skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It disappeared from the front page in an instant, and wasn't listed anywhere in further pages down.
If the value prop for end users is clear, why not offer it as a separate download, complete with an uninstaller?
The Case Against Student Loans: Why Weak Students Should Pay More
Who cares what Trump thinks about Europe's record fine for Google?
> If someone drives for Uber for 1-ride per month should Uber pay $1000/mo for that driver's health insurance?

It's no different than any other company. Most places have benefit levels tied to work levels. Working full time you get full benefits, for part time your benefits are lower and below a threshold, there are almost no benefits.
Lately a lot of the new student "luxury" housing near in my former college town have atrocious quality. Super-thin spitboard doors that one can break with one kick, little noise dampening, leather couches that are cracked/brittle after a year of use.

Like with car brands, you can get a Rolls Royce i.e. "real" luxury, or the simulation of luxury i.e. an Infiniti or Buick. Not to say those other types of luxury aren't bad, however it's important to make the distinction.
The Hacker News submission page dumps you into the new page whenever you make a new submission. I usually take a look at some of the other new submissions at this point. Otherwise it's fairly rare that I check the new page.
No. The First Amendment deals with the government punishing or silencing people for what they say.

Free speech is a concept relating to the ability to articulate and express an opinion without fear of censorship or retaliation.

I do not put forward the position that my house allows free speech to everyone.

However, that person is well within their rights to go out into the streets and yell their positions at the top of their lungs. And I will support him in that. And I will decry any platform that purports to allow free speech but then censors a person.

But I'm also ok with someone creating a platform that doesn't allow for all speech. That falls under freedom of association.

Are you seeing just how complicated all of this is now?
I think the parents’ point was that even though GDP per capita has increased, the cost of living has increased disproportionately. Because of the rise in housing and healthcare costs, net income in real dollars has gone down even as GDP continues to rise.
SpaceX and other low cost space companies. If I read the article correctly, they plan on doing this by not innovating.
>it's just that multiplication and division lose most of their useful properties.

Specifically they lose the property of not having zero divisors.

There exists sedonions a,b != 0 such that ab = 0
Correct me if I am wrong here, but I think a non democratic country like China will always have the upper hand in trade wars against a democratic one like the US, all else being relatively equal. They can always target politically sensitive agricultural produce in the swing states. I think the farmer vote in the US is quite significant. And the Chinese government does not need to worry about elections in the short term.
// The sustained users are ones that have good mods that improve the AI, and other aspects of the game. Civ 6 hasn't released the DLL, so us as modders, are in a holding pattern. Most of the major modders have quit (as have I) until the DLL is released.//

That's it right there. The Civ5 mod(s) "vox populi" is a must in any game I play. And it changes much of the game. Not possible to do in Civ6.

Also, I don't like the cartoon graphics of Civ6.
Market Research: Does a Good Turnkey Security as a Service Exist for SMEs?
Say you’re a small business and you’re wanting IT security protection - but you don’t know what you want (unconscious incompetence). There’s AlienVault, but the monthly subscription is way too high for most SMEs. There’s stuff like Wazuh and SNORT and OSSEC, but these technologies need a level of technical expertise to run and aren’t offered as a turnkey service. Is there anything out there fitting this bill?

I'm thinking about potentially starting something myself, open source of course! :)
I remember the early 90s, when some EU bigwig (Modi? I forget) made a lot of noise about wanting to catch up to the U.S. economically.
> I must admit that I’ve been working white collar engineering jobs for nearly 15 years now, so I’m not exactly an authority on being a minimum wage worker. I thought you were still eligible for unemployment and that it was paid for by your employer?

Yes, this is correct.
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Unfortunately despite being a very nice guy, Carter was not a fighter. He just took it on the chin. People wanted someone who did something. Bringing inflation down from 20% or thereabouts and bringing price stability to fuel was important. So enter Reagan. But ultimately the demise began at the hands of GHWB and Clinton who took globalization full throttle.
Her name is Cohl Furey, that is SO COOL!
There have been groups (not just foreign) that have pushed minimum wage laws with that motivation (whether or not that effect would have been, or was for the efforts that passed, actually achieved.) Some key words of this:

(1) the common belief that minimum wage suppresses employment overall (while there is much recent research suggesting that in real conditions this effect is not present or much smaller than naive assumptions, it is a common belief and moreso prior to that research; of it did do that, it is reasonable to expect the suppression would disproportionately impact groups that are already disadvantaged in wages, as targeted minorities often are.

(2) in some cases, these laws were proposed in the context of existing racist policies and social institutions which produce the racially biased effect in conjunction with minimum wage, rather than minimum wage being the prime driver, e.g., in apartheid South Africa, white-only labor unions in industries that would normally employ whites exclusively but bring in black workers at abysmal wages as strike breakers if the cost differential was high enough proposed minimum wages to prevent that practice.

(3) Minimum wage law can apply industry Specifically exceptions or differential wages, where there are pre-existing racial employment biases, to acheive racist ends.

Can minimum wage be racist in effect, or motivation? Yes.

Is it inherently so? No, details and context matter.
It's some kind of forum for english speaking foreigners in Japan. From the phrasing it would seem that the writer isn't a primary english speaker, but has been living in Japan for a while. Lots of what he says are stereotypes, but some stereotypes are useful for understanding radically different cultures.

Like it or not, my cultural mores were formed by Star Trek, and 80s sitcoms. It's what I think of as normal... watch some Japanese movies/drama and you'll see completely different and changing mores. Interestingly, for the last several years all of Asia seems to be watching Korean drama.
For those who don't know, people take trains between cities in the US Northeast Corridor all the time. In fact, that's pretty much Amtrak's only profitable region (money that it then loses in the rest of the country). And Amtrak actually has significant modernization plans in part because some routes are at capacity during busy times.
Par for the course for the EU.
I hope cars will do this once we’ve gone electric. Imagine how long you could keep a car if you can swap out a motor with a jack and a socket wrench.
It adds Authorization, WWW-Authenticate, Proxy-Authentication, Proxy-Authenticate, Cache-Control, but those aren't even used that consistently.
> the US federal government will release data showing how many workers rely on non-traditional work arrangements

That article just says "we'll find out soon"...
Ok, first of all, how is it a monopoly if you just bought the thing? That's like saying facebook has a monopoly over the domain name facebook.com.

Second, how is using it... abusing it?
This was the reaction the last time they did this: https://www.nature.com/news/german-scientists-regain-access-...

1. The scientists help themselves, or
2. They won't cite Elsevier published papers.
Data Transfer Project
They aren't controversial but effect sizes on mood are small. You do not fix depression with small mood changes.

A lot of this research is further confounded by the simple fact that depressed people exercise less as well as eat less healthy. Epidemiology does not show causation here, only interventional studies do with tiny effects.

Example is the studies that show having friends makes one less depressed. Obviously people who are depressed regularly have fewer friends because they're avoided.
I don't think I understand this. Isn't the double-entry more of an implementation detail?

Instead of...

entries: [
Entry(side: .debit, account: cash, amount: Decimal(42)),
Entry(side: .credit, account: revenue, amount: Decimal(42))
],

...you could have:

debitAccount: cash,
creditAccount: revenue,
amount: Decimal(42)

In other words, why does the client need to care about multiple entries in the call. I just want to record that X amount was sent from account Y to account Z. You can atomically record that as two entries in the back-end.
Same here, Julia's lack of a very broad package ecosystem is less of an issue because i) it's very easy to interface with R, Python and C; ii) types and multiple dispatch plus basic libraries and efficient code generation make it quick to develop good number crunching code.

Furthermore, the ecosystem is growing quickly, and it already has some unique math & stats packages not found elsewhere. Real gems. See https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-package-s-are-state-o...
FAIR is part of FB. The reason why FB invests billions of dollars into FAIR is because it supports its business model and its democracy-wrecking product. FAIR researchers are complicit in the societal damage perpetrated by FB. They're cashing the (multi-million $) checks, and in exchange they work on making FB more powerful, by giving it better AI.

When you talk to these guys (they're almost all guys), you realize they're fully aware of what they're doing, and in the back of their minds they know FB is evil. They just like the money too much.

This is 100% about money trumping conscience. FAIR researchers may be millionaires, but they're ethically challenged. I wouldn't trade place with them. These people disgust me.
It doesn't "simply come up"

Tens of millions of dollars keep it in the forefront of your brain. There is no accident here. There is no "simply comes up"
Install Gitlab on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
You don't list anywhere on the site how it actually works. Is it IMAP?
To be considered spyware, software needs only to collect data covertly. It doesn’t matter whether the data is used appropriately or not.
Among other things, it shows in wrenching emotional details what can happen without minimum wages when people are desperate.

I'm jobless, hungry and desperate. Minimum wage is $15.00 /hour. Given my skills and abilities, no one can justify hiring me at $15.00 / hour. I have two options:

1. Work for $8.00 / hour, which sucks balls, but at least lets me eat.

2. Not work at all for $0.00 / hour, and starve to death.

I don't think it's hard to guess which option many people would pick. A high minimum wage just hurts the people at the lowest rung of the economic ladder, by knocking them completely off the ladder.
How does this actually work?
I think the startup time in Spring got that long due to resolving graph of dependencies at runtime.
It is funny, but I didn't mean it as a joke.

It should generally be possible to predict the range of responses when submitting a patch to a free software project, or when posting to a free software list. If the input is "TLS" and the output is "TSA," it puts a strain on everyone and free software development suffers as a result.
I recommend Skiena's "The Algorithm Design Manual", it also includes some fun war stories of real world problems he was called in to solve, and the algorithms he used to solve them.
No, they don't, and they are just as subject to the GDPR as anybody else is, in fact, probably more given the EU decisions lately and because they're a huge big, fat target.

The distinction here is that they have been doing it a very long time, and user privacy actually is a core tenet of what they worry about at Google.
Oh I certainly don't take it as such. It can be extra frustrating as both a developer and a user of the console to want to be able to improve everything, but know that there is only so much time to get features done, and rarely do usability features rise in priority above supporting other teams.

> I was not aware of Windows having had different console implementations in the past. Can you elaborate on that point? How did that come to pass?

It's not really something most developers outside the company would have even been aware of honestly. At different points in time, there have been various different teams across Microsoft who had been working on bringing up new pieces of hardware (Xbox, HoloLens, phones, etc) and they found that the existing console didn't work on those minimal Windows OS's. At the time, there was no Console team at all, so whoever was working on that device just implemented their own console that would work on that prototypical device. That prototypical console got re-used and extended for other devices as they were developed, then abandoned as the platforms matured.

Then, in 2014, when the Console team was formed, we found out that not only were we responsible for the desktop console, but these other implementations as well.

> Can we expect improvements in that area as well?

Stay tuned :)
No, I don't trust Google either. But at least Google is somewhat open about the fact that they collect the data. I can have a look at it and I have settings to influence and even delete (probably) what is being collected.

That is vastly different from a spyware module installed clandestinely together with a software I paid for that sends data about me to somewhere and somebody then does something with it that I don't know about.
The Global Phenomenon of Live Over-The-Top Sports: Spotlight on India and China
When Firefox dropped support for Windows XP and Vista last year, about 10% of all Firefox users were still running XP or Vista. In China, I think XP was almost 20%. You can see the big shift of Windows version share on this Firefox telemetry graph after dropping XP support:

https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/#goto-os-and-architectu...

To be clear, Mozilla dropped support for XP and Vista in Firefox's regular "rapid release" channel; XP and Vista users were migrated to the Firefox ESR channel in March 2017 and will continue to receive ESR security updates until this September. Microsoft ended support for XP in 2014 and support for Vista in 2017. Chrome dropped support in 2016.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-windows-xp-...
This is absolutely ridiculous and just more cronyism on behalf of the taxi companies. Uber and Lyft drivers are definitively independent contractors. There is no legitimate argument otherwise, and pretending like they are is just showing the bias of these bureaucrats.
> Even, so, Charmeau rejects comparisons to SpaceX, because he maintains that the company is heavily subsidized by the US government.

Isn't ESA subsidized by the member governments? I'd understand if the criticism was coming from a private entity and they'd be complaining about SpaceX getting preferential treatment, but coming from a state sponsored agency it seems odd.
> Westphalian corollaries of national sovereignty and diplomacy

You do realize that long before Europe was 'civilized' other peoples had nations and exchanged diplomats?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0959229010840618...

If we were conversing in the 19th century one could excuse this sort of willful Euro-centric ignorance, but it is now well into the 21st century and information is freely available. I guess one can file this under the 'When Rome Ruled the Known World' category. Hint: What stopped that expansionist power from moving East towards Euphrates and firmly lodged to the periphery of Mediterranean?]
Good for you. Though, there will still be fewer customers and fewer drivers.
Pictures are huge and font is huge on my 1080p display. Is this just designed for a 4K audience or something? Starting to feel like the whole move towards supporting mobile should include 4k devs supporting lower resolutions too? Or is it just me...
Yeah, the first officer locked himself in then started descent into a mountain.
Here's my proposal for an alternative to the new page from a few years ago:

http://www.almostinfinite.com/other/hacker-news-new-page-scr...
Yes, that is my advice! Gald I wasn't indirect.

Facebook is an evil company that has harnessed and unleashed an ugliness in humanity which they take no responsibility for and is literally getting people killed.

We can't all be utilitarians.
‘Up or out’ institutional structures go sideways
If that's the case - then it's quite precious. Analysis of this water would reveal a lot.
One of my breakthrough moments in my career while I was transitioning into a full time developer role was when I realized this:

There will always be developers better than me but I am definitely better than "that guy" over there - and I am getting better every day.

I was concerned that I wasn't good enough and I almost treated the above statement as a mantra.
>> But they also aren't a totally independent contractor either as their livelihood is so closely tied to the platform of a private entity.

It's this weird middle-area that I think is causing the most friction.

As a thought experiment, I wonder what would happen if these platforms allowed drivers to set their own rates on a per trip or per session basis. As an independent contractor, you have complete control over how much you charge in order to make up for the burden of no benefits and heavy taxes.
What is interesting about this Meetoosoft advert?
Digital Library for classical music enthusiasts
link seems broken.
Nice job getting a landing page on the front page :-)

This is an interesting product. I've been using Google Inbox at work for the last ~6mo. I really like the snooze feature that removes an email from your inbox until a set time. I check my Inbox every few hours and try to keep it squeaky clean by snoozing emails until I plan to attack them. When something's snoozed over and over due to procrastination / poor time management, you really feel it.

How does everyone else manage their email? I don't get that many emails, probably < 10/day.
QUIC is the transport layer (layer 4).

> QUIC is an experimental transport layer network protocol [1]

You can run layer 4 on top of layer 4. (Just as you could say, run TCP layer 4 on top of HTTP layer 7.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
Deciding to drive for Uber is a mutually beneficial transaction between consenting adults (or an adult and a company). If the driver wasn't benefiting, they'd do something else.

Well-intentioned (by some people, prob most people on HN) and not so well-intentioned (anti-competitive lobbying by taxis) efforts to make the relationship less "exploitative" are likely doing more harm than good.

What happens when the gov mandates all these extra benefits? "Drivers WILL earn more money!" The answer is some combination of: Uber becomes costlier, people take fewer rides (or growth is slower than it should be), and some people who are perfectly willing and able to drive right now are unable to do so. Or (if demand is more inelastic) a bunch of new drivers decide the new benefits make it worth entering the market, and not everyone who wants to drive can/people sit around idle, etc.

Either way, you're hurting consumers and many existing drivers.
I write Perl5 every work day and find Perl6 less readable due to double symbols and increased symbol madness. Like the new ternary operator, which is probably much more visible but looks just crazy. Or private/public variables. In some respects it's worse than Perl5, in others it's exponentially more powerful. It's like giving you the equivalent of a swiss army knife for each and every tool inside your toolbox.

https://docs.perl6.org/type/Signature#index-entry-Type_Captu...

That said, I am more tempted to try Ruby, Crystal and Dlang for a new project, rather than Perl6. The latter looks like it was designed by a mad scientist on LSD.
There are tlds that are unsigned, and any domains that are unsigned. You can not verify the entire chain, because it is possible that the domain you are looking up is infact unsigned. You can maybe pin some of the tld keys, but you can't pin all the domains under them.
As a former data.table user and late-comer to dplyr and pipes, I think data.table is just as expressive when _writing_ (and I do miss indices and in-group references), but is really awful to read. I don't miss the days of reviewing data.table commands, esp. given that many teammates have been relatively inexperienced programmers.
> I've seen many small forums self-destruct

Too bad, so sad. The health and growth of your channel is not the network's problem, unless downtime and latency are your issues. If you can't solve the squabbles in your #furry/lgbt/conservative/socialist sub community, you can't expect me to come and declare you "the winner of the internet fight" and banish the losers. Do that yourself, if you're the chanop. If you aren't, start another channel.

> Misinformation is terribly difficult to combat.

Still not the network's problem. Last I checked, my role was providing a service, not arbitrating truth.

> and can lead to real harm to real people.

Mmn, aaand still not the network's problem. (If said harm even exists. Most times, it's just "emotional distress", or some indirect butterfly effect we want to blame for things like Trump, instead of looking at the direct causes.) If there is harm, it's the local, state, and federal government's problem. Not the service administrators.

> A ministry of truth is never a good idea

But it's what you're calling for. You try to make it seem virtuous by limiting the scope to certain "undeniable facts" like racism, slavery, the holocaust. Or worse, I've seen people trying to push it off to some Mechanical Turk, like Machine Learning. The computer will tell us if it's racist! It will soon grow to include vaccines, global warming, and a litany of other "social ills to be fixed" that just need to be accepted as truth.
This is why we cannot continue to allow the government to capture and store private data on its citizens, no matter what country it is.
A one-off error is certainly not shocking in the scale of what an app store processes and the fact that humans make mistakes. I would argue that on average, Apple's review process is far superior to weeding out malicious apps than Google's.
Can't say those services would prefer to be run by amateurs rather than professionals - professionalism will have always been the goal.
The Go linker does dead code elimination already.
It seems a LOT of people are replying to my post somehow thinking I am the person interrupting-maybe that's on me to phrase the problem more clearly next time.

But as a team leader, when my people send me 1-on-1 messages to ask for help, I do what I can to make sure they get that help. For me, it's more effective to be there with them in person within reason (in this case: sitting right next to me is 'within reason') to render that aid, when requested.