skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a random decision by Google

What do you think is a random decision?

> However i think that sites should make decisions on their configuration

It's OK when they have ideas what they are doing, but that's not always the case.

Before my trip to Kaua'i I googled some dive shops on the island to book a scuba diving trip. Every dive shops on the island seems to be using the same vendor to process online order of the reservation, which has the same form to input credit card number, and has some text around it saying "it's secure". They are not secure. They are on HTTP: https://twitter.com/fishywang/status/895133987525476354
Piece rate workers are employees,and full time workers are not exempt. A subset of them (locals who work only during harvest season, and kids, basically) are exempt from overtime status and minimum wage. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs12.pdf
>>the meat you buy nowadays at grocery store is filled with hormones and antibiotics

the administration of hormones in chicken and pigs is prohibited in the USA since the 1950s.
These apps wouldn’t exist in the first place without these caveats since they operate on thin margins. Sure, we could put them out of business and then how will that help people who can’t find a regular job? At least now they have options. Also we have a big problem with unskilled workforce nowadays - if you are unskilled by choice or (unfortunately) by circumstances this world is not going to be kind on you. That’s the sad truth.
Didn't those contractors have to pay payroll taxes through self employment tax then? The govt gets the same amount of tax in the end AFAIK.

So those contractors basically have ~%8 less pay because they pay the employer part of the tax, unless MSFT paid them more to compensate.

So what is the incentive for MSFT to do that in the first place? Is it just to fool the people who don't realize they might be paid less in a complicated way?
How do I run that cronjob on a simple, static site? I very deliberately create static sites and store them on e.g. s3 to be served without any effort on my part. I do not want to have to run a 24/7 server just for a monthly cronjob!
I'm seeing you listing bad companies, but I'm not seeing a reason not to regulate the big tech ones.

Not to mention, it's not like the government can't do both at once. Most of those industries you mentioned have other departments that regulate them.
This is possible because how ubiquitous the idea of HTTPS-all-the-things is now, not the other way around. Further, HTTP IS insecure(the S literally means secure) so...
Two weeks? I’ve been carnivore since Jan. 1. Feeling great.
They already serve example.com as both https and http. Try it: https://example.com/

They don't use HSTS to force it, because example.com isn't meant to anything but an example.
Who are the "wilfully accepting" people you speak of?
I think most people aren't accepting nor rejecting anything.

Someone is hungry and now they have food delivered. Someone doesn't have a job and now they have a delivery job. It's a win-win situation in a short-term micro scale and people are just responding to short-term incentives. It may have a bad effect in the long term but hungry/unemployed people don't have time to think about that and middleman-apps are making good profit exploiting that.
I have had a blocking stutter (disfluency) since the 3rd grade. Went through several years of speech therapy and as I have gotten older it has improved to the point that most people can't tell. I still have daily issues with it but have learned to mask it pretty well (switching to a different word when I block, pausing naturally when not blocking, etc.)

I definitely think it has had an impact on my personal and professional life, to what degree I am not sure. I try to avoid giving group presentations or talking on conference calls when I don't have to.

It has never cost me a job or prevented me from being successful as a developer (CTO now) but it is constantly on my mind and makes trivial situations more complicated. I have learned over the years that a lot of it is in my head, and most people will never know, but it still affects how I conduct myself on a daily basis.

If you do suffer from blocking I recommend always trying to be prepared for any speaking situations you might be in. Do your best to stay relaxed (face, mouth, lips), speak slowly and consistently, taking normal breaks regularly so that any blocks don't seem out of place. The best therapy is really just practicing speaking blocking words aloud by yourself or with a partner/friend.
Because it's always the responsibility of the tax collector? Because the government is the least cost avoider?

I used to work for a title search company that contracted with counties within that state to handle tax foreclosure. In order to foreclose on property for delinquent taxes, certified mail had to be sent to the most recent known address, the delinquency had to be published in a local paper, and a notice had to be posted on the property itself. I believe this is more-or-less the norm.
No, it shows that cryptocurrency owners and developers are economics ignoramuses. So many people who think Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies have any real value just don't understand how money actually works.
I have no sympathy for that person. If you want to cite a reason why Google/YouTube should be regulated, that was not it.
> The main thing the so called gig-economy brings to the table is a regression in workers rights and benefits

In the present regulatory environment, sure; one could argue that that environment is using employers as a vehicle for general social services in a way which is undesirable and reduces employment, economic output, and well being especially for the poor.

Moving the basic protections to public benefit schemes with appropriate tax support might be a better option. E.g., UBI instead of minimum wage, universal (single-payer or mandatory and subsidized default minimum coverage) healthcare instead of employer-mandated insurance, etc.
Has the web interface for Trello got better (more fluid, less laggy) in the past year? What about the native app (or is it another electron crap?)?
In fact, that’s generally the entire motivation behind distinguishing a diet in the first place.
It is, the WWII Mosquito Fighter-Bomber was made from high grade ply and it flew faster than contemporary aluminium fighters, was incredibly durable (except for some de-lamination problems in hot humid far-east environs) and was actually stunningly beautiful.
You don't wear skates while curling? I'm not sure where your analogy is going
This is so dumb.

If you haven't already but are feeling tempted, save yourself some time and don't bother reading this article. It's pure unthinking big-company-hate without any substance.

Well, I guess the gimmick -- that each of these large tech companies corresponds to a bodily region and appeals to us for a related reason -- is nice, but even that doesn't really make much sense.

I don't want to begrudge Scott Galloway his living... If this is what it takes to get a publication like Esquire to pay then I guess this is what it takes. I just seems like the guy should be able to make a living in some non-embarrassing way.
Ern Malley, noted Australian poet
Sure, in dense metros like NYC you can say each Uber/Lyft is replacing a cab ride. I won't argue with you there. But in the suburbs, using a cab was not a normal thing to do, but using Uber or Lyft is.

Maybe I'm being too anecdotal, but I can only think of a couple of rides (out of dozens) where I would have called a cab had Lyft not been available.

Trying to get a cab ride from my house to a random place 15 miles away was a nightmare. Bad dispatch, no-show drivers, etc. Never really bothered after a few bad experiences, just designated a driver instead.
It's a good question. Reason includes some major syntactic conveniences that make the JavaScript interop more pleasant to work with. One of the biggest ones is that it introduces a first-class syntactic JavaScript object literal (i.e. a Reason/BuckleScript value which will compile down to a JavaScript literal) and which makes writing JS objects much more pleasant.

There are other conveniences as well, including the fact that Reason comes with a tool (refmt) that can autoformat your code to a standard style, wiping out style guide arguments etc.
Loyal to the Group of Seventeen's Story: 'The Just Man'
“Augur: A Decentralized Oracle and Prediction Market Platform” [pdf]
This isn't true everywhere, and even where it is, the HOA can make you miserable before you finally get it through.

Federal law overrides HOAs with regards to antennas, but I've still seen it take years to be able to put an antenna up.
claiming 68% of traffic is https is far different from claiming 68% of sites are https too

I suspect the vast majority of sites are still not https, but the big sites are which skews that number
If you work at a typical retail store or do pizza delivery, what kind of benefits do you receive? Do you actually receive a usable healthcare plan working at a typical US retail operation?

If america had universal health care like the rest of the developed world, would anyone really care about this stuff that much?
California Assemblywoman and #MeToo champion Garcia accused of groping
the ability to build something lasting

Anyone can elaborate on that?
neverssl.com is not IANA reserved, but a) typing in "example.com" into a browser may default to https in the future, instead of http, and b) no IANA or RFC guarantees that example.com won't redirect in the future anyway.
We’ve shot four people. Everything’s fine
Frustratingly silent on this point, all the examples I saw are 2 week holidays too.
Files definitely do overwrite each other without prompting in my terminal. And it is straight bullshit that MacOS doesn't care.
> The idea is the larger the group, the more relationships you have to maintain, said the study's lead author Ben Ashton of the University of Western Australia.

> "So not only do you have to remember all these individuals, but you have to remember your relationship with them and how to behave appropriately with them," Dr Ashton said.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's less the direct mental workload of managing a larger social graph, but instead the greater chance to learn and push themselves (particularly at a younger age) as they are exposed to more ways of approaching problems from more peers.
sounds like a good use of a basic income
Link+Building+Resources+to+Increase+Your+Search+Ranking
Having spent four months in a hospital, it isn't just "ISPs" who are the problem.

Rather than the hospital supplying any kind of proper authentication, they MITM the first connection to their WiFi, and logged your IP address as your user. They also required you refresh that connection every half hour or so.

There are a lot of people doing things in really bad ways.

We can't fix all of them, and often we don't have a choice about interacting with them.
We won't. Many of the brightest and best paid of us are busily working at places like Google, building ever more powerful surveillance and analysis machinery to target ads. Of course it will be used for more than that.
> In the present regulatory environment, sure

In almost any likely regulatory environment we are likely to see in the next decade, and definitely in absolutely any regulatory environment that the the-poors-are-revolting HN zeitgeist has any influence on forming.

I realize I am not telling you anything that you, specifically, don't know. (And I don't think you are the type to approve of those environments.) But having that out there provides important caveats for your "might be"'s. The problem exists and the problem is real and bad people are using it to hurt people and while I know you know the difference, underlining that "might be" might be doesn't erase what is.
A dollar is backed by the fact that there are many people who need to use it in order to pay their debts. Money enters the system when we make loans. This is why mortgage interest rates go up-and-down based on the current state of the economy.
You had the internet through a mobile phone and you're calling dial up lucky? Mobile phones were legit space age back then.
Probably not. But we don't, so we care.
Thanks for all the feedback everybody! Luke plugged in all your thoughts into issues on GitHub so we can keep track:
https://github.com/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change/carbon...
Firefly canon to expand with series of original books
The special trillionare has a limit. It can borrow up to the point where people lose confidence.

Because the special trillionare's goal is to ensure the stability of the US Monetary system. As soon as they start to threaten the stability of the US Monetary system, then they'd have failed their job.

Ultimately, QE is safer than just "printing money", because at the end of the day, the Fed's QE program kept track of every single dollar in the QE account. And it is in the process of paying that money back and ending QE.

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Consider the "free-market" alternative to this situation. Tether-coin. Its literally an account made up by some dude that claims to be "similar to USD".

The "legitimacy" of QE (and Tether) is in the strength and confidence in the promise to pay back the money. If Tether pays all of the USD back for all of the USDT they issue, then there's nothing wrong with what they did.

Similarly, as long as QE is properly paid for over time, then it's not "money created out of thin air". It more accurate to state it as "credit created out of thin air", and "credit that eventually was paid back".

There's little reason to trust Tether in their ability to pay things back. (They're failing the sniff test at the moment). But QE is legitimately being paid back by the Fed. And that's the difference.

> My point here is that I don't think your characterization of the FED as just a market participant is very useful, nothing more.

Under normal circumstances (ignoring QE), the Fed acts just as a normal market participant. But QE hasn't been done for years now. QE is a special case, but it is also a tool that is rarely used.
Labor organization with the express aim of putting an end to Surveillance Capitalism.

Google and Facebook can’t withstand a sustained disruption of their workforce, which is why they spend so much time paying lip service to social issues. They have to create a constant illusion of concern for rights and justice to prevent their employees from actually demanding them.
People are not choosing between full time work and the gig economy. They are choosing between unemployment and the gig economy.
WWII era british slang for scientist/high level engineer.

Archetypal example would be someone like Sir Barnes Neville Wallis or someone more recognisable around these parts Tommy Flowers.
Well we can trade anecdotes, it doesn't really prove anything. A relative was stopped by the cops, with weed and a pipe visible in the car, and was just told "keep that out of sight" and this is a state where it's not legal. Why? Because the local prosecutor does not prosecute simple possession cases and they know it would just be a huge waste of their time to bring people in and book them just to have the cases dismissed.
I don't think I use any of those words directionally. I guess it is more of a general directional awareness thing than really useful information to convey in most cases. Similar to how some people might describe even the front and back of a building with compass directions. Although I guess in cases of lesser known destinations the general direction might be enough to prompt you to ask if someone could run a quick errand for you or drop you off/pick you up somewhere.

I use "over" to imply "right now unless otherwise specified" but it could be anywhere. Although usually that would be implied by context so it is mostly just an extra word. I ignore the other words when others use them (I would not notice any particular usage) and might say some of them on occasion if I hear enough people using one particular word with a particular place.
Many of the wealthy folks I've met didn't get there by saving and scrimping. They either founded a business and won (usually after a few losses), landed the right job or inherited it.

Spending your prime years focussing on nothing but retirement seems foolish to me.
I believe both Uber and Lyft avoid revealing the destination until a ride is accepted, to stop drivers from cherrypicking the most profitable rides. Therefore there is no way to tell which of the two rides will be paying more.

Uber will warn the driver if a ride is especially long and allow them to decline those, but overall the driver is kept in the dark as to which rides are more profitable.

Additionally, until recently, Uber punished drivers who declined too many rides, either by deprioritizing them, or dropping them altogether.
It occurs to me that Google has some incentive to do this. Ad blocking is much more difficult with https and requires an ordinary user inject a certificate of dubious origin/security.
Yeah, that makes sense. You would have to download the remote resource in the link and re-host it which can get expensive quickly. There are probably a few scenarios where DNS tricks would save the day, but not reliably.
> . You can't get rich on a salary: My wife and I have never made six-figure salaries. We are in our mid-40s and we will be breaking $1 million in retirement savings this year if the economy stays stable. We did this by maxing out our 401k contributions since our 20s.

Definitely not true. Or are the $1MM+/year jobs a myth to you?
This is amazing! Brings up fond memories of my attempts at building a winamp clone in assembly.

You really learn to love higher level abstractions when you write that much assembly by hand...
I feel the push to HTTPS is bike shedding. It solves a problem, but it's not a big problem.

Most people don't need HTTPS for most sites. I think it's safe to say most security and privacy breaches are due to poor practices on the back end or by end users.
Knew from the title it's going to be about SciHub.

As someone who is just out of a grad programme and no longer has access to the university network, I'm incredibly thankful to her.

I wish putting papers on ArXiV were the norm in all disciplines, not just math/physics/cs, but until that happens, this is the answer (and when it does, SciHub will essentially become a mirror). The licensing deals that the publishers have made with countries like Germany are still extortion, and aren't a solution.

You can learn more about SciHub, and LibGin (a similar project for science books which mirrors SciHub articles) from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

The Wiki page also lists mirrors, in case any of the domains are blocked.

If you have some bitcoin to spare, SciHub is donation-supported, and you can help the fight to make science available to the people that do it - and everyone else.

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For those out of the loop: currently, access to papers done by scientists (paid for by government/their home institution), typeset by the same scientists, reviewed by their peers (for free) and distributed electronically costs bug bucks to access.

The publishers still cite hosting/maintenance costs as a justification, and yet when someone manages to do the same for free (e.g. SciHub), the publishers go to war.

SciHub demonstrates that hosting costs are not a justification for atrocious access fees (to the tune of $30 to see one paper!), and yet the racketeering scheme (a relic from the days of Guttenberg's press) still, somehow, persists.

To address this problem, people in certain disciplines (math, physics) currently publish their pre-prints online on sites like ArXiV and their own university pages. However, these self-publication methods are not peer-reviewed, and so are not a direct solution to the problem. Some big-name scientists have started open-access online journals, but it's hard to get everyone on board, as academic performance evaluations are based on publications in well-established journals -- so only established academics can afford to be published in new journals when more established alternatives are present, but have little motivation to do so, since the university pays the access fee anyway.

SciHub is the interim solution to this chicken-and-egg problem. The long-term solution is still SciHub, but legal. Alexandra Elbakyan has done the footwork on the implementation side, the rest of the battle is going to be social (getting the academics on board) and legal (preventing the publishers like Elsevier from crushing the initiative, and, in the long run, destroying their monopoly on providing access to government-funded research altogether -- which means, effectively, wiping them out altogether).

All of this is talked about in the article in more detail.
I want Statecraft to win. IMO theirs are the most important problems of this list.
It Kicks the Llamas Ass!
Vivalatina is hiring marketing manager
It is absolutely, positively, incontrovertibly full-stop dishonesty to throw up the smokescreen of "oh they're choosing the 'gig economy' because of flexibility!". They're "choosing the 'gig economy'" 'cause there's no real jobs. The choice being made is between that and unemployment, not that and full-time work.

"Flexibility" is what it's called when PR flacks, from their actual-full-time jobs (but, ha ha, not for long, the bell tolls for thee too), have to hide the hatchet job they do to the poor. It's not some "but fairings!" situation--it's a systemic attack on people.
The ability for third parties to sniff your traffic is a big problem.
Economic situation is not great for black Americans on average: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-weal...
Are your children in speech therapy? If not, I highly recommend having them see a professional at least once a week.

One of the other things that really helped me when I was younger was being active in sports. When playing sports you don't have to talk, you just run around and play. It also helps to develop friendships, friends that won't care about any disfluency.

Another thing is practice, kids who stutter are extremely terrified of giving speeches in front of other kids (eg. oral presentations). Do your best to know if they having any speaking commitments coming up and help them prepare by practicing with them. If can make a huge difference. You can try to identify where they might trip up and help them work through it. I can tell you from experience that knowing exactly what you are going to say makes it less likely that you will stutter / block.

The last thing is to actually alter your speech around them, speak slowly and consistently while pausing naturally to show them that it is perfectly normal and even preferred to speaking quickly and getting mixed up.
Iirc many fast food places will try to limit your hours so you don't qualify for benefits.
People leave this comment 1,000 times every day on HN; a million times of the internet. Left to their devices, people who push this line of thinking would put kids back in mines, chimneys and mills. Hey, it's an exchange, am I right?
Crashlytics got acquired for > $100M. It wouldn't be unthinkable for Buglife to reach a similar valuation if they execute well.
Pardon me? How does this make ad blocking any more difficult. uBlock does not MITM ad sites AFAIK, it simply stops them loading.
Why can't you do this now? Three months of software contract work is more income than 99% of the planet earns in a year.
Right, that's why I find their nutritional claim hard to believe: 2g protein per 35 KCal is better than tahini, eggplant, or chickpea individually.
eh idk if a paid call counts as a "warm connection", and everyone knows those are the best
Holy fucking shit! I'm so sorry to hear that man :(

My firstborn is 2 months old and I'm always afraid of things like this!