skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing "forced" to mean legal slavery and "forced" to mean that the worker would have to make very significant and unpleasant changes to their life that a reasonable person would say that they shouldn't. Nobody is trying to imply slavery.

There's a whole host of behaviors that are legally unacceptable in the workplace because telling people to just get another job isn't really a solution.
Entertainment is justified and good.
The author was born “Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Ге́ссен”, in Moscow.
Exactly. I've encountered a small number of people who apparently reached very senior technical positions impressively early in their career but when you looked at their job history it was mostly a string of 1-2 year stays with a title bump on each jump. SE, Senior, Lead, random nine months as a cofounder of something that went nowhere but says CTO on the resume, Staff, and now after less than a decade they're running the show somewhere with a silly name but a few million in funding. In all that time they might never have worked on a single product with sustainable revenue or been responsible for the consequences of any technical decision they made as much as one year after they made it. Maybe two of those people that I can think of weren't bad anyway - sometimes their inexperience showed but at least they weren't crazy and had open minds - but others were among the most over-rated and damaging people I've ever seen in the business.
It's like stupid boss asking to turn off the air conditioner of server room to save power.
I haven’t read Necessary Illusions, but I posted this before the CIA explained this PDF arrived with bin Laden’s documents. I was mistakenly connecting the promotion of this work with the supposition that the CIA was broadly interested in the influence Niebuhr had on Comey (and Obama, McCain, …) in the previous era of American politics.
I’ve personally (and successfully) brought a H1B employee from a BigCo into my 15 person startup (we were actually 7 people at the time of hiring them).

There’s some paperwork, but it’s not a major hurdle. Maybe a few grand in legal fees and a few hours of work on the employer side.
Why does it look bad? It is perfectly reasonable that at the time of the switch to the cloud, that it made good business sense. It is also perfectly reasonable that after some time that the landscapes have changed, and it is now good business sense to leave the cloud. If at the time of the switch to the cloud the pricing was cheap, then sure, but we all know that prices are not written in stone and will pretty much always increase. At some point, those increases become untenable. It's the nature of tech. We used to use thin clients connected to a server, then went to dedicated workstations, and currently we're back to connections to servers.
I don’t know if it’s accurate to describe what I was going through as “latching on to an insecurity”. I had literally forgotten that I am cool and sexy and this led to insecurity around other cool and sexy people I liked. Once I remembered that I am also cool and sexy, I was able to see myself on an even playing field with the people I like and there was simply no cause for insecurity.

I will certainly do psychedelics again tho. When done with intention and maturity they’re fun, harmless, and have generally always been positive and emotionally productive for me. Some years ago I had a mushroom trip that was emotionally challenging, but reminded me of the mortality of my aging parents. This led me to make more of an effort to see them and spend time with them. That’s a wonderful outcome.

The thing about psychedelics is that they basically work by loosening up your brain’s “default mode network” which is the set of pathways you use to make decisions. By loosening up this network you can find adjacent connections that were almost there but had not quite clicked. So they are a tool to help you find things you have been missing. This is something I will continue to explore. On a more basic level, I found that a small dose of LSD at a dance party is very enjoyable and way better for me personally than drinking alcohol or consuming marijuana. Not that I need substances to have fun, but sometimes that’s a fun way to spend an evening.
>Every person in power is told he's wrong every day, all day, by most everyone.

Not those who just punish anyone who dares. Then they're just not told anything but "yes, sir" until disaster strikes.
> - GM tried selling electric vehicles in the 90s and shitcanned them because dealers weren't going to sell them.

Wrong. It was because GM was not making any money on any of the small cars and all the technology stuff.
> He literally overturned the case that protected interracial marriage and then half-heartedly tried to carve it out for himself.

He "literally" overturned what? The constitutional right to interracial marriage was established by Loving v Virginia (1967). That case has never been overturned, and Justice Thomas has never said he has any interest in overturning it. I assume you are talking about his concurrence in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health (2022), which overturned Roe v Wade (1973). Loving doesn't directly depend on Roe, especially given Loving came 5½ years earlier. The reasoning in those two cases was distinct, so overturning one does not necessarily imply overturning the other.

SCOTUS only decides cases presented to it. Even supposing every single justice wanted to overturn Loving (and I see no evidence any of them actually do want to overturn it), the only way it could be overturned would be if a case was appealed up to SCOTUS seeking to do so. Since currently no states have laws against interracial marriage on the books (Alabama was the last to repeal theirs in 2000), that would require first a state to pass a new law against interracial marriage. The odds of any state doing that in the next 50 years is almost zero, so the odds that SCOTUS will ever get asked whether to overturn Loving or not is close to zero. Whatever any of the justices may think about the rights or wrongs of that case in theory is practically irrelevant.

That's a very different situation from Obergefell – many states still have laws against same-sex marriage on the books, so all it would take to get a case revisiting Obergefell before SCOTUS would be for a state to decide to disregard Obergefell and start enforcing those laws again. Nobody knows whether that's actually going to happen, but it is plausible in a way that reintroducing laws against interracial marriage isn't.
> photo taken is because a piece of your soul gets taken away into that photograph

actually this sounds much more like paranoia
then this:

> I really don't like my face in the corporate surveillance panopticon

which is more close to reality

> on the other hand people are very quick to dismiss anything that sounds like paranoia from anyone.

do they really? All they need is paranoia nicely wrapped into something more digestible and you wrote it yourself…

>Yeah, it's a joke, but it seriously gets more acceptance and understanding

So while one type of “wise” people are building corporations disrespecting people and using other “wise” people who help them without thinking … those who really get frustrated are photographers.

As to the joke about some part of the soul taken.

Photo is not taken. It is made. Preferably by someone who knows what he is doing and
it’s more like a part of the soul will be preserved to shine more. It is of course suggesting that subject has a soul in the first place.
We only ever explore the book through Winston's eyes. He FEELS trapped and scared, but how could the party possibly prevent his escape? The fields had microphones, but he wasn't GPS-tagged. Part of the purpose of the panopticon is that people don't HAVE to always be monitoring, but you never know if they are.

But I still assert he could have left. The fear just worked too well on him. Just like it's working on me. I'm too scared to quit this life and start a new one.
Interesting presentation about the inadequacy of current optimizing compilers. It offers a solution in its conclusion (spoiler):

For some reason we all (especially me) had a mental block about optimization, namely that we always regarded it as a behind-the-scenes activity, to be done in the machine language, which the programmer isn’t supposed to know. This veil was first lifted from my eyes when I ran across a remark by Hoare that, ideally, a language should be designed so that an optimizing compiler can describe its optimizations in the source language. Of course!

The time is clearly ripe for program-manipulation systems... The programmer using such a system will write his beautifully-structured, but possibly inefficient, program P; then he will interactively specify transformations that make it efficient. Such a system will be much more powerful and reliable than a completely automatic one.
Not OP, but I configured a mosquitto server. Then a simple shell script service with 'mosquitto_sub' and ffmpeg to fetch the rtsp stream on motion events [0]. Somewhat crude, but it was only for a temporary setup.

Another option seems to be Home Assistant [1]

[0] https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks/blob/mas...

[1] https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks/blob/mas...
Pretty sure they'd get into troubles with blue check mark buyers implicit promises if it's not temporary.
Because members of the same collective interest groups cover for each other.
This is cool, I took a good stab at using it last night but implementing CORS in the project I wanted it for was a pain on my end. Likely my issue, they have pretty clear but unfamiliar instructions if you’re just getting into non-trivial CloudFlare management. Great concept though.
No, but both are examples of situations where you are forced to do something.
if my memory serves me right, corba (if form of orbit) worked well enough for gnome because almost nothing used it.

kde in it's turn were heavily reliant on it (mico) for embedding and communication. but compilation was indeed painfully slow (i still remember never ending kde compiles in 99-2000) so they came up with dcop/kparts after having few drinks and deciding that they can do better
To assume good faith in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary would be intellectually dishonest, something that is still, fortunately, held in disregard on this site.
Why is minority in quotes?
You've gone off on some bizarre tangent here.

Forget guns, there are issues with poisons, explosives, driving cars, lasers, etc.

Limiting access to any of these to those with substance abuse issues, domestic violence isues, repeated criminal propensity; requiring training in the basics to handle and deal provably reduce incidents while continuing use by those with a need.

Do such things stop all incidents?

No. Nothing is perfect but by your 'logic' seatbelts should be discarded, closely packed houses should not adhere to fire safety protocols, etc.
Those corporations are dumb. Way more resources are spent making AWS secure than could ever be spent on bespoke security implementations.
oh wow, I never knew

I was always vaguely irritated by the term and never understood what it meant bc I was like „there must be some server??“

(not working in web dev)
Is it common for people to describe servers as "weak" and "strong"?

I haven't heard this before, and when I was reading this initially I thought this example was going to be the example of tailoring words for non-technical managers.
I hate Elon's politics but want Twitter succeed.

And if he didn't make his politics part of how he runs stuff, I probably wouldn't even care about his politics. But you know how celebrities get crap for inserting politics into things, when they know very little about that topic? Elon is going to get the same.
There's a very well known case of Musk making the same claim multiple years in a row, with it being false every single time.

I prefer to assume the best out of people, but when someone is that obviously wrong that many times with that much personal gain to come from it, I can't believe that man as smart as he is would also be that misled.
The assertion was more power, not infinite power.

You might not beat Gary Kasparov, but if you retired, hired a coach, and devoted yourself to chess, you would be better than your counterfactual equivalent who doesn't.
Metal is stronger than plastic
IDK, JSON? HTML and XML are markup languages also. There are obvious issues with markdown that were fixed/resolved in various markdown variants, and missing features as well that I don't think anyone could argue helped adoption. Case in point, the most commonly used markdown flavor is GFM because we all adopted GitHub and that was what they support.
Real-life black mirror: use ChatGPT to talk about my past
I brought a body camera with me and use vision llm to convert live-stream to texts. Now, I can use chatgpt to retrieve everything happened around me. Black mirror device is here.
Hindsight.

At the time no one was entirely sure who did and did not have a weapon - the entire US effort was premised on a race to get there before the Germans.

The nuclear scientists of the era were international and inter connected.
Is a crow a corvid?

Ah, unidan. Back when Reddit drama was low stakes.
For posterity, those journalists were banned (unbanned a few months later) for just reporting on ElonJet, who used publicly available FAA data to track Elon's jet. Elon called it doxxing. And also temporarily banned links to Mastodon just to prevent people from accessing ElonJet that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet
What is the harm in having warning labels?
> Apple's piss poor Document apps and their horrible Photos app made me give up on the whole ecosystem. The download and upload of photos to iCloud is painful even on fast wifi.

Did you last use these in the 90s? iWork's native apps are great (I can't speak the web apps), and I moved my personal library of 50K photos (many RAW) to Apple Photos from Lightroom after months of evaluating literally every other solution.
Wilco, sir! And will update this comment when I do.
While exponential backoff is theoretically optimal, I doubt it's actually used that often in practice. I've seen too many cases where someone decides serving user requests with low latency is so important that they'd rather have a constant randomized backoff than exponential backoff. I've been in many design meetings and seen enough documents where the decision not to use exponential backoff is explicitly made, understanding the tradeoff with overloading and system recovery.
Towing Company Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Catalytic Converter Ring
My experience is that once the system is built, they outsource the maintenance, or they stack another project on your team (over time it adds up, I've been on a team supporting about 15 apps).
Deductive or BLUF - bottom line up front. Maybe this issue is obvious and so the only thing the reader needs to read is the first line. Deductive saves them time. Deductive also gives the reader something to think about while reading the rest of the argument.

The alternative is inductive which gives evidence and then concludes with a conclusion. You're torturing your reader by dragging them several paragraphs into the deep.

I usually write inductive as that is the way I think and then refactor into deductive as that is the best way to persuade. (I note that I wrote this inductively.)
Making jokes about Twitter is too easy.
I like the idea, but it’s quite broad. It’s essentially what school is supposed to do.
Part of the reason is that the Big Tech companies are great at making money without paying taxes or providing jobs in the EU.

They are also syphoning European data for free to the US which weakens the European position in transatlantic negotiations about bilateral data access for law enforcement (why would the US agree to anything if they can simply issue a domestic court order).

All in all Apple and friends have very little political leverage on EU law making (direct bribes are very risky and rare) and given the size of the European market they will comply with almost anything. If they leave after all, a European competitor might fill the void.

Also many people welcome the regulation of market domineering companies and more won't care. Remember that many European societies are traditionally somewhat sceptical of unrestricted markets and their players.

It's therefore a viable political strategy to continue the path of putting them in their place.
Oregon County Sues BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon for $51B Climate Damages
To your original point, from that link seems like fast food workers don’t even make the top 25 when it’s per capita. The fast food worker stat seems irrelevant but agree there’s many more dangerous occupations than police.
He became a citizen
I’ve done the paperwork myself for a H1B transfer as an employer. Maybe my memory isn’t serving me well, but I don’t remember it taking more than a few weeks to a month. (This was 5 yrs ago maybe my experience is dated). I definitely remember paying additional fees to prioritize every application which significantly sped up everything.
The tools to do this are still mediocre at best. I want tools to do content-based blocking or defederation, not identity-based.
They wouldn't have been able to support consumer scale without the up front capital. Otherwise they would need private betas and stuff but this would have not created the value of the same network effects and robust marketplaces.
That’s my guess. Or something on the “for you” tab
Are you surprised that they've deployed countermeasures against patterns of abuse?
> Lenny has a major issue (which I think is a fatal flaw) which is that as soon as you go to the site you have to choose a server (of which there are hundreds) and you have no idea which to pick and then you don’t bother and leave the site.

This is an outstanding advantage. Let Reddit be Reddit with its eternal September and easy access for everyone. Lemmy could build smaller and much more useful and expert communities.

If one has something important to share, then finding an instance is no obstacle. If one just wants to mindlessly shitpost, then maybe it's good some social media sites will be worth too much effort for them to sign up.

Personally, I would like paid and privacy-respecting social media sites focused on experts in their fields. Much like academic journals, but with modern social media features and for industry experts and enthusiasts as well as academics in a wide variety of fields traditional and not - everyone who is willing to put some effort into what they spend time on. I think that 0 price of entry is unnatural. No one accepts people in their social circles who spend 0 effort on participating in a mutually-beneficial way. And yet on the internet, that's the only kind of social networking most of us can do.

So I say it's good we have a tiny test of effort for people who sign up to Lemmy. Socializing with 0 skin in the game is very unnatural and even if it's better in some philosophical way, the human brain hasn't evolved to deal with a massive amount of garbage that this kind of social networking brings. If you want to communicate something to a lot of people, the price of entry should be at least a modicum of effort.

And this is not some far-out untested idea, it worked very well in the 90s.
iirc zeroc established by people who used to do corba and then decided that they can do it better.

i tried to use it in one of products i worked on a while ago, but licensing was cost prohibitive: $200k ( $500k ?) or few percent from sales
Podcast: How the creator of Angular is dehydrating the web
https://youtu.be/FeAMiBKi_EM

The webdev or JavaScript mentality of if it breaks, don't worry, we can fix it live strikes again.
No, otherwise every controller since N64 would have had Atari 2600-sized 3” joysticks.
Amazon typically shows the review date, which helps with that sort of thing. I usually pay more attention to more recent reviews when assessing an item's quality.
Healthcare expenses are a huge fraction of a person's "income" but it's not usually counted part of their top line compensation number.

So paying COBRA might be 20% of your prior income, at the same time as losing all your income and still having to pay your rent and all other expenses.
And is also an American citizen and journalist/academic who left Russia at age 6.
The drugs mentioned are not analgesics
Back in the 90's, I remember working on an early ISP system that had a 16 port serial card, each connected to a modem. I forget who produced the card (Digi something?) There were revisions with at least 32 ports.

We moved to terminal servers pretty quick. These were dedicated devices that converted serial to IP (Livingston Portmasters, Xylogics Annex, Telebit Netblazers are the ones I remember working with.)
Less public sharing of pictures over the Internet has been possible ever since email with attachments became common.

But it’s definitely less work to make a deal with the social network devil.

Some parents do and others don’t.

Some kids may later resent that. Others won’t.
I too would love to hear more!
Yes a Tesla takes more maintenance then a stock Honda Civic. But if you actually compare like for like in terms of vehicle size and price, its quite different.

People hear act like Tesla are full of gimmicks and the cars it competes with are cars from the 1970s.

But also you are just mostly wrong, actual data simply says something different. I don't have the links, but there have been studies on the this and Tesla comes out looking pretty good.
"Everybody knows reviews on the internet are fake or otherwise suspect."

- Abraham Lincoln
Oh I think people are unhappy because of an abusive political system designed to funnel all wealth to the top while everyone else works themselves to death. Collective action is absolutely the real solution, but psychedelics can help people locked in the mindset that things can’t change to consider a better world.

There are simple things, like the fact that we are isolated. This according to Noam Chomsky is an intentional and desirable outcome of a corporate mass media system that wants to keep us separated. And a nice psychedelic trip with friends is a great way to remember not just that you like being with your friends, but that the world that keeps you apart is genuinely inhumane, and we should start to look deeper at how to solve these issues.

Basically I think psychedelics can be a tool that leads to the collective action you have rightly pointed out is the ultimate solution.
Not the industry, but the rush-to-"AI" is certainly over-hyped and displays a very shallow understanding of the role of art of any form for most human beings.
> No.

Yes.

> New pyrex Is Not Boro.

I never made the claim that it was. I was very clear and said tempered soda lime glass is more resistant to physical shock than regular borosilicate glass. I am not comparing borosilicate glass to regular soda lime glass. I've cracked a Chemex before dropping it too hard on a counter. I had a tempered glass coffee table when I was a kid and that survived kids standing on it, plates dropped on it, you name it.

> Why do you folks keep saying this?

Personal experience and articles like this: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/tempered-vs-borosili...

> At least google it first.

At least learn to properly read what I wrote.
Could artificial wombs help save premature babies? [video]
Some of the remaining engineers may be stuck due to H1B
True for now. Next generation architecture seems to be moving to 48V. This is expected with the Cybertruck and all following architectures.