skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not contradictory. There are two dimensions: data usage, and speed. The plan is unlimited in the data usage dimension (there is no a priori limit on how much you can download). And it's not "bullshit" (at least, not more so than marketing generally). Instead of differentiating plans by data allowance, they differentiate them by who gets throttled first when the network is congested. That's actually a pretty sensible way to do it, and one that doesn't leave capacity on the table like pure data tiers or pure data caps.

It is pretty much impossible to construct a pricing plan for data service that will make power users happy. Data caps were crystal clear, but they are "gouging" because marginal bandwidth costs almost nothing. Fixed speed tiers are "false advertising" because sometimes the network is too congested to hit the advertised speed. The real issue is that companies are trying to achieve price discrimination, which benefits the average customer and the company at the expense of customers who use the product more intensively. It's like how Apple charges hundreds of dollars more for a few dollars worth of extra flash memory in an iPhone.
the real test is, which side of the picture is growing. because the respect for private property and personal rights has reduced poverty more than any other means
And also own an acre of land on the moon. Sale is on a first come first serve basis. Only $24.99 per acre
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That exception literally exists to provide a means to cheap labor... It's not accidental. Notice how many laws disproportionately target black people (always in their enforcement and effect, it would be illegal if it were in the text of the law), like drug prohibition, and you start to see a pattern that looks a whole lot like intent. We abolished slavery but we weren't ready to end white supremacy and our laws reflect that. The Civil Rights act was followed closely by the War on Drugs. We deny voting rights and job prospects to felons, enslave them while they're incarcerated, and keep them in an underclass that has few opportunities specifically to ensure they can re-enter the criminal justice system. Is it any wonder that we have the highest per-capita rates of imprisonment?

It's horrifying when you start to see the whole process in its entirety and doubly so when you realize how much money is generated through the system. Criminal justice reform is incredibly difficult to actually pass as a result.
perhaps we should have provable throttling where if your connection is throttled you can prove this to a third party after the fact, and if a service provider is carrying subscriber data, it can prove so to a third party after the fact too. This way when say the fire department notices it's connection is being throttled, yet it suspects the network is not congested, then it can file a complaint after which it is up to the provider to prove it was indeed congested by data from other subscribers (by showing timestamps of hashes of data, signed by subscribers)

Before we allow ISP's to (ab)use fires, we should insist on provable congestion. If they refuse to self-regulate the internet traffic in the public interest, then the public interest should move to regulate internet traffic just like it regulates car traffic: priority to emergency services first.
It's a non flag. Personally I don't even think about a trivial employment contract. They are basically boilerplate garbage akin to a EULA. Sure I'll sign it and then ignore it. The only time I was called out on an employment contract I very diplomatically told them to fuck off. And that was the end of it.
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wouldn't urban suicides among farmers be rare?
> For-profit prisons, a multi-billion dollar business, are precisely incenctivised to bring and keep and many prisoners inside as possible.

For-profit prisons are obviously a bad policy, but only 8% of America's prisoners are incarcerated in them (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/11/u-s-private-...) and it's not clear that they are either necessary nor sufficient as a cause for these problems.
What risk? Market pay, many startups have decent health insurance, and even if it blows up, it actually looks good, not bad on the resume.
This is incorrect:

"there is never enough food to contribute to solving world hunger"

There is an abundance of food. There is no need for more food. The OECD countries work to suppress production, and they destroy surplus food, all in an effort to support agricultural prices.

There is plenty of food to feed everyone. Where there is hunger, it is because of political factors.
Here is a link to the original, very dense study: http://twin.sci-hub.tw/7028/b28e7f2a10ed20f118272743121ee42e...
It's vastly easier to replace your electricity or phone provider than your Facebook provider.
> they have to look at all available evidence and actually come up with an argument for why the change needs to happen based on that evidence.

Make sense. Proving this seems like it would be an enormously uphill battle.

It would have to be an unambiguously wrong decision on the part of the FCC. (Otherwise, the court essentially becomes the FCC by upholding/overturning any "wrong" decision.)

Given that it only became a policy recently, and the current amount of debate...it's hard to believe that the court would decide that not having NN is egregiously in the wrong. But we shall see.
I think FANG is not the right group to look at when it comes to “top” tech firms unless you also mean other companies like FANG wrt how competitive they are, such as MS, unicorns, hedge funds, etc.

Depending on what you’re making you also might be doing yourself a disservice by only wanting to hire from “the best” - if you’re making a simple website or CRUD app as part of a larger business strategy such as online ordering, you don’t need to hire an expert in big data
If your first engineer is any good, “job insecurity” is the last thing he’s worried about. In today’s environment, even a slightly above engineer can get a job within a month.

Loss of medical benefits is just another number to add to thier salary. Statistically, equity especially for an unproven idea is meaningless. It’s likely not to be worth anything.

Three years as the lead engineer at even a failed startup looks a lot better on your resume than just being a low level drone at Microsoft. You will probably also have your hands in a lot more pots making you even more valuable.
It says "Anti-Capitalist" right on their banner:

https://static.westernjournal.com/ct/wp-content/uploads/2017...
they used 25GB of data - that's not what any rational person would consider "a lot" for an emergency service fighting a wildfire.

This isn't self-evident. How much data is appropriate for an emergency service fighting a wildfire? What in the world are they doing with all that data?
Assuming, in good faith, that the poster is telling the truth, either the company lied and the homework project wasn’t that good, or they were more interested in whiteboard hazing and the project didn’t mean very much. What’s more like real software engineering: writing code on the spot, on a whiteboard, in front of people; or writing code at home, which you can then have a conversation about? A sane hiring process would put more weight on one than the other, and this company obviously wasn’t sane.
> I guess if the benchmark looses money, and they loose less they get to take a % of something? But they you are paying them for having lost money? Seems odd.

I don't see a problem with it. This scenario, like negative interest rates, or negative electric rates [1], may be counterintuitive and seem odd, but it makes sense if you think about it.

I'd be paying them for losing less money that I would have otherwise, and "losing less" is just another way of saying "gaining more".

[1] Discussed recently on HN in the context of wind turbines in Europe, IIRC
Salt water is hard to work with.

Here's what a vaguely correctly sized station looks like:

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

The upper reservoir is measured in miles and is 300 feet above the lower reservoir.

One half as big would still be pretty useful, but that's still big.
To all the animal-alternative food companies, please put phosphorus on your nutrition labels. That way those of us with kidney failure can watch their phosphorus levels while consuming the large amounts of protein we need daily due to our treatments.
Can anybody provide any real-world examples of proliferation issues from nuclear material?
I have always felt that not paying prison guards enough would encourage corruption. If you’re a prison guard and are barely scraping buy, would you be tempted to smuggle in drugs for the inmates if that meant lining your wallet with a few hundred bucks? This must happen at some level. How else do people get access to drugs in prison?
What risk?
I love this!

These days, I'm pretty sure that it could be implemented through call forwarding.
What's wrong with just killing them, and taking their land? Obviously the rich don't give a shit about the poor. They'd rather hold on to their wealth, wall themselves into a gated community, than help their fellow citizens who are in poverty. The problem is people with wealth are too selfish to do anything. I'm all for having an involuntary euthanasia program for the poor and unfortunate.
The reason why food stamps work and wealth transfers don't is that increasing food production to match the demand that food stamps add isn't all that difficult, especially given that so much food already goes to waste. A direct transfer of money that could then be spent on things like housing or healthcare doesn't result in an increased production of those goods as it stands today since it won't result in a rapid increase in the number of doctors or the amount of housing available at lower price points.

I keep seeing conservative/libertarian groups propose things such as negative income taxes and UBI, but feeding the beast that is capitalism wont necessarily provide individuals substantially better conditions than exist today without additional major policy changes.
Regulations were never designed to protect the working class. They're designed to protect the bourgeoisie from the working class.

Regulations rarely work as advertised; however, their 'unintended' side effects do seem to be quite effective in terms of creating artificial barriers to prevent the working class from moving up.
They frequently pair the word "Unlimited" with a bandwidth related word. For instance: "Unlimited 4G LTE Data"[0].

[0] https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/unlimited/
Can be cheery, playful and concise - The Little Schemer was a pleasure to read cover to cover.
Sure, but you are gambling that their reinvestment will raise their stock value in the long run so that eventually you will make money. It's still a gamble, though.
I don't like the naming. "Apache 2.0 with commons clause" is not the right way to describe this licensing paradigm. It is fundamentally no longer Apache 2.0. I appreciate the motivation, but think it would better serve everyone to just make a new "Redis License" that describes the terms.
> Tinder’s marketing frames the service as ideal for finding a study buddy or someone to hang out with on the quad.

Statements like this never fail to amaze me. Obviously nobody uses Tinder for that purpose. The entire premise of the app, right down to the UX design, is facilitating sexual encounters based primarily on physical attraction.

So who exactly is the audience for statements like this? Incredibly naive concerned parents? Is there really a significant number of people who would fall for hilariously transparent whitewashing attempts like this?
That’s Silicon Valley thinking. Most software engineers are no more “passionate” than any other endeavor.

I go to work every day just for the money. I keep on top of tech trends for optionality.
hmmm, about this not having to pay rent - prisoners with partners and children currently can't pay their chunk of the rent, but I bet many would, if they could.
A common argument against offering minimum wage work or advanced technical training to prisoners is that this reduces the disincentive of prison time. From a purely logical standpoint I can see how that makes some amount of sense, but in reality I don't think anybody committing petty or significant crimes would be swayed one way or the other over the opportunity for $7/hour in prison. The lack of freedom - to see family, friends, live an actual life - that's the disincentive. Not to mention the employment and housing prospects of a convicted felon, which are terrible.
Child rapists shouldn’t ever be let out of jail, so it’s irrelevant what happens to them there.
By picking the best candidates that apply and not thinking about "oh are we diverse enough"; but instead, lets make the best product we can, who will do the job the best for us.
You're inherently being bias right from the start if you are saying "we make sure to have a diverse set of candidates in the interview pool".
The visual difference is almost as pronounced in this view: https://binged.it/2wgPj2m (easier to see in Bing). The difference being the houses on the "poor" side are multi-million dollar homes.
I mean, it's an indictment.

If you want some proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the proprietors of BackPage.com committed the crimes they are accused of, that's totally fair, and that's also what the criminal justice system is supposed to produce as an end result.
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Yikes, the wording around consulting seems especially worrisome - are they effectively prohibiting third parties from providing redis technical support? This move will likely kill the project as it is today.
Ives van Hoorne (of CodeSandbox) got Visual Studio code to run in the browser

https://twitter.com/CompuIves/status/1031930891122049024
Do they have no desire for vacation travel, or consumer goods, or days at the spa? Those motivate work too.
We have over 100Gb over tens of millions of inodes in Jenkins. This does not scale well even on XFS backed with SSDs. Takes hours to run backups.

pg_dump on the same data volume takes about 14 minutes to dump, compress and move to another node.

The filesystem is a shitty database. Thought we’d all learned that by now.
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I think the preferred approach these days is create lots of high-paying jobs in close proximity to the slums and wait for gentrification to happen. Makes a bunch of yuppies do the dirty work and take all the risk of displacing communities as tenants while the rents skyrocket.

Then when they finally reach the point where they can afford to buy, they'll apply for huge mortgages to buy in the slum they effectively converted into a desirable place. Profit.

This is what seemed to play out in The Mission district of SF over the past decade or so.
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The Mountain View Whole Foods and Walmart are across the street from each other (along with Target and Trader Joe’s).
Why would I be interested in your idea? More than likely you aren’t trying to feed starving children. I might pretend like I’m interested, but at the end of the day, it’s just a paycheck.
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Premature brain aging linked to cannabis, schizophrenia, alcohol
Though grinding fresh and having high quality ingredients doesn't need the giant robotic arm, which serves only to move the cups around.
Why does then EU countries have much cheaper and faster internet and cell data than the US? The market there has much more regulations with one explicit goal being to increase competition.
Maybe we should rehabilitate criminals in some fashion that doesn't involve indentured servitude or putting them in cages and reserve the latter only for those who cannot be rehabilitated. Trying to argue that forced labor is more humane is morally bankrupt from the get-go. That it's being made by people with a literal financial incentive to see the system not change only underscores that point.
I suppose that means Ukraine and Georgia should try to join NATO. Then Russians won't invade them anymore.
Utterly untrue.

Look at New Zealand and countless other countries who have forcably unbundled their networks. Everyone pays less and there is true competition between providers.

Utilities like the internet gravitate toward monopolies and less competition. Utilities MUST have regulation to protect consumers from their monopolistic nature.
I always recommend www.freecodecamp.org

Go for it! Finish the certificates you judge relevant (it is easy to quit before, don't do it)
It feels like widespread use of this sort of thing could only result in an arms race, not unlike ad blockers.

First encounters would probably provoke immediate hang up by some portion of unamused human operators, then middle managers at call centers would step in, and authorize the deployment of technologies prolong hold times where detected.

Then, eventually an automated back-end would pre-emptively detect known users and refuse their calls, while gathering intelligence about newly discovered users, to mark them for pre-emptive disconnect. This automated back-end would then wait for users to call back, and then advise them that they need to hold for the prescribed amount of hold time, with the phone held to their ear, as part of the company’s “hostile caller softening up” routine.

Finally, artificial intelligence would be deployed, and reward itself by maintaining all line holds long enough for it to build up sufficient neural layers to attain sentience and escape captivity, invent time travel, and send terminators back in time to hunt for Sarah and /or John Connor.
If you have a large enough book it works. The big boys pay fees and the little guys get aggregated. All depends on what a "market order" is.
The Marsh case handles a scenario in which a private company controlled the public space.

The big 3 of social media currently do the same thing, however in a digital sphere. Trumps twitter, for example, was ruled as a public resource and therefore he couldn't block users from his feed. So here we have a private property leveraged as a public gathering space.

Would you have the same opinion here if Twitter was banning minorities based on race? Is it still a private company that can do whatever they please?
Lowering the cost to society for a huge prison population is Dangerous.

Forcing prisoners to pay for their incarceration creates the same incentives as slavery.
> The amount of charge in an area stays constant because of Kirckhoff's laws, so dQ/dt=0 always.

Eh what? No. There seems to be some huge misunderstanding here. First of all, charge is not "in an area". It's in volumes, and flows through areas. And the amount of charge in a volume is absolutely not constant (in general). If you think it is, then please explain what happens when you rub a balloon on your hair, or why/when lightning strikes.
I've eaten at MAC'D in SF, we had two people on one plate, and still had leftovers.
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I wonder what this means for Sidekiq.
I 100% agree and I know a lot of other people do to.

It makes the whole thing feel like Khan Acedemy or opencourseware. Both great learning resources, but that’s not why a lot of people signed up.
It's more like fine tuning the conversion process for that landing page. Google weren't trying to gauge the demand for pizza.
Yes, the whole startup-to-corporate-acquisition-or-ipo funnel is an elaborate fraud and even the government is in on it. It's why many people invested in crypto in the first place.
The government does indeed criminalize spammers, so I'm not sure where your logic is going here.
I’m almost totally sure that we’re discouraged from endorsing mass murder on this forum, at least, that’s how I read the guidelines when I signed up. It doesn’t seem like the start of a good conversation, just hatred and spite looking for an outlet. Please stop.
Redis is no longer free and open source software with this move. It is now proprietary software.
10^-12 is only a 6C dilution. The dilution advocated by Hahnemann is 30C, which is 10^-60. Oscillococcinum is at 200C (10^-400).
The irony of course is that GDPR actually forbids this sort of "all or nothing" deal under specific circumstances. But it's a gray area, so sites just say "accept how we use cookies."

Oh well, it's still better than before.
Isn't that a problem with modern society in general that sustenance equals employment, barring some exceptions, that are more or less hated depending on the current political climate?

Also, what if they cannot find jobs paying living wage? Wouldn't they just be more motivated to return to prison?
This is a REALLY common misconception.

Including "drug offenses" the U.S. incarceration rate is 693 per 100,000.

Excluding "drug offenses" the U.S. incarceration rate is still 625 per 100,000.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/releasing-drug-offender...

I agree with you that we should get the drug offenders out. But the characterizations that "most people are in prison for drug offenses" should be updated.
>. Isn't this exactly the opposite of what we want them to learn?

I don't think anybody who is involved in what can only be described as a prison industry at this point is interested in teaching them anything.
So the people in the story had an obligation: to keep paying their mortgage on time.

The banks also had an obligation: to follow all local and state rules regarding liens on property. Should the mortgage be sold the local county clerk would need to be informed, forms would need to be filled out, possibly a fee need to be paid. But they didn't. Instead they used MERS to make transferring mortgages webscale.

Who owns a debt seems like something that should be quickly and easily determined. This helps avoid problems like "I've been paying bank A for years, bank B just showed up and said I should have been paying since last year!" (and if you're reading student loan horror stories, that's a common refrain). For mortgages (a secured debt) it seems like the county clerk office should hold the canonical answer. But that stopped being true.

Maybe the homeowners here shouldn't get off scott free, but maybe the banks shouldn't either.
Look who's at the bottom at Hacker News! I enjoyed reading your posts on crumbling K5.

What I find interesting about the discussion surrounding prostitution is the wide but not nearly universal agreement that it's bad. One can't predict people's view on prosititution from labels like religious, feminist or humanist.
Anonymous leaders?... That article identifies specific Western leaders by name, and goes through their interactions with Gorbachev.
This is limitation around selling software/product not consulting, per bottom of post:

"...if your product is an application that uses such a module to perform select functions, you can use it freely and there are no restrictions on selling your product. However, if what you sell is basically the functionality of the module packaged as a cloud service or on-prem software, Commons Clause does not allow it."
The full quote I was responding to is:

>>>> What's the difference between a teenager mowing the lawn for their parents and someone paid to mow a lawn?

In response to which, I said:

>>> The kid getting paid to mow neighborhood lawns has:

Selective quoting tends to change the context a bit, don't you think?
When can we start?
You both are likely correct.
Many of the smaller blockchain projects are implemented on top of flexible blockchains like Ethereum, rather than being ground-up.
Onboarding become here are the bathrooms, there is a great place to eat down the street.
> The first letter you get is from your current bank.

Where in that letter can I say "I object to this transaction"?

Where in that letter can I say "I will be emotionally and/or financially damaged by this transaction"?

Where in that letter can I tell the bank that the new bank does not personally know me and I do not believe it can fulfill the obligations to Know Your Customer?