skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your assuming there is just one person. In the real world finding someone well trained is almost always
much cheaper and lower risk than training someone.
What happens when facts disappear?
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More reasons for switching to Firefox include the ability to easily set up a self-hosted sync server allowing you to share your browser settings across several clients. While Chrome for Android does not support extensions, the mobile Firefox version does allow you to install ad blockers while being able to sync your mobile and desktop clients. AFAIK, Chrome for Android does not support a custom sync server at all.

I recently switched from Chromium to Firefox and am running Firefox on my Linux system as a different user than my main account for increased security. The only thing that bothers me is the missing magnification bubble which is used by Chrome for Android if it cannot reliably determine which link I clicked on.

If Chrome allowed to block ads on mobile devices and implemented a feature for easily setting up custom sync servers, I would happily switch back for security reasons.
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I think it's more a response to the wave of attacks against unsafe parsers, such as those used to read subtitles in media players.
I think it's pretty clear that Chrome won the battle and Firefox is going nowhere but down. Personally, I can't see it happen fast enough.

The security of Firefox is (and always has been) atrocious to say the least, and will get you owned. This is not just my personal assessment, but a widely held opinion amongst security experts.

On top of that the codebase is completely rotten (personal opinion). I can run Chrome for months, without crashes but
Firefox can't stay running for more than a couple of days, not to mention leaking memory like no tomorrow.
I'd rather like a step back to the sensibility of times past when you chucked something out and it just did its job until something blew up

Then I think you'll love Slackware!
> Real life isn't just an elaborate Austrian economics simulator.

Well, yeah; for one thing, given that Austrian economics is more normative than predictive, I'm not sure what such a simulation would do.
Unless you start spending more time online when you factor in the time spent waiting for page loads, plus potentially getting distracted and opening more tabs while waiting.
Unfortunately, when certain (notably javascript-heavy) websites run so slow in Firefox, it's too frustrating to use given that Chrome runs them just fine. Even on a beast of a PC with more than enough RAM and a fast i7 processor, Firefox's Spidermonkey engine appears to just be far superior to Chrome's V8.
Well in the UK it was mostly a panic over he general strike in 1926 that started the restrictions on the right to self defence (derived from common law)
The purpose of the deliberate errors is to avoid (or delay) having the discussion about the automation. He is not "on the hook" for fraud unless he acts like he's in a sit-com and blurts out that this has been going on for 6-months.

He could just say: "...hey, I've been working on automating this task, I think I got it working now."
How would apply this advice to a forture 500 company where "payoff" isn't part of the equation?
I haven't seen anything like that, but I also rarely see microkernels in the wild. I'm not even sure if Rust runs on MINIX at all.
VR recorders are not cameras, like mobiles are not phones
A company automating jobs and firing people is called progress. A person automating his job without being fired is sustainable progress.
Cutting vacation days was mentioned. I'm wondering if switching from fixed vacation days to unlimited is also a sign of penny-pinching.
I think it's awesome to make critics about how capitalism is bad by using Qatar where basically no freedom exists and everything is controlled by the state. Not even mentioning actual slavery.
I agree: "Sorry, this is bullshit" is vastly, vastly preferable.

Has the advantage of depersonalizing the issue and avoiding the (completely unnecessary) sexual/aggressive overtones -- while still sending an unequivocally clear message (that you also wouldn't necessarily mind being quoted for in the press or in a book, some day).
They ask you for a list of all the passwords you control.
Rust has an important advantage over many other languages: since Firefox now requires it, for most desktop distributions it becomes one of the "must have" languages, together with C and C++. That makes writing system software in Rust an easier sell. Also, IMO Rust sits between C and C++ in the programming language spectrum, so it should be more acceptable for C and C++ programmers than higher-level languages.
The article starts out with a lot of mumbo jumbo about how petroleum supposedly was created (note that Russian science doesn't buy into the petroleum hypothesis). More importantly, none of the issues attendant to an Aramco IPO are addressed, with legal hazards being #1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-stop-signs-along-saudi-a...
I played it almost to completion a couple of years ago. I found it very helpful to shore up basic Vim skills, and introduce me to more advanced commands. Come to think of it, I could probably use a refresher...

I'd recommend it.
We've been working on a SaaS product for the last couple of years, and browser compatibility is very important to us. From a web development perspective, sometimes I wish I didn't have to deal with Firefox. I know mozilla and its FF helped shape and pioneer a lot of the tech and tools we use today for web development, but I find it to be the most finicky browser in terms of rendering.
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> Apparently going to high school, studying and passing the SAT, applying and being accepted into university, studying, passing, and graduating university is just luck.

Well all of those things do have a lot to do with what kind of opportunities in life you started out with. Look at the SAT [1] or college graduation rates [2].

> Is there nothing ever we can do to improve our circumstances and our lives?

I think this is a hyperbolic reading of of this article. Obviously the author knows they worked hard. They just know that they had opportunities which other hard working people didn't have. What's wrong with that?

[1]: https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/10/07/sat-scores-and-in...
[2]: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poor-students-drop-even-finan...
Many small trivial things can add up. Also, if we cater to the status quo ("the vast majority of programmers"), the status quo is less likely to change.
He's using the "I feel guilty" metric. It's useful in a lot of cases, but in his, it seems to cloud his reasoning to a large degree.
i agree that improving your circumstances is the best thing.

i also dont dismiss standard of living arguments, i think they are valid. but i think they aren't the whole picture. i think alot of how we feel depends on how we compare to those around us. 100 thirsty people in a desert are much more pissed off if you add 1 person with excess water standing right next to them not giving them any. so, some consideration to the overall shape of the distribution of wealth is necessary in my opinion.
I think it is too late - Any refuting of the original narrative will get you labeled a shill, "JTRIG", or discussion turns to "well you can't know what is going on for sure"
He talks about the unfairness of "our economic system" but he makes his income from Qatar's economic system. Qatar likes to spend their oil money on western professors to give themselves an air of legitimacy.

As for renting out property, it's never effortless or risk-free. If it was, the rate of return would drop to that of other minimum risk assets (e.g. treasury bonds).
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Well, what's going on in Qatar IS slavery for all intents and purposes. The workers are imported from southeast Asia, and their employer holds their passport, preventing them from leaving. In a free market people need to be able to have a choice to freely leave. Many of those workers would probably leave if they could.
I don't understand why you need alcohol at work so bad you wouldn't want to work there without it. To me, that sounds like a dependency issue or possible wanna-be-fratboy-ism.

Booze is awesome but there's a time and place for it. If someone gets loaded at work enough to impair their ability to drive, then gets into an accident and injures or kills someone, their employer (in the US at least) could be liable in part. It's one thing to go out with your coworkers after work, or maybe even have a beer over lunch before going back to work, and it's another to need booze on premises.
I think this was more helpful than any other vim resource i found when beginning. Highly recommend!
To your last point, I literally just counted after reading your comment without changing anything. I have 68 tabs open in Chrome (over four windows, two each in two different profiles), and this is fairly representative of my usage since my laptop was last rebooted (19 days and change) and I have had zero issues.

Counterpoint: I have 16 GB of memory in this computer.

Counterpoint to my counterpoint: I have had Emacs running the entire time as well, and IntelliJ running most of the time (it periodically freezes after monitor connect/disconnect events and has to be restarted).
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Yeah but Hulk Hogan (who is admittedly rich but maybe not fuck-you rich) was the plaintiff. Not Thiel.

And you are only proving my point. In most cases, individuals are the ones forced to settle with corporations because they don't have the resources to fight corps.

The same would have happened with Hulk Hogan if he had not been bankrolled by Thiel.

So, if anything, it was Thiel's actions that tipped the balance in the direction of the individual, who, mind you, was entirely in the right in this particular case.
How have slaves ever historically created leverage?
Which sucks, because we had some really good coding talent.

On the other hand, you're still in business - right?
> Capital gains is taxed lower than income?

This is actually true. You can make up to $75,900 on capital gains alone if you're married, and pay zero income tax on that.

http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/articles/Taxes-Whats-...
Chrome profiles are the killer feature for me that prevent me from moving to another browser. I wasn't surprised to see profiles in the short list of reasons to stick with Chrome. Privacy implications be damned, I liked having separate simultaneous profiles running for multiple work and personal accounts.
It's the American metric - In America, the richer you are, the more you're able to afford hiring shifty accountants and lawyers who hide away your money and get you out of paying taxes. The more you're able to create offshore accounts and shell companies to hide your earnings. The more you're able to pay off politicians and others to look the other way while you do this.

The metric the author is using is the fantastic state American politics are in.
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Subsidizing lettermail from poor countries seems reasonable. I might have to work for half an hour to earn enough to pay postage to anywhere in the world; it's undesirable for the recipient to have to pay three months' wages to send me a reply.

Subsidizing businesses abroad seems less desirable, especially if it costs us millions of dollars a year. That should just be part of the price of the good, whether or not it goes through a US intermediary. Instead we have this weird system where purchases directly from China are subsidized by taxes, but domestic purchases are "full price".
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That's a fantastic question, one I'm sure investors are considering. At this time it seems the answer might be leaning towards "not enough" but I think it will be interesting to see what follows and what their trajectory is from here.
I think you learned not to tell people how the sausage is made.
I'm much more worried about these governments and their censorship than I am Google's near monopoly on search.
But 17% of an entry-level job is HUUUUUGE for the student. If I paid that in my internships and entry-level jobs, I'd be in trouble.

Granted, over the long run, it's a great deal! Just short-term, it's extremely expensive. Personally, I'd opt for a smaller payment that lasts longer, even if it means more money for you.
> privilege ... [isn't] central to the post

> Be lucky.

Being lucky and being privileged are definitely related. Privilege isn't just the color of your skin but the opportunities you're born with (rather than earned).

Basic income is also related, because it's purported as a system to fix the inequalities discussed in the article. Whether or not it will fix those inequalities is another discussion, but it's certainly relevant to the topic.
Different types of income at taxed at different rates. The US Federal Income tax is rather progressive, with those at the bottom paying a negative rate (so they get more back than they pay in) and the bottom 40% paying effectively 0%.

Taxes on investments, as this author is likely alluding to, are taxed at a different rate that can sometimes be lower than, say, someone in the top 20% is paying, even though the person earning the money through investments may be making millions and have a net worth of $1 billion. Warren Buffet posts his taxes each year, if you want to see a simple example of this. There are various arguments for and against this, but most of them are too simple and focus on the extremes. Overall though, this could be improved and optimized.

US taxes are weird (I think?) in that there are the posted rates, and then we all deduct lots of things (mortgage interest, charitable contributions, etc) and end up with an effective rate that is sometimes significantly lower.
Thank you. This was a very good recommendation.
More details and Q&A here: https://www.dhs.gov/aviation-security. A couple of highlights:

- The current PEDs restriction implemented in March 2017 will be removed should the 10 airports comply with the enhanced security measures outlined in the TSA directive issued June 28, 2017 and when such procedures are verified by TSA inspectors.

- Over the next few weeks and months, DHS/TSA will work with aviation stakeholders to ensure these enhanced security measures are fully implemented. Those stakeholders who fail to implement these requirements and the follow-on measures within certain timeframes run the risk of additional security restrictions.
Also tax havens and loopholes I suspect. Bon Jovi has some number of strawberry bushes on his estate so that he can count it as a farm for tax purposes.
No, I knew that before, hence negotiating up-front. That's what caused my surprise.
"a bunch of filthy lies"

Can you quantify?
> Generally life is an IQ test and rewards those who make optimal choices WRT events in their life.

Do you think that if you'd been born in a slum you would have a decent chance of winning in the IQ test & optimal choice events in your life? I would imagine that almost anyone reading these comments has been unbelievably fortunate to be born into relatively wealthy circumstances & had things like "books" around to help bolster their IQ.
> In terms of being unconstitutional, maybe it is, but it's the only solution to this problem. People who are unable to take care of their basic needs and defecate on the streets need to be forced into group home situations until they demonstrate an ability to handle the difficulties of managing self-care.

You're advocating for in-prisoning people who cannot afford or, for whatever reason, can't live in a home. That's really awful and lacking in empathy. That's almost like debtors prison.

The vast majority of these people will actually stay in a home if you provide one. The majority of them in SF, however, do not have access to any type of shelter because the existing shelters are far too overcrowded and any attempts at building new shelters get held up for years by people who don't want homeless people in their neighborhoods.

The solution to helping someone is providing them with healthcare (preventative is far cheaper than reactionary care for the tax payer) and providing them with a place to stay. Currently we don't really do either, especially in SF.
I think the real question is whether this person is salaried or hourly.

If they're hourly, then yeah, billing 40 hours a week when you only did 2 is fraud.
If salaried, I think it's okay.

Here's why: Individuals in the company will be good or bad, ethical or unethical. The company itself will (likely) be largely amoral and driven solely by a profit motive.

So when this person announces that he's automated himself out of a job, it sounds like it won't be a matter of 'great work, here's a cut of all the money you saved us and some more interesting work.' It'll likely be a matter of 'thanks, here's your contractually required severance.'

That is what it is, but if the company is allowed to be driven by profit motive, he should be too. It is within the best interests of his profit motive to continue with the automated work. For some reason when the person is an employee, it's no longer okay to be a sociopathic profit-motivated machine, we're actively disgusted by this type of behavior.

It seems like there should be a fairness principle in this situation when making a decision about things such as this that treats the employer and the employee as equals in a contractual obligation.
I don't envy Fb for having to try and manage the cesspool that is human discourse. What a thankless lose-lose endeavour that must be.

There will always be people who want to attack those who are not part of their preferred race, gender, religion, or age. And they will always try and smear their opinions on others with all kinds of fancy justifications of outrage. And Fb will always have to somehow play referee.

Imagine having to have to do that day in and day out. No thanks.
But what happened to Dogecoin?
In the US income tax is progressive but only a portion of the tax structure. The biggest factor is that capital gains are taxed at a much lower rate than earned income. (income from selling labor) There are also a number of flat amount / percent taxes, many of which vary by state. Finally, the tax structure is sufficiently complicated that those who can afford skilled accountants can further lower their paid taxes considerably through tricks and loopholes.
I really like Mozilla's work, however, it is difficult for me to recommend Firefox as long as it has a poor sandbox relative to Chrome. This is disappointing, especially as Firefox becomes better, but a casual user needs to be protected from malicious websites as much as possible. Until this situation changes, in good conscience I can only recommend Chrome with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.

It is my hope that adoption of Rust helps improve this, although more integration with OS sandboxing features would also be excellent in making the case for Firefox.
What percentage of homeless adults spend less than $200/month on drugs? (including alcohol and tobacco, excluding prescription meds)
One doesn't win a game of chess by moving all the pieces at the same time.
Sorry, I am not sure I understand the analogy?
If you like cryptocurrencies read this:

https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-virtual-currency-guidan...
Do a lot of homeless people have smartphones?
What's wrong with linking to 4chan? It's just a message board.

But yeah, these kids are largely responsible for the common layman's goldrush to crypto.
The last time I really had to deal with a bad MSDN article was probably 2003 working on an ASP/VBScript application that used MSXML. I was in my last year of High School, working for a local bank doing things that were certainly above my pay grade, with extremely minimal support, in my glory days.

I remember getting 90% of the way through writing my application in VBScript and finding a piece of documentation about some XSD thing that I really needed to do to complete the tool, and that lots of people were reporting my similar issue, the support reply basically said, "get f'ed," this function works in JScript implementation of MSXML but not in VBScript.

Sorry! Hope you have hundreds of spare hours to learn a new language and port over your entire codebase, because we're not fixing it.

Every time since that I can remember I have ever referred to MSDN, I have found one post with my question, asked in clear terms that I could reach from a google search... posted four years ago, with one or more replies that are almost always very obviously wrong, from MS Certified Partner(TM).

Maybe some of their documentation is great! I have not had the fortune to encounter it.

While many open source projects have great documentation, and many others do not, the difference tends to be that if your Open Source project has bad documentation, or features that just plain don't work, you are free to read the source code and fix it yourself!
How do you decide which projects receive more funding than others?
Why is your assumption a better assumption than say children, the elderly, and disabled should be taken care of. outside of a psychopath compassion is also more or less universal.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll give the full version a try!
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This particular case is weird in that they hired a programmer to do the job of a data entry person. It turns out that they -- accidentally -- made the right decision, because it's frankly stupid to pay someone for a month of work when you could spend a little up-front time automating it and eliminate the need for the job entirely.

So, honestly, I don't think it would be wrong for the company, if they knew about the automation, to let the OP go and have the analysts themselves run the script. As a company, I don't think you should be required to pay someone to do a job that isn't necessary, even if the worker himself made the job unnecessary. I mean, we wouldn't be having the same discussion here if the company had instead hired someone (perhaps even the OP) on contract specifically to automate the job, and that was it.

I hesitate to suggest that what the OP is doing is unethical. I think aspects of it aren't quite above board: deliberately inserting bugs/mistakes to hide that it's now automated is, IMO, crossing the line. And at the end of the day, the company thinks they are paying the guy to do one thing, which they believe takes a significant chunk of time, but that's not the case. If he wasn't remote, and had to come into the office every day, his deception would probably be quickly found out, so in essence he's abusing his remote-work arrangement.

But hey, you gotta eat, and 1:1 time with a child is a great thing. Employers naturally have the advantage of a power imbalance, and it sounds like this guy lives in an area where tech jobs aren't aplenty.

I think my advice would be: well, the deed is done. Don't tell your employer yet, but start using your copious amounts of free time to search for a new job that also allows remote work, even if it takes several months to find one. Once you find something, give notice, and tell the employer that, as a parting gift, you automated the job, and give them the automation tool. At that point it's up to them what they want to do: hire another data entry monkey, or use the tool. Either way, I doubt this job would last forever (automated or otherwise), and then you'd just be out on your ass without any professional growth on record to use to help you get a new, better one.
Then use a minimum income scheme instead. The point is that it's better to improve incomes by supplementing incomes, not by restricting other things.
Just keep going forward, you'll get the skills and items to get that treasure chest.
I think the point is that $1 a day is acceptable if it provides shelter/food etc.