skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not a coward, just a human being.

If you're a Chinese national, speaking out publicly against the CCP affects your family too. Even if you were out of reach of the CCP, there's nothing preventing them from disappearing your relatives.
"One sec, I'll just turn my house off, I don't want it listening."
I'm from Poland and few years ago as a student I was working one night serving dinners in Wroclaw Amazon warehouse as a side job. Besides the fact that some people in night shifts were clearly under the influence and most were either really old, or really young, the whole thing looks like a prison. Motivational texts on the walls, bland colors, everyone was sad and depressed, metal detectors and security checks everywhere. I genuinely felt bad for people working there. There were a lot of stories that they count your steps to force you to work more but I don't know how much of these were true. Generally Amazon(warehouse) here attracts really the people who have nowhere else to go and is considered 'last resort' kind of job around here.
… which might be the least of your concerns under a fascist regime.

I mean that it doesn’t take an authoritarian regime change for surveillance capabilities to become scary.

It could be your neighbor democracy tapping into your national systems, the national company entrusted with public information to misuse them for profit…
Not sure if this ties into the third point about how water evaporates, but the Mpemba effect is another cool mystery about water.
> rational and religious person

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

okay, okay, being aware of your biases is half the battle after all!
The reason I'm bullish on Fable (and Feliz) is that in my experience the challenge in writing a modern web application is dealing with state, especially when API calls are involved. With Fable I save a lot of time (and bugs!) in that, so I'm okay with spending more time integrating with javascript libraries.

In my experience you can achieve the same functionalities with a lot less complexity in Fable + Feliz than the equivalent typescript stack.
What part of

“a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment.”

is not the direct superclass of an Amazon fulfillment center?

One click off the one you provided is Wikipedia’s take on a “total institution”:

“A total institution is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life.”

So as Futurama’s writers would say you are technically correct, the best kind of correct: even the fucking villains who ran Edwardian and Victorian Britain at least gave you lodging for your slavery-like labor that you were basically born into.

Retro is perpetual, what’s old is new again at all times. Bell bottoms here, feeding the poor to each other there. Pretty soon we’re vacationing on Mars.
I vote for “Peeping Mark”
> It does sound horrible, especially when you (clearly didn't) read that the entire incident was likely avoidable had his line manager taken his visible symptoms seriously and not told him to continue the manual labour until it was too late.

I can't see that in article (and I'm native Polish speaker). Article says that man told manager about his symptoms and manager instantly walked with him to paramedical team, instead of calling them. People in article say that it was "culpable mistake".

Yes, it was a mistake, but it's unlikely that it resulted in death of that man.
I think big corporations like Amazon should be more tightly regulated. They could easily afford cutting hours by 50% and quadrupling the pay at the same time, so workers wouldn't have to do overtime, but this is a exploitative and greed driven business. They also don't pay right amount of tax and because of that all workers are taxed more to make up for it.
Oh, birth certificates. If you need to support birth certificates in your system -- you need to support each and every format of birth certificate issued in the last 100 years in every part of the world, not just ones issued in $countryname.

It's like "falsehood programmers believe about Names" combined with one about dates and all others too. Because sometimes including name of lunar month is more important than assigning a number to the document.
> If 6 Amazon employees were dying per year in France, I'm pretty sure they will get a few visit from the work condition inspector.

Of course you'd have to adjust for country-wide statistics.
That's why overtime is paid at a higher rate.
An exception is Windows updates, which tend to break stuff, reset preferences, and introduce user hostile changes.
one upside of being hearing impaired: the wifes snoring doesn't bother me much.
Lines of code per second for compiling the compiler. Or a standardized set of programs like language benchmark game. Not to say that they are not susceptible to problems, but they have much more information than the compiler compilation speed.
To be fair dictatorial regimes are terrible even without advanced technology.
Ask someone who lived in the USSR, East Germany, Lybia, Syria, et...
Maybe your phone does not snitch on you but your neighbors can
Running a 5, just preordered the 6 Pro. I was amazed at how easily the 5's screen got microscratches on the screen literally a day out of the box. Thankfully it had another hardware fault so I got to RMA it and screen protect the new one straight away.
> People in Czechia say Amazon offers the best wage and working conditions of all other warehouse businesses. I imagine it's similar in Poland.

I heard similar opinions about Amazon warehouses in Poland, but it's anecdotal evidence and shouldn't be used instead of statistics.
> I always thought that -ffast-math was telling the compiler. "I do not care about floating point standards compliance, ... So optimize things that break the standard". But instead it seems like this also implies a promise to the compiler [that] you will not produce Inf, NaN, or -0.0.

I see it as both, as with many such flags¹n though as you say it does put the onus on the developer to avoid inputs the optimisation may cause problems for. You are saying “I promise that I'm being careful not to do things that will be affected by these parts of the standard, or won't blame you for undefined behaviour if I do, so you can skip those rules if it helps you speed things up”.

[1] like those that enable optimisations which can cause significant breakage if pointer aliasing is happening
> The Leger survey, conducted for the Association of Canadian Studies, found that more than three in four respondents hold negative views of those who are not immunized.

Divide et impera
Check your privilege. You got 50 to 100% more an hour for working overtime BECAUSE it was a union shop. Yes the union that you resent for 'skimming' was getting you a way more than 10% bump in every paycheck.

If it wasn't a union shop, then you would have been working overtime at the same hourly rate as regular hours.

This is what GP objected to - if there's no incentive for management not to demand excessive overtime, they do it all the time and burn people out. If there are overtime limits or statutory pay increases for overtime, they manage their resources properly.
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Sadly it seems to have spilled here. There was in news at least some articles how horrible is that geography students had people play an old children's board game from 50s. With somewhat dated art and maybe slight undertone of colonialism, but still nothing overt. And some how the University of Helsinki ended up offering crisis support for people involved...
It’s the mixture of resentment from material disadvantage and sense of entitlement from cultural dominance.

It’s a side effect of how the Bohemian and associated cultural movements have dominated the west for the last century or so. They claim to still be the counter culture, but really they are the cultural elite and have been for a long time.

Of course it gets lost on people that you need to actually be a great artist and not just a deadbeat with a spray can. You feel you know better than everyone else what good urban aesthetics are supposed to look like, but you lack the means to create anything other than nonsensical scribbles on the walls.

That’s also why we see it in the west and not so much in Japan as another user pointed out.
...and he's a "vaccines cause autism" crank as well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/05/27/nobel...

Looks like he'd gone that route well before any of the COVID-19 stuff.
Pedantry: Día de los Muertos is All Souls Day, November 2, the day after All Saints.
And if you really really wanted to strip all the unwanted components, install Linux! xD
Never mind, that's from 2014 - now (yesterday's link posted on HN) we know there's in fact a 99% concensus on global warming (or should we call it climate changes, just in case?)
This makes me more pessimistic that "the markets" will ever fix something related to anything where the negative effects are seen a decade down the road. We will switch to an electric fleet to "save the environment" and in 20 years we will throw our collective hands up in the air and see that "yup, that didn't work".
There's no irony in this statement unless you assume that "HN" is one person who you expect to be consistent.

I think we all visit HN because of the many people and varying opinions and ways of thinking. I hope we continue to see conflicting thought processes like this!
These kind of problems are invisible from stratosphere.

Safety of employers should be a priority for employers, spending a time at work should be less risky for health than being at home. Even for potentially more dangerous tasks, the safety has to scale accordingly.

I can hear quite often that work conditions at warehouses are terrible. How it's on the the IT side? Do they have the same culture? Is the IT part somehow supporting all workers on Amazon? Because if people are not consolidated - the secondary treatment of other jobs will continue.
Kinda baffling, when she gets assaulted she never even let the guy know he was doing something wrong, and later in the article she admits to raping a guy who had clearly stated he didn't want to have sex with her, while conspiring with her friend about it. And she barely even registers she did something wrong. It was "awkward".
Unsurprisingly, Bjørn Lomborg is a fan of the author of the piece, Richard Tol.

I mean, when I want advice on climate science, I _definitely_ turn to people with PhDs in political science and economics.

Same as when I want to investigate that weird hacking cough I have, I ask a dentist.
duckduckgo is Bing with a new skin and privacy features. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index.
I don't really understand this: why should capital availability increase in the face of a labor shortage? Making capital doesn't actually create more labor, so wouldn't this just re-allocate labour towards those with more access to cheap capital?
If you’re a twinkle in your dads eye, he’s doing it wrong.
> She said: “When I downloaded the ZIP file these are all the folders it came with.”

> The TikToker then ...

And just like that I am out.
Awesome work Elliot, and much appreciated. I've just got Windows-10 ltsc working on qubes 4.1 with whonix 16. My 2 use cases are:

1. A dev machine. I have a persistent and static disposable version of this build.

2. An anon build connected to whonix. Again, I have persistent and disposable versions.

One thing I had to do was compile the QWT v4.1.65 iso and install the resulting msi. Other than that it all works flawlessly and provides great peace of mind for those occasions when I have to use Windows.
This is the question no one is asking. As far as I see: People are buying imaginary tokens to "art" they don't own using pretend money that lives in their computer, sorry, blockchain.
The paper by this author? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae-Wan_Ho#Institute_of_Scienc...

Not the most ringing endorsement.
Hey, do you want to become the next In-N-Out Burger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger#Culture) or the next McDonald's? If you want to really reach for the stars (like Bezos is currently trying with Bue Origin), you can't let such trivialities like humane working conditions get in the way...

</sarcasm>
Managed IT Services vs. IT Staff Augmentation
However, there is a more than 1,000,000 fold asymmetry in the cost of false positives and false negatives.
> Its not google's fault that manufacturers are greedy for user data and basically nobody releases Android One phones, the option is there

Google could just enforce it, like they enforce so many things, by tying it to the Play Services license. If Google wanted to prevent manufacturers from 'customizing` (ruining) their Android phones, they could do so.
To be clear, they want to fabricate the chips, not buy them from Apple.
The problem is how do you define „make a living“ and what do you do if someone just wants extra €€€ beyond that?

I make fair money yet I still moonlighted a lot. Should I be allowed to work extra to have money for a sweet bicycle or travelling?
If someone asks you to do something and the alternative is losing your bread and butter you don't have a choice
would buy as an upgrade after my oneplus 5t.
sadly not available in italy (yet?)
You're right! My brief skim of the article overlooked that very important detail.

Thank you.

> Perhaps next you'll tell me the "battery" is actually just the anode, cathode and electrolyte?

No, next I'll tell you that this isn't Reddit and you don't have to be a dick to "win an argument on the internet". On HN you can simply point out the facts, like you did above.
Yeah, real statistics must be made. However this opinion is so universal and frequently voiced by the workers that not sharing it would be just as wrong as relying purely on anecdata.
You're correct of course. It's wildly infeasible, prone to rapid detection, and there's no plausible profit to sneaking subtle backdoors into random KiCAD projects. Now let's brainstorm possible vectors anyway...

You could manipulate PCB traces in such a way as to leak data over RF? No topological change to the circuit and very hard to pin down.
Upon review, Asimov had criticism for his plotting: as quoted on geek.com:

In the author’s note for Foundation’s Edge, he says that, upon re-reading his earlier work, “I kept waiting for something to happen, and nothing ever did. All three volumes, all the nearly quarter of a million words, consisted of thoughts and of conversations. No action. No physical suspense… each book in the trilogy had at least two stories and lacked unity.”
People in Poland avoid sick leave due to cultural (downplaying illness), legal (sick leave is paid 80%) and financial reasons (certain employers will cut your bonus if take sick leave).
> They could easily afford cutting hours by 50% and quadrupling the pay at the same time

Source? Retail business profit margins are 2% to 3%, with labor being the biggest cost.

Without a law requiring all retail businesses to do the same, Amazon retail prices would become wildly uncompetitive to other large retailers.
It looks like the article only references philosophers and psychologists, not people like, for example, Thomas Metzinger, Stanislas Dehaene and Joscha Bach.
No Netflix, no Disney plus, no HBO... Whatever about paying 10% more for a plastic rake, that's a bridge too far!
For those with access to healthcare and regular checkups a typical STD is usually not deadly, including HIV.
Someone who lives in the city. It comes from the Latin word for city “urbs”.

I on the other hand would be considered a rural type.
GCC 10 Ada support added to NetBSD
It doesn't seem to contradict what groby_b wrote. Or am I missing something? Could you explain it?
New Attack 'Clones' and Abuses Your Unique Online ID via Browser Fingerprinting
Of course they can not predict the future in the strong sense, but they may be able to extract some fraction of a bit of information about the distribution of possible outcomes, slightly reducing the variance. This is enough for a hedge fund to make money. Similar to knowing something like how full a department stores parking spots have been over the last quarter. It won't give you an accurate prediction, but it can give you a slight edge over the competition.
It's not the first case of work-related death in an Amazon warehouse in Poland; nor it is the first such case in Amazon globally. Most of those deaths happen because of appalling work conditions or management incompetence.

A similar case from Amazon, where the worker was lying unconscious for 20 minutes before receiving help (he died): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-wa...

In normal companies, an accident like this leads to an overhaul of the working systems, internal audits, conversations with employees, and so on. So many IT companies have post-mortems for what can objectively be called the silliest stuff (compared to an actual death of an actual person). But here is Amazon, with its history of endangering its workforce, that once again will do nothing.
Am I the only one laughing that this person is trying to advocate for privacy and security on TikTok of all places?
I've read this here before but I honestly think there should be more regulations about who can be hired. The name of the school should not matter in the slightest if one has studied the same thing.

Making it impossible for the employer to know that detail would also incentivize all the schools to provide a good education. Also many top universities are mostly about making connections. While their curriculum is usually very hard, this is also reflected in the grades.. people may still pass but their average drops.

In the US it's even worse, because tuition has to be paid. This already filters out many people from going to a "more elite" school.
Facebook fined £50.5m for breaching order in Giphy takeover investigation
Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC, allow or used to allow people to pay a monthly or annual fee that gave them the right to bring their dogs into it. I gather from someone I worked with that the dogs would run off-leash and play as in a dog park. I'm sure that the expectation was that owners would clean up after their dogs, and I'm sure that my co-worker did/does.
Neoliberalism happened as a knee jerk reaction to high inflation.
How does someone die of overworking? At what point does one decide "fuck my health, I'll die for BigCorp"? And, where I'm going: a company will always ask as much work as possible from as few employees at possible. Up to what point is this the personal responsibility of the employee?
iPhones and BMWs are more expensive in Poland than in Germany, potato is cheaper though...
I often link to my own website as a source for my answers in other communities. Sometimes I use Google to find the pages. The Google snippets from my website are frequently wrong (as an answer to the question), or lack the context required to qualify as a correct answer.

Bad answers are common in my field, but they are rarely signed with my name. It feels like being quoted by a really dumb journalist.
The problem is inability to enforce law when it comes to big corporations. They have enough money to buy entire WH so there is nothing you can do about it apart from just not giving them more money.
Interesting that no-one yet has suggested de-criminalizing selling and criminalizing buying.
I would recommend this introduction to type theory: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05035.

While it's about HoTT, it starts with a very clear general-audience explanation on why and how type theory is different from set theory.
It's super interesting to see that Australia doesn't hold a monopoly on having completely brain-dead anti systemic thinking people in charge of developing environmentally friendly sustainability policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2012/nov/27/h...

>the infamous Victorian workhouse, an institution that the editor of the medical journal the Lancet claimed could kill 145,000 people every year

I'm pretty sure the workhouse was significantly worse than being employed at Amazon.

>gave you lodging for your slavery-like labor that you were basically born into.

this was in Poland, a country that being in Europe I suppose has a functioning welfare system. The workhouse was in effect the Victorian welfare system.

conditions in Amazon's warehouses are bad enough that hyperbole does not help in the fight against it.
The FTL communication the aliens used in the first book left a really sour taste in my mouth, especially because the plot could easily have worked without it
I have not consciously done so, but whenever recruiters have called me for positions within finance sector I was never able to give a firm commitment to applying in that sector. I have made quite a monetary loss because of that. I don't know why I do that. May be because I was never comfortable working in big cities and in those high rise glass buildings. I prefer country side living and non-flashy offices that do not destroy the surroundings. And I prefer walking to office. Living in bigger cities robs you of that luxury.
>Biomass, of which wood from forests is the main source, now makes up almost 60% of the EU’s renewable energy supply, more than solar and wind combined, and a vast cross-border industry has emerged to meet this demand.

In the early industrial revolution, European forests were being progressively logged out - the wood was used for construction and to heat buildings, but largely the new demand was from blast furnaces, smelting iron.

More or less, England ran out of forests first, and turned to peat, and then coal, and then along came Thomas Newcomen (he did build on the work of others) with a heat engine to extract water from coal mines... and now, it seems, we have come full circle.

Biomass is a reasonable carbon-neutral energy source, but managed forests are a long-term (centuries) play. Croplands (including pasturing fields as carbon sinks) is better in the near term (a few decades).

NB: The omission of 'fairy' before 'tale' in the headline summary (the original is "'Carbon-neutrality is a fairy tale': how the race for renewables is burning Europe's forests") really changes the meaning here.
Ask HN: What can a statistician do that an engineer turned data scientist can't?
By statistician I mean one with formal education in statistics. Assume the engineer has learnt data science diligently, either from a mooc or a book, and isn't a weekend warrior. The stats guy would have wrestled with formal mathematics, but idk how useful it is for data science. So what does a stats guy bring to the table that an engineer can't if both have roughly same experience in dealing with data?
The world has chosen to increasingly kneel to Billionaire CEO's who think pursuit of profit through over-working people is completely fine & dandy. This death can be directly attributed to Bezos who I believe is a well-adjusted sociopath.
It sounds like a transfer from higher wage earners to lower wage earners. If you are trading your now slightly more expensive low wage labor for slightly more expensive low wage labor you're only losing if you get bumped into a higher tax bracket. If you are trading rising low wage labor for stagnating high wage labor you are winning.
The company where you purchase stuff probably also has deaths at workplace, but it doesn’t get into news.