skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Children worked in factories because they were easier to exploit and the families who were getting exploited were desperate enough to send their children to work, because it was legal.

So what was the alternative, in your view? Force them to return to the countryside and engage in backbreaking agricultural labor, the very thing they sought to escape by turning to factory work in the cities? Or worse, to “infest the country as vagabonds, beggars, tramps, robbers and prostitutes”? You seem to have an inexcusably rosy picture of the economic realities of history. You would deprive these children of their only source of livelihood and hang them out to dry.

> How about actually thinking through the logic of the situation from the actors involved rather than basing your opinion on assumptions and nonsense.

Thinking through the logic of the situation from the actors involved is precisely what I'm doing and what you seem to be avoiding. My statement (not opinion) is based on an understanding of the harsh realities of history and economics which you seem to lack.
The negative effects of Ciprofloxacin and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics was touched on in this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13273770
and what about the people/services that were part of the 20 million dollar cost you reduced using that software?
Right, I mean a secure phone, so a recent iPhone with the enclave and the exurb and the whatnot. The U2F key I get - it's cheap, it's indestructible, I can buy a bunch and put them on my keychain and hide them under the couch and forget them in drawers filled with old SCSI terminators. But the phone already can do things like, say, authorize access to my google account by gmail app push notifications. Why not my ssh keys or all the other zany things people want to do with fancier USB tokens?
But...they explain it in the Snopes article. Did you not read the article while making a claim about them being disingenuous?

From the article:
However, a number of factors were elided in that report. The value of donated hair when applied to actual hairpieces provided to children relied on a projection, not actual processing and manufacturing costs...92% of the charity’s expenses allocated to program costs. Less than 7% of expenses went to administrative costs and salaries, and CEO Linda Borum’s most recently listed salary (for fiscal year 2015) was a modest $64,866.

Additionally if LOL charged patients in the past they claim to not do so now in their FAQ.

http://www.locksoflove.org/faq/#qq8
Someone above wrote this:

> People get bathroom breaks, but those count against your rate, and people do sometimes get written up for taking them, although that's as much a matter of Amazon encouraging ruthlessness in management as anything. I know of one anecdotal story of a worker who was apparently written up for the time it took them to clean up after their own nosebleed.

Does this ring true to you?
Since they have Amazon in the Twitter handle it’d be easy to shut the accounts down on trademark grounds.
I think it's a stylistic choice to emphasize that it's so wide, they needed to make a panorama.
This has a much brighter future than Minecraft on Linux or Mac (completely neglected after Microsoft acquisition).
I think (I don't have the numbers and I might be wrong) that the price difference between a Yubico U2F key and the Yubico Y4 key that will also hold your SSH key is in large part down to the BOM cost of the NXP chip they're using as the on-board HSM.
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Um, what? These people are representing themselves as employees of Amazon, who work in these factories. Unless they are lying about that, then they are in a position to know. Therefore, if they are making an assertion and it is untrue, they are lying. This isn't that complicated.
30% gross margin is on the low side for software distribution. Google 'gamestop gross margin' for one benchmark (~35%).

Most people would be surprised at the retail margins for many products (e.g. insurance) and don't realise how much bargaining power those that own the customer relationship (Walmart, Amazon, Booking.com, DoorDash etc.) have.
The difference is a shill hides their affiliation. These accounts are all clearly marked as being from Amazon. How is it any different from the various $Airline_Cares accounts on twitter that reply to customer complaints about bad service?
1. Yup! Well, that’s a feature in it. It’s an employee engagement platform.

2. Don’t need 30 to run this business. Have 30 to create the next iteration of the business.

3. Noted
> now that I've established a reputation and people take my work seriously, I don't have to be snarky or aggressive to get attention drawn to these issues.

like the parent and others here, I've lamented this. I appreciate your considered reply. This callout, in particular, is something I hadn't accounted for, but it makes perfect sense (the general idea that "we're getting serious and our clients are serious now too, so posts have to be serious" is just sort of obvious, and still likely true). Cheers to fighting the good fight!
Then melatonin supplementation might be the way to go....
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2018&q=melatonin+m...
They could even source the sentiments through Mechanical Turk.
I suspect most people with no paid vacation are working low wage jobs, and a) can't afford to forgo several hundred dollars of lost wages, b) can't afford to travel anywhere if they could take time off, and c) might be fired and immediately replaced if they asked for a week off without a "good" reason.
Yeah topline revenue in this business was not how most businesses here look at revenue.

Also it was the ceo telling me. He could have lied.

The margins were very very different
This is a really weird line to take. Obviously by "rather than fix" he means fix and demonstrate. Otherwise, why is is up to anyone but Amazon to prove that they have fixed the issues? You are misdirecting the burden.
You have things backwards. Python has threading, JavaScript does not. Potential breaks in execution are limited and explicit in JavaScript but almost ubiquitous in Python.
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I wrote the article. Sorry. I was just saying you have a point and I was being a little extreme in the article
It does as long as the person tracking you isn't Google.
Cheers kcorbitt!
This teaches us that “do everything with Node.js” isn’t as popular an opinion as HN headlines might make one believe.
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I _believe_ the word "fair" was used in its "agreed" or "you make a fair point" sense.

If somebody points out something that runs counter to my previous statement, I am likely to say, in a friendly admittance, "OK, fair enough, I guess kittens aren't the yummiest ingredient for a soup".
We got here rather simply... Apple introduced the iPhone with no apps at all, then gave a half-assed open solution (bookmarks on your home screen, essentially), then they introduced the App Store, with their rules. Since there was no other way to get apps on the phone (short of jailbreaking), App Store won and Play Store was built in this model.

Other smartphones in this space at the time (Windows Mobile and Blackberry) didn't quite capture the imaginations like Apple did. WM was fairly easy to sideload apps to; not sure about Blackberry.
NSLs are counted here, and ones without non-disclosure obligations have the actual letter published.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-...
There absolutely has to be tech analysis of a trader's entire portfolio or majority of their trades in order to really investigate before it passes off to human review.

The real beauty in this statement is the merging of fundamental analysis (news releases, ect.) with tech analysis. I don't mean tech analysis in the context of pivot points, sma's, rsi's, ect...I mean tech analysis on the evaluation of the winners of a significant price movement and their entire trades and current portfolio. THAT is the mind boggling algo.

Just b/c a trader makes x amount on a move doesn't mean they had privileged info. A tech eval has to eval their entry and exits to see if they were prime/ideal moves and most importantly their order size and order type, but it ultimately comes down to pattern evaluating their order history across multiple assets and see if their transaction history is generally successful and positions are taking prior to news release...then flag for human review and substantiate evidence.
How does this compare with other VPS providers?
I might be stretching the definition of legal: After a big project (the DAO) was hacked a group of governing people ruled in something similar to a court ruling that the money should go back to the people who put it in. Enforcement was done by having everyone agree that the money doesn't belong to the hacker anymore.

Though you can't convince everyone that "people are the law" in a system where "code is law". Which is why the Ethereum network split and people who refuse to agree stick to something called Ethereum Classic (an alternate reality where the hackers still own the funds).
Elsevier is like the cocktail lounge of the alcohol industry. They are just running a business by controlling access to the good stuff, that people with money have a taste for, and they will keep prices high for as long as they can. To be fair, some domains really need the good stuff and the cost for access to those journals is probably a drop in the bucket relative to their other operating expenses (or marketing expenses if we are talking about the pharmaceutical industry.)

Every peer review process is different from the next, it varies by journal, by conference, and by month of the year. I probably can't emphasize enough how highly subjective every peer review is. Anyone that has a paper rejected should consider the validity of reviewer comments (which may be total BS on occasion), then edit and resubmit the paper to another venue.
The parent comment just left out the 大 (big/great) from the sentence example

好き - like

大好き - love (lit. "great fondness")
Ya, that seems like the most reasonable explanation.
Main author here- hardest part was definitely parsing the paper and putting the pieces together, realising which components were properly specified and which were under specified. As of now I don’t actively maintain the repo but I do try to go through the issues and PRs. Open to major PRs as long as code stays neat and easy to understand.
I'm so glad I canceled my Amazon membership. I don't want anyone working in these conditions. My items can wait a few days to ship
Yes. Unless you want to use Google Maps. My SO just asked me to fix her phone to give her biking directions again. She uses the "Google" app to look up stuff, as far as I can tell the OS is now intercepting calls to https://maps.google.com and opening them in Apple Maps instead?!
Yeah dude you seem like a real gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17832290
> This way, Mr. Wang — who makes about $2,000 a month after taxes — saves $160 a month.

This is very surprising to me. This is the typical grad-student salary in the US (in CS), and in places outside of Bay Area, more than sufficient for a very decent QoL.
It’s really too bad people aren’t doing things like this in Lisp. There are so many more tools for building useful abstractions and a rich history of real work in the field to draw upon, performance is very good, and CFFI works great for interfacing with very low level C-callable code. (It didn’t take me long at all to use CFFI to bridge to Intel’s MRAA on the Edison, for example.)
Except when it's not, for example ETH vs ETC.
Distribution is the biggest part.
Is it possible that two employees at an Amazon facility might disagree about the ideal temperature of the facility?
Ah, now I follow you. I thought you meant, "LOL, fair? You think most things in life are fair?" Quite different from what you really meant, "LOL, you have a fair point there."

Sorry for the misunderstanding!
It is worth noting that IRC is in the middle of overhaul and upgrade with IRCv3 [1] standard. Sadly not many clients and servers support it (almost none of them).

[1] https://www.ircv3.net
IMO, you don't trust the independent source, you trust the journalist. Naturally, you'll only trust journalists who have proven to be right most of the time.
It's amazing how well this works despite being obvious propaganda. I felt my own opinion on Amazon Fullfilment Centers change as I read the article.

One thing that makes propaganda like this so effective is that journalists generally do not bother to verify any propaganda claims (eg. does Amazon really pay 30% more?), so even if they write articles making fun of you they still repeat your message.
It doesn't actually matter why Bell Labs allowed it to happen. The cultural evolution of Unix development involved many other participants who could not have cared less about Bell Labs' interests. The later developments reflected another phase of culture where certain people started to think about the implications and work the system to their own ends.
Skepticism, sure. Disdain, maybe. Fear, pointedly ridiculous.

It's not so much that it's failing, as much as it's been resisted and sabotaged. It's a distraction to think in terms of markets. Not when you can plug a money hose, the size of the military budget, into the supply side of the equation.

To name government subsidies as the ultimate and most fearsome form of corruption, and an abyss which has no known bottom, is to call the size of the U.S. military budget the purest form of corruption known to history.

And indeed, if the U.S. military, backed by its nuclear deterrent is such a thing to be feared, then it is assuredly more fearful than the failure of any medical plan.

Consider that we use nuclear powered aircraft carriers and cruise missiles designed to carry nuclear payloads, such to the effect, that in a conventional war, we smear an industrialized nation like Iraq, wiping maybe 100,000 people off the face of the earth, at a cost of 1,000 enlisted personnel. So take that degree of fear (or maybe just the portion of it, that happens to be backed by our global nuclear strike capacity), and point it directly at those who would let an accountant stand between your children and a doctor. What then?
> be an optimist, over-hype, get funding, and survive until engineering investments pay off

> whatsapp

What did whatsapp over-hype?
> Universal Basic Income, adjusted per country, is a very good start. Probably assign varying coefficients to it depending on demand and supposed rarity of the job.

So based on supply and demand, i.e. prices?
In India there's a massive unicorn by the name of Oyo rooms which has been doing the same
Don't depend on political willpower. If it happens it will happen because traditional carbon-intensive energy sources will become unprofitable because of renewables getting cheaper.

And when any of that nasty stuff happens, first-world countries will be a drop in the bucket in the world's energy consumption structure and whatever they do or not do, will no longer matter. Basically this is why climate change efforts don't work so much now: OK you can implement these unprofitable measures, it will only result in your industry reducing due to incompetitiveness and third world countries displacing it - using whole lot less efficient, dirty, carbon-intensive technologies - making things worse.

So, just wait for renewables to actually become cheaper with no subsidies and drive carbon-based energy out of business. Which is likely to happen, especially as the main missing link - batteries - are making huge progress in cost in the recent couple years, finally. World energy landscape will look totally different if they get 3x cheaper than now, and that is more than likely. If it doesn't ever happens there is nothing we can do and we'll just have to learn to live with the climate damaged to whatever point it happens.
Huh. Article cant be found now?
Have you looked at https://rclone.org/? Also written in Go, and handles more cloud providers (and SFTP) than you can shake a stick at.
Article can't be found now?
Yeah, a difference between my phone and my laptop is that my phone needs to basically be an appliance: it needs to work consistently in all sorts of situations so I don’t get stranded somewhere in an emergency. For this purpose, having a really strict gatekeeper that limits what apps can do is a feature, not a bug.
No way! That’s on me for being lazy and commenting on mobile!

Thanks for taking the time to read and discuss!
Except that bunches of apps with that model are being accepted now.
The purpose of zoning is to segregate property bidders into classes by purpose, or willingness to pay. Otherwise, you have someone whose purpose with the property is to generate $100k/mo, bidding on the same property as someone whose purpose is simply to live with no intention to generate profit. It serves society to set aside a zone of property wherein people with residential purpose only can bid on the same property.

Likewise, it serves society to have bidders who are offering a long-term lease at a monthly price for an apartment to not have to compete against a stream of tourists who are spending out of their leisure budget. If a city needs new hotels, it can zone and permit the construction of them. The answer isn't to force renters to enter bidding wars against vacationers to discover the "true" price.
My only experience with slack and gitter is through the browser and it 'required' piles of javascript, had no sane keybindings, and the UI was sluggish. They're also proprietary, walled gardens. If that's the future, then here's to 30 more years of IRC!
I'm assuming this runs about a jillion times faster than actual Minecraft?
They should re-write minecraft like this; its performance has always been so awful.
Full time workers get no protection in a right to work that contractors don’t.
A pity that Scratch is no longer written in Smalltalk. It was a natural move for a child to discover shift-click-R and progress from Scratch to Smalltalk hacking.
I was wondering if inspiration could be taken from the BIP32/BIP39 in the Bitcoin world. You can use a Trezor as a GPG-Agent, for example, with a key that's derived from the master key (BIP32) in the TREZOR (aka, already backed up via the BIP39 seed phrase). I haven't looked at u2f-on-trezor yet, but I'd assume it is implemented similarly.

It seems like you could use existing tooling to generate the phrase and then use some existing code/processes to derive the key backing the token's u2f private key?
First, You made a good run at the per user costs, but whiffed on how many users there are. Apple supports billions of downloads per year.

More importantly, Apple isn’t a mere payment processer, and it certainly isn’t a mere CDN.

Then entire storefront, updated constantly with new marketing programs in hundreds of country specific stores, and in dozens of languages. Then there is the technological infrastructure behind it, from XCode to TestFlight, to crash reporting, to all the payment systems, etc, etc.

And overall developers benefit greatly from App Store review.The average iOS user downloads more apps and spends far more on the App Store in a great part because of the greater safety and security of iOS apps.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is. Please don't do it again.

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> Somehow licensing software to other manufacturers makes you more anti-competitive then owning the entire pipeline?

Yes, giving out a product for free to kill off existing competitors and prevent potential competitors from gaining a foothold is anti-competitive.
some of the heavily multithreaded applications I use at work see up to a ~27% loss in performance by disabling SMT, others don't see much of a loss at all (on AMD EPYC)
Yea, that is cumbersome and not at all user-friendly. I was operating under the assumption of a single app + device use-case at solely Google in my original comment.
Neither had revenue so it is not comparable.
Please don't be uncivil or do ideological flamewars on HN.

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I find it really depends on author. There are some great ones but also a lot of ramblings that never get to the point. For sheer entertainment value I suggest reading the latter type of articles with an exaggerated valley-girl accent.
Also, computronium.
Religious flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't do this on HN again.

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Seeing as it's one data point, it doesn't even teach us that. To humor you -- the opacity should have actually led you to the opposite conclusion.
It sounds like they have spammed the patent office with every speculative claim they can possibly think of. It may take a few years, but as you suggest, everyone else may end up paying them rent because it won't be possible to get anything done otherwise.

Engineers who participate in this sort of activity need to take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves if the paycheck is worth it.
What are the coolest gadgets few have heard of?
Please don't go there, unless you have evidence. Internet discussions don't do well after this card is played.

This is in the site guidelines btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does this happen to people who were intentionally accepted, or accidentally accepted?

(Seems to me I got the same emails as you: First a reject email: "Class Begins Next Week! (for visitors/auditors)" and about being an auditor = not accepted. Then I got an email "you were actually supposed to receive the email below accepting you into the Startup School Advisor Track". I never got the "we screwed up and sent acceptances to companies that were not actually accepted to Startup School" email)
DevFactory has aquired FogBugz
People get swallowed in the garden walls of 'social' apps and just browse, mostly interract via <3 and Likes, and don't really have opinions of their own anymore. Also typing, you know, it's a lot easier to tap an icon to mean something than type it awkardly.
The fact that the entire industry apart from Apple (a computer company, not a phone/device company) were completely ignoring 3D exactly shows that it was NOT obvious or clear. After Apple demonstrated the potential it became clear.
I tried it before and it's not as easy as it sounds. There is no one spec, it's a handful of RFCs and other ad hoc extensions that are barely documented anywhere. I think there's at least a dozen different documents you have to refer to.
I have no sympathy for anyone who uses software like this, I strongly feel there is no justification for software like this that outweighs the invasion of privacy and other harms, and I don't think this functionality should even be possible at the phone OS level, nor should it be allowed for sale in application stores.

Most of these features aren’t available on iOS. From what I can tell, you have to know thier iCloud credentials and be in a position to do the 2FA.
Ledger Nano S protects you against physical theft by having a 4 number pin code. If the pin code is entered wrong 3 times, the device resets itself.
Struggles can be pretty motivating, unfortunately.
One of the "Ambassadors" responses from the article:

> "I can safely say that none of MY ideas have panned out anywhere near what Jeff Bezos has accomplished."

The most one can hope is that this is a bona fide Tweet from an employee who-- for whatever reason-- desires to self-deprecate in a completely voluntary, unremunerated defense of the company they work for during their off time.

Because if this is a PR drone posting self-deprecating statements in the name of an actual employee that's pretty humiliating behavior.
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