skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thousand times this. Expecting companies to be the source of resources that smooth over personal problems actually ends up disempowering workers, who then have to conform to companies' mold in order to receive the benefits. Imagine a similar family situation only the employee was about to get fired for other reasons, and now their health "insurance" has disappeared / skyrocketed as well. As it is, it sounds like OP really needed more routine time off than what Amazon allowed.

Rather than relying on companies as reservoirs of wealth that should be taking care of employees (eg this, healthcare, parental leave, etc), we need to move that wealth outside of corporate control - through a combination of higher compensation, better managing of personal finances, entrenched industry reform, catchall social safety net, etc.
A close friend of mine is a primary contributor to an extremely popular console emulator. He learned quickly to author under an alias which he keeps secret – even from most of our friend group.

It's bizarre that he has to keep this real love of his, which he's devoted hundreds and hundreds of hours to, so close to his chest.

But sadly The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory holds true today.
And what did we learn? Not a whole lot. Just a pretty regular plain process asking for meeting and setting up some articles of understanding to implement an ISO standard, with the expected twist that it was under NDA until the public announcement.
Well, maybe "easily" was an exaggeration, but Germany is home to some of the bleeding edge particle physics installations, and some of the world's leading scientific institutions, so at least the science side should be pretty solid. For engineering I'm sure Siemens would make things happen if a large enough pallet of cash is offered to it. With some pressure, it could even produce newer designs that are cheaper if built in quantity, than the purportedly "green" alternatives that do not provide baseline load capacity. The only real issue that's getting in the way is public opinion - the soil has been salted quite thoroughly on that, as far as I understand. But that'll change once a few people freeze to death.
Yes, so we’re a number of other products which have been purchased by another party where updates have since been pushed that contain malware.
I don't know how this got to #2 on HN of all places. But it makes me happy that it did.
Activision Blizzard, sued by US employment commission, agrees to $18M settlement
While the in post office experience still leaves a lot to be desired, the actual mail part in relatively inexpensive.
Send a first class letter for 58cent from LA to NYC. Can't beat that.

Now just added in more self service kiosks in the actual locations
The moon is a nightime light source, and a pretty good one at that, every 30 days or so. Even after the invention of the light bulb it continues to light up the night. Thus it's not astrology to suggest that the phase of the Moon could affect things on Earth seeing as how it's what causes tides. (It is astrology to suggest the Moon is causing an effect based on magic though).
Somewhat related, how does Brightcove hide the media files? I do not see any mp4 or other video files in the network tab. Is this like the good ol' times with flash player?
Wow. Just looking at the charts from ta perspectives, I'd anticipate:

- Minimum 10% drop in US goods spending

- Huge drop in China shipping container production

- Halving of container freight rate between LA and Shanghai

- Catastrophic drop in arrangement of freight and cargo prices (PPI)

- Jump in US home foreclosures

- Drop in emerging market capital inflows

- Worker training starting to catch up with business demand

- Drop in mfg delivery times

- Massive volatility opportunity/chaos, or both, depending on how you see it

Possible timelines for these changes do look really close, likely surging early 2022. Probably scary news coming around that time (not reflecting causality so much, as in "scary events cause drops"; you could even read the news as a natural outcome of the drops)

Not making any comments here as to good/bad or causality. It looks more like natural shakeouts that could allow for helpful interventions or follow-on effects, depending.

For governments, I'd think now is the time to get creative, protecting and planning for homeowners and vulnerable populations and businesses as much possible.

The above is speculation...

Follow-on predictions

- Crypto is going to boom again by early 2022 minimum. Elevator is going up.

- Political volatility could get exciting again in the US.

- How is political volatility going to show up in PRC? I guess I'd look for more strong moves by government to see where their fears are.

- Local business reopening coupons and deals will take off as COVID pressure eases

- (I am very bullish wrt US economic growth beyond 2022, we'll see what the catalysts may be. Long-term US is headed toward stabilization psychology, return of the gold watch after consolidation phase(s), IMO)

(Downvote if uncomfortable, I claim no crystal ball...)
Maybe they need to wrap their truck in a tarp. :-)
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Type Alias in Rust
Ihr benutzt mein Handy als wäre es eures ihr steuert mein Handy macht was ihr wollt damit. Hirnlose ratten seit ihr ich zeig euch an 7 jahre Steuerung 7 jahre habt ihr mein leben beeinträchtigt wenn man sich das allein vorstellen unter aller sau krank seit ihr. Ich will euch weg deswegen geh ich zum Anwalt und verklagt euch endlich erpressen wollte mich jemand nächstes Jahr 20.000 doller. Ich hau ihn 21.000 mal auf die nuß . 7 jahre habt ihr mein leben beeinträchtigt jetzt ist zahltag für euch sonst is nie ruhe!
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> For all the clients that have asked me about the political and economic problems associated with the rise of autonomous vehicles and more unemployed truckers, I keep telling them they’ve got it backwards: the US has had a trucker shortage for the last few years, and it’s projected to get worse.

In addition to the need to point out that "shortage" just means "I don't want to pay market rate", a shortage of truck drivers does not negate the concern of automation causing mass unemployment of truckers.

The concern is that the 450,000 truckers will lose their jobs. "We want to have 500,000 truckers who would lose their jobs" doesn't addresses that issue.

To be clear, I'm still very much in favor of automation, but people aren't "getting it backwards" here. These are two different problems.
That’s not much. The average family of 4 in Arizona uses about 325,000 gallons a year. So a billion gallons is equivalent to 3,000 families, or a very small town.
You're describing the industry.
> The rule is commtext { color: black; }

No it's not, it's more complicated: https://pastebin.com/aMYiGr05 (and there's no "commtext" class). So it's literally harder than you think, and you're presumably a developer. So how about the average user?

> It explains why it still is though.

Um, ok? And the building only has stairs because the architect didn't consider the needs of people that use assistive devices like wheelchairs. What's your point? "Why?" was not in question.
A friendly reminder about the massive, yet commonplace, scale of nature that often goes unnoticed, until it inexplicably ruins someone's day.
> if it can be implemented in a reasonably foolproof way?

With my wallet, I run the risk of losing my ID or having it get stolen.

With an ID on my phone, I still have those risks, but now I also have the risk of dropping the phone and breaking it, as well as the battery dying. Not to mention just some random software glitch breaking things.

> Isn't being able to ditch the wallet a huge win?

For all but the most trivial of trips outside my home (where I expect to need ID), I doubt I would leave my physical ID at home, ever. And if I have to carry it as a backup, why have the digital ID at all?
Side note but I absolutely love the reference to Dude, Where's My Car [1] in the title.

It wouldn't have been as entertaining or remotely shocking to me if this were a tech startup's blog, but there's something awesome about a prestigious finance company like JP Morgan referencing an iconic, trashy, Ashton Kutcher stoner comedy film.

From a marketing standpoint, when you establish yourself over decades as a very serious company, I guess it makes it all the better when you loosen that image up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,_Where%27s_My_Car%3F
I wouldn't understate the Marxist aspects of Chinese politics today which the author seems to tend towards. The technological determinism that guides Chinese politics is still very authentically Marxist. However he's right that there is a significant dose of what looks more like Confucianism than Communism in the reforms.

If one looks at the kind of intellectual work that is popular in China today next to Marx there is also Carl Schmitt or Strauss. A lot of state capacity in China is directed towards rebuilding Chinese civilization, the industrialism or hard-technology focus of Chinese politics has a distinct nationalist, Conservative bent.
Man...I don't know how good the argument is because it's not a field I'm familiar with. But the charts and arguments are so well done. Each chart is simple yet very illustrative.

Moments like this where I'm reminded that BI is really more about telling a good story. Kudos!
There's a single party in the US, and people here seem fine with it. In fact, because that party has two factions, we call it "freedom."
I was enamored with this feature too, but a comment here on HN[1] made me reconsider its use. Apparently rootless requires unprivileged user namespaces, which provides a different security context than most apps are expected to run in, and might be less thoroughly tested than you would think.

I still like the systemd integration and that it doesn't require a daemon too, and I still favor it over Docker.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28393949

Edit: Clarified that it's the unprivileged user namespaces feature specifically, not namespaces in general. Thanks for the feedback solarkraft.
So you would want Amazon to pass him over because his wife has an existing medical condition? That would be a good article too.
Yes, engineering PhD students get paid significantly better in the US. It's still very low compared to what people can get with a normal full-time job, and few people would be comfortable supporting anyone but themselves on it.
Funny. Reminds me of "Thank you for calling A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Auto repair" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1UzSn1LSro
> What people find out, again and again, is that you just ban those users. Don't need an excuse. Just ban them. Even if they are popular.

Rule #1 of moderation. Keep it in an open transparent log and you'll find positivity.
yes! thanks
Is this a rhetorical question? Because people do that literally all the time. This is an extremely real problem.
Squirrel can't stop and will not stop. Needs the vault to survive in winter. The man could consider to put a big squirrel box near on a tree from the garden and put all the nuts inside. That would made a nice Christmas history.

Is amazing how many nuts the squirrel has harvested.
If you don't mind answering another question, why the hate for Tucker Carlson? I don't follow him but people have complained about him so much that I've now seen a few videos to see what the fuss is about. I didn't see anything wrong within those few clips I saw (maybe an hour's worth) - it didn't seem any different from any other mainstream news in that one side of the argument was being presented, with a lot of conviction. But I did not see misinformation. I am sure there's some non-zero amount of misinformation that can be found from scouring his clips, but that's true for anyone and any source, and I certainly don't think he should be "off air" for it. I can't help but think that a lot of the character attacks against him are simply made because he's a prominent and successful voice on the "other side", and his effectiveness is a risk to political adversaries.

As someone who wants to see Tucker Carlson off the air, do you see your position on the matter differently? Are there conservative voices you support being platformed, and what makes them different for you?
I don't even think you can get a Cobra plan for that much money...was this for your whole family? You must have been on the top tier program at your company...
Virtual memory isn't free. 16k threads with 8gb stacks technically needs like 250gb of page tables. You must be using some strange memory model and microprocessor that lets you have 92 bits of address space.
I don't know by which metrics this list measures 'large', but it seems to be wrong.

Apart from that which parts of it have more power is more interesting, but also debatable.

Anyways, apart from some exceptions (for show) the german military is mostly a very expensive army of clowns,

which can't even manage to transport its own troops reliably, or politicians for that matter.

Been there, done that in the 90ies. Meanwhile I haven't heard or read anything which would change my mind about that.

Rather the opposite.
Cars on American roads keep getting older
Squirrels are really interesting critters. I have a funny memory of my then-girlfriend's brother and his wife showing us home video of their trip to America and her family was totally fascinated with the 20 minutes of squirrel footage. At first I didn't understand why anyone, even those in New Zealand (where there are no squirrels), would see squirrels with the same awe one would show on a trip to a zoo, but I thought about it more and realized how weird they are.

For one, they seem to love roughhousing. Everyone has seen videos of squirrels being flung off of bird feeders by anti-squirrel devices, yet they love to come back for more. They'll go through great lengths just to get a single peanut, they're really daring too, but they're not stupid. My parents for a while constructed a squirrel obstacle course in their backyard and at first the squirrels are skeptical; they'll investigate, back off, come back and get a little closer, back off again until they get comfortable and then they figure it out. There's an unused dog-door at my parents' house and I suggested they extend part of their squirrel maze into their house through it. It was such a good idea they actually did it, and the squirrels did indeed come all the way into the house! They must have reasoned at some level that because those maze structures led to peanuts in the past that there could be a peanut inside the house where the maze lead. Of course this also lead birds like scrub jays observing the squirrels and entering the house as well!

For creatures that are relatively vulnerable to predators, they will relax out in the open in really cartoonish ways. It's humorous when they lie on the edge of a fence with their limbs dangling over both sides.

Periodically, my parents have to trim the pods off their palm trees which are quite tall now. Many of those peanuts the squirrels won from the obstacle course ended up at the top of those palms. It almost seems excessive given the amount of energy they seem to expend getting that food.
As someone who has been building software for 20+ years now, I know how it fails and how it can make people's lives miserable. I know how developers cut corners and how quality always takes a back seat to other business concerns. I know how technology can erode privacy, or be used as a tool for governments to exact more control on their citizens.

I'm probably more skeptical of technology in everyday life than your average non-technical person.

> Apple Pay now works almost everywhere

I live in a city, and Apple/Google Pay definitely does not work anywhere near everywhere (even after more businesses went contactless due to COVID). I wouldn't think of leaving home without physical credit cards.

(I was at a bar this weekend. Ironically I could not pay my tab with my phone, but their photobooth took Apple & Google Pay.)
You don't drink alcohol when you eat out? I find that showing my ID when I eat out is pretty much par for the course.
It always blew people's minds when I told them that 50% of the engineering time at reddit was spent on moderating. What's interesting though is that we didn't even have any moderation for the first year or so, because the community would just downvote spam.

It wasn't until we got vaguely popular that suddenly we were completely overwhelmed with spam and had to do something about it.
A good manager manages up and manages down. What you're describing is someone who manages down but not up.
Reminds me that I should send out a short “how to” guide to my family on where and how to file claims for support. Makes it easier to take action if needed with minimal mental effort.
Hi!

Please could you explain some use cases?

OpenAI is very strict with GPT-3. Say a company wanted to use Exafunction for email interactions or Discord interactions or even SMS interactions.

What would be the setup? How would that work with Exafunction?

Thank YOU!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUX9UZ1pfEk/
I find that the more things I want to do, the more I procrastinate. So instead of getting one thing done, really slowly, I now get zero thing done, it's astounding. Anyone experienced something like that?
Reading the comments on this topic, I can't but feel validated for having quit my programming career right as it started.

You lot sound so absorbed into your privilege that you can't even begin to think about the human side of the story, and it really shows that your "oh I can't begin to imageine how hard this is but..." is performative. It shows that you never really had to deal with this sort of stuff, be the person responsible to assist a loved one thru their hard and/or terminal times. You really can't but show how far removed from human suffering you are. A hive of young able-bodied economically privileged people.

But, programmers are increasing in number. You're becoming cheaper to hire, replace. Enjoy that privilege while it lasts, because it won't last for that long.

If companies shouldn't be responsible for taking care of their employees in their hard times, they shouldn't try and replace the state as the apparatus of care for the disprivileged, they shouldn't capture and commodify access to livelihood and wellbeing, they shouldn't attempt to bust unions, support "small" government nonsense, and they should pay their taxes in full or even in extra. If a company won't be liable for when the employee has no chance to be productive, then that person is entitled to something to fall back on.

But of course that's not a thing because with the system that's in place, our livelihoods is a carrot-on-the-stick in front of us used to extract labour from us, and when we're spent we're sent to the recycling bin. And you folk are those who so far have been on the winning side of this shitty deal, either as employees or as employers, temporarily for most of you, but having pulled thyselves up, you can't but kick down, and look down upon the rest.

This whole thing is really toxic and boring and uncool and honestly a pile of shit. Your corporate shilling here is pure unadulterated boot licking, and I throw up in my mouth reading it. But I like reading it. It validates my decision from many years ago. For however much of an economic improvement a tech career would have been for yours truly, I'd much rather eat my shoes than spend a moment of my day with the likes of you.
Exactly, there was no room for the rubber dampeners that were the obvious solution, and much frustration from the engineers that this wasn't planned ahead.
The man who built the nation’s largest media empire by the 1930s
I'm not used to seeing a terms and conditions click-through on a blog post, but that's a pretty amazing discussion of large scale global supply chain issues at play today.
Amiga 2000 – The Tesseract project PART 2
Modern A2000 project
Cool, I'm also happy to chat about this stuff if people hit me up on email
It's not a good sign when the "News" network you work for has to go to court to argue that no reasonable person would take you seriously.[1]

Just over the past year, Carlson has peddled such obvious falsehoods as claiming the COVID-19 vaccines don’t work, the Green New Deal was responsible for Texas’ winter storm power-grid failure, immigrants are making the Potomac River "dirtier and dirtier,” and that there’s no evidence that white supremacists played a role in the violent Jan. 6 Capitol riots. [2]

We don't need this guy on the public airwaves. He should get a blog... that is, if he can find a hosting provider who will tolerate his views.

1: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/judge-rules-fox-...

2: https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-admits-i-lie-if...
> “there are a lot of people that want Tesla to fail; Don’t let them mischaracterise your feedback and media posts."

Maybe people want Tesla to succeed but the autopilot / FSD software that runs on the vehicle needs to be thoroughly investigated by independent regulators to make sure that it is safe for all drivers on the road.

Someone else will just record it instead. What is wrong with being transparent?
So I get it, it is full-self-driving and it doesn't make mistakes.
glibc isn't anywhere close to the kernel. glibc (where malloc() / free() live) is 100% userspace.
Recently, globally, there have been a staggering number of generally half-baked ROS-driven startups attempting to sell investors on the future of industrial robot arms making food. A closely allied, next-wave group are those selling commercial kitchens on the future of industrial conveyor belts preparing pizzas.
It looks like they use media blobulation similar to how Twitter does it.
"Wrapping vehicle in chicken wire is no longer advised."
I feel like an iPhone of robotics is pretty irrelevant at the moment.

We can't even build a single-chore robot at the moment that replaces a human.

The software side of "chore-robots" is totally beyond anything that currently exists.

Think about the basic task of washing/folding/putting away clothes.

The AI would need

* Full 3D spatial navigation

* Be able to identify what is clothing

* Be able to reliably pick up clothing

* Be able to open doors to get around the house

* Somehow know how to operate every model of washer/dryer, including different possible placements of the machines

* Somehow know how to fold any clothing item

* Somehow know where to put the folded clothes (be able to open any kind of dresser?)

If you wanted to solve this you'd probably start with things like "well maybe there's a designated clothes bin that comes with the product that the robot understands" or "well maybe we make the user mark out exactly the space where they want the clothes placed"

But then you're leaving general AI territory at that point and heading back in regular robotics territory where the solution is to put the problem "on rails" as much as possible.
Scanning 2^32 wasn’t exactly viable 30 years ago, so never say never.
My dad was a civil engineer on the clean water side of public health. In the late 1970s, when my parents moved into the house I grew up in, he replaced the supply line to the street and most of the plumbing. We never talked to him about it, but lead seems like a good guess (a side benefit, the water pressure from a slightly larger meter and clean pipes is a wonderful thing).
Yes, you need to find a way to have the compiler not elide memset() or this particular function. That part is probably not portable.

You can cast to volatile, but casting away volatile-ness and dereferencing the resulting pointer is UB.
Squirrels have been prepping before preppers were a thing!
Lithium battery maker airlifts assembly line to SF Bay Area
Governor Dao has a better working system for this already.
Authenticated anonymous identities. They are currently targeting the NFT space, but this tech could also be applied to online communities.
https://authentication.governordao.org/