skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All publically traded companies should be unionized mandatorily.

I'm not against unions, but I think mandating them is a bad idea. Smells like a recipe for disaster. What if everyone's totally OK with their workplace? Government would be requiring an external (perhaps redundant) bureaucracy (with all its waste and inefficiency), supported from a cut of everyone's paycheck, regardless of whether people wanted it or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-human
For those not following the link, that paper is entitled "The Market for Medical Care Should Work Like Cosmetic Surgery". Having briefly skimmed it, it points out that the costs for cosmetic surgery have not grown nearly as fast as the costs for medical care in general.

The article certainly has its own opinion about why that's the case, but regardless, anyone trying to explain the increase in medical costs should have to address the facts. Cosmetic surgeons still need liability insurance, nurses, office space, medical training, operating room time, etc, etc. So the likelihood that any of those are contributing to rising medical costs is reduced.
before going to the "If its documented its the user's fault" truncheon

To be clear to anyone else reading this, that's not what I said nor close to what I meant. I think I understand where you're coming from though.
I've had no problems at all.

I use it primarily on my Android tablet (Nvidia Shield K1), and occasionally on my phone (also Android, Moto X Pure 2015). I haven't noticed any problems. I use it for both reading and adding using the built-in sharing functionality in Android. For setup I simply set my URL, username, and password in the settings and used the "Autofill" option to handle populating the rest of the settings, and it works great. I'm running the server itself in a Docker container, with connections proxied through Nginx (also in a Docker container).
I remember dreamweaver, and I have the mental scars to show from using it. However, dreamweaver came about in the time of table-based layout and refused to adapt when the market consensus moved to div- (and later semantic element-) based layouts.

There's no reason that I can see, that you wouldn't be able to name the elements in a document (or ML could be perhaps used to auto-derive names), and beyond that, my understanding is that semantic markup (at least in terms of class/ID names) hasn't proven to be all that important since the advent of the API. Perhaps it's just not been done well enough so far to justify moving over from HTML/CSS, but you'd expect people to be jumping to solve their own issues. I for one find CSS/HTML tweaking to be pretty monotonous when I'm just trying to get to an end result.
This is one of the better articles I've read about the grid.

I don't work in this region, but I work for another ISO that controls one of the other grids doing a cross between DevOps and SRE on the systems that directly control the grid.

I've worked for startups (including my own) and public cloud providers, but this is the most stressful job I've had. If I fail people will quickly start to die as traffic lights and life-support systems fail.

The article touches on the complexity a bit, but it's huge job controlling a deregulated open-market energy grid. You have to scale for peak demand while providing financial incentives to support a mix of generation with widely varying prices. You have to deal with distribution congestion and natural disasters. Even generation disruptions -- a 2-GW nuke plant can shutdown at any moment. You need to deal with that deficit and quickly get something else online to meet demand.

And it all has to work 24/7 without a second of interruption.

It's an eye-opening experience. I'll never complain about paying my electric bill again. ;)
Currency is the lubricant for the trade economy, not the fuel for its engine. You cannot create more goods and services by printing more money.

In general, a person that holds more currency reserves exerts greater command over future production. So by continually taking money away from rich people and giving it to poor people, in the long run, your economy will tend to produce more of the things poor people want, and less of the things rich people want.

Inflation will be a big problem for UBI at first, but prices should eventually stabilize--perhaps after 20 years have passed. Good luck protecting such a system politically for that long, though.

In my opinion, you really can't force a work-for-pay, pay-for-goods economy to support a welfare state. It just immediately routes around the damage. You have to establish a parallel work-by-command, goods-by-rationing economy. That's a whole lot easier to do with robotic workers performing all the difficult and nasty work. It might not collapse due to corruption and shortages this time around. Maybe.
That certainly could be an issue, if that's what seems important to somebody. The main issue to me is that the one group of conspiratorial goofballs is invisible to me (silly Pizzagate dude was arrested before I even heard of "Pizzagate"), while the other group of conspiratorial goofballs is everywhere: on the TV, on NPR, in Congress, on social media. I can't escape them.

I voted for neither of the Status Quo Party candidates, because they both make me sick. Yet even as I wiped the vomit from my chin, I couldn't help but notice that the primary complaint about the election results was that the voters knew more about one of the candidates and her organization than she wanted them to know. Did we ever care about objectivity? If a losing R candidate made the same complaint, all of these pundits would laugh at that candidate: "Oh, someone leaked your email? In which you discussed the dirty deeds you did your poor little primary opponent? And the way they got that email was by phishing you? Well, boooo-hooooo! Next time use two-factor, sweetheart."
That may or may not be true, but it's irrelevant in this case. The bot is basically front-running the market, or trying to anyway, by trading directly on a stimulus that the market (potentially) takes time to internalize and react to.

If this worked, I'd expect the HF funds to start doing it too, and even faster, and then the advantage would be destroyed.
I often think react seems like the perfect use case for a graphical tool - you could write all the components yourself, so have total confidence in the markup, and just assemble them and add events etc through the gui
Double down. I can't think of any product category for which there's only space for one competitor on the market. There are plenty of competitors for pretty much every product out there. Why should your software have to be a unique snowflake?

I wouldn't care about "copycat" criticism either. Is Sainsbury's a copycat of Tesco (or vice versa)? Is Toyota a copycat of BMW?

Of course not. There are virtually limitless angles for differentiation, one of which is geographic. Do you know why there are so-called "European copycats" of US startups? Because those US startups can't focus on every market at once and focussing on the home market at first totally makes sense. Just as it then makes sense for other companies in these regional markets to try and fill that gap.
It's important to draw a distinction between tax minimization (within the bounds of the law) and tax evasion (illegal minimization). I don't think anyone here is promoting illegal evasion.
I meant you could deduce/monitor/alert on the behavior of any of the services relevant to you (i don't use SQS but metrics for it are there apparently). These have been way more helpful to me and i often show copy pastes of graphs to clients to explain problems.

ckozlowski mentioned Personal Health Dashboard which I never knew about as an alternative I should check out.

However, I agree with the fundamental premise that status.aws.amazon.com is useless except for National News scale events.

Other commenters have taught me that the status page is a regional-level view, manually updated which is something I hadn't considered and makes me understand why it might be useless.

One other thing I tried was to subscribe to the RSS feeds (on the status page) for the region/services I was interested in. I eventually turned them off as they where way too noisy, often alerting to things that didn't actually have an effect on my usage.
This really gets at the heart of the allure of conspiracy theories. If you are already predisposed to believe that something nefarious must be being discussed, the simple presence of ambiguity in the discussion becomes "evidence" of conspiracy. But that ambiguity is likely the result of the readers of the email not having very much context into the conversation. Email is not the only form of communication these people use to communicate. They also speak on the phone, as well as face to face. They likely use instant messaging and SMS. They also likely pass messages through intermediaries. They likely share memos. This is rational human behavior common to nearly every person in the world with access to the relevant technologies.

What is truly maddening about conspiracy theorists, especially those who have gained a following, is that even the simplest, most rational explanation can easily be cast as a coverup of the conspiracy. If you have already inspired fear in someone, and gained their general trust, you can perpetuate that fear indefinitely, so long as undeniable evidence to the contrary is not presented.
No they don't. The very big difference is intent and actual behavior. Sarao was blatantly not following through on any of his spoofing, which is where the intent is derived based on pattern of behavior.

If a hedge fund behaved the exact same way, they'd get in trouble for it. That is, if Renaissance Technologies decided to do spoofing on 99.999% of its market action, they'd get in trouble for it. Hedge funds doing high frequency trading, is not the same as spoofing.
True, but I've known people use it to mean something like language-agnostic technologist, with the idea that they have enough experience in one or two languages that they could pick up anything else at senior level.

> Precisely because I've picked up so many languages, I also know that the hardest part of that is what you point out

This is exactly it. The people I describe have a few similar languages under their belt, and simply extrapolate from this.

I wouldn't, for example, assume a experienced senior java dev could pick up Scala at the same level within a few months, despite the similarities; they simply lack experience with the new traits.
Three cups of coffee and maybe four diet cokes.
There are constructive comments right at the top of the article. And companies are selling devices that put their users at risk, so until we get regulation, articles like this are the how people get informed about the problem.
Agree, it's a terrible headline. Especially when, IN the interview itself, the interviewee says "I think the media blows it out of proportion a bit. People are thinking their toasters and shit are getting rooted on a daily basis."
I believe the Unions' thinking goes more like that they represent a constituency of traditional 9 'til 5 workers with steady income from one employer. Since such citizen are more likely to have Union membership, the Unions are fundamentally opposed to any social policy that would erode the basic motivation for majority of citizens to choose 9 'til 5 employment, like UBI. Remember that membership is everything to Unions.
They really go for the transparency.

Like here is what everyone working there earns:

https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/
> This glitch can permanently ruin a game file and, in the extreme case, possibly even erase or damage your cartridge.

How can this glitch erase the ROM in a cartridge?
1. That was good. At some point you need to cut your losses.

2. Yet. Microsoft has a tremendous research department. They could still come out with something game-changing.

3. This is also good. We don't need a bunch of kids who are brought up on software designed in the 1980s and hasn't advanced since.

4. I think MS has decided that they need to open up to certain degree despite the loss of revenue that it can cost because of the other less tangible benefits.

5. It's a good thing that MariaDB has been forked from MySQL because Oracle has had a tendency to kill every open source project they've acquired, or let them die.

6. The problem with Windows 8 was that aside from the improvements under the hood, every single thing that changed was for Microsoft's benefit, and not for the benefit of the users. Windows 10 backed off on this arrogance, but only a little. Microsoft has clearly made the commitment that when it comes to PC operating systems, that the user, and not the software is now the product, and that from now on, in order to get the marginal improvements in their products, you will have to sacrifice a lot in terms of privacy, usability and convenience. And that's assuming that their QA is up to snuff, which it clearly isn't.
At least in NJ, Google Maps typically does a terrible job. When I go from my home to Costco, I take one small road to the highway, take the highway, get off, and take one small road to Costco. It's very fast and easy. Makes a big L on the map, basically.

Google Maps ignores the highway and has me make twenty alternating left and right turns on tiny backroads. It's grueling, a lot of work, and you can't even go fast on them. All because Google Maps is trying to cut the diagonal from one end of the L to the other for a shorter distance. In terms of trip duration, it fails horribly, though.
It takes less than 6 months and even less than 3 months if you pay extra for expedite processing.
Not if you assume a fairly free market (not many cartels, etc).

If you could buy bread for $10, and now earn 50% more, a merchant could raise the price to $15 to try to grab the 'newly found money'.

But they would be just raising their margin, since the cost of producing the bread is the same.

A free market then will self-regulate via competition. A new merchant could enter the market charging $14 for the bread, undercutting the $15 guy. And so on, until the price reaches equilibrium based on what the people are willing to pay.

Of course, there's value in the discussion on whether UBI changes the costs of production and/or demand, but it's not as simple as 'income raises, price raises'.
intriguing - and how are you finding webflow? Is it just HTML+CSS rearranged in GUI form, or does it take away some of the more boilerplate-y aspects (clearfixes, polyfills, grid layouts etc)?
> ...someone writing it usually has an easy time explaining a non-technical manager that he is working on very complex stuff...

This drives me right up the wall. I've also found that these people are masters of stringing together jargon, so even when you sit them down to try and pass on experience it becomes too mentally exhausting trying to parse the Markov chains that fall out of their mouths.

"It seems this call here was inherently looped, boosting the complexity to at least theta x to the logx due to some improperly keyed database API tables. This poses a serious security risk."

"Okay... great... but if you could stop embedding style elements into your pages anyway, I'd really appreciate it."
Because front-end development isn’t visual development, it’s interface development.

What you’re building can be accessed visually on a variety of screen sizes, through a screen reader, a screen magnifier, a braille display, through print outs and a multitude of other different ways.

Conversely in the other direction, you’re also building application interfaces that let back-end systems feed data into the interface, and that‘s not something you’d want to use a visual editor for either.
Thing is that.. JS is usually broken, the world is usually unfair, IoT has proven itself to be usually shit and most frameworks are bad.

Xerox is not a small startup that just wants to make printing easier. Even if it was, at least some basic security practices should be considered.

I mean i'm here writing a dinky little website using SQL and golang (i am a newbie at bout) and I am sterilizing inputs to make sure that SQL injection can't happen. Meanwhile the United Nations(!!) website has been exploited by same. There's even a defcon(?) talk about how a firm was hired to asses the security of that UN website and when the guy sent them an email saying that it is vulnerable to SQL injection, they responded by threatening him to never do that (year later it wasn't fixed). Wish i could find that talk.. it was great. Then there is the Technicolor router (big company) that my cousin has, that i just googled to find it vulnerable to all kinds of things and just horrid in general. Then there is ...
Telsa is publicly traded on the US stock market. Surely it has graduated to "real company" by now. If not, when would you mark that point for a company?
I've even seen (though my wife, who's a teacher) admin that doesn't understand how replicability works, and takes on some new discipline strategy or teaching approach for their school(s), spending a bunch of money on it and wasting a ton of teachers' time, but jettisoning large parts of it they're not comfortable with... thus obviously to any observer with a lick of sense destroying any hope it had of succeeding. It's painful to watch.

I think most of the motivation for this (in general, not the specific failure mode in the previous paragraph) is blame-shifting. If you're switching stuff around you're trying something. It's a sign that you're working so hard to improve things. If it's some consulting-corporation-blessed system you don't need to justify it personally—they say it's good and sell it for you! If (when...) it fails, maybe the system was at fault, maybe the company, but at least there are potential targets for blame that aren't you.

And the only people who've lost are everyone who's not in school admin or education consulting/supply, so you know, just teachers, students, taxpayers, parents. No biggie.
hunterwerlia, I find it amusing that your response, which came in while I was writing mine, says pretty much the same thing. :-)
To clarify:

"Will buying this insurance make the business more money, and if so, how?" is a little more nuanced, since it requires consideration of risk, and dependent, unknown factors.
Sad to hear that they feel gloomy about their future. Very knowledgeable for high schooler.
In terms of easily cranking out a CRUD app, the current state of the art in web front-end development is a long ways behind Visual Basic 4 which was released in 1995.
> I don't want to start a flame war, but if the BSD license allows for them to do this, why is it morally wrong?

Because laws and moral codes differ. As an absurd example, it is legal (in most countries?) to cheat on your spouse, but it's not considered morally okay (otherwise it wouldn't be called "cheating").
Metacircular Evaluator (1986)
What I kept hearing from people inside Microsoft was that the most helpful single change was getting rid of Sinofsky, and that was when the shift really began. Apparently he (much more than Ballmer) was responsible for the "Windows first" mentality that kept hobbling the rest of the company, though of course Ballmer deserves some blame for not doing his job and pushing back on that.
Of course, but if they continue operating that way for a long time it's failed communication. Part of what I'd expect from a decent manager is letting me know if everyone thinks I have an issue while I'm totally oblivious.
Don't think so, they may be referring to the fact that since the UBI is a fixed value, then the increase for the lower income percentiles is percent-wise higher w.r.t the current income.
I think you can find at least one employee complaining anywhere, though.
Is everyone a cynic online?
I recently switched to nftables on Linux and the syntax is great, you should give it a go.
I wrote a blog post demonstrating my server configuration.
Shameless plug: https://stosb.com/blog/explaining-my-configs-nftables/
I doubt it's implying that. It's maybe possible that you could glitch the save data in a way that the game would crash or misbehave just from trying to read it, though, with no way to fix it short of discharging the save data somehow (I don't recall if gameboy games used battery backup or some kind of flash).
this is super awesome. thanks! never knew there was a linux based alternative to pfsense. any idea of comparisons from people whonhave tried both?
Which would require a lack of competition in the sock market.
No...

All the wonderful presentation done by Jobs then is nowhere to be seen these days. I used to stay awake to watch it live from 2AM but I only read the reports later these days.

Cook keeps cutting everything but the most profitable departments just to make the numbers look good when Apple was about this unified experience on various aspects of what makes up as a digital life.

Your assumption is like praising a movie doing really well because the prior installment did excellent and people expect the same until they realize it isn't what it was.
>Now people are saying that we should put all those things in one basket and hope that the politicians don't screw us over later?

Having one basket for everyone is politically easier to defend.

If you look at the Finnish or Nordic welfare model in general, most of the income transfers go to to middle class who also pays for them. Poor people are taken care on the side.

The reality is that people don't care about poor, but if you create system were everyone gets money equally, people don't want to give it up. We already have kind of UBI for children in Finland where government pays certain amount of money every month for families with children, rich and poor. Nobody wants to give it up, because free money (paid by taxes).
I played links awakening last year, and I hit this glitch by accident. I just turned my gameboy off though.
@aub3bhat: Send me more informations about that.

The PERM process in itself takes 6 months.
"Of course, there's value in the discussion on whether UBI changes the costs of production and/or demand but it's not as simple as 'income raises, price raises'"

Makes sense.
According to Wikipedia [1], "as of 1992, right turn on red is governed federally by 42 U.S.C. § 6322(c)", which reads [2]:

> Each proposed State energy conservation plan to be eligible
> for Federal assistance under this part shall include [...]
> a traffic law or regulation which, to the maximum extent
> practicable consistent with safety, permits the operator of a
> motor vehicle to turn such vehicle right at a red stop light
> after stopping and to turn such vehicle left from a one-way
> street onto a one-way street at a red light after stopping

I'm not sure how exactly the NYC exception works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/6322
I think a more apt analogy would be if you buy me a "free beer" and I drink it, then you're upset because I didn't buy you a "free beer" in exchange. If the beer wasn't meant to be free, then don't license it as "free beer".
of course, but with a UI you could actually benefit in those areas - for example, integrating something like tota11y or ally.js, and other viewing modes for different screen sizes.

on the backend interfacing side, I suppose that depends on if the UI allowed you to set up fixture data that then flowed into your template tree. I could see that being quite a nice way to visually experiment with structuring your data.
If he did 30x a year, he must have been the best investor in the world?