skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is a bit like when you're reading western accademic's take on what some USSR marxist, or some Chinese marxist is saying. There's a good chance the accademic has read a bit of marx, maybe even most of marx, but it's just nothing in comparison to the degree of inculcation you get by actually being a marxist surrounded by other marxists.

Everything that's influential in China is like that. You don't learn it in school in the west, it's deep and difficult and takes a lifetime to learn (for instance, if you try to get into eastern philosophy, even with prior philosophy training, it's pretty hard). The history, even the parts of Chinese history europeans had a hand in, is not taught or generally remembered. So the ignorance becomes so compounded and pervasive that you get the situation where even domain experts end up having quite limited expertise, because they're missing deep proficiency in one of the many traditions that makes modern China make sense.

It's a bit like when you hear a non-programmer talk about programming. No matter how clever they are, it's always sort of immediately obvious.
Zoom links just got prettier ;)
So, if I read this correctly, there's no way to modify the results of a request anymore? I can just redirect to a new URL, block or allow? I' m not even sure, upon reading that, if I can use JS to redirect based on the full URL not just the matching snippet to a new URL.
> America has been very sheltered from the realities of large scale violence.

America has not.

Since America’s wars have not been fought with broad conscription since Korea or any conscription since Vietnam, Americans who don't volunteer for military service have been sheltered from the realities of large scale violence, of which the US is, and has especially become over the time where most Americans were sheltered from this, itself one of the major inflictors of on others.

Which, I think, is an argument against the large standing all-volunteer military, not the argument for it.
Are you arguing that no tech company has employees in most of Europe? It's very expensive to terminate people for cause in Scandinavian countries, France and the England.

Just because we don't do it in the US, doesn't mean they aren't doing it.
Value Capture
gotta love that to engage with stuff like this we need to navigate a Brazil level of bureaucratic bullshit to cover our asses.

Go to the therapist a bunch, create a paper trail, dig through fine print of short/long term leave..

as if the guy wasn't deal with enough between his work and wife as it was.

it's just sad that to find a way to best help yourself, you must suffer more, shoulder more, have more chewing up your time and limited ability to deal with mounting stress.

and people wonder why random people snap and blow away 15 random people at their office.
I actually think that particular end would have justified the means, at least at the time. However, the larger effect of normalizing the use of nuclear attacks as instruments of policy would almost certainly have been worse for everyone in the long run.

My guess is that the same reasoning that led von Neumann to advocate a decisive blow against the pre-H bomb Soviet Union would have led him to oppose MacArthur's ambition towards Manchuria. His position on the Korean conflict may be on record somewhere, but I haven't run across it.
Article 5 only applies to attacks in Europe or North America. The SCS is definitely in neither.
> If you host blobs for free

This is the key distinction. If you charge money, from the beginning, most of your content moderation woes go away.

At Transistor.fm we host podcasts and charge money for it (starting at $19/month). We've had very little problems with questionable content.

We're a counterpoint to the narrative here: small (4 full-time people), profitable, and calm.

> Even if you just hosted audio

Most DMCA takedown requests these days are handled through the big podcast directories (Spotify, Apple Podcasts). We haven't had to write/implement any fingerprinting tech.
> If you are talking about society then we already know that free market competition leads to the best outcomes.

It's easy to find lump sum transfers that would be welfare enhancing over the pareto optimal outcome decided by the market.

> There is only one union which will negotiate on your behalf whether you like it or not and will actively prevent you from selecting someone else to negotiate on your behalf.

Well yes, you are beholden to the results of the election - even if the side you voted for didn't win. That is what worker self-determination is all about.

> it is much easier for the employer to get their way by just bribing the union leaders

Then why don't employers bring in unions more often?
This has been my pet side project for many years. What use case would you apply it to?
If you're interested, in my thesis I induced l1-regularized decision trees through a boosting style approach. Adding an l1 term and maximizing the gradient led to sparse tree.
I remember reading that paper when I was trying to figure out why we were having issues with a wireless link down in the Patagonia fjords.

Unfortunately we didn't have the hardware or enough control over the link (it took negotiating access with armed forces to work on either end) to try to implement any of their ideas.
The linked article is about an Amazon employee making $300K in Tennessee (far from a high-cost area in the US).

That is a 99th percentile salary and 97th percentile household total income for TN.
> No, companies should treat its employees with well defined policies that are easy to understand, enforce and audit.

These are not mutually exclusive things, much of the time, but sometimes exceptions have to be made.

> Treating employees with something as variable and open to interpretation as "empathy" is what causes companies to implode- because who defines empathy? Who defines where the line is drawn? And why is it fair that some people will inevitably get more empathy than others because maybe the manager was having a good day and then a bad day.

This is a reasonable point, but it, again, does not address my fundamental point: Amazon as a company should have more ethical and empathetic policies. Amazon as a company should instruct managers to help their employees and be willing to back that help up with financial assistance.

Whether it's Jeff Bezos or this person's manager, you seem to want to keep this at an individual level of decision-making, but that's not the change I want to make.

As for myself, I'm not a manager because I don't want to be, and having to enforce policies I don't agree with is one of the reasons for that.
Windows works via a "Bring your own VM" approach, but since WSL exists I'd expect most Windows users would just run it there
>That’s the cynical approach, but most companies don’t actually want to lose valuable employees. T

Maybe.

But Amazon isn't most companies.
Can iPad Mini 6 Be an iPhone?
The PRC is developing a blue water navy and is heavily ramping up on carrier shipbuilding.

It makes sense that the US would want to build similar, land-based defensive strategies as a deterrent.
> Tap targets and illegible text being big ones.

You can zoom, and the website reacts very well to zooming.

> It doesn't matter if you can zoom into text when downvoted comments have so little contrast with the background (#ddd over #f6f6ef).

That's on purpose. If you don't agree with it it's trivial to overload it with custom CSS.
"Next, the researchers delivered irisin directly into the mice’s brains."

That sentence is not giving me much hope that they expect the hormone to survive digestion.
There can only be the state. Anything that threatens the state's dominance in people's minds and lives must be subjugated to the state. That's the point of a totalitarian regime.
How about accepting stuff manually before publish and only for paid users? :P
I agree. I have worked for a lot of FAANGs and nobody I knew ever went to Amazon.

I was partway through agreeing to an interview request from Amazon last year when my research turned up how stingy their 401k match is. Similarly their stock vesting schedule is awful compared with everybody else.

It's not that I desperately needed that extra bit of money on top of the perhaps generous salary (no sum was named).

It's that being stingy about that stuff indicates to me that they will be less than generous in every possible situation, say if I need time to deal with a health issue or a family emergency.
I use Visible which is a Verizon subsidiary (MVNO-like, but not an MVNO) - I think they used it to test out stuff or something?

Either way it's $25/mo unlimited everything with the tradeoff being that you can be deprioritized. In the bay area though it works fine and that's a great price for no contract.

As a bonus there are no stores and you sign up via the app, I've been happy with it.
The speed difference is really quite dramatic. When I replaced the boot hard drive on my Mac Mini with a SSD after it died, it was an immediately obvious increase in performance.
I need to find the words to describe my feelings about this.

Definitely involves drawing negative conclusions about Amazon.

I feel lucky that despite my recent losses, I didn’t have to deal with this horror.
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Actually many companies are trying/tried to compete with AWS especially in an egress price territory but because of a lack of exposure it is very hard to get a traction and get big enough.

And there is a lot of things that can be improved - like egress price, better support, get rid of regions completely, etc...
It doesn't "need" a redisign, precisely because this kind of website can easily be extanded by things like this extension.
> intended to store incredible amounts of energy

Each of these Megapacks can contain 1.5% of the energy contained in a petrol station. :) Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, these are realy nice and big batteries. That being said the energies stored in them are far from incredible.

These boxes were by all accounts manufactured in Nevada. They have been moved all the way to Victoria, lowered to the ground and hooked to the site’s wiring. They were not “charged” yet. The next step as part of the comissioning was to hook them up to the monitoring system before they are checked out.

No matter when you hook them up to be monitored there is a step just before it when they are not monitored yet.

> In general if you don't have a way to monitor an industrial-scale system you go in to your fail-safe state.

That is indeed a great idea. And if you read the report you can see that after they hooked up each box they put them manually into “maintenance” mode. This mode de-energises all systems in the box. It totaly makes sense that they thought this procedure is the correct one to reach the fail-safe state you mention. Turns out they were wrong. They learned this now and changed their procedures.
I'd guess the map is computed based purely on cell tower location+geography.
The problem with this idea is that launching of ICBM's is not a rational move. People are attempting to use logic to make the claim that it would be illogical for any of these nations to launch them. This is true but I counter that Humans are not always logical and are more often than not use emotion over logic.

While I think the current risk is low, even looking at it from an emotional stance, I do not think it is as "far fetched" as many believe it to be
> How many years should a company wait for an underperforming employee to perform?

Perhaps wait until after their spouse has died and see if they recover? Even the idea of an "underperforming employee" is specious at best.

This is why I love Italy and France, it is night impossible to fire someone for things like this from tech companies. Of course, they also don't have to worry about going bankrupt due to medical issues. They understand there is more to work than meeting the numbers. It is something you spend 2/3rds of your life doing, and other countries honor that.

[Oh, and also COBRA can cost $3000-$5000/month for shit coverage. Once you run out of money, they come for your stocks, retirement, and house. Source: I incurred over $100k of hospital debt AFTER INSURANCE from an assault that left my arm paralyzed. Why? If the hospital charges more than 125% medicare costs for the procedure, my $700/month Gold Plan didn't cover it. I was let go due to 6 months of absence from work, and then while unemployed and needing physical therapy, the hospital sent a request for tax statements and they began the process of a lien against my property. A lawsuit ultimately saved me, but if I hadn't been a victim, they would have taken everything. Fucking american healthcare is a joke.]
In the late 90s the US shifted its missile defense strategy to stopping small numbers of missiles, either fired from rogue nations like North Korea or accidental launches from more established powers like Russia. Defense against all out ICMB strikes from Russia or China was explicitly stated to not be a goal, as it could potentially jeopardize the status quo of mutually assured destruction and lead to increased resistance in nuclear disarmament talks.

For the mission for which GBI was designed to do, it performs adequately. While critics often cite an average lifetime success rate of about 50%, they fail to mention that there were lots of failures early on in the project and that over time the success rate has steadily improved. Further, for the intended mission, launching multiple interceptors at a single target to ensure a kill is perfectly reasonable. Preventing our destruction by large numbers of missiles is the job of our massive nuclear deterrent.

The Arrow 3 system was made in partnership with the very same people who made the GBI. While their specifications are slightly different as they are expected to deal with different threat vectors, they're using the same technology. The Arrow 3 isn't going to perform any better than the GBI will. Further, the Arrow 3 couldn't work as a drop in replacement - it would need new launch facilities built in new locations, new radar systems and control infrastructure, and of course a whole separate supply of spare parts and maintenance equipment. If we want the GMD program to defend against larger numbers of missiles, it makes far more sense to just build more GBI missiles, but again, there is no compelling reason to believe that we should want GMD to defend against more missiles than it currently does.

The only legitimate concern is that GBI was not designed to deal with hypersonic missiles. Arrow 3 is also not capable of this. For the moment, only Russia and China might reasonably be expected to have such capabilities, and they are deterred by the threat of nuclear retaliation. The MDA is already working on anti-hypersonics, but the threats we face now and in the near future do not require it, and there is no pressing urgency to shift more resources to its development than are already allocated.
FWIW, many big companies in US have HR policies and they have middle manager's/VPs that ignore the crappy parts and do what's right.

My wife had cancer in early 30s and it was a punch to the gut for us both. It was actually a very survivable thing but she had to go through some extreme treatments. Regarding work, she did some paperwork and went through the HR stuff for most but there was a lot of "off the books" type stuff that fell into her leader's "who cares about this place, put your health first" policy.

I wasn't even sick and honestly didn't even get any additional stress other than worrying for her (we had no kids yet, her mom was helping her daily) and my ability to perform was shot. I could barely keep a thought in my mind or give a shit about petty work "problems". Probably for a solid 6-12 months. The first 3 months were and still are a complete fog. I never officially told my company HR, but my leadership was extremely supportive and I basically just phoned it in for that year. I did no significant work and offloaded most of my responsibilities to others so that I was not a key part of anything.

When you go through something like this, you start to learn how much other people have gone through as well. They feel obligated to pull you aside and share their story and how things turned out for them. Often positive stories but obviously not always. But generally people treat people in these situations how they'd like to be treated as, it could happen to any of us.

Just wanted to throw some positive perspective out there. Amazon is a well known shitty place to work for humans. I'm not surprised by this article. I dodge their phone calls like many of you and encourage you to get to know your coworkers on a deeper & personal level. They are a more important part of your life than you may realize and will help carry you through some really rough spots if you let them.
It’s been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
I remember it being a huge mix! It really depended on what boards you were on. There were boards I was a member of in 2003 that had very strong moderation and they were great!

I was also on some basically unmoderated boards and saw some stuff I wish I didn't see.

I think this is more indicative of the communities you were a part of than the actual behavioral norms of people at the time.
Well, this is an another estimate: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6b02910

IQ damage of any amount is extremely significant and has subtle effects on society which are difficult to economically quantify, and given that many avgas burners basically do it for fun, seems mostly unjustifiable.
Fair point. 2/3 of the armada (modulo dry dock) is still coming to the fight.
Hahaha. Yes, I felt that every second while dealing with it.
To me:

1. Actual features like tab groups which Firefox killed.

2. Likelihood to actually add features. Firefox used to have unique features I liked a lot, like keyword searches synced via bookmarks, but this is set for deprecation and was removed from mobile. I don't remember when Firefox last gave me a new feature.

3. Adblocking on mobile while not being Firefox, which is interestingly rare.

4. Not being developed by Mozilla. Mozilla's increasingly vehement about woke political activism, and after the tech companies booted Orange Man out of the Internet, Mozilla came out in no uncertain terms saying that they'd like politically partisan platforms to decide what I see on the net. I'd used them for years and promptly noped the fuck out. The organization may be for privacy, but they don't seem to care about other important things, or rather care about them the wrong way. I want my browser maker to make a good tool, not to tell me what to think. Mozilla feels more interested in the latter than the former.

5. Brave focuses on building an alternative foothold on the web, not just providing a browser. A lot of the other browsers' footprint comes from associated web and hardware platforms and the resulting integration conveniences. Brave has a big focus on independent revenue streams, which I like a lot even if I'm not really a fan of the crypto stuff.

Firefox lacks that to a large degree. They do have Pocket, which is good, but their userbase is essentially hostile to Pocket because they have some idiotic pipe dream about a donation-funded, pure and moral FOSS project. Meanwhile Firefox the company is moralistic, not moral, and funded by Google.
A new “standalone” Valve VR headset teased by deep SteamVR file dive
Am a big fan of night trains when I travel. I've used them in China, a switzerland to belgium route, and also Brussels to Prague. That was a long time ago, but it was very enjoyable for a tourist.
As long as you don't traumatize the hard drives by yelling at them, feat. brendangregg & bcantrill:

https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4
I killed my WordPress plugin today
And there it is. I walked through the process until the document page and the disclaimer. No gambling apps.

What the heck? It's a massive industry and legalized gambling is growing massively.

So disappointing.
I have no idea the answer to your question, but personally, I find digital QR menus to be very poor UX. I know they've been around for a long time, but in my area I've only started seeing them more commonly the past few months; it seems the pandemic has driven a lot of restaurants to get rid of paper menus (hopefully temporarily).

We have a young kid and most of the time one of us (my spouse or myself) have to be paying attention to her, especially while outside. Looking at a restaurant menu on a mobile phone makes it pretty much impossible to look at and share and discuss items on the menu, while the other person can only pay 20% of attention (because the other 80% attention is on the kid). The end result is usually one person can't really order what they want. Paper menus are larger, have pictures, easier to flip around pages or sides, easier to point to things between two people (when one is not paying full attention) and generally more visible (when one is not paying full attention).

It's bad enough that we either avoid places with digital menu or have to make plans in advance to be sure we look through the menu at home the day before going.
> Roblox is working on a "moderation" system that can ban a user within 100ms after saying a bad word in voice. But their average user is 13 years old.

Reminds me of XBox live more than 10 years ago. They banned the word "Gay" since it was used as a slur by (by their estimate) 98% of users.

But there was a two percent population that simply used it legitimately. [0]

[0] http://www.mtv.com/news/1605966/microsoft-apologizes-for-xbo...
> Element Desktop was starting to hide "rooms in spaces" from my home screen, which now only contains rooms not in a space.

To change this behavior, enable "Show all rooms in Home" under Settings > Appearance
That’s absolutely right if course. Taking out a carrier group, or even several carrier groups is if course doable, but by itself it isn’t an objective. It’s a means to an end, so without a strategic context it doesn’t mean anything.
In Canada, British Columbia is using the SMART Health Card as well. Don't know if any of the other provinces are.
> The trick isn't to take out one aircraft carrier: its to to be able to take them all out.

Hypersonic missiles and nukes cost a lot less than a carrier. Assuming their surveillance doesn't get taken out, they can spam missiles.

China will have to have good signals intelligence for this to work, though.
Title isn't totally accurate, since the officers also sued a restaurant owner whose restaurant allegedly served alcohol to the driver of the Tesla, but it's what Ars had.

I'm curious to see where this goes. I'm not familiar enough with the laws involved to offer an informed opinion on how plausible this suit is, unfortunately.
Fool us once? Amazon's track record destroyed my willingness to give them the benefit of the doubt. They deserve extra scrutiny, because they have abused their customers' trust on multiple occasions.
Well yeah, you can put your driver's license in your apple wallet in some states now.
In relationships, above all - whatever works. Didn’t mean to sound judgmental of people who are like that and find happiness
> I'm not sure how Quebec's system works

An explanation: https://mikkel.ca/blog/digging-into-quebecs-proof-of-vaccina...
> One day we will have a popular open protocol and client for instant messaging. One day…

We have. It's called Matrix.
cp ./app.AppImage /srv/app/app.AppImage
for deployment_host in $( <deployment_hosts jq '.[].hostname');
ssh deployment_user@deployment_host /srv/app/app.AppImage &
done

okay boss, what's the next problem?
From what I understand, we aren't particularly afraid of hypersonic missiles because nobody even has defenses against conventional ICBMs.
> That doesn't mean the US will warn China if it decides to launch an attack in the future.

That's just a courtesy call. ICBMs aren't stealthy, and most developed countries will notice when it happens.
I thought there was Windows support for Podman the same way that Docker Desktop provides Windows support -- primarily through WSL2?