skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could almost support the panopticon if that actually happened.

Adjacently, to make the point: we warehouse 1000s or rape kits but don't bother to process them. Like, wtf?

Big Data completely flips the problem of investigation. Instead of identifying suspects, chasing leads, gathering evidence, and verifying alibis, with Big Data you just rule out everyone who does have an alibi. Leaving only those who don't have an alibi, thereby revealing the perpetrators.

It's been a while since I've actively cared about protecting privacy. So I don't know if any one's talking about how Big Data impacts legal concepts (balances of concerns) hammered out over the centuries. Like what is reasonable doubt and presumption of innocence when prosecutors can prove that every one else has an alibi?

When I tried to talk about this stuff with other privacy advocates, presumably savvy about policy and whatnot, they'd look at me like I'm paranoid schizophrenic. So if the experts are still coming up to speed, it'll take that much longer for the policy maker, much less the general public, to become aware.
Almost every 75 year old
I remember being a big OS/2 aficionado back in the 90s. It was always a bit painful being outside the mainstream so, of course, when I gave up on OS/2, my next stop was Windows NT. I suffered through that for a while before switching to the Mac which is still outside the mainstream, but is close enough to it that a lot of the pain no longer impacts me (if I had decided to go the Hackintosh route, life would have been far more painful, but my switch to the Mac also marked my deciding that I really didn’t want to be putting together computers from components anymore—part of what made OS/2 viable for me was that I made a point of buying only motherboards and peripherals that were explicitly supported by OS/2).
A different answer than everyone else so far: Leverage.

Super-simple example: a single developer focused just on internal tools for a 10 person company.

Let's say that this company has a full plate, everyone is busy 100% of the time. They can't really bring on new clients. They could hire a new person to do some of the work, but let's say that that new person will cost almost as much as a new client would bring in. Their margins are very tight, they wouldn't be able to expand fast at all, and losing a client would be very perilous.

(This is how a lot of small companies work. People getting laid off because a client went away is something I've seen firsthand.)

Let's say over the course of a year an engineer could build out enough basic, CRUD-app-style automation to free up 30% of everyone else's time. Now you can get multiple new clients for the cost of one new person! And if you can further automate and reduce the drudgery, even more!

(This is also a partial explanation for why the outsourcing, salaries-will-go-to-zero expectations of the early-2000s haven't come to pass: it requires tight communication and a good understand of people's workflows, which is much harder to do across time zone and language barriers. Hardware, on the other hand, needs a firmer spec and less ability to iterate rapidly with rapid communication and feedback.)

Of course the real world is more complicated and some of that automation comes from SaaS tools, etc (a less-direct way of paying those engineers, and something that could be more outsourceable in the long run) but a surprising amount of companies still need hands-on internal expertise to glue everything together. Less code tends to result in more code, because now that you and your competitors have gotten more efficient too, you have to get even more efficient to move the needle again. The thing about business processes is that they will always evolve as old companies die, new ones start, and consumers (both individuals and other companies) want different things.
I wish Slack Android app never miss messages.
There was an exploit which caused "air-gapped" servers on the bottom of a rack to undergo heat/cool cycles so that servers above it in the same rack could sense the low-frequency digital temperature signal via their own temperature sensors.
I think maybe NFTs or blockchain solution. We could additionally try AI(if statements). /s
I'm willing to bet that the immediate impact of this on the size of the fly population is negligible, so the trait is selected for in the short to medium term. In the longer term, as the fungus spreads, it may be a victim of its own success. Fungi don't really understand sustainability.
Irrelevant and moves the goal posts.
If you use jellyfin jellyfin-mpv-shim lets you play streams in mpv without worrying about transcoding.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim

Other fun tricks

If you use jaro instead of xdg-open you can make video links automatically open in mpv while regular web links open in your browser of choice.

https://github.com/isamert/jaro

If you use elfeed its nice to watch video entries in mpv without a side trip to the browser. Stolen from Prot somewhere or other.

(defun prot/elfeed-mpv-dwim ()
"Play entry link with external `mpv' program.
When there is an audio enclosure (podcast), play just the audio.
Else spawn a video player at a resolution that accounts for the
current monitor's width."
(interactive)
(let\* ((entry (if (eq major-mode 'elfeed-show-mode)
elfeed-show-entry
(elfeed-search-selected :ignore-region)))
(link (elfeed-entry-link entry))
(enclosure (elt (car (elfeed-entry-enclosures entry)) 0)) ; fragile?
(audio "")
;; Here the display width checks if I am on the laptop
(height (if (<= (display-pixel-width ) 1366) 720 1080))
(video (format "--ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?%s]+bestaudio/best" height))
;; (buf (pop-to-buffer "*elfeed-mpv-output*"))
)
(run-hooks 'prot/elfeed-mpv-hook)
(if enclosure ; make this its own parametrised function
(progn
(start-process "f fuckoff audio-mpv" nil "mpv" enclosure)
(message (concat "Launching MPV for " (propertize enclosure 'face 'success))))
(start-process "f fuckoff video-mpv" nil "mpv" video link)
(message (concat "Launching MPV for " (propertize link 'face 'success))))))

At one point I wrote script to prompt for a name if passed more than one argument and create a playlist and remember the last n playlists and regular files opened so you could in turn pull up this list and narrow with rofi but as of late I'm just adding videos to jellyfin.

Umpv is a script that emulates single instance mode whereby arguments are simply pushed to the existing players playlist instead of opening a new player.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/umpv
And if you run into any problems with the above that damages the property or other properties, you will be uninsured, and/or sued (and no liability cover).
Seems like an awesome midjourney prompt for somebody to run.
The demand is there. After all, somebody has to be doing the design work for the electronic products out there. In a globalized economy with outsourced production most of the EE work goes to SEA with cheaper labor.
This story was originally published in 1955, the night he met Einstein didn't happen then. I didn't see an exact date but he did say "When I was a young man" so I assume it would have been quite a bit before 1955.
How do I pay Glassdoor to take down a review? Is that on their website somewhere?
> compared to people who change colors on a webpage every once in a while.

I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but that being said...

Finally someone said it!

Ok, I understand that we’re in some anal-retentive age as humans, where we’re discovering our new digital medium and whatnot, but enough with the fixation on small shiny digital bullshit - it’s robbing us of real depth and wonder.

And if it’s reached to the point where real engineering is depreciated, I wonder what carcasses lie ravaged in fields no one looks at until it’s too late.

> It makes no sense. Why is web software so easy to make money in? Why do we value hard engineering so little?

I think it’s understandable if you explain it using the same reason that mushrooms are clearly the better drug, but cocaine is the more popular one (our dopamine wiring? idk), criss-crossed with an actively pushed economic bubble that’s high on the rise, and will be for a long while.
> I don't think "every person could make up their minds about

Agreed, I was implying that it was left up to the individual within the bounds set by Roe and Casey, which had limits that worked. It seemed that most of the debate of the past centered on exactly the cutoff, which is an important issue but much different than the current debate of "should women have access to abortion whatsoever?"

> though I suspect you will disagree

I do disagree. The reason is that at least two of the Senators who confirmed the Justices who concurred with the Dobbs decision have come out to say they felt at least one of those Justices, one who squeaked by with a 50 vote margin, lied to them during his highly politicized confirmation process. If this were a straightforward matter of poor jurisprudence, then it would be enough to say that. Instead, there was a certain level of at best coy obfuscation, to at worst outright fingers-crossed deceit during the confirmation processes. That makes it impossible for me to see the decision as anything other than motivated by ideology. They said what they needed to in order to get confirmed, and as soon as the majority was solidified, they immediately used their power to do what they wanted to all along.

> Roe v. Wade was extremely tenuous and the proper channel for establishing abortion policy is legislative.

Perhaps it was tenuous according to some, but it was also tested in court, reaffirmed, and part of our social contract for 50 years. Maybe the stick holding up the roof of your house isn't the best, but it's still holding up the roof, so perhaps we shouldn't just get rid of it one day in June because it's not the best? Why isn't anyone thinking about the roof?

> I agree with this, but again, the answer is legislative

I don't think the conservative majority on the Supreme Court agrees. There's nothing in their opinion that would suggest to me that they wouldn't strike down Roe codified by the Congress. My reading of the opinion is that they would strike down any right to abortion not enshrined in the Constitution as an amendment. Amending the Constitution to protect abortion is neigh impossible, and so I don't think we will have anything close to a codified Roe v. Wade as long as the majority of the court remains conservative. Instead about half the states in the country will outlaw abortion full-stop, no exceptions; while the other half services the women and children fleeing those states seeking healthcare, likely maintain the same safeguards offered by Roe in the first place.
Sorry, you are saying I should make a better argument to the comment saying "so what if he was a dictator?"
Right, I agree completely. By 'output' I suppose I meant goods and services that provide utility to humans.
It's an interesting point you brought here. Would you like to have some async anon text chat about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the geopolitical context and how it affects the tech world? (over Telegram/PGP for example). I cannot witness that level [1] of anti-curiosity from downvoters.

[1] your comment on Azov - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040694
You can't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong or bad another comment is or you feel it is.

You also don't need to post flamewar comments or name-calling attacks of this sort—it actually weakens the case you'd prefer to strengthen. A reply like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32132621 does the job vastly better.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Lol. We are good at it. Pretty sure if a species of dinosaurs made it until now on an island, we would have wiped it off.
Now it's not only for devs.
Because picking the right colors on a website brings in more money.
Most of those issues either are caused by the usual people that have been in power in congress, or aren't issues that Americans should even care about but have convinced to be (Ukraine) as to keep money spigots flowing.

Vote out the establishment in the senate and the house if you really want change.

Rule of thumb if they've been there for 50 years they're okay with the status quo, regardless of party.
> It's certainly easier to get Linux running on a new chip than OSX!

I'd say that's wrong. From the outside view, perhaps, but an internal Apple team can certainly get macOS to sing and dance on whatever they need very quickly.
Pay more and get more talent. If a local web startup is paying 2x, 3x, 5x more money for some html and css (and/or whatever language of the week is for the backend), than companies like Intel are paying for serious hardware knowledge, it's no wonder people don't choose this profession.
> Emacs are only for text, obviously.

I don't know if I missed something in your post, but this couldn't be further from the truth. It's cliche to refer to emacs as it's own OS, and it is not uncommon for users to do all of their computing inside of emacs - web browsing, email, note taking, documentation, writing, version control, terminal, ide, window manager, remote admin, etc. Based on your criteria emacs seems like a perfect fit, I encourage you take take a deeper look at emacs if you're interested.

https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs
The point is that society has decoupled wealth creation from mineral extraction to a large degree. This has documented by other economists / historians as "bullshit jobs" / "useless jobs". People sending emails all day or influencers obviously depend on mineral extraction to exist, but the direct inputs to their wealth creation are not minerals. You can "implement ideas" with a relatively small footprint.
I don't know... I fell for it hook, line and sinker.
It’s all about demand and supply. It has nothing to do with how hard/easy anything is. So it actually makes perfect sense. Everybody needs web software. Very few needs hard engineering skills.
Fifteen years before Snowden, people were writing books about the NSA, GCHQ and the ECHELON system and apparently nobody gave a fuck, except some niche of politically interested or infosec people.
Cultivating Careers, Communities and Companies with Open Source
Their proof (or lack thereof) would generally be evaluated at the trial stage. This is a pre-trial procedure, so it's mostly take at face value.

If another party so moves, they could ask the court to stop the plaintiff, and the judge will make a decision. But that's not automatic--somebody has to specifically ask for it.
The answer is now. The 2030s is the decade of peak everything. Production of everything has been growing exponentially, but at a cost that is growing fraster.

From oil, to copper, to lithium, to rare metals, to meat, to topsoil, to methane, to classical computing, to GHG buffering capacity, almost all of the logistic curves we've been pretending are exponentials reach their inflection points in the next couple of decades.
You probably can't do every job at 20% speed and expect to keep it. If you're a middle manager at a giant corporation, for example, there is no 1-day-per-week option. It's all or nothing. But that's not all jobs. Any freelance work, obviously, fits the bill. As does restaurant work. (In fact, I know a fair number of people who are (at varying levels of awareness) actively enacting this work-less-and-live-on-less strategy, by hopping along a never-ending string of part-time bartending and server positions.)

The great thing about trying to live like it's 1917 in 2022 is that you still have access to all this 2022 technology to make it happen. A software engineer could pretty clearly choose to do the equivalent of 1-day-per-week's worth of work throughout the year by taking on freelance/consulting projects. Most software engineers don't do this for the simple fact that they'd rather work more and make more.
Or even above the "pay us to read more" line.
For 1, I don't understand. What do you mean the only difference is money, not time? Are you suggesting compelling payment but withholding visitation rights, contact with the child, etc?

For 2, I ask because I was wondering where your baseline belief in parents starts at.
Except body builders tend to not live very long.

Separating the effects of steroids and other growth hormones vs. just having a lot of muscle seems difficult.

My general understanding is that overweight is overweight is overweight, it's hard on your body when excessive, even if it's muscle.
One of the few silver linings I can look forward to when my company forcibly drops Office 365 for Google workspace. But it may be my luck that they chop out Slack to make us use Google Chat etc, we shall find out... (nods gravely)
There are UVA flashlights with insane output already in existence. Cree does not make UV but Nichia does and has some of the best 365nm high-output LEDs out there with some of the lowest visible light output/generation. Another contender is Prolight. I have one of their 60 degree UVA LEDs in a light I use for mineral exploration, it will make things glow from almost 50 feet out, but it also has some considerable visible light generation that interferes with detecting weaker fluorescence.

If you want a HUGE UVA bank, look at Wild Fire. They make UV LEDs for party places, like cosmic bowling nights, and such. One of those could likely be easily adapted to your purpose, though it might be a little pricey.
I’ve never used Glassdoor, so it’s a big surprise that they collect and retain identity information in the first place. I would never, ever provide my real name while talking about my previous employers, even if I was told that I would remain “anonymous”
> You not only have to verify that a review is coming from an actual current or former employee, but then you have to ensure that the same employee cannot write multiple reviews. If you discard all links between a reviewer account and a review, how do you do that?

Just FYI, Glassdoor does NOT try to prove that reviewers are current or former employees. Anybody can post claiming to be an employee, and Glassdoor will accept their review.
Can you please explain what this means? Is this a way to bypass rooted device detection aka attestation?
> A much easier explanation is that Twitter management was caught off-guard by Musk, and then later realized Musk was bullshitting in a way they could take advantage of.

Doesn't that mean Musk was caught off guard (or in a self-own) by Twitter, not the other way around? Or that it seemed like a good deal for all parties until the floor fell out from under both Twitter and Tesla stock, at which point it became an incredibly bad deal for Musk.
"The same employee cannot write multiple reviews" - they can create new accounts.

But even if you want one account to not write multiple reviews, you can flag that an account wrote a review for a company without tying it to -what- review.

You can even disassociate that; hash usernames with the company and store that to track who has written a review. Then, you can only confirm that a given user account has written a review for a company, but not which review is theirs, and given a company you can't determine what users wrote those reviews without attempting to hash every username against it.

And that's if you -absolutely- have to try and prevent an account writing more than one review (again, noting that you can just create another account).
Personally I think from a business standpoint its just much easier to make money from software compared to hardware.

Very low marginal unit costs, easy distribution, faster iteration, easier to scale, etc...
I mean, that describes the Dodo.
Google, in its great wisdom, returns the Wikipedia page for common carp as the first result for Asian carp, although we appear to be talking about several other species and specifically not common carp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_carp_in_North_America
Chinese Lithium Giant Pulls EVs Deeper into Forced Labor Glare
Does Glassdoor even have a legal presence in NZ? If so, why? If not, why are they even bothered by this?

Could they theoretically not just play hardball, ignore the NZ courts entirely on the basis that they have no legal entity within NZ, and see what happens? Are there cross-border legal agreements that give the NZ courts any teeth? Or would it come down to NZ having to mandate that all ISPs block Glassdoor within NZ?
It's bad journalism. A news story should tell you the summary in the headline.

But good journalism is a dying dinosaur, sadly. And the internet and monetization challenges are factors.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32131661.
Don't pay attention to their carping Economist writer. Just keep musseling your way to the top.
This order is from a California court.
Once had a contract where my client wanted me to do "security work", which was initially meant to be for pentesting their clients, but it turned into me building their wifi auth system.

At some point in the gig, one of their clients went to them asking them if it was possible to de-anonymize someone glassdoor review since someone still-employed worked with them. They then went to me to see if I could do it for them. They didn't clarifywhy they went to me, but I legitimately think they wanted me to "hack" glassdoor. I told them in no uncertain terms that I wouldn't do it and they backed off.

A bit later they fired the employee.. I didn't hear how they found the person, but it really spoke to the lengths that some organizations will go to burn down the lives of those who speak up.

Use this google search to find more companies that do it:

"Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action" site:glassdoor.com

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Employee-Review-Media-Consulta-RVW23674692.htm
https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Canidae-Reviews-E845482.htm
https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Echelon-Environmental-EI_IE1069898.11,32.htm
https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Canidae-Reviews-E845482.htm
https://fr.glassdoor.ca/Pr%C3%A9sentation/Travailler-chez-Echelon-Environmental-EI_IE1069898.16,37.htm
https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Employee-Review-BW-Legal-RVW58014087.htm
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
And astonishingly, they have made so little progress that a newcomer can still identify a wholly plausible scenario they have not considered.
> The US is a ‘healthy, functioning democracy?’

It sure is!

Democracies are messy, and at times rambunctious.

Our Republic is healthy. We continue to have peaceful transfer of power. We continue to follow the rule of law.

One of the signs of a healthy democracy is heated political debate. It's when there's silence that you know something is very wrong.
Would these companies have a case if an employee left refusing to sign the paper work agreeing to not talk shit? One company I left tied their severance package to a signature on that kind of agreement.
And what would people now do with all their free time?

They'd start to build other stuff. GDP would probably go through the roof, because if you measure the value of all that stuff in "old dollars" it would be incredible. And now in "new dollars" it's a tiny amount, but it also frees up human labor to do all sorts of new stuff, and these "new dollars" are so much more valuable.

Money is a tricky social constructed phenomenon. When there's such a shocking big change to technology as you propose, there has to be something to account for the difference in what it can purchase.