skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How well have the union shops fared in the economy?

Our economy works based on supply and demand and individuals making the best choices for themselves. Again I get back to Amazon (where I work). They weren’t forced to completely redo their compensation packages across corporate because of a union. They were forced to do so because SDEs were quitting like crazy.
I have the same questions. We've seen government and businesses try to be aggressive on relaxing lockdown policy in the past, and then quickly re-implement restrictions when the next wave of infections hit. Multiple times I've seen schools, government, offices set terms that had to be met before moving to the next 'phase' and every time those terms avoided their expectations they just declared that it was a bad plan to begin with, scrapped it, and moved on to implement whatever policy they wanted regardless of the current status.

I check https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html to track how things are going. I don't like that, with ~2,000 people dying each day and Spring Break around the corner, the strongest push to reopen is happening now.

"Why now?" Just speculation, but: Because midterm elections are this year, because consumer spending is up and inflation is rising and the government wants to encourage the economy to remain strong, because businesses are seeing lower performance from employees especially regarding sensitive work, because ICUs have capacity and vaccines are readily available.
>More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years, minus 4 peaks of various waves.

And these people are overwhelmingly unvaccinated. At this point, it's been a year that vaccines have been available. You're not going to change their minds, and the rest of us - heartless as this sounds - shouldn't continue to be held back just because of other people's stubbornness. They made the decision not to get it, they should live with whatever consequences may result from that choice.

Edit: I realize that some people can't get it for various medical reasons, and I empathize with them. It's everyone else I'm referring to.
When it comes to issues of life and death or liberty, we should use the worse case as the measure. For example: oh this medical intervention kills people 15% of the time. No matter what that can never be understated.
I really, really want the Aptera [1] folks to succeed. Their vehicle is so aerodynamically efficient and relatively light that you'll be able to charge overnight on 110v and get about 130 miles of range - pretty much all the range I need 99% of the time. It would be a lot of gas station time saved. (being able to charge on 110v and get an appreciable amount of range everyday would also mean less stress on the grid if lots of people were to adopt vehicles like this).

[1] https://aptera.us/ (yes, they are overplaying the "driven by the sun" part, though maybe in a very sunny climate you could get possibly 20 or 30 miles of range if you park it in the sun and for a lot of folks that's all they need most days)
> need to prove that commercial real estate still holds any value at all

You've hit the nail on the had, the entire human civilisation could reorganise around smaller cities without the commute to be more healthy, less polluting and more environmentally friendly

Instead we are witnessing whole COVID-is-gone theater only to protect parasite investors that 'invested' in assets that don't produce anything
I don't know how to articulate it either.

It's some form of uncanny valley type of thing where every detail or facet or property I might point out, there are other people exhibiting the same nominal qualities without bothering me. But something here is just slightly off in some way, but so subtly you can't say what it is.

I honestly can't say he's doing anything actually wrong. I don't think even the most dumbed down ones are really guilty of being wrong. Not enough that I'd complain about it in a casual yt video.

I can see some people maybe not liking his basic style of exposition. That slightly affected dreamy pondering thing.

One thing I can observe is that another guy that just turns me right off even worse is the Smarter Every Day, and these two appear in each others videos at least a few times. Or maybe it was just one time and that one time just bugged me that much :)

I don't know what it is but I frequently see a video from either of these guys where the topic they are presenting looks interesting, but then I do not like their video on that topic.

I think it's down to the presentation just seems a bit too affected. And it's not even as bad as seeming fake or insincere. They both actually strike me as perfectly sincere.
I would say yes, Azure AD is more complex, but in a good way.

AWS IAM is interesting in that IAM resources are provisioned within a subscription. You can use IAM as an identity solution, giving everyone a user account and password, but you don't have to. Internally at AWS, we never used IAM users, but instead had an enterprise AD deployment that we used to log in to our computers and internal systems. One of those internal systems kept a list of AWS subscriptions and IAM roles you had access to, and would trade your AD credentials for temporary AWS credentials scoped to a role. It was pretty slick, but it's not inherent to IAM, so you typically need a third party service to do this for you. (At the job I had in between AWS and Microsoft, we used CloudTamer, and before that, we just had to keep track of 20 different username/password pairs.)

AAD on the other hand is a full blown identity platform that incidentally can also be used to log in to Azure. That means it integrates nicely with on-prem AD deployments and, more importantly, lets users log in once and navigate the subscriptions to which their account has been granted access. So it's actually simpler to use if you just need to be able to log in to multiple subscriptions, but you can run into cases where you need to operate on AAD resources in ways that aren't supported through Azure APIs. This primarily comes up if you need to grant a non-Azure permission as part of an Azure deployment. E.g., if you want to give a managed identity permission to read AAD metadata like service principal IDs, you can't do it from within ARM.
A lot more insane, even Alex thought the guy was crazy. Extremely talented, but crazy.
Yup, our 2018 Model 3 LR with 60k miles on the clock can charge currently claims it can charge to 296 at 100%, but I don't think I've seen over 284 recently. I have no idea what it was when new. 300 maybe? 306 sticks in my head? But then at some point they "unlocked" more range and said it was either 315 or 325, but I can't remember. I do remember for a fact the most I've seen on a 100% charge was 314mi, but that was after 6+mo of ownership so it wasn't a new pack at the time.
Show HN: Mailwitness – Digital Signatures over Email
Hi HN,
I'm Marek Dopiera and I wanted to share the digital signature solution which I made with my software house. Your feedback would be much appreciated.

We've just launched it - it's a service for signing documents over e-mail - https://mailwitness.com. It still has some rough edges, but hopefully it is useful already.

To sign a PDF with somebody, you e-mail them the PDF and put sign@mailwitness.com in CC. If they agree, they need to forward it to sign@mailwitness.com. When they do, you all get your document signed. You can generate PDFs from e-mail, too for convenience.

We made this to raise the safety bar of agreements made via e-mail. Via anecdotal evidence, we know that if people do not use services like DocuSign or HelloSign, they consider an e-mail conversation as proof or they print, sign and scan documents. I think we're offering more safety and convenience, because we're preventing the documents from alteration, forging fakes and backdating (by using OpenTimestamp, which essentially constructs a Merkle tree and puts its root into a Bitcoin transaction).

I'm hoping that our service becomes useful also because it doesn't require any sign-up (just one confirmation e-mail for Ts&Cs), it's free (in the basic model) and doesn't require the extra cognitive load on learning a web app or a mobile app.

You may argue, that one can create a fake e-mail account and use that. That's a valid point, but the reality proves that verification via e-mail is enough for lots of people (vide the agreements over e-mail or DocuSign or HelloSign). In the future we may create paid options, which would include extra identity verification. Even without that extra option, things are not as bad, though: if you use your work e-mail, it's usually your employer who verified your identity.

Another question you might have is spoofing. If your e-mail has a valid DKIM signature (which is the case for most major e-mail providers), we'll accept your message. If it doesn't we'll send you a message to verify that you can also receive e-mail.

For data safety, we have designed the service such that we discard the documents as soon as we process an e-mail (usually a low number of seconds).

Finally, there is legal safety. We operate under the EU law, which qualifies us as a "Trust service provider" and puts requirements on our service. What we do, qualifies as an "Advanced Digital Signature" and according to the EU law, cannot be denied legal effect based on the grounds that it is digital.

Monetization path is unclear yet - I want to see if this catches on and if yes, how people are going to use it. Some options include extra services like using your own certificate rather than ours or identity verification.

I would really love to hear your feedback - especially for what reasons you would not use it.

Thank you
That's TB daisy chaining, not DP's multi thing
Right, for that kind of scenario an EV is currently not a good idea for most people.
Not pretty sure, absolutely.

Also:

svak => svako
svit => svet
Don't you know? The "playful web" means websites getting access to your USB devices or being able to keep your screen from sleeping/locking!
Okay. Correction.

There's a built-in assumption that Russia will observe some red lines with regards of %your country% whereas %your country% doesn't need to. This assumption may fail eventually if you try it.
That’s how it should be, no? If constituents want to end a policy then their representative should work to do exactly that.
It definitely IS state law, unless I'm not interpreting this correctly.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-california-compost-law...
Well, excess mortality was high earlier and is now low. The current Covid strain is both more infectious and less deadly so we should expect this change
> unless you have a portable charging station of some sort

Teslas come with those by default. You just plug them into a socket and you're charging. Sure, it's slow, but it works. I used it to charge overnight at my hotel during a winter sports vacation, for the trip to the slopes and back. (I even brought a power meter so I could pay for the power I used.)

The trip to the area was over 1000km and took all in all about an hour more than it did with my diesel car. Like the previous person said, the only major downside was being less flexible in stopping locations due to Superchargers.
> 30% isn't that bad. Even petrol cars get similarly bad or worse mileage in the winter.

From the link you linked, city driving 15% and "as much as 24% for short (3- to 4-mile) trips". That is not really similarly bad or worse.
Access to the internet should not be something wielded like a weapon.

It is not a political tool to beat those we disagree with.

If we use it like that it will cease to become reliable, and therefore useful, to a large contingent of the planet who might take their ball and go home.

E.g. Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran
> there’s no way that would be okay.

What does 'ok' mean here?

I was Ukraine, if I got NATO I would drop Crimea like its nothing. Crimea was always practically controlled by Russia anyway. And its by far the most pro-Russian part of Ukraine.
And do you have to RTO if you have an immunocompromised family member at home?
> The gravitational energy from the heavy iron ore load will be used to regenerate the batteries while the train is running.

"Infinity train" may be a bit of a misnomer: this is viable as long as there is ore (or other mass) at the higher elevation, which can be transported on the train to a lower elevation -- in the process, the train captures some of the gravitational potential energy that was present.
When anyone is allowed to redistribute under their own terms and attribution, what the user can or can't do depends entirely on where/who they got the work from. Which means in your case that if the place you published the work becomes inaccessible, for example the heirs or successors stop paying for hosting, people that got it from you using the hypothetical super permissive license might no longer be able to prove they are allowed to do what they want with the work.
It's new, as of January 2022
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-california-compost-law...
If the definitions of the key terms and concepts in meditation is ambiguous, the body of scientific evidence of meditation doing anything is not particularly convincing.
Do u have any proof to substantiate that in the upper echelons of power? For example a document or memo being critical of government overreach. Maybe some one being critical of cointelpro or prism

Further, ur comment is a false equivalency. The guy you are responding is is obviously referring to groups of people in power positions. And you seem to respond with the group the general populace
I am a “class bullshitter” within the American class system because I stubbornly refuse to believe that selling my labor for a high price and paying a lot of rent puts me in the same class as people who buy labor and collect rent.

I also don’t think these are identity traits of mine; rather they are contingent facts about living in a HCOL area. If I were slinging code 9-5 in e.g. Chicago then no one would doubt I was middle class.
+1 on Cloudflare’s API for this. You can generate an API key (per domain only, I think) and it’s a simple curl call from there.

And it works on their free account level! Maybe someday they’ll kill that, but they have a history of keeping features in free going.
OpenDoc?
>Buy some musician-quality earplugs ...Use them even when you think it makes you look dorky

Or as a mild sufferer myself, use cheap wax ear plugs which is what I do. No one actually notices them and you can vary the sound blocking by how much you squish them in. I use a key ring thing to carry them https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131545172517?hash=item1ea0b40a25:...
You don't think the fact that this country just had the largest ever COVID wave (in terms of cases), which is in the process of ending, is at all related to the decisions?

Also of the scant 40 million people remaining in California, who haven't yet moved to Texas or Florida, public support for at least some "COVID protocols" are very high [1]. I'm not sure you are giving an impartial assessment of the facts.

1: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-24/californ...
I think you're off by an order of magnitude (5-6%) if you're referring to the risk of infection vs not wearing a basic, correctly worn surgical mask. And this is pre-omicron; omicron is far more transmissible.

Happy to be corrected.
not in the united states. the early 2021 was the peak, and was never surpassed in the recent uptick.
I like the move limit- it's part of what gives Wordle and its associated games (have you tried Sedordle?) their charm.

One thing I'd definitely like to see would be the ability to see your score and game state once you return to the page. I'm effectively locked out at this point so I can't share my score anymore.
Not to mention the fact that computer manufacturers who offered Linux instead still had to pay Microsoft a Windows royalty for each machine.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/competitive-impact-statement-us-...
also, isn't their new campus built atop a toxic waste site?
Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer mRNA Vaccine in Liver Cells
This is an absolute falsehood.
The killing started far before any resolutions were passed, before any international consensus was reached.
Isn't the whole purpose of this style of writing to define terms like "top level control group" and "CAP_SYS_ADMIN" for those people who don't already understand what they mean?
Ask HN: How to argue that the invasion of Ukraine is wrong in an absolute sense?
Given that most countries have benefitted from war, how could one argue that the invasion of Ukraine is wrong in an absolute sense that most Russians would agree with?
What about the death rate for people who can't be vaccinated?
Modern Telecom Network Tracing
Don't feel bad-- it's incredibly confusing. We have solar, and I have no idea what we actually "pay". We over-generate in the summer months but re-use those credits at a different value over less-sunny months.

But the kicker is, in the winter, production is so low that even our off-peak charging hits tier 2 so the rates are thrown all out of whack.

It's probably actually cheaper to charge our car at a supercharger in november/december/january than to charge at home, tbh.
If DesignJoy is making $1M a year selling $2500-$3000 month subscriptions, and there's only one person doing the work, then he's got around 30 clients for whom he is doing "unlimited" work every month.

As a contractor, I once had 9 ongoing projects for about 2 weeks, and that was an insane amount of work and context juggling. Handling 30 active clients for a year, let alone a career, seems impossible.

So either the clients aren't asking for much (which is most likely) or I'm missing something. I assume many bigger companies would happily replace a staff member, or a staff member's valuable time, with a ~30k/year contractor. Critically, these companies wouldn't feel the need to "get their money's worth" by keeping the guy busy every day. However, the smaller companies most freelancers see as their bread and butter are more cost sensitive, and will nickel and dime you as much as possible.

Are there enough big, monied companies to constitute a "storm", which I take to mean a shift in the business model for freelancers and boutique contractors? I dunno about that. I'd guess no, offhand.

Seems like DesignJoy has create a neat niche, which is awesome for him! I don't think it scales to the "disruption" level as this article implies.
> pretending we are living in a post-copyright utopia severely limits the reach of your work

And severely limits the freedom of end users!

GPLv3 protects around tivoization and proprietarization. Other licenses do not.

The net effect is that end users are unable to benefit from the openness.
So really you have no evidece at all, you are just generally angry at everybody who is involved with WebAssembly because they don't site your work and that makes you bitter. Got it.
I am no mathematician (I’m the OP), but to take this title literally is absurd. If not, we’d have discovered a way to have perfect knowledge of all events, past and future, and proved the whole universe is deterministic, and that it can be entirely represented by a tractable number of values.
Ukrainian is a Slavic language. It's average of language spoken by 9 tribes with light influence of ancient Greek from Crimea and Byzantine, with almost no German and Latin influence, because they are proxied by Slavic neighborhoods.

Greeks influenced Ukrainian language indirectly: via songs. When Ukrainian salt traders (chumaks, чумаки) visited Crimea, they also picked fresh songs to sing when traveling, and then they spread those new song all over Ukraine. Often, chumaks based their songs on Greek songs, because ancient Greeks were much better in music. Chumaks also created portable copy of harp, which they called «bandura» («big thing»), which then used for hundreds of years.
A very under-appreciated point.

Given how hard “with vs. from” is to tease apart, excess mortality is a good way to look at things, eg

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/us-excess-deat...

You also need to take into account the fact that that most of the deaths in the US are amongst the unvaccinated (something like 20:1 last I checked) so your personal risk of death, if vaccinated, is very different from the overall death rate.
New California Compost Law Goes into Effect
COVID made my situation worse at Apple. I worked in a satellite office (NYC), and while in the office, most folks in California were reluctant to schedule meetings later than ~2pm california time because they didn't want to keep people in the office late. When we went fully remote, suddenly it seems like any compunctions about that vanished; I would have meetings until 9pm 3 nights a week, I guess because the managers figured that we were already home.

> Having left, I forgot what it was like to be able to focus on something other than Apple

Definitely sympathize there; we weren't even allowed to leave Github issues without Legal's approval, and when I wanted to open source something (basically an HLS server I wrote to handle my home security system), I was told that a) it was too competitive with Apple because my project had to do with video, and b) there's no such thing as "my own time" with Apple, since I was salaried and well-compensated.
The local Whole Foods closed years ago due to a rat infestation and a lease dispute. They just reopened as the first "just walk out" Whole Foods. I imagine a lot of the Amazon Go energy will be going into more of the existing Whole Foods stores. If I worked at Whole foods right now, I'd be updating my resume for the day the robots come.
Hi Alex, thanks for the question! Currently, we are not producing great results when it comes to realistic humans, animals, and vegetation. Those requests are not served as we haven't yet trained for these kind of inputs. Once our geometry reconstruction has high accuracy for hard-surface objects we'll move on to this category, collect data, train and improve.
Hello Raoufyousfi, thank you for your question, we currently only use REST + webhooks
One secret tip for first-time OSS contributors
The article doesn't do that. It throws around jargon without defining it, or defining it vaguely or inaccurately.
Amazing! All power to you David, this is much needed.
For TOR users: https://archive.ph/9fEMt
Can anyone actually confirm this?

Seems like a fairly big move backed by rather sparse Reddit evidence

I’d have thought there would be way more noise about it
I am using a Matias Tactile Pro, which is similar to that old mechanical IBM keyboard with an layout with a lot of symbols (which might be nice if you do math and data science). It is heavy, big, and super loud but I really like the sound, and it feels just good. I have good experiences with it, using it since about eight years. Has also two USB ports which is useful for charging stuff and gadgets.

I have to warn about the Matias Quiet versions though - they are not durable and keys are failing quickly. Unbelievable the difference in quality.

Many people make a fuss about ergonomic keyboard layouts. I just do not understand why. My recommendation is this:

1. Chose a layout which is useful for your language(s) and programming - best layouts for this are often from multi-lingual countries like UK International (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#United_Kingdom_(Extende...), or Canadian, or such. (Some national layouts like German are horrible because keys like '{' or '}' cannot be reached in an ergonomic way. It might therefore be better to put rarely-used regional characters on dead-keys, which is exactly what UK International, for example, does.)

2. Learn to touch-type on that one layout, and stick to it.

Anything else is very unlikely to ever give any return in time you invest. Especially when you are coding - the key that is used most often for code is empirically the "Delete" key, and that's for a reason.