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Civil rhetoric really breaks down when it comes to politics, it seems.

Nobody in this thread was "screeching" about anything, and I don't appreciate being not-so-subtly called a moron. I have done nothing of the same to you.

I am perfectly capable of criticizing bad actions by unions, 2020 has had a number of them.

But I will not use those critiques as an excuse to argue that the right to elect someone to negotiate on your behalf should be curtailed, because I believe the right to worker self-determination comes prior to those consequences - just as I don't support banning "bad" speech even if that speech has consequences.

I'm not going to keep responding because, honestly, you seem to be shadow-boxing a conversational opponent who only exists in your own mind.
You’re describing my own situation, exactly. The years when I wasn’t at RescueTime I ran into problems like this and part of the reason why I wanted to help redesign the app was because it just wasn’t helping me out with these problems. Thank you for sharing your story.
We abolished biological and chemical weapons because they are considered obsolete tools of war after nuclear was invented. Who enforces the abolishment of bio/chem? States with nuclear arsenals. There’s little appetite in nuclear powered nations for nuclear disarmament. There is appetite for nuclear nonproliferation among nuclear powers, in large part because it maintains the power imbalance.

If you want to push for nuclear disarmament you’ll have to find a different model than bio/chem disarmament.
One of my employees was suffering from lymphatic cancer. So unfortunately, I have real life experience.

You support them for how long it takes. Period.

For my team mate, it took about 18 months until we could slowly start to reintroduce him to normal working hours. Even then, it took a couple of months until he was up to speed again.

As soon as he returned to the office, I treated him as if he was fully recovered to show him that we don't see him as some kind of disabled person, because of his cancer treatment. He recovered quickly and is now back to where he was before he left for treatment performance-wise.

Every screening for remission has been an extreme burden for him. Every time, I told him that even though I can fully understand his fear, the illness doesn't exist for me anymore and he is going to be fine.

2 years later, he's healthy and provides more value to the team than ever. We are all very thankful that he survived.
Had a coworker die and the company explicitely allowed everyone to violate core time for that day. As it became apparant that quite a few people would attend (it was a well-respected collegue, a genuinely nice man) they even booked a bus to the funeral and back so things would be a bit more streamlined.

Employer was the automotive part of bosch.at. Thought that deserves some public appraisal.

Disclaimer: I'm no longer employed there.
I think its a step above that. For many workflows, OBS is basically the best option. I bought XSplit a long time ago, when it was in beta or something. OBS came out around that time but it wasn't what it is today.

Today though? I still use OBS even though I still have XSPlit (I got a perpetual license). If there's something much better that isn't thousands of dollars, I'd like to know what it is.

There's a lot of commercial editors that are nicer than Gimp, and Office IMO still beats Libreoffice and isn't that expensive. But OBS? I don't know anything much better.

The plugin ecosystem and the community support is just top notch too, because EVERYONE uses OBS. If you use a commercial option, it's much harder to google up how to do some stuff.
Please no. This would be nothing but a miserable tragedy for all involved.
Only available to people in the US and South Korea at the moment, apparently.

A pity, but I guess they need lawyers in every country they do business in.
Totally, with all the free time I have between performing at work and caring for my dying partner I’ll be sure to study applicable law, meet with my doctor to get a note, then defend myself to HR
It's not illegal content I'm talking about. I'm specifically thinking of sites like Parler and Gab which very loudly and specifically start as anti-censorship of anything legal for the American right that feel like they're being censored off of the regular platforms. Then they quickly learn that no moderation means you'll get absolutely flooded with trolls who aren't a fan of your chosen ideology and are willing to spam and troll you. That quickly encourages them to start actually moderating in some regards the exact thing they were created in opposition to because what they're actually mad about is specific moderation decisions not the idea of moderation in general.
I am quite pessimistic about Amazon and its influence, having worked there for about a year. In my (admittedly jaded) opinion, the company encourages this kind of dehumanizing behavior toward people.

That said, this isn't new and it isn't limited to Amazon. My brother died of cancer at the age of 10. My dad's manager gave him a bad performance review and said that he let his son's death affect his work. Other people where my dad worked were more empathetic (though unfortunately, not in his management chain).
Stalin had "socialism in one country," and yes, that has significant material and historical meaning, as opposed to being generic fluff.

Because it was generally believed that building socialism required a number of successful workers' revolutions around the world. But basically every revolution at the time failed, other than the Bolshevik revolution. So they found themselves in an awkward position. Hence the strategy and policy of Stalin to build "socialism in one country."

This is one of the major breaks between Stalin and Trotsky.
I feel the same. I don't like when companies use a word that already exists.
I just tell them how much it would cost to get me to up and move to Canada or the US to work for them, just to be equal to my situation here in Europe.

That usually stops them pretty quickly :)
I don't know why anyone good enough for the job would choose to work somewhere as abusive as amazon.

Also, there is no need for insults, don't spread your abusive workplace online please :)
Wages are only going up if you are at the very top. The bottom half is not going up.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/09/1...
The new CPU has another carbon footprint added, plus the RAM and motherboard, etc. to overcome before it is comparable. I doubt a new CPU is effective enough to offset that anytime soon on an average use PC.
Many things wrong with your comment, starting with the fact that firing beings to be discussed only after a year. It actually begins to be discussed immediately after the employee is assessed to be an underperformer. It's only after a year of bad written performance reviews that they can actually start to do something about it, such as put the employee on a "PIP" or fire the employee.
As someone that's used IP proxying services that provide millions of IPs for scraping purposes, that is a very mature industry, and they advertise (and I believe them) "millions" or IPS, even for what you might consider hard to supply ones, like mobile IPs, and they let you slice and dice them however you want? Datacenter IPs? Residential IPs? Mobile IPs?[1] What state or city would you like them in? Would you like the site you're hitting to not have been accessed by this IP (through proxying at least), and if so how many days? Do you want some mix of that? Make your own configurations and set them up as proxy endpoints, etc.

Fighting against abuse at the level of IP address attributes seems like a losing game to me. Honestly, the best I saw at this (3-5 years ago at least) for traffic was Distil networks, where they put a proxy device in front and examine your traffic and captcha or block based on that.

Since you have content being submitted, there's a lot more you can use to classify, such as how you used ML, so that's good. Part of me worries that this is all sort of reminiscent of infections and antibiotics though. The continual back-and-forth of you finding a block them finding a workaround feels kind of like you were training the spammers (even if you were training yourself at the same time). At some point maybe we'll find that most the forum spam is ML generated low information content posts that also happen to be astroturfing that is hard to distinguish from real people's opinions.

1: Fun fact, to my knowledge anonymous mobile IPs are provided by a bunch of apps opting into an SDK (like an advertising/metrics SDK) which while their app is open (at least I hope that's a requirement) registers itself to the proxying service so it can be handed out for use by paying proxy customers. Think about that next time you play your free "ad-supported" mobile game.
Can anybody explain to me or give me some materials to read? Say toy has 5000ppm Pb, how does that translate to it being dangerous? Child only touches it. Assuming soil have a ballpark of 100ppm Pb and we all love fresh vegetables.. how is this toy or even a dish doing any damage?
For some reason I remember everyone's behavior on old school message boards as much better than modern social media. Sure, you have your degenerate boards, but just don't go there. Moderation and censor ship will always exist, but they seem to work better when they are more locally applied.
The current USA healthcare hellscape came as a result of an attempt to implement universal healthcare that was derailed via regulatory capture.

It's hard to see how you could implement universal healthcare successfully in country like the US which has third-world standards for corruption and democracy, and low average human capital.
Tulip bulbs are the future
Past related threads. Others?

Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274190 - Aug 2021 (24 comments)

OBS Studio 27.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27360141 - June 2021 (117 comments)

OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645312 - March 2021 (67 comments)

Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627673 - Jan 2021 (138 comments)

OBS Studio 26.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633139 - Sept 2020 (154 comments)

How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834153 - July 2020 (190 comments)

Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573474 - June 2020 (38 comments)

Automated Work Recordings with OBS Studio and TaskWarrior and TimeWarrior - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23410503 - June 2020 (17 comments)

OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404485 - June 2020 (155 comments)

Share OBS output as a webcam in Hangouts, Zoom etc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804804 - April 2020 (52 comments)

OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748247 - April 2020 (362 comments)

Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022 - March 2020 (99 comments)

How to remove breathing sounds from your audio recordings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512199 - April 2016 (6 comments)
There seems to be a markdown error (and a grammatical error) in:

> This is it about axiom schemas and *rules of inference are almost the same thing except they allow us to actually distill the conclusion from the premises.
This is PR.

Water needs are local, except where it is explicitly part of the same watershed/supply system. 'Net positive' here means 'we help retain a bunch of water over there... <points to other side of state where no one lives and the water isn't captured well>, and use it over here <points to middle of extreme desert with greater outflows than inflows of water into all sources>', and we're net positive!
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All major nuclear powers have systems in place to guarantee the survival of at least some of their strategic nuclear forces in the event of a surprise attack, ballistic missile submarines being one of them.
I think if we're trying create a sane and decent society, we're barking up the wrong tree by attaching basic human compassion to employment, which is a bizarre choice that I'm guessing can be traced back to ideological polarization in the Cold War. The country wouldn't tolerate a completely pitiless dog-eat-dog system, but private enterprise was afraid of being exterminated if communism got a foothold in society, and they agreed to take on the responsibility of funding and administering the welfare state for everybody who was employed, so the welfare state for everybody else could be minimized and stigmatized. That's the just-so story in my head, anyway.

As a result, we're in this absurd situation where the only way to do the right and decent thing for a poor person suffering a brutal personal tragedy is for them to get paid $300k per year to do an incredibly rare-air information economy job that they aren't actually doing.

I agree, Amazon has a responsibility to this person because that's the system we've built. Amazon is reaping the benefits of the system and shouldn't be allowed to dodge the responsibilities. But my god, what an absurd system we've built.
Because it's unenforceable, and nuclear weapons are the only deterrent against foreign invasion, which is a why many nations have desired to acquire them.
Does Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta Release Comply with Law?
> That is an insane fortune to almost everyone

Pfft. No it isn't. It just illustrates how badly underpaid some sectors are.

The author seems to have been in a bit better position by not relocating to a high cost of living region. Still, when the "American Dream" term was coined - decades ago - the wages were much more "insane", as you put it. Even minimum wage could support a couple with a child above the poverty line.

300k a year (before taxes) likely can't even pay for his wife's healthcare, if he were to pay out of pocket (due to losing his job).

> There are thousands waiting for his position and they would kill to get it.

Not really. There are companies that pay even better, for a similar amount of effort, and better policies.
A good publicly funded health care system essentially work like an insurance.
Techcrunch would be out of business within a week.
This is hilarious on so many levels. My suggestion to him:

Turn in a new artwork next week:

the money shredded

call it "i return your dirty money, you greedy bastards"

It can be explained as a revolt against the existing power structures in the financial world, where the poor are only noticed when they cause unrest.
How about nobody bombing noone? I am sick of all the wars. If we would all get our $hit together and pull on the same strings we humanity could stand a chance in surviving itself. Otherwise I am highly pessimistic.
While I know nothing about Tanner Greer, the author of that article, it would not surprise me in the least if he had not read Xi's books. The intro callout is from Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia. While I'd give his opinions some weight, I'd hardly consider him an expert on the inner workings of the CCP. And the book highlighted in the article "Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom" was written by Andrzej Walicki, that wikipedia describes as a prof at Notre Dame who "specialized in philosophy of sociopolitics, history of Polish and Russian philosophy, Marxism and liberal thought".

I can't recall who it was, but I recall viewing a lecture by a china-scholar maybe 10 years ago who was ranting about how the fall of the soviet union had spurred many economic-socio-political academic types to switch to china. And how most of them could not read chinese so could not read original sources. And how many of them had never visited china. Or communicated with any chinese officials, much less citizens. But that didn't stop them from pontificating about what china was like, what china would do and what china was thinking. I don't know if it's just me, but both western political leadership and media just seem... less than knowledgeable about China.
Introduction to Artificial Life for People Who Like AI (2019)
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>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.

Sure, it'd be great if my workplace kept paying me $300k even if I was under-preforming because of personal issues. However, how realistic is this expectation? Are there any places that keep under-preforming employees for half a decade, or more?
Are you working as a contractor or employee?
If it is to scan milk inside a refrigerator? Most can do without "smart" functionality.
Russia's military is OK.

It's not 2001.
I agree with your characterization of the Iraq invasion and the politics around it. However, I disagree with your claim that the fall of Afghanistan was planned and unavoidable for the following reasons:

- The Trump deal was conditional on the Taliban meeting requirements they ended up not meeting (supporting other terrorist groups), which would have invalidated that agreement. Additionally that agreement was very high-level with details left open-ended, and it could have been implemented via a safer, phased withdrawal. I say this as someone who recognizes Trump could also have led the US to this same (or far worse) outcome.

- The Biden administration had every authority to change course from Trump. Clearly Biden had no problem doing so with a list of immediate executive orders, and he could have made different choices here. In fact he already did, since he withdrew by August rather than May (a departure from the Trump-Taliban agreement).

- Biden repeatedly claimed that there was no way the Taliban could overwhelm the Afghan army, but that's what happened. This seems like an unplanned outcome (the alternative is that Biden lied to the US public and the world).

- Other allies like Germany were also blindsided by the unilateral choice to withdraw as the US did, which left them scrambling to figure out a safe exit for their people and other collaborators.

- The US could have left a small force of 2500 to help keep the peace - that seems like a small price to keep the Afghanistan government together for another generation.

- The US could have taken stronger action historically against Pakistan, which has provided a safe space for various terrorist groups to rebuild, including both Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Even doing so now, while continuing military support of the Afghan government, could have set up for a safer future withdrawal.
It's also available online: https://www.xuexi.cn/d6399cd070074625b24eb5952a5ea64c/b7dd5b...

Amusingly, the book's website has a "how to buy" button that... links directly to the Amazon product page: http://www.china.org.cn/china/node_7214554.htm What, the Party can't run its own shipping operation?
Because at the end of the day it is about money.
Not as a file but as a searchable index, yes. Here's a few:
shodan.io
spyse.com
zoomeye.org
So is the conclusion that we should be exercising right up until the day we die?
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Consumption also funds jobs which put money in the pockets of the poor.

It has the added benefit of bidding up the price of things poor people need, which yes is inflationary but also incentivizes more resources being provisioned to help provide the things that poor people need.
I'm not saying anything in conflict with the words on this page. This page maps the coverage of services provided by infrastructure that the carriers own. That is not (necessarily) the same as the coverage map of where subscribers can get connectivity.

As the page mentions:

> The coverage maps on these service providers’ websites may be based on different parameters and assumptions, such as roaming, and may therefore differ from the information shown here.

It also mentions that the data is generated from Form 477 data. This form only includes data from operators who own their infrastructure. This means it will not include information about services provided through partnerships.

Seriously -- look at the USCellular map layer. This is not a map of the service area that a USCellular customer would expect, because USCellular makes a significant use of roaming under contract with other carriers (labelled 'partner coverage' on their own maps). https://www.uscellular.com/coverage-map/voice-and-data-maps

Also, my reply was in response to a comment about MVNOs, which may or may not provide services equivalent to the carriers they virtualize their network through.
Yup, thank the Federal Reserve. Elites profit the most from generous quantitative easing, aka "printer go brrr". Meanwhile you'll be paying double for a house.
Every power structure does it. SCOTUS justices reach diametrically opposite conclusions through the same 'technique'.
I wanted to stream a bunch of videos (and intermissions) to some friends "live" and thanks to this and and comments right here at Hacker News, I have a workflow I plan on trying out as soon as I get other things settled.

Namely ... VLC playlist of videos pushed to an OBS source, OBS dumps out an RTMP stream, nginx will loop that to HLS by spawning a bunch of ffmpeg processes to wrap up and later be ingested by Jellyfin, and from there out to various Jellyfin clients on the Roku, Apple TV, Fire Stick, and so forth. It sounds overly complicated but my friends are not tech savvy and have a wide variety of bandwidths ...

Looking forward to trying this out.
A BFS is essentially a while loop with a queue datastructure. This is (relatively) easy to implement in TCO-recursive erlang/elixir, which is what I'm currently most proficient in. And, yeah, TCO would help.
Umm no Vaccine Passport at all...

How about that.

The amount of tyranny people are willing to accept as a response to this is still baffling to me, it is like this is the first time humanity has ever encountered a communicable illness...

This is not the proper way to respond to said illness and does not bode well for the future of individual liberty
> The problem with hero worship is that we disregard and apologize for our heroes' flaws when we wouldn't do that for the person sitting next to us.

Isn't that basically "refusing to believe that humans can be flawed"? We apply different standards to "heroes" and to regular human beings, while they are both regular human beings.
My takeaway was googling "Irisin pills"~
A quora answer said that it resembled post WW2 US. Strong middle class with less inequality.
My favourite point when dealing with USSR sympathiers is that Chinese success is owed to 40 years of NEP, which was shut down in the USSR and doomed it.

(And this is due to Soviet distrust of its own Russian population, and also due to habit of siphoning money out of consumer economy)

Edit: The thing is, USSR was doomed after winning WW2.

It had to compete with the rest of the world economically without having adequate economy. USA just had to choose the relevant weapon (consumer economy) to win this one.
Very common for people struggling with anxiety, ADHD, depression, etc. To be frank, you’re better off taking this question to a therapist or communities based on mental health. Tech forums are rarely good at having useful advice or empathy for this sort of thing. /r/ADHD is a good place to start for this specific topic.
Wait till you learn that hobby aircraft still use leaded fuel
Next time you’re visiting any place, install a proxy on their network.