skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predatory indeed. I know of many people who were previously working service industry jobs, saved up the $10k for a GA course with the promise that they’ll be making $150k/yr in ~12 weeks.

I’ve personally interviewed around 25 GA grads, and the result was pretty much the same with all of them - “great, you now know what you don’t know, and have about a year of self-directed learning followed by a year of on the job experience before being employable in a role above an internship.

It’s actually pretty heartbreaking when you talk them and get a sense for how much they were oversold.
> Tim Cook recently said, "I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation".

This quote was made with regard specifically to Facebook's recent problems with privacy, and Cook then immediately said: “However, I think we’re beyond that here.” Clearly he thinks regulation can be necessary sometimes, and specifically he has been an advocate for user privacy. I don't know that he intended these words to be applied generally to all companies for all issues.

> But how do they keep these opinions in the face of all the enormous evidence that companies are very specifically designed to be unable to self-regulate?

1. I don't think companies are "specifically designed to be unable to self-regulate." Where did you get that from? While it may be true that this is often the case, it seems odd to suggest that this is a specific part of the design of a corporation.

2. Apple has self-regulated with regards to user privacy and security, in ways that other companies have not. They have deliberately made themselves known for not selling user data, and have drawn direct comparisons between themselves and other companies for not collecting significant amounts of user data to be used for any purpose.

I dunno, your points don't really seem very well researched. You said "Companies will behave badly as long as the law allows it" and I certainly agree with this to an extent (and this seems to be your main point), but your overly strong statements ("corporations ... break as many laws as possible") reduce the effectiveness of your thesis.
I think laptops are only one tiny part of why we should be excited about it.

Imagine the carbon footprint difference on a server farm...
Diapers baby!! It's a whole new world of productivity!!
Honestly, it depends. Generally you want to divest, but you would have been an idiot to divest Facebook stock, for example.

If you believe it's a great investment (which you might -- given you work there!) then keep the money in. You might understand the business better than other investors that are not working in the company because you have a better view of the market and/or the stuff that is being worked on. If not, sell and reinvest in a different asset.
One example of an active effort to prevent the genericization of a trademark was that of the Lego Company, which printed in manuals in the 1970s and 1980s a request to customers that they call the company's interlocking plastic building blocks "'Lego bricks', 'blocks' or 'toys', and not 'Legos'."

Part of the reason they are being so picky about use of the name is to try to keep it from going generic. Unfortunately for them, I play with legos, my kids play with legos, and all of their friends play with legos...
It seems they don't allow warehouse workers "degraded mode" with "performance targets based on previous worker performance." If a storage array were rebuilding I think most engineers would cut it some slack.

Not meaning to be flippant but I guess the difference is that with stateless processing you get disposable machines. Reminds me of Moon (film).
Many tech stocks pay very little in dividends or none at all, even if the company is quite profitable. In tech it's all about share price.
> I want the right to control whether my creative output can or cannot be downloaded.

Then, your only solution is not to release it.
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I don't see Facebook as having any value. If people want to communicate with me they should do it directly.
Or maybe it is beta testing of new Amazon SBS aka Simple Bottle Storage®.
> Another said: "The target grows every year."

Whenever I see examples of impossible-to-meet goals I'm reminded of reminded of this classic "I Love Lucy" bit [0] with the chocolates on the conveyor belt.

"Speeeed it up a little!"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI
Yep. I was helping the project as a volunteer, and the refusal to help America's poor really offended me. Americans were treated as a source of funding. I always got a sense that exotic cultures/languages/peoples/countries were adored, while plain old ordinary poor Americans were considered unworthy. You couldn't just buy an OLPC XO-1 at Walmart for $185, which was about what the devices actually cost. Instead it cost you $400. Parts suppliers hated this too; they gave good pricing because they were promised high volume.

OLPC also ticked off a huge crowd of free software people who had enthusiastically showed up to help. People were eager to support a machine that would never run Windows... until they were betrayed on that. Lots of people jumped ship over that, even though Microsoft didn't really follow through.

Add in a few technical mistakes, and that was that: the WiFi on an internal USB connection affecting power management, the dual-mode touchpad being hopelessly inaccurate, Python being absurdly inappropriate for the GUI of a low-end system, the 16-bit video depth causing terrible performance with all modern code, depending on mesh networking which was more of a failing research project than a viable protocol, some very experimental overlay filesystem stuff...
> I have Amazon stock in my 401k.

It's weird seeing someone writing this in a thread about how Amazon exploits its workers for profits (ie. in part for its shareholders).
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> It's a fringe OS that requires technical expertise to install.

That's fixable (and not different from Windows).

> Not only that but it looks like "old Windows"

That is by far the easiest fix of all. People just care more about making things work right now.

Plus, a lot of people actually preferred the older style.

> Not only that but it'll have bugs

Welcome to software. Windows is also full of bugs.

> You'll see tiny pockets of people using it but as Microsoft gets closer and closer to simply having a free OS it doesn't seem likely anyone would ever use this OS for anything beyond "hey, that's cool!".

I think it might end up being quite big quite soon: There's a bunch of proprietary software out there that is old, and not Windows 10 compatible.

Things like car diagnostics software. If ReactOS gives them a way to get things working without Win10, I'm sure they'd eat it right up.

ReactOS just isn't ready for that yet. It's still major version 0.
> I think Amazon's stock vesting schedule for ICs is reasonable considering the sizable hiring bonus (iirc ~$20k for new graduates)

One can get this bonus basically everywhere else in the area with similar sized companies. Hell, I got way more than that 8 years ago.

The vesting schedule is diabolical:

> 5% 1st yr, 15% 2nd yr, then 20% every 6 months

coupled with the turnover rate: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/business_inside...

I can't imagine anyone rational and with reasonable technical skills thinking this is a good enough incentive to join the company.
As global average quality of life trends upward, the American lower and middle class are dying quietly in the streets.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/21/5720803...
>>What do you all think of this?

Most of the software world made its choice. Remember the Open source movement is a political movement and not a software movement.

The point of Open source is to control the source or precisely 'Own the means of production'.
Is it really smart phone adiction or adiction to facebook and other apps?
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Yep, I hear you. Unfortunately, the status quo today is, that's where the users are.

I love the free and opened web. I want it to win. I think it will win and eat native apps (PWAs are already making that happen.)

But the barriers to this right now are 1) app stores are where users are and 2) some mobile platforms (read: Apple) have a perverse incentive to cripple web apps so that submitting native apps to their store (and thus, paying them $99/year + 30% in-app purchases) is required to have a first-class experience.
doesn't address all of your points, but: https://bestmotherfucking.website/
we just halved poverty in the world in the past 20 years. Time to check your facts again.
> Mobile platform vendors, like Apple, are totally cool with apps that use your phone to its fullest. Access your location, play background audio, get your GPS coordinates, read all your contacts, play videos or audio without app interaction, read your email, intercept your typing, play more than one thing at a time, use your microphone and camera, access your pictures, and more. Apple’s totally cool with that.

Apple is certainly not "totally cool with that:" each of these features comes with strings attached. For example, apps are forbidden from attempting to de-anonymize users via facial recognition.

On the app store, abusive apps can be removed; there is no equivalent enforcement mechanism on the web. This IMO is the primary reason for restricting these capabilities to reviewed apps. Though the fee may be a secondary reason.

99% of websites do user-hostile things, like track users. What will prevent PWAs from extending this to e.g. ultrasonic beacon tracking? Honest question, it's important that it gets solved.
I disagree. This is a further punishment for violating the terms of a guilty plea for a pretty blatant violation of multi-lateral sanctions: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/zte-corporation-agrees-plead-.... I don't think it's reasonable to characterize this as the work of a "single individual."
I saw these entries in Event Viewer -> TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager.

I tried to turn it on around 8:50 pm. Here, "SURFACE\name" is my MS account.

> 4/9/2018 8:49:40 PM Remote Desktop Services: Session logoff succeeded:
User: SURFACE\name
Session ID: 3

> 4/9/2018 8:49:40 PM Session 3 has been disconnected by session 3

> 4/9/2018 8:49:40 PM %s from %S( #0x%x/0x%x )

> 4/9/2018 8:49:40 PM Session 3 has been disconnected, reason code 11

> 4/9/2018 8:49:41 PM Session 4 has been disconnected, reason code 11

> 4/9/2018 8:49:41 PM Remote Desktop Services: Session has been disconnected:
User: SURFACE\name
Session ID: 3
Source Network Address: LOCAL

> 4/9/2018 8:51:00 PM Begin session arbitration:
User: SURFACE\name
Session ID: 4

> 4/9/2018 8:51:00 PM End session arbitration:
User: SURFACE\name
Session ID: 4

>4/9/2018 8:51:00 PM Remote Desktop Services: Session logon succeeded:
User: SURFACE\name
Session ID: 4
Source Network Address: LOCAL

>4/9/2018 8:51:00 PM Remote Desktop Services: Shell start notification received:
User: SURFACE\name
Session ID: 4
Source Network Address: LOCAL

I am not sure if the entries at 8:49 pm is what I saw as the "remote session active". Also, I am not sure if this LocalSessionManager is the right place to look.
Diagrams are a mainstay in architecture because they index multiple interreptations. This lends itself to creative work. The kind of computing done would be a weird one, having a stage that would generate multiple semantics for the same symbol and have to be executing on at least a couple of them.
I agree. Additionally, the rule against using a phone while driving should actually be enforced. It is very much like speeding. Enforcement is practically non-existent so of course everyone continue to do it.
Why dont they just wear Adult Diapers and really improve their productivity?
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> there is no government website to do your taxes.

i was curious about your comment

> Even after paying 180 dollars to HRBlock, my US taxes were way less straightforward and took me hours.

I used turbotax for both state and federal it imported and prefilled my adp w2 and imported my tax account from etrade.com. It took me 10 minutes to finish it.
If your livelihood is going to be taken away because you committed the grave sin of actually going to use the facilities, I would definitely call that force.
Argh that's depressing.

I don't frequent malls that often and it's due to the fact that I'm generally on foot, the sea of parking lots usually destroy any incentive I have to go to a mall and any time I've seen a mall embedded in residential zoning I'm quite fond of it.

I still prefer having spliced zoning though, either NYC style with residences over commercial or by intermingling them laterally (i.e. shop-front, shop-front, apartment, shop-front, apartment) which would make a pretty awesome mall actually.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_station (there are currently two residential towers in the station, a third being added)
Which part ? For the guy it reads like an honeymoon post card.
>Instead, if the people own the machines collectively, then they can enjoy the productivity gains themselves as a group.

Isn't this basically a corporation?
There are other codes in there, caller & circuit id read-backs and other utilities the telco will use. They're usually private, but no serious harm if the public find out about them.
as a job requirement

If truckers are doing that, it's probably not a job requirement per se. My shallow understanding of the industry is you get paid by the load, especially if you're independent.

Turning an old racing adage on its head- the faster you are, the more money you make. How much money do you want to make?
Can you explain your protocol? That's pretty promising. I've had some good results to date but not sure how to use them in a more disciplined way to create permanent results
I thought earn.com (formerly 21.co) was a clever idea and I signed up. Once or twice a quarter I would get an item incoming and I'd usually read and/or fill out a survey.

Lately it's frequent noise from ICOs (though perhaps I deserve it because I recall opting in to a cryptocoin interest group on earn.com).
For those in CO, you might not remember the similar Rocky Flats fiasco.

The court cases had such funny stuff as overturning a jury verdict on appeals as "the judges wrote that under the law, the presence of plutonium on properties south of the Jefferson County plant, which closed in 1989 for safety and environmental reasons, at best shows only a risk — not actual damages to their health or properties."

https://www.denverpost.com/2010/09/03/appeals-court-tosses-j...

These days, the site hasn't been tested in over a decade, in an area known for top soil erosion. And now more and more houses are being built immediately adjacent, with no warning to the homebuyers that this used to be a nuclear waste superfund site.

On the 'plus side' they at one point tried to get rid of the plutonium waste by combining it into a slurry and injecting it into the ground, which left us with some of the first data on how hydraulic fracturing can cause an increase in earthquakes.
You're assuming it will get better in the future.
Quite true (especially for CNA, techs, etc). I worked that job for a while in my late teens. Never take breaks, clock out for lunch then go back to work. Finish your 12.5 hour shift, but have to spend a bit more time off the clock finalizing everything and handing off to the next person.

All that said, it's apples and oranges. Healthcare is that way because the government regulates and pays. They'll basically tell a nursing home that they have to take care of a person and then tell that same facility how much they will be paid. Government regulation of facility standards and market costs dictate that part of the equation. The only part that can be flexed is the worker, so the workers are stiffed and mistreated to make the budget balance.

This is not the case with Amazon. They don't have a government dictating all the rules forcing the workers into bad situations. They simply do it to profit off their worker's misery.
Your review is probably much more honest than mine... The potential was awesome. I forgot about all the promises that were never fulfilled. Remember when they promised that the super wide touchpad would be resistive touch and you would be able to use a stylus and write on it? Would have been cool, but I don't think that ever happened either.
Doesn't sound contradictory to me. When I go through a hedge maze I feel both safe and confused.
This sums up my experience, too. My only real use for it ended up being for weekend/day trips where I didn't need to work and wanted to be quasi-offline but might want to connect to a third-party wifi system (like a motel's) for some light internet browsing.

Anybody still doing anything useful or interesting with theirs?
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"There’s surprisingly little hard data about the long-term impact of OLPCs on childhood education"

For a project that was literally an educational experiment, that's pretty damning.
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One of the ones I hate most is Reddit, which actually has a pretty good web interface. The worst part about their app is I can't search for words in threads.
I can imagine this. It's like my hometown, but in Europe.

This is exactly the kind of poorly thought out, money wasting boondoggle projects you get when government is a gravy train not held accountable by it's source of funding.

Right now my hometown is engaged in all manner of hand wringing over a pet cemetery. They also put in more bike trail where a rail line was and spent millions of dollars tearing down rail bridge and building a more visually pleasing bike bridge. They must be expecting some fat cyclists since apparently just converting the rail bridge wasn't appropriate. The police are thoroughly overpaid and overstaffed and all run side businesses on taxpayer time.

It sucks that you have to under-fund and under-staff local government and services in order to get them to be well behaved (which to me means do their jobs without screwing around and wasting too many resources on non-mission critical crap) but I guess that's just how it is. If you just keep naively feeding the monster (e.g. "oh, you've squandered all your money on new cop cars and your building is falling down, well we'll give you the money this time but please pinky promise you don't do this again") it will grow big enough that you can't control it.

Edit: I know my last paragraph won't be popular here because it conflicts greatly with the politics of the typical HN reader but I'd appreciate it if you'd actually try and refute something I said.
> A laptop is the worst tool you can use for studying.

A laptop is a great tool for studying. Word Processing makes editing papers much easier than the old markup and rewrite method. The web makes researching topics and cross referencing documents much easier. Nothing beats actually running code for learning how to program.

If I was going to spend $100/yr on educational supplies for a student I wouldn't spend it on a laptop. Pencils, notebooks, and textbooks are more important. If I was going to spend $1000/yr on educational supplies for a student I 100% would include a computer.
Seems like you'd need to prove the pills in question were the alleged substance?

Just linking a picture of alleged narcotics to someone via their fingerprint doesn't seem like it should rise to the level of reasonable suspicion. I don't know what the standards are for the UK though, so I may be applying assumptions.
Probably struggling from the previous 40 years of union busting, rights erosion, offshoring, financial manipulation, and discrimination.
When these robots arrive, you will most likely have plug and play electronics inside. There will be no user serviceable parts inside.
That sounds like a case of depersonalization/derealization which dissociatives are sometimes known to produce
I have a friend who used to work at a fulfillment center.

In December, she took a week of medical leave. Last month, they retroactively denied her leave and then fired her for having a negative UPT balance. She'd worked there for years.

It's an awful, abusive company, and even though Trump's reasons for going after Amazon are the wrong reasons, I hope he successfully gets them shut down anyway.
Reading 'All of statistics' by Wasserman would be a much better bet than diving deep into measure-theoretic probability though.
> There are many, many others who have had negative, damaging experiences like me

Interesting, thanks for shedding some light from a very different perspective. I’m sorry you had to go through this and I hope you will be able to recover quickly.

Can you substantiate the claim or point to more information about a negative experience that came through Vipassana?
That's not a good analogy to something like Uber, because there's no profit motive. What you described is essentially a government works program, which is a great idea! But that's not what anyone seems to be talking about.
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> They were not very interested in selling domestically in the US

They weren't interested in individual sales at all, but they would sell into the US the same as anywhere else: to public education bodies.

It was envisioned as a system-of-education project with technology as a key enabler, not a consumer technology project.

> Chromebooks and cellphones hit the price point now, and don't require an NGO.

The point of the NGO wasn't the price point, though keeping g the price down was one important requirement.
The key thing is "Notation as a tool of thought" What would mathematics or music be without notation? It might be hard to believe but there was once a time mathematics didn't have notation for "+, - * /" or even the decimal point "." Mathematics was solved by writing words, it was slow, it was painful and it didn't progress as fast. Likewise with music, sure we can write music by writing do re mi fa so la ti, but really?

Yet, this is how we program today with words, writing english words that don't mean what they claim to be. SomethingManager, SomethingDelegator, etc. Bah! The very ideal behind APL is to notations, to represent code with symbols which are non ambiguous and always mean the same thing.

There's a lot that we have lost. It's still worth taking a look at. For those interested, J (www.jsoftware.com) is a free version with lots of great learning resources.