skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the laws that require breaks don't preclude setting piecework quotas that make them impossible to use.

See https://www.scribd.com/document/407590982/Amazon-Termination...

Scroll down to "The system also tracks an associates time off task" It basically admits that "time off task" doesn't automatically account for bathroom breaks. You have to ask a manager to include each one, during the conversation where you're being scolded for high "time off task"! The wording in this section is Amazon's wording, too. Oof.

Edit: After a bit of searching, there don't appear to be any federal laws requiring breaks in the US, and there are many states that don't have any either.

Breaks: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/rest-periods

Meals: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/meal-breaks
There’s laws, and then there’s enforcement. Let’s see who gets in trouble, and what happens to them.

We live in an era where governments are diluting the value of their legal frameworks through selective enforcement (SEC, anyone?). I don’t get too excited anymore when I see these sorts of “protections” passed.
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> The critique is that the existence of the Big 5 itself is the result of misapplication of PCA for a task where a latent variable model would be required, the identification of personality traits.

As stated, that critique is wrong in this sense: for a given population of, say, new employees at a business, PCA is sufficient to establish correlations between things that are easy to measure (Big 5 assessment test scores) and things that are much more expensive to measure but which the business cares about (how the employee will perform if assigned to a certain team). In this way, mere correlational data, without the construction of a latent variable model, is operationally useful. Objections that the tests don't really "detect personality" "directly" are semantical in this context.

Yes, if the business starts using (implicitly or explicitly) a causal model of latent personality variables to make claims or predictions that take them outside the population distribution for which the correlations have been measured, then they could be making a mistake. But this does not invalidate the use of Big 5 assessments in general.

> Using PCA to detect personality traits is like using a thermometer to measure atmospheric pressure. What's worse, psychometrists seem to have taken the reading on the thermometer and proclaimed "Atmostperhic pressure is 25 [degrees Celsius]!".

Given a fixed population (in this case, a population of weather events) where temperature and pressure are well correlated, it is completely reasonable to use a thermometer to estimate pressure, and to take concrete action based on this. By all means, criticize people for being insufficiently precise (e.g. for not stating what their error bars or what the relevant population is), but don't pretend that this completely invalidates everything and Big 5 should be ignored.
true, but as the saying goes... two wrongs a right does not make.
Also make sure whoever translate is familiar with the profession nomenclature. To avoid phrases like "save to disk" be translated to "leftover on plate" which will be very confusing.
A white LED light on the front indicates that a picture or recording is in progress.

I am generally weary of government regulation, but, depending on the implementation, I might be onboard with a law that requires cameras and microphones to have a power indicator. Specifically, the LED should be hard-wired into the main power wire going into the camera/mic, so that it will activate any time those sensors are receiving electricity.
There are already countless easily concealed $20 cameras available for that, including ones in pens and, yes, sunglasses.

This isn't enabling any new functionality there.

The danger from these is the internet-connectedness, and Facebook.
Instagram actually force themselves into the value chain. Also, if all your content creators leave then you have no content. If you see the "sponsored" field on Instagram then it's part of Facebook forcing itself into the value chain.

I also suspect it's againist anti-trust to force yourself into that value chain and to prevent others from marketing.
Working on a project called P2PRC (p2p network designed to do any sort of computation)
https://github.com/Akilan1999/p2p-rendering-computation (I started this becuase I like the concept of distributed computing but in way that it can run on any machines and not only those cloud machines).

Another project I am working on is called remote gaming. It is basically WebRTC screenshare with a remote keyboard and mouse.
Repo: https://github.com/Akilan1999/remotegameplay
(I am building it because Stadia is cool and I wanted to build my own open source version of Stadia. Hopefully I can combine this as a plugin to P2PRC).
There is a fear that automation is becoming more affordable, and that eventually most jobs at the low end of the economy will be gone. It is not like technology is standing still here, the problem is what will we do with our labor surplus after that happens (something like a UBI will really be needed or society is in deep trouble).
Sorry to hear about this bad situation.

A great benefit from having cameras everywhere (e.g. Ring), is the crime evidence aspect.

May we ask what general area you live in?
Plus the password doesn't transit through the copy buffer, which is probably less secure
In context of APIS, "async" communications means event notifications and message queues: Amazon SNS/SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Event hub, Kafka, RabbitMQ etc. Anything where you send a message and don't wait for a response, unlike http.
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Oh yes, word order is also a major problem in software translated to German. You can tell when an English speaker programmed something...

It annoyed me more than it should that Word for Mac for years had a menu command "Beenden Word" (Quit Word) where the order of the words was obviously hard coded...

Or how Siri says "In 50 Meter Sie haben Ihr Ziel erreicht." (it should be "In 50 Meter haben Sie Ihr Ziel erreicht")

In English you can just take the sentence "You have arrived at your destination" and prefix it with something like "In 50 yards", and it's a perfectly valid sentence: "In 50 yards you have arrived at our destination". It might sound a bit mechanical, but it's not wrong.

If you do the same in German, it just sounds very confusing and wrong.
This is enormously surprising to me. I can't seem to find any links to official legal code or documents on that page (seems to be a guide for influencers). What I'm specifically interested in, is what happens when as an influencer you _don't_ disclose an ad? Are there fines? Is it a series of "stern warnings", akin to the Comcast emails you'd get for pirating big Hollywood studio movies from public trackers on a home connection? An n-strikes and you're out system?

Influencers (in joint union with targeted advertisements-- and even more tangentially cross-site/browser/device fingerprinting) has made me extremely embittered and disillusioned to social media in general, going so far as to delete old accounts made while I was younger and even abandoning certain platforms. (early-mid-20's here btw)
If you think addiction to social-media via round-the-clock mobile-phone use is a serious problem today, wait until you see what addiction will be like via always-on glasses. A new kind of always-on addictive-social-porn-on-steroids industry is likely to emerge on this technology.

I'm not sure these glasses are a Good Thing™ for humanity.
>It certainly seems like a plausible argument that better detectors leads to a smaller necessary sample.

But there is a limit to how small a sample can be regardless of the quality of the detectors because what you are looking for has to be in the sample. If the sample is merely a pinprick of blood, as Theranos (at least originally) claimed was enough, it very well might not be.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975259434/house-democrats-pas... (House Democrats Pass Bill That Would Protect Worker Organizing Efforts)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842 (H.R.842 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021)
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27875883
Companies will pay what they have to. I encourage everyone too seek the pay they are worth.
> Something like a HUD would be great but people don't want cameras pointing at them all the time.

I really wanted this maybe 5-10 years ago, but personally I've reached a point in my life where I feel "less is more" regarding tech. Enough things want to send me notifications that I know it would be as worthless as my email feed, or my phone notifications feed, or my facebook feed, or any of the other feeds out there that have become sources of noise.
Is GraphQL useful to people who write a lot of custom-written JSON APIs? Things that are much more than cleanly mapping JSON to CRUD SQL?

Ie i often think of GraphQL as a DSL for translating JSON to SQL. To let the caller define the query and data needed. This looks great for SQL, but if i write a custom API with non-SQL generated data, maybe in some custom data structures, the idea of supporting arbitrary querying over my data structures seems .. difficult.

Is GraphQL applicable to more than basic SQL data querying?
The tubes are socketed. Not sure if the soldering was entirely meant for the users or for specialized maintainers, might have been a mix. these things cost the price of a new car and came with similar responsibilities. The soldering techniques are to prevent bad contacts or impurities as this is sensitive measurement equipment.
Also keep in mind that a two word comment doesn't really add to the conversation. Low effort comments tend to be down voted.
> by [19]88 there weren't many products using the recycling symbol on their labels.

My understanding[1] is that in the 1970s the paper industry was the first to adopt a three-arrow symbol for paper products that could be recycled and later a slightly different three-arrow symbol for products that were made from recycled paper products. These seem in alignment with consumer understanding of the symbol. I also recall seeing the three arrow recycling symbol on bins at school in the 1980s so it was certainly in use by that point.

> I imagine they used the arrows because they are about recycling

Had resin identification codes restricted their use of the three-arrow design to plastics that were widely recyclable or products made from recycled plastic then I would have no issue. But some of the resin symbols (e.g. 7) essentially mean "not recyclable" and that is obviously causing confusion to consumers because people keep putting them in the plastic recycling.

It's confusing enough that the recycling center near me provides the following guidance: "The numbers on plastics are not great indicators of whether something can be recycled in a typical recycling program. Our advice is to think about the shape of your plastics. If they are clean and empty plastic bottles, jars, jugs or tubs, they are what we are looking for!"

> even if they don't mean "this product is recyclable"

Using a symbol to mean the exact opposite of its conventional meaning seems liable to cause consumer confusion.

[1] https://medium.com/@shengmorni/1970-ad0c58b5a9dc
You might as well blame GNU for updating from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, creating the problem in the first place.

Since, realistically, neither Linux nor GNU will budge, maybe the practical solution would be to look into integrating with the equivalent library in the LLVM ecosystem (assuming it exists).
What, specifically, should Amazon do to make you truly happy with them?

How much pay is enough? How many benefits are enough? I am genuinely curious.
I think this is a great question - In my opinion, carving the ethical path from the start can and should fulfill any moral obligation you might have.

If they don't want to play ball, take it to someone that will appreciate your work. Should it be used nefariously, you are still helping because they might take you more seriously next time, as they should have in the first place.

carrot versus stick.
Well.. my main objection would be that it seems impossible to detect such manipulation, and therefore these ToS are toothless.

As to your complaint: I don't see a problem? Assuming for a second that such a scheme would work, it allows transactions to happen and devices to be sold that otherwise would not or could not.

That's the basic mechanism of how contract law and court system help a society: a bank wouldn't have the capability to build its own mercenary force to collect debt (or, at least, it would be expensive and a nightmare for civil liberties). So, counterintuitively, by allowing you to bind yourself to an agreement to pay back a loan, your range of options is only expanded.
The government wants to incentivize companies to pay for their worker's education, and amazon's taking up on their offer. What's the issue here? Are you also against individuals transferring "taxes they didn't pay" to their retirement fund, by contributing to their 401k?
> Why would I want to join an online discussion forum where free thought isn't welcome?

Every community has ideas about what's right and wrong, and there will always be people who disagree. Moderation will always be required because that's just the nature of communities.

> Politics aside - I wonder if it would be possible to create an instance focused on free speech, without automatically attracting all the worst people?

To the point I just made: no, it's not possible refrain from moderating a community and then avoid having people there who engage in behavior you don't like. If your definition of "free speech" includes a complete lack of moderation, then you'll always run into this problem.
IRS requirements would be what you can deduct for offering to employees, not what the employer is required to offer
I have thought about this some.

I do prefer having local copies of everything, because I don't trust The Cloud. Malicious actors can get your account shut down, and then all your stuff is gone, locked up and the key thrown away.

My solution has been to run a RAID 1 NAS device for all my local stuff (including all my media I want to stream in the house - nice having movies and TV when internet is down). 4TB drives, rated for NAS usage.

Important documents, and sentimental photos (many GB's worth from the last few decades) I periodically back up onto an external SSD and put in my fire safe with physical documents of importance.
EKS Engineer here. This is something we have lots of thoughts about and want to make better in EKS on AWS.

For EKS Anywhere, you can configure your cluster with OIDC auth today, and IAM auth is coming very soon. https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere/issues/90
An analysis on developer-security researcher interactions in the vulnerability
Yeah iirc (too lazy to get it out of the closet to test) it was vertical lines that somewhat fade in throughout the screen, with colors resembling what it's supposed to be displaying.
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Which proposals are you referring to exactly?
Why companies project this idea that it is wrong that people ask to be compensated fairly for their hard work? The culture of exploitation of engineers is sickening.
A couple of obvious reasons you can't reduce the address resolution to single bit:

- Mux complexity would be drastically increased which costs area, power and latency.

- Additional gearboxing around SRAM's would be far more complex.
Gopro lite.
Why carry a DSLR when the camera on your smartphone is in your pocket.
> Only the company picking up the recycling knows what they can really handle.

Yes unfortunately they never tell you. Sure they'll tell you the easy stuff like cardboard, paper, cans etc. But there's a near infinite variety of stuff that you might be able to recycle. What about a metal coathanger? What about a plastic-coated metal coathanger? Etc.

We have to put paper and cardboard in different containers. What about card? No idea!
That is an impossible feat for ideological partisans to undertake.
> Will cryptocurrency effectively end up becoming just another currency/security traded and managed by giant companies

Yes, that is exactly their goal. The only way Visa and MC continue to make money with crypto is centralizing and regulating it to death so no one else can enter the field, just like with payment cards today.
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>That's not what they're doing, and yes it is a crime lol. It would work just as well with murder, but you're choosing to look the other way because it's white collar.

The whole point of asking the SEC is to know where they fall, since it's unclear whether they've silently accepted stuff like Gemini, or whether there's a substantively different or whether they will prosecute. Assuming that it's a crime is assuming away the core point of contention!

>>That's the problem with stonewalling: You don't know what the other side actually objects to!

>No, that's why I re-stated my assumptions, including any potentially hidden ones,

I was referring to the SEC's stonewalling there, not your tactics (though they're similarly unproductive).

>No, I'm saying the wheels of justice turn slow and this shit takes time [edit] and regulators literally have to start somewhere because they have limited resources. So long as it happens within the statute of limitations its explicitly in play.

Yes, I heard you say that, and I get that you don't see the similarity; the point was that these are substantively the same thing in that they persistently introduce an unevenness in the playing field; the fact that you can ignore that dynamic doesn't mean it's not a flaw your position or that you aren't effectively endorsing such inequality before the law.

>You're obviously either misreading my point or not interested in understanding. You pick one. Get a judgement. Apply that judgement. This is equal treatment.

And then, learn how judgment is spelled if you're going to use it so often and use confidence and intimidation as a substitute for substantiating your position.

>No, I limit my edits to the first two to three minutes after I write a comment, to before anyone can reply. If someone can reply I annotate my edits. This is my workflow.

No, I saw your comment more than 3 minutes after posting and it had significant un-noted edits, and now you're just mocking me by flooding your comment with [edit].

>My point is it's way too soon to know if you're right or I'm right, we must wait and see a year from now, or two years from now. 180 days is nothing.

No, you've definitely phrased your comments with significantly more (unjustified) confidence than that. See "yes it is a crime lol".
I'd really like to know the answer to this as well. From all the research I've done in the past 10 minutes, you'd think that plastic is simply immutable and indestructible, and that even after millenia has passed it will still be plastic (even if in smaller pieces). But the Google SEO on this is dominated by environmental groups trying to emphasize the short-term life cycle of plastics, and it's hard to find anything with a longer-term perspective.

I think if you wait long enough (billions of years) then the landfills will eventually be under miles of earth and subjected to high enough pressures that they fundamentally change; in the same way sedimentary rock can change into metamorphic.
So not loyal money grabbers get to label you as a not loyal money grabber. Not a big loss. The higher somebody is in the management chain, the less loyal and the more money grabby they are.
I don't particularly care about that part. It could just as well be any intelligence agency. It doesn't really matter which.

This is the piece I find interesting:

> We do not recommend Matrix because we find unacceptable that a software widely hyped as decentralized is released sending a scandalous collection of private data to their central servers, even if you run your own instance.
Actual IP law and how it conducts itself in the real world has plenty of issues to be sorted out, but there are tons of potential "inefficiencies" in the real world that could be exploited and rectified across a vast array of things, but aren't, due to combinations of social politics, law, philosophy, etc preventing it. That some potential efficiency is on the table in theory, but can't be reaped due to those things, is nowhere remotely close to "mind boggling"
...as long as he's from the ruling caste, that is.
One, just because someone else is being unethical doesn't mean you can drop your ethics. Two: you don't really want to expose users to the exploit.
I’m not sure voters quite understood what Prop 19 did. It was a first of it’s kind law for the US and the bulk of the TV ad spending was misleading (for example app-based taxis have significantly increased in price since the law was passed.)
Video fake news believed more, shared more than text and audio versions
Standups have a strong incentive to keep their routines off youtube, so comedy venues use products like Yonder to secure phones at the door. Imagine needing to relinquish your prescription lenses because they have cameras built into them.

https://www.overyondr.com/howitworks
Yes. Through grad school the physics PhDs kept bringing it up. I believe Wigner was the only Wise One who actually pursued it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend)

Since Wigner was a Wise One (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_theorem) people took the idea seriously, but these days, most physicists will simply ask you to show them a comprehensible and reproducible experiment that demonstrates the requirement of a human observer and reject your belief based on the absence of data and occam's razor.
Indeed, and it becomes very apparent when it’s a product you know is rubbish.
1) Bemoan how people with all the money abuse their surfeit of capital.

2) Create a new currency, and give it to new people.

3) Create a way for the currency to be converted to standard money.

4) Watch as the newly wealthy become the people complained about in (1) and the link created in (3) enables the old wealthy to abuse their capital advantage on the new system.
I noted the ambiguity but initially assumed cryptography, based on the name "CipherTrace".
Not a belief I would say, but it was seriously considered. Many physicists, including some of the founding fathers of QM, thought about it, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...
Yep exactly like US law forbids email, SMS, and phone spam...
Looks like it's still stuck in the NSA/Microsoft walled garden. Might as well be using Windows.
SM Stirling's Draka, an attempt at a maximally evil empire, borrowed quite a lot from the Spartans, presumably for this reason. Though they were a lot more competent, which was always one of Sparta's major failings.
> Please explain how it generates that much electricity

This is the non-theoretical part

> that cheaply.

This is the theoretical part. I think a lot of people are misinterpreting my comment. I have absolutely no idea if it can be done that cheaply. But I can say for a fact that the yield of energy is massive. The question is if it can be done cheaply. That's the bet. The question is if you want to take that bet. You have to make similar bets on tons of technologies. It usually takes 10-20 years after something is made till it starts to follow the S curve and become cheap. Even solar and wind followed this.
Financial aid is irrelevant here because Amazon is the one paying. Dartmouth not gonna give Amazon financial aid. If someone else pays your tuition you not gonna apply for financial aid.
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