skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they aren't operating in explicit coordination, no.

Cartel behavior requires coordination and collusion. If they are just following general social/business practices without having meetings about who to blacklist, then it doesn't meet most definitions.
This is how the militias started in Rio de Janeiro. It will get out of hand if nothing is done.
There are pathways for it to happen. But you need a team of specialized lawyers, training for all employees, controls, etc.

None of this is free.
This feels a bit redundant. If you were in a country taken over by dictators or terrorists, those dictators or terrorists won't hesitate to deploy a mandatory surveillance regime (see: Xinjiang), they don't need a leg up from the previous democratic government. If your country is not overtaken by dictators or terrorists, the "nothing to hide" argument stands.

This hypothetical situation is not made materially worse by the existing backdoor.
You've added a bunch of irrelevant qualifications to a, to borrow your language, highly paid jerk in power enjoying being a jerk. This is also much easier to picture and much closer to describing the situation
showed up and prevented customers from entering the restaurant

Well no. They showed up and discouraged people from entering by generally being a nuisance and creating an uncomfortable atmosphere where you wouldn't feel like eating lunch. Had they physically blocked people from entering that would have been illegal.
0.28 is the only way to go.
You can banish YT shorts by clicking the X in the top right corner of the shorts row.

And yeah they’re pretty stupid. YT took a bunch of normal videos and cropped them to phone camera dimensions, lol. You can click the author’s name to find the original in their YT page. It’s just idiotic.
> people who have free time to work on side projects (usually young people have more free time than people with families)

That's the whole point. Companies would always prefer someone with no responsibility who can be guilted and pressured into doing overtime over someone who can point to actual needs outside of work that they need to attend to. It's a great way of filtering out people who will have boundaries.
so the logic implication is this implies we don't/didn't need a divine creator to create man right? Like the molecules were capable of it all by themselves?
But it still feels wrong if progression is measured by an arbitrary measure orthogonal to what one actually does in one's career, no?
It produces this beautiful nonsense in Japanese also, and even correctly extracted the topic from the Japanese lyrics : https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/71fa41f3-1488-4e9e-8f99-5f81...
I don't think I could ever pick a single book, but Clean Architecture by Robert Martin is a favorite of mine. Really helped shape the design of testable systems for me. Once I actually started writing automated tests for my code, it turns out things broke in production a lot less, who would have thought? I don't like what is probably his most popular book, Clean Code, though.
Can you imagine if there were no consequences for submitting shitty code to the Linux kernel team.

You'd have every first year college student trying to get their name on the mailing list with some crappy commit that adds no value and only takes time away from meaningful work.

Then you've got to hand hold and coddle that person, because you have to be nice to everyone. Yeah that's not gonna scale very well.

I can see going easy on independent developers. But this is Google. One of the biggest licensors of Linux and a closed source competitor. Here they are adding a feature to a repo they need to use, and they're doing it half-assed.

This is a feedback loop. Don't submit shit code to the most important repo in the world. Ain't nobody got time for that. If you do it as a fortune 500 company we will publically shame you.

Some of y'all have never been earnestly told to get your shit together and it shows.
Maybe you should use ChatGPT to write your comments, since the logic connection between them are so weak. Now it's about minimum wage? Perhaps revisit what this thread is about and the comment you replied to? Do you even know what minimum wage is?

I won't reply someone who just spew random words any further, sorry.
>5. Interview and code review session. Bring a side project, show us how it works.

So you are filtering out candidates that have families or lives outside of work that do not spend their free time coding?
> If I do take notes, I’ll look down at my page at the end and see 20ish words written in different sizes and spaces and then throw it away because it’s clearly useless.

For me, the point of taking notes has never been the final product. I went through college taking at least a page of notes per lecture, but never once did I actually go back and reference them. The notes were valuable for getting the material into my brain, not for use later.
These aren't the only options
fair point. it should be a goal though. and to be realistic, i am thinking in decades or even centuries to achieve that. it takes a large scale rethinking of democracy. the current state leaves the majority of the population unrepresented (because they feel that none of the existing parties are able to represent their interest) and drives the resentment and lack of interest in becoming politically active. in short, we all feel helpless because the politicians only do what gives them votes, and not what we really need.
> I also called it "the big fat hyphen" when I first started using Windows 3, but AIUI now, that was actually supposed to be a picture of the space bar. As in, you know, [Alt]-[Space].

A pic of the old Windows 3.x Program Manager with its Program Groups within the Multiple Document Interface, linked somewhere in this thread, reminded me: Sub-windows within an MDI had a shorter bar for an icon, and IIRC you got the system menu (document menu?) for the focused one by pressing [Alt]-[hyphen] (or [Alt]-[minus]).
I listened to like a dozen of the examples on riffusion and they all sound like junk. It's kind of like the hands being messed up on generated images, except the "messed up hands" stream through every part of each track.
Celebrity Worship Is Weird and Will Only Get Weirder
US tightens rules on AI chip sales to China in blow to Nvidia
I do not support Wealth taxes. I would heartily support a land value tax.

Though popularised by George it was first rigourously analysed by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations.

We are, ultimately, all tenants of our sovereign. Our sovereign protects us from enemies both foreign and domestic. They do not protect our incomes, or our assets but by and large most societies do agree that it is a matter of fact that can be arbitrated in a dispute as to who owns which piece of land.
How far can you legally go with those in the US?

Here in the EU at most you can ask if they worked there, nothing else.
Idk if this trend of ICs being rapidly promoted into management has to do with humanity degrees or generational wealth. If anything, I find these individuals to be well off and from respectable schools. It reminds me more of the hustle and career driven attitude of the finance and MBA world, where the prestige is centered in having high # of direct reports, or lofty titles.
And therefore you are not an employee they want.

These companies don't want an employee who starts to question "why" things should be done or why things are important. Demonstrating that you are willing to apply yourself at something objectively useless simply because you are required to is a huge plus.
Are you hiring now? :)
China tells banks to roll over local government debts as risks mount
> does it play the standard tax loophole games of other international corporations?

SpaceX is an American company--not even multinational. They're barely profitable [1], however, so most taxes would be paid on fees, payroll and property.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/17/spacex-reported-a-profit-in-...
I've worked for a couple of companies that get a discount on AWS services if a certain percentage of their employees have AWS certifications.
Dawkins is a great evo biologist, but his atheism (outside of arguments from biology) is always kinda layman. I say this as an atheist. Selfish gene is great book. The God delusion is just ok.

When he tries to argue about metaphysics or argue through religious arguments on god he's only just ok at it and loses because he's doesn't have the home team advantage he has in biology.
BBC: "The Trap" Inside the blackmail scam destroying lives across India [video]
A video with 1000 upvotes and 1 downvotes tells me something

A video with 1000 upvotes and 2000 downvotes tells me something.

A video with 1000 upvotes doesn't tell me anything.

I can still downvote, I just don't get told the downvote total.

If they decided the system was broken and decided to replace it, I could understand. But they haven't changed the system, they've just removed the utility it did have.
It's only my opinion, but a fair tax scheme only collects taxes at the time where you have actually made gains to pay the taxes from, not any theoretical on-paper gains.

To ensure the "fair" tax is levied i'd propose a limited continued tax jurisdiction over the shares until the time they get liquidated, with the optional alternative of prematurely ending that jurisdiction by settling it at the time of the shareholders convenience, with the ensuing valuation being kicked off then. The limited continued tax should assume a linear value growth over time and armed with that calculate back what the tax would have been at the point the share holder left the tax system.

Since the valuation is largely out of the hands of the founder, the abuse potential is limited to knowing of upcoming changes in the valuation, but since they would be future changes in the valuation, i don't see a legitimate reason why the state you leave should tax you for it.
You can require security clearance if the job requires it. You cannot forbid refugees and asylees from all jobs preemptively.

SpaceX has nothing to do with giving clearances. They just check if they are active (they can pay the government to investigate if someone should be given one)

And many workers will not require security clearance.
Someone once told me that bread making is like managing a bacteria zoo. You use sugar and flour to feed them and use salt to control their growth.
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Workers on collective farms up until the early 70s were not allowed to have passports issued to them. Without a passport one couldn't move to a city.

Also, those millions of the most productive of them murdered in the Gulag "from the 1920s to mid-1960s" surely "made their own decisions" poorly.

Where your position touches upon reality is that the US economy has been getting increasingly centrally planned since 2008. It's a major problem.
Youtube wants to be a ubiquitous presence in modern culture, therefore it is in their interest to continue to support all the old and busted computers/etc that are still in common use. This includes allowing people to watch videos without an account using the old busted up computer they have in the back room at work, keeping youtube accessible on publicly shared IPs like libraries, coffee shops, even VPNs.

I believe they will be very reticent to cut off access to this long tail of users with outdated computers, with no account on shared IPs. As long as this is true, it will be possible to use youtube in contradiction to their TOS. They could lock things down quite tight overnight by requiring people to sign in and use up to date browsers/players, but doing so would threaten their ubiquity.
I do not have magical powers that would cause the FBI (or any other component of the DOJ, come to that) which would cause them to act in morally positive ways by simply imagining "how it should be".

If there is a "how it should be" when it comes to the DOJ, which seems very doubtful, there exist no humans on planet Earth who could implement it. Even more so, it would be impossible to know how to implement it without thoroughly and profoundly understanding the various failure modes. In other words, you're even doing the "examining the way the world should be" wrong.
> When discussing the government's overreach in quelling a protest, it doesn't matter to me if the protest was funded by the Estate of Adolph Hitler

I feel exactly the opposite.

The estate of Adolph Hitler could fun a protest against the law limiting hate speech, or the law against murder. If some foreign group pays them, millions will show up, and probably commit crimes and be violent and destroy property while they're at it.

In that case, I want the government to quell such a stupid protest that frankly would make our society worse if the protesters got what they wanted (or, more accurately, got what they were paid to say they wanted, but in fact have no care in the world about).

What the protest is about, and if it is really the view of the general population absolutely makes a difference in how the government should react.
I don't think it allows you to login with your Google account. You can have a local account on the instance but it does not have anything with your google account.

So you cannot interact with videos (comment, like..etc) although you can create Playlists that will be linked to your local instance account.
As someone who is on a, uh, "sabbatical" from programing after 10 years making WP work for gov, edu, and various businesses I have worked on many hundreds of WP sites.

I still use it for my personal blog and for marketing my various projects.

The article doesn't have a lot of meat, but I think the title alone was interesting.

My primary issue with the WP ecosystem is how folks end up paying for GPL software.

Leaving aside my opinions about the actual legal weight of commercial plugins in that ecosystem, having a bunch of systems with un-patchable software (until you pay for the latest release) has caused a whole lot of problems for the world.

There are other problems with WP of course. I'm completely burned out on trying to fix things with it, so hopefully I can find some other work when I get done trying to be a musician.

However, I find the community is quite unique in its lack of tolerance for the idea that GPL means GPL.
There is a Walmart in my metro area that is responsible for like 80% of all police calls within their municipality. This is the same Walmart that leeches off society in other ways like paying sub-living wages so that employees need to rely on social safety nets to survive. I'm not sure if they have to hire private security, but this is a prime example of a business that should be securing itself or changing location.
Why the hell does a janitor need ITAR accreditation (the right term, as one can have ITAR access without any kind of security clearance whatsoever)?

And I can assure you, outside the US, even Chinese nationals can have access to ITAR equipment and data. I am no US person neither, and I had in the past. As does every single user of US military gear in nations the US exports to...
Then simply...hire more people?

Sounds like a net benefit for everyone, frankly
They existed beforehand, and aldi nord bought them out. They didn't change much about how the company operated though. They might have streamlined it a little, maybe.

I remember seeing trader joes branded cans the last couple of times I was in an aldi nord, as well as the cigarettes they're known for. (I live in an aldi süd country)
In Sweden there is no requirement to be in a union to work at a company with union agreement. A company cannot require (or forbid) union membership of employees. Also a union cannot require that you are member to be covered by their collective bargaining agreement.
What you're describing is extractive. They do not factor into their negotiations "is this an ask that is good for the employer in the long-term". They are not attempting to balance those constraints. They are attempting to extract as much as the labor market can support.

It's OK to think that this is a good thing but this is not the same as a collaborative relationship, like you would have with coworkers or another team at a (non-dysfunctional) company.
You can't just leave that hanging there. What "FAANG-type" companies are making 7-figure offers to anyone on HN, without a Leetcode fratbro hazing?
Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed
If that's all they do, who is arresting the murders?
It's permanent in the sense that it doesn't change from one person's trial to another's. Not in that it can't change at all. IMO, the GP didn't explain it very well, I prefer the word "objective" here.

Natural law is a completely different concept.
That does not contradict what I said. The concrete chunks did not get as far as populated areas.

Also articles dated 4-26 significantly predated any lab analysis of the particles that reached Boca Chica Ranch and Port Isabel. It was presumed they were concrete particles, but they were just sand.
> I think the problem is, for many people, the value of their land is kind of irrelevant.

Well that's a problem with those people if they think their most valuable capital asset is irrelevant.

It is relevant, because without LVT, the tax code is literally encouraging inefficient use of land. Housing prices consistently rising five times faster than salaries is a huge problem, and it is caused by inefficient land use.
I'd characterize it as employers being extremely adversarial to unions because their goal is exploitation of workers. Unions have to be aggressive in response.

Sure, I'll agree that our union system is not great, but I place the blame for this situation on employers.
The protocol trivially supports it given there is already a mechanism to indicate you're moving, and all your posts are accessible,and can be pulled down by the new server, or can be extracted from the downloadable (signed) export. So it boils down to willingness or priorities, not the protocol.
I like that Linus isn't wasting time on niceties and goes right down to business.

Sucks to be on the receiving end, but in the end its better for everyone. Wish our developers could work like this.
A few years after buying a house, my family discovered the lights in the garage would flicker.

Turns out the wiring in the garage was held together with tape. No junction boxes, no wire nuts, literally just naked wires and tape.

Needless to say, the inspector found nothing.
I can't speak for piped, but I use a self-hosted Invidious instance to watch Youtube. You don't log into it with your Google account, it has its own authentication so that it can save your (distinct) subscriptions. Even if Google decided to crack down on alternate front-end usage, they can't correlate it back to your actual account.
> Sure, but are they provable in polynomial time?

It doesn’t matter, does it? That computation happens off-chain.

As an actual example, there are contracts locked to providing a collision proof for various hash functions. The one for SHA1 was claimed a few years ago when Google generated the first SHA-1 collision. That represented a lot of work on Google’s behalf, but was trivial for bitcoin nodes to validate.

> Due to performance limitations, for all intents and purposes ZK tech is impractical to the point of being infeasible for truly decentralized blockchains with turing-complete smart contract capabilities. It works for more specialized purposes, but it is not a currently solution to the "duplicative computation" problem.

You misunderstand me. I’m not suggesting that such a general zkp system be used, but rather offering it as a theoretical point.

In practice you make a specialized zk proof for whatever you are trying to do. And despite the hype, the practical use cases for Turing complete smart contracts are quite small and limited in scope. If you have a smart contract with real world applicability that can’t be reduced down to a handful of easily checked signatures and if-else clauses (or something of similar complexity), I’d like to see it. I know of scant few examples, and this is my field of expertise.
Yet using it as a headless CMS allows any dev to just circumvent it's theming dialect altogether.

I think that really illustrates Wordpress' versatility.
> companies will just turn their empty plots into useless parking lots (or some other loophole they will find) to say it's "valuable"

Skipping past your other points, I just wanted to reply to this sentence, since it seems to show a deep confusion/misunderstanding (perhaps on my behalf!).

- Land owners won't get to "say" how valuable their land is; that's determined by the market, assessors, etc.

- Given the chance, land owners would try to say their land's less valuable; since higher value means a higher tax bill.

- Land value tax is (as the name suggests) based on the value of the land; not what's on it. The tax for an empty lot is the same as a parking lot (or a skyscraper, for that matter).

- If anything, turning an empty lot into a car park may increase the company's tax bill. For example, if a lack of parking bottlenecked the area's economic growth, the new lot would allow more development nearby, increasing the area's land value, and hence increasing the company's tax bill.

- Turning an empty lot into a parking lot has construction costs (I'm assuming our company doesn't care about ongoing maintenance). Since the land value tax is unaffected (or even increased!), the only reason to construct a car park is when its predicted revenue is higher than its construction cost. The predicted revenue of a purposefully-useless parking lot is low, so there's no incentive to pay its construction cost: better to leave the plot empty!

- If the company can't use the land to bring in revenue that (a) pays off any initial capital/construction costs, and (b) exceeds the ongoing costs (including the constant land value tax!), then it should sell the land to avoid having to pay the tax.

- The only ones willing to buy the land off them (and hence take on its tax burden) are those who can make use of that land (either a company able to make a profit despite the tax liability; or people wanting to live there who are fine with paying the tax). In which case, the sale is incentivised and the land is put to better use.

PS: "From the outside" I'm sure there will be loopholes in theory, and in practice in Detroit. However, your example is pointing in the complete opposite direction of all the incentives, which looks "from the inside" like a lack of understanding.
One of the benefits of a large org, they take care of that. Including any fines for any violations!
Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items
(so they dont lose their alcohol license)
A question that’s equally interesting to me is the Harappan language itself.

David McAlpin et al have presented compelling evidence that Brahui is a sibling language to Elamite. To me, the most interesting outcome would be finding that Harappan is another lost member of that family.
How was he rude or aggressive? He just said what he saw: shit code he'd have to maintain and he clearly didn't want to.
Lessons from the Facebook Riots (2006)
The primary funds for the development of the Model S was a government loan for renewable technologies. That loan plus interest was paid back.
If you are willing to spend your younger, healthier years grinding just to (potentially, there are so many things that are outside of your control that can go wrong no matter your work ethic) get a few more years of retirement at the end of your life - then sure. Grind away.
It must be a cultural thing because I don't find those reviews devastating.

I would be fine being the recipient of this. It's simple, direct, clear, and give you a good sense of how bad things are and the priority of it.

If you fuck up, you fuck up.

I feel utterly disgusted by the opposite however. The "I like it but I don't love it" and other BS.

Feels like hypocrisy and frankly, behavior from people that don't have enough serious problems in their life to assess what is important and what is not.