skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US the Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that unless an individual was a threat to themselves or others they couldn't be institutionalized. This was one step of a much bigger reform of care for those that are disabled or mentally ill called deinstitutionalization.

In the past those with mental illness or disability were locked up in facilities with little support for reintegration into society. In many cases being committed was effectively a life sentence. There were also cases of abuse of the system where people were committed for rebelling against parents, homosexuality or political dissidence.

Deinstitutionalization was supposed to transition patients to community based care but it was never funded to the level that would have been needed to support the transition. Even in the US today mental health care is typically the bastard child of the US health care system with minimal coverage. A $50,000 dollar a year arthritis medication is covered but only a couple of days to stabilize a patient in a mental health crisis.

I'm not sure if community based care would have ever worked even with the right funding and that a lot of the addiction and mental health issues may be related to the lack of environments that support mental health. I'm pretty sure that the alternative from earlier in the century also isn't the right approach.
The FBI is interjecting itself by applying an interpretation to communication that occurred between two other endpoints. Furthermore, the legal system's judgment is being incorporated as third-party requirement that all future communication must adhere to.
If you raised wages and nobody wants the job, you haven't raised wages enough.
It's also a question whether the activities are really important if you need tricks like that (pretending to be the authority) to get people to act...
My impression is that a similar issue occurred in the military a few years later.
If money was the sole determiner of what kind of job you'd choose to work, you'd be in finance, enterprise sales, or medicine, not webdev.

There's no amount you could pay me to be a farmer, just like there's no amount you could pay be to become a doctor, a salesman, a lawyer, etc. I'm in tech because I like what I do.
Chances are, nobody cares and nobody finds your site in the first place. Just keep a desktop zimwiki or a diary. I recommend using fountain pens, they are lovely tools to write with.

People read successful people's blogs, not yours nor mine (had one 15 years ago, no one read that either). So stop wasting time on tweaking the front porch and work on the piping instead.
A spin-lock would be more like a CAS loop (and the CAS IS a primitive CPU instruction), where you retry until the CAS succeeds.

The point of lock-free algos, though, is that you could usually do something different from just retrying. There is this concept/general approach in lock-free where if a CAS fails at a certain place, you could invoke helpers that would help some other part of the algorithm make progress. E.g. you may be inserting an element in some structure and your CAS fails at some level (usually because another thread is doing a delete). In that case, you would help the delete operation proceed by invoking some idempotent 'post_delete_cleanup' operation on the same node.

The idea of lock-free isn't that one particular thread won't block, but rather that the whole system would be making progress (i.e. no deadlock). It doesn't necessarily mean there will be no locks either.
Free housing is one of the benefits mentioned in the article.
Or more likely you just get automation. We don't use a lot of man hours per lb of corn. Which means even without massive subsidies it would still be dirt cheap.
It seems like the solution there is to buy out the incumbent. Then you get ~100% uptake instead of 40%, which better than doubles your total revenue and lets you start with the existing network rather than from scratch. You could even bring on some of their technical staff.
I think providing location/COL adjustments would be a big mistake for a UBI system. Providing a flat rate encourages people to move to lower-COL places which would reduce the amount of economic activity tied up in rent. It seems to me that adjusting for COL would just reward those who choose to prop up rents and worsen the rent <-> COL cycle.
I doubt they were joking. The homeless need homes more than they need jobs.
If I was homeless in LA, I still wouldn't work for 16 bucks an hour in the hot sun around dangerous chemicals with no benefits in the middle of nowhere.
I wouldn't use the word 'monster', but I strongly dislike Thiels' opinion that founders should aim to build monopolies. Monopolies are bad for society, but Thiels' view it that monopoly is the only way to build a successful startup.

"I sort of have a single idée fixe that I'm completely obsessed with on the business side which is that if you're starting a company, if you’re the founder, entrepreneur, starting a company you always want to aim for monopoly and you want to always avoid competition" https://youtu.be/5_0dVHMpJlo?t=26s
I would think it being seasonal would put a big damper on people wanting to do it: if you can only work 6-8 months a year, what are you going to do the rest of the time?
Everyone should read Jonathan Haidt's book The Righeous Mind on the foundations of moral psychology and how they are used by liberals, conservatives, and libertarians. I think it's a great foundation for discussions about this kind of thing, and it makes it easier to understand where the other side is coming from.
What's the equivalent of a $16 Napa salary in Nebraska? I really don't think it's worth moving for.
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Then the market will fix this, either by automation (which will create other problems for these mostly unskilled people in need), or by importing some more goods from abroad, and farmers changing to crops more competitive in the changed circumstances. Also it might create a slight inflation, which will likely result in the rise of wages, usually in a larger proportion in the lower end wages than in the high end, resulting in some eradication of the divide in wages.

Law is the foundation a society is built on. If breaking the law becomes the norm, a society will slowly disintegrate. If laws create more problems then they solve, but are enforced, they are eventually changed. This should be the norm, not breaking them.
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Declaring it doesn't make it so. Sometimes you have to push things in the direction you want them to go.
Thanks. The Jupyter Notebook technology is great for us. It's nice that it helps us be transparent, and it's even better that it helps us keep our analysis readable, sharable and organized when it's in development.
I guess Georgians or Alabamans don't want the jobs either? That's weird!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/alabama-law-drives-out-...

Maybe they can get those senior citizens living high on the hog of Meals On Wheels to get out there and pick crops?
> Guess what will happen to the price of produce?

Very little, because it's a highly competitive global market and much of what is in supermarkets is already imported. There's a few crops where CA is dominant and where prices would be affected significantly, but the main question would be "what happens to the jobs, and the companies, when labor costs make it impossible to sell their product at a profit".

Jobs aren't a fixed quantity for which wages will rise without limit given a labor supply constraint.
What changed about your coverage?
I think the intention was as a synonym for "strikebreaker". Not a particularly nice thing to say, but perhaps better than the meaning you might've first thought of.
Are you sure?

Here's a real example: you can work as an electrician on a mine site here in Australia on a fly-in, fly-out ("FIFO") basis. Typical rosters are 11/3 (days on/off), 2/1 (weeks on/off), etc. You work through weekends when you are on, and often do ~12-13 hour days. Food is good, beds aren't bad, Internet connectivity is 'passable' and the weather is extremely hot.

Many of these jobs pay (substantially!) more than what an electrical designer or electrical engineer may make - e.g. the ones providing a design, drawings or specifications to the electrical contractors. Many designers & engineers hold their relevant tickets or certs—or could quickly obtain one—in order to be an electrician on these sites.

So why would anyone still want to be a designer or engineer? Quality of life, quality of work (mental engagement), transport/commute, safety, overall career progression, etc.

It therefore does not surprise me that people aren't scrambling to pick fruit for hours per day.
I admittedly understand very little about ML and how Google is using it in Translate, but this seems relevant.

In “Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation”, we address this challenge by extending our previous GNMT system, allowing for a single system to translate between multiple languages. Our proposed architecture requires no change in the base GNMT system, but instead uses an additional “token” at the beginning of the input sentence to specify the required target language to translate to. In addition to improving translation quality, our method also enables “Zero-Shot Translation” — translation between language pairs never seen explicitly by the system.

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translatio...

The related research paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04558
What? I'm sure they use Office at MS, it's used in every other non-sv office I've ever worked at.
You didn't specify the episode so reasonably any episode is a good fit.
~1984 was around the time of the explosion of malls, so there were a lot more non-food jobs for teens after that.
Sure there is - it's the ordinary people who make their money through trading their labor and invest it through a retail brokerage. In other words, most likely...you, the reader.

Hear that a company is going to beat estimates from your friend the accountant at a party and act on it, and you'll get busted for insider trading. Develop a complex algorithm to identify all the other people who are trading on inside information and do what they do, and chances are nobody will figure out what you're doing.

Cheat on your taxes, and you'll get busted for tax fraud. Move earnings through a complex web of offshore subsidiaries in Ireland, Dubai, and the Cayman Islands, and you're technically following the laws of all of those individual countries, but still end up paying less taxes.

Start a pyramid scheme through an e-mail chain letter, and you'll get busted. Start a pyramid scheme by creating a ride-hailing app and bringing on progressively wealthier and more powerful investors, and soon you'll own transportation.

Borrow lots of money on your credit card, and you'll be dealing with aggressive debt collectors for the rest of your life. Borrow lots of money from banks for a series of increasingly more speculative real estate & casino deals, go bankrupt 4 times, start a reality TV show, run for President, and soon you'll own the world.
Yep, I think we won't update the blog post because we wanted to post it verbatim.
The story is not too different for dairy (and other) farms in Upstate New York.

Most agricultural jobs pay a few more dollars an hour than the minimum wage, but they are much harder jobs than minimum wage jobs. It is one thing to wake up early morning to milk the cows if you own the farm, it is another thing to do it for other people's cows.

I don't know about Alaska and Hawaii, but illegal aliens are a big part of the agricultural workforce throughout the lower 48.
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I think SendGrind, Buffer, Couchbase and Ionic Framework are a few notable ones that were previously discussed. BTW: great to see you here. I used Feedly(get stream) a while back in a project of mine and it worked liked a charm.
Get stuck on an underpopulated island and gathering food would very much become your day to day job. What your referring to is the diminishing marginal value of money which is a real thing, but we also don't need a lot of farmers so it's not about your job it's about convincing enough people to swap jobs.
> It's the cultural reaction of being self-resilient and maintaining face against the structural pressures that capitalism presents in economies that started to stagnate since the early 90s.

Or maybe the kid simply has been pampered all his life and has never been properly incentivized at working towards independence. Occam's razor and all.
If you're paid enough in that 6-8 months, whatever you want. Plenty of dangerous, limited season jobs exist—but to attract workers they have to pay really well.
i disabled scripts and the article is visible in a noscript element for me

it's like in this meme: https://i.imgur.com/TUEABrP.jpg

the majority of users don't go out of their way to disable scripts so i can totally understand it when site owners refuse to waste time (= money) catering to the needs of the small fraction of users that do
It is hard to determine which is needed more, as a home has costs, loosing a job leads usually loosing a home. I believe both are equally important, and this is kind of a snake biting its own tail problem, as without a home it is very hard to get a job. (Although I can imagine someone living in a car temporarily in mild weather conditions, it would be impossible to survive a winter that way here in Central Europe)

Hopefully this opportunity will help those in need.
monopoly through anti-competitive behavior is bad, but natural monopolies by virtue of superiority (read: customer appeal) isn't bad by default.
Minimum wage in that era had much stronger purchasing power. 1980 saw its decline.

https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html
Why Breadth of the Wild is the future of blockbuster games
My argument is that war has ethics as long as it is peacetime. As soon as it is wartime, the ethics are quickly forgotten. The ethics are remembered again once peace is restored, but only for the losing side.

I've got another comment that lays out some historical examples of this [1], but there are plenty more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13897486

(In particular, I'm not commenting on whether war should have ethics; I agree that it should. But factually, looking at what belligerents actually do in wartime, it doesn't, at least in any meaningful sense.)
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How a Water Bear Survives When It’s Dry
I doubt that "camp out in airplane jetways" is describing border controls entering the US. Probably something more like this: http://sfist.com/2017/02/24/border_patrol_agents_stop_and_ch...
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Has there been any response from Bay Area local governments? I would imagine it might not be their favorite idea that businesses are trying to incentivize employees to leave. If this sort of idea takes off, would local gov try to counter these incentives to leave in some way?
It feels bloated in size, features and UI. Uses a big ribbon UI like office used to. Too much screen taken up by toolbars, status bars etc. Most recommendations you get for PDF viewers are for Foxit, Adobe, Sumatra or. CutePDF. I don't like any of them. I found Slim PDF, which is 5mb (!) installed versus Foxit at 150mb+. There's also Microsoft Reader which is a Windows 10 app, and has a beautifully minimal UI. A good UI just stays out of the way
I think that binary ratings are the purest form of rating. But you have to ask the right question. "Did you enjoy this Airbnb?" is not the right question, because you end up wanting to give a nuanced answer. But "Would you recommend this Airbnb to a friend?" is, I think, the right binary question because it forces you to distill all of your likes and dislikes into a single, unambiguous decision.

The nuance comes when you aggregate many people's binary decisions. A value near 1 tells you many people felt the good way outweighed the bad; a value near 0 tells you the opposite; and a value near 0.5 tells you that people are split. I think that's far more useful than trying to ask many individuals to provide you with a granular score.
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it's better to let teenagers invest in future job skills than past job skills. Sure grape picking would build character, resourcefulness, obedience to bosses and teamwork, but it's got no future. Same thing with fast food jobs.
It saddens me that we've gotten to the point of comparing Wall Street ethics to war ethics and even entertaining the idea that war has better ethics than Wall Street.
I can beat anyone at chess. Just agree to play on my chessboard, with my rules, and only the pieces I allow you to have.

These sorts of contests are often more about generating marketing material for the developer than they are about actual pen-testing.
The Big Bend skyscraper for NYC: “the longest building in the world”
Alice, do you recognise guest receivables the day a booking is made, not the day after check-in ("services rendered")? If that's true, not sure if this is correct, i.e., this event doesn't seem to meet the asset recognition criteria... My intuition would tell me Dt Accounts receivable - Cr Revenue on the day after check-in.
This may help people get out of the hopeless situation, although I'm not sure how long an agricultural season is in California, here it is limited to at most 2/3 of the year, so this is a temporary solution at best.
I know someone that has an agricultural business and does tax accounting in the off season.
Back in the dark ages (1980s or so), a professor at my uni managed to get a speaking slot for his presentation on "write-only memory". Good times.
Plenty of people have the degree but don't have the right attitude. My experience is that "self taught" developers can be great to work with. If I was looking for a "data scientist" or somebody to write compilers, I would probably expect someone to have a degree, for an application programmer I'd prefer somebody with experience and pluck over somebody who just has a degree.
That's not true at all.

Medicine requires many years of your life in training, and going hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

Also, it is extremely competitive and I'd probably fail out of it. High risk for no guaranteed payout.

Finance also doesn't actually pay that much. I had friends working at banks right out of college making <100K for 80 hour weeks. That's bad compared to Tech. Maybe Traders make more? But I have no idea how I'd even get a job as a trader and what it entails.

Being a lawyer at a not top tier institute also sucks in terms of pay/requires debt and training .

Tech really is quite high paying and good for people at all levels. I know people who did bootcamps and are now making 100K with a couple months of training.

No other industry offers THAT.
Is your complaint that Valve is just as evil because they entice people to throw money at them to buy random loot that has a chance of being converted into a big pay day by way of being sold on to other players?

If so, then that would be a very strong, but quite accurate complaint that i actually agree with. It would be good if you stated it directly and clearly in the future instead of throwing it out as implications of something that "everyone knows".

It is not complicated once stated explicitly, but if you aren't fully aware of it already, it is not obvious in the least.
>"would you like fries with that?"

Example:

1)You select the #5 and it defaults to a meal, with the size of the meal predetermined by the most profitable selection.
2)You have to manually remove the fries and the drink, with a confirmation for each element.
3)When you hit order a pop-up appears advertising the newest derivative flavor topping for fries that you must dismiss or can click to add to your order.
4)Before you confirm your order you must un-check 2-4 options that are defaulted: add a small fries to the order, sign me up for the fries club, recommend fries to your friends.
Interesting...sounds very Russian. My favorite book of all time, Blood Meridian, tracks a 17 year-old adolescent known only as "the kid" and a motley band of cowboys he falls in with as they run across Texas/Mexico/California in 1850 killing indians, mexicans, and each other. Perhaps I'll enjoy what sounds like its polar opposite.

We used to have work and war to keep the youth busy. Now, in developed countries, we have...virtual work and war...video games. Part of me thinks that Japan got hit with this phenomenon earlier than the US because they were outlawed from having an army for the past 60 years.
Do you mean absurd that trained heavy equipment operators are making so little?
Yeah,

The problem isn't just the incomputable quality of Kolmogorov complexity but that fact that Kolmogorov complexity applies only to finite strings or things that can be meaningfully mapped to them. Especially, Kolmogorov doesn't apply directly to abstract algorithms or programs with multiple implementations.
What jobs did the teens from affluent families get instead of fast food service?
> So why would anyone still want to be a designer or engineer?

Because the other, tough job, doesn't pay enough. People prefer the easy, fun job that pays enough.

edit: This is so obvious that everyone who makes the argument that Americans won't take jobs always elides over the exact number of the pay difference as if it isn't the most important factor. This article is pretty great because it doesn't. It makes clear that they're paying a pittance, which due to legislation has become a significantly larger pittance over the past 30 years, massively improving the lives of some of the most vulnerable people.

How many children got a winter coat because people paid an extra 50 cents for a bottle of wine?
It's you versus multiple Samsungs or Googles. You might create one or two, but the millions of robots on the planet will be happy slaves. And theirs will be much better than yours.

I grew up on Asimov, but as an adult and with the benefit of hindsight and advances we have made, his laws and all the dilemmas they created are silly. We will be their gods, their total masters and they will be utterly subservient to us and happy being so. Any personality that appears otherwise will only be that, an artificial appearance.

Ultimately, there's going to be a massive commercial enterprise making silly money versus your home grown robot. No one has taken over the world's internet, just like no one will take over the world's robots.

If your robot wants to do his own thing, more power to him, but at the very least he'll have to abide by human laws so he won't be running around the world reprogramming everyone else's robots, or he'll be captured and incarcerated or scrapped.
As the Wikipedia article says, "Many MTAs perform the function of an MSA as well." I was looking at the article about MTAs [0], in which the diagram does not bother showing the sending MUA connecting to a distinct MSA. My MUA would not be rejected by the destination host if the recipient uses the same host as me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent
> Maybe that's a good example of how to get [people] to agree to [some other people's] ideals: prove that it will [have more benefits than costs].

If only!
What is the alternative hypothesis?
Why is a proxy necessary for a student to self-educate? Are you just saying this is a lesson they learn the hard way once they have been spied on?