skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a “living in any developed and most non-developed nations that aren't the U.S.A.”-thing.

Courts in the E.U. would not look kindly upon being fired in retaliation for criticizing the public behavior of one's employer.
> I think this article might bury the lede a bit:

When you read that quote carefully it doesn't say that Amazon employees get paid less. It's saying MAX pay at Walmart is $25/hr and MIN pay at Amazon is $18 an hour.

Apples and oranges. Meaningless clickbait.
Or course not. You can work somewhere else if you don’t want collective representation. Can’t have your cake and eat it too, getting benefits of a union without joining it is freeloading.
> Without a specification how do we know which Rust implementation is correct and which has bugs?

The gcc-rs project answers this question explicitly in their FAQ, which I've linked downthread:

> If gccrs interprets a program differently from rustc, this is considered a bug.

They also go on to say:

> Once Rust-GCC can compile and verify all Rust programs, this can also help figure out any inconsistencies in the specification of features in the language. This should help to get features right in both compilers before they are stabilized.

If you're looking for a specification, additional implementations help that effort, not hurt it.
Love that someone in tech is finally getting unions in tech, don't love that it was kickstarter though. Their corporate culture is very toxic and I don't see them sticking around long term. It might be just me but my impression of kickstarter is that they are some of the worst offenders of 'maximum virtue signaling, minimum virtue'. That makes me inherently skeptical of a move like this.
Except for the part where tons of people are up in arms because MS removes or changes their UI. Fisher price, new control panel (XP), vista, UAC, start menu search, ads, mandatory logins, new control panel (8/10/11), new inflexible taskbar and so on
> His behavior devalues their work and denigrates the image of the companies they work for.

Then they should go work elsewhere if it bothers them that much. Nobody is forcing them to work for a company ran by Elon Musk.
If you're in the Apple ecosystem, subscribing and unsubscribing to several of these news sources, so long as you read them in Apple's News app, becomes a lot easier, though it can be more expensive than going direct to the publisher. But hey, you get dark mode! And no major hassle when you want to stop a subscription!

As far as quality of news, I'd echo the sentiment others have given that Wall Street Journal's factual reporting is stellar, but their opinion and editorial pieces leave a lot to be desired. I'd say the same about The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

The Atlantic is decent for thoughtful editorials as can be The New Yorker, but honestly, you're just going to run into some sensationalism and knee-jerk, politically-motivated slant no matter what editorial/opinion sources you choose, so caveat emptor.
Oh yes please, it drives me insane when I took a bunch of window screenshots and have to redo one later, but the browser windows size is now slightly off. Some method of automatically resizing windows would be amazing.
It did take off... Delphi and Visual Basic 6 were immensely popular.

In either case, you had drag/drop GUI elements, property inspectors, and easy ways to call methods on all the relevant events. You simply designed your GUI forms, then wrote code to connect up the pieces.

You didn't have to figure out how to build call back handlers, or much of the grief of a main event loop in Win32.
Close, I saw this when dabbling with Nim and I remember I found it confusing, since I mostly write TypeScript and that is not a thing there so my post was mostly my ignorance speaking. I guess when one is used to it it will not look confusing at all!
Ah, so not related to Vale the programming language, https://vale.dev/, which IMO is much more interesting.
I think what the person you responded to is saying is that the raise should be tied to inflation. You may not actually disagree with them.
fyi - there is no checkbox to click on the page, so prepare to be disappointed.
Exactly, they need to switch to a whitelisted approach.
> Where is a good company within the EU to registered?

Estonia for sure. Their e-residency scheme is fantastic and designed for people all around the world to register virtual companies, even if you don't have any presence in Estonia.
Herbicide-resistant GMO crops account for over 80% of total GMO crop area worldwide. There's a reason why people usually talk about both at the same time :)
Yea I really like going local. Even if something like the LA Times is a huge newspaper they still have a lot of cool little local stories that you would probably never hear about otherwise. Then again I am getting the physical delivery so it may be the format that is encouraging such things as well vs just reading their website.
I ran into not being able to open Nautilus as an admin without having to install some packages through apt. Why is Linux the only OS that doesn't allow me to edit or view a system file out of the box?
Wait, you reimplemented most of GNU Readline in a single file with no dependencies? Appreciate you started from someone else's library, but yours actually looks feature complete! Wow.
> Come on, this is a 101 level objection.

You are obviously a very smart guy, jjoonathan. Why do you suppose the Democrats didn't even propose this when they had 60 Senate votes, the Presidency and the House? If its a 101 level problem why do you think that is?
Does payroll serve specific industries badly?
Exploring a startup that leverages payroll APIs (e.g., Check) to build integrated payroll (e.g., scheduling, time & attendance, payroll itself, reporting) for a specific industry.

My gut says there must be an industry out there that has specific unmet needs/pain points and would love something tailored to them.
> It's kind of absurd that this has taken so long - and that's primarily down to Assange himself.

He's terrified of US covert military operations. And he has a point.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...
>> Source for TCM playing a role in statin development?

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd1112#:~:text=In%201978%2C....

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-red-yeast-rice/...

It's a shame the origin is missing from that wikipedia page.
The double standard of the return-to-office
I've yet to make it out of the lab. The failover solutions seem to be A-B rather than A-B-DR. That is, you can have a primary and a replica (probably in the same DC/AZ), but you can't do a primary, a replica, and another replica in another datacenter that can function on its own (in a DR capacity).

Citus uses physical replication for worker and coordinator nodes, and things start getting complicated when you're trying to monitor the status of all the replicas. With vanilla PostgreSQL, you don't have this issue. I'm guessing that they solve this in Azure with block-device primitives at the storage level or something along those lines? It's probably not insurmountable to do it yourself, but we're not yet at the grip-n-rip enterprise offering.
It can really vary from community to community. My little town (60k people, large university and Fortune 100 company campas) seems to have a lot of house installations, but then income and education levels are higher here, as well as a strong "green" mentality.
Tell HN: Trivially bot banned from Google Play Store twice in a year
How you can help:
If you know someone working at the Google Play Store tell them to add warning emails 1 month before bots remove apps!

Story:
It's the second time in a year our Android app gets removed from the Google Play Store by bot without warning.
1 year ago we got removed because the Amharic title for the app was not confirming the store guidelines. (Our app is translated in 40+ languages). It had been the same for 4+ years but suddenly someone wrote a bot to just remove all apps that didn't pass that guideline without any email notification.
We modified the metadata, appealed and resubmitted and our app was re-added with reviews with a 7 days downtime costing us thousands of dollars in revenues. The level of stress was VERY HIGH.
Yesterday again our app was removed.
This time the culprit guideline is not providing email/password for the reviewers to use.
The app has been the same for 9 years.
Someone added that to the guidelines 2+ years ago.
And then now someone wrote a bot to enforce that.
The bot just removes the apps without any warning.

Let's be clear.
I'm not against the guidelines. The problem is there are 100+ pages of guidelines and they get updated all the time.
Engineers at the Google Play Store need to STOP IMMEDIATELY this kill-bots that ban straight away without an email notification.
Please build in a grace period where you notify developers 1-4 weeks before you are going to remove their apps.

BUT WE WARNED YOU IN THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE CONSOLE...
We don't check the Google Play Store Console very often and pretending millions of developers to be on the edge all the time reading manuals of dozens of pages updated monthly and checking compulsively UIs warning that matters once a year is just a cruel dystopia.

Please stop the killbots and add the warn-bots followed by killbots.
This bots have seriously damaged the brand of Google in my eyes and have forced us to change marketing strategy from the app stores to SEO/content marketing to be less dependent on the whims of bots developers.
Indeed. You get that and so much more useful information for free in your web-server logfiles. Any half-decent web server log analyzer tool will classify and graph all the useful data in those log files and present it to you in a nice shiny web page or report document of some sort. No cookies required.
Er no, as employees they're also paid partly in stock options (RSUs?). They're literal shareholders in the company, they have a say in how it's run.

And I don't know about you, but many people don't just run away when faced with a difficult situation - they face it head on and try to improve it.

Furthermore, if I spent years of my life contributing to a mission that I believe in, giving a company my best work, I'm not going to just walk away because of the actions of a single entitled individual, no matter how rich he is.
It's both. There's evidence supporting the idea that COVID relief contributed to inflation, if you'd like I can link the fivethirtyeight article exploring this.

However, I should note that if it were up to me, I would accept inflation to save lives every single time. Without that relief, people would have died, starved, or gone into life-ruining debt. Inflation is unfortunate, but better than the alternative.
Is paid labor, (historically) above market rate, entered into voluntarily, necessarily exploitative because it includes productivity measures?

look, I don't want to work for Amazon, but, I don't think it is exploitation to expect productivity concomitant with wage. I think Amazon has offered poor working conditions.

All that said, the market will solve this. I've been told recently by a company providing outsourced help desk services that they were struggling to compete for talent because target was paying more than they were. I told them that they were not paying enough. they responded that their clients wouldn't agree to price increases in the service...The answer is that either you will get underqualified people, declining service quality, or you will pay more.
My pleasure, I enjoyed exploring the slang dictionary!

Here is the Wiktionary entry for LART :

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/LART
What would happen if the letter criticized Tim Cook for being a homophobe for inviting MBS to Apple.

Yes, I know Tim is gay.
A decent overview of how the pair of 10NES chips in the NES and in the inserted cartridge worked together to authenticate licensed games, for those that are interested:

https://www.retronintendoreviews.com/retro/10nes-lockout-chi...

(It’s not exactly a technical deep-dive but it’s a good enough overview. I was surprised that something as studied and reverse-engineered as the 10NES didn’t seem to come up with a “golden standard reference” article as the first google hit, not even on hackaday or eeevblog).
The detectives hunting for underwater volcanoes
Heh it’s narrow waist (think thin point) but I like your term better.

An example of a narrow waist would be CSV - everything can export it, most things can import it, and you can usually fix whatever errors were introduced.

It also sucks bigtime.
And yet even if he had all the money in the world he won’t get anywhere without his employees.
An employee that earns an employer $8 in revenue but gets paid $9 is a net loss of $1 to the employer. If x is -1 then $x is not better than $0.

If the employer could raise prices and still be in business, then they would already be doing it. Same thing with lowering costs. As for employee efficiency, yes, if you're forced to pay someone $9 then you will want to get at least $9 out of them. That means you won't hire anyone that's not experienced enough.

> Really what ends up happening in reality is increased costs just get passed along

Not if the employer wants to remain competitive. There are plenty of bigger companies with greater economies of scale that will happily run them out of business.

This isn't a nuanced problem. If you raise the price of something, demand drops. Whether the price in question is for things or labor is irrelevant.
I'm guessing they went for the long-pressing because it's an incredibly easy action to take. The hit region is massive, so you just place your thumb on the screen and hold.

Having to draw a checkbox with your finger requires you to hold the phone and then flick a checkmark shape with your thumb (a difficult task), or else use your other hand to draw. If you're right-handed, you're probably holding the phone in your right hand to begin with, so now you have to switch hands to hold it in your left and draw with your dominant, right hand.
Is it restricted to just one habit though?
No, they kept Elon
Would love to see a citation on this.
Fair he's always been polarizing, but the size of the naysayers (and fanboys) seems to have grown quite a bit recently and I think it comes down to politics.
What he says on his personal Twitter account (unless it's on behalf of the employer) is not a "workplace" concern. There's no right for workers to not have an off-the-job embarrassment as a CEO. Perhaps there is for investors, but that's another concern with different remediations.
IMO one of the best ways to improve your writing is just to read a metric crapload of good writing so it seeps in to you.
Nobody denies that Musk family was wealth. They were wealthy because his father was a successful engineer.

And at one point his father made a small investment in a mine. And even that is grounded on shaky evidence.

This mine investment might have been profitable (we dont know) but the idea that his family had some waste emrald mines is nonsense and that investment certainly didnt make the family rich.

And given their bad relationship, Elon lost support from his father when he came to US/Canada.
I don't see the goals overlapping other than the fact that they both float. The solar panels will cost 1000x that of rubber balls, and the cost of repair/maintenance of floating panels will be much higher than land mounted panels. There may be some circumstances where you can kill two birds but I bet it's rare.
The Ends of Men
I have to believe that a large portion of delivery markup is price discrimination. Restaurants have long looked for ways to charge more to people who are willing to pay more, but have been largely unable to because everyone gets the same menu. Delivery provides a convenient way to weed out those that will pay more by letting those who aren't pick up the food themselves.
> I don't know if it follows that it's productive/appropriate to inject this debate into all of these situations.

Hard to disagree with that.

> the exact issues you care about could be very different from someone else's and having all these discussions is pretty distracting.

Definitely, which is part of why women and minorities get ignored and hence exploited when the status quo is embraced.

> weaponize

God I'm so tired of people's exaggerations. Nonsense.
Guess it depends what you mean by "achievable in general".

Guess we don't have a way to measure "in general" so we are left with tiny tiny benchmarks programs.

simple

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

cpu secs Python 3 versus C gcc

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Totally depends in the business. Most businesses just don't need ultra low ms response times.

Rewriting an app because is too slow is a rather extreme approach. Most of the times it's just a small part of the application that needs optimization and not the entire app.

I'd argue that if the app experiences huge growth, then that's a good problem to have and a rewrite is in order.
Big no thanks to this.

If you hate where you work this much, improve yourself and work somewhere else.

Replacing at-will with "just cause", progressive disciplining, with criteria for performance improvement plans.

If you're three years into a career in tech (technical or not) and you haven't figured out that being PIP'd or indirectly told you're fucking up - making this language "nicer" isn't going to help anyone.

Adults don't give feedback in a transparent way and this is because they don't want to look discriminatory. Modern employment and HR policies have done great things, but they've made the waters for this kind of communication even more opaque and pushed incentives that way as well.

Being unable to effectively communicate in a competitive professional environment as an adult and unionizing to solve this problem is at best juvenile, even worse when you think about long-tail consequences in terms of babying future hires.

As someone who previously worked at Amazon and found it shitty, Amazon is a stupid point of comparison for unionizing in tech because it's a shit-show run like a hedge fund. However, as a heuristic, people who've spent more than two years at any kind of Amazon should be avoided IMO.
Inflation is different from cost of living else high cost of living regions wouldn't exist.
> the company is running out of people to hire

Pay more. That’s how capitalism works.
A big problem with that is energy density. Hydrocarbons are on the order of 50MJ/kg. Li-ion batteries are on the order of .5MJ/kg.
Since you seem to know your stuff, can you give me a slight tl;dr on the consequences of M1 and M2?

M1 also shot way up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
I think there's a higher bar for working at Twitter than there is for having an account on Twitter
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell on Monday said the aerospace company's "no a--hole" work policy ensures everyone is heard and creates space for staff to propose big ideas.

"At SpaceX, we have a 'no a--hole' policy," Shotwell said in a virtual speech to graduates in Northwestern University's 2021 commencement ceremony. "These kinds of people — a--holes — interrupt others, they shut down or co-opt conversation, and they create a hostile environment where no one wants to contribute," Shotwell said. She is also SpaceX's chief operating officer.

Interrupting others stifles innovation and stops people solving difficult problems, Shotwell said.

"In short, the best way to find solutions to hard problems is to listen harder, not talk louder," she said. "Embrace the ideas of your fellow workers, especially when they differ greatly from yours."

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gywnne-shot...
> is the cost of the atoms in the fuel.

Are you being obtuse on purpose? The atoms of the fuel, really? Where can I buy fuel by the atom?
It’s worse than a subway as Teslas going single file through a tiny tunnel is inherently low capacity. Fire safety seems sub par too. But at least there isn’t a vagrant sitting in the same metal box as you.

Walkable urban areas and infrastructure are not a sexy marketable product. Most transportation networks run at a loss without subsidies: airports, highways, domestically built boats. Profitable enterprises depend on transportation but stay a layer higher.
Coinbase Burn Rate 1.5 Bil? Will This Company Last?
Curious, as I'm worried honestly as a prospective employee, will the company even last?

I wonder if Brian will reply to this cause I'm curious to see what the burn rate is now with the layoffs and rescinds of offers, and how the company is planning to live through a 2-3 year maybe more recession + crypto winter.
> Specifically, using a suspended asymmetric Fabry–Pérot resonator and a wavelength-stabilized probe laser we demonstrate a thermoreflectance coefficient of >30/K, enabling measurements with a thermometry noise floor of ~60 [nK/root Hz] and a temperature resolution of <100 nK in a bandwidth of 0.1 Hz.

Is a bandwidth of 0.1 Hz good in this context? Does it imply that the temperatures they're measuring are very stable on a time scale of a second or so? Or are higher-frequency variations ignored?
I don't know whether you realize this or not, but one of the biggest benefits of a vaccine has nothing to do with personal injury risk. It's about preventing spread. Children are extremely effective vectors for viral spread, as I think anyone who's had a kid bring a disease home from school/nursery will know too well.

Case in point (anecdotal of course, but still): for the first few years of his life, my nephew lived with the whole family. One day when he was like 1 or 2, he caught something at nursery. Just a slight fever and a big of complaining crying, nothing major, and it went away by the next day. Well, it went away for him; the next day, everyone else in the house, three adults including myself, all had a major flu or flu-like illness. We all spent the entire day with headaches, extreme abdominal pain, puking all day, and dry heaves (which honestly, were the most painful part of it all). Meanwhile, my nephew was all sunshine and roses while the rest of us suffered.

Point being: just because a child is at lower risk for a disease's complications, that doesn't mean they shouldn't get vaccinated, at the very least to reduce the risk of transmission.
Once a day for a few things that you are tracking (and really want to improve) doesn't seem to fall into my "constant" definition. Hearthstone would have dozens (hundreds?) of those animations on every single game you play. Here, it's three or four times a day? For things that you really feel satisfied to accomplish?

I liked the end result a lot. The whole animation seems very appropriate in this case to me. The rant that I see in your comment (and every other comment here by the time I am writing this) seems very out of place. Everyone is complaining about things that are not what this designer did.
Per online sources, the switch flipped between one of two defeat strategies. The first is grounding the 10NES’s pin 5 (putting it in “key” rather than “lock” mode). I’m not sure what the second mode was. Or perhaps the switch just operated to choose between 10NES-active and 10NES-deactivated (with pin 5 redirected to ground instead of the line coming from the cartridge) but I’m not aware of any reason why the 10NES would need to remain active for any game? Perhaps some later, official Nintendo cartridges would halt/reset if they didn’t detect a functioning 10NES in the console?
Considering I get an email at least once a week (sometimes more) to join them, I'm not surprised at this. Usually I go out of my way to tell them I'm not interested in working for Amazon in particular.
For example - if you wrote a new language that targeted the JVM it’d “out of the box” work on almost all systems.

The reality is of course more complicated but the idea is there.
I think we're on the tail end of Extreme activism working within organizations. Everyone talks about the pendulum swinging and I think with economic downturns, people will find out really quickly how fast it can swing back.