skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: are there links about the data your car keeps on you (if any)? I'm not talking about if you use Google or other web location services.

I've done some cursory asking around and found nothing. I would think the real problem is that every car manufacturer and every model year is different.
It's true that "unlimited" is just a scam so that the company doesn't have to pay accrued unused vacation. I think most people just read between the lines and understand it is "unlimited with manager approval." 8 weeks is quite a lot. I don't know anyone at my unlimited vacay company that has taken that much. 4 is normal. 6 is kind of pushing it. I usually take 2. This is the US, though, I've heard Europeans expect more.

Maybe instead of demanding 8 he should have just offered to take 4 and use family medical leave for the other 4. Seems like a fair offer that works out to 50% salary. FMLA is more legally protected than PTO as well, since the PTO could have fine print, essentially, saying it is with approval.

I've definitely been in the position before where my SO needed more care than I could give when going through a tough pregnancy and after without getting negative comments from management about my availability. In my case I hired a nanny. Could be tough for him if he's more cash strapped, though. Still have my job, however.

Also, he might be better off removing a lot of the informal language about "lies" and "shit". People will take him more seriously if he makes the tone a bit more objective while still pointing out the employers' legal obligations weren't met if they violated FMLA, or the weaker argument that they didn't provide what offered in the job listing if that's the strongest argument against them, etc..
I personally find non-violent communication to be the most insulting way anyone can ever communicate. It's infantilizing and incredibly demeaning.
When was the last time a country successfully attacked its logistics base? How long would those drones continue to operate? Where would their operators and formal logistics tail have to live and sleep when they aren't on duty?
i don’t know enough about the military strategy that allowed the taliban to seize control, so i can’t argue with you there. but i do want to point out how your argument could be interpreted as advocating for guns so a tyrannical regime like the taliban can take over a government.
I feel this is a dishonest take. I’ve seen the moderators leave up some pretty egregious violations of the site rules because it fostered good discussion, which seems to be at the heart of HN.

However, good discussion ultimately requires respect for one another, and it seems maybe that thinking is not bilateral in your case. I’d encourage you to introspect on why you may be finding resistance wherever you look.
that depends if you are wearing high heels or not
The problem, IMO, with the current vaccination system is not that lots of people aren't getting their shots with the available vaccines (although that's sad); the problem is how many hoops have to be jumped through to get the vaccines on the market at all. The GOP could have legitimately criticized Big Government on this if they hadn't swallowed all the stupid. Freedom doesn't mean just the freedom to decline a vaccine; it means the freedom to act without the government's permission.
I'm not touching Windows 11 till someone comes out with a comprehensive shell replacement (i.e. it must replace all of explorer.exe) that re-creates the Windows 98 taskbar experience.
I like how the article goes on for many paragraphs at the start about the consequences, and then somehow flips immediately to saying, essentially, "nothing to see here".
The United States was able to survive for the better part of 200 years without any such doctrine, including fighting a number of major wars. Why is it necessary for us to have this authority now when it was not needed in the Civil War or during either World War?

The way that state secrets used to be handled was simple. The government chose on a case by case basis whether or not they were willing to not present their evidence (potentially losing the case because of it), or whether they wished to present their facts to the judge in camera (meaning in private, in chambers, relying on the judge to maintain confidentiality).

There is no particularly good reason that we could not have maintained that system. But conversely, now that the States Secrets privilege exists, there is no reason why the government shouldn't be aggressive about asserting it.
Mexico is a big country. There are places in Mexico where you can go random places alone, and places that it would be ill-advised.

There are places in the US where you can go random places alone, and places that it would be ill-advised.

There are places in the Baltimore metro area where you can go random places alone, and places that it would be ill-advised.
Respect for the law is already dead, but I'm sure no personal responsibility in this case would make it worse.
What fundamental problem do you have with cops using tech to catch criminals?

Not talking about the abuse of innocents here, or warrantless intrusions into your data, just the core of what you're saying.
1 and 2: true (to a degree, phones sort messages by sender which is a folder), but if a SMS already reached the provider they have the data. No need to send spam to the client. Instead display the SMS on some webinterface the customer can access. Or email it.
Well one of the people who helped draft this coc have themselves been banned from go spaces using it:

https://mobile.twitter.com/peterbourgon/status/1438597459383...

I don’t know all the drama in this case and don’t particularly care to know but the punishment seems excessive and arbitrary, and surprised quite a few people. They should drop this sort of heavy handed moderation - communities are governed by consent, not by fiat.

This coc seems excessively wordy to me, and subject to arbitrary interpretation and enforcement, and thus a waste of time for all involved, I don’t plan to read it or abide by it, but instead to use common sense. IMO community rules are enforced by example and gentle encouragement, not by encoding a long set of dos and don’ts.
In Czechoslovakia we had licensed clones of ZX Spectrum called Didaktik Gama. It didn’t look nearly as cool, but it was affordable and thus the very first personal computer for a whole generation. Thank you Sir Sinclair!
What's so bad about snaps? I know they start slow on any given hardware, as evident from my own computer, but apart from that, I don't really know.

What are the pros and cons compared to what else is out there?
I'd settle for being able to delete explorer.exe from my system and put the ReactOS shell in its place.

I want to play modern games but with the Windows 98 desktop experience.
since OP asked specifically about VC-backed (and not bootstrapped or a lifestyle government consultancy), i guess the question is they must have at least pitched a $1bn+ TAM, no? in which case even having a couple of $100m contracts, even when it does miracles for lifestyle, would not be enough. Caveat, don't know much about this, just intuitively it doesn't seem like a VC hypergrowth story?
> setting properties on a hash

Nowadays it's called a dict.
Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?
For a decade I have been advocating for the government of Los Alamos County in New Mexico to help with county wide broadband. The coincidence of my renewed effort, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a sympathetic County Council is yielding progress. At the direction of the County Council, the County staff has a job posting for a Broadband Manager. (See the posting at https://selfservice.losalamosnm.us/ess/employmentopportuniti...) The staff is posting the opening for a second time because the first time, only one applicant met even the minimum qualifications.

My questions for Hacker News are:

1. Does the posting look realistic?

2. Does it describe someone who could get a community broadband network built?

3. How can the County get qualified people to apply?

I've been pushing on this issue since 2011. I went so far as serving on the County Board of Public Utilities and becoming its Chair in 2015. Finding that the Board had no authority over the issue, I turned to political organizing and set up the website blabnow.blog. On that site, you can see what I think we need a Broadband Manager to do at https://www.blabnow.blog/los-alamos-broadband-manager-positi...

Beyond asking for thoughts on the Broadband Manager position, I would like to read general comments on:

4. How to get local governments to take responsibility for modern communication utility monopolies?
I'm more reflecting on the fact that the number of programmers roughly doubles every 5 years and thus the number of Sir Clive's should be greatly increasing too, no?
Founding team members wanted (HR tech startup)
Some familiarity with German helpful.
I agree that's an important bar, but intentional misinformation purveyors will learn to use that language too if necessary. It's necessary but not sufficient.

Note: I dont' think this guy should have been removed from youtube, and have no reason to doubt the veracity of his story, it seems plausible and interesting.
Do you not remember the leaked documents that Snowden showed us confirming that? Or the fact that congress literally passed a low to ban the NSA doing that practice? Well, if they were doing it secretly before, who's to say they aren't now. You can't audit something that's being intentionally obscured by a spy agency.
So, it's true that the Constitution doesn't protect rights from infringement by private businesses, but you're onto something important. The rights of free speech and free assembly are critical to a functioning republic, and their curtailment --- even legally, and by private corporations --- is doing great harm to our tottering system.

I don't want government to force businesses to allow speech, but we need to actively oppose private enterprises when they limit speech, and support alternatives that embrace freedom.
Bringing up privilege is important because someone who is aware of it can cut off this sort of mistake before they make them. We indeed agree that user research is good. So I'd imagine we agree that it's good to think "I should put the perspective and experiences of my users front and center." And that's exactly what it takes to not be privileged.
I think it can work as a subscription, but offering a free trial seems important
Welp, time to start dropping every packet from any Windows Update-related IP block in my router...
You're being down-voted but you're spot on.

>This is a good change. It doesn’t allow people to hide behind the shield of “good intentions” while refusing to change their behavior. Refusing to change your behavior after learning of its negative impacts on others is negligent best.

Is woefully flawed logic. Expecting someone to change their behavior when someone else says they're offended is awful. The assumption is that the person speaking is always in the wrong and the complainant is always being genuine.
I have lived in developed and developing countries and have never felt that my family or property were at risk.

"I have also failed to read or retain even a bit of 20th Century history."
Wow, unless you happen to know that the Sea of Tranquility is on the moon (seas on the moon, no way), then you are well on your way to believing that Armstrong is relaxing on a Martian beach....
No stats, but I have been placed under a 72-hour involuntary hold and even I could still purchase guns in my state.

Being committed by judicial order for having a mental illness/developmentally disabled, or being found not guilty by reason of insanity or incompetent to stand trial are the three disqualifiers for gun ownership in my state. It is likely different in each state, so YMMV.
You missed the point of me saying that which was a response to your flippant "protecting criminals is bad" suggestion. Many crimes are only crimes not because the oppose some fundamental morality, but because some legislators felt like making them crimes.

I noticed you didn't address my point around erring on the side of not infringing on privacy however. Does this mean that you agree?
Facebook lost at being a social media platform long ago with serving ads and trying to be a social media platform and news media platform at the same time. It just does not work.

That seems to be the big issue with people trying to create a social platform. You can't have a social platform that also has ads and news going around like wildfire. Ads ruin the experience and make it feel less "social" and news well just look at Facebook and Twitter and what news sharing has done there.

People want to be able to chat and have a feed among their friends and family. Take out all the business, celebrity pages and all other pages. Just have a friends list, chat and a feed.

I look back on the AIM days and how simple it was. It was just a friends list, chats and chatrooms based on topics from what I can remember. There weren't any algorithms altering anything. There wasn't all this extra stuff like following or friending businesses, magazines/newspapers, celebrities or anything else.

I have no idea why a social platform today needs all this extra garbage like businesses, celebs etc that has nothing to do with being a social platform. I think at that point it just becomes a hub for information and not a place to socialize, chat and share among your friends and family.
How do you notice new control panel elements, if not looking for damned “them appliances for interchange connectivity” or whatever bullshit they came up with this time for networking cpl?

fire the idiots that keep messing around with the UX

Don’t push on them too hard, maybe they are bound by some evil contract. Legend has it, one guy sold his soul to make the new PATH= editing dialog after 666 weeks (~13 years) of negotiations.
I use Fastmail. Delivery has been fine. My only challenge with .email was that some services wouldn't take the address as a valid email address.
Vista SP2 was better than 7.

At least Vista had a real start menu. Yeah, early Vista was rough, but by SP2 all the problems were fixed.
Right? That was a such a toothless law. "Oh yeah, that thing you were doing in secret? Well now you better not get caught."
Sure, but there are a 1000 android phones, some that cost $20.
I really like Windows 11. Hyper-V has some MASSIVE updates which noone talks about, as well as stuff like the network stack being rewritten. It's better to view this as a Windows 10 Refresh with alot done behind the scenes and a new UI. Not much of this is talked about though, outside of really niche highly technical circles.

There's some false narrative about it which is bizarre.
Besides, text messages compress very well.

Yes, I vote for NNTP. In my previous life I used to run a local NNTP/Usenet/Fidonet gateway, storage was not an issue at all, but bandwidth was.
That can work if you have moderators who are trusted, fearless, and ruthless. Most communities don't have those people.
> (maybe my reluctance to encourage this broken system explain my recklessness)

This is a great example of a Collective Action problem. Everyone would be better off if we could break the gmail domination of email policy, but as an individual you will have zero effect on gmail's dominance and only suffer the pain of not being a part of the system.
> The paradox of tolerance is that the one group of people we can’t welcome are those who make others feel unwelcome.

I really hope Google takes a strong stance and bans Muslim from all projects due to their views on homosexuality. While a minority of Muslims might not personally have an issue with homosexuality I don't think it's fair to ask people to tolerate members of such an intolerant religion.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.'' ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956"
This page needs an update but covers that to an extent:

https://www.oilshell.org/why.html

It's mostly useful as a dev tool right now. I would also note that probably 90% of bash users don't do any bash programming. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Oil is very much focused on the programming part.

It has a better foundation for an interactive shell than bash, but somebody else needs to push on that part via the "headless shell".
I've had the opposite experience, and thus worked to make my team a safe place for folks where they don't feel the need to hide from snarkers (who often are trying to put themselves above others by pulling everyone else down).

As a senior engineer / team lead, I really have no patience for bad behavior.

Directness is the opposite of snark. If you think something is a bad idea, propose an alternative. Or work with the person. Anyone can throw out snark, it takes a "really skilled" person to do something productive instead.
When the mobs came to a town next door last year, I knew the safety of my family hinged on which street they were going to choose to go down next, and my own ability to respond.

I watched them smash windows and set fires with zero police response. Any doubts I may have had about my gun collection went out the window that night.

The "guns as fire extinguisher" analogy is apt. It wasn't likely that a mob would threaten my neighborhood, just as it isn't likely any particular person's house will ever catch fire. But I will remain prepared.
Companies hire you because you're opinionated, and they retain you because you're obedient. You can mix and match the two to reach whatever desired effect you want, but them's the rules.
They reached a deal where the employee got unlimited unpaided time off. He was fired.

The risk of you becoming so popular that hr will remember your name and blacklist you everywhere is lower then you think.

Speaking out is freeing and healing. That may be part.
CoC proponents and committees talk with angel tongues about their good intentions. In practice, it comes down to roughly 3-5 people who play the "deciders". Here's a well known result of power abuse:

https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/

Most cancellations are plain abuses of power, with no fair hearing (or no hearing at all!) of both sides.

Characteristically, these power grabs occur when languages are done and people (representing their corporations) fight for the pieces. And they fight dirty.
Sounds like a situation where you go from feeling like an asshole to the daycare employees to utilizing service that you paid for.
That's an interesting, and entirely unrelated, takeaway given what Barrin92 wrote.
I switched from Pixel 3 XL to iPhone 11 Pro and the battery life was way worse on iPhone. It's about half as good as the Pixel was. It was like that on day one. It was my single biggest gripe about the iPhone.
Awesome project! How are you able to keep the site running after HN kiss of death? What is your stack, elastic search or something simper? How did you crawl so many websites for a project this size? Did you use any APIs like duck duck go or data from other search engines? Are you still incorporating something like PageRank to ensure good results are prioritized or is it just the text-based-ness factor?
It means different countries have different cultures that value life and violence in different ways.

And that your immediate neighbors will have more of an influence on that than a country on the other side of the world, especially if there's a substantial amount of immigration.

In the case of the US, I'd say it's more-so, because so much of the violence south of our border is directly related to moving things and people over it.
YouTube Orders Shutdown of Groovy Discord Music Bot
Battleship of Theseus it is, then.
fsearch replaces "Everything" for me
Ignoring the fact that they are considered an exempt employee (at least in the US).
well yes, just as humans have for our whole history. but you’ve framed it as a false dichotomy, that i mean we must revolt at any slight, but that’s a disingenuous framing. it should be a last resort, just as our government should resort last to force, whether internally or externally.
There's also a lovely interview here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521
So you're saying that you support censorship if it fits with what the mods claim is "good discussion"? Do you also think YouTube should have pulled down the author's video? What are the acceptable reasons to enact censorship in your mind?
>The U.S. has the rule of law, due process, innocent until proven guilty, etc.

It's the same here, and we use roman law, so there won't be any precedents what someone gets to the court. All cases are the exception and go through all the processes without looking back on the same cases.

Why would you think that the USA is the only country that has it? We even got incredible labor laws. They are so good that we don't even need unions for protection against companies.
And just a reminder, that USA is #1 by prisoners in the world.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262961/countries-with-th...

Not so innocent, huh?

I know, most people in the USA think that other countries are like poor villages without tech and law there.

But even poor Ukraine is much more digitalized and advanced in tech. Still, even in the case of transparency of how the law works, where the budget goes (you can even vote with your mobile app where you want to spend budget money in your city), court cases, it's all digitalized, transparent, and easy to check by anyone.

To be more precise, here are some links on typical bankings[1][2], government open source big data on all information that happened in the country[3], digitalized id and passport, with all the documents and request for any data or papers[4], transparent government tenders[5] and one of big media project that does all the corruption investigations with big politicians in it[6]. And no one from journalists even got arrested for that.

With these links and information, I want to say that it's funny that people think that other countries got some shady government, there is no power of law, and all people are struggling without real freedom.

Do you have LGBT raves to block entrance to the White House and annoy the president? Because we do[7]

1. https://www.monobank.ua/?lang=en

2. https://next.privat24.ua/

3. https://opendata.gov.ua/en/

4. https://diia.gov.ua/

5. https://prozorro.gov.ua/

6. https://bihus.info/

7. https://strana.news/news/346451-muzykalnyj-prajd-na-bankovoj...
Personally, I hate anything that clutters my home directory. Have they added an option to relocate ~/snap?
This seems great! I’d try it in a heartbeat. But without understanding the value it provides to me. I’m not going to pay for it.

If they ask me 30 days after, hey, you should consider paying, and force me to make a decision, I can be way more clear!

Edit: Seems like you get a 14 day trial. But that just feels forced. Like I have to interact because I’m paying.