skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If implemented correctly

Sadly the operative condition :(

I feel like businesses should never have been able to grow so large that they can essentially make government useless. What you have now is a government that offers welfare (as precarious as that is in the US) and a profit-driven corporation seeing that as basically an offset of responsibility. Fuck over your staff and let the government that hates welfare pick up the tab; be dependent upon a job that gets far more out of you than you get out of them.

In any sane world this is a gregarious abuse of corporate responsibility. In the more compassionate (i.e. socialist) places you do not get such a cut-throat attitude towards profit at any cost.

And this is not big business in the US, it's the damned American Dream. You go from rags to riches, all fame and splendour and a hell of a struggle to talk about at the end of it. So you get every mom-and-pop shop and every other sole trader digging for prosperity the same way: pinch every penny you can, avoid paying your staff as much as you can, treat them as expendable, nothing is lost in the pursuit of wealth. You work hard by making others work harder for you.

And everyone wants it because that's what greed is.

Welfare gaps are not unique in the world, and neither is corporate exploitation, but what you have in the US is just a smooth veneer atop the roots of slavery; it's all money and property. You don't have to look hard to see that the language has changed but the dynamic has not. Not for a lot of people.
So this new version of patent trolling is to find old valuable patents that can be invalidated in some way, and patent them again, then sue everyone in the world that "infringes" because they thought the patent was long expired? Wow, that is a new level of scumbaggery.
It's at one 'alcohol unit', defined as 10g of pure ethanol. For comparison a standard 355ml can of 4.2% ABV beer (e.g. Bud Light) contains just under 12g of pure ethanol. A 5% ABV can would be closer to 15g. So the unit of measure they're using is bit smaller than what most people think of as 'one drink'.
This is not a failure, it's a success story that is being incorrectly twisted to attack BigCorp (because everyone hates BigCorp).

Following this crazy logic, the US may never move to a universal healthcare system, because then the workers will be receiving a 100% tax payer subsidy on healthcare.

In just about every other developed nation on earth, if you make very low wages you qualify for welfare state subsidies and programs. Your healthcare for example is entirely paid for by the welfare state if you make low wages, as you're not contributing very much back in and are absolutely not covering your cost on the system.

Why is it that when it comes to the US, these stories are bandied about as horrible corporate abuses, when in fact they're a success story from the continued expansion of the US social safety net?

Who is overwhelmingly paying for the SNAP program in the US? The rich, they pay an extraordinary share of the cost of these programs (the top 20% pay 87% of all income taxes). The US has one of the most progressive tax systems. Why would having the rich pay for worker SNAP benefits be a problem in any scenario - are we now trying to save the rich money on their taxes?

When someone earns the minimum wage in the UK, Spain, Canada, France etc do you think they're actually covering all of their own expenses? They're not. Those workers are all receiving welfare state benefits that subsidize the low pay from the corporations that employ them.

If you give these workers a boost via earned income tax credits for example (a vastly superior approach to increasing the minimum wage), you're doing the same exact thing you'd be doing with increased SNAP benefits.
What if I’m requesting a user’s profile information and a list of posts on their profile, and the list of posts takes 10x longer to fetch? Is it faster from a client perspective if I can’t render the user’s profile page until I wait until all of the posts are fetched, too?

In the general case, I’ve found that GraphQL is slower even in the case where you’re fetching all of a page’s info at once. Not only is it not necessarily always true that one client-server round trip is faster all-up than more granular requests even when you discount the user experience, this pattern often isn’t good general-case behavior for the reason above.
In my opinion once you start to need heavy customization in off-the-shelf ERP solution (ie. because you do not fit in the vertical that the system is designed for) you are generally better-off writing the whole thing in house. And if you want to do it as web application then ASP.net with WebForms is one of the more productive approaches to that problem.
Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions
I'm pretty sure it's in-house, IIRC what a former employee told me.
An army of trolls that launch a fringe reactionary political movement which transcends the national boundary with postmodern "dank memes" seems to be the level we are at now. I wonder what's coming next...
A basic income for the poor already exists, it’s just a patchwork of various social services with tenuous political standing and a ton of bureaucracy.

So, I agree. We ought to implement UBI and eliminate WIC, TANF, SSDI, SS, and SNAP. Give everyone $2k a month and tax the people who don’t need it.
I have used the Stino plugin for sublime-text: https://github.com/Robot-Will/Stino
Anything talking to a modem is using them still...
Downtime happens. HugOps helps.
I didn't qualify or mention anything about US, or say UK. It was about Eastern Europe. "Those parts" meant Easter Europe, sorry for not being more specific.

"banking frauds, rating frauds, international price fixing,"

But since we are comparing things, I'll take banking frauds and price fixing over murder, routine torture, ability to buy your freedom following murder from judges, prosecutors and even DNA lab tester grunts. And by torture I do not mean "we pretended to drop the person on the concrete floor", but putting a gas mask on their head and closing the breathing hole until they are ready to confess.

Did you ever feel bombs going off while sitting at home, feeling seemly safe? I have. I was doing homework after school waiting for my parents to come home and the local mafia was trying to kill a rival bank CEO who didn't submit to their "protection", so they blew up his apartment, including 4 other surrounding apartments.

I was on the other side of the door in a police station and heard people screaming in pain while being tortured. I saw murderers and rapists getting off with a slap of a wrist. Judges who didn't "get in line" disappearing overnight. I'll take price fixing any day over all that.
It was popularized by Douglas Hofstadter, the guy who wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
No, you should re-read the article.

She states that if she lacks networking, then she'd need to get by with wealth -- which then she follows up in a significant part of the article with why she doesn't have wealth due to taking up a less privileged career path.
yeah but this way some middle-manager bureaucrat type gets to pad their numbers and request 15% more budget next year. Catching 15 nobodies a month looks better than catching 1 actual big fish a year.
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WPF is a huge change from "traditional" UI frameworks like Windows Forms or Swing. It requires some rethinking and to get the most out of it you should really do things the WPF way in many (not all) cases, even though other options appear to work (they're just more work in the end and less flexible).

The documentation is actually fairly good in my eyes iff you're only writing applications. As a library and custom control vendor (a position I find myself in at work) it can be atrocious and sourceof.net is hugely helpful (and I still find myself wanting to debug framework source code at times).

Still, if you have specific questions, you can throw me an e-mail if you want.
Any kernel module that's not required (wifi, graphics, sound, USB, etc depending on application), any security system like selinux, any unnecessary libraries, helper utilities, etc etc.

Basically you rip out anything not strictly required for the task at hand.

Running on embedded hardware is quite different from running on server hardware, disk space and memory are measured in megabytes, not gigabytes...
Dialup was still a thing in this century, even if it feels like a long, long time ago. You could still reset people's connections by having them echo ATH0 back to you, if they were on a bad setup.
Some languages are unfit for certain purposes. For example, Python is not meant for low-level programming, and C is not meant for writing secure, mission-critical applications.
Another big advantage is that there were not very many models of car available, so everyone who know how to fix cars knew how to fix your car.
In the past I've had a great experience with PlatformIO which has a CLI and a front-end in Atom+VSCode

In contrast to Arduino, I've found it does a great job of handling your dependencies.

https://platformio.org/
All they're going to find in my phone is pictures of my bare ass, which I normally pay people to look at, so consider me in the same boat.

I always wish I would get an aggressive BP agent because a lot of my pics are in a prominent "nothing illegal" folder on the first "page" of my phone.
People are waiting 3 or 4 months for replacement parts for their vehicles or Tesla has had possession of the vehicle (and the person is using a loner) for a similar amount of time. That won't fly in the mass market.
Be kind (2016)
It is irrelevant. How unions structure their pay rules is entirely up to them.

If tech workers unionize, they can decide whatever pay scale they want. Why do you think that is not so?

And if they choose a pay scale based on seniority, lines of code delivered, or the weather, what difference does it make to you, someone presumably not a member of their union?
Don't multiply entities beyond necessity?
It's the passive/active question again. It might be trivial to actively become a fof but unlike public, it's not available unless you do take action. And every action is one extra filter.
I'd love to see psychotropic therapy with different kinds of psychedelics become widespread. It keeps sounding more and more like these drugs are super helpful for a variety of mental conditions.
Yeah, understood. I’m saying that you often don’t use the same SQL script you would if you were using GraphQL, because when you’re writing a SQL script for a very specific user experience you can often make optimizations that only work given the constraints of that experience and the data it needs.
These are some interesting observations regarding music and machine learning. It has been my experience that the majority of the output of ML music generators falls into the category I would classify as noise.

I briefly experimented with procedural music generation many years ago and will relate my experience in the hope that some may find it interesting or take inspiration from it.

I had read the Byte magazine article called "A Travesty Generator for Micros." which works with text files and realized that Markov chains could be applied either to whole word or individual letters. Sufficiently long chains of letters almost always produce actual words. Sufficiently long chains of words generally produce complete (although nonsensical) sentences. Excessively long chains copy the input to the output. See [1] and [2]

At the time I was playing LOTRO [3][4] which uses ABC files [5] which are a text representation of music. I used the .abc files as input to the travesty program and got very interesting output. I used the rescan method which reads the input file for each note to output. It is slow but uses far less memory than the array method which reads the input once and generates a complete table of all transitions.

Running travesty on a single .abc file produces an output which is very similar to the input and only mildly interesting. Chaining together 2 or more input files is when it gets more interesting. It did not work well unless the input files had the same key signature.

I considered the possibility of transposing all input files to a common key signature but did not implement it. Nearly all music representation is an abstraction of the music. Music is generally quantized into notes of the even tempered 12 note scale. The tune is recognizable regardless of the instrument it is played on. I wondered whether there were further abstractions which could be used similar to the way that either letters or words could be used for text but am not sufficiently musical that I could discover them.

If you try this I think you will quickly get results which encourage you to continue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody_generator

[2] http://runme.org/project/+travesty/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online

[4] http://www.lotro.com/en?

[5] http://abcnotation.com/
"Thank god..." It is most reassuring when divine entity is invoked especially in a data breach context. Especially when the intervention is of a monotheistic kind.
"Just get a new job!"

Said the software engineer.
This is really exiting to me, I've wanted a native cross platform Arduino toolchain.
Harmful drinking covers a wide range of behaviors and levels of drinking.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg115

Someone can be doing harm to themself well before they reach dependent-drinking levels.

> Harmful drinking is defined as a pattern of alcohol consumption causing health problems directly related to alcohol. This could include psychological problems such as depression, alcohol-related accidents or physical illness such as acute pancreatitis. In the longer term, harmful drinkers may go on to develop high blood pressure, cirrhosis, heart disease and some types of cancer, such as mouth, liver, bowel or breast cancer.

Alcohol-dependency is marked by

> craving, tolerance, a preoccupation with alcohol and continued drinking in spite of harmful consequences (for example, liver disease or depression caused by drinking).
Alcohol dependence is also associated with increased criminal activity and domestic violence, and an increased rate of significant mental and physical disorders. Although alcohol dependence is defined in ICD-10 and DSM-IV in categorical terms for diagnostic and statistical purposes as being either present or absent, in reality dependence exists on a continuum of severity. However, it is helpful from a clinical perspective to subdivide dependence into categories of mild, moderate and severe. People with mild dependence (those scoring 15 or less on the Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire; SADQ) usually do not need assisted alcohol withdrawal. People with moderate dependence (with a SADQ score of between 15 and 30) usually need assisted alcohol withdrawal, which can typically be managed in a community setting unless there are other risks. People who are severely alcohol dependent (with a SADQ score of more than 30) will need assisted alcohol withdrawal, typically in an inpatient or residential setting. In this guideline these definitions of severity are used to guide selection of appropriate interventions.
I witness the same thing every time I land in LAX and it fucking infuriates me. Blatantly racist "talk slow and in a bad chinese accent" style screaming at confused as hell Chinese tourists.

Every time I see it I wait for them to get to that hallway between Immigration and Customs and apologize to them, try to assure them that the guy that did it is an asshole, but I'm only there like twice a year... lots of people getting a really shitty first impression of America after their 13 hour exhausting flight.
This is a really interesting topic to me, because I've felt a pull toward things like this myself and seen it for decades. For example, the top of the README in my Zephyros project[1] was very playfully done, and very well received too.

People are naturally more lighthearted and organic than the sterile software and documentation we tend to write, and we're more social too, wanting to connect with others even if it means through a simple in-joke or catch phrase.

[1] https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros
We are using it heavily, and with a few extensions (like a batch modification endpoint) it scales pretty well. I'm not sure what measure of size are you referring to.
As recently as 2001 the majority of americans used dialup to connect to the internet. AOL was the worlds biggest ISP, and carried more than 50% of all US web traffic.
No, I'm not saying the seizure of the phone is less egregious. Rather, I'm asserting that intelligence agencies almost certainly operate outside the law regularly. That doesn't make the first thing less bad, but it does show our whole situation to be far worse.
True, but the point was about the convenience which criminals value over anti-eavesdropping methods.
Subscribing to Data Change Events in a MySQL Database
It's still getting commits, by the looks of things[1]. As always, I'm sure they welcome contributions.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/nomicon/commits/master
> for those in society who are unproductive so as not to be worth $x an hour, a minimum wage of >= $x actually definitely excludes them from the workforce

Wages are not objectively determined on the basis of worker productivity. If that were the case, wages would rise with productivity, but they tend not to. Wages are a cost that employers want to keep as low as possible in all cases - indeed, lower in cases of higher productivity, for a greater return on investment.

A stower at Amazon can make their monthly salary for the company in minutes by stowing a couple of XBoxes, yet they'll make the same 12.00/hr over a ten hour shift regardless. The value that an employee brings to a company is always less than their compensation. Never more, and certainly never equal.

I'm not certain the actual workforce bears out the premise that a minimum wage definitely prices workers out, since if it did, one would expect none of those jobs to be filled, since no employer should want to pay a minimum wage to fill them.
Economics of the Sharing Economy
In my dealing with Google Fi, different reps may offer you different options. I had to call a couple of times on my Nexus 5x. Because of specific business reasons I won't go into, I'd waited a while before trying to get the thing fixed or replaced. I couldn't get it replaced -- I'd apparently missed the window for that, wherein I'd heard of people getting new units or Pixel 1's or the like, perhaps because they'd run out of that stock -- but a subsequent rep did qualify it for repair.

In your case, if it's under warranty, I'd say they owe you service.

Often, in the case of warranty, if a company can't repair a failed unit under warranty, they'll replace it with an equal or better current/available unit. This is not some novel concept.

But, it costs. Google and partners can afford it, and it might be less expensive than all the bad PR.

Look what's happened to LG phones and marketshare, since the whole bootloop fiasco.

Anyway, Google, it's under warranty. Stop fucking around and honor the warranty.
A beer a day is definitely not harm-reducing. One beer a day could be one 330 ml bottle of beer at 5%. That's 11 uk units a week, which is at the upper end of the maximum recommended level.
> Any and all value generation requires energy which necessarily comes from natural resources.

You're assuming that value only derives from material things. For example, if a hostel arranges people interested in going to an event to go together by meeting at the hostel at a specific time, both parties gain value even though no material resource was lost. The hostel has increased the happiness of its patrons making them more likely to return in the future, and the patrons are happier going to an event (that they may have been going to anyways) with other people so that they enjoy their time more. You could say that the manager of the hostel used energy to talk to the patrons, but he was going to do that anyways.

Furthermore, if we want to talk about technicalities, energy cannot be created nor destroyed; only rearranged. Therefore, it may still be possible to create a process which transforms energy back from another form creating some sort of cycle. But that sort of technicality doesnt really matter seeing as how the amount of natural resource used in a lot of cases is actually minuscule relative to the amount of available energy in the universe.

Also, even in energy consuming businesses, if someone can increase efficiency and get paid for it, both parties do better. The loss occurs in less waste.
In practice, caching is non-trivial to implement for any sufficiently complex system even with REST. It depends on your use case of course, and how tolerant you are of stale data, but I have worked on very few frontends where HTTP caching is sufficient.
I have heard in some youtube video that one of the first post-merger conflicts at paypal was about elon pushing for Windows NT (and presumably MSSQL) instead of Oracle (presumably on Solaris).
Furthermore, how does every single person in your contact list feel about their email/phone number/address / messages to you getting leaked to the government?

What about websites with TOSs that state unequivocally that only YOU are allowed to use their website under your account?
Theoretically, though, within that area they need probable cause to believe you either recently crossed the border or committed a crime to search you.

We all know how easy PC is to manufacture though.
It was pretty hard(physically) back then, even before simple tilt tray sortation equipment.

Everything was manual.

And zero air conditioning in the first early generation distribution(now fulfilment) centres.

Hiring, even in distribution(fulfilment) operations, had quite a high hiring bar.

This was done to help develop the near future Human Resources capacity of the company.

So we had an inordinately high % of Amazon Associate stock pickers with undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Quite an eclectic and quirky bunch of quite over educated folks doing a lot of manual labor trying to get the orders out the door and not drown in them.

It was a much much smaller company back then.

We were just trying to survive the never ending need to get customer orders out te door and “average up” with each new hire.

Intellectual capacity per person was quite high, but our operational execution would be far lower than what is achieved today.

We were failing/learning as we were going.

More exploration, less exploitation(in the process sense).

Exploitation as an employee wasn’t a problem in the early days from my perspective.

We all knew what we were getting into. 100% commitment and acting like an owner.

As headcount exploded, individual understanding of Amazon’s mission, ethos, etc declined as it become more job-like, and less purposeful.

Growth rate compelled hiring more specialists and less multi-purpose generalists....who could write non Borg Collective like Tweets.

I guess what I’m saying is the culture in the early days was more like a pirate ship full of idiosyncratic individualist buccaneers than Borg.
I've seen this pattern from quite a few authors before. They describe Jobs as a jerk, and then go on to explain how his jerktitude actually helped them later on, like he was teaching them a life lesson or something. He was just very good at manipulating people.
That PR tour was in response to "AntennaGate" when Apple failed to engineer a phone to a life-or-death standard (well, if you were "holding it wrong").
I’m using this as well. Works great! Compiles and deploys much faster than the IDE I’ve found.