skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://www.pnas.org/content/117/41/25237

So IMHO, the dumb one isn't the "pen test" from the Japanese TV, but rather the clickbaity YouTube video that makes fun of it. That said, the Japanese TV is slightly tongue in cheek, it doesn't claim to be a science channel.
Omicron Spread: Even Mild Variant Could Create Chaos in Early 2022
Tornadoes aren't hurricanes... There aren't hours and days of advanced notice. Only a few minutes. You can't shut down for every thunder storm on the astronomical chance it'll turn into a tornado and head in your direction.

The article did somewhat address your questions:

"Amazon said all employees were normally notified and directed to move to a designated, marked shelter-in-place location when a site was made aware of a tornado warning in the area.

Emergency response training is provided to new employees and reinforced throughout the year, the company said."

I hope they find out why their systems were inadequate and make sure it doesn't happen again.
https://archive.md/pZMBE
What does it mean by subsidy in this context? Tax breaks?
As far as I know we don't have tornado sirens here (Western Washington across Puget Sound from Seattle), but we got a tornado warning here a month ago and officials issued some kind of alert by smart phone.

It was amazingly loud on my iPhone. I don't think I've ever been so tired that I would have been able to sleep through it if it had happened when I was asleep.

Tornadoes are rare here--before that one the last had been in 2018, and the last before that was 1991, and I don't think there are any on record before that in this county.

I Googled for something like "active tornado warnings" and found this site: https://www.tornadohq.com/

The warning for my area was on the list on the front page, had a link to show the full alert from the National Weather Service, and had a link to show a map of the boundary of the area covered by the warning.

I had no plan for what to do. There is a place in my house where I can stand and have walls or closed doors between me and all windows to provide some shelter from flying debris, so that was one idea. The other idea was to hop in my car and drive to a place nearby that is up on top of a hill and has roads in perpendicular directions and good visibility. From there the hope would be to be able to see if it was coming my way, and then flee by whichever road is most perpendicular to the direction it was moving.
When we're talking about Spartans, we're talking about the Spartan aristocracy, no?

Halo's Spartans make sense if you think about them as a traumatized and brutalized society.
>but complaints would have bubbled up to the Apache umbrella organization

Like a thrown exception.
Check out https://artlessdevices.com/
Fuck that. We're mostly adults here. You can say whatever you want as long as you're not being a dick.
Website: Do you surf the web? Choose: "Yes" or "No"

Me: Yes

Website: Every time you visit a website or use social media apps, you are being tracked and monitored. There is often no warning that this is happening. Choose: "Oh no! Tell me more!" or "I'm fine with it..."

Me: I'm fine with it...

Website: Are you sure you do not want to know what happens when you use social media, accept cookies or like a post? Choose: "Ok. Tell me more!"

Me: Ah, yes, I don't know why I expected anything other than eurocrats using UI dark patterns to try and force me to accept their propagandistic messaging. Totally on brand. Closes tab
Thus the thought experiment near the end of the article:

> assume two iPhones floating in space were simulating two connected neurons, with direct laser links between them. In order for the two to communicate with worse than the 1/200 second latency as neighboring neurons in our brains do...the two phones would need to be over 1000 miles away from each other, about the radius of the moon.

> Thus, for the silicon advantage to start hitting scale out limits relative to what we know is biologically necessary, we would need to be building computers about the size of the moon.
How many companies paid $0 for log4j2, and then got upset and bashed the authors of it when this bug happened for the cost it caused to their business?

People pay nothing for the software, but will expect paid quality support.
Volvo is still a Swedish brand even if it is owned by a Chinese company (Geeky). The owners were wise to keep the headquarters and design department in Sweden (most of Volvo’s worldwide employees are in Sweden). Wiki still lists it as a Swedish automotive company.
When the officer asks “do you know how fast you were going”

What do you say?

“I plead the fifth” and get the maximum ticket or have backup called on you who arrives aggro with no context?

“I didnt know” and get your ability to have a license questioned?

Incriminate yourself the other way by knowingly potentially speeding?

All while you could totally get a warning or lesser fine if you actually did talk to the police

Am I missing something? Is this subtle hyperbole?
The user downloads a browser that downloads the site-specific javascript application.
When is the character limit on HN going to be increased so we can create longer subjects/headlines?
Reduce as in "reduced to ruble".
> If your elections could be significantly moved by the votes of prisoners, you live in a failed state.

The prisoners make up about 0.5% of the population of the US. That's bigger than the margins we saw in several swing states in the last few elections.
All my friends use Telegram and this bot was very helpful for Secret Santa. https://github.com/Voxter256/Secret-Santa-Bot (Currently running in Docker on a Beagle Bone Black!)
Apart from Paul Graham being the co-founder of YC, it is highly interesting to see someone's "quote" getting refuted publicly, directly by someone they claim to have said something.

I see a lot of quotes by Einstein, Abe Lincoln, and Gandhi every day that are so wildly imagined. Most basic common-knowledge being packed as quotes by them. And people upvote/like/share stuff like that like sheep.

None of them are alive. They can't say anything to stupid stuff they are accredited to, but didn't really say.

There are several fact-finding websites [0] run by people to debunk fake quotes and this is a common passtime of some nerds [1].

But here we see, in the age of Twitter, someone is getting caught red-handed by the exact same person, not some fact-finder, not some fact-checking site, etc.

It is highly interesting to see. Isn't that the criteria for HN posts?

[0]:https://quoteinvestigator.com

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Einstein-said-the-definition-of-insani...
> Dear god man, NO. Those may be legal - and who wrote those laws? But they sure as fuck aren't fine, morally and ethically speaking, unless you're a fucking sociopath. Which billionaires are more likely to be.

Then you and I simply have different morals. I don't consider anyone trying to minimize their taxes in a legal way to be immoral.

> Didn't Amazon get in trouble recently for interfering with a union vote?

Which is one company whose CEO is not a billionaire...

> That's a bad assumption, and there are mountains of research out there on the topic. It's stunning that you can't seem to look for any yourself, because if you looked you would find it.

I admit I didn't search for any research. I assumed you would have it since you are so certain billionaires are fundamentally different from non wealthy humans.

> That's a very, very lazy take. That's really the best you could come up with? Leeches and victim blaming?

It's lazy to assume something you read about that is in a book that is > 100 years old to be true. And I'm not victim blaming. Who even is the victim here? I'm simply stating that it is always easy to blame something outside of yourself. Blame shifting has been a well researched area in psychology for decades.

> https://www.vox.com/2015/6/16/8790357/rich-people-jerks

> Read the above link. Look into the sources it cites.

> There are huge differences, and it's not even remotely in doubt. Your whole assumption is so far off base it's not even funny; just sad.

While the article is garbage the cited sources are interesting and on a cursory glance do seem to show that wealthy people are more antisocial compared to average people. At least in America. I wonder if this is the same for other cultures.

Anyway I don't really care to continue this discussion with you since you are obviously not in the right state of mind to approach this subject without heavy emotion.
Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier.
To equate compensating for centuries of racist, sexist, etc policies that artificially and deliberately suppressed the success of different races, genders, and other groups to corporate subsidies is unequivocally bullshit.

A better comparison if you really insist on comparing treatment of companies to actual people would be to take two identical companies working in the same market. Force one of them to close. After the second has been established for a few hundred years, allow the one you shut down to reopen, but tell them that they can't charge more than 50% of the price of the established firm, and also say that suppliers don't have to provide goods to that firm, and if they do then those suppliers don't have to provide goods at the same level of quality. Those suppliers also charge more, for the lower quality goods. To be safe, you also don't allow the company to build anywhere near existing commercial or industrial zones, so they also have to pay more for shipping and transit, despite being less conveniently placed.

After a while you say "ok, you can sell to everyone and we aren't going to limit what you can charge, etc". Then you turn around and say "see everything is equal now".

Of course by this point entire industries are built around the version of the product sold by the established firm, the established firm has more resources, the subsidiaries of the established firm have more resources, as do their subsidiaries, because all those subsidiaries have been getting the same preferential treatment. Meanwhile the historically penalized firm has been given a bad rap because the quality of a lower quality of goods, because they got worse materials to start with, they couldn't afford the same quality of workers (in fact they were functionally prohibited from employing the best).

Now people say "of course we pay less for goods from that company, they're lower quality".

It may be a true statement, but the reason isn't because the company is fundamentally flawed, just that the established company has had unending advantages, and those advantages continue to apply even after the original penalties were removed.

Of course this is a gross simplification of what actually happened to the victims of the various repressive laws and policies of various countries, because again, companies are not people.
I'm in Hong Kong (majority Cantonese), my wife cant for her life help me navigate taobao in Mandarin, even when she transcribes the simplified into traditional without getting annoyed and frustrated.

So while it's not totally unintelligle to her, because it's sort of similar, I think for her to read mandarin is like for me, French, to read Spanish. I can grasp it, it's sort of the same thing, but there are so many little details in divergence it takes me ages just to get a grasp of what it's saying.

I wouldnt dare call Spanish or French a dialect of Italian and I think it's weird to call Cantonese a dialect of Mandarin just like saying humans descendend from modern monkeys: these things are trees with common ancestors but also diverging influences that make them break away further from each other.

I think americans exagerate the oppressive nature of language teaching in China since the guy you replied to has a point: they experience it and they very well must see it's not 1:1 sound transcription.
The funny thing is we have no way of knowing that any other human (other than yourself) is self aware.

This is why the study of consciousness is so difficult. We each clearly know that we are having a subjective experience, but we have no way of knowing that any one (or anything) else is.

I kind of sympathize with the hypothesis that simply all matter has some degree of self consciousness.
I think this process is now underway on honeycrisps. Lately they seem to have thicker skins and less crispness than in the early days.
I remember the crazy hype they had around this when it was introduced over a decade ago. All the bizarre claims comparing it to being “a million times faster than RDBMS databases” when in fact it was just in-memory objects that were periodically written out with stream.writeObject().
Or the roof could fall on you.
You can politely ask why you were pulled over.

- P: Do you know how fast you were going?

- Did I break the speed limit, officer?

- P: I asked if you know how fast you were going.

- Did you pull me over for breaking any laws, officer?

- P: Why are you evading my question?

- I'm just wondering about the reason for this stop. Could you please let me know?
Yes. It seems loony, but it appears that it might be substantially less expensive than a single unit solution.
It's buzzfeed. Hard to feel sorry for the employee that drive the ompanies reputation into the ground. Yeah, they should have been able to cash out earlier, but they are getting fair market value for their work.
Infants with defects would suffer considerably more early mortality, even with the best care parents could give in ancient times.
So does this mean that we can reduce neuroinflammation in ME/CFS and Long Covid with clusterin infusions?
I appreciate that mathematicians are still finding havens of abstraction to retreat to in the midst of a deranged and chaotic political climate.
I care about status pages, because when something breaks upstream I need to know whether it's an issue I need to report, and if there's additional problems related to the outage I need to look out for, or workarounds I can deploy. If I find out anything that might help me narrow down the ETA for a fix, that's bonus fries.

I don't gripe about it on HN, but it is generally a disappointment to me when I stumble upon something that looks like a significant outage but a company is making no indication that they've seen it and are working on it (or waiting for something upstream of them, as sometimes happens).
You forgot any opportunity to hate on crypto.
St. Louis gets tornadoes, but it is not in tornado alley.
Wow, why is this video unlisted?
It's not really pedantic. Since any application (not just a browser) could provide the same download-interpreted-code-then-run-it functionality.

It's probably not this particular feature of the web browser matters but the fact that web browsers come preinstalled with new computers.
Worth to whom? As a taxpayer, I don't see that money coming back to me.
Yeah the bandwidth tax on the cloud makes some use cases impossible.

What do you do instead? We use Ansible to bootstrap k3s. It works, but we have to build a lot more stuff related to monitoring, alerting, routing, etc.
They've been paying that (inflation adjusted) for quite some time, although the water also had a bunch of sugar and a bit of flavoring and color in it. The bottled water thing started off mostly as a counter to sugary colas. Colas are a thing for people that don't like tap water (which varies in taste all over the country).
> unless something changes

People will be replaced by robots, this is what will change.

It is already happening. McDonalds is canonical example of that.
I am confused, where did "cd" come from and why did it replace "chdir"?
What you need to know about the Log4j vulnerability rocking the internet
But what is broken is the disconnect between providing value and being able to earn a living from that value. More often than not, any "business plan" involves providing a worse product, because the product must be compromised to enable the business plan.

SaaS for things that could be run locally is a perfect example. Or algorithmic feeds optimized for engagement in social media. Or the advertising panopticon. Or coffee filter DRM. Or smart TV spying. Or ads in the Windows start menu. Or..
The solution is regulations and unions. If it's not Amazon it will be something else. Many people do not have time or money to look for alternatives. I never buy on Amazon but directly from the providers, but that takes time that I have but many people does not.
There is a reason, which is that the new criteria for warning trains people to not take them seriously as they don't necessarily mean acute danger from tornado anymore.

As our radar technology has advanced, it's really a shame that warnings are less indicative of a tornado than they were a decade ago.

A better solution would be three categories of warning (watch, new possibly fake warning, and the old real warning) as each should prompt more response than the lower tier.
Especially working where they track how long it takes to reach for a product and place it in a box, and that action is repeated multiple times a minute for the entire shift. All employees are on the edge of panic at all times.
Check this it might help https://artlessdevices.com/
This is literally not new and has been the case even in the west for centuries. In fact in many ways it contributed to its domination. It's just that the post WW2 era was entirely an anomaly, and one that we got too comfortable with.
> I did a deposition a few years back with the warden of a detention facility and asked him why the conditions were so bad. "The average stay here is 30 days", which justified everything. That figure came because a large number of people were able to bond out on day one and skewed the average he was using. It did not take into account the significant number of people who were in the facility for close to a decade or more awaiting trial. For instance, at the Cook County Jail in Chicago there are several people who have been waiting over 11 years and still have no trial in sight.

So the relevant measurement ought to have been the average stay of the inmates actually there at any one time, right?
Plastic mesh tea bags release tons of microplastics into your drink: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940
I assume they’re referring to the fact that Icelandic is the closest modern language to old Norse. Not, contrary to popular belief, Norwegian.
> Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger (born 21 October 1971) is a British-French jewellery designer, home designer, and former model. [wikipedia]

And she grew up to have a rewarding career in the arts rather than growing up to be a software engineer. Maybe it means something... Maybe it means nothing... (?)
So, just switch to Vivaldi. Same renderer and JS engine as Chrome but the devs have drawn a line in the sand about stuff like manifest v3:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-...
Apple provides spec, and controls spec compliance.
As a mandarin speaker (not from northern China though), I feel that the OP's anecdotes seem a bit extreme and appeared to imply ignorance in most speakers. Anecdotally I know none to few people who would claim that dialects can be written and then read back in another dialect. It also would strike me and all the mandarin speakers I know as fairly obvious that most dialects don't even have well-defined characters to use. Rather, written Cantonese (or Shanghainese etc.) often use characters for phonetic purposes rather than true etymological meaning (e.g., 海-sea is pronounced "hai" in many dialects, and 嗨 with a 口-mouth character hints that this is now a sound word to represent the "hai" sound, and no longer has any relation to the ocean). And that is if the dialect mainstream enough to actually have a writing convention. A lack of popular non-mandarin convention today is tough, hence the dominance of written mandarin grammar, to the extent that a lot of Cantonese news programs will actually provide captions in written mandarin.
In my job, shutting machines wasn't feasible (well, they could kill the Internet I suppose). As for the rest, no one would get hurt by imminent deadlines, etc. We worked on the timescale of months, not hours or days. I can assure you: Not a single person in my building was concerned about missing deadlines if they went to the shelter.

As I said, people are people. Most people I know drive over the speed limit, because everyone does it, and because the likelihood of it hurting them is low. Same principle here. I'm all for everyone going to the shelter, just as I'm all for severe penalties for going over the speed limit. Most people, though, are OK going over the speed limit but not OK with people not sheltering when there's a tornado. It's almost always the case that such people have never lived in a tornado zone and cannot comprehend the dynamics of the situation.
Get a weather radio if you don't have one. For about 20-40 bucks, you can get one with rechargeable batteries and a charging cradle. Follow the instructions to set it for your regional station. It will wake up and sound the alert for any warnings in your area. Plus you can actively listen to it for the latest storm news.

As long as you still have power & internet, your local tv station will usually stream during weather emergencies. I've done this on more than one stormy day. Sat comfortably on the couch watching one stream on the iPad while another played on the television. Wondering if this was going to be the day when it finally hit.

On your phone, get RadarScope. It's highly worth the 5 or 10 dollars. It's a detailed radar app. Has many different radar products. Can see the usual storm views with warnings outlined. the relative velocity to see the spin. correlation coefficient to determine if there's a debris ball. Etc. Shows the estimated tracking path for storm cells. For the many storms in my area, this has been invaluable.

Probably the most important resource is NOAA's local prediction pages and the Storm Prediction Center (SPC). During storm seasons, the SPC's Convective Outlook is worth checking at least once a day to see if anything's likely in the near future. Plus the mesoscale discussions are useful on the storm day to see how the forecasters think the events will play out.

For local reporting by locals, Twitter is surprisingly useful. Look for a hashtag that contains the two letter abbreviation for your state plus the letters "wx". I follow #kswx for Kansas storms.
https://superfund.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/La...
I'm curios in what state the US' manufacturing (chips, displays or otherwise) capabilities would be had Apple invested that USD $250-odd billion (as alleged on that "secret deal" article) in the US rather than in China. I'm skeptical it would've ever reached the low cost (but high-quality) of labor they get in China but maybe they would offset that with something else?
Also easier stated, don't put all your eggs in one basket. While less nuanced, it just goes to show how old the concept is
In my experience, it doesn't work like that.

Some common talking points by either side of the American political spectrum gets regurgitated and propagated a lot, and by true believers. Also by troll farms.

But those are not what I am worried about.

I am worried about some issues and opinions getting dragged from the fringes to the mainstream by sheer scale.

There are some cases which are not widely talked about- let's say it has a hundred deluded supporters. Now, a corporation might hire a high-tech troll farm that produces GPT-like-tech enabled troll accounts running wild in platforms and commenting wild stuff.

There can be an effect in the minds of the undecided, or even people on the other side- "if so many people are saying this..."

Thus is begins.

Decisions can be swayed and opinions can be manufactured this way.