skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This failure to pay what workers are legally entitled to can be called wage theft; in essence, it involves employers taking money that belongs to their employees and keeping it for themselves.

Shouldn't it be called fraud rather than theft? I thought theft is depriving someone of something they own... but you don't own the money yet before the payment is made. My understanding was, if you intended to pay a debt, but later refuse to, then you pay it back with some interest (or none, depending on the agreement) and it doesn't qualify as theft. And if you didn't intend to pay it when you acquired the debt, it's fraud... still not theft.

The semantics really matter, I think. And I think it might be a great example of why we should really not muddy discussions of crimes (or other things for that matter, I guess). If you insist on treating unpaid debts as theft, and you get exactly what you asked for, you're probably not going to like the outcome. You don't own your employer's money until it's paid to you, just like how a credit card company doesn't own your money until you make your bill payment. Otherwise everyone who declines to make a payment on their credit card bill would also be a thief.
Nice pictures. (Didn't read the words... but I liked the pictures.)
This is already a dilemma businesses face with reception desks. If you have only one receptionist, what happens when they take lunch or a bathroom break, and what happens if they call in sick for the day?

There are a number of options for front desks (whether it be an office, hotel, museum, shop or otherwise):

1. Single worker on a 10-4 Mon-Fri schedule (reduced hours across all days) and the front desk is unstaffed at lunch and during bathroom breaks. Customers have to attend during reduced hours.

2. Two or more workers with overlapping hours most of the week, but occasionally they are by themselves. There is always at least one worker at the front desk (whilst others are taking lunch or not working that day).

3. On one day of the week, another person sits at the front desk (and performs another role the other 3 days of the week they're working).

4. The business no longer has a staffed front desk. If someone is visiting you in an office, you collect them from the lobby/waiting area.
One can also argue that the “openness” is what allowed docker to be popular. If it was locked down from day 1 there’d have been a lot less interest. Nobody likes being tied to things at that level.
So if the cake is going to be used during a Satanic human sacrifice ritual, they need to make it?
This also confuses me. I hear people say this and yet I don't know how it's possible to look at third-party information without inherently trusting someone in the chain of distributing that evidence.

Isn't some trust required most of the time?
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Wikipedia: Sulla played an important role in the long political struggle between the optimates and populares factions at Rome. He was a leader of the former, which sought to maintain the senatorial supremacy against the populist reforms advocated by the latter, headed by Marius.

So I don’t see how Trump is Sulla.
> A lot of code files starts with lengthy copyright notices, and no one seems to mind.

Hmm, maybe I'm the odd one out but I actually find them quite annoying if they're longer than just a few lines.

In any case: People often just scroll past and ignore lengthy comments at the top (maybe precisely because they're used to copyright notices), so I think a short comment at the top like "For design considerations and reasons this code has been written the way it is, see the very bottom of this file" will attract much more attention.

> Also, I don't think I've ever seen comments at the bottom of a file!

True, but how often do you see code comments about design considerations in the first place?
I'm a bit sad there's so much nitpicking on a good thing. Sure, it's not technically the first. Can we just enjoy the advance of making goods more sustainably?
Who said HN was strictly about tech?
Every single reference you gave either reports outrage or investigations about such actions by any media outlet or persona. Whether any of those investigations or outrage will cause a public prosecutor to carry them into court, is another matter. That is, if a citizen or resident does not carry them to the court first. Barring those who issue apologies for their actions, which mostly happens.

Such stuff should be prosecuted. The state of American society, the delirium that engulfed the segments who were allowed to keep living back in 150 years ago, actual fascists organizing openly with open statements about 'cleansing others' -> Such things show that if you let the extremists do whatever for 'freedom', you end up with a big pile of sh*t in your hands.
Hard sells and ‘toxic’ targets: How Indian edtech giant fuels its meteoric rise
A philosophical read is nice, but I'd like to hear straight from attendees capable of introspection, what burning the man does for them. I dont doubt it's got connections to things in TFA, but the personal variations are probably interesting.
But they keep their models secret. How is that "making AI available to a broad section of society"?
I don't see how anything could ever be theft with this definition of theft...
It is a completely locked down machine which forces you to sacrifice your computing freedom - it can only run macOS on it by design.

This is the opposite of true. The new platform has _explicit+ support for running other operating systems.

You can absolutely feel free to object to the lack of upgradable hardware in Apple devices, or to their lack of actual support for building open-source drivers for the platform. You don't need to lie about it to do so.
Majority of adults don't support overturning Roe vs. Wade
The website can't force anyone to make the move, but can help with deciding where to move to in order to improve quality of life for everyone in the state.

It's also a solid investment to purchase real estate in a place you know quality of life will improve.
I wonder if their sales data will parallel the gender bias of VC funding. They’re anonymizing but still showing userpics and names, so all the usual biases have opportunity to occur.
Source? Because every time I've seen the polls the large cities might be turning purplish, but once you get outside the city limits they are all red.
Requiring another person to be alive does not make one not alive. Your argument doesn't suport that it does and I more or less agree with your argument, which is one reason that I supoort abortion. Perhaps you read too much into what I wrote.
That might make them accomplices/accessories in a crime if they knew about the human sacrifice, so I'd hope not.
White in this context follows the definition on the US census
I’ve seen this before, but similar to others her have had a difficult time finding info about examples. I’d be very interested to hear from someone on HN who has first-hand experience with them.
Ritual human sacrifice did occur in places other than the Americas.

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2020/02/human-sacrifice
That will be an incredibly questionable dataset used to train it. At that point, there would probably be no need to upscale these images. Just downscale then use this questionable DL to re-upscale any image.
Not only that, but most of those microcontrollers are single-source, which amplifies any supply chain issues because you have to wait for your specific MCU to become available; there are no 'drop in' replacements any longer.
True understanding is “seeing” in 3D
This is a refusal to participate in a process explicitly designed to make it harder for people to assert their Constitutionally-protected rights, by arranging such that there's nobody to take to court to protect those rights.

That's how it's different. The cake-purchaser is not a government trying to use the cake as a shield against civil rights litigation.
Help yourself to the data: https://ballotpedia.org/Pivot_Counties_in_Texas

Sort by counties in descending order closest to ~50% blue for targeting relocation suggestions, turning counties that flip solid blue. Best bang for your buck imho. Probably cheaper housing too, close enough to urban cores for hybrid remote, far enough out to be affordable. A couple days worth of CRUD/GIS/data science work if I had to hazard a guess.
Yes, i know that conservatism runs pretty deep in Eastern European culture, and its a behavior model more than a creed or ideology.

The American conservatives would feel 'at home' with such people as you described, however such people would not be accepting them how they seem to think they would.
Honestly, that's what I assumed they did in MacOS 11.5.2 where they refused to give details of the change. It's likely the last update for many intel devices.
Houston underwent the greatest ethnic transformation of any major U.S. city in my lifetime. 1 out of 4 Houstonians is now foreign-born, and a lot of people have moved to Houston from the northern U.S. in the last decade. Austin has voted differently from a lot of Texas long before any SV influx, and they may help diversify voting in the state but not nearly as much as changes in other parts of Texas.
thats different than the cake though.

If the bakery would sell a non designed cake to a gay couple, or if they refused a straight couple to make a gay cake, that is different than your example.

To be clear, I'm not sticking up for the bakery, it just doesn't seem like a clear proxy like you are saying
Really? I can think of lots of things. If someone took your money from your wallet, that would be theft. If they refused to give it to you in the first place, that's not theft. It's pretty simple?
Well, the flock command mentioned in the article will also work, but you might have to deal with having a bit more boilerplate around everything. The moreutils things are pretty small, some are just implemented as small perl scripts even.

If you're writing the program, it's fairly easy to do yourself in it with Flock or Fcntl (you can usually just get an exclusive lock in the absolute path to the running executable/script.

That said, quite a few of those moreutils items are useful in their own right (e.g. ts to prefix timestamps to each line of output is something so simple but so useful for logging output, chronic to silence stdout unless exit error is also very useful for cron, etc).
You started a hellish, off-topic, predictable flamewar with this comment. That's against the site guidelines. Please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis, from renewable energy sources like hydro, wind and solar.

Terminology correction: From low-carbon energy sources, like wind, solar, nuclear and hydro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_hydrogen
Bunch of SoCs and board have horrible patched binary drivers that will never be kept upstream.

Once the OEM sold the board, they made all the money so they don't care about long term support.
The website in question is still up isn't it? Despite everything that has happened, that dreadful law is still in effect and no-one's minds had been changed.
It is as if nothing had happened.

> BTW you're misusing the terms "script-kiddies" and "hacktivists".

How exactly? Elaborate. Your claim needs to be substantiated.

If you cannot elaborate further with any evidence, I can rapidly dismiss your claim as baseless.

I also invite anyone else to support the parent's comment against mine. Discuss.
I wonder how long this productivity increase lasts. From what little I know on psychology, people’s productivity and motivation increase after they get some benefit - a raise, a promotion or a bonus. Then after 6-12 months, their productivity goes back down. Could the same effect be seen with cutting down the work week from 5 to 4 days - and that all these studies were shorter than 1-2 years to fully evaluate the productivity gains?

To better explain my point of view, I am a co-owner of 10-people IT company, where we work 40 hour weeks with no overtime.
Yes but Facebook is a communication plattform, iCloud is a backup and sync feature. Not sure how you think a ”report this message” would work.
Anecdotally, I have installed Linux on older MacBooks and have had the Magic Mice working fine without any issues.

Anyway, I don't know. People have all sorts of annoying issues with Linux that end up being things that I have never encountered before. I usually use wireless mice with USB transceivers, which have never had problems and I feel like not everyone has such a bad experience (although I know many people who do). Perhaps it's because it's Apple hardware or something, but, admittedly, I have had MacBooks work perfectly on Linux before.

I think that, however, you use Linux on a desktop rather than a laptop, you will find that the hardware experience is quite pleasurable and does not have nearly the same number of issues. Between the two, Linux does manage to shine decently on desktops.
Please don't take HN threads further into predictable flamewar hell. We're trying for something else here.

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"May boring technology run our software"

+1000
Rival company were compromised by BO. We found out and dialled in. I watched documents being written remotely by a staff member there. It was surreal.

"Need to fill this detail in more for Heck blah blah..."
It's functional, not interpreted, if that's what you're getting at.

It compiles down to deterministic C++. Each frame of audio takes exactly the same computation path; ditto for each sample within each frame. (Although some parameters might be updated once per frame, and others updated once per sample.)

You could inspect the output C++ and count up the number of cycles for each frame of audio, if you wanted.
And there is nothing wrong with 'virtue signaling': Decent, civilized behavior should be promoted, and reactionary, backwards behavior should be derided. Otherwise the society cannot find its balance, and ends up promoting reactionaries who openly declare that they want to take the society 200 years back. Like what happened in Texas about abortion, making people snitch on other people for abortion - real big brother stuff.

I would take an extreme woke over the mildest conservative any day. The former doesnt want to take me to 200 years back in time.
I agree, though I think it would be even better if variables were named "token bucket capacity" and "refill time" in the first place.
I don't understand the fuss over Fastmail and it being located in Australia on HN.

What is your threat model? What adversaries are you fighting against?

My adversaries are corporations. I don't want Google or Microsoft to know every service I register to, every bill I receive, my income, all my contacts, all my pictures. Fastmail works perfectly fine for this (up to the point where you contact someone who uses Google or Microsoft emails, etc...) and it's perfectly fine for them to advertise themselves as privacy focused.

Is your adversary the government? Unless you're a journalist or dissident you aren't doing what's necessary to protect yourself from the government anyway. Of course security isn't black and white so if you can have a secure-against-the-gov email provider that's good but let's be realistic the government is already recording all of your communications and has much easier access points to your confidential data than your email.
Zorin OS 16 is what a Linux desktop distribution should be
It's weird to me that these days people start companies with a greater emphasis on selling the company than on selling a product or service. It has a very "decline and fall of the Roman Empire" vibe.
I played full contact football and never felt anything pleasant from it. Nothing convinced me of what you were talking about except that I'd not considered sadomasochism in this context and now what you're saying makes sense. Sexual sadomasochism is experiencing some kind of torture in a safe, imaginary way. So other ritual violence works in a similar way. That comparison clicks for me. Thanks for the insight.
Incorrect. The gay couple did not even detail the cake’s design. They said they wanted a cake for “our wedding,” and since Jack Phillips believed homosexuality was a sin, he thought providing any kind of wedding cake would violate his freedom of religion. He did tell them they could get other kinds of cakes, just not a wedding cake, and that includes plain wedding cakes.

Phillips even said, “I’ll make your birthday cakes, shower cakes, sell you cookies and brownies, I just don’t make cakes for same sex weddings.” (Notice the lack of nuance: he wouldn’t make any cake, whether it’s plain or designed.)

You can read more in the opinion of the Supreme Court [1], page 4 (7 on your document viewer).

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

P.S. A good argument can be made that the Colorado Commission didn’t violate religious neutrality. As Ginsburg outlined in her dissent, Phillips wouldn’t make a wedding cake for any gay couple. So there is a subset of people he discriminates against just because of who they are (gay couples), and another he doesn’t discriminate against. The other bakeries involved that rejected William Jack’s request to make cakes depicting homosexuality as a sin wouldn’t make such a cake for anybody.

To make it easier to understand: Jack Phillips makes plain cakes he gives to one group of people but not another. On the other hand, the other bakeries wouldn’t even make a cake depicting homosexuality as a sin for anyone. So it wouldn’t matter if it’s an atheist or Christian or Muslim. Plus, the very same bakeries made cakes for other Christians and decorated beautiful Bibles, so it’s clear they didn’t find someone’s religion a reason to deny them a cake.

Phillip’s argument might be more convincing if he was asked to, say, design a wedding cake with a rainbow flag. But the gay couple were refused a plain, let alone designed, wedding cake.
47 out of 50 European nations limit elective abortion prior to 15 weeks. It's high time for the US to abandon barbaric later abortions.

GoDaddy's just looking for popularity points. History will not treat this decision kindly.
Given you can't predict what the shock will be or its consequences, how are you exactly going to create a buffer? Creating broad redundancies would result in lots and lots of waste both damaging to a bottom line and the environment.

Also, is this "fragility" really that big of a problem? Sure, prices are going to move up 20-30% for a year or two until the supply chain issues ease, but is that worth driving up costs for decades preparing for potentially the wrong issue?
It has nothing to do with math, full stop. Yet, math teachers are required to waste their time learning it.
Really? A state law preventing abortion after 6 weeks will somehow restrict speech online about abortion... Sure.
I was hoping for more DS related stuff. It almost sounds like you're learning to be a SWE!

The investing section is curious.

> On brilliant advice from the man who arguably went from mere millions to decabillions faster than anyone in modern history, I've put a large chunk of my money in leveraged index funds and etfs

Who are you referencing here and did you do any DD other than taking his advice?

I'm wondering what the downsides of leveraged index funds and ETFs are since I'm not sure how they work.
Book Summary: The Art of Statistics – Learning from Data
Thanks,

We use haproxy pods for inbound traffic, they perform TLS termination and simply pass the traffic over to a local proxy pod.

The haproxy pod (and all other pods) communicate with each other over this local proxy service which is running on each host.

We have a very simplified and robust overall architecture, were each pod allocates a specific virtual port and the proxy will try each host for that pod (and remember status), meaning we don't need to keep track of global routing tables and update each host's ip tables (shivering) when pods come and go. We don't use iptables.

If some instance of a pod is unavailable the proxy will seamlessly try another instance of the pod.

Initially we tried to config haproxy to do all this proxying for us, but it was asking too much.

Good to know is that Simplenetes is still in beta.
“Through licensing!”
Depends on execution, in situations where I'm stimming, it'd never occur to me to turn on a camera. It's certainly not something that feels good or natural when forcing myself to do it.

That said, even if hundreds of thousands of people upload videos indicating they are autistic that seems in line with the statistics on the matter.

I could be convinced stimming videos are fake, but a high number of young people with ASD is consistent with the data.
many of the most successful startups are indistinguishable from obfuscated wage theft schemes, so there's much to learn from historical precedent
Bebop Rust
> Just because you (or Texas) thinks abortion should be illegal, doesn’t miraculously make the information not part of knowledge other people believe is educational

There is a vast difference between receiving (A) medical information, and (B) booking an appointment, going to a medical provider, paying/providing insurance information, obtaining/giving consent, getting anesthesia, receiving a medical procedure, and then aftercare.

Just like I don't believe that commodity medical insurance should be paying for cosmetic plastic procedures not incurred as part of part of medical aftercare for a previous injury/accident/illness. If you decide you want to have lip filler to increase the fullness of your lips, and breast implants for cosmetic reasons purely, perhaps with a full facelift, then pay for it on your own.
For the first example with conditions, I much prefer rolling the "why" of the comments into boolean variable names where possible e.g.

// We still have burst budget for *all* tokens requests.
if self.one_time_burst >= tokens {
...
} else {
// We still have burst budget for *some* of the tokens requests.

becomes something like (I'm missing context but you get the idea):

enoughBudgetForAllTokenRequests = self.one_time_burst >= tokens

if enoughBudgetForAllTokenRequests
...
else
...

I don't see this often though. I see the commenting pattern a lot where the comment usually duplicates the "what" of the conditional code, and it's often ambiguous if the comment is talking about the condition or a whole branch.

I think a descriptive variable makes the code easier to skim, it's more precise and less likely to become inaccurate. For a big complex conditional, you can break in up into several well-named boolean variables you compose together (but obviously comment the bits that can't be covered by a concise variable name).
> Google doesn't allow any production-level projects to be written in python due to safety concerns

Is this actually true? If it's true that Google doesn't allow Python in production, it seems unlikely that it's due to security concerns.
Maybe they took the money as a loan, intending to pay it back one day?
Post your resume here first
Crypto Mining
Not going to read anyone else's story about how they remember this program, but this was a good program
Sure, and they can provide evidence of that to a jury and the jury can decide if they're convinced of that. Just like they would in any other crime. I don't see the problem.
Same. Even if I get an ad for a product that actually interests me, if it's interrupted my experience against my will, I will seek out their competitor to buy the same product lmao.

"Okay, that's cool, I want this, but not from you."
I'm also pretty certain: deep enough conversations, periodically, prevent language attrition (I speak one language natively, three fluently).
Actually, I wish more projects had installable documentation. Obviously, I don't want WinHelp, but man pages, HTML, and PDFs easily installed to a discoverable place, yes please.