skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voting is pretty bizarre. I voted for some local elections and they didn't even check my ID. I had to tell my name they checked my name on the list and I could vote. I could then come back a few hours later again in name of a flat mate of who was on vacation.
Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare
> ...The injunction also directs Amazon to post, distribute, and read the Court’s order to employees at the Employer’s Staten Island facility (“JFK8”).

But sure, to the wording of the order, they just have to post / distribute / read the order, and:

> ...cease and desist from discharging employees, and from engaging in any like or related conduct, in retaliation for employees engaging in protected activities...

So what's to prevent Amazon from saying, "we haven't broken the law so far and will continue to not do so," while maintaining business as usual in terms of how they respond to unionization attempts?

If anything, what concrete changes are the court requiring here?
Issues like this is why I now have high status with Enterprise/National and I will never again use Hertz. I don't care how much I get discounted, Hertz is not worth dealing with. Their entire business seems to be constructed on financial trickery and malfeasance with a side effect of sometimes renting a car to someone. They should have been fully liquidated during their earlier bankruptcy rather than allowed to continue operating, and I look forward to the day their corporate charter is revoked.

I travel a LOT, and there are very few businesses in that industry I hate, Hertz is one of them. My only times using Hertz have all ended in disaster.
I found that understanding compilers was precious at several occasions, especially for cross compilation and embedded programming. Even for Java, for uni assignments, I was completely flabbergasted and at a lost when my IDE stopped working with cryptic messages. Understanding the process of creating object files, what javac does, what goes into a jar helps. As much as understanding what a compiler does, its relationship wtih linkers, how libraries are "added" to an executable (dynamically or statically)

Beside, with ChatGPT in its current state, it's still absolutely impossible to get it to produce any useful code without knowing how code works. There is an advantage to the precise specification of a formal language. At least for the next decade, I think there will be human proof-reading AI output before generated code is ran, with catastrophic consequences when that doesn't happen.

What I've difficulties getting over right now is every time I write something (text or code) I ask myself "Could ChatGPT have written it better?"
Just saw a hrly rate in my country Myanmar where they are charging an Associate rate as USD180/hr in 2022.
The cost of a fall guy to sit in prison for a few years could be orders of magnitude less than the damages a civil case could cost.
No not at all; this org had existed for two years already, was already using agile for said two years, and successfully delivered a multitude of projects using agile.

The driver to me seems to clearly increase complexity for the sake of it in order to push for more billable hours.

This was pure graft.

Honest Q since you're a throwaway but is this how consultants typically act? Justify simple things to be more complex to lay people and charge them out the wazoo?

I think I'm slowly starting to understand why some of my friends are creating their own dev agencies. This racket is rife with stupid money.
It's been 35 years since the price of baguette is no more regulated in France.
That's a big "if," no?
To elaborate, a lot of a legal case is determining how an actual situation should be matched to a law.

An injunction essentially says: the court has good reason to presume they match in this way, ergo don't do X, Y, and Z while the case proceeds.

If you then do X, Y, or Z, you have directly defied a court order, which is itself illegal.

So the difference is between being able to construct a defense around "We didn't think what we were doing was illegal" (the original case) vs "We did that thing you told us was illegal while the case proceeds" (violating an injunction). Obviously, it's a lot harder to win a case on the latter.
It kind of goes both ways. For more commoditized and interchangeable jobs, prior locality helped by restricting the pool of available workers employees could hire - then globalization devastated whole areas or even countries by taking jobs elsewhere.

For jobs that had more demand than supply, like development, though, where most of the best employers where geographically confined, it worked the opposite way: it opened up the pool of available jobs to employees, whether inside the US or Europe, or from the developing world to the west, etc. Suddenly you didn't need to move to a handful of big cities to get a top tier job. And even if you already where in San Francisco, you perhaps move to a place with lower rent, work from home, and keep more of your money, while still visiting the office once in a blue moon (which could be months on end during covid).
It’s not a blind spot. Its an acknowledgement of the fact that small time operations are often run by people without MBAs and without lawyers checking everything. Megacorps should be held to a higher standard, because they have the resources to meet them.
I’ve had more critical OneDrive failures in the last two years than hard disk failures in the last 30 years. I’ve experienced actual data loss on OneDrive three times since 2020.

It’s not a backup and it’s a shitty safety net for trivial cases. Fortunately I had beem backing up OneDrive up using Beyond Compare to an external disk and doing a binary comparison so I could find the cocked up files and recover them.

It’s funny the only time I’ve had to do a restore is because Microsoft’s cloud fucked up.
I’m mckinsey. All I’ll care to say here is that we don’t outsource any technical work
> In djot, we just get rid of indented code blocks. Most people prefer fenced code blocks anyway, and we don't need two different ways of writing code blocks (goal 11).

Sensible. Mostly since it makes other things easier (goal 5), second because one thing is only represented in one way, and thirdly (least important) since indented code blocks are kind of a pain to format compared to fenced code blocks.
Cyber attack?
I'm not sure the conclusion in the headline is necessarily what happened here.

> Researchers deleted the approved ads before they were published.

> TikTok and YouTube rejected all the ads and suspended the accounts that attempted to submit them, the researchers said.

> [Meta] also said that ads continue to be reviewed after they go live.

Makes me wonder what "go live" means in this context. If the researchers never "published" the ad (ie, asked Meta to start showing it), then how do we really know that Facebook "failed to stop" these ads?

I've never advertised on any of these platforms so this may be moot, but one might also consider different processes between the platforms for when an ad is ready to be shown to consumers. Maybe the researchers didn't complete the necessary steps ("publish") to be told that their ad is in violation of certain terms.

That being said, it's worth noting that the ads were submitted without being published and the submissions were never flagged for human review. It's just hard to say "Facebook failed to stop ads" when they weren't necessarily given the opportunity to "stop" them.

(If someone has more insight, feel free to correct me.)
It's shame really. Lots of untapped potential in some of these places.
That stuff is delicious.
Definitely more colorful than Nukemap. Would love to see something other than a simple circle for the various radii- surely the impact angle and local geography would shape the blast, no?

(I realize that is a very hard problem to accurately model.)
Not really ?

« Inflated » expectations doesn't mean NO expectations...

People are still throwing « AI » around as a buzzword like it's something distinct from a computer program, in fact the situation got worse because non-neural network programs are somehow dismissed as « not AI » now.

Autonomous cars are still nowhere to be seen, even more so for « General « AI » ».

The singularity isn't much on track either looking at Kurzweil's predictions : we should have had molecular manufacturers by now, and nanobots connecting our brains to the Internet, extending our lives, and brain scanning people to recreate their avatars when they are dead, don't seem like they are going to happen by the 2030s either. (2045 is still far enough away that I wouldn't completely bet against a singularity by then.)

(And Kurzweil doesn't get to blame it on misunderstanding the exponential function : how people have a too linear view of the future and tend to overestimate changes in the near future, but underestimate them in the long term !)
I don't remember the name of the theorem, but you can approximate any nonlinear multivariable function arbitrarily with a multi-layer perceptron with any non-polynomial nonlinear function, applied after the linear weights and bias. It has to be non-polynomial because the set of all polynomials is closed under linear combinations, adding a constant, and composition, so if the nonlinear function was (say) x^3 you would only get polynomials out of the model.

I'm not sure why that's a problem because polynomial approximations are still useful.
That's what they said before and not much changed
You can get a non-driver id card from the same department that issues driver licenses in your state
Would it be fair to say that consulting firms could get the top (good) people in a developed country, but also is more likely to hire the smartest but corrupt people in a corrupt country? As that is the name of the game in those countries.

And the HQ not caring as much because those other countries bring in the 'franchise fee'. At the risk of a story like this.
Sure. But Swift produces something that people actually want. while Ticketmaster interposes itself between the two while providing practically no added value. They are "rent-seekers", holding monopolist contracts with performing arts venues, and using that to extract wealth while providing as little service as they can get away with.

At its best, capitalism plays various providers against each other to arrive at something like a price discovery that keeps everybody's head above water. But that idealized model often fails, and Ticketmaster is the poster boy for one type of such failure.
Same with Deloitte? Don’t they have a ton of directly employed engineers?
I stopped developing iOS apps, because it's not possible to write the software once and charge once.

Good. You did the honorable and ethical thing.

Or, you could have changed to a paid support model for new customers only.

But you're arguing for a very different approach --- changing the license after lifetime support was sold. This is not good --- or ethical.

It doesn't even make sense from a business perspective. How many people will pay again after they were lied to? They have no reason to believe the new license will be honored any better than the old one. Credibility has been lost.
Or it's dependent on increased gene expression from dual X-chromosomes or genes from an Y chromosome. Or sex-specific methylation patterns or some other factor, that are irreversible once the organism has grown beyond the fetus-stage.

There is way more to sex than just steroid hormones.
At what point have our neural networks crossed over to demonstrating algorithmic behavior and we no longer consider them fancy interpolating functions? Is there a way to quantify this?
They've finally updated their status.

12:26 PM PST We are investigating an issue, which may be impacting Internet connectivity between some customer networks and the US-EAST-2 Region.
Sure, grandma can still use the old computer. That's not the point. I see people constantly make this conflation here on HN. It's the idea that you can't have new technology while keeping the benefits of old. It's rubbish! What made the Classic MacOS great and easy to use were its solid, fundamental principles. We have abandoned those principles for convenience's sake.
The editorializing on “smoking is bad” is moot—we all know it and it’s not the point.
AWS Billing Issue
This AWS Billing is quite overwhelming. Are there any genuine ways to control it?
Right, that's why the GP is sarcastically saying how awesome it that they're now going to expand that ruinous treatment to more people by hiring more minorities.
This is quite salient, two days ago I did the same thing. Left non dominate hand with a q-tip, no pain at all though really. I don't think i went too overly deep but the entire left side of my has felt blocked since, this article is making me think maybe I pushed the wax deeper and might have a blockage? Is this something you would consult a doctor over or does it usually work itself out?
Skolt Sámi
> If you are an American, you already have a federally issued ID it just isn’t very good.

What ID is that? If you're talking about a Social Security Card, that's not ID at all. I don't think I would call it "ID but not very good", even.

Ultimately there are a lot of people who go through life in the US who never have a federally-issued ID at all. Simply never traveling outside the US will do it for most people. And there are more people than you'd expect in the US who never leave the country.

Also agree re: voting: elections are administered by states, so a federal ID is just not even necessary here. States are perfectly capable of issuing ID, as we all know. (Granted, drivers licenses and non-driving state IDs usually don't have anything to say about citizenship status. A state-issued ID serves as authentication, not authorization, where voting is concerned.)
Not many dollar bills in aviaries, unfortunately. We already have to watch out for the free-flying birds diving into the crowd during a display to steal sandwiches, sausage rolls, etc. Probably best not to train them to go for wallets
OMG I've been looking for this for so long, it made me so happy!
doesn't blinkist do that
> medical professionals typically study statistics, epidemiology doesn't really figure out itself on its own.

Having tutored medical professionals trying to pass their epidemiology classes, I would not make that claim. From my observations, epidemiology and statistical literacy is treated as a "check this box" effort, the least important of their courses.
I think the comment you are replying to is making a slightly different point: what's the point of Posse Comitatus when heavily armed, trigger happy, indemnified government employees can do the exact same thing by just wearing blue instead of camo?
The Noulith Programming Language
That is not an argument. The same way wokes say “look at Europe” when it comes to healthcare, conservatives say “look at Europe” when it comes to id cards.

All through the EU, id cards are the norm. If we can do it, so can you. This whole “but think of the black people” is bs. What are you, some kind of racist? You don’t think black people can get ids?
I love Columbia pocketable rain jackets. The website says it's made of "Omni-tech waterproof" fabric. Does anyone know what this means? A bunch of chemicals that will eventually hurt me?
The story doesn't matter, it's the <cue 6 year old laughter> that makes it good.
> How do you live without a simple maximize button?

Classic Mac OS apps did not put the entire application UI in a single full screen window. Instead, it was typical for an application to contain multiple windows that could all be visible at once.

> To add to this, the "top" menu bar is lame.

This is related. In Windows, the entire UI of the app is contained in a single window, which you would typically maximize to fill the screen. In classic Mac OS, apps have multiple windows open at the same time, but the menu bar pertains to the application and not to the window.
Of course this is also the case. I am just saying it is hard to get cities to prioritize investments in cycling infrastructure without a large number of users.
Ok, human involved in the loop, thank you!

I also think there should never be more than one source of truth for TF, but I have seen two devs fight it out in the development environment. Each add their own SNS topic with similar names, get very weirded out by how it seems to magically change as the other dev applies and deletes the first one and replaces it!
Central banks have monitored derivatives markets for decades, will continue to do so and will step into the markets as a backstop from time to time. It's not going anywhere. FX swaps are critical for global trade and investment.
I lived through these times, and I thought OS X was a huge improvement over MacOS, I'd never want to go back! Software in general has gotten more bloated and slow since the '90s, but I don't blame it on the OS.

I didn't have too many major complaints about working on MacOS, but I've always preferred windows. I used Windows 3.1 before MacOS. It's probably since I used Windows first, but I've always preferred the Windows approach of window management. Whenever using a Mac, I would always end up with a jumble of windows and I'd frequently click the wrong one when and it would pop to the front and hide what I was looking for. Then the wrong application's tab strip would be visible. Arrrgggh! It was a common point of frustration for me when using Photoshop and Illustrator since there are a number of similar Windows.

In Windows 11, I like that there is reasonable support for dark UI and multiple desktops. I haven't used OS X that much in the past 10 years, so I can't comment on the improvements that have been made since then.
Ask HN: What happens if ChatGPT start giving the wrong answer
ChatGPT is a blackbox. Many people are asking if it could be used to solve many queries people have. What happens when that blackbox has a manipulated result? I'm not picking on OpenAI, or any company, but I could see world where one of these services is used to change what we know about history, because we don't know how they were created.

Example: Who won the Stanley Cup in 2019? - San Jose Sharks. (this is incorrect - St, Louis Blues beat SJS in semi finals)
What's the duty of a source of data to reference its answers. Search engines at least provide reference to where they got the information.

(I use Hockey cause it's less controversial and GPT3 doesn't have that data today)
A model with no training data would know nothing, so in a sense they're always going to be something like a fancy form of interpolation/extrapolation.
Interestingly, even when a fund does beat the market, their investors usually don't. When a fund is really hot people jump in, and when that performance turns out not to be reproducible, they jump out. This leads to buying high and selling low. And sometimes all that money coming in makes the fund really lever up, and make a big, big loss. See for example the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors.
> if you’re irritated about something perhaps just keep it to yourself
I had an Econ prof who described his consulting business as:

1. Coming into the company and gathering information from the low-level staff.

2. Presenting the information to management.

3. Collecting $1000/hr or more for his trouble.

Basically information washing to get execs to accept information that they would normally ignore. I wonder how much of this kind of thing goes on in industry.
FYI this comment ended up making something work that I couldn't get working (as a side project) for at least 2 months; I did not realize that providing certain things as nativeBuildInputs might make package sub-dependencies build correctly (so for example, I have an Elixir project which depends on a NIF which is a compiled C++ or Rust project which is automatically built when I build the main Elixir project). Moving those to that suddenly made it work!

So thank you for that! There's not a lot of docs I found out there (yet?) about getting sub- or sub-sub-dependencies to build correctly in multi-layered projects that depend on different language technologies and build toolchains (where a traditional linux distro makes A LOT of assumptions that "just so happen" to work!), but at least now that I got this working, I can lock it down with a flake and in theory be good to go for a while! (or at least have a rollback strategy if something borks!)
I think they're placed and sized based on frequency of use.

Anyone who thinks file -> print -> page setup is a better place for orientation buttons than the ribbon gets my curmudgeon award.
It seems reasonable to include things like FUBO, which offer both broadcast and TV channels.
Are you sure it isnt just the locks on the cabin doors that are reducing highjackings?
If you change your name, which is somewhat common for women to do after marriage.
Russia risks becoming ungovernable and descending into chaos
I once chose hertz because it was cheapest and I regretted it! They didn't specify how much the baby seat was going to be and it end up being like 20$ extra! they should have mentioned how much the baby seat costs on the checkout page. and then when i complained about it, they just wanted to blame the 3rd party checkout processor. Hertz, never again!

In life, i've learned, that if an optional extra price isn't listed for that option, don't select it. and if you really need that option and the price isn't there, just hit the back button and don't use that service ever again.
Like Stratechery, my immediate concern is education. But not just homeworks (which actually were already criticized, I think the gears are already moving with regard to relying less on this kind of assignments)

The real problem is entry-level opportunities. As a developer, I experienced first hand how great ChatGPT is. I can just submit an undecipherable bash one-liner I wrote 6 months ago and it will explain in details what it does.

I tell it "write a command line utility using libraries X and Y to convert MessagePack to JSON" and it writes it. It's pretty bad, so I type "refactor duplicate code into a single function" or "put that string into a constant" and it does it. Amazingly.

It's not perfect, sometimes it is completely wrong and persists in it, like Trurl's first machine in the Cyberiad, but my experience tells me what is credible and what isn't. What elements of the answer are total bullshit.

But to build that experience, I first had to write that code. How will a junior programmer find a job when all the menial labor can be done so easily in two seconds by an AI? This is not limited to programming, other domains where writing dominate are also a concern.

We need somehow a safe space for people to experiment and become experts. If we blindly use ChatGPT I fear we are going to cut out the opportunity to become an expert to a whole generation.
Is it, though? The article is what is commonly called "native advertising", paid for by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. At least they say so at the top.

And the article is also open that this "crusader against machismo" started his crusade when working for an NGO. It doesn't say which, but at the very least one agreeable to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, I'd wager.

That foundation is not at all reluctant about pushing their peculiar cultural perspectives. In particular, they are infamous in certain circles for promoting the American custom of infant circumcision of boys, as a preventive measure against AIDS. The science in support for that is suspicious, to put it mildly (it's worse than mere cultural bias, too).

Does it really work, then, to teach male domestic abusers to change diapers? Was that sort of practical knowledge the thing they were lacking? I'm inclined to be suspicious - and also to be suspicious of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation's arguments for it.