skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be honest.. although not always the cheapest.. Does anybody keep your credit card safer than Amazon online? And who wants to sign up for a new account with some random company. If the shit hits the fan, Amazon will cover me as a customer.
Where I live, the owner of the car is legally liable for damage that it does. Not the manufacturer, and not the driver.
For some people they would consider it as such.
Mary's Place is laudable, but it's a relatively small series of donations to a local charity. It's not something on the scale of the Gates Foundation.
>The idea you can vote with your dollars is bullshit

It's not. You're just annoyed noone is 'voting' with you.
A tariff or tax regime indexed on real wages and also environmental protection is necessary.

Selling things in the USA profitably on the basis of cheap labor in countries with weak environmental and labor protection should not be so simple.

A tariff program is probably not even necessary because overwhelmingly American corporations can simply be taxed for their import activities in a VAT manner and the problem goes away.
Mobile has size and environmental constraints that exceed PC/ATX by a considerable amount. One could imagine that as transistor scaling slows and lithium ion density approaches it's limit, a modularized standard evolves.
Those people are wrong.

It's maybe early yet to talk about what Bezos is going to do with his fortune; Amazon isn't all-grown-up yet. It's still possible he's going to go in the Gates direction, and I think it's much to early to say he's going in Ellison's direction.

But that doesn't make everything we like him doing an act of philanthropy.
MSM are generally more interested in hookups that involve barebacking because it is considered both more pleasurable and more 'dirty', and MSM are not likely to get pregnant. IIRC MSM also have many more partners than either heterosexuals or WLW.

MSM until very recently had a very big incentive to use condoms in the form of HIV, but these days PrEP is widespread and not expensive, so that risk has largely abated.
Malaria is not limited to the tropics and historically was common in parts of Europe and North America, and likely even in what is now the United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria

http://pmj.bmj.com/content/80/949/663
>The injustice might seem appalling, but have you wondered what the alternative is?

Yeah, wealthy people not living like space-age Caligulas on the backs of disenfranchised poor people. Seems like a pretty good alternative to me.
I know they do something like this in a distant way in some places in Minnesota when improvements are made by the city or county that suddenly increase the value of the property. So if they put in water, sewer, and a nice road along your formerly rural large property that now begs to be developed into more suburban stuff, you can actually defer payment until you sell or develop your now very valuable property.

The advantage there is there was a huge jump in value so the value is likely to remain... hopefully.

This proposal could result in taxes that are never paid and maybe the property isn't worth that much actually and then the tax payers have to pay because the gov banked on it.

Also encouraging people to NOT sell seems a bit artificial and could have side effects...
Plague? What plague? The west didn’t industrialize in the Middle Ages.
Jeff Bezos is literally the richest human being on Earth. If anyone could afford to pay his workers a fair wage, it's him.
You can do a search for "Is Prime Worth It" and there are a couple of journalist that break down average purchases vs using the free three day shipping. Unless you purchase a lot of things and use a lot of services (video/music streaming) it doesn't seem worth the price for the average consumer. Most people lose money on it, but they stay subscribed because they've had it for years.
A tech job making 10M yen in Japan is a very different experience than a tech job in the US making 100k+ a year.
While I don't doubt there are landlords out there that would deny foreigners an apartment, my experience is that:

- It is not "overwhelmingly." I would guess a very small number of landlords consider anything other than the tenet's potential to make rent every month and how long they will stay.

- Even in the aforementioned cases, it is not racial and has more to do with perception of foreigners (that we can't sort garbage, that we don't speak Japanese, and so on). I imagine this hypothetically "racist" landlord would probably also deny an American that was ethnically Japanese.

But most cases of a foreigner getting denied a lease are just simple economics. Landlords in Japan are, on the whole, very risk adverse. They want tenets with stable jobs and guarantors. Often, foreigners don't have those things. Just like foreigners, Japanese have to provide proof of a stable job and have a guarantor when renting. Landlords also want tenets that are likely to stay put so they don't have to go through the hassle of filling the apartment. If you're on a 1 year working holiday visa, that puts a natural limit on how long you can stay.

Landlords often have a choice of tenets and I think they generally behave in their own economic self-interest. Ask a typical Japanese landlord to choose between a foreigner employed at Sony with his manager as a guarantor and a Japanese student that graduates in 1 year guaranteed by his parents. My money is they pick the foreigner.
Can you elaborate on why and where you believe they will make a comeback?
How much time does it take, compared to 1080Ti?
You're conflating "treating workers ethically and paying them a living wage" with "phones should be standardized". Two completely different topics.
Not every business venture that benefits the world (if it works out) gets to be called "philanthropy."
Tell that to the former subsistence farmers who show every indication of preferring assembly work. Life as a subsistence farmer is much worse than you can imagine. We know this because people overwhelmingly prefer factory work, even in terrible conditions.
...and those have been expanded to even bigger units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding

Disk drives use a variant of RLL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_limited
The 10GBASE-T doesn't support Cat5e cabling. It supports a distance of up to 55m on Cat6 and 100m on CAT6a.

10GBASE-T is showing up in more and more small business targeted equipment but I think more likely 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T will make it to consumer home equipment instead of 10GBASE-T.

2.5GBASE-T supports a distance of up to 100m on CAT5e. 5GBASE-T supports up to 100m on CAT6 and may operate on some Cat5e infrastructure. Additionally they both support PoE which 10GBASE-T does not.
>Seems like a pretty good alternative to me.

Even when you include the part you conveniently left out about the poor living in even worse conditions that make their current situation a far better option?

Do you really think they were pulled from a cozy office doing 9 to 5 to this?
Yes, then listen to Jameroqui
1. Amazon has a HUGE scamming problem right now. Fraudulent listed items are a big deal, combined with legitimate listings, so it's hard not to get suddenly overcharged or sold a cheap knockoff. Your credit card number might be safer, but your actual money probably isn't.

2. You're not responsible for fraudulent charges, so worrying about major retailers having your credit card number isn't really reasonable. I don't recommend saving your credit card in any store website. Enter it each time so they can't store it.
We already have cameras of all types at every intersection in our city. Police presence is seemingly larger, and average property tax is $13,000 - $33,000 USD per year. So, the town has a lot of money to spend on this stuff.

Crime was low before the new police and new tech. It is still low. I'm glad I don't pay much at all for rent or tax. It feels like a terrible, raw deal.

When I see a cop, I get scared. They can do anything they want to me. Now, they can see me even when they're not there.
What's a fair wage for his employees? How much more would it be than what they are currently paid?

Are people entitled to wages higher than the prevailing market rate simply because their employer is capable of paying such wages? Do you really want to live in a world where employees of rich people get paid more than employees of more average people? The vast majority of workers would not be lucky enough to work for a really rich guy and would be paid less for the same work than the few who do. That seems less fair than everyone being paid the market rate.
"Ebay's buyer feedback rating is absolutely useless now, ever since it was made impossible to give negative feedback to a buyer for any reason, including outright fraud."

I do agree with your point. Craigslist's lack of report system has made us feel strongly about including the ability to report negative interactions with buyers, so our dependability rating should include those as well.

"But nothing in the Pradl model prevents lowballer/flake "buyers" either."

I could have made this connection better within the blog post, but the feature we believe can help minimize the damages of lowballers is the screening questions. Before buyers are allowed to ever ask the seller to contact them, they must agree to a number of conditions that the seller sets, such as "Is your offer above X price"? The idea here is that the buyer can be as annoying as they want and be set on making a lowball offer, but that communication should occur with Pradl without the seller having to deal with it. The seller only comes into contact with the buyer when they feel they aren't going to waste their time doing so. We think that even just double checking that the buyer is on the same page about some of these things before contacting the seller is enough of a deterrent to keep the bad ones, like the potential flakers, away. You might have a different opinion on that though, and I'd be happy to hear it.
You should read The Dictator's Handbook. Tariffs and Foreign Aid server one purpose: to help democracies impose non-democratic policies in those countries.

The US/EU/UK give foreign aid to States with resources they want. Thereby keeping autocrats in power (they take a huge cut of that aid; people typically get the scraps after they pay off essential supporters and generals).

Foreign policy is always about resource management and almost always helps keep autocrats in power. When the nation runs out of resources and aid is cut, it typically promotes democratization because the leader can no longer pay supporters. They have to appeal to the people and increase the influence selectorate size. If they don't and the people rise up, they'll often win if the leader doesn't find a way to pay the police/army.

States (both democratic and autocratic) exist because they have a monopoly on violence. Foreign aid really only helps autocrats maintain that monopoly.
Must be a great feeling to have Chris Hadfield, himself, tell you he’s happy to hear the good news.

Hell, I feel humbled by proxy just because I saw his tweet!
>Subsistence farming isn't so bad of a life, compared to 60 hour factory weeks.

Wanna bet? Why do you think rural populations leave as soon as they are able and move to cities to work in factories.

> Lots of western elites see something like that as a luxurious retirement.

The bigger stereotype is rich westerners fetishizing harsh rural life - the kind of life they aren't willing to participate in but have no problem advocating for for the poor in developing nations.
>> By increasing productivity through industrialization and technology advancements, and by doing those things before the rest of the world.

You seem to be ignoring the human labor part that happened around then and the backbreaking work that they did. Robots didn't get it done nor did the 40 hour work week.
It really is a worthwile endevor to move humanity forward, invest is space, etc., At the same time, with his wealth he could single handedly eradicate world hunger and still hang out with the world's richest.

At a bare minimum he could pay the people who have generated his wealth for him a little better.
You need to let air through or else it creates a vacuum. What's happening is it just slows the flow of air enough to be able to get suction from the fluid. Having fluid in the tube also helps.
Sometimes the Language Game Needs a Penalty Box
For the hacker news crowd, I think this would be a very interesting data mining project: correlate the prevalence of bareback gay porn with overall rates of bacterial STDs.

In the late 90s and early 00s, gay bareback porn was quite rare, and it was mainly "vintage" porn from before the AIDS epidemic. There were some studios around the mid 00s I think that focused on bareback sex, which caused lots of controversy in the time before PreP. Since PreP became widespread in the past couple years, bareback porn has become very common.

I don't think anyone consciously thinks "Oh, that porn star didn't use a condom, I don't need one either." But I think the overall change does tend to desensitize people into just making the negative consequences of barebacking easier to forget.
"Charity Is The Opiate Of Capitalism" - Nellie McKay
An inch thick? That's roughly the size I'd expect a service manual to be, but I struggle to think of why the operator's manual would need to have so much content.

(Unless it's because they decided to print the same thing in 200 different languages. I've seen that with some other equipment --- surprisingly thick manual, but a tiny fraction of it is actually in English.)
I'd say I was reasonably well practised and this still makes no sense.
Here's a good resource:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...
That was in reply to multiple political flamewar posts, but the Comey bit here obviously qualifies. Also, "butthurt downvoters"? that's embarrassing.
Can you please provide a link? A web search doesn't turn up anything that seems relevant.
How about we require people who manage large funds to have their own “skin in the game”, perhaps they’d do a better job for their clients.
Wrong. Amazon can pick a factory that treats their workers ethically.

Imagine if Nike said that in regards to paying for child labor.
I have a few.

partkart.com (now defunct) - it was supposed to be thingiverse but for cnc projects. I made it one summer when I was in school and had the naive notion that users would find it organically or through cnczone. I think one or two people used it total after a year. Learnings: have a plan for user acquisition.

partkam/makercam - browser based cam system, made during that same summer. Some people actually used this, as it solved a legitimate problem. I wasted a lot of time developing a custom polygon offset algo, and it was written in flash/actionscript cause it just had to be a web app. Learnings: don't develop for dying platforms, use libraries.

deepnest.io - nesting app for laser cutters. There are similar commercial apps so the market exists, just not sure how to reach the SMBs that are presumably the end users. Learnings: don't make an app that requires high touch sales if you have no idea how the industry works.

final learning: I actually enjoyed working on this stuff and learned a ton, even though they weren't ultimately successful. Having them contributed to getting a job after I graduated and later, more successful projects.
Might be harder to have disposable culture with high wages though
Most large funds do require that.
Having all humans exist in the solar system leaves us very vulnerable and a single point of failure.

Having all humans exist in the local stellar neighborhood leaves us very vulnerable and a single point of failure.

Having all humans exist in the milky way leaves us very vulnerable and a single point of failure.

Having all humans exist in the local super cluster leaves us very vulnerable and a single point of failure.

Having all humans exist in the universe leaves us very vulnerable and a single point of failure.

When you make your system large enough, it always has a single point of failure. False vacuum is a thing (maybe).
Mostly about how the UI sucks, which I agree with but I don't have a creative UX skills. I'm mostly a data/business logic person.
Can you explain why you brought up that video? Are you saying that boycotting Amazon is merely a symbolic move?
> It is known locally as the Wild Goose City, for the birds that used to stop off on their southerly migration

Used to?

I found this article about geese populations dwindling in China: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/22/15675010/china-wild-geese...

I wonder if that's why they no longer come to Hengyang?
Where do you think wealth comes from? It is the product of knowledge and institutions and economic growth. It is not always off the backs of others. In fact most of it is not. We are about a hundred times wealthier than we were before the industrial revolution. We can’t have stolen this wealth as not the smallest fraction of it existed in all the world before the industrial revolution.

If we deny these people the prospect of working in factories we are doing them no favours. How is removing demand for their labor going to make them wealthier?

It is not the sweatshops fault these people are poor. It is their poverty that makes a job you find unappealing appealing for them. By all means lobby to increase foreign aid. By all means donate cash via Give Directly.

But don’t think for a moment you are enriching these people’s lives by reducing the demand for their labor. Such thoughts are economic insanity.
You'd need to be able to replace the SoC, the screen, the cameras, and the biometric sensors to prevent a phone from becoming obsolete within a few years. That's pretty much all of the expensive parts of the phone, and it would likely cost the same as just buying a new one.
> I am not espousing the inhuman treatment of these workers ... The injustice might seem appalling, but have you wondered what the alternative is?

I’m not certain, but I think it does sound like your statement actually is indeed espousing the inhumane of those workers at that factory.
How did the 3rd world massively grow in the 20th and 21st century?
I know why I clicked on this; one of my cleaning spray bottles just broke. What's everyone else's excuse?
Your comment possesses a meer veneer of reason.

> Do you really want to live in a world where employees of rich people get paid more than employees of more average people?

Are you really hinging the argument on a notion of fairness? If you're going to open that can of worms, you should also observe the systems within which these agents exist.
Apple Lisa and Macintosh XL not on the list. Apple II & Apple III listed under Mac Desktops.
Those kinds of questions can also be used just to let the border agent evaluate how you answer them. If they sense evasiveness, they may think you are worthy of further screening or searches.
A lot of things happened that made the west wealthy in comparison with the rest of the world. Plague also didn't just happen once, it was a continuous thing with a few large events.

The reduction in population of some of those epidemics made fairly large improvements in the survivors' lives and can be seen as the stimulus in a lot of the progression of Europe.

Progress that led to wealth in the west wan't just the industrial revolution(s), it started long before and was the effect of several technological and social developments.
> It is not the sweatshops fault these people are poor.

Rather it is the sweatshops fault that it is an inhumane sweatshop which treates the people who work there inhumanely.
I wonder at what point will we stop thinking of Bill Gates as Robin Hood in the flesh.

What is the difference between Bill Gates “philanthropy” and a corporate PR campaign? For example, why is “philanthropy” promoting MasterCard across Africa a great way to address inequality? It appears to have had opposite effects in the US. But even if it were effective: philanthropy?
This is correct. The vast majority of funds have at least 1% committed by GPs. This is what Fred means when he writes, "The partners at USV make up a sizeable portion of our funds."
> Your comment possesses a meer veneer of reason.

Are you going to respond to the actual argument, or are you just going to be insulting?

Any argument about fair wages is going to hinge on notions of fairness.
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If really the most persuasive argument for the carried interest deduction is that it prevents new entrants from becoming middlemen financiers, that bodes pretty poorly for the policy.

An opinion that seems to be widely shared between conservative and liberal economists is that the financial sector is bloated. If the carried interest deduction serves to inflate it, that's actually by itself an argument to eliminate it.
Agree that it's not unavoidable, but the problem is deeper than just the scripts themselves being well documented and straightforward. The main risk (IME, anyway) is awareness / discovery of the scripts in a timely manner - the fact that everything 'just works' means that it can be months or years before something breaks, at which point it may be too late to ask the person who set it up. Hopefully there's good handover from the outgoing staff member to a technically proficient colleague. If so then everything might be OK but if not then a catastrophic failure may well be the first sign that something is wrong.

(A recent example of much simpler automation going horribly wrong was a company losing their top-level domain name because it was set to auto-renew using an ex-employee's personal credit card, and their email address as contact. This worked for years until that card was cancelled and the warning emails bounced off the closed account.)
It depends on your dataset. For example, a single class (face, pedestrian or car) object detection model with ten of thousands of positive samples should take at least 18 hours to complete on a modern Intel CPU with a target FPR (false positive rate) set to 0.00001. The lower the fpr is, the more training time is required.

https://sod.pixlab.io/samples.html for some code samples.
> The real issue is that licensing and tuition for dentists is too restrictive.

The guilds have designed professions that pay well. Over-education is not required for most of their tasks, so the grunt work is passed off to inexpensive hygienists/nurse practitioners/etc.

The Arizona legislature has been considering allowing dental hygienists (er, "therapists") to work independent of their DDS overlords, but the dentists have been fighting back: https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/health/2017/0...
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The policy is less about fairness to funds and more about fairness to the rest of the taxpayers (comprising >99% of the population).
Because the input variables are so different depending on your personal circumstances. Depending on how clever you accountant/tax professional is, you could be paying a very different amount in taxes/interest.

I might have misunderstood your question, as you didn't say which apps and how they suck. Then you start talking about UI and I get lost.
By using GPG (or some other form of public key cryptography), the messages are private, and the integrity of the data can be guaranteed.

Until they start blocking that (it's very easy to detect excessively high entropy, in fact one of the properties of good encryption is that output is indistinguishable from random noise) --- in which case, start using stenography...
Increases in productivity would have been _faster_ with shorter work weeks, but would have been detrimental to the wealth concentration such is the cost of capitalism. Reduction of hours is, to a point, a source of growth.
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