skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today we have a military industrial complex supported by both parties and our most vital student loans (championed by our "left" party) come with no bankruptcy protection.

We do have a very strong Federal government, but it's designed to funnel money to various interest groups.

By making compute infrastructure affordable and by making consumer review data available for all products, Bezos is a champion of the little guy. He hasn't gotten rich through government crony capitalism or fraud, he's done the simplest stuff better than anyone else could. He let's people buy products that are reviewed thoroughly by other customers, he has a reasonable return policy, etc. This benefits consumers AND honest merchants selling through the platform.

AWS has made it way cheaper to start and scale many kinds of tech startups, and paved the way for firms like Heroku and DigitalOcean, and the entire vps ecosystem.

Bezos is a master of infrastructure execution. This is extremely rare, as we can see from the fate of Jet and Azure. Year after year the genius of his business tradeoff decisions and strategies become more clear. This is why he's wealthy. What we need are more people with that kind of vision and ability to see the big picture and solve real, unsexy problems.

Before AWS I had dealt with Dell as a part of several startups. The sales people were shady and they tried to milk every penny out of the customer for semi-proprietary hardware that was expensive to support. People flocked to AWS to escape the kind of predation and mediocrity championed by Dell.

Most readers of HN have the technical ability to have started AWS but (if they were of age at the time) did not see the opportunity and the path to execution. Bezos did. Let's give him some credit. I think he's one of the most remarkable visionaries of our age.
This is why anonymous speech, and institutions and social norms that support it, are an indispensable part of free speech.
Does this work for anyone? Finding it pretty incomprehensible. Tried searching for 'hillary', top result is "Community of people who support our brave Police Officers. Back The Badge" ?
Yes. Desire to have matching ideas. It's all validation. Whether it's something that keeps us in sync with the world or something that prevents insanity by saying "hey, someone out there thinks just like you", it's necessary. Humans don't do well when they have no reflection of their own self. We are social animals. We are fundamentally dependent on some mechanic that says we are and can be understood.

For people who work a lot with their own minds, in abstraction - things that are connected but not directly connected to 'reality', meaning, decisions we make have consequences that aren't immediately obvious, I think that's vital, and I think that's why all these message boards and forums and so have the most nuanced kinds of communication among technical people.

It all ties into our own independent stability. Yea, there's issues with group think, people can easily get carried away with a couple variants of reasoning. But that's how communication is supposed to function. I feel like it's so easy to get disconnected from the point of interaction because, we know that the individual we are speaking to directly can be more than one person.

Humans are ridiculous creatures in general. To think it's something the internet invented, that's disconnected.
>These are people -- tricking them into helping to increase your websites monetization is just unethical and wrong.

This only persuades me that they're doing it. I don't believe backlashes are effective in this kind of scenario, as there's no power on the backlash side.
People on TV are the ones that are later in their career. A police sergeant is more of a middle manager and is often not out in the field. Fitness tests ensure new officers are not overweight.
I'm confused, none of these ads seem to be targeted at influencing the election. Is that the point?
> However Amazon said its website was transparent, and consumers could compare price changes over time.

Do Amazon provide this service, or are they referring to CamelCamelCamel?
Certainly seems like an interesting avenue, though I don't know enough to speculate as to whether there are surface epitopes (i dont even know how / where on the LDL the virus binds haha)

The relationship btw HSV, APOE, amyloid beta and AD is certainly intriguing but it seems quite messy at this point. Would imagine there's a lot of work to do to unravel the mechanism before we get to the point where we can think about how best to drug whatever target emerges. Unfortunately mouse models in AD are terrible, so studying the biology may be very tough, although it seems iPSC derived neurons are proving to be decent models.
One day in Spring of 1983, I was a junior in high school, and the whole school was supposed to be gathered in the gym for some sort of pep rally or something. I and a fellow computer geek had absolutely no interest in this, so we spent the time walking around the empty halls talking about the programs we were working on (in 6502 machine language on the school's Apple ][+ machines). We ran into a teacher, who asked us why we weren't at the rally. We waved our diskette boxes (the badge of a computer geek at the time) at him and mumbled something to the effect of, "Oh, we're doing computer stuff", and he let us continue on our way rather than dragging us to the gym.
What about a little note in the footer? What could it say without implying a distrust in the service?
Ask HN: I'm turning 21 today. What is the best life advice for me at this stage
If you start a manned figher program now you might be able to retrofit autonomy later, otherwise you have a state-of-the art manned fighter.

If you don't and bet on drones, you are betting on uncertain developments in artificial intelligence and the hope that you'll develop a framework in which you can use weapons that make decisions for themselves and are left with your current, then out-of-date planes if you are wrong. And likely spending a bunch of billions in the process as well. Todays mostly remote-controlled drones with some autopilot features are a very different beast from what you'd need to generally replace human pilots.
Europe’s Dependence on the U.S. Was All Part of the Plan
That's what I figured. "One Snowy Knight" is available for $0.10 as a used paperback, $3.99 on Kindle, $4.15 for a new paperback.
I think it’s mostly redirecting dissatisfaction. Dems waaay underperformed and need to find a scapegoat rather than look internally and see why people switched.

But no, they rather blame others, be they foreign or even within the party: right now the Dems can’t decide if they are 1980s Dems or 1920s Workers Partiers.
Some 3 cool modern CMS for developers
1. If Instapaper "hard deletes" user data when a user deletes their account, what precisely does the License Grant language mean when it states Instapaper has a "worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license" to the User Content "including after your termination of your Account or the Services."? This is from "Instapaper Application License", section (a) of the Instapaper Terms of Service [1].

2. You've just said, "We have never monetized using user data, or developed any type of special targeted advertising for Instapaper." How is this statement congruent with paragraph 3 of "The Way We Use Information" in the Instapaper Privacy Policy [2]? Quoting:

- We may tell an advertiser or publisher that X number of people visited a certain area on our website

- We may tell an advertiser or publisher that X number of people bookmarked Z stories from a particular site or topic.

I'm going to be blunt with you, Brian: I don't believe what you're saying to me right now. At best I believe you're stating things which are superficially true but skating around the spirit of people's intent when they ask about privacy policies and how user data is being used.

Unless you have a fantastic answer for these two questions, I don't see how what you've just said is reconcilable with your privacy policy or terms of service. Literally "selling" user data is not the only way in which user data is monetized. Monetizing user data by providing derivative or curated analytics pertaining to that data is also substantial monetization of that user data. If advertisers developed their own special targeting for Instapaper users on or off the Instapaper platform based on the data you shared with them, then as a matter of fact yes, you did help in developing specialized targeting for advertisements.

To summarize thus far: you have effectively given me a non-answer, in consideration of the statements on Instapaper's TOS and Privacy Policy. And despite taking the time to respond to my comment (presumably because I challenged you directly), you have not responded to the parent commenter who originally asked you the question that started this thread.

EDIT: I'm not sure what's triggering these downvotes, but if someone downvoting has a substantial refutation or insight, it would be nice if you shared with the class instead of just pressing a button. As it stands Brian has not responded to the substance of my point, and it seems virtually self-evident according to the Privacy Policy that Instapaper monetizes user data. It's not much of a leap from there to assume that this revenue was no longer worth it for Pinterest after GDPR came into effect.

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1. https://www.instapaper.com/terms

2. https://www.instapaper.com/privacy
You mean the same New Deal that likely extended the length of the Great Depression by a significant multiple?
Are you the same user as used: danhak?
> in investments of some sort

But he's got most of his investments in one sort, stock in AMZN. It's not a secret that there isn't $150bn of liquidity at the B/A price. If he tried to unload those shares he wouldn't get anywhere close to their calculated value. That's what GP means by "virtual" it exists on paper but any tangible use of that quantity will change it . Not only is there not enough liquidity at that price, but once the market learned he was unloading a substantial quantity the price would become depressed (not sure what the technical term for that is).
1. Yes we intend to offer intermediate levels of service, eventually moving all the way down to a self serve option for a single restaurant.

2. We are still working on pricing for the smaller participants. The offering will likely be slightly different, but this scales very well, so we still think they can get access to quite a few of the features, just needs to be low /zero touch on our end, and the pricing needs to be right for them to ge involved.

3. We have geo-fenced notifications for users, we eventually will allow users to set a custom radius, and frequency and sensitivity, all pretty easy stuff to do, just need to get to it.

4. We are open to partnerships and have been approached about this. Yelp's business model is somewhat predicated upon 'Eating out is great' so hosting disparaging information may be less interesting to them. I think as our service continues to become more normalized and understood and expected, there will be a lot more great opportunities for partnerships

5. While I am sitting in this seat, we will not allow companies to buy away reports. Trust is everything, and I think consumers can figure this out really fast, and once you lose trust, you don't have much, especially with what we are doing, there is much more at stake than a normal review site. I thnk the companies don't want this either. As what we are doing continues to become more normalized, if our service started to become corrupted, then consumers lose trust, and another medium will pop up, and it may be a more adversarial organization. So in the end I think the large brands understand that, and should want us to continue to be the leading platform in this space.

TBC
Amazon suffers glitches in opening minutes of Prime Day
Understand what it truly means to be kind to people.
> It's been passed around like a stepchild since birth

I'm not sure how your reply relates to the statement I was replying to?

I looked it up on Marco's about page and he did run it for 5 years before selling it in 2013.

https://marco.org/about

I guess I don't see how that's "being passed around... since birth."
Just because someone gets ill after eating at a restaurant doesn't mean that the restaurant food was the cause. There may be several causes including food the sickee prepared for himself/herself earlier in the day.

What confidence indicators are you presenting to the public so that a report can be flagged as possibly unreliable?
I put twitch in my second screen while playing videogames. I guess it's the same for most watchers.
Is Amazon having issues with load due to Prime day?
Try to "Shop all deals" and the page just reloads. Seeing other reports of "Ih-oh, something went wrong"
Why swim (cross BBB) if you can take the bridge (infect neurons)?
What the hell dang and co?

If you're going to remove all anti-musk stuff but allow astro-turfing and just natural praise then I must have the wrong idea of what kind of website this is. I thought this was a place for discussion, not a marketing tool to promote SV's public image. I must have the wrong idea.
As a musician and a programmer, I'm looking for ways to produce music without a staff on paper or in a text message, and produce music programatically with easy I/O to a synthesizer or to other functions in code.
ABC notation comes close to what I want - it can be done in a text message, but I/O requires parsing and storing into objects to do anything with it. basic HexnoteG9 can be read in as little as 1 case statement viewing the last place.

I used LMMS and have taken a look at AbletonLive - both require heavy use of the mouse to get anything setup for music generation. My plan is to start at the bottom of the stack - sending notes through hex , and build on that so an artist could go in and edit the hex notes if they really wanted to, that it would be more readable than midi, and then the changes would show up in the layer above the hexnotes with buttons, sliders, a staff, and general UI.
Aren't their margins like, razor-thin? Obviously at Amazon scale, even razor-thin margins mean huge profits, but that doesn't mean that you have any wiggle room within the profit.

Imagine you have 100 people working for you, and off of each person, you make 10 cents a day. Now imagine you grow your business and you have 1,000,000 people working for you. At 10 cents per person per day, you're now making $100,000 a DAY! You're rich! If you wanted to give back to your employees, just remember that each one produces 10 cents of profit. If you gave them all 10 cents extra per day, it means nothing to any one of them, but your business now makes $0 profit.
I've witnessed large groups of programmers in open offices who all have twitch running on their iphones and are listening in with headphones. They literally watch/listen to twitch all day every day at work.
This thread is one of the prime examples of Hacker News being terrible when going off topic. You only have to read three comments to get to the most upvoted person saying the rich are at risk of violent revolution. A few more comments and people are discussing logistics of violent revolution, and whether police are too obese to participate or perhaps they act only in the interest of the 1%.

Are these educated opinions?
Facebook launch NG_Hub in Lagos – its first hub space in Africa
> If Bezos decided he could happily live on a mere $100B

Yeah, it's so mere that there are n't too many examples to cite.
> functioning federal government

> New Deal

The New Deal is the arguably the worst economic policy in US history. It turned the Great Recession into the Great Depression [1] [2] and has been an economic anchor on the US ever since [3] [4] [5]

That it has popularly been given credit for the WWII-era economy is doctoring history. That it still further has become the epitome of good economic policy is unbelievable.

[1] http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-D...

[2] https://mises.org/library/how-fdr-made-depression-worse

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/06/05/tru...

[4] https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p111.html

[5] https://www.forbes.com/2009/02/11/new-deal-stimulus-opinions...
Sorry, our wires are crossed. I was referring to the Nissan Leaf. OP said they couldn't afford a Tesla, and they were hoping for a cheaper Leaf, but they still needed a charging station. I was suggesting buying a used Leaf, and using the "emergency" charger that only offers 110V/15A. Apologies for the confusion.
Oh please stop with this FUD already. Risk assessments on GDPR litigation are blown wildly out of proportion. If we approached the risk of all laws in all jurisdictions this way, we'd just wake up and commit seppuku every morning. The only services that actually need to shut down are ones that are monetizing based on personal data. Small SaaS services that aren't doing that can be fully GDPR compliant with a little bit of copy writing and self-service options for deleting/downloading personal data, and even if you don't do all that, in all likelihood, on the off chance that they actually get significant complaints about small services, regulators will give you a chance to justify your stance and make necessary remediations before throwing the book at you.
Its not like they require OEMs to bundle their Shopping Assistant with every CPU installation.
> [huger]: Is this a word?

Yes: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/huge
We have to cripple the datacenters, which tend to be hard to move.
From my experience, police officers generally don't like rich people. Also, I don't think that members of the police force or the military are as obedient or loyal as they used to be in the past.
It's equivalent to saying each person should get a production budget, that every person in the world should have an equal income.
Have you tried dusk? It's for laravel, but it could possibly be used on other projects, depends on your stack I guess.
When you get robots replacing guys with guns, then you've got a whole second set of problems to deal with them. Namely, cybersecurity goes from being annoying to being potentially lethal.
Here they only destroy all the tarmac in just six months, but surely what you mention is way worse.
Germany X France: Who Shaped the Entrepreneurial Culture for European Startups?
Author of the software here, not the article. I never intended Browsh to replace Lynx et al! Browsh is firstly for people with slow and/or expensive networks and secondly a cool terminal gimmick.

Sorry for stepping on any toes.
As long as we're speaking in idealistic terms I pretty much agree with you but when you compare websites and PDFs that exist in practice it tells a different story.

Zooming PDFs on mobile can be a pain but it's certainly less of a pain than using some fixed width site from the early 2000s with a jQuery menu you can only operate with a mouse and links so small that a mouse would fat finger them.

Machine consumption of the documents is one of those benefits that sounds cool but really just boils down to SEO because very few other things are going to be scraping your site. Certainly worth something but it's usually not high on the priority list for governments and search bots scrape PDFs anyway.

I think the main point in favor of the web is that you can have multiple presentation layers for the same underlying content and you can improve presentation independently of content. Not necessarily that it's reusable because that's just templates and a style guide but that you can backport all your fixes.
"About to?" It already is brutal for the bottom half. And the 90th percentile is too low: people in that range are paupers by comparison even to the top 5. I think the 95th to the 99th percentile is the region to look at. There are some seriously deluded individuals in that group who think they won't be on the outside with the rest of us when the top pull the gates closed behind them.
The thing is you don't have to sit down and watch a streamer for hours at a time. There's a variety of content that you can just switch over to someone else you follow that's streaming, or just watch the past broadcasts of streams you missed. It's kind of like watching youtube videos, or even traditional couch-surfing.

I spend an hour or so every night just browsing through streams to look for interesting content, swapping between games and IRLs. It's a good shift away from production TV content.
I haven't read the article, yet, but the U.S. has developed a system that is a government subsidized, two-tier workforce.

Military-trained pilots. Highly trained and experienced -- although not always in aircraft that reflect commercial flight profiles. I don't know how much the 2003 onward wars have influenced this, but prior, one put in their 5-7-10 years, then exited to a highly paid and privileged position with a commercial airline.

Self/privately trained pilots. Those were routed to local and regional carriers, that have been increasingly snapped up by the major carriers and integrated into their networks. Learning to fly isn't cheap (not just training, but also getting hours -- on machines that are expensive to own and operate, ergo also to rent); despite this, these people end up in positions that often pay substantially below the median middle-class wage.

I don't recall the details, but already some years ago, I read some things indicating that pilots, including the ex-military, have increasing concern about career futures. I think in part, with the ex-military, it's wage pressure from the privately-trained.

Airlines also got pretty good at union-flogging, if not outright busting, tactics, for a while. The dips after 2003 and 2008 helped in this. Going by my memory...

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P.S. I read the article. I'll leave my original comment as is. Well, I said 2003, thinking of the invasion of Iraq and the pressures demands that placed. But yeah, 2001 is another position on the timeline to point to.
Uhm, no, you're just supposed to spend the $19 on a USB C -> Lightning cable to connect them.

The wifi thing is just convenient for many people. If it's not good enough or "pro enough" for you, there is still a cable that you can use.

I don't really see the problem here. Assuming I buy the base model MacBook Pro and the cheapest iPhone 8, I've just spent $2000 dollars and I don't see how I can justify complaining that I need to spend an extra 1% on a cable to connect them.
> Sorry but just because an article or opinion piece does not make censorship the central point of an article does not mean it is a piece of propaganda.

Very true. However, I didn't claim that censorship should be the central point of the article. I simply noted that it was barely mentioned at all.

> Rarely have I seen someone go into a lengthy speech about government overreach or free speech.

I'm not really sure what this demonstrates -- this can hardly be surprising in a country which provides no way for ordinary citizens to participate in government, has no history of its citizens doing so, and actively discourages them attempting to. That being said, it's certainly believable that freedom is not high on the list of priorities for the average Chinese citizen, but again, I never said that it was.

> We should allow people to talk about the Chinese tech ecosystem without having to pay their due to Western audiences in the foreword.

Another refutation of a claim that I never made.

As to the rest of your post, I agree! I've spent some time in China and was really amazed at how connected it was and how much could be accomplished with just a phone. I was mostly in the cities, but I also went out to the countryside and for the most part everything just worked, and everyone had WeChatPay and AliPay :)
>falsified test data to make it look like cars that didn't pass their internal tests passed

Sounds an awful lot like cheating to me, but OK.
You can download a binary and run it that way, it doesn't need docker