skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK this is a solved problem. There are plenty of global PEO that take care of the local laws to hire people in different countries. I currently use Globalization Partners, know about a YC one called via.work and have worked with other called AIMS.
It’s easy to physically move away in a virtual world. Lots of options: Walk, fly, teleport…
Used to use Pihole but pi disk corrupted and didn't bother to set up again. Nowadays Quad9 9.9.9.9 and local ad/tracker blocking.
to be fair, this is the mirror he setup when the main site got overwhelmed a couple weeks ago :)
This also enables Amazon to claim you purchased a different item than you did, or charge a different price. The only way to obtain documentation of a purchase is to take a screenshot of every transaction.

I bought some lightbulbs from Amazon recently. I am quite sure I purchased some 7-8 watt LED candle bulbs. I received a package of 50 watt incandescents, which was definitely not what I wanted. I went to my Amazon account and it showed I had purchased the incandescents. I looked at my email receipt, and all contained was is a list of links to Amazon, which led to their site, showing I had purchased the incandescents. The lack of text in the email meant I had no way to determine what I actually purchased and whether the mistake was on my end, Amazon's or the third party vendor.
At least in the US, retribution isn't officially part of the criminal justice system. You see why it's problematic when you look at how it creeps into the system anyway. The death penalty is disproportionately applied to minories and exoneration of death row inmates by new DNA evidence also disproportionately skews towards minorities (meaning they were false convictions to begin with).
To some extent, this is by design. The inaction of liberal western democracies is because it is ambiguous as it what should be done. Yes, this leads to stagnation, but also minimizes massive mistakes. When it becomes clear what needs to be done western democracies can spring into action, such as with, as the author pointed out, the pandemic.

Look at Russia - The government, but more specifically Putin, just set the country back 20-30 years with one bad decision. China is on a hot streak, but the same could happen to them. What happens when Xi looses his mind? Or dies? Or when the economy takes a prolonged downturn?

Democracies win over the long term because they bet small and lose small.

Libraries aren’t being built because, A. We already have a lot of them in the west, and B. Typically they begin as part of a major philanthropic gift but right now our philanthropist class is focused on eradicating diseases and going to space.
> If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level.

The great thing about articles like this is that it reminds me to go rewatch the the video "Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great?"[1], which neatly summarizes so much of the breathless excitement of vague, detail-free scientific and entrepreneurial claims.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
(I get that in Paul Graham's original intent for HN there's no religion, and the following is also very intense, but now that we're talking about religion and death I feel right about this.)

Well what constitutes war against GOD, referred to as "Allah" here, and Mohammed (my choice of words reflect that I consider him a real prophet, but specific to Islam, not Christianity, it's subjective like fame) is not elaborated on, probably in another section it goes into detail, and plus you have to use this old, outdated tech that isn't compatible with anything these days, "judgment." Nobody talks about it much anymore.

As for the specific punishments for that harm, it's not vague at all. Execution, OK so in Arabia that means you put their neck on a chopping block, made of wood for the same reason as a kitchen cutting board, a man with a mask whose job title is "executioner" walks up with an axe I think it is, I don't know I haven't watched them live but I know in Saudi Arabia it happens in the public square, some same place every time, everyone can go watch; the masked man lifts his axe, well from that point it's too graphic even textually for HN. Then crucifixion, it's the destiny of Christ, for good reason because that was the most feared form of torture and death in the Roman Empire. Then finally, the other punishments are lighter, and the opposite-sides rule for severing hands and feet is a way to be merciful so the punished blasphemer can walk on crutches at very least, not be absolutely crippled. Exile sounds light but it's rough, most people end up at the bottom of society if they're exiled, second class citizens and often slaves. Obviously much better though. So that's where judgment comes in, this isn't digital, it's much more consuetudinary. The judge can decide what the punishment will be commensurately with the unique nuance of the transgression.

I hope that clarifies the vagueness.
Making Saudi Arabia look like the sole aggressor is incredibly dishonest after the numerous crimes Iran and its allies have openly been committing against sunnis. This issue is not as one-sided as the article tries to make it out to be. The Iranian regime is one of the biggest factors in the destabilisation of the Middle East.

It’s worth mentioning that shiites have been, and still are killing sunnis in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon, in massive numbers. Kids are not spared here.

Seeing all the death and destruction committed by the shiites, Iran and its allies like Russia in the Middle East, I’ve learnt to take what often appears to be pro-Iranian propaganda against Saudi Arabia with a grain of salt, and you should too. There is a lot to say about what Iran alone does to its sunni population.

This issue requires us to look at it from a nuanced perspective lest we do many victims in these countries injustice.

Edit: Removed an example of oppression which I unfortunately have no reference for anymore. If you want to see what’s going on, material is readily available on the internet. Search for example for “Hezbola”.
I have no love for Facebook but, this is such a petulant headline LOL.
The online reviews are all nothing but positive but I played this for 3 hours and found it pretty bad. It superficially looks like Skyrim which I really like but really it’s just a game of memorising very specific timings for pressing a button. Combined with basically no direction from the game so you spend ages walking around wondering what you are meant to be doing.
>a contractor may, for example, not be able to work for you full-time

Hire them on a project basis. When one project ends, setup a new contract.
Yes, it is some kind of website builder, but a bit more technical. To be precise, it is a frontend editor. Like glitch, jsfiddle or codepen. Try to play around to get a feel for it. Let us know if there's something specific you don't understand,
we can help you out.
One thing you can do here (and I think Hacker News does this) is debounce comments, to reject submissions that come very quickly with the exact same content. Perhaps it was added for exactly this reason ;)
The problem with incapacitation is that it's final, and no justice system is without flaws or perfect.

Innocent people have been put to death before.
Last one was connected in 2009 which isn't that recent but there are also not that many projects of this size. China and Russia might not be the most thrustworthy and I would rather see more more western examples but then we have to go back a couple of decades, most of which were excellent.

I agree that a gigantic shift is required and put my hopes into mass produced SMRs. It's gonna take time and money, yes, just like the shift to EVs and renewables.

Fossil fuels is still above 80% of global primary energy, nuclear 5% and renewables excluding hydro 2%.

I really don't think putting all eggs in the solar/wind basket is good. They should of course also get heavy investments but that doesn't have to exclude nuclear. We're gonna need everything we have to end the fossil era.
I don't think the filtering they mention for security actually works? Anybody who clones a repo on GitHub can make their own commits appear under the original org url when accessed by ref.
Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, tweeted today:

> 79 children have been killed and more than 100 injured during the war in Ukraine. Every death and injury will be documented, investigated by juvenile prosecutors and we will do our best to bring to justice each war criminal.[0]

> Document #RussianWarCrimes via https://warcrimes.gov.ua

Attached image: «5 facts of Russian war crimes against children in Ukraine»[img]

[0] https://twitter.com/VenediktovaIV/status/1502567437102891009

[img] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNoxHe4WQAQOQZj?format=jpg&name=...
Two other items to add to the list:

Modern chickens have ridiculously bulked up, and their feeding has been highly optimised, with the fastest growing breeds you can turn out a 4lbs broiler in 6 weeks, roman chickens would be far less optimised for meat, and as you note feed grain would be scarcer, so turning out a chicken for meat would also take a lot more time (hence even more expenses).

Similarly, dairy cow had been far less optimised, and so had dairy “husbandry”. Furthermore, cow milk was considered quite inferior to goat or sheep (not to mention ancient rome would have had pretty high levels of lactose intolerance, which are less of an issue with sheep and especially goat milk — a fact sometimes noted by roman writers e.g. Pliny). Thus dairy cow husbandry would have little presence in Roman culture, instead cattle was mostly work (oxen) and meat. Therefore the only balance (and opportunity cost) would be between these two, not unlike horse.
How is the work/life balance at big tech companies these days?
I’ve been getting emails from recruiters at big tech companies multiple times a month now, and salaries have been increasing by crazy amounts. Amazon in particular seems like it has incredible hiring needs, and I hear from a different Amazon recruiter at least once a month, despite telling them “no thanks” every time.

With all this insatiable demand for talent, what are the working conditions like at these big tech companies? Is everybody working overtime to keep up amidst staff shortages, or have they been able to maintain a decent work/life balance?

I’m asking because I feel very tempted by the booming salaries at big tech companies, but I’m more than a little worried that there is a reason these companies seem to be having a hard time acquiring or keeping talent.
Is it a possibility to ramp them back up?
For anyone curious, this is the general area PG screenshot for the map: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3815449,-71.1244449,16z

This is about a ten minute walk from Harvard Square near an area known as the Radcliffe Quandrangle.
> Investors will have to weigh up risks from hurricanes and rising sea levels.

Yeah I would not invest in this
I hear you. France had to pass rulings limiting the frequency you can say a product name on tv.

Advertisement and propaganda have always been the bread and butter of tvs (and to a lesser extent movies). The whole industry grew leaps and bounds during the last century, yet people still dismiss it as low brow, or only care about images/narratives influence when it’s children looking at boobs or games that are supposed to be too violent.

On getting better or worse, I think it got more sophisticated as the reach increased and the market for attention became more competitive. All in all I don’t think the core of it changes much, the army is still heavily supporting war movies and games to the same extent for instance, the landscape just got more diverse making it less prominent.
On jurisdictional grounds, not the DOJ interpretation of the CFAA.
>Covering more material isn’t necessarily a good thing if students are not really understanding the material that’s already been presented. I personally and benefited greatly from others asking questions. Sometimes the questions asked were not even things I considered. In my college classes that were purely lecture based where the prof didn’t allow interruptions, I certainly got more value out of studying with others because of the questions.

Sure, that can also happen. I've had multiple lectures though where the questions caused pacing issues and where the questions were unique to the questioner. It's a catch 22 because the teacher asked for this but still wants to cover the required material, and they need to balance it better to avoid losing control of the class. If in a college or grad school environment, a professor has office hours. If there are multiple students with similar questions, I have found that email or later lecture clarifications work well.

I'd say I got a lot of value out of studying with others regardless of whether questions were allowed. It's a necessity where a professor yells at you for asking a question as did my college statistics professor; unfortunately he was also the head of his department so nothing we could do about it but learn on our own.

That's not the trade-off without penalties for non-participation though. It's not 'no questions at all' or 'all questions, all the time.' It's some people ask questions, most people don't, the grades aren't impacted by your own introverted nature.

Here's the kicker - most of the time, if participation is graded it doesn't massively increase the actual participation in discussion. It just gives the professor more control over the grading, something they desire especially if it's blind grading numbers. It's a penalty system for people that the professor doesn't like or behavior they don't like, and sometimes a way to reward favorites. That's all.
> There are "teflon engineers" out there who can get virtually nothing done and make one mistake after another, and get away with it for years.

That would be Wally from the Dilbert comic strips...

I have seen that when the employee in question has much lower salary requirements than others, appearing to provide a sort of false economy to management, even as their actual value is entirely negative.

I accidentally solved one of those problems, myself... having stumbled upon evidence a very poorly performing employee was reading articles on the web most of the day, only doing a few minutes of coding and taking some steps to hide logging of this fact (which was actually the part that caught my attention). Setting up screen recording and running it for several days hammered the point home. Said employee at the end of this period conveniently reported running into technical difficulties with their project, necessitating more time to work on it. That nicely drove the point home, putting the final nail in and effectively catapulting them out the door...
See this nuclear positive website that doesn't have an imprint (I can find on mobile). I wouldn't bcall it research either. Summary would probably be fair.
>Think about libraries as a concept – the government builds a huge building, buys loads of books from many different authors and allows
everyone to just go there and read the books for free or some small fee.

False premise: Most librairies in the United States were funded and built by private philanthropy. See: Carnegie Library

>"Sometimes you can even take the books to your home!"– Now imagine libraries didn’t exist and some politician came around proposing we create libraries exactly as they are. What would you expect to happen? I can tell you what I would expect to happen: Nothing at all: What about the authors and publishers? What about the bookstores! People will just steal and/or destroy the books! People don’t even read anymore! I am quite confident they would never get built in any major western democracy today.

If it's difficult to build libraries today, political will is not a limiting factor. Rather, technology has slowly but surely rendered the storage of dead trees as obsolete in all but a few circumstances (i.e. archival analysis) Just as we stopped using street cars when buses and cars proved to be more maneuverable and efficient, one shouldn't advocate a reinvention of the 19th century library simply because it delivered a unique benefit once upon a time.
It's not entirely "comfort of the bloated web". We as humans have trouble perceiving something happening "faster than the blink of an eye". So, faster than 300ms or so. It's not uncommon for fast UIs to deliberately introduce delaying animations or some other indicators to trick us that yes, things did happen.
An LWN article on this topic was discussed a couple of weeks ago¹, with a whole heap of comments both here and on the original LWN piece.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459634
Test of PastePal, a clipboard manager that I can no longer do without
Buying land is still using state coercion (in a mild and accepted way) to deprive everyone else of it, it's a natural resource.
At my university there was a rumour that you were still allowed to submit your thesis in Latin. I think some people were tempted to try it but I’m not aware of anyone who did (or who pored over the regulations to find out if it was true)
Whether it's officially part of the system or not, the public's desire to see retribution is definitely on the minds of American legislators when they write laws. Thirst for retribution also plays a roll in the public tolerating abusive police and poor conditions in prisons (which are arguably manifestations of vigilantism.)

But yes, I oppose the death penalty, particularly in America, because I don't trust the government to get it right.
Apple has an architectural license that allows them to build ARM-compatible processors with custom micro-architecture. I'm sure others like Google and Nvidia also have it.
You start to understand the issue of comparing the raw cost of kWh of renewables to stable energy like nuclear, if you have to build N times the capacity, the cost per kWh is just N times more expensive.
>I don't know about the US, but in the UK the idea that you can just go online and learn things and replace University that way is absurd.

Doesn't the Open University have a pretty good reputation?
So… “senior engineer” to me means becoming a leader that knows how to forge a path through the forest of unknown unknowns. It means that the person is capable of navigating an org structure. It means that the person knows how to balance the endless mutually-incompatible competing requirements. Etc, etc, etc.

See what I didn’t mention? I don’t care about trivia knowledge. Tech knowledge can be so fleeting. What doesn’t change is good judgement and good leadership.
What is the value of being recognized by UN?
If only the ECMAScript/JavaScript community were this sensible.
Is this a sequel to the Fyre Festival?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival
With respect of working rights, sometimes it goes the other way: I've worked for American companies from Mexico through a PEO (the ones in charge of hiring you). Given that these usually hire you as a full time employee, you are protected by the state rights. In Mexico that entails several things: Access to social healthcare, at least 25% of vacation bonus (additional pay for each vacation day you take), 3 months severance if the company fires you at will, compulsory contribution to the 401k equivalent, among others.

At some point us working in Mexico like this had better benefits than our peers in the US.
"By December 2019, the group's aspirations became reality, raising over $250,000 to complete the purchase of Coffee Caye, a 1.2-acre, uninhabited island off the coast of Belize"

Good luck putting any of that on a single acre
State charts / FSM's work wonders in these situations.
Honestly, I think you were just waiting for an opportunity to tell someone they hadn't read the book, or had read it incorrectly. It's a service I am happy to provide any time this subject comes up.

Nonetheless, the book's thesis is hard to reckon with:

> What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such … That is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

And it is always possible that Putin himself has not read (or, like so many of us, merely misunderstood) Fukuyama's work as well.
This is a good explanation for some behavior I see on one of my sites. The site is barebones html with a tiny amount of js to support an email list signup form. There's some quick validation on the backend but the response cycle is super quick. I get double signups every now and then.
I've heard "GAFAM" in the past with is significantly less problematic.
If state B had such a law then it would be illegal. Even California, which is notorious for its tax policies, draws the line at “California-sourced income”, unless it was from a tax-free or lower taxed state, in which case you will only owe the difference.

The Supreme Court has ruled on this as well - https://www.cpajournal.com/2017/10/26/icymi-supreme-court-ru...
Build a medium-sized project on your own, especially one with evolving requirements. Bonus: come back to it 6 months later. You'll learn about scaling a codebase past 1000 lines (and maybe 10,000 lines), weigh the pros and cons of hacky workarounds, go through the pain of refactoring, and gain perspective about how projects evolve.
“backend can be generated and requires minimum modification for authz”

lol
Incapacitation isn't synonymous with execution. Imprisonment is a weaker form of incapacitation without that finality. A murderer locked up in prison can't harm the general public (though other prisoners and prison staff may still be at risk.)
Art is dead. Long Live Art
There could be teachers who are fanatics about some political issue, and if you even hint you might disagree with them they'll try to lash out. I also recall some university level class (I didn't take it but a friend did) where religion was a topic and the professor intentionally set very loaded questions in online tutorials. While it's fair to ask people to question their own assumptions, it often seems the people most keen on this are ones who would become very irate if their own assumptions got questioned.

Perhaps that why some groups of people tend to gravitate to STEM, where teacher bias is less likely to have an impact.
> bank: instead you can get all your transaction data as a csv, an xlsx, or an ofx or whatever Quicken or Microsoft Money thing

I don't even know why is this a thing (i.e. who had to sacrifice himself to the gods of IT interoperability so that a lot of banks offered this) , but all of these formats are actually very well documented these days. It's a GOD. SEND. that even the most terrible of banks seems to offer this, double plus good when no one at the bank even knows what "Quicken" is.
I think is how it is supposed to be - parents making decisions for their kids using their best judgement (preferences). It is ok for kids to disagree when they grow. It is less ok to make a problem out of it. Most parents really try hard to make rational decisions using information and background they have. Criticizing them for making mistakes does not make sense to me. We all humans and we make mistakes.
Maybe I'm weird. I've brought up my kids without applying the dumb rules i hated as a kid and they're both happy and well adjusted. And i'm happier too because i've avoided all the usual stupid family arguments that would otherwise result.

I see other parents repeatedly inflicting on their kids rules and behaviours that are completely unnecessary but they think it's "the right thing"

i see this as truly stupid and a great way to sour your relationship with your kids when they get older and don't have to take it anymore
I did misunderstand. Thanks!
I was born in USSR and lived and worked there until I've moved to Canada in 1992. While I and many others hated various restrictions on freedoms I know from the experience that the majority of the population was mostly concerned about living standard.