skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incidents with the Mace in the House of Commons
> The existence of gig jobs is a benefit for people who can't work regular hours, and therefore can't get jobs as "employees"

Employees with irregular hours are a thing, and were even moreso before the trend of forcing them into more precarious designated-as-contractor-roles (often contrary to labor law) became popular with the “gig economy”.
> Do you think any one in practice will be watching for this domain?

I would bet money that multiple governments already do.
Apple is one of the largest companies on earth. The institutional investors that own the company want consistent results.

They are actually rare in that they have the ability to churn out new product categories in a broader ecosystem of related products.

Power controlled by a guy or small group can work out incredibly well or disastrously. Zuckerberg’s laser focus and tenacity made Facebook a giant and his quixotic pursuit of VR thus far is a disaster. Elon is the the poster child for what happens when there’s no corporate bureaucracy to prevent bad decisions.
Nobody remembers Superman III . . .

The Metropolis-based conglomerate Webscoe hires Gus Gorman, a talented computer programmer. Gus embezzles from his employer through salami slicing, which brings him to the attention of CEO Ross Webster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_III

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2d02uk/til_t...
On one hand, they're morons, on the other hand, they helped kill the tech industry, so they're right for helping their kids avoid wasting their time using tech (as in actually wasting time, not alluding to addiction bullshit).
Most football games are on over the air broadcast. Most big playoff series of the major leagues are too.
I think the heat part would best be Feolite, which is mostly sintered iron oxides, but with some other bits added. It has a tremendous volumetric heat capacity, nearing that of water, but you can crank it way past 100 C without worrying about pressure.
This news article would be so much better if it were about a guy steeling a stapler.
>>you can still tip at restaurants where the service is already added to the bill automatically (so you go in knowing the meal will cost 20% more than what the listed prices are

They better just raise the menu price, any place that has a 20% service charge added automatically (outside the standard large party ) will never get my patronage again

>> once you add sales tax

that is nothing like Sales Tax. Sales tax is a fee the government is charging ME that the business is mandated by the government to collect on my behalf, I owe the tax not the business. People often do not understand that context. Just like when your employer taxes out of your paycheck, you owe the income tax but the employer is mandated to collect it because the government do not trust you with your own money.
They suggest an alternative of the same type without these issues.
Even before universities or higher education, a lot of people are growing up in demographic bubbles where everyone around them, their parents, their classmates, the other people in their hobbies (and they are usually specific hobbies delineated along class lines), are from the same socio-economic class, the same political POV, share the same set of cultural values around things like art, religion, history (self created myths more often), etc. They often simply don't face much disagreement at all and so don't really experience "fundamental" disagreements. This is often exacerbated when they go to higher-ed where certain schools often mirror those same demographic differences and bubbles. Those schools market to those demographics and then it becomes an intensifying spiral.

I grew up on the borderline between the liberal urban part and the more conservative leaning rural part of my city, and I credit simply where I grew up with me having friends from diverse backgrounds up and down the class scale and with different POVS. If you weren't able to handle disagreement, you simply didn't have as many friends or had none.

When I moved to a far more homogenous city for university where I met an intensely cosmopolitan set of friends (all of whom are very nice people) it was fascinating to see how they struggled to occupy a different POV from their own, even more weird: they saw in that inability a paradoxical foundation for the certainty of their beliefs that made them double-down more often! They simply assume something was wrong with the person if they disagreed with them. If they couldn't occupy that different POV, then either they are in the wrong, or that different person is thinking wrong in a fundamental way that is irreconcilable. I'll let you guess which position they are more likely to take.
What if you're spinlocked?
If the government can compel you to not talk about something, can't they compel you to not modify your warrant canary?
2022 Was the Year AI Finally Started Living Up to Its Hype
Local is purely about quality for me. I can get food that’s riper fresher and tastier if it doesn’t have to travel.
It feels like SF Gate wanted (or were asked) to write a negative article and this is what they have come up with.
Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair [video]
only because people who are stealing groceries and diapers have spent, squandered, wasted, or sold, the goodwill and benefits designed to cure their hunger or cloth their children.

you will not starve (or kids have no diapers) in this country simply because you refuse to steal. it's a really bad choice, and yes I do understand that people make bad choices. it's redeemable and understandable, but it's not excusable.

and yes! it's completely depressing!
Auth0 adds cost overhead for small projects that is hard to justify. I think the original comment about doing your own logins is overblown and theres still heaps of ways that outsourced logins can be broken from an integration POV.
No, that’s kind of my point. It doesn’t matter for most people, so there will be some (futile) resistance and that is it.

The problem is when AIs become such high quality that they can influence people’s minds and behaviours through psychological tricks. This is also already happening but mostly humans are creating that content which is upvoted and responded to by their bots.

This is going to be AI soon-ish and that is a problem imho. But not something we will be able to do much about except KYC people as rigoureus as banks do (bye bye privacy, unless this is implemented well) or making them pay to post. Both won’t kill all bots, but will shrink the reach of them as suddenly it’s a very costly affair to do at scale (buying real people and paying to post).
Do you think they would be in trouble if, sat 3 months in the future, they started saying they had not received any NEW warrants in the past 3,4,5,X months?
No side effects for me. I've always had bad night vision even with glasses so no noticeable effect for me, and no dry eyes like someone else reported on this thread.

I guess my question for you is what is your prescription? Because mine was high enough (-5.5 + astigmatism) that even with glasses due to how thick they were, chromatic aberrations always existed especially in my peripherals, and contacts would cause dry eyes after 8 hours which would then drop visual acuity. So my reality never existed with "perfect vision" like you are worried about having to deal with... It was just a different type of aberration that eventually went away, became unnoticable. I definitely knew my glasses never corrected to perfect vision. Remember 6/6 (aka 20/20) also isn't "perfect vision", it is just the average vision person for a person doesn't "need glasses", people have a whole range of visual acuity.

While I am definitely a fan and would recommend it people who were thinking about it. If your prescription is low enough I believe surgeons will usually suggest that you probably don't need it, though my experience is not in the US so YMMV...
They mention Superman III in Office Space if I recall.
I definitely saw the "macs" bit and never gave it a second thought.
> First the highly productive staff often make less under that model (where poor performers make more)

I just wanted to share the fact that there are places where tips are shared by the whole staff, and that system works well (I can't say if it works worse or better than the one you're describing as I don't have much experience with it). It also has the advantage that non-public-facing staff (e.g., cooks) get their share of tips too.
What era is this? Certainly it's not the last 20-25 years. I don't remember being able to afford anything until after I graduated and was fortunate enough to have parents that let me live in the basement while I got on my feet. My college jobs were barely enough to feed me, pay the interest on my loans, and pay my parents a pittance for my chunk of the power bill. Maybe it's easier for these kids to get a programming gig paying 70k+ while they're in school but when I was a kid companies wouldn't even look at you until you could guarantee 40 hours plus overtime.
The parent comment seems like a bit of hyperbole, but Canada for a very long time hasn't prioritized tech industry. It's common to see salaries for tech jobs in Canada be much less than counterparts in US. I work with Canadians on my team and their opinion is that unless you're in lumber or drilling something from the ground, you might as well move to the US while of working age.
Cash isn't free either (you need a float, security/insurance for the risk of theft, employee mistakes/theft, accounting costs to reconcile the days earnings). It's just that these costs are often internalised by the company (I have no idea what the actual cost is compared to a credit card surcharge, but it's non-zero).

Then (depending on your political views) there's the broader cost to society of tax-evasion that sometimes comes with cash payments (I'm not saying that cash is bad, but it's pretty clear that some businesses that are cash-only are avoiding tax and paying workers under-the-table, which has impacts both for government and the workers involved)
The worker is also forced to beg for the money that they have earned. It's demeaning. Nothing about this interaction is positive.
Speaking as an MD, I think a distinction should be drawn between specialist and generalist midlevels. Specialists, and I include midwives here, do an actual residency and are usually excellent on the practical aspects. As a resident I learned a lot of my orthopedics from PA orthos, who were sharp cookies and in their field were highly useful adjuncts to the ortho surgeons for the bread and butter like uncomplicated fractures and surgical assists.

On the other hand, generalist midlevels have no explicit residency and even long-time midlevels who never really got any proper oversight can be nightmares. On internal medicine hospital call we used to groan when the urgent care paged us because we were always cleaning up their messes. I can't see how that saved any money or yielded equivalent outcomes.
The argument goes that the government might be able to compel you not to speak, but they cannot compel you to speak against your wishes (and, in particular, to lie).

The precedent supports that to some degree, but it's really not clear.
I wasn't commenting on the security implications. My point was that bleeding implementation details like .php in your URLs is silly because that URL might end up being served by a Node app one day.

But on the security point, a URL ending in .php does imply a "we just YOLO'd a bunch of bare scripts into the webroot" application architecture, which is not confidence inspiring as a user and sure looks attractive to pentest.
I believe that is due to how https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_single_instance_check... is implemented on osx.

It checks if there is already a copy of TS running, and if so, passes the new file to be opened in the existing instance, which is useful with command-line usage.

On other platforms that uses lock files I believe, I guess here it uses local ports, and osx seems to think permission is needed for that.
The injunction against removing it wouldn't compel them to update it, though, right? In this one they promise to post a new one every month, so even if you're forbidden from removing the current one, unless they force you to create new updates, people would still notice when the current one "expires" without having been updated (and if that turns out to hold legal water, no reason you couldn't post new ones arbitrarily often -- daily, say).
Theft of diapers (and laundry detergent) is because these are items that are consumed, fairly high value, needed somewhere in the area, and able to be sold for cash.

People don't often steal diapers because they need them.

https://consumerist.com/2012/10/26/diapers-are-apparently-th...

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/retail-crime-ring-s...

https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/two-arrested-i...
I'm not sure what their "train wreck" comment is alluding to either but as a recent graduate from a Waterloo university I've heard for years about "brain drain" and how most of my fellow graduates leave the area to pursue better careers down in the US or abroad because Canada's tech industry simply does not provide the pay, benefits, career ceiling, etc. as Silicon Valley, for example. This problem has been plaguing Canadian tech for quite a while you can probably find many articles about this on Google.
Yeah, the writing in Office Space is very self-aware about not being original.
If I write a shell script looking something like:

#!/bin/sh
exec rg $@

Then I did not actually write ripgrep in pure shell.
2022 Sucked
Why would it matter in the storj system?

I haven't caught up with them, did they ever decentralize the coordinator or whatever

would it even be about the data uploaded?

there are so many free options I’m over this
> ...software engineer who is accused of a theft scheme that swiped approximately $300,000

That's 1-2 years' salary for a software engineer in Seattle. It isn't a lifestyle step function, and when you factor in the consequences of getting caught, the EV is very, very bad.

> In total, Zulily’s team said Castro had sent over 1,000 items sent to his house.

This makes the EV even worse. The single address makes it more likely you get caught, reselling 1000 items will be a part-time job on its own, and it'll take the $300,000 to $150,000.
Hmm, based on the docs I still don't know if I can use this for the web only, and if I could, what is the bundle size of this package?
> What would "tested in the US courts" look like?

Removing the canary could potentially be classified as an illegal disclosure of the government request, so uh, criminal charges on that front. Of course that assumes that the secondary case isn’t also classified I guess.
José Valim is amazing
Why Fiction?
Southwest Airlines received over $7B in federal pandemic aid and used it as soon as they legally could to start paying dividends and doing stock buybacks. Not investing in IT or the fragile infrastructure that was recently on display.
> both of which are just numbers pulled out of thin air

The living wage is not in the UK. Dispute the method all you want of course, but there is a method:

https://www.livingwage.org.uk/calculation
> loose

since a few years ago i’ve noticed a trend where people write

“loose” (not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached. "a loose tooth")

instead of

“lose” (be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something).
"I've lost my appetite")

does anyone know what’s going on?
Can we please repeal the Patriot Act or Freedom Act or whatever it is called now? It’s been a one-way ticket down the toilet since this travesty was foisted on the stupid scared populace of 2001. I really frame my life in America in two sections, before and after the planes hit the Twin Towers. Not because of the tragedy which it was, but because that is when the America that I know changed and started becoming twisted. Optimism gone, privacy gone, thinking gone, replaced by fear and ignorance and lowest common denominator politics and TV.
It seems like this could be discovered through even the most cursory of antifraud team efforts by doing something like a simple database search for ship-to address and then ranking the output sorted by number of orders per US Postal-unique address.

Then you review the customer name/payment entity and discard any well known large wholesale customers who might be legitimately ordering a large number of separate transactions to the same delivery location.
> Also there are probably tons of "packages" which were never published officially to pypi but exist on github,

I'm doing this from memory, it's hardly a frequent thing for me, but err something like:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/vonseel/...
Yes, that's what I thought at the time. But then I re-read the article and realized that it was intentionally misleading. It is now clear to me that not only are they idiots, they are also dishonest. The summary of the situation, in their words, is:

"TLDR: We got grifted by a multi-billion dollar distributor for $250,000."

That is a lie.

What actually happened is that a broker came to them with an offer which they accepted despite not achieving clarity on exactly what the offer actually was. They thought they were signing up for 6000 bags when in fact they were signing up for six times as many because they did not understand a term of art in their industry. This was their first mistake. Then, when they realized their mistake, they decided to proceed and invest the necessary capital to meet the order without fully assessing the potential risks. That was their second mistake. They could have pulled the plug then, but they chose not to.

Then it all fell through. That's tough, I feel sorry for them, but they are not the victims here. Deals falling through is a Thing That Happens in business. That's why there are contracts and insurance, and why finance and risk management is a thing. At every step in the process, their situation was 100% their fault. No one lied to them. No one put a gun to their head and forced them to do something they didn't want to do. No one did anything that was not part of standard business practice. The situation is entirely the result of their naivete, failure to do their due diligence, failure to properly assess risks, and unbelievably poor decision making in the face of newly discovered information.

And now they are digging themselves in even deeper by accusing their distributor of grifting them. No, sorry, they were not grifted. They were just stupid, and rather than admit it and learn from it, they are trying to shift the blame to their distributor and make this sound like a David-v-Goliath story. It isn't. It's a company-being-stupid-failing-to-own-up-to-it story.
It appears to be built on FreeBSD, though I suppose Netcraft could be basing that on a load balancer or something.

> The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3), US based, non-profit organization

https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/about-the-foundation/

> It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley.

https://www.freebsd.org/about/
I agree that that is a problem. But it is a separate problem. If two problems depend on each other, should we fix neither because that fix won't matter in isolation?
(DIY) Crash Testing MagSafe Car Mounts [video]
Show HN: GitHub redirect to download latest asset
I needed a way to get the latest direct download link to plug into a different program. After a quick few minutes and reading the GitHub API this is the result.

I hope it can be useful for others.
Oh, that’s just mostly (afaik) the result of the tree flattening it does being an optimization of React, because it gives React less to handle in the first place. That’s why benchmarking framework render operations like krausest does doesn’t really apply. Because it is a nano benchmark of individual operations on the tree, not the size of it. You’d need a macro benchmark on a real world app to measure gains from reducing the DOM tree size. That would be very app-specific, and so the gains from that would also be very specific to how the app was designed. The closest you could get (that I’ve seen) is these micro benchmarks on a small custom DOM tree: https://tamagui.dev/docs/intro/benchmarks
It could also just be a glitch as it appears it is a script that generates the .txt (and fetching external text / news as content).

In NSLs, you are not allowed to reveal the existence of the request.
Removing the warrant canary reveals the existence of the NSL.

Sometimes courts also prohibit you from revealing that you gave away user account information to the police.

In theory, using the (incorrect) logic of the canary warrant, you could publish a list of all user IDs and say "The police never requested the user information for these IDs below:", but this seems very gimmicky in front of a judge.

At the end of the day, a company that is actually subjected to NSL wishes has very little reasons to remove a canary warrant.

1) They cannot be sued for lying in their canary warrant as this was a properly formed court request.

2) It is good marketing for them.

3) They risk significant criminal charges for no benefits.

They really have no incentive to do so.
>Employees with irregular hours are a thing, and were even moreso before the trend of forcing them into more precarious designated-as-contractor-roles (often contrary to labor law) became popular with the “gig economy”.

Note that I never made any claims about whether it's actually better for every employee, or even the average employee. I was only responding to your claim that "Unless you are a shareholder of the DSP, this isn’t a benefit". Moreover, I'm skeptical your claim that people are being "forced" from being employees to being contractors. At least when it comes to restaurants, the DSPs were basically servicing restaurants that didn't do deliveries before. Therefore it's highly unlikely that anyone who was previously a delivery employee was forced to switch to being contractors, because those jobs didn't even exist before.
What’s the single biggest problem you’re facing today that has a huge impact on your mental health?