skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Brazil this is illegal, but when I saw this happening and told the government about it, I got an e-mail from a female judge, saying that hiring only women is fine because it "corrects the distortions", despite it being against the constitution... This is anecdote but I can say from personal experience that companies can get away with it.
> Given that vaccines don't affect transmission at all

That is false. Stop spreading dangerous nonsense.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211124-vaccines-redu...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-less-l...
I'd also throw in whatever equipment is needed to VLAN all of that away from everything else in your home. Even a second internet connection and router seems reasonable.
My girlfriend is studying aging in her masters and I read some papers with her that said that more protein help your body grow muscle mass, but not repair damage in cells, and lower protein intake allows your cells to fagocite, destroying damaged cells, leading to better health overall and more longevity.

This is completely opposite from what this paper is saying.
I do. My desktop PC (running Windows 10) goes black, and then floats a nice digital clock and date around the screen in white. It does this for about 5 minutes, and then my monitor goes to sleep. It's a nice transition between the two states.
On the other hand iPhones and iPads are very locked down.
Outsource it to amazon mechanical turk, or something equivalent ;)
Pay a dollar to have someone else fill it in.
> most Americans are significantly worse off since the 1970s

> I think this is obviously false and hurts the credibility of the rest of this comment.

In terms of mental health, job security, stability (e.g marriage/divorce rates) they may very well be worse off.
Maybe you could just live in a coffin and jack into a more spacious metaverse simulation of an apartment /s
There’s a Danish company that provides a service which will integrate into online banking platforms, that will allow you to cancel recurring payments directly from your banking app. How they make it work I don’t know, but I hope that my own bank will signup shortly.
So who has to pay up. What I mean, let's say your cc data gets stolen and somebody draws money from your card, can't you just initiate a charge back?
Facebook are much much worse.

An NSO, a Candiru or a weapons manufacturer provide tools to governments, who are at least in theory (but usually in practice) accountable to their people. Occasionally governments even act for the benefit of their people.

Facebook only acts for the benefit of Facebook, to the detriment of everyone else in society.
IMHO Windows XP classic view was the best from what Windows offered. To be fair, every design between Windows 95 and XP classic view was good. Icon view was Windows oldschool design that just worked. They could add categories, kind of like OSX did at some point and just leave at that.
28 million years of life lost in 31 countries whose population appears to add up to over 1 billion people.

So what are we talking about here, maybe like 2 weeks each? Which is optimistic -- because personally I believe most of the restrictions have a very small effect. Roughly that many people were going to die anyway, whether we did Sweden's approach or Austria's approach or anywhere in between.

Well - good god, I'm really looking forward to those extra 2 weeks of my life. They will be amazing. It will definitely make up for spending my entire youth, and possibly my entire life, in a hellish surveillance state where you aren't allowed to go to school or see your family and you have to show your papers to enter a restaurant. SO WORTH IT, right?
As yepguy mentioned AGE is simpler. I can also mention few things:

- It works smoothly with SSH keys (generated from ssh-keygen), which are perfectly recognized by possibly any developer.

- No need for external client, such as GpgWin/Kleopatra for Windows.

- Embed-able in Rust[0] and Go[1] (there are libraries), no need to call `gpg --decrypt ...` from the command line.

- Encrypted files by pass and keys are smaller. I guess it is thanks to ecliptic-curve encryption.

[0]: https://github.com/str4d/rage

[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
COBOL was supposed to be just that. It is not considered a nice or beautiful language generally.
You'll be forced to update sooner or later anyway. So microsucks doesn't give a shit about that.
This is a classic 1958 spanish film. 30 glorious seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w7JCTOpwU

"Do I owe you something?" "That's 100 pesetas". "100 pesetas just for tightening a screw?" "No, that's free. It's 100 pesetas for knowing which screw needed to be tightened".
I mean.. as long as it's a fair election and not a campaign of lies, maybe the problem isn't the political parties and actually, people just really want the right to reign?
I refuse to place monitoring software on any company device unless there is an open HR case corresponding to a specific issue. I'll die on that hill.
Never use the mouse on commandline work ;)
I stand corrected; I just assumed they were, since others do and inflation has been reported as very low for the past 20 years. It's hard to imagine that housing could be part of this calculation the way the housing market in Norway has developed in the past 25 years. I guess it's the way the house/energy is lumped into a category which is weighted low, at least in comparison to how much of our expenses it represents.

I guess the people in the US ignore it completely, we just weigh it wrong :-)

> Why aren’t house prices included in measures of inflation? Should they be?

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/07/29/...
Is it reasonable to expect that a minimum wage earner should be able to afford to buy a house and a newish car? Were minimum wage earners doing that in 1970?
Why not make a Virtual Desktop for your Developers instead of ~forcing them to install crap-ware.
As far as we know transporters and rigid force projections such as force field starship windows also violate our physics.
You pay a lot for that blockchain redundancy. You can buy a lot of conventional redundancy for that money. Comparing it to a cheap self-hosted server isn't apples to apples.

> The immutability of the blockchain guarantees that your code cannot be changed, with or without your knowledge.

There's been a lot of examples lately why this is not a desirable feature at all for most purposes.
And most peoples home network wont be able to support VLAN's and would your employer be more worried about your ISP provided router - hmm must really replace that huawei router on my network.
I’m a PCI QSA and this is exactly correct. No one should store card data for recurring transactions. India just made it a law. Good for them.
Install it in a sandbox.
I did this this year. My old employer admitted they had probably fallen behind the market and that "those numbers were definitely reachable here, after a few years, and further significant impactful contributions to projects like X, Y, Z". By my reckoning they were a good 3-4 years away.

They expressed that they wanted me to stay but at the end of the day it was crocodile tears.
If I think some has reached the next level then I'll promote them anyway. No one should need to prove that they deserve a promotion by finding another company willing to offer them that role.
> How does having cheap access to internet makes the quality of your life better

Whoa that's a bit of a reach no? How about the ability to drive around with GPS? Or stay easily in touch with family living far away? Taking photos of your baby and having it stored on the cloud for free? The ability to learn almost anything for free?

I'm not saying it's all great, it isn't, but we can't deny the benefits.
Here's a simple one: You write out the requirements of the program in English and it spits out a program that implements it all.
A wonderful classic:) It's funny to me how much culture these convey even through a warped lens.
Not really for warp: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/11/5/00...

But yeah for the other Trek technology
The people who dislike something will see it everywhere and blame it for everything. Regulation especially is very versatile as a scapegoat.
You don't go to war with the tests you want, you go to war with the tests you got. Write a test or swim blind with the rest of the fish.
I don't doubt the intentions, to be honest this is a chip on the shoulder that I have from that period.

Back then I tried to wrap my head around the whole delays of vaccines, when some propaganda were saying that the EU was being "cheap" and bargaining for cents, costing time, with the famous Boris quote, paraphrasing, "we have a better deal".

Only to find out that one of the major setbacks that caused the delay was in fact liability terms.

The EU wanted to share liability so that pharma was not completely off the hook, and had some skin in the game - and I'm fine with this decision, even it costed some weeks of delay.

I'm also fine with USA and UK decisions, it's just the framing and propaganda that was despicable... it wasn't a better deal, just different terms and demands.

I think this whole coronavirus period made me sick of politics.
Improving the maintenance of your application with 5 Lodash methods
Exactly. I mean food that we buy for 10€, 15€ a pop counts for inflation. And then the most expensive thing we ever purchase in our lives, say 400 000€ right now, and the effect on inflation on that doesn't count? Doesn't make sense to me.
That's interesting, I've been renovating my home for the past two years and have had the exact opposite experience: I've been quite happy with my cheap pipe bender, cheap angle grinder, cheap hex crimper, cheap multipipe pliers as well as store brand consumables like hybrid glue, tape, drill bits and whatnot. For electrical work I do buy Knipex most of the time and for tools that get used heavily it's usually Bosch, plus I'm never going near cheap paint again, so I do see the advantage of trustworthy brands, but it's nice to know that for things that'll only see occasional use, you can get something okay-ish for a great price. Or for something completely different, I used to dabble in brewing, and all of the small commercial brewers I know are really happy with their bottom price Chinese fermentation tanks.
There are 100 cover templates, YouTube thumbnails, Instagram posts for podcasts
I never understood - what does 'operator' mean in this context. I've never encountered anyone with the job title 'operator'. Does it mean 'user'? But that doesn't fit with the content because the Bastard Operator doesn't like users. Does it mean 'admin'? But then why a different word?
It’s amusing to me to contemplate that I work in tech and buy 1-2 year old iPhones for $300-500. I’m glad so many people have to have the very latest and so recycle great tech for 50+% discounts.
Nice day out (aka Jolly) at the golf club :-)
I've had "BOFH" on my license plate for 25 years now. I think I've had one person recognize it; and that was out of state at a Hamvention.
I came to dislike the control panel interface on Windows because it is disjunct from management console snapins and does a bad job at reconiling administrative/power user access knobs with basic computer controls. The control panel does not adapt to the user level / user role (Administrator, plain user) well enough. You have to switch between control panel (including "modernized" network controls), advanced properties dialogs (interesting network settings, classic style), and msc snapins for diskmanagement, event viewing, task and device management in order to get things done. On top of that gpedit is not even included in the default compmgmt.msc. Oh and these days add powershell scripts on top. Oh and regedit.

One more issue is that they kept "evolving" the design (classic, settings view, etc) without retiring previous interfaces. Now you have access to everything and you keep wondering how the controls and components all interact. Almost as catastrophic as explorer.exe and "shell" integrations, resulting in the most laggy explorer.exe yet.
Thanks for responding and writing up more details. I empathise with the frustration of having to follow rules for rules' sake.

Another approach you can try is to conform to their requirements on one machine, but do all your actual work on another.

In the past I've been faced with similar situations where corporate IT required ne to run a "security agent" if I wanted to bring my own device to their network. I ended up bringing a Raspberry Pi which ran their "security agent", but then I did all my work on a laptop that connected through the Pi via NAT.

This was at a high school where I was a teacher. The "agent" did an SSL MITM attack, allowing the school IT to see all my traffic. I'm fine with needing that stuff to keep the kids safe but I objected to the school needing to inspect staff traffic. If they mistrusted me to the level of needing to read my email, what the hell were they doing leaving me in a roomful of children all day?

If you had two spare Pis you could do a three machine shit-sandwich: (1) trusted-pi is all yours and connects to your home network offering strictly controlled minimal internet access to... (2) the security-theatre-pi, running the client's weird spy/monitoring software; and then (3) your personal laptop connects via the security-theatre-pi.

I'd prefer to be direct and up-front with them – it doesn't feel great to have to be duplicitous with people the way I did / suggest you do – but a $50 pi might be able to tick their box and let you get on with the interesting stuff.
Tell them to provide you with a Virtual Desktop or a dedicated Laptop..never install Spyware on your own machine.
Probably not without sounding like I'm making things up, but sure. She has, and is a member of a community of people who have, a fascination with drinking human blood. She's asked to drink mine and I find myself uncomfortable with the prospect of giving something that personal away. I've never really thought about what I'd sell a blood sample for, but I know it would be a different price if I were to sell it for medical purposes as opposed to this one. It feels wrong to put a price on myself in that way when I don't understand the need it would be fulfilling.

However, I happen to be interested in diy bio experiments and intrigued by the secrecy of the community she's a member of. If she and another member were to provide me with the results of DNA tests, and give their blessings to my trying to find genetic idiosyncrasies they share, I'd consider that a fair trade for providing small amounts of blood every so often.
Those are very helpful insights for me. I'm fairly young and get overwhelmed sometimes -- resulting in a post like this. Thanks a bunch!
Regarding your last remark, and circling back to the main article: now the review market and culture is broken as well. Even when legitimate companies come on line, it's difficult to know about them because they don't get reviewed, and if they do, you never know if there's some financial conflict of interest, or if the reviews are legitimate, or what. If they do get reviewed, there's no follow-through to see if quality has improved or declined, etc.

It's remarkable how, when information is so much more accessible, it's become useless by deception and fraud.

It's especially sad in that it affects companies trying to establish a foothold by providing good business.
> Having said that, tiger can hit his 9 iron 180 if he wants.

Unfortunately, not any more. :(
That is saying a lot less than you might think. Again, consider that the banks employ actuaries - they understand inflation a lot better than the people borrowing the money. They didn't let themselves be the losers here.

Inflation doesn't change the actual power balance between different actors, it does make the situation more complex and harder to keep up with. It doesn't create real wealth and it is not responsible for a wealth transfer to wage earners. The idea just lacks a mechanism - for the wealth to come from employers or businesses they have to be ignorant, altruistic and disinterested in money. That seems unlikely. Ditto most other actors. Changing value of money favours people who can continuously adjust to it which isn't a typical wage earner.

If a generation gets something for free, they got it from somewhere else. Who lost out here? Why did it need to be inflation to make that happen? If they didn't get it for free, it is unclear why inflation would be necessary in the story instead of incidental.
That's the basis of a story currently being written by a Dutch physics teacher:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21844/i-am-going-to-die-in...

There are no advanced concepts or deep hard scifi explorations, but the various worlds each have unique physics systems that are macro-consistent.
> You get a lecture

It's stronger than that, you get a three page consent form that you sign to say that, for instance, you won't get anyone pregnant.
One-way mirrors are not sustainable for performance of non-prisoner workers.

Do we need an open-source repo/db/blockchain to track companies which track workers? This could monitor certification/regulatory requirements, benchmark tracking across near-peer companies, real-world impact on human performance, and supply chain integrity of tracking vendors. If a tracking company is breached, it would be possible to flag all of the companies using that vendor.
spark dataframe api..
It's generally used as a replacement for REST, which, if done properly, uses hypermedia.
Well, do what all reasonable Eastern Europeans do and go to an OECD country minus Mexico or Hungary or so :-))
Appreciate the kind response. It's true that I get unexpectedly overwhelmed by life at times. Hope to gain more maturity as I progress. Thank you!
As someone who had major surgery a few months ago I am glad they are for sale and prescribed. No I am not taking opioids now but in the few days after surgery they kept me mostly pain free.

Perdue deserves to be punished. Opioids are a public health crisis when abused. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have legitimate uses.
Really, the solution to corporate mischief is not more and bigger corporations.
Depends... If one considers the source code as being (part of) the program's documentation, then it should be in French?
Yep, so many many lies, so many "science changing is a good thing" stuff (eg "masks are useless, wash your hands", and mask wearers being conspiracy theorists, to "mandatory masks" and antimaskers being the conspirac nutjobs), "just 14 more days", etc.... but they still want you to "trust them" now, with "this new thing".
Logging DNS traffic is valuable during a security investigation. Depending on your company’s acceptable use policy, no one cares that you are on Reddit.

Monitoring Remote Desktop sessions either by random interval screenshots or screen recording is valuable when you have vendors/contractors connecting to your net. IMO, this is unacceptable for normal employee workstations.

Turning on the mic or webcam is a major violation of privacy. If your doing something SO important/secret/critical that you need to monitor the person doing it you should not be working remotely to begin with.
> a majority of Omicron cases are indeed mild ... all the 'cases' spreading like wildfire

The assumption is that "milder cases, less hospitalisation" cancels out "spreading like wildfire, more transmissible"

But that's not the mathematics of it.

Less hospitalisation per case means e.g., halve the hospitalisation rate.

"more transmissible" means faster exponential growth. So one extra doubling cancels out the halving, and then keeps going.

Similarly: y = 1/2 x ^ 3 will rapidly get much larger than y = 2 x ^ 2 as x increases.
I love these so much and plan to re-read them all (for the N'th time in the past 30 years) again today, thanks for posting this nostalgia trip.
It's used in all sorts of surgical procedures. I've had it a few times, used as a relatively minor painkiller under those circumstances. Which sounds crazy considering how much news is about how strong it is. But it works well in those controlled circumstances
This is how most people I know develop and have done for years but I've never heard anybody ever call it "github flow".
Same with GCP: their current maple makes AWS look like the pinnacle of fast web applications, they keep “accidentally” breaking it for non-Chrome browsers, and the CLI is full of ideas which you can see are kind of appealing but someone got distracted and moved on before finishing the hard parts. Then you get some of the default security policies you’ll be cleaning up for years…

This is not to saw AWS is perfect but it’s not like people are inexplicably using a bad option. We still have a lot of maturing to do as a field.
> Good luck raiding every single Ethereum node in the world to take down a smart contract.

They won't have to. It's like putting absurd security on your door yet leaving the windows as open as always.

If you ever want to move value out of your virtual economy and into the real, they can and will be there waiting for you, with all their unreasonable demands.
On the topic of Google products shutting down, the death of AMP seems to have been accelerated. I see less AMP content, even in carousel results. And they have removed the "lightning bolt" icons on the carousel thumbnails that are AMP hosted.
We made something quite similar work rather well at $work. However, there is a somewhat subtle trick.

The staging/prod candidate is built from master/main branch 21 days old, plus potentially some (few) cherrypicks.

This allows to fearlessly commit to master, and then the “T-21” has 21 days of completely predictable future, that can be changed by doing cherrypicks.

So we can run intense testing on “T-0” aka main, find any issues and add them to be cherry-picked into the T-21.

The bonus is that when the fixes “arrive” to T-21, the cherry-picks become void and stop being applied.

Thus, absent the bugs, the staging/prod code automatically converges to main/master over time.

And yes, we do the reviews of the commits that go into master - but from the T-21 point of view they are 21 days in the future! So there is ample time for any reaction.

Would folks be interested in a more detailed write up ?
But what are the the criteria to decide legitimacy of those needs? Pain is a symptom. It is your body signaling a problem. Indeed, sometimes, there are no solution to those problems but I doubt that all those who got prescribed opioids and got addicted didn't have an underlying solvable problem.

If you are obese because you eat too much and your knees hurt, the solution is not an opioid. The whole discourse about pain being a condition that must be addressed is nefarious. Except in some pretty rare case (like terminal illness), pain is a symptom for which the healthcare organizations must find the root cause of and treat properly. Using expedient like opioids is a recipe for failure and a problem of that only the medical community can address. Serious introspection for those in charge of healthcare system in the US (and many other countries) is necessary.

Also, serious failures of the FDA for labeling opioids as not addictive and putting the breaks on fixing it for years.