skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve heard multiple folks at a big 3 management consulting firm—and not the green recent-grad meat, I wasn’t interacting with a team on an engagement—state the same thing, in terms that implied even less intellectual capacity or ability on the part of the average C-suiter than that post did.

It’s not just “ICs” getting this impression.
I get the impression that when people are buying a Lego model of e.g. the Millennium Falcon, they aren't so much interested in building the model. They just want a model of the Millennium Falcon, to display on their shelf; and the one that best optimizes appearance + affordability for them, just happens to be one that comes as a kit of small modular parts that they must assemble. It's less "a building-toy set that happens to build into a model" and more "a model that happened to be released by a building-toy company." The making part of these sets is secondary.
That's not how it sounds to me at all. It sounds to me like no matter what he did, he couldn't escape open hostility to his idea -- based on research where he was a physician in charge of two clinics with different mortality rates -- and was hounded and then punished for failing to cave to social pressure to recant his "nutty" idea.

The world was smaller then. Getting away from toxic social patterns was likely even harder than it is now.
> It wasn't long ago that the enlightened people writing news stories were informing us that public toilets encouraged homelessness and crime.

Link?
> That's why New York had a higher fatality rate than Florida even though Florida had an older (and hence more vulnerable) population.

New York had a higher fatality rate for the first 2 months, when COVID was new and nobody knew how to treat it. After that Florida had a higher rate. The overall fatality rate in Florida passed that of New York about a year ago.

Here is a graph of the overall COVID deaths per 100k for Florida and New York from the start of the pandemic through the first quarter of this year [1]. I've also included a couple of other large population states (California and Texas), and Washington.

I included Washington because I'm in Washington and my cookies make that site default to including Washington in all the graphs and I was too lazy too remove it. :-)

Note the "Show" drop down below the graph. You can use that to add the numbers for regions, top 10 or top 25, bottom 10 or bottom 25, greater or lass than 5 million population, and others, to get a better idea of how various states did.

Use the "Data" drop down to switch to cases instead of deaths, or to show weekly or daily rates instead of cumulative.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
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> the. worst. wires. Always getting tangled

Had the same issue before discovering flat cables (if you don't know what I mean, they look like linguine, not spaghetti).
I'm sure it already is.
I just drank a huge amount of Starbucks.
He just said he wasn't attacking you personally, but the fact that it's flying over your head implies that you actually do believe this stuff.

What in the world is an "antibeliever?" I find it kind of telling you chose this phrase instead of anti science.
I disagree with this. This could’ve been caused by taking a morning coffee and having a long commute.
There was a related Tell HN post about this situation that led to me recovering my pre-undergrad gmail account recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36335975

In my case, I had a record of what my password on the gmail account had been when I last used it, but when I tried logging in with that password years later, it didn’t work, and there was no way I could figure out to recovering access. A few months after seeing that Tell HN post, I tried again and the system allowed me to log in.
"Downloading an app on the Google Play Store" is what will spare my account and any body's with am Android phone.
> But the second or third generation Harvard folks aren’t functionally “white,” regardless of their skin color.

Genuine question, does this applies even when they are “white” (Caucasian white)? Why is that or is there a subtext I am missing?
If a person were begging outside of a toilet I'm sure someone would help them out until it becomes a regular hustle like people outside of grocery stores is.
I don't see how that would work, even with a blockchain. No matter what you do, there is nothing stopping you from simulating the network yourself using a backup of the old state of the chain.
Humans are inherently social creatures. That is why solitary confinement is a particularly cruel and dreaded punishment. In order to have social order there needs to be some semblance of a shared reality.
I disagree. There will be lots of considerations like ecosystems, long term support, ease to find developers, prior experience, etc…
Plenty of countries do, for ex in Asia see Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.
Maybe one reason? https://abc7news.com/sf-expensive-bathroom-noe-valley-millio...
> Please just say drive cost and media cost.

Either they don’t know, or its the ol’ industry smokescreen to charge more opportunistically.
The toilet situation in Europe is pretty bad from the few places I've been: France, Italy, Greece, Spain, UK.
You can't find clean, free toilets and there is a line to use many of the toilets all the time. Most toilets do not have disposable seat covers, some don't even have toilet seats, some don't have toilet paper, etc. It is a sad state of affairs and makes me miss the much better (though still lacking) situation in the US.
Some people don’t want to pay for anything. Those people can be ignored most of the time.

Would they rather have toilets that cost a dollar to use or no toilets?
> Amiga OS that was developed in an interim period between BCPL and its successor C

Wut?

BCPL: 1967

C: 1975

Amiga: 1985
Just because many companies behave poorly does not mean there is not a code of reciprocal obligation between workers and companies. If a company lays someone off and gives them no severance, you would judge that company more harshly than if they had given them severance. Similarly, if a worker leaves with no notice, people judge them poorly. When you break the rules people judge you.
A show called 'How to With John Wilson' did an episode on exactly this topic recently, and as a non-American it was truly bizarre to see what the situation is like in New York. Not sure how embellished it was, but I was shocked.
Given that people are already firing real human workers to replace them with worse but cheaper LLMs, I'd argue that we're not talking about a competing technology, but that the competition is simply not firing your workforce.

And, as an obligate customer of many large companies, you should be in favor of that as well. Most companies already automate, poorly, a great deal of customer service work; let us hope they do not force us to interact with these deeply useless things as well.
And India actually suspended Al Jazeera for the same reason.

https://time.com/3832585/india-al-jazeera-suspended-kashmir-...
I would not mind a reasonably priced pay toilet. The toilet should make enough revenue to pay for itself ideally.
Have you considered seeing a psychologist? Not being able to control your effusions is the sign of a significant problem.
The federal government doesn't "hoard" land around areas where people would want to purchase a first home. The vast majority of crown land is not around any major urban centers.

Canadian tech workers make way above median income levels.
Exactly. You can get a venti coffee at Starbucks and get a refill for 52 cents and if you're not from San Francisco, you don't realize how brutal the public toilet situation is until its too late.
Good lord, it's difficult to think of a place I'd less like to see in the history of someone in a role like this than Mumsnet.
Bingo.

Signal for example, is also subject to US law. They can be compelled to reveal everything they have in a person. Which they happily do: they hand over a page with the date of account creation and the day it last connected. Which is all they have.

Don't collect information, and you don't have a problem.
There is plenty of room at the bottom (2021)
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I feel like this may be a better way to shop, than going to a site like Shein or Zara, and just being overwhelmed with options.

Looking for any feedback on this & ways I can improve please!

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> And that is a reason to turn yourself into indispensable cog, not the best replaceable there is.

For centuries, organizations have been adjusting themselves to ensure that all employees are as easily replaceable as they could possibly be, not to mention outright powerless.

I recommend watching the Netflix documentary "American Factory". If I recall correctly, there's a low-level manager who tried to turn himself indispensable at the expense of the company's workers and he showed a lot of surprise once he himself was fired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory
Seems like a classic case of the innovator or early adopter's dilemma. If you're one of the first to do a new thing (in this case, semi-automatic rifles for your army) then you risk getting stuck with something that lacks refinement (smaller cartridge, removable magazines, select fire). Those latter two were retrofitted to the M1 to make the M14, but the full sized rifle cartridge wasn't a good fit.
Pretty much exactly one decade after C.
Even if you want to pay, it is hard to find toilets that are clean and do not have a big line. It is a horrible situation, especially when visiting with young children.
Public restrooms are hard to find in America but even harder in most other countries.

Yes this is a problem we should solve but it's kind of ridiculous to imply it's an issue only in America. In the vast majority of countries on earth, you must either pay or purchase something to use the restroom.
Yeah that's another good worst-case to think about.
Yes, which is... anti-social, right? And which you would judge a company for?
It won’t be for everyone but there’s a show on HBO called “How To With John Wilson” where he picks a theme for the week and deep dives down multiple threads around the chosen topic.

A few weeks ago he did one called “How to find a public restroom” and it was shocking to me how unavailable such a necessity is in even major cities with high population density. I get that in general public restrooms end up in disarray but I also think that represents more that we just aren’t willing to fund the required maintenance to keep them in better shape.

Side note: the funniest part from the episode was when he tricked one of the self cleaning bathrooms in New York to run a cleaning cycle while he was inside filming, was hilarious.
I prefer naan m'am because it elicits an accurate allegory of someone stuffing us full of carbs making us fat and unhealthy, just like the naan m'am companies are doing dumping software below cost on the market to kill healthier options that don't violate your privacy in pursuit of surveillance capitalism
DJI once bricked all Vision 2+ drones with a software update a year or two after launch and offered zero support because it had newer models in the market.
Well... you get to reproduce yourself and run everything covered by the gplv3 (same exact versions, same binaries even with Nix) on the device. You get everything you need to reproduce the device's rootfs. It will boot your image, if you disable Secure Boot. You can install your own UEFI certificates if you want to enable Secure Boot with your image. You even get the complete development environment for free (Nix).

Our IP is obviously not covered by the GPLv3.

What is the problem?
Docker is largely irrelevant in modern container orchestration platforms. Kubernetes dropped docker support as of 1.24 in favor of CRI-O.

Docker is just one of many implantations of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifications. It’s not even fully open source at this point.

Under the hood Docker leverages containerd which in tern leverages runc which leverages libcontainer for spawning processes.

Linux containers at this point will exist perfectly fine if Docker as a corporate entity disappears. The most impact that would be felt would be Dockerhub being shutdown.

They also sort of already did pull something like Hashicorp with their Docker Desktop product for MacOS.

That’s a little different than if Docker disappeared completely, but one could easily switch to Podman (which has a superset of the docker syntax).
Why aren’t they taking an action to not copy access tokens to their data warehouse? They could also start hashing them with an additional application salt that wouldn’t be available in the database if someone only had db access
> Claude Instant v1

> Sally has 0 sisters. The question provides no information about Sally having any sisters herself.

It isn't entirely wrong, is it?
In the UK we mostly get that excuse from the councils/government because they want to cut costs, and I think people just parrot that excuse.

Nobody seems to take 2 seconds to even ask how much vandalism existed only because there were no attendants (because they were fired) and therefore there was no surveillance.

All the good public toilets I’ve seen have constant cleaning during the day with a strong staff presence. Funny that!
Laravel annoyed me deeply when they spammed the installation page with garbage like "Meet Laravel" and "Why Laravel?" I stopped digging into Laravel right at this point. Unfortunately, this awkward documentation style is typical for most PHP frameworks, have also seen it in the TYPO3 and WordPress docs.
The thought that San Francisco homeless would pay to use the bathroom is quaint. Why pay when you can use a sidewalk/bush without repercussion?
Antibeliever is someone who firmly believes the opposite though it's not actually scientifically proven.

For example, people who say Bigfoot or aliens are absolutely not real and anyone who believes in such is clearly a loon rather than saying "It's unproven and seems extremely unlikely."
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I feel like restrooms are much easier to find in America than anywhere else. Restaurants and hotels usually offer them for free. It’s weird to have to pay for them in Europe
You are confusing de jure power with de facto power. Government has shown, again and again, that they will abuse and overstep without any legal right to do so. In the meantime until the courts catch up, that coercive power imbalance still exists.
At the same time, if a surplus of noncitizens enter and suddenly the country's ability to provide for all of its people is strained, wouldn't that be a grave disservice to the citizens? What would be the difference between a citizen and a noncitizen then? Not that a country like the US is reasonably providing for a large portion of the populace anyways, so I suppose that's a moot point right now.
Right. People didn’t assemble a presentation deck back then, just to mail it to someone for them to look at on their own.

It’s also taken the place of the business letter and some other formerly-common office document formats. I’m not convinced it’s saving time, just creating more junk. Which is how I feel about a lot of application of tech, actually—I suspect huge productivity gains in some narrow cases mask that most tech use is somewhere between a lot worse and only slightly better than whatever it replaced.
Austria, for example. The fines go up to 25.000 EUR AFAIK.

https://www.oeamtc.at/thema/vorschriften-strafen/zulaessigke...

> Any form of systematic surveillance is prohibited. So recording anything that happens in front of the lens - without any other primary purpose - is classified as surveillance activity. This activity is reserved for the state.
1990 is a bit of a stretch, I draw my line around the '00s.
If the contract is this simple then is it surprising that existing control givers (aka permanent residents) may have a sense that as long as they're still 'giving' they should still be 'getting' or at least have a place in line to 'get' ahead of a prospective 'giver' (h1b).
Now Atari wants everything
I'd be more than happy to jump back to PHP and do some WordPress dev for as little as $15/hr. I feel like the problem is finding the first project to get some experience and sell the next project.
Almost as if the large companies would like those unable to buy homes to misdirect their ire.
>Personally I prefer the effect of high doses of manganese (chloride) on insulin and the stimulating effect insulin has on the immune system.

Could you go into this in a little more detail? Are you saying that high doses of manganese will make it easier to build muscle?
I have put ChatGPT on my dock in both Mac and iPhone for months. It’s just more efficient and faster to get answers at least for some quick day-to-day questions.

I can’t say Google Search will die but I believe with the increasing power of AI the search engine market is definitely shrinking. Just my 2 cents.
Was coming in here to mention John Wilson. Such a slow-paced yet interesting show. This season has really caught my attention better.
I won't assume what people would call "Europe" which is a big place. However, it's certainly true that pay toilets are not a thing in the US in general and certainly not in train stations, restaurants, etc. as you at least sometimes see in other countries.

It's probably complicated at this point in that I assume most people in the US don't carry change today and tap to pay small amounts is fairly nascent.
“Reality” had always been fragmented. People across the mountain range would have different beliefs, measurement units and traditions. E.g. talk to people from different countries which food is healthy or what to do to prevent cold.
This is my current pain with Julia. It makes deploying code require the entire environment, or a PackageCompiler built sys-image. I've played with static compiler, and other techniques. They are sadly quite brittle for my previous use cases. Lack of ability to use threads in a static compiler built binary was a deal killer for me.
If there’s an affordability housing crisis at the level of Canada, where home prices are so wildly out of whack relative to median incomes, it’s IMO entirely reasonable to ban the purchase of investment properties in the single family homes market for anyone. This will never happen because of the political backlash, but housing as a speculative asset is fundamentally insane and corrosive to societies. Housing affordability is directly tied to all kinds of broader social outcomes, from crime to public health to educational achievement and it makes zero sense to sacrifice these on the altar of “fuck you, I got my house(s).”
That's a function of time. "Plasticizers", the chemicals that make plastics varying degrees of bendable†, sweat out of the plastic over time, turning the plastic stiff/brittle [which is really what plastics are like by default with no plasticizer in them] and the plastic's surface layer either oily or tacky, depending on the particular plastic. (The surface gets oily for "hard plastics", and tacky for "soft-touch" plastics. If you've ever touched a 40-year-old Apple keyboard cable, you know what soft-touch plastic with the plasticizer sweated out feels like.)

† Which ironically makes "plasticizers" actually elasticizers. Plastics are polymers named for how they undergo plastic deformation — "bending and going white", as you say — at pretty low stress levels. "Plasticizers" are ironically chemicals that make plastics into materials that undergo elastic deformation — flopping around without damage — instead.
Still not clear whether they are mostly institutional or solo "mom and pop" second/multi-home buyers. Either way this was the inevitability of borrowing at virtually 0 interest for so long, with a high immigration rate guaranteeing perpetually increasing demand. It's like free money. They've recently increased the interest rates but it's woefully insufficient. The rate of housing starts needs to increase (this is fairly inelastic) and/or the rate of immigration (or even loopholes for students and temps) needs to slow down, but instead it's going in the other direction.
To my knowledge though this has never been proven. Yes, the base band can in theory access this stuff, and the OS could do so stealthily I suppose -- but this is Subaru SAYING they are doing it every time you get in the car for no really good reason.

It's in a totally different class.
Or there is something strange in that APK from China
Absolutely absurd. Boundaries, whether national or those of personal property, are absolutely and clearly social conventions and have no reality outside of social convention. I can't believe I have underline this point. We can argue about the utility of these social conventions, even about whether they constitute some kind of ideal reality, but in both cases they clearly fail to rise to the level of observable, objective reality. If all signs of human beings vanished, aliens arriving at earth could not tell where one state ended and another began even if the idea made sense to them because borders are not part of reality.

At no time in history have national borders ever been a universally shared reality and frankly, they could only be such by coincidence, not as a reflection of any genuine physical state of affairs beyond the state of mind of every human on earth.
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You act like coders are okies. People at Google were frequently getting 2-9 months of severance, with benefits for most of those. Stop pretending like tech employers generally are behaving with "no sense of reciprocity." It's embarrassing and no one in any other field of work is going to buy your sob story.
I'm imagining a future where bodybuilders purposely give themselves aggressive cancer so that they can later "reprogram" it into additional muscle.
Not to mention eavesdrop risk.
>I'm not sure of the unintended consequences of my proposals, but they couldn't be worse than what is happening now.

I wonder how large the percentage of buyers would be who would buy on-behalf of someone -- e.g. person A is an existing homebuyer, their cousin person B is not, and to avoid the prohibitive tax rate, person A gets B to buy it on their behalf so that it is legally not an investment.

This practice is sadly already common in certain circles, and it will surely get a boost should your proposal (which I do like btw) come into effect -- the question is how big of an effect would that be.
You’re right, of course, but we shouldn’t really need a GDPR when we should already have an established reasonable expectation of privacy inside a car. Google search takes me to lawyers who agree, for what that’s worth… https://dworkenlaw.com/when-can-the-police-search-my-vehicle....
There's a recycling plant not far from where I take the train. In their yard, they have large (5' x 3') concrete blocks that are "stackable" in that they have voids in their bottoms that fit their counterpart's ridges on the tops—just like a lego.

They stack these 4 or 5 high and create huge U-shaped corrals for various types of metals.

My town does something similar to store rock stalk for the winter—these blocks are stacked and a pre-fab roof is placed directly on top.

To my knowledge, there is no mortar or rebar of any kind, and it can be undone and reworked into another configuration with just a forklift.

These are meant to be temporary, but have been there for >8 and >5 years respectively.

Somewhat related: The famed "Jersey Divider" is cast in a similar way, albeit without any consideration for vertical stacking.