, perhaps their upbringing was cruel, but they have minds made of iron compared to myself and many of my Western peers. I still haven't decided whether or not the trade-off is worth it.
Tracking for mi band is in the android app rather than the band itself. All you need to do is replace it with a more privacy focused app.
But in the case of OP's problem, starting to sum from the first item is an arbitrary choice that "just happens" to need only one change for the sum to be exact. Where "just happens" means that it was artificially inserted by whoever wrote the problem.

Would the problem work if the student started summing backwards from the last item? How many items would the student have to swap in that case?. For how many random combinations of items would the problem "work" (i.e. require exactly one change?)

On the other hand, in your example you're not just trying random things until something works. Noticing that 1 + 2 = 3, etc is more analytical than adding members at random and hoping that the person who created the problem thought of the same random pattern you thought about.
A couple of decades ago I was toying with stitching too, tring to combine high-resolution topo maps to cover all California. That was when I learned that the Earth is not flat, after my attempt failed. ;)
> I'd rather reduce the harm

The fact that artificial sweeteners are used as animal feed additive in order to increase body mass should give you enough to think what happens if we add it randomly to human food.

Yes, artifical sweeteners can be a good replacement for sugar, but things that shouldn't contain sugar in the first place should probably not contain artificial sweeteners either.
Only in america….
I’ve been using Windows 10 Pro since release and honestly none of this stuff has ever been a real issue for me. It’s stolen like 30 mins from my life overall in the last 5 years disabling the stuff that I don’t care for.

On initial install there were some Windows Store apps I didn’t care for (like Candy Crush) I just normally uninstalled and they never came back and no new apps ever installed themselves.

I disabled Cortana and other widgets I didn’t care for using the standard UI once ever and they never tried coming back on their own.

On feature updates it sometimes has a two minute wizard asking questions.

Maybe it’s because I live in South Africa, but I’ve never seen these Windows 10 adverts people keep complaining about. Maybe that little bit of clickable text on the login screen is what people are referring to? But before clicking I wouldn’t say for sure they’re adverts, they seem like very mild click bait. If they are adverts then inexcusable yes, but doesn’t bother me enough to get upset about.

I don’t mind telemetry in principle but it does bother me that like once every 2-4 weeks when it scans or something it’s a huge resource hog when doing so.

Otherwise, I feel Windows 10 is more performant (although does need SSD, which I would have had regardless) than Windows 7 and definitely has a more useful task manager.

Windows 10 really “just works” for me and I find myself spending minuscule to no time configuring it which means that I’m always doing what I want to actually be doing, working or playing games.
I lost so many windows because of this insane default keybinding.
Near Zero Downtime Migration from MySQL to DynamoDB
Interesting idea. I wonder however, would all roads lead to "Rome"? In other words there might be a very small percentage of doctors that are good enough to actually cure problems in their field.
Dog Tag
Agreed. It's wrong to think though that the way that digital photos are taken would imply very large costs for film. From experience, you take shots in a different way, and are forced to be more contemplative with large format, and it's basically impossible to shoot more film than you've got with you in film holders!

I'd typically head out with my 5*4 with 4 holders, so that's 8 sheets of film. There might be a mix of ISO 100 and 400, and it might be that I am not in a situation that suites one of the films, so i'm suddenly down to a max of 4 images.
I've worked in web dev for my entire career, and at no point have I thought to myself "Gee, those devs in gaming have sucky pay, sucky job security, and they have to deal with crunch all the time, so I should accept a bad offer because it could be worse." That's not how people think. We all fight for the best we can get for ourselves. Starbucks "partners" (staff) don't want to be the best of the worst if that isn't a fair deal for them. Who would?
In San Francisco, with our specific set of labor protections, Starbucks is merely competitive. But so is Union grocery work: which either pays better or worse after dues than comparably easy to get jobs depending on whether you need the insurance or not.
Why do bats have such long lifespans?
Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants (2015)
Wallace is pleading to us to hear the call of primitivism (this is no stoic plea, AFAIK). Awareness as a reversion to the primeval, which is a common act for everything perfect according to Rilke. Husserl cries: "Back to the things themselves!" Merton could only write the lines "[l]ife is this simple: [w]e are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time..." from a primordial ground. Being conscious by considering a "landscape as it is when [we are] not there...” as mentioned by Weil.

Wallace is implicitly telling us that it is only through the annihilation of the self that we can pay proper attention (and see the truth), am I the only one who views it this way? I read no solipsism in his speech, the contrary rather: "[l]ove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty" notes Carson. Bachelard writes, "[f]orgetting the earth and disavowing our earthly being is a double necessity for whoever loves the water with a cosmic love... then, there is nothing before water... above water, there is nothing... [w]ater is the whole wide world"; water was everything for Wallace.
Oh let him cry please, I'm enjoying it. ;)
But the point is that Arm China have a license! You may not like it but AC / Allen Wu seem to be operating within Chinese law.
Looking at NIMH data[0], about 7.1% of US adults are diagnosed with depression, and about half of those diagnosed receive medical treatment - so at least 3.5% of the population is receiving medically prescribed treatments that are known to cause weight issues from depression alone. Adding other mental illnesses, endocrine disorders, and drug abuse, I would bet that at least 10% of the population is receiving drugs that are known to affect weight regulation mechanisms.

Still, this is a far cry from the >30% experiencing obesity, especially since not all psychoactive drugs alter body weight, and only a percentage of people taking those drugs that do will experience weight changes.

[0] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression
I don't understand how to read that page. There's so much going on in it, where exactly is the article that matches the title of this post?
Obligatory link to the book about the Theranos affair, written by the WSJ journalist that blew it wide open:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood

A real eye-opener on who Elizabeth Holmes really is. It's not even surprising that she'd try to blame it all on somebody else.
WebAssembly Comes to Cloud Native Computing
A really great approachable article, putting into words things experienced engineers know to be true. Will bookmark :)
Got a second hand thinkpad t440 for 120 bucks.
For someone not living in the US how much of a problem for privacy and tracking is it?

Being tracked by US or Chinese government how is it different to me? Honest question by the way, not trolling.
The idea that we can grow and consume ourselves out of our environmental problems seems like magical thinking as well.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.15...

We aren't going to solve this problem using the same tools that got us into it.
This Video Is NOT for You
There was a brief discussion/effort to reimplement Eurisko on LessWrong about a decade ago[0], of course it rapidly devolved into whether such effort would promote the end of the human race.

[0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t47TeAbBYxYgqDGQT/let-s-reim...
I worked for one of the top 5 car manufacturer in the 2000s in the head unit development division. One mantra at the time was that the car should never implicate its driver. Marketing was afraid of the backlash. So we were required not to keep logs of e.g. speed, pedal positions, g forces and so on. The only exception was anything related to the convertible folding roof. So many people reported failure when it was most likely caused by opening it while accelerating to fast. So for this case the do not implicate rule was relaxed.

I am no longer working in this area, but I guess the do-not-implicate rule was dropped.
It’s a shame TiVo never saw wider adoption. My dad first bought one in the late 90s and the usability of their devices has always been top-notch.
> about the same range of politics as everybody else

We're not talking about "rich people", that's fine and well. We're talking about classes with .5B+ levels of wealth, where it's not about subscribing to politics, it's about literally having the ability to influence politics, should they wish to. Fyi every country and civilization, ever, has had powerful interest groups that seek to control politics to further secure their position and interests. This is not surprising to anyone that this exists. Maybe the main difference today is that in this era of shell companies and the anonymity that comes with mass, global societies, it's able to be less public than before, e.g. way less public than when societies actually had open aristocracies not that long ago.
Do you think I'm making this up? I experienced this. Apparently from sibling comments it no longer occurs, and I do not possess a time machine.

I'm not going to jump through hoops to prove this for you - please do some cursory online research.

This is bewildering. I have no agenda nor care enough to comment about a foreign country's election.
this phone was on my list, but I got the LG V60 instead, which is now available on eBay new for a big discount. the phone's a beast and it's got 3.5mm, external memory, and a huge battery.
And this is evidence somehow, other than being another research paper in a sea of many? I'm sure there's none of those at the FDA. I mean, the abstract ends with:

"Results suggest that there is considerable disagreement regarding how to properly understand and measure well-being."

The existence of research does not make something definitive, but I'm always happy to be proven wrong.
Assuming the whoogle server has a fixed ip address doesnt that provide google enough on its own to fingerprint you?
Could we turn poisonous plants into edible crops?
Summary After Four Months with Ada
When faced with software/malware that was appending links to user's instant messages back in 2005, back-end code to silently drop the user's messages was put in place. This was a messaging service that had ~200 million users.
I don't doubt that what you say is true, but it strikes me as odd that they didn't sidestep the problem by picking an example where the variables are obviously uncorrelated.

It comes off as extremely sloppy: nobody expects kids in primary school to even understand what it means for variables to be independent, but certainly those writing the questions should know better!