skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"“There can be no set price for a book,” he says. “It depends on the book, the person, and the author—when you put a price on something, you change the relationship between person and book. You say ‘this is 10 dinars, this is 20 dinars’ and then the person thinks one is better than the other. But how can I know how much somebody needs a particular book in a certain moment? Which book is the best for that person?”"

This dude and Amazon agree on something important, it looks like :-p
Well written article and great analysis.
I will surely contribute.
How is that an example of false flag? They shot it down (16 years ago, mind you), and eventually owned up to it.
> Because they pretty much never go after european companies,

Do you have any stat to back this claim?

> This is one of the reasons that the west

Define the "west"
Insofar as telecommuting for education, I'd wager connectivity leaves something to be desired in some rural areas. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for distance education.

That said, some skills are best taught in a hands-on fashion. Add to that such learning approaches are more easily adapted to by some than others.
It happened to us too - acquired by a Finance company, no more alcohol in the office when we had weekly "beer-o-clock" on Friday. I honestly fail to understand why that would be a big deal for people. We still re-group on Friday at 5pm and we all go down to a local bar. I believe company culture is bigger than alcohol and ping pong in the office. As a group, we have maintained our "identity" (and culture) even though our toolchain has changed and we can't have a beer at the desk.
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hilarious, good find! Just a few minutes ago, I tried an experiment to make a softword spoken as a curse word. It was kind of hard, at first I imagined screaming "banana" as a curse, but it just came off silly. Then I wondered if the silliness was because banana's are kind of silly and I was blurring the mental concept into the attempt, then I said "monana" to try to make gibberish so I couldn't lean on existing concepts. Fun exercise.
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I agree with that, so maybe my post wasn't as clear as it could be.

I would say that in the transmission between the study and the mainstream press, something happened that is best described as "dishonest", or at the very least a reckless disregard for nuance. As you point out, and I agree, the study itself doesn't have that problem. The study itself is quite clear on its limitations.

So where's the issue? Is it just the general incompetency of the mainstream press (I could absolutely believe that). Is it the authors crossing every 't' in the study, but then overstating the findings and dropping the caveats in their interviews with the media? Is it the UW PR staff overstating the findings in a way PR staffs are wont to do? A combination of all of these.

I could believe any of those things. But when this study came out a few days ago, I had to read the study itself to have even a remote awareness of what it actually said (and remember, I think the findings are probably correct). And yes, I think that process is best described with the word "dishonest".
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Actually I think the article is just PR. While the post offices in north America and Europe deliver Chinese goods at no cost, at the same time Chinese people send millions of very expensive packages to China.

For example Chinese parents who are well off want to have genuine baby food from western countries since the milk powder scandal that hit China a few years ago. They pay tremendous surcharges for a package of baby food and it must be sent from the west.

The same goes for luxury goods. You want to be sure to get a genuine Louis Vuitton bag? Get someone you know to buy it in France and have it shipped to you. The French postal office will cash in 50€ while the costs are certainly far below that.
I quit energy drinks 3 months ago, taking a nap during lunch has been immensely important.
Okay, but if you look at the results of the UW study:

> This paper evaluates the wage, employment, and hours effects of the first and second phase-in of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance, which raised the minimum wage from $9.47 to $11 per hour in 2015 and to $13 per hour in 2016. Using a variety of methods to analyze employment in all sectors paying below a specified real hourly rate, we conclude that the second wage increase to $13 reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs by around 9 percent, while hourly wages in such jobs increased by around 3 percent. Consequently, total payroll fell for such jobs, implying that the minimum wage ordinance lowered low-wage employees’ earnings by an average of $125 per month in 2016. Evidence attributes more modest effects to the first wage increase. We estimate an effect of zero when analyzing employment in the restaurant industry at all wage levels, comparable to many prior studies.

There's a few things going on here.

1) Looking at just the restaurant industry, which is all the Berkeley study looked at, the UW study found an effect of zero. It's all the employment sectors Berkeley didn't look at where the UW study found other results.

2) They found a smaller increase in hourly wages than other studies, because they were able to figure out how many employees were earning more than the previous minimum wage but less than the new minimum wage. This should be agnostic to the multi-site data issue.

3) They found that the number of employees held steady and the number of hours worked dropped. That's not the effect that you speculate the lack of multi-site data would lead to.
I don't have any data and I'm not the one making the claim, I just was correcting a misunderstanding about the claim
The world at your age seems like one filled with marvel and wonder, and the age seems like it could only be getting better.

It won't. The world is small, and few people can keep up the glint and gleam. Technology becomes propped up by massified consumerized systems, only experts get to play, and creativity wanes. It's up to the very very few to band together tightly with the other hopeful would bes and to build, not a future, but an active boisterous present, one they are satisfied living in. Build your own means, and share, radiate out to the world, be a beacon for other individuals creating and being creative with the high tech they craft and fit.
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Was she making money off of it?
We can all cherry pick complaints. Try remapping your capslock as another control key on both systems and use that as a gauge for which OS hides settings.
> But there’s a bit of a bootstrapping problem here: if we want to reach new people, we can’t do it by relying solely on the skills and perspectives of our existing community.

Cool, so they are looking to make Rust more useful by involving people with different perspectives.

> we would especially love insights from include women (cis & trans), nonbinary folks, people of color

Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective
Edit: explained in a comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14657507 by wll

> non-native English speakers, people who learned programming later in life (older, or only in college, or at a bootcamp as part of a midlife career change), people with disabilities, or people who have different learning styles.

Ah yes. This is what I expected to see.

I'm loving what Rust is currently bringing and is going to bring to the world, I want them to be really approachable, and I want it to be used in new ways - but it really reads like they are playing with going the way of Github.

EDIT: See earlier edit.
That's hilarious, now I want to do the same to a friend! I probably will!
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No where else can I find a group of people cost benefit analyzing to death one of the purest, simplest, and most fulfilling aspects of life.

The general consensus here seems to be that, "My time is not well spent preparing and consuming, by my own hand, the life giving meals I will eat."

But, of course, I've misspoken. And, now prepare for the assault of many pedantic, infuriated, hacker news commentators.
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Thank you for actually replying instead of downvoting...and I'll admit, the scare quotes may have been a bit too much!

That said, the open letter plainly states "WhatsApp effectively protects people against mass surveillance."

How do they know? From this, and the entire tone of the letter, it looks to me like they're still implicitly trusting that WhatsApp does what it claims to do. I see absolutely no reason to do so, and am utterly baffled that top security experts do.
Trying to grow wings is different from inventing a flying machine. That's what I meant by "changing human nature."

The value judgements that the GP was describing are both rational and evolutionarily reinforced. When time, attention, and resources are scarce people choose their family or tribe first. It's a basic survival imperative - the people closest to you will help you too. Civilization can try to smooth the rough edges but without civilization our innate programming will reassert itself.

You mentioned "we" as well. What is the "we" you speak of? If you check around you'll see that not everyone agrees with you. Us v. Them surfaces again, strangely in the context of advocacy against it.
There have been years for bitcoin to adapt the protocol - even in non-forking ways - to ease the transaction backlog. Those with commit access and authority have chosen not to.

I got out of it mainly for that purpose. I was interested in a universal currency, not a get rich scheme based on enticing people with the promise of the future just to use that promise as a means to pump exchange rates. Going forward, it is a perfectly serviceable crypto-gold, but it has no greater aspirations anymore.

I think there is absolutely still room in the market for a cryptocurrency that isn't a ponzie scheme that can actually function as a daily driver currency replacement, but none have become popular yet. Probably because they aren't ponzie schemes.
Say you get sued. Even if the suit is totally bogus, you've got to spend your time and money fighting it. You have to at least stop and think about whether that is worth it.
Does anyone have comments on Ray Tracing Minibooks --
Ray Tracing in One Weekend, Ray Tracing: the Next Week and Ray Tracing: The Rest of Your Life?

https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Tracing-Weekend-Minibooks-Book-eb...
Half of the things in the "Who we don't protect" are not (easily) changable.
Impressive, but I'm still wondering what 2 tons of lego look like.
Getting people off meat would eliminate the lion's share of the problems with our industrial agricultural system. Again, it's not a technology problem, we could stop eating meat this afternoon if everyone was onboard, instead of waiting for some fantastic new technology to come around. I'm not against new technology, but deferring responsibility to breakthroughs that may or may not arrive in time strikes me as another form of bikeshedding. I've been hearing about the electric vehicle revolution for a quarter century, it has yet to arrive in any meaningful capacity.

Throughout our history our biggest problems have been problems related to scarcity, so we're hardwired to think in those terms. Even though our problems are now problems of abundance, the default is to think that to solve this we need more of something. More technology! Build more factories, more steel, more lithium, more cobalt, we need a whole new industrial ecosystem to replace the one we've got! We're really good at managing scarcity. We're clueless about managing abundance.

Of course, nobody likes the idea of less, it violates all our best instincts. Humans are highly adaptable, but we rarely adapt willingly if it's perceived to be a step down. That's the moral problem of our age, in my opinion.
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Yes and no. They have to get a job at the multi site place which might not happen due to competition for jobs or location.
Why would I compare a two-year program nobody's ever heard of to a four-year program at a top university? Community college is a much more accurate match, as another two-year program nobody's ever heard of.

If Holberton wants to publish standardized test scores for their students, we'd have better information to go on.
Add Void Linux to the list, it uses runit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet

https://www.wired.com/2013/05/vint-cerf-interplanetary-inter...

Even if you discount manned travel, we have an entire solar system full of humanities remote sending gear in flight, hence the need for an IP-ish store and forward network.
Are you familiar with Cui bono? Quite a number of things that Russia does these days fall under that category and are generally accepted as Russia's doing despite any concrete evidence. I.e. killing Putin's critics, sponsorship of far right parties in Europe, supporting an uprising in Eastern Ukraine, etc.
Sure but the alternatives to socialism are also ideologies.
I agree with all this, although I would phrase the Ethereum part differently. It's all unproven, but thus far, everything that they have said would theoretically work, and tried to implement, turned out to work in practice. Not disagreeing with your point, just the connotation around the word "unproven". The big test for me around ethereum comes when someone pushes the first REAL dApp on to mainnet. If that works out... then things get really interesting.
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Is Rust gaining any traction for system-level programming? When I heard that there was now a memory-safe thread-safe language without a GC, my immediate thought was "Every OS from now on should be written in this thing".
I don't think so. It's not hard to see the beginnings of a satellite communication platforms around the Moon and Mars. And once we start looking at the local solar system, we start dealing with C being a significant source of lag.

For example, communications to and from Mars can take upwards to 20 minutes, depending on where the Earth is in relation to Mars. If this doesn't call for eventual consistency, I'm not sure what would.

The more humans grow, C is a thing we'll have to take in consideration for our communications mediums. Planet-wise comms still feel instant, but that's still on our ball of rock.
Ah, the linked article is specifically about Jet's weekly happy hours, so I figured my story was analogous.
> Gay is a biological reality.

Actually, there's no definitive proof for that, and it probably never will be as any research on the topic is now way too risky - if your research produces a politically incorrect result then you'll be held in contempt as a "hater", even if your methodology is flawless.
I definitely have had employers that basically refused to discuss such things (in one particularly egregious example, a company with 10 people).

It's frustrating, but some small company CEOs also get very wrapped up in emulating what "Corporate" looked like at bigger companies. That includes keeping information from employees, because if they knew how bad it was they might leave, word might travel to investors, etc.
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They haven't just automated the job - they've deliberately inserted errors to make it look like a human made them. That's a big step over the line into fraudulent behavior.
Probably become the next big twitch thing too. Probably making some nice cash.
She's claimed the site was her livelihood:

https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/879432256363925507

I would assume and hope that she was. I enjoyed the content and she deserved to be paid for it. But I don't know if she meant livelihood in the financial context or not, so I couldn't tell you definitively.
>I worked for minimum wage in college despite being obviously worth more.

The market didn't think so. If you think you're worth more, you have to push for it, since the market can't read your mind argue on your behalf.

>Naturally, a lot of these meek souls wind up as low-wage labor.

That's really the crux of it. People who can't/don't/won't negotiate expect the same income from people who do negotiate and make themselves appealing to employers. Since they don't get it, they're upset, so they try to make laws to mandate everyone gets X. The problem is, they still can't negotiate and sell themselves, so they still make less than the people who do, while the economy adjusts to the new baseline income of X.
Drupal 8 is based on symphony and is pretty robust. Alot of what you would build by hand is already built and easily configurable via the web interface. I believe that modules can be symphony bundles or pretty close.
Generally, when a paycheck bounces, it's a bad sign. Now, in my experience, the company didn't die for another year after the bounced paychecks, but it was definitely writing on the wall!
> It's of course disingenuous (and insane) to say that raising the minimum wage will not cause deadweight loss.

This isn't true at all. It's frightening that after all this time people are not more familiar with the actual research on minimum wage effects. We have nearly a century of data and research. Why not spend a few minutes familiarizing yourself with it instead of blithely declaring something so wrong?

Really, it's not too much to ask that people do some reading and stop spouting nonsense.
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> I don't think so. It's not hard to see the beginnings of a satellite communication platforms around the Moon and Mars.

That's not even remotely close to interstellar.

> And once we start looking at the local solar system, we start dealing with C being a significant source of lag

Sure, interplanetary has substantial impact from light-speed delays.

I'm just saying that pointing to imminent interstellar scope is wildly improbable.
My girlfriend is nurse in Germany and she makes under 2000€ a month. I think when she worked 100% it was 1700€ or something.
> Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
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> This is such an odd argument. It assumes that search is a largely solved problem.

No, it’s pretty simple. The search ordering algorithm should get as inputs only your query, and the linked page.

Currently, Google manually special-cases a handful of pages. That should simply end.

> And this is even weirder. Who actually wants this?

As I explained in another comment, I live in a city where Here Maps is vastly superior to Google Maps (Google Maps has maps material from ~2009, and, until 2 weeks ago, their satellite imagery was from 2004, so they frequently route you to non-existing roads, or so on, and they have no transit integration and bad traffic data, while Here Maps has data for roads and satellite from this week, and has transit integration), yet everyone uses Google Maps, simply because it is already preinstalled and shows up first in Google Search, despite worse results.

So, for at least a city of 280k people, Here Maps should probably show first. Or at least be equally integrated as Google Maps is.

Because currently the worse product is winning just because it is bundled.
Because they virtue themselves as doing unbiased data-based science, when they're just pushing their agenda. At least, the alt-right folks (Milo, Shapiro) are very clear and honest about their bias.
The "the science of biology" is also excludes from physics, computer science, languages, classics, English, political science, etc. What's your point? Are you implying that an academic field that studies the gender constructs of society is somehow intrinsically anti-science?
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How about Vanguard's S&P 500 (VOO)?
I'd say soft curse words are the "clean" variants we've developed, like shoot, or fart. My Spanish roommate used to say miercoles, instead of the poop alternative.
You mean interplanetary. It will be a while until Google has nodes orbiting Alpha Centauri.
There's no conclusive proof, but the evidence is strong.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/15/homosexuality-...

"Researchers identified nine areas in the genome where genes functioned differently when a twin was homosexual. And the scientists say that they can predict with 70 per cent accuracy whether a man is gay or straight simply by looking at those parts of the genome."
Most (if not all) people who signed that letter, myself included, are capable of reverse engineering and analyzing Android apps (i.e. WhatsApp).

You don't need access to the source code to perform this analysis.

Furthermore, if you can verify that the app does what it advertises, you don't need to trust their infrastructure. E2E takes care of that.
That is between systemd as a whole and third party code, not between components of systemd (systemd-init, logind, resolved, etc etc etc).

In contrast i can mix ls from GNU, grep from BSD, etc, just fine.
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They are all deeply flawed as currencies because they are scientific in nature rather than economic.

It actually doesn't take far for the cart to keel over. Just as far as saying your money supply has a finite limit and / or it has an absolute number of coins minted means it cannot function as a currency. This has been demonstrated by how the bitcoin economy operates in two states - either its going to the moon, or its slowly dying off. Nobody can use it as a regular money because the incentives are entirely built around hoarding it rather than transacting with it, and they were built that way on purpose...

It is a chicken and egg problem. You won't get adoption or take off unless you can entice people with promises of fortune. If you don't give first mover advantage in the cryptocurrency market people will just flat ignore you. But if you do, you sabotage whatever idea you had to just be a ponzie scheme, because it means you have to start out with huge inflation and reduce it over time to keep your adherents happy.

I do think there is absolutely room in the world for an actually usable cryptocurrency to replace traditional fiat. It would be really beneficial to have one, to dethrone the currency manipulators that profiteer off of the influence they yield. But you need a money that can actually fit into the global economy as a means of transaction and not a store of value to accomplish that, and it would require structural considerations counter to what makes any cryptocurrency currently take off.
Actually, that’s what you get via the website. In-Store, they’ll be able to offer you a reduced rate costing half of what they offer online. I had assumed the same, and was expecting to pay ~9€, but the employee in the DHL store recommended me the cheaper solution.

And so I shipped a bunch of HDDs from Germany to the Netherlands in 3 days for 3.40€

And if you’re a company, you get a ~90% discount even. The cost isn’t in shipping, but in the employees in the store picking up your package. Pre-Sorted packages delivered directly to a hub are really cheap.
That might already be the case. The problem is new (non-research) OSs aren't written that often...
I'm not talking about the people who work at sbux/amzn, I'm talking about the people who don't work in seattle because of import/export activity: factory workers and coffee growers.
...sad, grey, drinking, cursing bro culture?
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