skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a troll, a serious question. As I understand, the starting wage for Amazon workers is $18/hr, way higher than minimum wage in the US. They also offer education credits and healthcare from day 1 (if I understand correctly). Could Amazon not roll back a bunch of these perks prior to unionization, therefore making working conditions worse? The physical demands will still be there, although the union could push for better training or sick time.
Comedy Legend Gilbert Gottfried Dead at 67
Maybe you missed it, the sellers think this program is meant to benefit the corporate resellers and harm the individuals selling on Etsy.
It's a completely BS statement, so I don't know what you're trying to say. It's not even possible for reality to have a bias in the first place. Reality just... is. It's the people who try to tell you what reality is that have biases.
Public sector unions (police, teachers, etc) are a whole different animal. While they serve the same function for employees on paper, the politics and negotiations involved are different enough that they really should be a separate conversation.

Both categories of unions have problems and benefits, but they don't overlap 100%.
We get free coffee in the offices but it sucks and you have to pay for everything else (including good coffee).
>What sorts of films don't lecture?

the kind that confirm my existing ideology.

i don't know if you've noticed, but people who do things that i understand are totally normal, and people who are different from me have dumb ideas. it's annoying when they talk.
Hey! I'm in the same boat. I'm really glad I got that Secret Clearance in the late 90's!
What you check out from a library is protected as personal information. What you buy from a bookstore will most likely end up in a database somewhere. Whether physical or digital there will be a record of the purchase. Digital copies are perfectly fine as long as they're stored on your own media in standard formats such as EPUB, without DRM. (For DRM-free ebooks I'd recommend starting here: <https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/>.)
tl;dr: automatic sparse checkouts for massive monorepos
Dr. Carl Hart: 'I Am Better for My Drug Use'
Wasn't there an on the making successor to OAuth2 from the same people that was supposed to be a totally different take? I remember hearing something about it but I cannot recall or find the source.
Ebert was one of the last real effigies of good reviewing. The folks who took over after he died haven't really done his name justice.

That said, I think "reviewing" took on much more than what Roger Ebert stood for. I don't think he saw himself as a gatekeeper of quality as much as someone who could put the summary of the experience of watching a movie in text quite succinctly. Nowadays with things like rotten tomatoes, it literally is a rating, and it's definitional gatekeeping.
I have had a weak headache all day, every day, for more than 20 years. Occasionally I will have very bad headaches, visual stuff etc. but there is always a background, low-level headache. It's weak enough that I frequently forget about it, but if at any given point in the day I ask myself, "do I have a headache", the answer is always "yes". No idea what the origin is other than maybe some concussions when I was ~19 -- I'm not too stressed about it but very curious to hear if anyone here has experienced something similar or has any bright ideas :)
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Nearly all mature language implementations are compilers to some extent
> Very few people get their devices searched (I know maybe one in 100) and, oh-the-coincidence, this guy happens to be that "Omnipotent" admin of a cybercrime forum?

That’s not what the text really suggests. It very clearly states:

> The government obtained a warrant

Which obviously means that he wasn’t randomly searched at the border, but the government knew who he was.

It’s not parallel construction, just poor wording by Krebs.
Based on all his public statements and all the insider accounts from both career civil servants and even his own political appointees, Trump never bothered to understand the subtlety of NATO or really any other policy. Just read what Fiona Hill and John Bolton among others have to say. He wanted out of NATO. He respected the word of Putin, he hated Ukraine and it was 100% personal. He refused to press Putin on election interference when he met him in Finland, but withheld Congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine unless they did him a favor to help his own electoral fortunes.

The 2% defense spending target was negotiated by Obama and agreed by NATO members before Trump took office. Trump took that cue and railed that America was paying for NATO as though it were a dues-based organization. When he went to Brussels to push for compliance, he raised the prospect of 4% as a new spending target even when the US was tracking to drop below 3%. While he may have achieved a policy victory here and there it was only ever by coincidence. I've not seen any indication has understands or even cares about any policy whatsoever and only says things that get him attention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/editorials/trump-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/obama-and-bush-also-pressed-...
I think oauth is abused as a way of protecting your API. Often it’s just an unnecessary complication which makes your API harder to use and your libraries bloated.

If Stripe can get away with just public and secret key pair, there is a big chance it’s enough for you as well.
They should promote you more if you’re able to do this.
Off topic question: Is there anyone here who reads raw ROT13?
I don't know of a solution for ETL DSL -> UI but https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy goes from a DSL to internal web apps. Perhaps some inspiration could be taken from there. Good luck!
Show HN: Visualizing Code in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Thanks for peeking in to this post.

I have been an avid fan of the push in the recent years for true visualization of code. If one searches HN for "visualization", more than 10 years of links, articles, documents, research, and projects come up with all sorts of wonderful metaphors for seeing your code in new ways.

I am a much simpler, much dumber man. I just wanted to see the code - literally, like long sheets of paper - floating in air so I could walk up to it and just.. interact with it. Move it. See what its next to. Then, maybe, use the same tools that present the code to me in this new way to introspect it visually, without relying on complicated or impossible hard-form algorithms that can do things like "show me related entries" or "all the classes that have function Z". Reducing the complexity of that question and answer down to "look to your right and left for the things that are now highlighted in purple" is my goal here.

To that end, I have an incredibly amateurish video to share with the group - pardon that it is a massive video file hosted on my private Proton Drive account. (If anyone has a suggestion or hosting videos that HN appreciates, I'll gladly take it!) It's about 6 minutes long, and is a basic demo of the project I have working on that tackles the things I mentioned above.

I'm posting this to HN because I need help. Motivational help, implementation help, and everything in between. I am absolutely convinced there are like minded people interested in ideas like this floating around the community, and it is to them (you!) that I am reaching out.

To all the above I also say: I appreciate your patience and willingness to hear an amateur software developer out.

https://drive.protonmail.com/urls/7NH8Y81Y9C#SlPidzB4EF0t
Naming something after Chomsky, a difficult choice. Though I understand his reception has been largely uncritical in the US for some reason...
No but they should. It’s like free money for them.
Used one to pay for parking the other day. Was nice not to need to download an app.
I think lexers shouldn't be written by hand but parsers often have to be to at least some extent.
Well, I stand corrected, because I relied on their promo description. *shrug_emoji*

I replaced the diagram in the previous comment, take a look.
Ah right. Yeah, reverse-engineering Airbyte's DSL and just "borrowing" their UI generation may be the move.
Sorry to hear. That sounds awful (and almost a mirror of my experience after an accidental brain trauma).

That being said, we're lucky that we still can do the things we used to, albeit slower. It's only when you absolutely cannot do certain things that is really daunting.
I use the app frequently on Android and Arch Linux, and it works equally well on both.
I sometimes hear this, but I disagree.

If you're 40 years old, you need to be able to consume any kind of media and then place yourself into the mindset of a younger person and judge it from that mindset - because you used to be that younger person.

Truly exceptional media is good enough to transcend the age barrier and is enjoyable for everyone, e.g., The Incredibles is enjoyable for young kids because it's a cartoon and it's flashy and exciting, it's enjoyable for young boys who want to be the "best" at a sport, it's enjoyable for girls transitioning to puberty because of Violet's storyline, it's enjoyable for men who have lost some of their steam and can relate to Mr. Incredible, and it's enjoyable for women because of the struggles Elastigirl has as a mother and a homemaker. Even Syndrome is shown as a sympathetic villain who is evil not because he is a bad person, but because he was dismissed and ignored by his idol. There are plenty of people who can relate to that.

Ghostbusters (1984) is another expertly crafted movie that is fun for kids, but well-written enough to be incredibly enjoyable for adults.

When my young cousins or my nephew corral me into playing a game with them, I'm not playing it from my 41-year old perspective, I'm playing it through their eyes.

If you can't do that, then don't review content. Content always has a specific audience. Really great content can weave together enough bits to at least satisfy every audience. Exceptional content manages to speak deeply to every audience. I still feel that's why The Incredibles is one of the best movies ever made. The struggles shown in that movie are relatable for every single person on the planet.
The ghost kitchens of music streaming!
From what I read once, the chance is significantly higher than you expect, something like if you are in a major airport, there's a 50% chance someone you know is also at the same airport.

This is because the group of people who travel often is surprisingly small, and so overlap will happen much more likely than you think.
I do the same thing. It annoys the hell out of people if they’re reading with me.

Funny enough tho, I hate highlighting actual paper text, i never understood the point of that
They could find legitimate work, yes, but you're forgetting that they do it for the thrill.
Just like people can be passionated for their careers, so can a black hat hacker or a scammer also find pleasure in his craft. Not saying it's the right thing, but I understand the appeal.
I was expecting this to be an analysis of communist or socialist dictatorships. But it is about (presumably) left-wing authoritarian behavior as practiced by individuals and groups in the US.

Yes, as a conservative I am biased, but it still shocks me that most studies in the past (as this study recognizes) on authoritarian behavior have focussed on right-wing authoritarian behavior -- despite the fact that most of the effective authoritarian behavior for the last 30 years has been on the left.

Thank you, Biden Administration, for not putting the kabosh on research like this.
Split tunneling an app to NOT GO THROUGH the tunnel is easy

Setting split tunneling to ONLY TUNNEL A SPECIFIC APP is hard
Unions can also block career paths because of seniority preference, a newer guy won't be considered for promotions even if he is more than capable and has showed dedication if the older one are given preference just by longevity. I'm not against unions in general for blue collar jobs but I do believe that they shouldn't have more power than the company, it's all about balance. I come from a country where the lefty populist government used unions to destroy all the private sector by giving them all the power.
Is it smaller than darkhttpd?

https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/
> Much harder to get rich by saving money now

No one was getting rich by saving money with interest rates basically zero and the stock market posting record returns.

> it's not like corporations are in a rush to give matching raises to workers.

Inflation is nearly at a 50 year low. Corporations that want to fill their hiring targets are giving raises
It’s 15% if it’s less than a million annually.
This is why verbal debates are bad.
Freakonomics just did a good podacast about this this week:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/dont-worry-be-tacky/.

Essentially that what we talk about liking and what the general population actually like are very different.

They interviewed this woman, who as an art student learned all about 'high art' and 'low art' and in a moment of loss of inspiration went back to using some low art she appreciated as inspirationn:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/flora-yukhnovich-2077868
I don't know if the site is inherently polarizing or not, but I don't think there's any doubt that the tenor / tone here has shifted a bit. I'd say there are two aspects to that:

1. "Political stuff" (however you want to define that) now seems to be generally more accepted in general. I believe there are discussions here now that just didn't happen 12+ years ago.

2. The political bias seems to have shifted a bit away from the "techno-libertarian" view and more towards a view that, in American terms, might vaguely be described as "left leaning" - that is, more anti-capitalist, pro-big-government, etc.

Whether these developments are good or bad things is subject to debate of course.
CFPB chief Chopra says TransUnion is ‘out of control’ as regulator sues
Chat came to Thunderbird for free - it was developed by a different team and they offered to integrate it, and did so.

This is great for users who are looking for unified communications. Further, chat sessions are index searchable if the user has enabled it.
Can someone explain the increasing usage of Oauth credentials for pure server-to-server applications (like Stripe payment processing)?
I really wish this had a title… was anything else. Something that more clearly illustrated the angle this is taking. I was ready to skip past it.
On the flip side, the employer signed the same agreement as the union/employees. If the company valued weekend up-time, they could have negotiated a higher weekend rate to get a union guy in to fix the problem. The company prioritized low labor costs over uptime, so they're at least 50% to blame here.
Yes not every Linux/unix arg parser conforms to posix, some require a space, others do not.
It's a medical paper. It isn't written for non-practitioners, and if you don't understand it, the best thing to do is not to speculate, but to reserve judgment.
yes it’s quite bizarre that key functionalities are split between the built in Editor and iMovie. almost all videos have to be done using both. doing vertical videos + text is very awkward.
I actually found myself needing something like this a couple weeks ago. I use a self-hosted platform (cloudron.io) that allows for custom apps. I wanted to host a static blog on that server. Some people are happy to accept "bloat" if it does, in fact, make life easier in some way.
People change, old people leave, new people come. The tenor of a site can change for all of these reasons. My impression is that what you are feeling is mostly for the third reason - new people come.

Maybe I'm idealizing the way things were, but it seemed that 6 or 8 years ago, someone could say something that people disagreed with, but say it in a way that was thoughtful. Now, much of the time, it will be said in a way that is not thoughtful at all, but only strident. But I don't think it's because people changed. It's usually newer people who post that way.

I think as HN became more popular, it became a more attractive target for those wishing to do ideological battle. (Why bother doing propaganda on a small, non-influential site?) This drowned out the thoughtful posts. And, in a self-reinforcing feedback loop, some of the older folks quit or posted less frequently.

I see too many conversations where it's obvious that one side isn't really listening, but only arguing. That's not an interesting discussion. It's like beating your head against a brick wall to be a part of, but it's also uninteresting to read if you aren't a part of it.

In my opinion, this is still the best site there is, but it's less than it was in 2014.
Dunno, take say 1 gram of matter and convert it to energy. Then assume something 100x better than the JWST, add in a few more decades of signal processing, encoding, etc. Add in the possibility of receiving from more than a single solar system.

After all some random ham in 2005 set a record of 13M miles per watt. That's in 2005, with an standard radio (elecraft k1) and not any exotic receivers like say something 100-1000x better than the JWST that's I'd expect earth to have over the next few decades, let alone some other civilization that's sending sensors to likely millions of solar systems if they found us.

That's only 400kw for a light year, not that much assuming you are slinging sensors into other solar systems.
I think the numbers are just a distraction. What the critics like is informed by the desire to maintain access to the studios and the quality of the goodies they've been given (access journalism/junket whores), and what the public likes is informed by the size of the marketing spend and what the critics have already written before they saw the film.

A better proxy for public sentiment would be viewer scores from test screenings.

For me, it would be easy enough to blame any increasing divergence on the fact that now, due to the internet and consumer culture/conventions, critics scores matter less and direct marketing spend matters more. That would also account for why genre films diverge most, because each spends the budget of a small country on promotion.

edit: sorry for not being an amateur psychologist about this or moaning about ivory tower elites, but these are products.
Universal healthcare funded via taxes is the exact opposite of insurance. Insurance premiums are decided upon your medical profile and risk. Taxes are based upon income, which has nothing to do with health.
No, that's a different ASP. Application Service Providers are a business type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_service_provider
Why? What I've wanted out of my career or whether I cared at all has changed pretty drastically across different decades of my life. Some of that is changes in my own personality and circumstances, but some is just opening up of avenues I didn't realize were possibilities when I was younger. I originally wanted to be a writer. Maybe if I was more determined and focused on that, I could have been, but I know people from back in the day who had that goal and achieved it and I can't say any of them right now are better off or happier than I am. Giving up and doing something with a much clearer path to a stable existence worked out well.
Litestream author here. This is on the staging site for the docs for the upcoming v0.4.0 release. I’d love to hear feedback from anyone who wants to kick the tires before the release. Thanks!
Yes, if mullvad + your machine is compromised, then indeed there is not much you can do. But first, not everyone uses mullvads client, but instead the provided configuration files for wireguard/openvpn. Secondly, not all traffic is indeed personally identifiable, especially if you're using something like mullvad with for anonymous traffic to begin with. Imagine you have another account than vinay_ys that you only use via mullvad (and potentially other accounts). Using something like cash (or bitcoin for that matter) as a payment method makes it less likely the real person you will be connected to this other account.

Security and privacy is not a true/false thing, it's a thing you do at layers. Making payments anonymously is obviously adding another layer. Maybe it's not worth it for you, but for some it is.
I feel like it’s the opposite. You are losing touch with the critics. As today there are so many and you are not as “faithful” towards one source anymore. You are getting reviews from all sorts of sources, good and bad.
Meta spent a record $27M on Zuck's security and private jet travel in 2021
> YouTube reactive style curation and permission-less publication probably feels alien and scary to them.

Now that you put it this way, I'd bet no established enterprise would have what it takes to start something like YouTube now. Heck I doubt even Google would be able to given the amount of "doing things by the book" these kinds of orgs require.
>Any movie that does well with critics or at a film festival has “a strong message” or “teaches us something”.

If you find that every time you watch a film festival movie you are being lectured too, I think it has more to do with your wife's film choices, not the indie circuit. Nicolas Cage's Pig was a very well received movie at plenty of film festivals last year, and it's just about a chef searching for a pig.
It's really hard, it only works if the guy is ready to shoot when the plane comes by. The only thing that makes it a little easier than shooting down an helicopter with the same weapon is that jets fly much higher than choppers (which, according to modern doctrine are supposed to fly much lower than what Russians do: ten meters of less above the ground, hiding them as much as possible from MANPADS).
We're not just ignorant about covid-19. We're ignorant about all coronaviruses and flus in general. It's not exactly surprising that they've been killing 35-75k Americans every year for decades.

This is despite spending decades and hundreds of billions of dollars on public health.

You remember the public health folk. When they ask for money, they say how it's needed so we're ready for the next spanish flu.
I couldn't figure this out from reading the article but perhaps someone here knows. Say I want to create a new edited version of a document without changing the original, so I first duplicate that doc and then edit the new copy of it. Does this new Drive behavior mean that the original document I copied from will be changed as well?
Why do we need this when you can run a web server inside systemd?
yes, thank you. this article struck me as just a musician who hates that corporate music is popular on large corporate streaming sites. so what?
There is so much leverage in the economy that an abrupt shift towards anything approaching Volker-level rates would mean a catastrophic level of defaults in all sectors. By keeping rates so low for so long what they've really done is paint themselves into a corner.

The best case I see is that they raise rates by 1-2 pct and accept a few years of elevated inflation followed by a gradual normalization towards a long term mean. I really don't believe hyperinflation is a big risk.
This is unrelated to that. It isn't about de-duping data, it's about symbolic links ("shortcuts") vs. hard links ("multi-parenting"). You can still make copies of files as usual, and the content can be de-duped (or not) transparently to users.
I haven't worked with Stripe recently, but if I had to guess, I'd say it is some combination of:

* Time limited (rotation built in).

* If using signed tokens, integrity of contents can be verified.

* Lots of libraries and knowledge around how to use it.

* Tokens allow for more interesting/useful payloads than an API key.
A union shop where no 30-year vet wanted to get a 4-hour minimum OT to drive out and unscrew a screw?

Or the company didn't want to pay OT for it?

I'll leave it to the reader to decide which is more likely.