skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the social construction of crime thing. Stealing $140k is egregious. But because it's an employer stealing from their employees it's being treated as more of an administrative error than a great crime.

It's not as if someone subtracted $140k off of one guy's single paycheck.

This was nickeled-and-dimed, likely for years. And while I have no inclination to give the benefit of the doubt to a place that hires a fake priest to give confession about skimming the till, it's not that difficult for such a thing to be an administrative error. Rhonda in payroll keys in a wrong number somewhere, and you're getting the $8/month deduction for hemorrhoid insurance without actually getting that insurance. Or the punch on the mechanical time clock is bent, and shaving 5 minutes from the start of everyone's shift. Or a hundred other things.

Hell, maybe that's even an excuse, and it was always deliberate. But good luck proving it.

There are tradeoffs here, and if punitive justice is something you absolutely must have, then go for it. But don't start whining when the other stuff gets worse.
More explanation:
Provenance comes from the Latin "pro" (from) and "venire" (come), so that's where an item comes from, while Providence (capital P) is "the care and control of God or of a force that is not human in origin" (Cambridge dictionary).
> > Bash is riddled with absurd footguns
> I agree, shell programming is ugly and very unsafe.

Sharp knives are "unsafe". Kids shouldn't use them. Professionals prefer them.

I find most 'footguns' to be normal expected behavior, and the user shot themselves in the foot because they're careless or ignorant.
WFH cannot be done on teams that need cohesion, which is nearly all teams.

Study after study demonstrates in person interaction is superior to remote interaction when it comes to rapport, bonding, emotional safety, and every other critical aspect necessary for building and maintaining a team.

The people who think WFH is fine are the people who aren’t responsible for keeping a team functioning, and the people who are demanding a return to work are. There’s a reason for that, and no it’s not because they’re evil or out to get you.
> it does not check host SSH keys

Otherwise DX would be totally ruined. Totally.

> work on an iPad

I never tried, but from the distance it looks like _working_ on such kind of devices is a torture, what's are your impressions, effectiveness comparison to working on laptop (desktop) with real keyboard?
The pdf mentions renewal, so maybe not even that. Just 3 people renewing a support contract.

"The item described in the table below is for the FY23 CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Renewal."
> Does anyone really think corporate anti-union talking points are in their workers' best interest?

Yes, usually at least half the workforce.

But but but the monthly dues!!!
For people who are parents, how did you find good children's books? There is a lot of crap out there so there must already have been some selection mechanism.

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for your answers. Much appreciated!
I have also never paid for, nor trialed, prime. I also have always had free-shipping (despite not having "prime") from Amazon.

How? Patience. I add things I plan to order to my cart, and once the collection goes above the "free ship" threshold (currently $25) only then do I place an order.

Of course, on the order page they always default to "paid shipping" and force one to explicitly check the "free shipping" radio button to actually get free shipping.

Some years back it felt like Amazon deliberately delayed for an extra week any "free shipping" packages -- they would sit, waiting, for about a week, then packed, shipped, and arrived in about 4 days. I always attributed it to Amazon punishing those who chose to gain free shipping without signing up for prime. But over the last few years that "delay" has shrunk such that it no longer seems like "free shipping" packages get intentionally delayed to "encourage" prime sign-up next time.
You can buy 50,000 lumen lightbulbs nowadays which, from 1 metre away, are in the same ballpark as the sun.
I notice the /s but I think for real, there's no point doing the find step if you have access to an AI. You'll just ask it to generate the story you want.
Sloppy reporting. The full sentence for context:

> In the case of AT&T, pricing can start at $55 per month for a 25Gbps plan before going up to $65 per month or more after a year, and the company will charge $10 for every extra 50GB you use (unless you upgrade to unlimited for $30 per month or have a plan that’s already unlimited).

Links to https://www.att.com/internet/internet-service-plans/

The pricing can start at $55 per month for a 25Gbps plan is clearly a reference to the "Internet 25" plan which is 25Mbps (not Gbps).

There's a footnote on the price for the Internet 25, 50, and 100 plans indicating the data cap: "Incl. 1.5TB data/mo., overage charges apply." There's also "See offer details" link with this pop-up:

https://imgur.com/a/mZBetsA

It links to https://www.att.com/help/internet/usage/ for info on data allowances. Internet 25 and Internet 50 have a 1.5TB allowance, but Internet 100 is unlimited. All of the AT&T Fiber plans are also unlimited data.

I don't know why anyone would choose Internet 25 or Internet 50 over Internet 100 since all three are the same price, so it must be an availability issue.

It's also weird to me that AT&T would price all three of these plans the same and apply a data cap only to the slower speed plans. I wonder if it indicates is more expensive for them to provide the lower tier plans for some reason?

Disclosure: I've had AT&T Gigabit Fiber since Jan 2017. It's $70/month (total) which has included HBO Max as a freebee for several years now. No data cap. It's the best residential Internet service I've ever had, by far.
There are so many of these processes which are so difficult that they border on the outright criminal, but the FTC goes after Amazon because it is a big political target to hit. Maybe from a utilitarian perspective it makes sense.
For Catholics, baptism must be done in a church by a priest (or deacon) with appropriate preparations and ceremony. If a baptism is not done thus, it is normally illicit (illegal). If a baptism is done in an emergency, such as danger of death, anyone can do it, but the minister is duty-bound to promptly report it to the priest responsible for the person who was baptized. That priest then has the duty to investigate its validity, and promptly record the baptism in the registers, and will usually offer the "supplied rites" which means a ceremony in church with the holy chrism, candle, and alb, because emergency baptisms are basically nothing but water and a hastily recited formula.
You know, Apple's shareholders and corporate board could be entirely replaced by AI and it wouldn't hurt the profitability of the company... and think of all the money that could be saved! They could invest in moving their entire production line back to the USA and then wouldn't have to worry about supply chain disruptions, while also expanding their research & development division to keep ahead of the competition.

Why isn't this the top target for AI when it comes to replacing useless baggage in the corporate world?
You'd need to contact the moderators (link in footer). See "Can I delete my account?" in the FAQ for some details.
I'm in NYC and two day shipping here is a crapshoot nowadays. Sure it says 2-day shipping on the store page, but counting my past orders, 6/10 were delayed delivery, usually taking 5 days. The last 2 times I tried buying bulk paper towels on Amazon (I had them set as a recurring purchase every 6 months) they have been lost in transit.

Also really frustrating, if I go to "Order Details" for an order that was delayed, the "Delivery Estimate" line shows the day it was actually delivered. Not the day it was originally estimated. I had to check my email to find the original delivery estimate.
There’s a popular sister project, kysely-codegen, that lets you do the same (generate types from the DB schema).
Your home distractions are unrelated to your job, whereas what you call “work distractions” are in fact not distractions at all, but a critical part of working on a team.
I need to buy a mattress and I had one in my cart from a week ago and last night I picked a different mattress and went to the checkout page. Then I saw there were two mattresses in it. It had the dark pattern of no cancel button so I had to click back and now I'm considering getting it elsewhere. Oh, and they also tried to get me to sign up for a Prime trial.
The UK government has a proposed law that customers must be able to end a subscription in a single clear process and all subscriptions entered into online must be capable of being ended online. Seems that if the US pushed this kind of law it'd have a significant effect on improving online services.
Sadly puffery and euphemism are all too common.
They might have meant the spelling at the bottom, the part filled with <<<<<<<<<<< there I believe that only ASCII is used.

eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport#/media/File:ROC_Natio...
gift card
noun [ C ]
uk /ˈɡɪft ˌkɑːd/ us /ˈɡɪft ˌkɑːrd/

a card that can be exchanged in a shop or on a website for goods or services of the value that is printed on it

it's literally the same thing as cash, a check or a voucher.

it is also entirely dependent on the same external factors of cash, vouchers and checks: inflation, exchange rates, etc.

because it's simply a certification that you can spend that amount of money, in that currency, in that shop and that's it.

Also: a Patek Philippe is buying power as well

everything that can be exhchanged for something else can be defined as "buying power"

but an American Express or a gallon of water in the desert are buying power too.

the definition is too broad to be useful.
Futile effort. AC units draw an enormous amount of power. The only thing that might help is drying clothes outside since dryers also pack a serious draw. Now who is with me!
Firefox blocks canvas access for this reason, which is a real pain now because it has actual usefulness. I hate advertising so much.

Like, advertising on its own is already disgusting. I've worked hard to prevent myself from seeing/hearing ads. But the fact that this industry has also turned into a nightmare panopticon is so stupid. I wish we could literally ban all advertising. Maybe an exception for coupons in newspapers.
Now it will be 99.9999%

Many people fail to grasp the importance of single order of magnitude changes, we are about to witness multiple orders across multiple industries.

Incoming wild ride.
It's by the guy who setup CentOS originally, no?
That ignores individual donors. I assure you that execs and investors in oracle make up the difference.
I started my IT career back in the mid-90's at an accountancy practice, who used Wordperfect and Lotus 1-2-3.

The calculation to move to Excel (and office) was really easy. MS gave away Office Pro with the new Windows 95 Gateway PCs that we were buying to upgrade from DOS based ones. For a cost conscious company like they were, this was a compelling offer, when compared to paying for upgrades for wordperfect and 1-2-3

It was bumpy at first going from a keyboard driven world that people were used to, to a mouse based Windows 95 one, but people adapted...
I think this is also an interesting idea. That could certainly be an improvement on the status quo.
Maybe the downvotea are due to the low quality of the post due to lots of typos
You’re using Chrome.
I would be highly skeptical of any engineer making grand generalizations about a product without actually working with it for a fairly long time. It’s SO easy to belittle code without really knowing the whys and history.

I get that is what their job is when doing due diligence… but I think it’s also a little bit impossible.

I know I have thought of some code as poor, rewritten it “better” only to find my code is insufficient and quickly evolving into the same code I thought was bad…. for all the same reasons that influenced the original code… and thinking much more of the old / bad—- proven code.
I think the universe is certainly populated with life and intelligent life. I don't think this planet has ever been visited. The absence of von neumann probes is too strong evidence.
> Back when we did table layouts, responsive design wasn’t a thing

True. As I said, CSS is more powerful. It's too bad that I think responsive design is a terrible thing, though.
Do you mean seeking out areas with less existing competition? I would hazard a guess it will always be relevant.
Besides finding that 1% of good content, if AI is increasingly used to generate the 99%, then the people who otherwise would have written the 1% might not even bother pursuing the field any more. I am concerned that some subset of new good content is at risk of not even being made any more.
It's a fair question graduated HS in 2002 and lived in Tempe at the time and several of my friends' parents were professors at ASU.

To you first question about what did Crow do differently, a lot and also not much. Consider, he was chosen by the regents because his vision aligned with theirs and the direction the school was already headed.

Regarding how faculty have regarded the changes, the short answer, it depends. I distinctly remember hearing of opinions on both sides during those first few years. What I can say is the quality of the faculty, the rankings of the various colleges, and research grants and outcomes have improved beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
People have been spitballing on this problem for generations, and that latter one’s been tried too… problem is it’s effectively the same thing as trying to pinpoint a diver by her bubbles; if she’s near the surface, works great… if she’s 4KM down then the bubbles hit the surface spread effectively randomly over hundreds and hundreds of square kilometers, and usually kilometers off horizontally.

The best way to maintain communication with a submersible is a tether. The best way to know the position of a submersible is a tether. The best way to raise a submersible in trouble is a tether… this company chose to go another way. And, let’s be clear, even if they knew precisely where it was the odds are very good that they couldn’t possibly effect a rescue.

The grim truth is that everyone aboard is already dead, the hope is that it was a sudden implosion rather than slowly freezing, drowning, or asphyxiating.
Benzenes harm wasn't known when it was used. The newer processes have not been proven either safe or the unsafe.
If you can’t see how unit cohesion is relevant to your job, then there’s nothing I can say that will snap you back into reality.

That’s on the same level as flat eartherism or antivax, so if those are the kinds of positions you want to support, that’s on you.
What's the point of having a computer if you never run code on it lol.
> The salary statistic data is based on over 2750 jobs with salary ranges which have been published on our job board so far.
Agreed, the style is cute but extremely difficult to read, which defeats the purpose.
Checkout pages never offer "cancel" buttons or "back" buttons. They are designed to corral you into the checkout process without recourse to returning to shop around some more.

This is, of course, easily bypassed with browser controls, but I agree that it is a dark pattern which can trap less savvy people into pressing forward, because it seems there's nowhere else to go.
As I said in another conversation about deleting stuff on HN:

Let's say you make a comment or a post. Let's say I reply. Then you want to delete your comment/post. What happens to my reply? There are no good options.

You could delete it, but I didn't ask for my comment to be deleted, so that seems kind of unfair.

You could remove the parent and leave the child. But that doesn't work if the parent is a post, because HN doesn't have a place for comments that are not under some top-level post. You could make the orphaned comment its own top-level post, but if the post had several top-level comments in reply, that would be kind of an avalanche of new posts-that-had-been-top-level-comments.

Even in the case of removing a comment, though, it still damages replies in another way - they lose context. I'm replying to something, but nobody can see what, so my reply is just floating out there, disconnected from what prompted it. It doesn't make sense any more.

So I think HN is right in not allowing deletes, at least of things that have been replied to.
That's funny, I'm actually working on an interactive, choose-your-own adventure app (utilising GPT) right now. Of course, if you just try to do it out of the box, it'll give you a lot of bad results, but there's a lot of tools you can use to improve it and guide it in desired direction. However, the problems I encounter are all on the narrative level (too much of circling back, not following required story beats, etc). The writing is perfectly adequate (in the least) and I don't see how it could possibly ruin children's reading skills.
Well dang, that's a huge bummer. To be fair I bought my first Apple product about 15 years ago.
1.2 Is this HTML5?
This section is non-normative.

In short: Yes.

In more length: the term "HTML5" is widely used as a buzzword to refer to modern web technologies, many of which (though by no means all) are developed at the WHATWG. This document is one such; others are available from the WHATWG Standards overview.
I worked for a defense contractor, and we had initial plans for a contractor to build us a wireless controller. Their controller was an ugly box-shaped controller that they wanted to charge us 200k. I redesigned the architecture of our system so that we could use an Xbox controller instead.

There is no reason why these controllers can't be used over some other "industrial" controller, as long as you design the system appropriately to account for failures, which you should be doing regardless of what controller you select.
Invest 10% of a team (not of each dev) to pay back tech debt
Recently they updated Android Auto version of Waze with new UI and it hasn't been as usable since. Route changing features (or some of them) have disappeared somewhere
The complete and utter disregard for any sort of ethics when it comes the "hustle" is ruining society. We've allowed and encouraged people to have a mindset that everything is okay when you are making "passive income", and instilling incredibly selfish and society-ruining values into people. Teenagers who grow up around "hustle culture" would sell their own grandmothers if it gave them $10/month passive income.

Something needs to be done about this - laws need to be better enforced when it comes to scams, culture needs to be steered in the direction of having empathy for others, and values need to be changed such that you can make lots of money by genuinely improving the world. As of now, all of these get rich quick schemes are either non functioning or come at direct detriment to everyone else.
I know some people who take party drugs. I know alcoholics. But coworkers who routinely take performance enhancing drugs other than caffeine at work, not one.

I guess it depends on your environment. Silicon Valley seems particularly prone to it.
Do we know those 40yos didn't go through a programming puzzle hiring gauntlet?

(My own experience is that those I've worked with who are the best veterans also enjoy algorithms etc too. As do I. Shrug?)
We bought a lot of books. An easy way to screen them is to go to target, or similar, and read them. They are short. Even then, kids like what they like, not always what you think is good.
I suspect the general level of tech competence in the public has improved combined with most sales being much simpler phones (vs computers).
Laugh all you want, but Waze actually has less of the "social" side to it today than it had ten years ago. Maybe some Google PM even got promoted for removing some chat functionality for once.
Isn’t the speed limit 70 on I5? Those going 65 are usually trucks passing other trucks.
I threw my Visual Basics 6 in 24 hours out ages ago, now I wish I still had it for nostalgia.
This is one reason I use a VPN for almost all my personal browsing. That and I don't want spectrum to see where I'm going, because they will sell it. Like, I know a VPN isn't super-spy stealth tech, but it handles a couple basics pretty well and I end up hitting sites from a very generic IP.
Your story reminded me how Chinese students could not enroll in a well known Dutch university online, because their last name was less than4 characters long.
I know how to run code locally without exposing secrets to anyone (or any app) that has access to my laptop.

You should learn how to do this if you want to be a competent developer.
Having a place to go when one has a tech issue is a huge value addition for many Apple users.

Repairs can be expensive (the solutions will lean towards "replace the entire motherboard"). But help at the genius bar from a real human can also be free.

Compare this experience of what options one has if a hardware issue, or some software question, with a dell laptop.

Availability of help at Apple stores is one reason I steer non-tech relatives towards Apple products, and helps justify premium pricing.
> They can't do worse than destroying all life as we know it.

Won't hear anybody complaining, so...
Thanks, that explains it.

I guess good thing you can "cheat" nowadays with digital enlarging (in the case where you "just" want to have a long lasting picture. I have pictures of my great great grandparents, I don't trust that any of my digital pictures will last 4 generations)
This is awful. It seems Red Hat (and probably IBM) are unhappy that Alma and Rocky have so successfully replaced the old CentOS.
Well, Walmart non union workers still have their jobs while the ones that did unionize all lost theirs.
I generally agree with that. Ethical Capitalism is also a way to localize problems.
Why do I need a password at all for 99.99% of apps or websites?

If I lose a password, what do I almost always have to do?

1. Email account recovery link.

2. Input auth code sent from text message or authenticator app. [Optional.]

3. Make new random password I'm going to forget or lose.

Why bother with this? If email is the reset mechanism why does the industry care so much about getting passwords from users?

1. Email sign-in link.

2. Input auth code. [Optional]

Everything other part of this whole chain gets simpler. No more password strength checking code. No multiple auth paths. No issues with anything. Just a single email with at most two links, one for browser sign in, one for app sign in.

If you really, really, really need to you can add one or two QR codes so these hypothetical people that don't have email on their phone can sign into the app.
This is mandatory viewing
I don't think for example capitalism is always dilemmas. If someone choses to work for you, they chose to accept such a salary and participate. Its not some bad thing. If you truly pay them an unfair wage, they can chose not to participate. This might sound harsh, but people always have a choice. I work for an employer, i don't think its unfair simply because my boss is turning a profit. I am happy and thankful i have the job. If i didn't want it, there's plenty of space in the rainforest to try and forage for food (and yes i wouldn't last a day :P).

You might not like something, but does it really make it a dilemma in the sense of 'having to pick which of the 2 bulls horns will impale you?' - i don't think so. (interesting points though, and perhaps i am still missing your point!)
I haven't seen a single ad in Waze ever. Granted I'm fortunate enough to not reside in NA as well.
Lying flatism and attitudes toward singlehood:mediating role of happiness belief
Buffett, Gates and Munger criticize high-frequency trading (2014)