skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iain M. Banks: https://www.iain-banks.net/books/

Peter F. Hamilton: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/peter-f-hamilton

And while not strictly sci-fi, Peter Higgins: http://www.wolfhoundcentury.com/
The US model is in force (with variations) in the Netherlands, the UK, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Latvia, Iceland, Hungary, and for that matter, Australia. The conditions vary greatly, and I'm sure I've missed some.

The European commission already tried to swap all systems for a loan based one twice.

Which "European model" are you talking about ? If there is any of the models worthy of being called "European model", surely it'd be the commission's model, which would be the US model (with the state going after students who fail to pay, not sure about bankruptcy cases).
yeah, I'm pretty sure this could be causing some serious issues with plenty of folks. not sure if it's just the web console or if APIs are affected too, but I sure can't get in.
Many have said that noise cancellation does not work for coworkers' voices. Is that your experience or are these for another reason?
I'm not sure why the above is getting downvoted. Sure, it's a bit salty, but if I were paying for instapaper (which I realise is cheap as chips, but the principle still stands) I don't think I'd be very impressed with being locked out for two months.

Genuine question: as an EU citizen, without the use of a VPN or proxy is it still possible to at least log on to the service to cancel your account?
I happen to have a slight Scottish accent, despite never having lived there (or in any other country where English is the dominant language, for that matter.)

Reason is simply that when I was a kid, the house next door - the only house next door, this being rural Norway - was purchased by a family from Aberdeen, who'd decided to move to Norway to try something new.

If I wanted to play with their kids, I'd better learn some English fast - and the only speakers around were the Scottish kids next door.

Incidentally, I now go to Aberdeen for work on a regular basis, and the locals never fail to ask how long I've been living there, seeing as I've started to pick up their accent and all...
All enterprise software suck at one function or another.

In expense reporting, at least, sucking really badly reduces the amount the company needs to reimburse ;-)
I've looked through the Russian posts a few times, and to me it seems quite tame compared to the bitter, nasty, divisive rhetoric I hear sometimes from my fellow Americans. If this is the kind of thing that hurts our country, our own politicians are doing a far better job than the Russians.
Slackware was the first linux distribution that I was able to install when I was younger probably... 18 years ago or so. Crazy to think about.
Ummm why was plutonium allowed to be transported in a contractors car?
Being the butt of a joke and being a victim are not equivalent. Hence the distinction of "punching up" versus "punching down".

Of course it's really easy to get mixed about and think you're punching up when you're really punching sideways or slightly downwards (ie at your fellow, yet different, plebs).
yes, this is the first I'm hearing about this whole amazon thing!
> So I readily read one in three households, as strictly more than one in three persons

That's a bad reading. Even if everyone in a household with a gun owner have access to guns, that would mean 33% of households implies exactly 33% of people if gun ownership is distributed among households with no bias by household size. It doesn't imply more than 33% of people unless gun owning households are larger than non-gun-owning households.
I agree on the "per component" estimated costs. It is conceivable that Munro, having been in the business for a number of years, would have access to all sorts of data sources that the general public (or even higher quality data sources than even the big automotive companies).

I do think, many times, Musk's contributions to various fields have been overblown. However, I do think that Musk's companies' do challenge incumbents to really re-evaluate their internal processes, costs and organization. If I were General Motors, I would think it foolish to ignore this Munro report entirely.

In that way, the market is working as expected in my view.
The potential value of an engineer is unlike anything else. At the time of Whatsapp's acquisition by Facebook they had 10m users per employee and a roughly $500m valuation per employee.

That's pretty insane if you think about it, even if it's an outlier. Workers in other industries couldn't cut hair fast enough, fill grocery bags, cook meals, wait tables or chauffeur people fast enough etc to generate that much value in SV. There's just no competing with the type of worker that can de facto service millions of customers every minute of the day like a Whatsapp engineer does.

Given that, and network effects and the gigantic pile of liquidity the US/world is sitting on right now (at bizarro low-inflation interest & rates the past decade), and it all just pools around one spot.

They'll put support staff in satellite offices, but they can easily afford to put the core devs in central locations. Facebook had about 15k employees up until 2016 or so, Walmart has 1.5 million (100x) on somewhat similar net income (same order of magnitude). These ridiculous salaries aren't the biggest deal to tech companies as insane as that sounds.
Short of selling everyone's reading habits to the lowest bidder.. what on earth needs changing?

Edit: To clarify I'm not saying they do that, I just can't see what part of GDPR they're having trouble with
The article lists these as calibration sources. That means they are minuscule.

Bad that hit happened, yes. Worth the headline and attention in the article? Nah.
It also lacks the glass roof. Maybe there are a few other small feature differences as well? But I agree, it isn't exactly impossible to estimate its cost from the cost of the LR PUP version.
There's being cautious and there's being intentionally negative and hateful. It's all a matter of perspective.
I feel as I would hate to work there.

They are creating all these things to make it a 2nd home for people. They want people to be there a LONG time.

I'm happy with 40hrs with some days remote and I don't think I could switch to googles approach.
The Importance and Impact of Crypto Donations
Celery without a message broker
D-Wave quantum computer used to explore a spin glass
webm is just a subset of MKV. They limited the codecs/options so that it would be easier have complete webm compatibility. (Whereas "full" MKV compatibility doesn't really make sense because it has ~infinite codecs you would need to support)
Hillary lost. She was a shit candidate. Get over it.
What are the chances someone knew the plutonium was being transported in that particular vehicle?
Disengaging from random arguments isn't the problem; the problem is living in a world where nearly every opinion you see more or less aligns with your own views, to the point where we've been conditioned to see dissenting opinions as being hostile to us to the point where we instinctively reach for the unfollow/block/mute button when we see them.
What exactly do you have a problem with? You want discussions of inequality to center around police obesity more? Or did you perhaps not know that the order of comments can change?

I am literally pointing out that the top few comments were centered around violent revolution and police obesity. I'm not saying "inevitable slippery slope", I am literally describing the content of the first few comments at the time. If your conclusion from this is that violent revolution is the most reasonable then you just wanted violent revolution in the first place.

And no, this conversation didn't lead to a reasonable place, seeing as you're now here saying that I, because of a hacker news comment, am justification for violent revolution.
I think the cesium is probably more dangerous than the plutonium, because it ignites spontaneously in air and explodes in contact with water. If the crackheads who have it break open the container, we'll probably know who they are pretty quickly, especially if it's a radioactive isotope.
This BAFFLED ME for years as well.

But I think I've finally figured it out.

A lot of people are watching these streams AS THEY GAME. I can devote 75% of my attention to one monitor as a play "League of Legends", and listen to some helpful coaching from a Twitch Stream with 25% of my attention in the other monitor.

At times when my game is loading, or my character is dead and I'm waiting to respawn I can even devote 100% of my attention to the stream, and engage in chat.

I also can enjoy a stream when I'm taking public transportation or an Uber somewhere. Situations where I would game if I could, but I can't, so watching pros is the next best thing.
Are you serious? You can just load up a rented car with plutonium? There's not something in the ToS to prevent that?
In other industries, companies will provide free training, with the condition that you will need to pay back some money if you leave within a certain period of time. This can be reasonable.

Airlines want aspiring pilots to pay ~$100k for training with no guarantee of a job. This doesn't seem reasonable to me.
The important thing is enjoying the game and having fun. The number of people watching the stream shouldn't have a negative impact on that.

Lots of streamers seem to approach video games like they're some kind of full time job. They play games, stream the footage then expect thousands of dollars to start coming in every month. Of course the vast majority of them are going to end up frustrated. These people seem to be doing it solely for the money. I get the impression they wouldn't be playing anything if the potential to monetize their "fun time" didn't exist. I've seen successful youtubers force themselves to play games they don't like because of their fanbase, all while complaining about how the game sucks and sometimes even rage quitting. It's cringeworthy.

Why not play the games for the fun of it? It's easier to stream if one starts with that mindset. It costs nothing to stream gaming sessions, so they lose nothing if if nothing comes of it. Even if there's no audience, there are advantages: the stream can be recorded and archived, giving the streamer video footage of great moments they can look back on. People are gonna play games anyway, they might as well stream it.
Can you please give me a link to that stories?
The popular FPS games like Overwatch, CS:GO, or Fortnite are easy to understand for someone who've never played them. Dota/LoL/Starcraft are completely different though -- you needs lots of hours of experience to even have any clue as to what's going on. Try watching it, and you'll see what I mean.
Amazon Boycott Unites Workers, Gamers, Shoppers for Prime Day Protest
It would be crazy to think that they won't survive until the end of the year. Although if cash flow in Q3 and Q4 are bad, Q1 of next year could be the end.
It's all until the shorts get busted. It will calm down a bit afterwards.
haha you cracked me up!

// or underpaid ;)
If you listen to music on normal volume while the noise cancellation is on, you can drown out anything.
Second google doc book I see trending on HN within a week. I was kinda annoyed by the first one, so I printed it as PDF and then converted it to an ePub. Typeset is not perfect, but I prefer it over an google doc because I can read it now cross-devices offline in my favorite ebook reader.
Plutonium is missing, but the government says nothing
Oh yeah, I confused the bundles in this article https://www.neowin.net/news/weekend-pc-game-deals-a-chance-t...
Honeycast Streaming Services Now Powered by Mushroom’s Streamer
Yeah - maybe it's just the lingo of "positive" people, or maybe I haven't met enough "negative" people (lucky!?), but the (happy != positive) angle should have been explored a little bit.

The best friends in my life are not the same friends that have always been easy / happy / positive. But it is the people that I've known through tough times that I rely on now. It's all too easy to step away from people when one or the other is in a tough spot and this article runs the risk of encouraging that behavior. By my reading anyhow
500-600k salaries? What jobs are you looking at?!
I once was a Windows only guy. Then i was given Slackware from a friend. I really had to learn it the hard way. But i learned a lot and it was worth the hussle.

Thanks Slackware and everyone involved.
The big employers, for better or worse, in may cases still favor their mothership. Give the choice they seem to favor the HQ if they can. The satellite offices are required for scalability, but as long as they have capacity in the main office, they'll try and fill those slots up first.

At least its how it feels like.
Go a level up from the provided link i.e. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...
and choose Fil->SaveAs to download in desired format.
I'm all for having a conversation about Tesla's staffing numbers. Seeing the same comments repeated with absolutely no interaction, post after post, that's not conversing.
Goa trance
Here are two examples where such claims were made:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2530405/it-careers/sap...

https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/boerse/news/id_47703844/sch...
Yeah. The Hoover dam would never happen nowadays, and it has undoubtedly had some environmental effects.

Here is a fun example of how expensive infrastructure is here now:

Irvine to Corona tunnel (11.5 mile tunnel under mountains) which would connect Orange County to Riverside County: estimated 28.3 billion [1]. Both are large population centers with large economies, separated by a small-ish mountain range. They spent almost 30 million on environmental studies.

Norway made a 15 mile tunnel through the mountains for 113 million, or 0.4% of the cost. [2]

1. https://www.ocregister.com/2010/08/27/plans-for-irvine-coron...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6rdal_Tunnel
Attacking enemy ground anti air positions can be a job for stealth fighters. It is a high risk assignment. But there are few alternatives given the range of mopst AA defenses. These missions often requires the attackers to make their presence known in a controlled way to get enemy targetting radars turned on so that these stations can be tracked and targetted. Once the targetting radar is down, the rest of the AA battery typically becomes pretty useless.
Command and Control is a well regarded book on the subject that has been discussed here before (I haven't read it yet so I can't make a personal recommendation).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)
> If you pronounce a consonant wrong or leave it out, you're unintelligible

I don't know anything about Spanish but this seems like an overgeneralization for English. There's rhotic and non-rhotic accents. Public figures start dropping their gs to appear folksy. My dad's side of the family says "the" as "da" and they're understood if occasionally lightly mocked.
A slightly off-topic insight I came upon recently was from the civil rights movement: don't call people racist, because it backs them into a corner they can't get out of.

It's better to debate them on their choices so they can find their own way towards a more enlightened and equitable worldview.

I've also come to realize that this may partially explain why conservatives I know have been reluctant to engage in political discussion in these times. They're being backed into having to defend fundamentally indefensible positions.

Rather than forcing them to opt out, maybe it would be more productive to provide them an avenue out by engaging them in a more positive way. I'm still trying to figure out what that is, however.
Do you know about Asana focus mode? https://asana.com/guide/help/fundamentals/navigating-asana#g...
This is the same guide by Matt Mochary (an excellent executive coach) that was posted last week. It seems to have been retitled.

Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446839
It's illegal in most of Yurop iirc, at least here in Finland.
There's no mention of the NRA or National Rifle Association in the linked article.

The articles title is "Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States."
Any implementation ideas for that perishing? Starvation? In the streets or organized in ... camps? Or something quicker, the arena perhaps? Suicide booths? "Perish" is such a comfortably abstract term...

Personally, I suspect that one day, unlikely within our lifetime, ethics will evolve to the point where it becomes acceptable to pay people for getting sterilized. This could turn into the biggest boost to average education since mandatory schooling.
That’s a great hack! It prevents the “doorway effect” that happens often at work

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
Museum of Obsolete Media
Why People Are Unmotivated and Ways to Be Motivated
One of the reasons companies adopt software like SAP is to replace process expertise with software. If a highly paid process expert accomplishes a task in half the time a poorly paid person accomplishes the same task with SAP, SAP wins if the poorly paid person makes half as much as the well paid one.

Also there is a question of scalability - the supply of smart people is limited and depending on smarts is risky. Hiring people that may even be smart when that's not required and that can't do any damage because the software prevents them from doing it will scale better than having to hire only smart people to operate more flexible software.
The ad dollars are only spent if the ad is shown to users. If the site isn't up, ads can't be displayed.
The use Akamai for that
But who is "we", and who is anyone to decide which of the 35% should be retrained, or which new field to retrain them in, or how to allocate resources to such retraining?

Those are the difficult questions that are most deftly answered by the Dead Hand when we grant each "35-percenter" the responsibility for their own retraining; they either retrain ("evolve"); figure out how to stay relevant in their old field (also "evolve"); or fail, and in doing so, demonstrate that they were unwilling to be "spent" in any way that society was willing to spend them ("perish").

Which is to say, I do not quite understand how you are disagreeing with me.
I guess Doc Brown needed some fuel for the flux capacitor...
It also works for me at the office because the connection there has native IPv6

No luck at home with Virgin Media's "ehhh we'll look at IPv6 eventually"
This particular case isn't terrible, but it illustrates the general attitude towards material security that could be seriously bad. With materials like this I don't think there is an acceptable threshold under which we can say 'no big deal' if lost.
I think that the post you replied to was perfectly reasonable in its tone, and amazingly tame by HN standards. Could you clarify on what you took issue with?
if it happened in Russia, i'd say that this was just a show to cover the sale of the plutonium. Never let good plutonium go waste :)
not reading hacker news lol
And this comes just days after he said:

“I have made the mistaken assumption—and I will attempt to be better at this—of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season,” he said in an hour-long interview with Bloomberg Businessweek for this week's cover story. “That is my mistake. I will correct it.” [1]

My completely non-tech relatives in the UK asked if I'd heard of "that Tesla man", so I think he has damaged his and Tesla's reputation there. Hopefully the cave diver sues and donates the money somewhere worthy.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-13/-the-last...
I try to teach when I'm in a discussion, and I learn a lot from them. Both from trying to teach and from hearing other viewpoints. In fact I tend to actively try to seek out and befriend people who disagree with me, specifically to learn more. It's easy enough for me at least to make friends with a bunch of clones of myself, and while that's not a bad thing I think perspective is important. And you get that from discussing things with people who disagree.

I don't think that teaching vs learning is mutually exclusive, and while intent matters I don't believe you can have a (non-repeat) discussion without learning something.

It kind of frightens me how much emphasis has been put into creating social bubbles where no one disagrees. Especially online where it's so easy to do. (I want to emphasize that I am not criticizing having people around to support you.)
I don't see why the above is downvoted.

Yes, GDPR may be beneficial and all, but thinking that it does not have an associated cost of a higher barrier to entry is a bit myopic.
It took that much for all levels of management involved to admit it was hopeless and for the top level to ax them.
Most streamers have a fixed schedule so it's not that difficult to catch them online. I'm not sure why you think it's for students and single young professionals or that you need to spend hours of time online, you can watch whenever and for however long you want.
Ebay? Walmart? Alibaba?
TLPI is worth whatever price is being charged for it. Literally invaluable in my opinion.
It doesn't appear to be available for Canada, unfortunately. I didn't even know it existed.
I'd take my chances with Lucifer.
Not everything needs to be quantified, but at the very least this sparks the intention to be mindful of how you interact with others, and how you allow them to interact with you.
> One of the reasons companies adopt software like SAP is to replace process expertise with software. If a highly paid process expert accomplishes a task in half the time a poorly paid person accomplishes the same task with SAP, SAP wins if the poorly paid person makes half as much as the well paid one.

Assuming SAP is free both to license and implement. From what I've heard of SAP installations, that's rather far from the normal case.
For a single person - it's not unheard of for total comp. You'll really only find that at the big tech players (Google, Facebook, etc.) but for dual income - which is what I think they were specifying... $250-300k per person is "easily" obtainable assuming you also enter that big N company again.
49% could be the high-water mark; we don't know yet. If Amazon doesn't get a grip on the counterfeit product problem, sales could plummet. The switching cost to a new retailer is low.
Does it send articles to Kindle?

I had a look around and in an attempt to pre-empt - no, I'm not jailbreaking my kindle
Scaling Selenium test execution with Kubernetes
INTJ ON INFJ BULLIES
Quora compels users to hand over sensitive personal data, combines that with any other data it can, makes mental health diagnoses on its users, and generally offers creepy content.
That's cool, but it's a bit more complicated then rate limits.
"Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" is pretty good. I read it a while back after seeing it linked here.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7F8G?ref_=k4w_ss_dp_lp