skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why is supply and demand so hard for people to understand?"

1. We don't have a fair playing field anymore, with the exception of a few specialized field, like Tech Workers.

2. We are over regulated. Too many professions have rediculious financial barriers to entry. And fees/fines are not progressive. And demand licenses, bonds, insurance for practically every profession.

3. Our legislative system is basically bought by the wealthy.

It's ironic the poor/middle class do not have the insight/maturity to see they are being manipulated, and kept away from the real opportunities.

The system is rigged by the wealthy, and that's why the 1 percent own so dam much.

If your one of them, supply and demand curve is a beautiful thing? You can jump in and out without much risk.

Work one day on a non-union construction job site. Then work one day in a union job site. It's night and day.

In the San Francisco Bay Area a union worker is making $50/hr. plus benefits, and has a free paid apprenticeship.

The no-union hires bodies for minimum wage, or maybe starting $10 hr. You learn kinda on the job. There's no future. You might as well work retail, and save your back.

Since we live in a very unfair capitalistic society, all that supply/demand theory is still valid in books, but not so much in real American life?

I can't think of any job that wasen't improved by a union.

The wealthy disliked unions so much they moved whatever was moveable overseas. Service jobs are hard to move overseas. Which makes them ripe for unionization--now? Then again we have so many despirate people here, the service jobs are still a bitch to unionize?

"But the unemployment rate--dude?" Why is the "able bodied, but aren't working" number so dam high. Oh yea, those Side Hussle jobs are just not advertising enough?

Why is homelessness at a all time high? (Maybe percentage size, it was higher during The Depression?)

Tech is a bit different. It's so new, it's like a gold rush. Just learn the stuff, build a few projects, be young, know a few techies, and you have a pretty good job. Wait until the sectors of tech mature. We will have rock bottom wages, and no real job security. And now--your lucky if you're working after 40?

A poor man gets a $500 vechicle infraction. It might be the last straw.

A rich man get a $500 vechicle infraction. He laughingly tells the wife over dinner.

Something stinks in this country?
I'm always surprised at how in 2018, screenshots are often the fastest and most aesthetic way to share a few paragraphs of text. Considering the amount of text shared like this, I would have thought that there would be more search-friendly alternatives
The robots often are sold as a lease or payment plan, so typically the big robot vendors try to win big accounts where they will outfit many things and essentially they pay a monthly fee that includes access to have the robot vendor come out and tune things up for you.
Thanks for mentioning this. I feel even more sane now. I've ordered his books but in the meantime listened to him talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhxMdilxJE
> Democrats and Republicans alike pushed for it based on the intelligence available at the time

No, they didn't; there was a bipartisan (but more Republican than Democratic) group that supported a hard line with war as the ultimate resort based on the unclear intelligence being put forward by the Administration, but the Administration (and, even before it existed as such, the element of the neoconservative movement from which it's foreign policy and defense leadership was largely drawn) was actively pushing for war for much longer, and deliberately engineered the intelligence (which was not merely spun, but actually falsified) presented to others, including in Congress, to build support for the war.

> To call him partially responsible for 100,000s of deaths is very unfair

It's entirely accurate, just as it is for the bipartisan group that supported the war in Congress, even though the administration did lie to them to build that support, since the information about the pre-existing intent of the Administration was readily and publicly available, and the debunkings of enough of the intelligence to make clear the administration’s absence of good faith was likewise available.
Didn’t Vancouver recently pass a big tax on houses that were not someone’s primary residence? Is that helping?
Eh. If he ever wants to own his own home it kinda is, yeah.
Has it ever really been? I think that, as of today, Microsoft is cooler than it’s ever been before.
There are surely some people these days who approach things like this, and they come from both political polarities. But as DanielBMarkham points out nearby, it hasn't always been this way.

And even today, there are plenty of people who, I think, strive for finding truth (e.g., Scott Alexander, Megan McArdle)
Simply bar them from defense department work/contracts for 5 years and put any current contracts on hold. The other contractors will get the hint. Nothing ever gets done about this stuff, so the status quo remains.
Several years ago I had the opportunity to attend a non-classified project coordination conference / catchup meeting with some DoE scientists, among them attendees from LLNL and Los Alamos. I overheard discussion and some bragging about the number of cycles they had their simulation kernels at. At least some of them are dedicated to extracting every last bit of performance out of their code.
What are you referring to as "double or triple leveraged indexes"?
Tuleap 10
The idea that “consumers” are a separate class from employees is specious. There’s only labor and Capital owners, with the latter doing a wonderful job of turning the former against themselves.
I don't think owning your own home in the most expensive markets in the US should define whether you're "barely making it" or not.
GitLab's CI. It's great.
Perl 42
I think the other comments here point to the fact that this systemic racism argument doesn't hold up well against actual studies and data. It's an ill defined spectre that vanishes when you look closely.

> over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'

Is that the bar here? Median household income has always been the bar when talking about the success of racial groups, not the number in leadership roles etc etc. I mean, are we only supposed to be satisfied when 4.8% of all leadership roles are held by Asian Americans? What about their cultural preferences? What about regional populations?

The truth is actual a lot more nuanced. It essentially boils down to a cultural and pipeline problem:

The study:

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race...

The liberal viewpoint:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...

The conservative viewpoint:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/28473/nyt-claims-groundbreaki...

The counter arguments logic is hard to ignore. The answer is probably somewhere in the middle.
That sounds like it would be fun to write. You could even load the search results in Helm (see the end of the video below). Then selecting a result could render the page in headless Firefox (or something like elinks) and send the text output to a buffer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjKtkEMUYGc
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Well, if he was "outright toxic", then he would have had negative effects on the kernel development. Which I don't see happening.

So what people mean with that is not that he actually has a toxic effect, but that they dislike his tone.
Well, in most other aspects of our lives, incentivized consent is allowed (and in fact it one of the foundations of contract theory). The GDPR has effectively disallowed it, which is one of the provisions here that actually reduces consumer autonomy rather than increasing it. The GDPR is going to make the internet a more expensive place, whether you think it's a good thing overall or not.
https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...

'As you can see, in either scenario, global emissions must peak and begin declining immediately. For a medium chance to avoid 1.5 degrees, the world has to zero out net carbon emissions by 2050 or so — for a good chance of avoiding 2 degrees, by around 2065.

After that, emissions have to go negative. Humanity has to start burying a lot more carbon than it throws up into the atmosphere. There are several ways to sequester greenhouse gases, from reforestation to soil enrichment to cow backpacks, but the backbone of the envisioned negative emissions is BECCS, or bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration.

BECCS — raising, harvesting, and burning biomass for energy, while capturing and burying the carbon emissions — is unproven at scale. Thus far, most demonstration plants of any size attaching CCS to fossil fuel facilities have been over-budget disasters. What if we can’t rely on it? What if it never pans out?

"If we want to avoid depending on unproven technology becoming available," the authors say, "emissions would need to be reduced even more rapidly."'
100%. I think the physical “keep your body in shape” movement must be followed by a “keep your mental health/resilience in shape” movement in the coming years.
Microsoft has open sourced a ton of their code in the last few years
In the last 24 hours I've had to dodge 5 illegaly parked cars in the bike lane. Only one had a ticket. If you randomly leave any of them in the middle of the street or sidewalk there are very narrow odds that they'll be ticketed, towed, or removed.
Hey look: Average salary of Moz employees? $137k: https://www.comparably.com/companies/mozilla/salaries

As for PR/marketing, it might be worth remembering Mozilla's mission: "...to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all"

Yeah, kinda needs marketing.

But really, your mind is set. It's part of a conspiracy to enrich the Mozilla leadership. If that helps you sleep at night, go for it.
I was cynical about talking to people for the longest time. I figured I would forgo seeking the "cookie cutter" advice and went to see my priest -- expecting him to tell me "well you are weak in faith, pray more, say these prayers" etc.

He begins by telling me, "If I take this baseball bat, and smash your knee, would you come tell me, or would you go tell a doctor?"

I said, well obviously the doctor. He said "Ok, go and do likewise."

I went to counseling that week, which included temporary relief via SSRI's. I am still coping, but it is _worlds_ better than it was years ago.

Talking to people, especially that have the same philosophies, helps. If you haven't found the right people to talk to, keep looking. They are out there. It took me 4 tries, but glad I did. I live with a spouse that does not understand depression what so ever, so it is an absolute lifeline to be able to talk to an understanding professional.
What are "gilts"?
Maybe wave after wave of market fads (like the "gig economy", "chatbots", "voice everything") are just that, fads created to make some execs fatter.

I'd include all the hot air tech like AI, Big Data, and self-driving cars in that (until proven otherwise)...
There's a back button, and lesson index is stored in a cookie so it should stick between reloads. I thought about adding jump labels, but the kids prefer going straight to "if" and "while" after finishing this thing. (Before it, they can't make sense of "while".)
> the big robot vendors

I feel that I have been embracing the future my whole life, yet I was not quite prepared for that phrase in regular use.
China is short, by an order of magnitude, in the number of nuclear weapons necessary to perform a reliable first-strike against US silo and air-base sites.

Even if you can find and take out a ballistic missile sub, you cannot with any certainty take out all of them. A single one of those Ohio-class submarine, and its 24 MIRVs is perfectly capable of killing hundreds of millions of people, if launched at China's coast.

China's nuclear arsenal, like the arsenals of France, India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom, is purely defensive. Life is not a Tom Clancy novel. Russia and the United States are the only countries capable of carrying out a first strike against a nuclear state... And neither of them can do so against the other.

China is one of the countries with the most to lose, and the least to gain in a nuclear exchange.
350,000 Australian Dollars is only worth around 266,000 US Dollars but the article isn't clear about the specifics of either the cryptocurrency or the fiat.
Alexa and Google Home are simple chat bots. Say something and get a single, reasonably accurate response. They seem to be doing pretty well.

The little chat bot widgets never took off because they didn't solve NLP anywhere near as well as Amazon or Google did.

If a next gen chat bot can make a dinner reservation over the phone (like Google's demo), it definitely will be the next big thing.

So much of our day is communicating and if we can automate our communication effectively, it opens the doors for even greater productivity.
It's an extraordinarily competitive business.
I'm surprised that it's used in the ycombinator blogposts, considering that it must be easier just to copy-paste the excerpted text into a stylized div. However, screenshotting text is the best way to share excerpts on Twitter, because of the lack of styling options and the character limit.
> Why does the application matter?

Possibly because it's literally the subject of this thread, blog post, and the change of heart we're discussing.

> but this coming after the fact rings a bit hollow to me

^ from your original comment. So you don't buy the change of heart because...they had a change of heart after an event that told them they need a change of heart?

Did you expect them to have a change of heart before they realized they need to have a change of heart? Did you expect them to already know the correct ethics before anything happened and therefore not need the change of heart that you'd totally be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on?

> They've violated their own "don't be evil" tenet (in spirit, not saying they are literally "evil") before.

Right, in the same way that I can just say they are good and didn't violate that tenet based on my own arbitrary set of values that Google never specified (in spirit, of course, not saying they are literally "good", otherwise I'd be saying something meaningful).

It still doesn't look like you were ever willing of giving them the benefit of the doubt on a change of heart like the one expressed in this blog post. Which is fine, if you're honest about it. Companies don't inherently deserve trust. But don't pretend to be a forgiving fellow who has the graciousness to give them a chance.
Just FYI, you can query GraphQL with cURL, too. It's just HTTP, it doesn't require any fancy special clients. `fetch` in the browser works fine for talking to GraphQL as well.
This hits home. Literraly signed up the first paying customer for my monitoring SaaS [0] two days ago. It was done through discussing issues over mail, a tiny bit of “hand holding” and treating the customer as a launching partner (which they totally are). That first Stripe notification is pretty awesome
[0] https://checklyhq.com
> So it's pretty obvious by now that we are actively at war with China and Russia on the cyber front.

We are actively fighting a cyber war with every country. The nations who we spy on the most are our allies. And the nations who spy on us the most are our allies. I know it's counterintuitive but it's international politics, geopolitics and intelligence 101.

For example, israel, Britain, Canada, germany, japan, south korea, etc spy on us the most. And naturally we spy on them too.

And taken a step even further, every nation's government spies the most on their own people. It's almost a certainty that intranational spying makes up most of the spying budgets of china, russia, britain, israel, US, germany, etc.

> The question is, are we winning?

Considering we are the epicenter of tech, what do you think? Considering our intelligence budgets dwarf both china and russia's budget combined, what do you think?

> Are we even fighting back?

Are you serious? Who do you think invented cyber spying? The internet was a DARPA project.

Do you really think only china and russia are spying?
Chatbots are the Juicero of user interfaces.
Yea his father could have just traded the gold for cash to the cashier.
When it comes to the War in Iraq, there are not many saints in Washington. Less we forget, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama executed the War in Iraq for many years and issued countless drone strikes. Does that means we should all be saying "Obama is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people!" ?
That's not really the way to build TechTopia (or if thinking of fantastic (and sometimes silly) videogames, New Tesla City).

Mostly because all the places with good water / land areas have already been selected and are occupied by existing cities.

Logically the thing is to kickstarter/etc buying out some /tiny village/ that has good natural resources in the area and doing something more useful with the area. I also wouldn't mind if there were a modern (Gen IV) nuclear plant there with open-published safety monitoring / procedures. (Only shipments of the stuff to/from the site should be security concerns, and I'd appreciate a military escort for them anyway.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor#Fast_rea...

The "fast" non-sodium designs look safe enough.
I think maybe we're using "API" differently, here? GraphQL lets you query and mutate an object graph, but things exist that can't be (canonically, compactly) represented as a tree of objects. And usually at least a few of those things are necessary for any given API.

For example, how do you implement your AAA login logic using GraphQL? You don't, right? Logging in isn't really anything to do with querying or mutating an object tree. (You can deform your logic into making it so, but you'll be breaking things like the ability to do OpenID Connect.)

How do you implement an endpoint to stream chat message events in GraphQL? You don't, right? You want a stream of trees? A tree of stream-poll-results? There's an impedance mismatch here.

You want to use GraphQL to upload attachments? Use GraphQL for webhooks? Use GraphQL for Operational Transformations in a Google Docs-alike? No, no, no.

GraphQL is useful for implementing the message-format of particular endpoints of an API. It doesn't work for all endpoints. Unless your API is entirely just about a particular object graph, you still need to put your GraphQL inside a larger abstraction that distinguishes the GraphQL endpoints from the other endpoints.
Banks were surprisingly hostile, tried that with few branches but they first did not acknowledge the existence of the account and later they found a way to say that I do not qualify.

I had to make my agency write the employment letter multiple times because the banks always found something wrong. Finally, it was a week before Christmas and I had to beg the HSBC employee to accept the letter and open my account because I was running out of cash on Christmas.
That is not correct.

"Section 208(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) confirms that any individual who is physically present in the
United States or who arrives in the United States
at a port of entry or otherwise may apply for asylum, irrespective of the person’s immigration
status"

https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/hrf-cro...
Elsewhere you said The point of an opinion piece is to lie, cajole, trick, etc people into accepting your opinion or viewpoint.

It seems you may be doing that right now. You're calling Krauthammer a war criminal, which is patently false. He may be wrong-headed, but since he never actually acted in the war, never served as an agent of the government, it's flat-out false to refer to him as a "war criminal".
Didn't even have full disk encryption? Or if they did, how was it compromised?
> It's really astonishing how many liberals in the west will defend the middle-east's version of Hitler.

Opposing the war of aggression waged immorally, illegally (under international law and arguably— given the bad faith in the application of the conditional authorization by Congress—under US law as well), and incompetently by the Bush Administration isn't the same thing as defending Saddam Hussein (who is no more the Middle East version of Hitler than many other past or current leaders in the Middle East, many of whom—including Saddam, at the peak of his most Hitler-like actions—have or had the direct backing of the U.S. government, including—again, also specifically in the case of Saddam Hussein—the particular individuals most responsible for military and defense policy in the Bush 43 Administration. )
I can't help but think that a lot of the people making free-speech (online) arguments are being deliberately obtuse.

The Constitution and general body of law doesn't really address interactions on privately owned forums. It doesn't even really cover publicly (shareholder) owned forums, either, because they are, in effect, private as well.

Government-owned/controlled forums are a different matter entirely and they can't be censored in the same way.

Any online site has the right to say: this far and no further. How simple is that? State what you're not going to allow, admit that some things are judgement calls and call it done and dusted.

I will fight for your right to say any damn stupid thing you want (barring yelling fire in a theater), just don't try it in the middle of my f---ing living room.
Given that news outlets are struggling to stay alive, I think we are likely to see few alternatives spring up. If a paper needs a marginal $8/subscriber to stay afloat, and they make $2.50/user from tracking/etc, we likely see a model where subscriptions cost $6 with tracking and $9 without. Obviously we don't know the exact numbers, but this is hardly inconceivable -- we know for a fact these companies are mostly losing money as it is.
>So for the first 3-4 months, I did some wine waiting as a gig(agency work, no fixed place or hours. Like with Uber, you provide your own gear - like uniforms, bottle openers etc.) at the finest, the most iconic places in London. I worked at the Shard, I worked at the Cafe Royal, I worked at Four Seasons in events where celebrities like Victoria Beckham or Prince Harry were guests.

The the "finest, the most iconic places in London" hire cheap sweatshop, bring your own tools, amateur labor.

It might be a good chance for a newcomer to the business, but it also kills the business long term (just hire newcomers and pay them shit forever), and cheapens their whole experience to Las Vegas level for me.

Why places that charge $20 for a drink (or way more) are so greedy to not properly pay wait staff and keep qualified teams longterm, is beyond me...
Loved his enthusiasm. I feel very much the same about emacs. It’s endless and you can easily spend most of your day in it, experimenting.

I got back to emacs few years back, than contributed to spacemacs (which is great, but also makes you forget how awesome real emacs is), now giving “emacs doom” a second look. Fascinating in a completely different way.
Pardon my ignorance. What is the benefit / purpose of the license besides added revenue for whatever municipality the rental is in? Is there some kind of inspection or background check process?