skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that the tobacco companies did all of this stuff, too, including the marketing-via-doctors route.

They're still around, operating, and legitimate, and causing 7x the destruction of human life of this so-called "epidemic".

Either both are wrong, or neither are.

Personally I have an extremely unpopular opinion regarding culpability for the damage here, but I'll be satisfied if we as a society can simply agree that both are wrong, or neither are, but if one is wrong, then so must the other be.

If they're both wrong, we should be at least 7x as angry and actionable against big tobacco (but rationally, quite a bit more, as they have been killing people, including those nearby who don't choose to consume the drug, at a higher rate for a much longer period of time).

If neither of them are wrong (and cigarettes should still be available for sale) then we should put down the Purdue pitchforks.
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It is first and foremost a cost saving measure for the company as it is a simple policy to create and enforce, in my experience, and it avoids payouts for accrued PTO when terminating employees in some cases.
Really? Show us the link for yesterday’s occurrence.
There is no greater threat to our people than opaque government.

Democracy and secrecy are mutually exclusive.

We need you to vote on this issue but we will hide all the relevant facts.
https://www.judgeforyourselves.com/info/
Allow me to vent: yesterday windows cumulative update wouldn't install. Fine, Google error code

"we recommend an in-place upgrade"

I have no belief Windows 11 is going to be better just more of the same.
If only the content improved instead that'd be worth something
Well the focus on text content isn't the only technical difference here. Google is obviously weighing hundreds of signals in its search results that your engine is not accounting for. These omitted signals are also relevant.
This extension asks for your name on install, and has a small chance to whisper your name very late at night.

Source code: https://github.com/typpo/whispers
By "Hanlon's razor," he's implying the developers may just be stupid.
it's easier to count dead people. it's harder to obfuscate the numbers. One value is that you can see increases/trends/etc. and they are actually meaningful.

Generally, you do find this:

. Include suicide in stats...is against guns

. Block suicide from stats...is for guns
Did you read the article?

According to the author, you don't accrue PTO there AT ALL. Your manager can basically just allow you to be paid for time when you aren't working at his discretion. No maximum, but no minimum too.
Genuine legal interpretation question: Why does everyone quote "Shall not be infringed" but ignore "Well-regulated"?

If the goal is a "well regulated militia", and therefore gun rights "shall not be infringed", why do we interpret that as "everybody should have largely unfettered access to weapons" rather than "If part of a well-regulated armed force, access to weapons should be allowed during militia activities"? or something similar.
I use the free email provided with the domain hosting I got with a domain on one of these gTLDs. The only real issue I get are places that think the gTLD isn't a valid email domain, ensuring I always have to fall back to a more traditional email provider for some places.

Otherwise, deliverability-wise I haven't really experienced any issues. My mail is regularly delivered to the big email providers.
Can they do anything about the judge who approved something so unfair? My understanding is that that judge has a history of allowing this type of thing.
>Customers gain an extra 1% cash back assuming they are already using a 2% cash back card.

But how? Your new payment system still has to be paid-for. The 2% cashback credit cards rely on two things: a 2.5-5% merchant fee (that you "never see"), and an expectation you'll never fully pay-off your card (so even with 2% back, they're still getting 8-27% from you)

If you're going to hold folks payment in escrow (like a bank essentially does wrt debit cards), then you have to get folks to deposit money to you (even if it's "instantaneous" a la Paypal) before sending it on to the merchant

If you're not going to be holding payers' money in escrow, you're now loaning it to them, which means you need to establish payment systems to recover from your users the bills they rack-up (ie - you've become a credit card company)
Guess they'd better quickly pass the required approval for Nordstream 2 to begin operating in Germany :)
India's Ivermectin Blackout – Part III: The Lesson of Kerala
Australia doesn't seem that tyrannical to me.
>how on Earth are the judiciary and executive on equal footing if the executive can simply cause a default outcome of any trial against it?

You have to remember, the default answer to "Can I sue the government?" is No. The only suits you're allowed to take to trial are ones the government has allowed themselves to be sued for.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act

While I think the entire idea of sovereign immunity is bullshit, the chance of the doctrine being overturned is next to 0. So we have to live with it. The point is, you're kind of lucky to even get as far as getting this dismissed over state secrets.

The real problem with the state secret doctrine is when the feds intervene in a suit between two private parties.

https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2014/09/uani-state-secrets/
True, but lots of police have moved departments to safer places, e.g. suburbs.
Work from home brings a merging of the working hours and pleasure hours. We all get this - manage your time to suit your own schedule, go for a bike ride in the daytime, work as you like, and complete the work as you like.
I am able to manage this. Work out a process, with boss, where these emails and work tasks are triaged. Important stuff = asap, less so as you assess it as the day goes.
Do not feel you have an infinite inbox you must empty before free. Bosses are also on a learning curve - a dialog between you is the best way.
It may be that you end up doing less work this way, plus zero commute, zero business dress, zero haircuts - work naked - and grin...
>Companies now discount all customers 3% which gets them an additional 1% from cash back.

What's the incentive for a company to discount their prices? Why not just keep them where they are, and pocket the higher profits?
It's a cost savings measure for CA companies to avoid having to hold employee's earned vacation hours as a liability to be paid out if they are unused when the employee separates. This is also why they cannot set a minimum, as that would indicate an amount of earned vacation per year.

To be clear, this is still very disingenuous and I believe companies should stop the practice.
> Does Glenn greenwald think we don't that know that at some point he has been served by hospitality staff wearing a mask while he as not worn one.

what makes you think he doesn't feel the same in those instances?
IME it's "unlimited" but each request requires approval.
That's absurd. The Bill of Rights is literally a list of changes to the constitution. Any one of them can be changed at any time by a majority of states.

You're essentially saying that if the majority of the country votes to change one of the rights, then what? You'll no longer recognize the government as real?
It seems safe to me to assume that US government security is mostly to keep secrets from it's own citizens. Foreign intelligence agencies know about pretty much everything.
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Maybe, I would just look for qualities of finding PMF over marketing qualities. Getting a startup’s product strategy in the right direction is something entirely different than “just” marketing; it means understanding how to change the product based on lack of demand, and understanding it is, in fact, a product problem rather than a marketing problem.

I’m sure great marketeers qualify for these traits, but if that’s the case, why not just select for these traits in the first place, rather than marketing?
The reality of Internet filtering and firewalls, and a rule generalisable to any attempt at control and autonomy, is that the effect-to-effort ratio matters. The principle of a small effort with a large result is behind the architecture of every switch, gate, door, valve, or dam.

New generic TLDs have the disadvantage of being recently unleashed. There are no venerable sites on XYZ, or its siblings. Much of what's registered there, and that word was "much" and not "all", is absolutely unworthy crap. And for those who are faced with defending either their own or their customers, clients, users, employees, or other stakeholder's security and time, wholesale blocking of the entire TLD solves a lot of problems with very little downside cost.

The obvious response is "but there's a lot of crap on legacy TLDs as well". Yes, there is, but there are also valued, venerable, and essential domains, and blocking all of them is not a viable option. (Though the prospect of whitelisting is becoming increasingly attractive.)

I've known people who are, on the one hand, Internet freedom advocates of decades-long standing --- before most people reading this were born. Who wholesale block access by all China ASNs to their webservers --- because all they see from such networks is malicious traffic. Again: effect-to-effort ratio here is high.

No, it's not "fair". Yes, there's collateral damage. But you're absolutely fighting not merely human nature but all of control theory in trying to combat this.

Register on XYZ and you'll be increasingly fighting a common practice of default-deny, whitelist-by-request. For every user you're trying to reach.

And you should ask yourself if it's really worth it.

XYZ, meantime, are mining and arbiraging short-term cashflow for long-term reputation at the specific expense of its legitimate customers. Those with the least bit of sense will abandon the registrar, leading to an ever-accelerating reputational death spiral.
Ah, that's too bad, really. Pocket calculators, Electric vehicles, cheap personal computers, e-bikes and probably others that I'm not aware of. Game changers in every instance, not all of them equally successful but you really can't fault the man for trying.
Ah, well, you've gone down a philosophical path on the role of government.

Strictly mechanically speaking, the constitution can be amended by a certain majority of voting in a national campaign, and those amendments can override any other amendment as the voters see fit.
I have something of a blog here, with an Atom feed.

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/

It's not very well optimized for mobile, really it's more of a bridge for my geminispace content.
> Also, how come we always only count murder, as opposed to gun violence?

Because other countries use different definitions for those things. The definition of a "firearm death" is consistent, someone was shot they're now deceased.

The definition of "gun violence" could be a gun that wasn't even loaded or fired in some countries (e.g. pointing it menacingly), bullet-injury in others, pistol-whipping in yet others, for one example.

Crime statistics are a complex topic, with politics, collection methods, and definitions playing a major part. For one example, richer countries often have higher "crime" because they're better at collecting and recording crime statistics, not because crime doesn't occur in poorer countries. Even richer countries like the US have a "crime gap" if you compare recorded crime with victim crime surveys (e.g. NCVS).
They had a military coup in 1958.
> All of them consider themselves extremely lucky that they landed a job at a great company and believe that if they had to re-interview for the same position, odds are much more likely they'd utterly fail it.

I expect we'd see this absolute disaster of an interview "process" fixed overnight if every company required their employees to re-interview for their position yearly (through some blind process so the interviewer isn't aware they're interviewing someone who already works there - yes I'm aware this won't work for small companies... it's not going to happen to begin with so let's just pretend :P).

Every company would immediately start a "task force" to fix their interview process once they reject (and then fire) 90% of their staff after the first re-interview.
Slack decided that my phone is no longer good enough. So I have lost access to the main method of communication when I am away from the computer.

I really don't want to get a new phone just for this...
throwaway for the obvious reasons... take this as you wish.

I am a person who has drawn their licensed handgun in self-defense, twice, separated by ~25 years and hundreds of miles. One an attempted robbery or interrupted break-in in a rear parking lot by two men who probably thought I had access to the building, the second by a group of three that split and approached quickly from two sides on a city street. In neither case did I need to fire. I had situational awareness that these people were coming toward me to do some kind of harm and the fact that I was absolutely prepared to kill in my own self-defense caused these would be criminals to stop and run away.
There are some companies where it seems legitimate, especially larger ones. I hear that at Indeed for example it is very legitimate. The problem in smaller ones is not so much that it is a deliberate lie, but rather a promise the business cannot keep as the bus factor for lots of roles is 1.
I predict it will return a disproportionate amount of sites by schizophrenic conspiracists.
> I think the question the parent is asking is how should the bankruptcy of one entity (Purdue Pharma) be allowed to protect individual members of the Sackler family?

I thought the settlement was between the government and the Sacklers directly?

>Under a separate civil settlement, individual members of the Sackler family will pay the United States $225 million arising from the alleged conduct of Dr. Richard Sackler, David Sackler, Mortimer D.A. Sackler, Dr. Kathe Sackler, and Jonathan Sackler (the Named Sacklers).

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...
RCOG respond to reports of 30k women's periods affected after Covid-19 vaccine
The business needs are balanced against your time off. If the product you’re working on is behind schedule, for example, PTO is less likely to be approved.
Your standard of combat is obscenely high. Any weapon that can kill an animal can be used quite well against humans in defense.

Would they be standard issue arms for a modern army? Irrelevant.
I would hope that your new phone lasts more than 24 hours regardless. I also may not be terribly with it, but I'd also hope that no one is trying to stream video 12+ hours a day.
Nice. The NSA has to spend billions to wiretap the internet and fish for valuable data. Kape only spends 1B and has probably a much higher percentage of traffic they are interested in. And the best thing is the users are actually paying them...
https://archive.md/PH7Sw
To support your point: there are cells that get direct fitness feedback. They call them cancer.
Yes, and today such a perspective is almost impossible to achieve outside the embedded space. Even a Raspberry-Pi is many orders of magnitude more complex than say a Dragon 32 (Color Computer clone, by the way) or a BBC Micro.
Yup. His little ZX computer was the gateway drug into programming for me.
Sad story (though of course there's always more than one side to any story!)

I hope folks are clueing into this by now, but flashy policies like "unlimited vacation" or "unlimited sick days" _are_ a scam. They sell well but never deliver what's on the tin. Instead, I'm a fan of "minimum X weeks PTO" or "minimum Y sick days". Any request under the minimum is automatically approved. Anything after is up to manager discretion.
Not the worst idea really. There's far more worrisome stuff than silicone, like a small can of black spray-paint which would simultaneously obscure the optics and solar panels while also degrading thermals causing the sat to overheat itself if it still managed to function.
Although I was in the Acorn camp, my first home exposure was to a friends ZX81. The keyboard!

In highschool, my physics teacher had a C5, which he could not get 'road legal' in The Netherlands.

Great times. RIP.
>Your manager can basically just allow you to be paid for time when you aren't working at his discretion

This has nothing to do with unlimited PTO, or even legally mandated vacation time. Even in Europe, which I'm sure all the people here will point to, has similar rules, e.g:

https://www.howtogermany.com/pages/employee-rights.html

>Employees must apply for vacation time and the employer must approve the written request. An employer can turn down a request due to urgent operational reasons or vacation applications of other employees who, due to "social factors", have a higher priority.
Why are We Vaccinating Children against Covid-19?
The same number as the USA, for any reasonable definition of “contemporary”.
I'm sorry I can't speak to details as this is all very personal for the folks involved, but I know all the people involved in this story and can tell you this is not a very fair account of what happened. It was a long-running and very difficult situation for everyone involved.
Thanks! It's using Datafusion as the query engine: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion
Don’t shoot the messenger
It's not legitimate, otherwise you'd take 100% paid time off, get a second job, and collect two paychecks in perpetuity.

It's not unlimited. It's never unlimited. It's always a lie.
My dad had a ZX Spectrum. The music to Spy Hunter is seared into my brain. Such early exposure to tech (and to some extent dealing with its crappiness) started me on the path to becoming the software engineer I am today. RIP Sir Clive.
I am a small business owner with unlimited PTO. It's not a passive aggressive lie. I want people to take time off. I just can't have large outstanding liabilities associated with accrued PTO.
Ouch.

I'm here because of Sir Clive. Like many I started with a 1k ZX81.
It’s also how I code apps btw. I use this same approach for libraries I find on HN.
The best marketers becomes top influencers, they don't need help people come to them and pay them to market stuff.
More than that, his leave was protected my Family and Medical Leave Act. They can deny PTO but they can’t deny unpaid leave.

This person should file a complaint with the US Dept. of Labor.
Dunno what you're getting at here, GP was making a real point in a tongue-in-cheek way, it's not a "low effort meme joke".
This article seems to be making a point that you shouldn't upgrade to Windows 11 right now, since you might be encounter problems that result from the upgrade. But I have bigger apprehensions about Windows 11 than just that. Windows 11 feels like the culmination of a push to turn Windows into a walled garden service rather than a utilitarian operating system for generic computing devices. Dark patterns like forced logins, pop-ups tips, ads (https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-breaks-windows-11-b...), a lack of hardware support (https://www.pcgamer.com/how-the-hell-is-microsoft-already-sc...), and so on make me feel like it is time to move on from Windows.

At the same time, there isn't a good alternative for everyday use. Although I would consider myself reasonably tech savvy, I can't say I am comfortable enough to use Linux as a daily driver and to trust that I am using it securely, as compared to taking updates with one click from Microsoft or Apple. Maybe my perception is wrong, but we really need better educational resources to teach people and get them comfortable with computing infrastructure (hardware/software/services) from outside the big tech vendors.

Leaving that aside, I am not sure what Microsoft's larger strategy is. It feels to me like they're trying to be more like Apple at times. But if that's the case, why would I use Microsoft? Apple is already very good at being Apple and has better software and hardware for such an experience.
It's a good example, you can have recognisable trademarks be common words. The trademark is restricted to particular contexts, of course -- you cannot trademark 'apple' in general.
They don't make them like that no more. What would it take for technology to feel again just... white magic.
It may be a combination of things like dynamic refresh rate + more battery + modem improvements + h/w decoder improvement. Its impressive overall.
Show HN: The prologue to my serialized novel (an experiment in publishing)
I've seen one of those during my time in Poland.
You sound like a gun industry rep.

"Everyone should own a car" is what a car lobbyist says.
"Everyone should own a gun" is what a gun lobbyist says.
Yup! That, and his LED wrist watch - an absolute brilliant piece of work at the time!
What are its positives?
At least at my company, they still do all the tracking of it. Not sure they are really simplifying admin.
Honestly, in the moment in which using VPN is outlawed for "whatever <insert societal manufactured consent> reason" I am shutting the Internet down and moving into the woods.

Mullvad VPN is the first thing that I setup on every Internet connected device that I own.
Crew leave China's space station for Earth after 90 days
Yes I do, and that is good information :)
Sucking Up the Seafloor to Solve the Battery Shortage
Great for a text-focused site- however, the results are a bit confusing. Would help if there were more details on the criteria used for a site to be included in the index.

Suggestion - Use system fonts (the site downloads almost 300k of fonts)
For the author this isn't the best way, a lawyer and some settlement + NDA would have been. But for the community it's good that he choose to publish it and allow others to see this perspective.

Not sure whether Atlassian would want to sue, that could become yet another example of the Streisand effect...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3l_NV9oQ1c
Have you tried not being a good listener? or cranking that knob down a bit.

Maybe you're coming across as a super interested in what people have to say, that you're artificially (can't think of a better word) keeping the conversation in their court.

Allowing the conversation to go silent and see what happens. If they don't want to reciprocate or don't appear to listen or seem interested, then maybe move on.

Note: I'm not dismissing and would largely agree to what you're saying (people just hear).
Make a point for fuck's sake, the US had what revolution recently?
French reactors are also almost all older than 30 years, and it is thought that constructing new reactors would be extremely expensive, as most megaprojects tend to be these days, so I don't think it is a fair counterfactual. Smaller renewable and natural gas plants don't seem to suffer from cost disease so much.
I migrated from Win32 to Qt two years ago. Never looked back. Much easier to program dialogs & UI. Qt gives you macOS as well. (And UWP if you insist).

WinRT is the OS/2 of the 21st century.
In the normal world, it is a very cheap lab exam. In the US probably it costs 10x what it costs in any other place.
This would be illegal in Europe. How does it work in the US?
This exact scenario happened to me two months ago sans cancer and a wife. OP has my sympathy since my situation was not as challenging.

Unlimited PTO is a joke and you will be penalized or fired for exercising the “benefit”
Anybody noticed, the inventor of the ZX81 of course died at the age of 81. So, he predicted this decades ago?