skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not yet - iOS is really locked down. We’re hoping to get something working at some point. Really need better access to Screen Time APIs though.
check out https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/wiki
There are specialised versions availble at:
http://www.optikey.org/
Oh wow. This (especially with respect to the mental model of the incentives for how a company works on the inside) should be taught in school.
This is what I get in firefox on linux: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
Do you really think that this is about the money? This man is losing his wife, he cannot think clearly, because he loses the person he loves and has children with. He may suffer from severe depression. I'd bet my right leg that if he didn't need to, he would not think about money for a minute. It also doesn't matter whether he should have built up an emergency fund that can cover cancer treatment expenses. He clearly has different problems than that right now.

I can't comprehend how you can even talk about money until you have helped that guy with all you have. Clearly, Amazon is well enough equipped to first provide support, then ask questions once a situation like that has been resolved.

The way this is being handled is just wrong. You wouldn't treat any of your friends or family members like that, so why do it to your employee?
Not only lose an employee, but lose future employees as well. I'll never work for Amazon because of this crap, and I know I'm worth well more than $300k/year to them.
Yeah I'd never move to the US for that reason (and the cost of healthcare) alone. I want my holidays. Here I get more than 3 weeks. Money is second to enjoying my life. It's only a means to that end.

I was approached about a job in the US recently but I declined.
I accept a slightly lower income from my employer, as I think they're pretty generous in their flexibility.
Over a decade ago my father died and they just told me to take off whatever I needed. I'm still with them and have seen them to be sympathetic to my colleagues and even when laying them off, have paid over the legal minimum.
It's one of the reasons I'm still working for them.

From a distance I know amazon are bastards, but pay more. If I switched job, I'd just accept that some of that salary bump needs to be put into personal insurance.

I'd have sympathy if amazon were knonw to be cuddly and picked on this guy, or didn't pay him enough to...
Youki – a container runtime in Rust that has passed all tests provided by OCI
Download old BYTE magazines from here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm

Or higher quality scans here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

Or Popular Electronics: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Gui...

Creative Computing: https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing
Oh, that's just beautiful, hopefully that'll make Grand Pooh Xi choke on his breakfast noodles.
It hard to hear these stories, but necessary to warn future employees about it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28555480
This is usually called a "honey pot" if some people want to search tools for implementing it.
Very handy thanks for sharing.
In my ~15 year career I've met a lot of people that have gone on and worked at almost every big company imaginable. For some reason an outsized amount of people that I hated working with ended up as SDMs at Amazon. The list of people I hate is very, very small too, so it seems like more than a coincidence.
It's 3rd party app that you can join your company's forum if you have an email address with the company domain.

It's like Nextdoor but for employees of a particular company where people can vent, spread rumors, and at times share useful information.
Substack (YC W18) is hiring engineering managers to build the future of writing
"The extent to which Xi’s reading of classical Marxist texts has inspired this campaign is not clear."

It seems the article's author has not read Xi Jinping's multi-volume series "The Governance of China," which very clearly lays China's path toward building a "moderately prosperous socialist nation" using fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist thought adapted to China's material conditions -- i.e. "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics."

It's not a big secret. You can buy an English translation on Amazon or even get a free copy from your local embassy/consulate.
a) Agreed; the fact that spaces aren't in the spec is annoying when trying to stay spec-compliant and not realizing you also have to search through various GitHub issues to be fully informed. Granted, spaces have been one of the most hotly-discussed topic in Matrix development for months, so anyone interested in making anything Matrix related likely would have come across it.

b) Not true; spaces don't require room version 9. IIRC the only space-related feature that needs a room upgrade is "restricted rooms", ie. the ability to make a room accessible only to members of another room/space.
amazing cost ... will try it out for some personal projects
Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to write out a detailed reply and sharing your experience! Being embedded in the academic world, there is such a warped selectionship bias, it's good to hear the experience of someone who left and did important things outside academia!

I'm in my second year of a STEM PhD, and I'm not really sure what I want to do with this. I'm kind of contemplating dropping out, but it's difficult to say how much of my frustrations stem from pandemic-related things (the lack of that social stuff, and the way the university has handled the pandemic) and how much they will persist past it. It seems the department used to have a really good social life before the pandemic, so I'm hopeful. I'm also frustrated with my advisor, but after an important deadline soon I will bring my frustrations up to them and see how that goes.

On the other hand, I have a lot of free time compared to when I used to work full-time. I have the freedom to work on projects I want to work on (both by steering/concentrating my research into cool things but also in my plentiful free time). I moved from overseas to a very good university in the US in a cool city for the PhD. I feel like I've climbed so high in some sense, from an unknown, small regional city to where I'm at now, and it feels like a "huge thing to throw it away".

Then on one hand I feel like I will reap benefits of the PhD for life; as you mention in meetings, I think in the US there is even more "credentialism" and having a PhD from a well known university makes you "smart" a priori. (Typing that out, it sounds like such a vain thing to care about. I joke that my parents will never see me as an adult until I have a doctorate.)

I'm on the fence with these things... But I don't think dropping out and getting a job would be a very good idea until we emerge a bit more from covid, so my contingency plan is to wait it out for a few months and re-evaluate.

Anyway, sorry, I realize this ended up being a long excerpt of my internal monologue and was probably not particularly exciting or interesting to read!
Who Framed Roger Rabbit essentially narrates this story of the demise of the trolley.
> It’s just like how every flight begins with the safety briefing. Learn your company’s policies and procedures now, when you don’t need them. And refresh your memory regularly.

That's more of a consequence of how we're irrationally afraid of flying than anything else. AFAIK you're far more likely to die of a building fire than a plane crash, yet how many people actually check their hotel's evacuation plan when they first enter the room?
> When I filed for paternity leave, I was paid quite a few weeks for not working at all, because the country where I live understands that workers are people who have lives and struggle with major life events.

No country has this kind of benefits for plumbers who are mostly independent.
> He has promised Chinese a better life. Growing paychecks aside, the Chinese are not living it.

I mean... growing paychecks instead of stagnation would do a whole lot to arrest the instability that Western liberal democracies are experiencing.
I don't think that there exists any regime which will save the chinese people from overworking and overcompeting themselves.

You can give a person money and power but you can't force them to be laid back altruists.

So the "not living it" part is not relevant, but neither are Xi's "measures".
Definitely not arguing that the heat doesn’t need to go somewhere. You’re absolutely right.

All I remember is family saying they had effective means for recycling the water without losing it in these boiler chambers.

I’m no expert, but they were saying significantly higher efficiency than 65%.
Also nearly 100 million members of the Communist Party -- roughly 1/3 the size of the entire U.S.
Dates are a pain.

The date bug I committed with the longest tail was daylight time. It was all good until we got to a day with 25 hours when we "fell back."
You would think with how huge and renown amazon is as a company they would have their pick of top engineers. It's not the case. None of my friends that work in Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other unicorns even consider applying to Amazon on their job search. It's actually pretty comical, I have no idea where Amazon gets their talent pool from.
>Why haven't we abolished nuclear weapons like we have with Biological and Chemical

If you believe that the US does not develop, test and have ready bio and chemical weapons then I got a bridge to sell you.
>That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer

Absolutely does, just not in the US.
In the US, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. It also requires that their group health benefits be maintained during the leave.
Grandparent specifically mentioned paid leave. As far as I know, many companies are now switching to 12-24 week paid leave models for maternity/paternity leave.
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Not to mention of course that it wouldn’t be too surprising if the lockdowns and the vaccination fights caused at least some anxiety and depression.
>We ended the war in Afghanistan so

....we are ready for the upcoming Iran war.
When there is a demand for empty containers, and people who have them, why isn't it profitable to ship them somewhere? When shipping costs are rising overall, it should be worth it to pay for a delivery of empty containers, rather than continue paying the higher prices.

> I have no idea how christmas is going to work.

Maybe shipping things is not the important part of christmas. SCNR.
there is a political theory called Mutually Assured Destruction that has been the bread and butter of nuclear arms diplomacy since the 50s.
Paychecks are rising in the US, certainly. Just not very equally.
Europe already has a simple, secure digital vaccine passport. You get a QR code that contains your name, date of birth, and the doses you've received. It's digitally signed by your national government, so that it can't be faked. Nobody needs to hold a centralized database of vaccinated people.

Because it's just a QR code, you can store it however you'd like. If you want, you can print it out and carry it around in your pocket. It's easy to check: you just need to read the information and check that it's digitally signed by a trusted authority (both of these can be done by an app), and check the the person listed in the QR code is the person in front of you (e.g., by asking for an ID).
Indeed, being a HIC has a lot of liability. Unfortunately, I think the regulatory institutions and the media are compromised, and I do not forsee any principled resistance based on PHIPA getting traction.

The only way to get traction will be to find a way for it to be used to scapegoat conservative party politicians, otherwise, it's not going to go anywhere. Basically, unless you can pin it all on Doug Ford, the press is going to ignore it.
Between Patreon and the contributors page they're getting about $60k/yr, which doesn't include YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook, who are presumably donating/supporting enough to cover multiple developers each to earn that spot on the page.

I'd love to see more public, vocal support of OBS too but let's not pretend that they're collecting change out of couch cushions to pay the people working on it.
also Amazon?
That’s actually misleading, but a common misconception: The process is much less demanding than trying to continue working a demanding job at Amazon, for example.

Disability claims are a common target for fraud and abuse so getting some early documentation from a medical professional is important. Engaging with medical professionals is something anyone with debilitating depression should be doing ASAP anyway, so it’s not much of an extra step just for the claim.

The rest can be started by calling the disability insurance and asking about the process. Some company’s HR teams might even help direct employees to the benefit because they’d rather retain the employee if possible and also use the insurance for its intended purpose of covering periods of disability (rather than firing the employee or paying for someone who is unable to perform). YMMV with how much you trust HR departments, though, so best to call the disability insurance company first.
That's absurd. How did they not run afoul of false advertising laws?
(Oh, that federalregister.gov link says "The RLDWA revised the definition of lead free.")

My layperson expectations:

• "low-X": < 1/3 is X.

• "trace amounts of X": <1% is X.

• "X-free": no reasonably detectable amount is X. Obviously there's some wiggle room for how sensitive the detectors are, but it should be less that "trace amounts," i.e. 0%.

This reminds me of "waterproof" which generally just means it can survive being splashed or rained on for a few minutes, but not submerged.
At my last job I used to VDI instance for my development work. I liked the setup as I could access it from my personal computer or my work laptop. It kept me from having to buy a KVM and dealing with switching between computers when I was at home.

I didn't notice any latency or frame rate issues.
> The reason for a car dependent lifestyle in the U.S is that people don't want to live around or take public transit with the riffraff. This does not make sense to anyone who lives in Europe.

This sort of US vs Europe stuff I read on HN regarding car use just isn’t binary at all: some countries in Europe are very car-dependent, others less so.

Not all of us are like The Netherlands or Denmark, unfortunately.
I think you're overestimating rail travel in Europe.

We're stuck with limited capacity, grossly different rail systems in each country.. I was on an international chartered train from the Netherlands to Germany recently and while the locomotive supported both systems, they had to change drivers at the border.

As a result intra-EU train travel is far more expensive and more hassle than air travel. With air a low-fare airline culture has developed, with rail this can never happen without massive infrastructure investment. All the seats are already full so why reduce their cost?

So rail in Europe is more of a national phenomenon. It's not like it's a serious alternative to flying. Most countries in Europe are too small to make national flights a thing so rail is mostly used within countries.
> Also, your sole VPS will fall over nearly instantly with any significant amount of traffic

Wow, haha...no. Especially not with a static site. Even for a wordpress site, a $5 VPS can easily handle in the tens of millions of hits per day, and if that's not enough just add a CDN in front.
Yeah, my points are in no particular order. Specifically avoided using numbered points for that reason. You’re right in that effective hiring is a major draw.
I wish we had a #MeToo for horrible corporate environments. Amazon is an atrocious place to work at, and even though I'm no fan of cancel culture, if any case begs for naming and shaming, it's got to be this one. There are people that make these decisions. Amazon isn't some "monolith" where no one has free will. That argument didn't work for WW2 Nazi guards, so why should it work here? "Just following orders" isn't good enough.

I've been approached dozens of times by Amazon -- by recruiters, but even by hiring managers -- and I'm sure I'd get paid a ton. But I could never morally justify working for such a garbage company in 1000 years.
I really don’t understand why people work for Amazon. Low ball offers and long work hours. No thanks.
> Nor is this a coverage map

The first sentence,

"This map shows the 4G LTE mobile _coverage_ areas of the nation’s four largest mobile wireless carriers: AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile, UScellular, and Verizon."

The next sentence further defines what coverage means, a cellular signal with a minimum bandwidth requirement.

I'll listen to you though.

What is missing but would be useful is how many users it can support at that minimum bandwidth.
Now, this sounds like generic Marxist theology, likely writen by some nameless drone ghost writer.

Stalin had "Marxism in a specific country", Khruschev (or was it Brezhnev?) had "socialism with human face".
You mean as a way to show kids that no morality exists in a context that allows one to be a faceless HR department? Despicable.
It seems no more entitled than expecting health insurance or personal disability leave to me. Nearly all of us will face a few personal derailments that leave us unable to function much at some point in our lives. We could recognize that fact and mutually insure each other against it. Or we could just throw each other to the wolves? Do you want a cut-throat hellhole that will dispose of you as soon as possible, or just a nice place to work? Most of us want the latter, I think. Probably shouldn't be up to the employer like this anyway. The public employment insurance in my country covers partial pay for up to a year to look after a dying relative.
"wOrK lIfE bAlAnCe"
I guess the question is how much of that is post-facto justification vs actual motivation.
Crystal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass) does contain lead, but apparently "crystal glass" does not.

So, by default, "glass" is indeed lead-free, unless you're talking about some fancy older glassware.
Ah you're right; the most natural BFS would be tail-recursive or iterative.
What exactly does "moderately prosperous" mean here?
I think he's trying to say that regulation will discourage conflicts of interest even if they don't entirely prevent it. The key point is that right now people are able to do things they couldn't in traditional markets that they can do in the crypto market and there are no penalties for it.
You don't generally join the party because you believe so strongly in communism. You join it for the improved job prospects.
A plumber will presumably understand the nature of independent contracting.

A salaried plumber employed by a larger plumbing company would reasonably expect employee benefits.
Maybe that offer is still available.
This happened to me, as well. Not my wife and not Amazon, but actually a handful of family members dying over the last year.

On one hand I completely understand my employer. Unlike Amazon, they do not have Amazon-style money. They are fighting to survive. Like the author I am not sure what they should have done for me.

During the conversation where I was terminated, I told my boss I understood their position. They needed performance above all else.

But, combined with the company's meager retirement plan, meager health insurance, and stingy PTO that barely covers a couple of funerals each year.... I said who the fuck are you trying to hire, here? Exclusively people... without families? Are you trying to hire typical human beings or what? Or strictly obsessive coders who do nothing but code all day and don't have families and don't need PTO?

"I don't think those kinds of guys exist any more," he said.

"Well maybe you should build a fucking company for the other kind of person then, huh?" I said.

He had no answer.
> They are asking for NDAs to be signed - why is that necessary if this is just about the progress of implementing an ISO standard?

I'd assume there's something in there about Apple sharing their product roadmap and planning, so they can get all the ducks in a row for a unified launch rather than support coming in piecemeal.
> Do you have a smart speaker?

Even worse, I have a smartphone which can do everything a smart speaker does and more.
For me the high correlation seems to be with Facebook.
The operators deliberately cannot, as we had to keep explaining when this came up on HN previously, drive Waymo's cars remotely.

They can reach into the car's model of the world to help it understand e.g. this thing that you decided is an ambulance is actually not an ambulance, so you don't need to treat it like one. Or, very simply, that road is shut, don't try to use it.
So why didn't this person simply leave Amazon's shitty job and give some dignity to human life.
Companies employ people. People have problems. Firing people, or forcing out people, when they have problems, doesn't sound like a very good place to work.

It's very possible that the unspoken culture at Amazon is work hard above all else. If you've read "The Everything Store", there is a quote, something like, (regarding Bezos) "If you're bad, Jeff will run you out of the company. If you're good, he'll ride you into the ground." It also talks about Jeff firing an early and long-time employee, he did throw a party for him in Hawaii, because Amazon no longer had a use for him. I don't know if either are true, but if true, I could see that attitude creating an unspoken culture of, "I don't care about your problems, we have work to do. If you can't do it, we need someone who can." I can also see how the success and the stock price, given the commitment to work above all, reinforces that mentality.
This place is somewhat near us:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory

Among other things (including a nuclear meltdown):

> On 11 December 2002, a Department of Energy (DOE) official, Mike Lopez, described typical clean-up procedures executed by Field Lab employees in the past. Workers would dispose of barrels filled with highly toxic waste by shooting the barrels with rifles so that they would explode and release their contents into the air. It is unclear when this process ended, but for certain did end prior to the 1990s.[29]

Trying to get it cleaned up has been a shitshow.
Sometimes people forget that disobeying orders and accepting the punishment is an option, and sometimes it may even be the more rational option. This situation reminds me of the author Colonel David Hackworth who appeared on TV and denounced the Vietnam war after he became disillusioned with the military bearuacracy.
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I used it to make some tutorials at work in the past. Being able to record the computer audio and the mic audio on two separate tracks for editing later was quite useful!
> You go in and say "Hey my wife is dying and my performance is probably going to be impacted, can something be done?", HR may opt to 'protect' the company by starting to build a case for terminating a low performing employee.

That’s the cynical approach, but most companies don’t actually want to lose valuable employees. This is why they have disability insurance coverage in the first place to help cover those gaps (while having the insurance foot the bill).

Also, in this case the author says he voluntarily warned them his wife was dying of cancer during the interview process. If HR wanted to get rid of him for that, they would have simply found an excuse to not hire him. Instead they gave him an offer.
But paychecks have no been outrunning inflation or follow productivity increase at least here in western Europe.

My paychecks if lucky grows like 2~3% but my house value rises with like 10~18% so do my taxes I need to pay for owning a house.