skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Working for a Chinese company is the same as working a tobacco company?
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? This sort of tit-for-tat flamewar is not ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you keep posting like this, we will ban you.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32466681.
It was the intention. You are lying to my face. The format: "News Flash: Statement of something obvious." is very rude. Implying I don't know the obvious thing.

I hold no grudges but your previous statement is a total lie. Don't pretend it wasn't intentional.
Surely you speak figuratively for developing taste and hunger for the latest and greatest has no correlation with lifespan. For I have seen people with boring mundane lives following the same daily routine for decades, yet living well into their nineties.
Masquerade (Treasure Hunt Book)
lmao do you really think the Saudis, or any of the Gulf countries, have any sovereignty at all? If the US wants the prices down they'll get them down. The issue is internal politics.
How do you decide when to take money out and when to put it back in such that you come out ahead? I’m guessing they estimate that they will most likely have better outcomes if they keep the money invested.
I do still buy services, software, entertainment, raw materials, agricultural products. Machines (including cars) or generally anything complex that requires manual assembling? Rather not. And it’s not for the lack of trying. Like that expensive KitchenAid mixer. Motor burned out after 6 months.
Likely over a private APN… still not 100% secure but helps.
Big ships are obsolete. One missed rocket and it sunk. Russian Moscow ship proved it hard way. Rockets are too powerful and too precise and you can’t count on 100% rockets being intercepted. Modern war machines should be cheap and autonomous. We need some kind of sci-fi power field before big machines would become viable again.

If US would engage in war with some big army, like Chinese, Russian or European their carriers will sunk every day.
It doesn't have to be a rich guy. But some form of centralized rich power. Like a corporation for example. But even complex structures like this involve a cluster of individuals who own the corporation or have seats of power within the structure. This small population of people controls wealth and resources and deploys it accordingly.

In the beginning though, before complex structures like corporations formed, civilization began with rich guys telling poor guys what to do.
But the solution isn't to enforce a specific browser or way to access web content. The solution is to educate users about the toxic software landscape on smartphones and the security threats of using apps. Ironically these supposedly checked apps behave vastly worse than the vast majority of software you can just install on a less locked down system. Because there the better alternatives mostly win.
One thing i often do when i forget one of my passwords, is go into chrome, goto the webpage corresponding to the login of the thing in question and let it autofill, then i turn the password area to a plain text area in the HTML editor.

I've always thought this kind of bypasses most checks you get if you try to go into the password db in the browser it self.
Where as in my world we have fake doors and minimal variable products.

Let’s not mix up culture with something that is just business strategy driven by incentives and opportunities.
500+ comments and no one seems to be discussing the first reply in the OP by small appliace company that alleges new compressors rarely fail (and he guestimates possibly less than compressors from decades ago) and are one of the better components of new refrigerators.
I think the problem is with the definition of copyright. It doesn't apply to the current environment. It could even be the case, that it never made sense in the first place, and only now, we are realizing.

I have never seen Obama in real life. If I can draw him because I know him from copyrighted works, is my draw copyright infringement?
Great 2016 essay in Aeon about this topic, with concrete examples of how chabuduo is not just an annoyance for manufacturers, but often actively hazardous:

https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a...
Maybe “laps” would have been a better word than “sprints”?
I think that's definitely true of some people, but I think for a lot of people just helping the world isn't super important to them. I'm a pretty practical person and don't think what I do is really helping anyone (though I don't think it really hurts either, though I'm sure many would disagree) but don't really care. I find what I do very mentally stimulating and it also has large upside potential. That's simply good enough for me.
And ESG investing. I wonder what S stands for.
If you think you can win, yeah small claims court is where to go. You don't need a lawyer for it I don't think, and many places they won't allow the other side to have a lawyer either. I don't know how it would work with Lastpass though, since it's a company, and I don't know how that works in small claims court as most times those are just between people (like renters and landlords). Since it's <$5000 I think small claims court is the only place you can go? It takes more money to end up in a larger court, like if you had damages and asked for $1m.

It seems pretty shitty, but if you missed your deadline and the contract says that you can't get to it, then you can't get to it. But fight it anyway. I wouldn't call it a ransom though, they're asking for payment, and they may be right or not, depending on the terms.

Good luck.
What was the declination on your compass set to?

Navigating with a low resolution map without a good view of peaks/valleys is hard enough... but if you don't realize magnetic north is off (or correct the wrong direction), it's easy to end up lost.
I believe the parent was imploring GP to use stronger words more accurately depicting the aforementioned React App developer, such as "braindead" or similar.
What’s outrageous is how they only hold 30 shared passwords but somehow billed us $1500 a year to use a browser plugin to serve 20 kilobytes of data to 12 people.
Creativity isn’t something that just spontaneously appears or flourishes. It requires an appropriate environment. Most of the great achievements of the ancient Greeks happened in a fifty to hundred year span of time.
Much of today’s population’s drive is dissipated into online entertainment.
If it can be isolated and observed, it's not hysteria. Difficulty in testing and effects of the disease are not indicative of non existence.
Related:

Google’s caste-bias problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32425308 - Aug 2022 (249 comments)

Google cancelled a talk on caste bias - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593799 - June 2022 (946 comments)

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515099 - March 2022 (543 comments)

India’s tech sector reinforces old caste divides - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994226 - Jan 2022 (5 comments)

The Casteism I See in America and American Tech Companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29133517 - Nov 2021 (5 comments)

How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon Valley - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26435117 - March 2021 (195 comments)

Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24952698 - Oct 2020 (322 comments)

India’s engineers have thrived in the tech industry. So has its caste system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24923338 - Oct 2020 (6 comments)

How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24555492 - Sept 2020 (47 comments)

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552047 - Sept 2020 (613 comments)

Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065132 - Aug 2020 (14 comments)

California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on India’s caste system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798922 - July 2020 (56 comments)

California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083 - July 2020 (592 comments)

Ask HN: There is caste system in the Silicon Valley? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13704504 - Feb 2017 (6 comments)
You can also mock these checks, I used to do thar with my bank app.
We should lobby HN admins to disclose 1) traffic patterns 2) hardware information and specs 3) database size or caching arch

Would be cool to know how this thing is run.
> "Unless we have shareholders that come in and say, look, we absolutely — we do not like these big dividends. We do not like your share repurchase programme. We want you to go back to a growth model," Rick Muncrief, chief executive of Devon Energy, one of the shale patch’s biggest producers, told analysts. "Until we see that, I see no reason to change our strategy."

https://www.ft.com/content/137e38d3-c0e5-493b-9690-7c2fae364...
Protip for cleaning food gunk that doesn't want to go: boiling water. It's impressive how much stuff just sort of... falls away if your water is real hot. I use a dish brush to get the stickier stuff. If it's being stubborn I just dig in with a metal spatula. Haven't noticed any adverse effects yet.
yep that is a perfectly reasonable (and perhaps in the end, most moral) position to take. It is probably a healthy thing to refocus on your immediate self, or at least oscillate between that and taking a wider view upon occasion.
I was a sub-consultant on a few projects for Phillip Morris, the tobacco company. The primary consultant was an architect. He ran his own firm and explained that where he worked before he went out on his own, PM was a client and they basically kept his old company afloat during the 2008-2009 financial crisis and prevented himself and a lot of his coworkers from being laid off, so he felt some gratitude for that.

The headquarters / factory seemed like a really nice place to work, all things considered. There was a great cafeteria with discounted, healthy, fresh food. Everything seemed clean and well organized. Apparently the pay / benefits were good for the area. It also smelled heavenly. (I quit smoking many years ago, but fresh tobacco smells good, not like cigarette smoke.)

I think for the most part, businesses exist because they serve a need people have. If they don't, they go out of business. You can rail against fossil fuels, but people still need to drive to work and heat their homes and there aren't other good options that are available yet on a scale that can replace everything. Until there are, we're going to continue having to use fossil fuels, so vilifying the people who provide them doesn't do much good.

I do wonder how anyone justified working at Purdue Pharma, though.
And they’re dirt cheap and usually easily accessible.
I think it is similarly easy to spin it the other way around. "AWS is just selling you the gun and the bullets, you are the one who is shooting yourself in the foot".

I don't think I said AWS is shit or that GD is worthless, after all, I use both by choice. Yet, I do not think that AWS are blameless when it comes to certain decisions of how to bill, how to present data and how to document some of their features.

For example, in order to discover something is wrong with your GD billing, you must have CloudTrail in place, and the appropriate infrastructure to query it. And even tho AWS can easily alert you about weird trend in your API calls (like suspiciously high Describe*), they won't do it. They do it with Trusted Advisor when you have under-utilised EC2 instances (which requires Business+ support plan per account).

Someone mentioned in the thread the need for SCP in order to disable regions. Why should you have go all the route to SCP? Why can't we disable regions by click of a button under root account like it's possible for some of the latest regions?

Is something inherently wrong in it and pure evil? No. But I think the defaults can be better. I think AWS can improve their customer's default posture when it comes to Audit and Security without the need to have to decide between 10 different services with different billing plans and gotchas.
Good question, but poor answers. There's not much in the discussion of it, and what is, is really shallow (these industries are legal so that means it's fine to work for them! this also happens to be the ideology that funds the Economist)
Just wait a bit and see what happens in the housing market. I'm not saying it's ready for a crash, but sometimes renting for a year means everything will change. You can rent in a small town (cheap) or just stay where you are at for a while.

Everyone is thinking like you during the pandemic when remote work was the norm. That pushed up housing prices in weird places, like Boise, and other places like Sedona. Places that are small, typically tourist places, but very nice and pretty. The lack of housing has pushed up prices to ridiculous levels, but once the market corrects, it'll be a different world.
Well it’s not explicitly disallowed.

http://www.paulgraham.com/gfaq.html

> Can I mirror an essay on my site?

> I'd rather you linked to it instead.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I know it does, it's more that it is maybe not as serious a public health issue than the coverage of it would suggest.
It's on their list fortunately. Until then you can derive and use the IPv6 address for their old Cloudflare endpoint. I pinged them to update the backend IP for it after the outage switched to a new server. Might need to do that again now.
I couldn't understand the thinking behind the design and logistics for putting into existence a tiny very hot lamp I bought from IKEA with a rubix cube size piece of magnetic metal wrapped a few times by wire, it was heavy too and potentially a fire causing hazard. And, on the day of purchase IKEA had a lot of unattractive cuddly toy rats in the bargain bin. Perhaps, it is all an inside joke among the supply chain accountants. Sad for the workers in their daily factory grind.
they previously did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041

but i would also like to know how much traffic in terms of traffic volume (TB and Mbit/s peak) they do.
We will need to reinvent the processor to accomplish the goal of AGI.
So... I took at job at BP. I’d rationalised it as me being paid stupid money, and probably not contributing much because most software projects and large non-tech orgs are stupid wastes of time lead by non-technical people with insufficient skills in building software and I’d just be a cog in some SCRUM machine.

Then nature decided to warn me of its power by breaking my ribs on both sides while I was trying to learn to surf about a week before I started. But the killer for me was really learning that BP’s original name was British-Persian and is the main reason that the democratic government of Iran was deposed, the Shah re-installed and the Islamic Revolution happened leading to the regime that exists in Iran to this day.

The combination of physical pain, sudden awareness of deeply troubling political context and a warning from nature caused me to re-evaluate and take a contract with a crappy bank instead. Although to be honest, the realisation that I was actually going to be working on something useful and well-thought out also caught me off guard. (I do normally work extremely hard to have a positive impact, but had rationalised my involvement as being likely to have no impact.)

I actually know the work environment at BP would have been much much better than the bank.

Perhaps at those companies, bad managerial practices get exposed very easily, because the employees won’t stick around? Perhaps they can also afford to pay more due to the reduced competition in ‘evil’ industries. A good work environment and the ability to support your family without constantly getting involved in death-march development definitely goes a long way.
My primary interest in any work is the product, the team and the compensation. The later is negotiated beforehand, so if the team is not severely impacted (brilliant people who I happy to work with are staying) and there is no big changes in product (I still feel that I am doing something meaningful and useful for people) - there's no reason to leave.
Pay, export, chargeback, and tell them that they can discuss this with your support department if they don't like it. (But don't give them the contact details, obviously.)

I recommend Bitwarden by the way.
It depnends on the country I suppose. Here on Poland the problem is real . I personally know two persons (my father and my cousin) who were affected by it. My father had to go to early retirement and stop being a laywer beause lyme destoyed his nervous system and he could not read longer texts anymore. My cousin almost got thrown from medical university (he could not keep up after the symptoms kicked in).

Both of them did not even noticed when the tick bitten them and got through quite a long period of no symptoms.

After this events I am seriously afraid of lyme - as a knowledge worker this is like a death sentence.
This is where it's at. College towns are the best. They are the gems. Smaller, but with a large group of people from all over, you get that diversity you probably want. With people from all over, you get great food from all over, languages, neat people, art, etc.

Another college town I like is Eugene, or Ellensberg. Flagstaff maybe? Depends on your climate, look for colleges with maybe 10k-ish students? Another one that I can't stand because of the weather is Champagne Urbana. 10 minute drive out from town, and you're in farmland.
> because there isn't really a way to get consumers to trust that it really is a more reliable product worthy of the price

That is what warranties are for. You say it is reliable? Put it in writing how long you think it will keep working and what will you owe the customer if it ain’t so.
$80B is a number much higher than I thought, but Klarna correctly calls their $1.4B net operating income.
If you think of the lower ranks, for example IT admins who ensure that the computers are working smoothly, what's the difference between company A and company B? What do they experience? In most cases they do the same work regardless of which company they are in. The company culture in how people treat each other and how the work is organized in general is what they see. If you have a company with a clear internal structure, a clear product vision and well adjusted workers, then I suppose that work for IT is quite fine. So, I think for 90-99% of the employees it doesn't really matter what the product is. Their work is the same and a well organized company makes it pleasant. So it's not hard to imagine how employees can be happy there.

For the higher-ups who make the decision to create and sell products that hurt or kill people I see more of a moral dilemma. But I suppose they are compensated well with money and would have difficulty to find a better job elsewhere. Not sure if they feel the weight when they go to sleep.
Why they would not work there? Most people are happy to get a job that pays rent and living expenses. Have you seen rents recently? If you can choose your employer based on some arbitrary criteria, you are quite privileged!
Though jailbreaking the first one might mean you later find a backdoor or exploit that works on all, maybe even remotely. Getting local access usually unearths other hidden issues.

Being that it's an old, apparently unpatched "Wind River Linux 8", I'm guessing some open vulnerabilities exist.
For someone (me) that started to get into Go 4 days ago. What is the difference between a framework like this and Gin?
See this garbage comment is the rudest comment of all. Insulting beyond anything I've ever seen.

You are literally backstabbing me, spreading lies and telling people to ignore me? Please stop.
I had the exact same experience with hand blenders! I went for WMF the first time, a brand known at least in Germany for its quality. The connection was plastic too, but even worse: it didn't have a simple snap in mechanism, but you had to rotate it by about 20 degrees after connecting until you heard a click. When my mom visited she didn't know and didn't do it properly, and you could hear an awful sound. Within seconds the plastic connector got completely destroyed. Was also just a couple months old, so I went to the store (yes they have stores in almost every city that's maybe 200k people or more), and they were like "sorry bud, but you can get 10€ off for a new one". WMF is now on my blacklist of "crap companies that use their reputation to sell cheap China crap for a premium". I was so mad I glued together the connector with JB weld and used it for almost another year. Cleaning sucked that way though. Now I always get the cheapest one on Amazon so I don't have any expectations. When I wanted a standing one a couple years later I did that right from the start.
Can you please stop? I'm sure we can all relate to getting triggered by linguistic annoyances but this is way off topic, seriously tedious, and against the site guidelines:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—[...] They're too common to be interesting."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hope that you manage to solve the situation soon. Once you do, please consider self-hosting Bitwarden. A password manager is a simple product that anybody can self-host: don't pay LastPass money to manage your passwords and them hold them in ransom.
It already happened :
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/ukrainian_tractors_de...
Z-Library sites blocked in India following court order
Don't know if this is tongue in cheek or not but I get messages that say they can't serve requests all the time. Service might not be entirely down but it definitely isn't serving all traffic more often than that.
It's true and possible. I worked in e-commerce before and you could argue, that I was optimizing our conversion rate, so more people would buy more shit they don't need. They should spend their money on their kids instead. That is a valid point of view but that is just most business.
From TFA:

> And this is not just an American phenomenon: Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, secured his job by playing an Everyman who becomes president of Ukraine on a sitcom. His political party gave his show its name, “Servant of the People.”

Huh -- I thought it was the other way around, that the party got its name from the show?

Otherwise, great piece. Now if only anyone knew WTF to do about it.
You choose to use Laspass rather than any of the free solutions because of its ease. Your problem is you gave 30 critical pieces of information to a third-party without any backup solution.