skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well because big corporations are our best friends, can do no wrong, and anything that criticises them is "biased" or has an agenda, of course. why be a reasonable human being when you can instead irrationally defend Amazon Inc doing the indefensible for absolutely no reason, repeatedly backstabbing your fellow worker in the process to "own the libs" in the process?
I think he meant "the worst" in the same way that Britta is the worst.

This kind of reflexive defensiveness by some New Yorkers feels annoying to the rest of us
A broker’s fee for an apartment? I’ve never seen that. I own a house now, but when I used to rent, the process was to visit the websites of local well known management companies, pick a few apartments you like, and have the manager show each to you. Then you pick one and apply. Why are people injecting the expense of a broker into such a simple transaction? And the renters are the ones paying?
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Sentiment analysis may ultimately just be "statistics" but IMHO it goes way beyond what most people consider statistics, which is collecting, organizing, graphing data. Sentiment analysis draws conclusions from the data, assigning things like "level of negativity" and "level of positivity" among other things. It definitely feels like an artificial type of thing that humans do, so artificial intelligence seems like a reasonable category to me.
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Could be a minimalistic starting point ;)
At what point is it just two AIs talking to each other, back-and-forth?
The reason for the poor view of the NH community (outside NH) is clear from the opinions expressed here. From defending Amazon's right to pay low wages to “it's easy, just quit” demonstrates the disconnection of NH people with reality to the point of full psychopathy. And everyone knows that you never go a full psychopath.

The technical part of HN is a delight. But the non-technical part, when something is said about humanities, it's sad. It's as if most of the people at HN were no longer people, they were robot CEOs who defend money above all else. I would love a tag system so I can't view these discussions (I already do this, but sometimes it escapes me)
That sounds like an issue with immigration policy, you could stop this at amazon but it will do nothing for everyone else. Ill also point out that amazon only hires legal labor.
Because you can't: the person was fired, nothing will change, and her friend died.
What could anyone do about it? Workers rights have never been won without a militant organized labor force. "Advocate" for your pet interests all you want, but you aren't accomplishing anything for anyone else unless you're organizing, and "privacy" is frankly a terrible cause to organize around and you seem to already realize that. Focus on wages, time off, and improving peoples everyday working conditions, and you will eventually get your chance to address privacy. That's just the reality of the exploitative system we live under.
Wait. You were fired because you said to HR that you are going to be a father next week? How is this even legal?
IIRC Miami was the worst on a list put together by CityNerd of large cities with a high (housing+transit)/income ratio. I can't access YT at the moment so feel free to correct.
This is old news
The extra rinse is fine.

A cool rinse uses minimal water and very little energy, so feel free. The tradeoff of a top loader using 1x water in the wash and 1x water in the rinse vs a front loader using ~2/5th water in the wash 2 * ~2/5th water in the two rinses is still a significant net savings.

Assuming you have a setting for the rinse the biggest issue for me is remembering to keep the door open so it dries.
"Also why wouldn’t you tell coworkers you’re having a baby?"

It was HR, not some coworker. But yes, it is messed up.
> Depending on where you work, there’s a significant chance that artificial intelligence is analyzing your messages on Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other popular apps.

I don't think it's so unclear, and it sounds like you understand too, internal comms. I know it seems obvious, but a lot of people wouldn't even immediately guess. (My first guess before RTA was Slack or anything like Slack. I always think, when I use Slack, that it cannot be truly private unless I start manually encrypting my messages with coworkers.)

I'd guess anything that the business has control over might be a candidate. Even easier if the platform allows for apps to be added on at the company level.
Do you have examples of what context-oriented media like this would look like? After watching news about the pandemic, I found it interesting to see how short the collective public memory about the event was, and how little we remembered about the reasons for the decisions that were made early on. I wonder if a more context-oriented media might help people recall the sequence of decisions and their justifications at the time?
You're exactly right. The alternative to a market is usually corruption.

My local university offers housing for grad students. At least 50% is unoccupied at any time because there is no pressure for them to fill units. That would just be more work. So getting one is tricks and favors.
boston suburbs aren’t walkable though, if you’re not remote you’ve got a minimum 40 min commute each way
I hope courts worldwide continue to punish Amazon for these kinds of things. They need to change the calculus — to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots.
Supercharger? I hate to be an Elon fanboy but a high amperage charger charges really quickly.
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I think they're saying that they notified them on Tuesday, and were canned Friday.
Oh. Yeah I would also probably pay $15k for $1k rent if I intended to stay in NYC long term. You'd have positive ROI on that before the end of year two.

But Flushing is too far from Manhattan and too close to La Guardia. I'd gladly pay more not to listen to that shit all the time, the car noise in the city is bad enough.
It is interesting! I experimented with creating a bad borrow checker for Java using annotations from

https://checkerframework.org/

It supports some level of substructural types using must-call annotations,

https://checkerframework.org/manual/#resource-leak-checker
> because they try to apply other rules that are not part of the game.

And I suspect that most would disagree they do that (because most people would have a hard time thinking of themselves as rule violators) which would then lead to something like "the rule is stupid" or "this is pedantic".

No Vehicles In The Park is super interesting.
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The Apollo Moon lander program included testing a craft that had a central large thruster which could offset the difference between Moon and Earth gravity within a limited envelope.
The last time I hunted for apartments, the landlords did all that themselves for no money, so I guess things have changed.

I guess I can see charging some money, but pre-vetting renters is probably just a matter of submitting their application to some service, and maybe doing a Google search, right? How much would you pay someone for that? About $7500?

And I imagine that in an $1100 rent-controlled building, you don't have to do too many showings before someone bites, so how much of a burden is that? A few hours? Would you pay me $7500 for that?

I guess I could see $1000 being a generous amount of money for brokers fees in this situation, if everything was being fairly run. So, in my view, the difference between the asked-for $15000 and the generous $1000 is the amount of inefficiency in this process introduced by what amounts to greed. Greed is to be expected, but when it starts to look predatory, regulators sometimes step in—which means it may be short-sighted and ultimately self-destructive greed.

To be fair, probably nothing will come of it, and the market will just dictate these costs. But, it's still a shitty thing to do.
so you're sincerely asserting the court case doesn't exist?
Retail only costs money because it's actively expanding. Or at least, that was true in like 2018 when I last read about it.
Same in the US. As a green card holder, I cannot leave the U.S. for more than a year. If I do, I lose my permanent resident status.
So atomic updates are incredibly difficult?
A small-town radio station likely doesn't have a 24/7 monitor. And it is AM, which they seem to be have kept running only to facilitate their FM license. I bet they just sent it a feed and checked on it ever few days/weeks. If a small AM station drops off the air, would any listeners think to inquire about why?
Do you have a source for that? Is that all around the world, or just in some countries? That really interest me.
Banning doesn't make sense. I'd be ok with a campaign to try and make it socially unacceptable, like smoking.
I read once they get into beds by crawling up the bedposts and by putting something smooth like aluminum cups around the posts, the bugs cannot crawl up. What do you think of that?
If I want to write better shell scripts I usually run shellcheck and adjust accordingly or if I need facilities not provided by the shell I switch to a full fledged programming language. And oh yes, `sh` is present almost on every BSD and Linux box for free so I consider it an important thing to at least be comfortable with.

shellcheck: https://www.shellcheck.net/
And somehow this makes them legal persons in the eyes of US law
Not "from VCs". Marc was not a VC then, Netscape's investors didn't direct any of our strategic or tactical moves. Bill Joy at Sun also supported JS as scripting language for Java, and signed the trademark license. Excerpt on the early days and why we did JS (part of 3 hour Lex Fridman interview):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZWtsYyX8E

HOPL paper: https://hopl4.sigplan.org/details/hopl-4-papers/10/JavaScrip...
I work in Tech at Walmart and the funny thing is that of all the places I've worked they do the least in terms of surveying employee satisfaction. If they just asked, I and many of my colleagues would be happy to tell them which people and policies are toxic and which are wonderful. There's broad agreement in the rank and file on much of this. There are some truly awful and some truly wonderful things about the way Walmart manages tech. When I mentioned this to my VP, the response was basically that Walmart top level management didn't want to know some things because they might be compelled to act. Maybe all this "AI" rigamarole is just a way for Walmart top level management to get information without being legally or morally obligated to do anything?
Sharing an archive.org link to read about media’s existential crisis? We're not just observing the iceberg but offering the ship a speed boost.
That’s it? I would have guessed much higher.
True, but a burb like Tewksbury is a bit more affordable than a similar burb in NYC like White Plains or Piscataway when factoring salaries and taxes.

Same way most people in the NY Metro live in less walkable boroughs or suburbs.

And it's the same story in any other "international" city - be it London, Tokyo, Paris, etc
Why do you want successful cities to stop growing? Especially ones that have zero desire to stop attracting employers. Offices take up very little space so if you let developers build commercial real estate you will always have a mismatch between housing and jobs if you stop building residential real estate. This will displace lower income people in the end and lead to gentrification rather than a stop to growth.
I worked through large chunks of the book a long time ago (perhaps an earlier version). I agree with the other responder-- if you've had zero stats it may be more difficult, but the author does an excellent job of discretizing almost everything, which means that integrals and derivatives are replaced with adding and subtracting. For this book I think the most advanced math you need is multiplication and division. It's a clever trick that relies on the fact that computers are really good at multiplying 10,000 things by 10,000 other things and adding them up (which is what discretization implies here).

Before computers that was much harder to do so you needed clever math tricks to "do it all at once," which gets you to all the analytical methods -- calculus, etc. Still all very useful! Just hard to teach to a broad audience. Downey really leans into the technical advantage to computers provide and thus can cover a lot of material before getting into complicated math.
Amazon warehouses have cameras. Lots of them. Do they not in Poland? The man didn't seem to want to quit, from the context, it's possible the person did not tell the truth. He may have worked himself too hard, I've known many people that just didn't quit.
So your saying, what if the game was not hypothetical?
No, of course it’s not easy to quit. But perhaps it’s wrong to even offer these terrible jobs as an “opportunity” to people who have so little choice.
At least it has gone to court, and she has won at this point. It's not clear to me whether Magda gets paid for the time between her dismissal and her job being reinstated.

I'll continue to boycott Amazon. Earlier in the week I spent about an hour sleuthing the web to find an obscure item that wasn't from Amazon or China, finally found it at a local supplier.

> I announced to HR that my wife is expecting (Tue) and was fired on Friday.

Did you expect this might happen, maybe the baby is due very soon?

It's awful in any case :-(
I also thought you didn’t answer the question but after re-reading it sounds like you first started living in the apartment by subleasing from another tenant.

Then once another apartment became vacant, because you already lived there you were able to regularize your presence by terminating your sublease so you could lease directly?
I'm a fan as long as we also continue building. Build, build, build as long as demand is there.
In 2024, guessing device default WPA2 passphrases still shouldn't be this easy...
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I'm fascinated by this statement. Where does it come from?
His ultimate point:

> No large platform can satisfy user preferences because users will disagree over what content should be moderated off the platform and what content should be allowed.

But he makes to attempt to say what we should do about it. In my view, we should not try to make explicit coding of rules so precise as to be automatable, but rather make it clear, to the communities the platforms serve, what the values are that underlie the rules, and to say "apply the rules in line with their spirit." This is the same sort of reasoning humans use in everyday life, it's why you don't get ticketed for jaywalking across an empty street, and it's why courts get flexibility with their interpretations of law.

The value underlying "no vehicles in the park" is that a park should be a place for recreation and all-ages shared use. This implies the space should be free from the danger posed by the regular traffic of a busy street. A motorized wheelchair doesn't pose this danger so it is allowed. Nor does a bicycle, unless we're talking about a large amount of bicycles representing a heavy flow of traffic, because that traffic would be dangerous to kids in the park.
1. Main takeaway I:

"Q: Do you think this ruling will change anything in the immediate future?

A: ... I’m afraid they will not change their policy. ... They’re just smashing everything on their way to making more and more profit."

2. Main takeaway II:

"... Amazon has used Poland as a base from which to attack German unions right next door, either by importing Polish workers as strikebreakers when German warehouses were being picketed or then by simply building warehouses along the German-Polish border to serve the German market and get around German labor laws and unions."

3. Personal suggestion to fellow readers:

Please don't use Amazon, and ask your friends to avoid it as well. Yes, a grass-roots consumer boycott is not the most efficient of measures, but we should at least do _something_ other than just shrug and accept it.

Also, if there is an Amazon facility near where you live - try to figure out if they're trying to unionize. And if they are, try and help them out, or at least donate.
I love DVD-R for installing Linux distros, especially if I want to get familiar with a lot of different OS, break them often, install again and all of this on real machines. USB does not love much re-writes. Prone to scratches in those DVDs is compensated with the fact that distributives tend to obsolete in few years. Last time I used DVD for that I wanted CD, but the seller made a big eyes and gladly appreciated the fact that someone wants to buy that very-old-nobody-needs DVD-R or DVD-RW things (no CD in stock). The price is $0.25 per each. That nobody knows how old DVD-RWs required more than 1 try to write, DVD-R keeps working perfectly.

Perfectly means that old discs written by user DVD-ROM typically does not work unless super-careful storage and frankly saying do not expected to work, and there are no much laptops with DVD-ROM around nowadays. But some fabric discs with movies are expected to work and they mostly work nice. If I want to re-watch a movie which is in my DVD collection I prefer to take it from here unless I really want better picture then mpeg2 can deliver.
Spring is an overly complicated mess. I use DI when it makes things simpler, I don't see how Spring would ever do that.
That’s a completely arbitrary limitation which should not exist. When my scripts contain independent non-instant subprocesses, I run them in parallel. I’m also using js/ts to write all my scripts, because why wouldn’t I use a proper programming language instead of that “bash” thing that can’t even handle its single datatype well and resorts to all sorts of gibberish to perform trivial operations on it.
I think broker fees are only a thing in NYC. So far I've rented in Atlanta and Denver and in both cases you can just contact the property, arrange a rental and sign the paperwork and boom you got the keys.
Is there any reason to believe it was done at night? It does not sound like they have any idea when it disappeared, or how long it was gone before they noticed.
some people do
It's not difficult to understand.

The mismatch between supply and demand is a function of time whose Fourier transform has components at various frequencies. There will be a strong component around 1 per 24 hours, which batteries will be good for, but there will also be much longer period components (seasonal, or from rare extended solar and wind combined outages, so called "Dunkelflauten").

Hydrogen (or other e-fuels) are well suited to the latter. For those storage needs, round trip efficiency is far less important compared to minimizing the per energy storage capacity capital cost. That's because there will be many fewer cycles over which to amortize the latter (while the contribution of round trip efficiency to levelized cost of storage is not so affected.) The per energy storage capacity cost of hydrogen is two orders of magnitude less than that of batteries.

To see this effect in action, go to https://model.energy/ and get it to solve for the minimum cost combination of solar, wind, batteries and hydrogen to supply a steady power output in Germany. Then, disable hydrogen and solve again. The cost nearly doubles.
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I think Wikipedia does a good job of being updated quite quickly with relevant news while also providing the context as deep as desired. I am not sure it is reasonable to expect each article to provide anywhere near sufficient context for anything remotely complicated.
But all my friends on Goodreads are claiming to finish a book a week

Are... Are they LYING?? No one lies on the internet.

EDIT: Wow I guess I hit a, nerve. Sorry folks. I use Goodreads and finish about a book a month. So I don't think a book a week is unreasonable/impossible. I just meant to allude to the fact that the platform has gotten a lot of attention for review bombing and profile manipulation.

Anyways, here is some data (not MAU, to be fair) about US stats:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/most_read?category=all&countr...
(presumably Geis’s comment was sarcasm?)
Author not an optimist I guess. Better to say 54% of Americans read a book in 2023!
" to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots."

He was not crushed by machinery or anything:

"Dariusz worked so hard. His job used to be done by a few people during a shift, but then they made him do all that work alone, pushing around trolleys with heavy boxes."

He was simply pushed working too hard. So a robot doing the job would have been one solution - the other simply an extra human helping, or switching tasks, to something less physically demanding.
So true.

> I believe the simple fact that there is a known person behind each recommendation is advantageous.

I think this is key to OPML gaining traction again.

I for myself added an OPML list to my website (see bio) which contains hundreds of independent blogs. You can all download that for free. Most of the blogs I found are from here, but I've been doing that for two years straight, so there might be blogs you don't know. They've been roughly selected for quality.

edit: OPML file can be found at the bottom, behind the link 'Or see all shared links', then click the OPML icon
> but they didn’t know, because no one saw it

The English is a little confusing - "they fired me for allegedly taking pictures or videos — but they didn’t know, because no one saw it" implies she admits she did take pictures/videos of the dead colleague but Amazon couldn't have known.

If she had had taken photos and shared them with police to prove an accident or bad working practices fair enough, but otherwise I think I would have sacked her too if there was even anecdotal evidence that she had taken photos.
Even the best hotels have dealt with bedbugs. For safety, leave your luggage in your car for a few days when you return from a trip.

Ideally, you want the temperature to either drop below freezing or rise above 100°F, which will kill bedbugs.

The same procedure should be employed with used furniture, perhaps more aggressively.

There is also a trick with dry ice and talcum powder if you think an infestation is starting and you want to confirm.

If I had never bought rental property, I would never have known any of this. I am relieved to have sold it all.

EDIT: The article says 120°F.
Why do people keep repeating that retail costs amazon money. Look at our earning reports, that is clearly not the case.

Over half of amazon's profit comes from retail revenue.

Internally, a lot of amazon retail revenue turns into AWS profit as amazon retail is AWS's biggest customer.
Perhaps you dont know how easily they could step into a position that isnt physically demanding, several of them would be a shoe in for chief given their experience. They wont fill out an application if I put it infront of them, they would rather fix air conditioning units than have responsibility, and they will tell you as much directly.