skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And again I will claim that:

"you also have the skills to work in another software industry that will compensate you appropriately"

If you are capable of learning how to use the apps necessary to be a animator/modeler you DO have the skills to work in another industry! Nobody is entitled to work whatever job they want wherever they want, and nobody forced you to take out loans to get a degree in Art/3d modelling or animation.

For example, I'd love to be a beer taste tester for 150k per year and live in downtown SF, but the demand isn't there. How would a Union of beer taster's improve the lot of people who want the job? They would establish rules to exclude up and comers with more talent who are willing to work for less.

The sad truth is a union will help people in the gaming industry just as much as a union would help the NBA. No matter what there will always be a shortage of jobs compared to the number of people who wish to work there. But the union will exclude a significant portion of people who are willing to work for less from competing at all.

Hint:(Similar to minimum wage, this is where unpaid internships came from)

So either you compete on price/working conditions, Or you end up with a Union cabal who set artificial standards of entry and keep out talented newcomers who are willing to work for less.

You have choice. Make good decisions.
This would all be fine if it weren't based on a false premise that all actions are equivalent. Proportionality matters. I may not agree with it, but if this was based on, say, Marriott issuing a statement calling for a free Tibet, then it would at least be a little more proportionate. However this was a liked tweet and an error in a web form, swiftly corrected.
Wow, I read your comment first and thought you were exaggerating but this article about the Bay Area van life that just popped up has more facts about Seattle than this Stranger article.
https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/Vanli...
Are you making the argument that Warren Buffet is not outstanding at investing? It’s just money made from insurance contracts and activist investing (which doesn’t count as investing)?
Sry genuinely confused which pop is brainwashed? China or did you mean the US? Also I don't think the UK should have that list. The fact that the US doesn't is a major not minor detail. I'm not trying to compare and contrast the UK and Russia, I was comparing the US and Russia.
Ask HN: Given the CLOUD Act, is there an end-to-end encrypted Gmail alternative?
One that encrypts at rest and in transit.

Though it’d really be easier if gmail added end to end encryption, it seems like they killed that project.
Quite obviously everyone here knows it's not literally about pedantry of whether Tibet is part of China's defacto legal territory.

And none of us care one bit if you're offended.

Your offense to a sense of nationalism, no matter how historical or ingrained, does not excuse the past and continued injustice of what has been forced on the Tibetan people.

Edit: downvotes to this post were literally instantaneous. This topic is most likely being botted.
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Is it? It seems like a very standard way of handling things.

Also, Marriott is definitely one of the better mid-range chains.
The problem with blogging in 2018 is that it can be difficult to actually draw readers to your blog unless you retain your Facebook and other social media accounts so that you can advertise your content there. The sheer amount of content out there means that even with SEO tweaks people might not find you through Google, you are simply lost in the noise. Even if people find you once through a search engine, the decline of RSS means that they are unlikely to subscribe to you and see what you write in future.

I blog myself on a niche-interest topic, and I pride myself in writing substantial, specific and useful information. Unfortunately, my blog doesn’t get read by many people. And then you see lots of successful content farms out there, whose posts are actually devoid of content, but their empty posts are just packaged neatly to serve as clickbait and get advertising revenue. It is awfully dispiriting.
Thanks! Can you share what you're working on?
The Expanse takes pains to treat space travel, combat, and so on in a hard sci-fi way to the point of making it seem rather mundane. But you're right- the point of the series is about the human element, which is actually relevant to the OP-

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Okay, so what you’re really asking me there is if this is hard science fiction. The answer is an emphatic no. I have nothing but respect for well written hard science fiction, and I wanted everything in the book to be plausible enough that it doesn’t get in the way. But the rigorous how-to with the math shown? It’s not that story. This is working man’s science fiction. It’s like in Alien, we meet the crew of the Nostromo doing their jobs in this very blue collar environment. They’re truckers, right? Why is there a room in the Nostromo where water leaks down off of chains suspended from the ceiling? Because it looks cool and makes the world feel a little messy. It gives you the feel of the world. Ridley Scott doesn’t explain why that room exists, and when most people watch the film, it never even occurs to them to ask. What kind of drive does the Nostromo use? I bet no one walked out of the film asking that question. I wanted to tell a story about humans living and working in a well populated solar system. I wanted to convey a feeling for what that would be like, and then tell a story about the people who live there.

https://www.orbitbooks.net/interview/james-s-a-corey-2/
The human was a human with a bicycle in another lane. It probably was large enough being sideways to look like a car, and that car was in a different lane.

Not sure if the human with bicycle was sprinting across the road either.
I wonder if Facebook will be punished to set an example with the GPDR of the EU.
> The Chinese Communist Party (note: this is not "China") doesn't demand firing of anyone.

If you believe the article, that is literally what they did.
Perhaps this will result in a re-booted demand for custom websites that replace Facebook business pages, or at least take on more responsibilities and tasks that would otherwise be left to FB.

Over the years I've seen many businesses including those I've worked for (as frontend developer) putting effort into Facebook and diminishing effort into their own websites (the kind that I make for a living).

It surprised and disappointed me over the years as I saw organisations move in and start paying Facebook to promote posts. The misguided assumption that user behaviour was better quality because of the real name policy (not true); and that "everyone was on it". There's also a mistaken perception that Facebook is good for long form or archived topics, such as factual content, but this is not correct. It's awful for anything other than recent buzz.

We seem to have lots of nice new web technology standards, but there's an absence of something approaching a "social profile" or system whereby users and businesses can create, manage, share, follow, and control 100% the data in some social context web mechanism, decoupled from a closed platform with CEO at the top. I don't pretend to have the solution on how that might be possible.
The difference is that a lot of roles in film are individual. You can hire a director, a writer, a scenarist, a bunch of actors etc. separately and they will do their job just fine. And for the tasks, which require high-skill teamwork, movies contract a company, which employs the team full-time (e.g. VFX, stunts).

There are very few individual roles in games. Even leadership roles are highly dependant on their teams (just look at what happened to Visceral if you want an example). And there is a lot of interdisciplinary interaction too, so even if there were separate game programming, game design and game art houses, there is no guarantee their could work with each other in a productive manner. At best you can separate QA and some art teams, which already happens all the time.
Ask HN: What things should we encrypt that we might not think to?
Eg emails, messages, HDD contents.

What are other things that might severely reduce privacy if not encrypted?

CLOUD Act inspired :(
Anecdotally, I'm an American and that statement would get barely a chuckle out of me. I really wouldn't care and most people I know wouldn't either.

So I don't know if it's the best analogy.
I'm confused--aren't the launches broadcast live via webstream?
Congrats Drew. I remember seeing the TechCrunch 40 pitch and writing about you guys. You inspired me to do YC myself. Congrats on the IPO my friend.
...potentially more beneficial. Also potentially very harmful depending on what it gets used for.
> If liking a tweet will infuriate the largest (by population) country in the world, maybe $14/hr support agents shouldn't be able to one-click like tweets.

I think this is the most pragmatic thing mentioned yet.

Social media accounts are a real-time, globally visible way to communicate with the world. Treat it with respect. If you care about subtle mess-ups then have a review system or something.

I'm guessing the ideal PR person running the account is:

* educated in how that platform works (aka, young and social media savvy)

* experienced in the plethora of ways PR can go wrong (or well for that matter). "I know this looks innocent, but it's best to remain quiet on issues of X", for example.

and I'd guess that's a sweet spot that's probably hard to fill with one person.
We're coming into the warm seasons in the northern hemisphere, but if this effort survives into autumn, it'll be quite tempting for home-heating.

Stoked to see distributed-compute as a paying service making another try. One of these days, it is going to fly.
Wow that's great! Another question. It is always possible that I have some downtime (unstable network connection, accidentally shutdown my pc, power outage, etc) and it may become unfair that users having significantly less downtime (better network, UPS, etc) having same earnings with users with much more downtime. Is there any plan to deal with such kind of concern?

By the way, Vectordash is the most interesting idea & service I have seen in a while :)
Same with m.facebook.com, just request the desktop site and you can access messages.

Though it's not particularly fun to use that way as touch events become quite sensitive and you end up clicking things you didn't mean to
Well bullies recognize bullies. They even like to hang out with other bullies. Big businesses didn't get to their position by being nice. They bullied their way to the top.

That's why I'm guessing that Marriott actually views China's reactions as reasonable.

But I do agree that China's handling of the Tibet situation is poor. They should take a look at how America was able to pacify the natives. Set aside some land for the Tibetans, let them have their own casinos or temples or whatever they want. Then in 100 years or so, the public image of it will change.
I would like to see that poll because nobody I know would ever want to emigrate to the US, especially now with that idiot president you have.

On the other hand I see a lot of refugees trying to get to Germany and Sweden which have at least the same if not stricter labour laws.

Reading your comment I feel that you live in a really strange bubble which allows you to think like you do.
If I remember correctly, China didn't "freak out."

A bunch of Chinese patriots freaked out and started to tweet/weibo it and brought it to the attention of the Chinese government.

At that point, the government had to act, otherwise, they would be seen as soft on separatism.
everyone that I know in tech that was involved in this one, with half a brain, just walked out of discussions. left was the corrupt, lobbists and idiots-puppets-think-of-the-children.

really, early on nobody thought this could ever be taken seriously. guess engineers suck at politics. (still have to see what the lawyers that were involved are saying now).
> Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from mosquito-borne illnes[s], about 5,000,000,000 human lives.

Your math doesn't work.

The current population of the world is between 7 and 8 billion.

If half of all humans who have ever lived were 5 billion, the total number of people who have ever lived would be 10 billion, of which at least 7 billion are still alive.

That leaves less than 5 billion who could possibly have ever died for any reason, much less mosquito-borne illnesses.
> It's not like China is exceptionally evil or something.

China isn't. The Chinese communist government is, though.
I love how we can pass laws like this but nothing was done to Equifax or now, Facebook. Seems like they are closely related problems.
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As the original poster who started this chain (by criticizing /u/mistermann's comment) I'd just like to say that I found this exchange both thought-provoking and civil, especially given its contentious beginnings. I'd just like to thank you for taking the time to express your opinions in a clear, respectful way. As it turns out, I'm also a fan of Jonathan Haidt -- I'm currently reading through several of his books at varied paces -- and you've clearly really taken the time to understand and convey some of his key ideas here. Sites like Hacker News are a great deal better due to commenters like you.
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So why do they have worse results?
They seem about middle of the pack to above average. They're definitely not New Jersey:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-state-has-the-wor...
> the poster was justifying working at megacorps and "having to believe" that they were making the world a better place. Some of those megacorps are not doing that, so forcing yourself into belief is the step towards delusion and unreality.

Yeah. That fragment irked me the wrong way, too.

> I'd rather see people say specifically what they aim to achieve, be realistic about it, and then do it.

I'd rather see that, too. I guess, with so much phonies in our industry, I'm willing to cut some slack for people actually doing something useful when they go too pompous with their marketing copy.
a) It can't be a dream job if you get fired for liking a tweet. The dream job only existed in your head and getting fired hit you with the truth that your fantasy ad reality don't match.

b) Midnight on-call support is not a dream job. Have you ever worked in anything that is close to customers? These jobs are a pain in the a and mostly underpaid. Also you can always, always find another job like that.

c) He didn't get fired for a like. He got fired because his actions resulted in losing millions of dollars. In such a situation someone needs to get fired. It doesn't matter if anybody is at fault or not. It must have consequences. And as the lowest level employee in the chain it's easy to fire you first. Sh*t happens.
The same thing that happens any time the oligarchy wants legislation... they just took the losses and kept trying until one time we weren't paying attention. I have seen this coming for a while now. Once the oligarchy understood the internet is the last bastion of anarchistic fredom of thought they immediately wanted to take control over it somehow.
I don't now, but I suspect that it may partially be Compassion Fatigue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue
Why do they call it accidents when it is usually negligence? This is nothing new.
Lot more people have seen Sutherland than this little 3D Studio demo though :)

Still worth seeing
Ask HN: Which YC companies failed badly?
There are lot of stories about success but I wanted to know about any failure stories.
A data bill of rights might be the issue of our time.

No matter if you are in a free country or anywhere in the world, people should be able to have opinion that is represented in their digital form.

The US could lead on this and we would be smart to push for it.

Also, maybe with our surveillance society there is some path to forgiveness if people makes mistakes. Everything now is too much of a permanent record which was always feared and not fair for the human condition where people make mistakes and change.
as things tended to take String whenever I had &str's

Functions should prefer &str or perhaps T where T: AsRef<str>. Note that if you write code that needs an owned String, you could consider taking some T where T: Into<String>, because this allows you to take many kinds of string types, such as &str, String, Box<str>, and Cow<'a, str>.
gated was nice, I miss it
>Or the multiple 'glitches' that would reset your privacy settings to more public.

I didn't know this was a real thing. I was getting ready to delete my account a couple days ago but I wanted to set all the privacy settings to be as strict as possible before I did it.

Sure enough, somehow all of the advertising and data retention settings were on the most open option possible, despite restricting them when I made the account and when I would occasionally check my privacy settings
> * refuse to do work for law enforcement or work that might prove useful to law enforcement

Is this meant as a universal refusal or does it apply just to US law enforcement?

My point is that law enforcement is generally regarded as necessary to the proper functioning of society and while some of those involved in it might be bad people the concept itself is not.
Anyone can also quit at any time. Doesn't matter if they need you or not.
The police's quick defense of Uber and their completely inaccurate comment about the pedestrian jumping in front of the car out of the shadow doesn't make sense to me except for collusion. A cursory look at even Uber's dashcam video would make it clear that the pedestrian didn't jump out, that the vehicle didn't even slow. So either the police were completely negligent or willfully lying to protect Uber. Didn't hear anything much about that.

But that was before I saw this thread and realized it wasn't even dark. If it couldn't even see a human in that lighting to even slow I don't know why this shouldn't be considered murder by negligence (whatever the legal term is) at every level from uber, engineers, the driver. And why the police chief is not being asked to explain his comment and defense of Uber.
a,b) A dream job can be a dream job solely for paying $14/hr when every other job you could get paid $9.
The same could be said about governments.
The real story is how web forums are the worst way to converse with real people all across the world.

How can we at least get back to the NNTP type of control we had in the 90's? HN is teetering on failure, and I'd just like to get back to NNTP? :(
> How can we educate ourselves more on these matters so that we aren't caught in a illegal spiderweb later.

I think you are conflating two related but distinct matters: ethics and the law. It is perfectly possibly to behave unethically while obeying the letter of the law and to break the law while behaving ethically.
I think the implication of 1 car loan is that the purchases will be staggered, so you're only in debt for one car at a time.

It's definitely possible for a family to spend $3-5k on a vacation, but it's also possible to spent waaaayyyy less than that (mostly by not flying somewhere)
Except they could do that now (its called rape / sex slave trafficking) and the women would know it was safe to contact the police.

Part of the power of abusing people is taking away people's paperwork and convincing them the police won't help them.
> It seems like a very standard way of handling things.

Does that make it not abysmal?
Every company tries to minimize the number of employees. But the fact remains that the employee always takes on more risk, as being fired at the wrong time, say during the crisis we just had, might end up in homelessness. Yet companies love to pretend they are the ones taking the risk and need the right to abuse employees, fire then at will, don't oay a living wage and all that.
In the Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual which I obsessed about as a child, the authors (Rick Sternbach and Micheal Okuda, graphic designers on the show) go to great pains to emphasise grow things about the replicators: first, that they have limitations in terms of resolution, and that replicated objects are only ”approximately correct” (something that in-universe is referred to as ”molecular resolution”, so that they cannot run off and start replicating characters)m and secondly, that replication has a huge energetic cost (to foreclose on the risk that one might infer the capability to replicate whole starships at the press of a button). As such, I have never viewed the replicators as being ”post-scarcity” myself, but to have simply shifted the effective constraint to an energetic limitation.
> where X is specific enough to predict the consequences of it existing or not.

So, which X would you start with?
That’s not “salary before tax”, that’s $90k _net_, as in, living off the savings or $90k in post tax income. But it also has fairly generous budgets for groceries ($2k/mo) and one $7k vacation a year, and real estate taxes as of 2018, with house value more than doubled.

I calculated this just to see whether I have to work. Turns out I don’t, but I work anyway.
totally agree. All that hypocrisy caused by ignorance. They just don't understand how sensitive such matters are before they even try. Sad!
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I never understood these posts. I’m not a huge fan of companies that make their living by selling their users privacy data, but Facebook is just a platform.

I have an account because my social circle organizes events on there, but that’s the only thing I use it for. I log in once or twice a month and have made a total of 3 posts to my wall since 2014.

I understand that it can be a tine sink for some people, but so can 4chan, Reddit, hacker news and other social networks.

And that is the thing I don’t understand. Why is wasting your time talking to strangers on HN more valuable than talking with people you actually know on Facebook?

That being said I’m happy for you. Everyone should drop things that make them miserable, and you’ve managed to do so which I think is great.
The real story here is not the at-will status of American employees, but the extraterritorial application of law. A Chinese worker is familiar with Chinese censorship and policy and know that Tibet is a third rail issue. You cannot possibly expect a low-level employee in Nebraska would know this. So when a country (like the U.S., like China) tries to impose its laws (like the U.S. did in New Zealand to Kim Dotcom) you have unexpected consequences. As countries seek to criminalize webhosting (FOSTA), the Internet will be increasingly siloed. If you want to know what the Internet will look like in twenty years, look at North Korea. Connections outside extremely limited. Ony North Korean laws apply. That is the direction we're headed.
Sorry for make you sad but Thundra is a bird. Inspired by Thundra (a.k.a queen of rainforest :)) in Aladdin: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Thundra.
Also embedded in the spending bill[0] is the CLOUD Act:[1]

> The CLOUD Act (S. 2383 and H.R. 4943) has two major components. First, it empowers U.S. law enforcement to grab data stored anywhere in the world, without following foreign data privacy rules. Second, it empowers the president to unilaterally enter executive agreements with any nation on earth, even known human rights abusers. Under such executive agreements, foreign law enforcement officials could grab data stored in the United States, directly from U.S. companies, without following U.S. privacy rules like the Fourth Amendment, so long as the foreign police are not targeting a U.S. person or a person in the United States.

0) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/responsibility-deflect...

1) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/new-backdoor-around-fo...