skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s dumbfounding how something so obviously fair about how we treat people as a society becomes controversial... a trillion dollar company’s employees shouldn’t have a hard time getting food and need government assistance. Period.
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Republicans REFUSE to do that. Has nothing to do with naming. All about lack of backbones in our Congress.
Fight for $15! Fight for the future!

Robots for a higher minimum wage!

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My understanding is that they are moving towards it, but raising the price of human labor shift the frontier where changing to automation makes sense.

In practice, it’s a little more complicated than that because automation requires investments that are long to set-up, risky, etc. but there are reasons to believe that this suggestion, if it passes would have two effect:

- accelerate automation overall;

- convince Amazon to employ directly more of its workers (they are typically going through employment agencies at the moment) and re-think its schedules. The dirty secret of that industry is that Amazon would like people to come at certain hours but doesn’t really think beyond its operations, partially because they have an arms-length relationship with temporary workers. Agencies are all too willing to comply, and force powerless temp workers into the grinder, arguing that they are just bowing to “the market”. The layers of bureaucracy prevents Amazon from raising internally the point that shifts at reasonable hours, with breaks. This means employees can think more critically of their job, and contribute greatly to innovation.
I mean there is a whole global market for cybersecurity products and services. You would square that by finding some product to sell. Selling traditional AV or network firewalls would probably be very competitive but providing next generation cloud based device security management is less so. And in fact this is where you see the current slew of startups.. each one offering a way to security the edge to the cloud since companies are migrating to the cloud and using less IT/infosec human resources to do so. Same with government departments as well. Govt is probably better especially when you need a security clearance because you can charge more operating in those environments.
As with everything else, there is a market for states. If you don't like this one you can patronize a different one. The right of exit still exists.

In a participatory republic you have the option of actually engaging in the process and changing policy. Maybe you ought to vote with your dollars accordingly.

Also, there's no action being "defended" here. The American state is not actually prosecuting tech companies for antitrust. The EU is.
That’s not a bad thought, though i doubt it’ll come to fruition.
Shannon's dissertation is a great introduction (:p) to entropy. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173
The best example of this imo is the "USA PATRIOT" act, or:

"Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"
I mean, if I eat one piece of candy a year, I won't gain weight either. Somehow I don't think that's the story they're trying to sell.
Excellent question. Slight tangent, but in many states (Michigan is one) there are already disproportionate worker's compensation taxes based upon the risk factors of the occupation and environment - so there is precedent for that sort of thing.
Well, that's one of the reasons I just settled on vimwiki despite having used OneNote since it was an internal build when I worked at Microsoft. I'm tired of chasing it around. Included with Office. Not included with your version. Runs on Mac, but only online and no local storage. Doesn't have that important feature the Windows version does. Had shared notebooks for ten years, permissions system still sucks goat balls.

And now they're going to axe the "good" version. Lemmee just alt-tab back over to vim here and make a note of that...
I would surprised if this bill passes both houses of congress and then is signed by trump. Nothing that helps poor/middle class Americans would be of any interest to the right wing crony capitalists in this country.
Do you mean workers working 20 hours a weeks total or 20 hours a week at a particular employer?

There are plenty of individuals who work multiple jobs, still get only 30-some hours, and still collect public assistance. Seems like a needless clause.
Automation can be taxed. Automation IP can have its patents invalidated. Automation copyright can be revoked.

People Over Profits. Why is that such a difficult concept? Why is the "free market" so revered? Show me why it is better than the least well off living comfortably with shareholders making a lower return. If a trillion dollars isn't enough, what is?
Yup, speed of light in fiber is roughly 2/3*c.
> Meanwhile, thousands of Amazon workers rely on food stamps because their wages are so low

I'd be interested to know if this is actually true/where they're getting their numbers from, and if these are full-time, or seasonal employees.
I remember tour comment at the time, but cannot find it right now.

Do we know if Mozilla is planning anything to fix this?
For as much as the Democrats have been screaming about a need to return to civility naming the act after a private citizen, richest man or not, is too funny.

Compared to - say - the legislation resulting from the sub-prime crisis - in which powerful individuals at the head of national and global banking systems (and governments) almost ended the world as we know it.

Anyways, of course the actual brief doesn't actually reference how much Amazon employees are currently being subsidized (vs referenceing Walmart's $6.2b), because this isn't about the dollars and cents, it's about rushing something through on the back of bad press and Trump's tweetstorms.

The government grows unto itself, shoot first, aim later.
Android exists in the same space, and has more users, so it doesn't make sense to consider Apple a monopoly.
> We have decided that there should be a minimum standard of living for people that live in the US.

We have decided no such thing. People need shelter food and clothing, these are necessities. We have decided a bare minimum of those necessities that people have a right to have. Either employers pay for these, or governments pay for these. Without them people don't have enough food to eat, don't have shelter to live, or clothing to wear.
That's a very common assertion, and fairly well supported by common economic models; but the actual observed effect is quite small.
> if you have no product/market fit you're toast

Unless you create the market to fit the product. Which could be what Katzenberg, for example, is trying to do: create a new fad and cash in on it.
It might have exploded in use, but that word has been around and used for a long time. Its not something used just by the american left
Nobody who runs a website can pretend to be ignorant of this fiasco.
Weird, I have Virgin Fibre and have never had any issues with throttling, even when torrenting etc.
(besides the obvious political grandstanding timing of it)

Simply put, no. It is not the responsibility of employers to ensure that any job they offer provides sufficient compensation to an employee to live where they want.

Government actions have done far more damage and kept more people in poor financial straights than lack of pay. From the over zealous war on drugs to fund the politically powerful police and sheriff unions to the expense of the public employee pension systems which have driven up the cost of local government services, fees, and licensing, all at the cost of helping those in need.
My company opened up a load of AI/ML roles with absolutely no pending projects for them. CTO literally said once they are hired, they will find opportunities.
In addition to the common theories on GT, I think this could be anything from an embodiment of a treaty to a family reunion site.

If you had a particularly robust tribe, you would in a few generations outstrip the foraging capacity of your area. Nomadism helps but at some point your group may have to split in two to expand your radius. If you split on bad terms you might become rivals. But what if you split on good terms? You might never see your cousins again unless you made an effort. Let’s meet on this hilltop at the summer solstice every year. There will be too many of us to forage or hunt, so bring food and the hunters will find something else to do to fill the time.

We could wrestle. Or carve rocks or something. You know like grandpa Joe used to do. Man I miss grandpa Joe. Too bad about the bear.
Yes, but the point I'm getting at is whether someone could hypothetically still be outside the law if they gave access via the first password, but the interrogators suspected (but could not prove) that a second volume existed.
So the bill just calculated how much federal benefits their low wage workers get, and sends that bill to the corproate entity?

That is not at all what I thought when it said ending subsidies, this is nothing, its not the punishment that this article suggests it is. This is a great way to balance welfare budgets in a national spending debate, or get companies to raise their employee's salaries above eligibility for federal programs.

The actual cost for companies though? Still negligible, but that only matters when it is improperly framed as a punishment.
Scarily enough, the psychologist who observed the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials decided that a complete and utter lack of empathy was the defining characteristic of evil people.
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Fortunately, the market will provide as there is an entire industry of platform integrators from MuleSoft to IFTTT.
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Microsoft spent billions propping up Xbox for years before they found market fit. You don't need market fit if you have lots of cash.
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You might want to checkout the YC startup Necto[0].

[0]: https://apply.nectolab.io/
It's so weird and interesting how we have been pushing STEM so hard on HS students. I'm near an area where resources are more abundant (our tax property is actually really overwhelming...), and there's even "tracks" that students can choose. Like a leadership, compsci, physics, and etc. I look forward to more resources provided via online to all area of the US for STEM in early education.
That's evident from the article. And it does not change the fact that the headline is clickbait, a promise which the article fails to deliver on.
I'm not sure what you mean? This says nothing about stopping benefits for the people that receive them..
Do you give him a refund if AMZN drops, then? Taxing change in mark-to-market wealth is a huge change in tax code and probably shouldn't be done reactively. His grants are probably taxed as W-2 income, as is his salary. Maybe he has accounting tricks for it and I won't speculate, but at issue is his longstanding, large position in AMZN that goes back decades because he was the sole founder and they only took two funding rounds.
Stock grants, yes, as that would be income. Capital gains, no. The whole point of lower capital gains tax is that the principal has been taxed already, and it also encourages investment (risk).
> The bill is designed to create a “100 percent tax on corporations with 500 or more employees equal to the amount of federal benefits received by their low-wage workers.”

Not all low wage workers are equal in terms of the benefits they receive. If the new rule were as simple as this, employers would have an incentive not to hire e.g. parents with dependent children. Or not to hire people who are more likely to receive benefits in the future for whatever reason. I get that Sanders wants to enact transfers from the wealthy to the poor, but there are ways to do that that aren't a mismash of bad incentives.

Edit: Not to mention that this would give low wage employers a huge reason to oppose any new legislation to raise benefits. It just seems really poorly thought out. (Maybe no one expects it to pass, so it doesn't matter what the actual effects would be?)
I was referring to the Forth stack in my question about what was ment with persistence in this particular case.
It's almost as if antitrust is pro-competition and pro-capitalism!
Photosynthesis is only 0.1% to %2 efficient, while solar cells are over %20. So if you come up with a way to convert electricity into sugar that is at least %10 efficient, you are ahead. Not to mention that farming causes habitat destruction, and fertilizer and pesticides are also harmful.
Realizing too late in the game that the US is going for a cultural victory
Some people have no plans to reproduce. Many women are quite willing to get with some ugly old geezer with money in order to get a cut of his money.

Your hypothesis doesn't hold any water on the face of it, even before getting into much more complicated edge cases.

I once saw a comment on a cystic fibrosis forum by a woman with CF who had a previous boyfriend with CF. CF causes significant reproductive problems, including that 97 percent of men with CF have vas deferens, so their ejaculate contains no live sperm. On top of that it is a homozygous recessive disorder, so it's very controversial for someone with CF to want biological children of their own since you have no hope of not passing on a defective gene. Two people with CF wanting a child together would be guaranteed to have a child with CF and it would almost certainly require medical intervention to happen at all.

The CF community frequently has heated, emotional discussions about the morality of having more kids if your first child has CF, having biological kids at all if you have CF, etc.

I also have read of people with certain disorders having intervention so they could have a biological child and select out the ones that got the bad genes because they knew how torturous the condition was and had no desire to do that to their own child.

The ability to identify problematic genes via testing and the option to have certain kinds of fertility intervention is creating a whole slew of new questions. This complicated by the fact that genetic disorders profligate when they offer a survival advantage.

This is the story behind Sickle Cell, which helps protect against malaria. It is also the reason CF is so much more common in Caucasian populations of European descent: Having only one of the genes doesn't give you a deadly condition and protects against an infection that rampantly killed people in Europe historically.

So it is entirely possible that after designer babies become a thing and we remove too many "bad" genes from the gene pool, someday this will come back to bite us for some reason.
I've read somewhere that Firefox telemetry showed that hardly anyone used the bookmark descriptions.

In that case, understandable they chose to remove them.
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3ms for a disk drive isn't something you should plan to. 3ms is assuming a 15k drive with little to no workload. Under load your likely 10ms and under heavy load you may be seeing 20+. SATA drives? 5ms best case, under load with anything but sequential workloads and you might as well just take the afternoon off.
No thanks. I wish bureaucrats have limited their ideas to their own lives. Fascism is creeping in from all sides in the EU, but people seem to live in denial.
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Blood-testing group Theranos to dissolve following fraud scandal
Happy 10th birthday Chrome–the best is yet to come
Even I had the same question - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17916769 .

I'm aware of the following options:

1. PouchDB(CouchDB HTTP protocol) or RxDB

2. DexieJS(Indexed DB Wrapper)

3. Mozilla LocalForage(Indexed DB Wrapper)

4. OrbitJS(Indexed DB Wrapper using JSONAPI)

5. Google Lovefield(Relational equivalent)

6. GunJS

7. NanoSQL

Would love to hear from somebody with a production exp. in these technologies.
Everyone here actively despises the local film industry. We do not need to inflict Dutch television on the world. Thats torture.

Good shows should earn their ratings, not be force fed- if your culture is so great France and Germany you wouldn't need these subsidies. Netflix is not a public broadcaster.
Chrome did this first, so any wide effect (in yall's organsiations) should already have been noticed by now, due to this.
AI is a big part of it, but the key linchpin for a lot of human labor in Amazon’s fulfilment centres is grabbing, the ability to hold an object, given its shape and structure. The efforts in that direction are very active (although not as much as AI in general) but slightly different. You need sensors able to understand pressure and very subtle micro-controllers able to apply exactly the right kind of pressure. You need to think about the ideal shape for a “hand”.

Another big part of Amazon-related workers is their delivery third-parties. Self-driving truck could help, but they will still need people to unload the trucks and deal with the idiosyncrasies of every location. There were plans to use autonomous hexacopters (“drones”) but I don’t think those make sense at scale and for larger items.
If you download a connectome scan of Craig Venter, you do get Craig Venter. You're reasoning from a bad analogy.
If you're not into the ESP8266, there are some good Forth implementations for other types of microcontrollers:

ARM Cortex-M0/M3/M4/M7 (STM32, Teensy, etc.) and TI MSP430: Mecrisp-Stellaris - http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net

Atmel 8-bit AVR: AmForth - http://amforth.sourceforge.net
"The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done."

- Theodore Roosevelt, "New Nationalism", delivered at the dedication of John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas, 1910

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Less easy-to-use and more expensive products are a small price to pay for freedom and democracy.
> But like those rockstars, they do become role models for other's behavior.

How many rock star can you name who became a role model?
Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
The problem is that they lost the air cooler sound. A long time ago I drove an air cooled 911 on track. It wasn't that crazy powerful (300hp) but the sound was just fantastic.
Should call it the Disney, Walmart, or McDonald's bill...
The problem is that we have not legally mandated that the wage that companies in America pay employees must be enough to obtain that minimum standard of living and so companies don't pay it. It's not a special tax on companies that require low skilled labor, it's a tax on companies that don't pay there low skilled labor enough to live on. I'm on the fence to whether this bill is a good idea or a bad one but to be clear this is more than just let's hit big companies in the pocket. Compare Amazon vs Costco for instance. Both require low skilled workers but Amazon, a company with a trillion dollar market cap, pays it's employees relatively peanuts for how much the company itself makes whereas Costco pays it employees so well, and provides enough perks that it is regularly cited as one of the best places to work. That's the difference here.
The more complex the system, the more difficult science is to perform. Isolating variables is extremely difficult.
The idea of hospitality as a duty or moral obligation can be found in a variety of cultures. I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality to have some interesting examples. The Pashtunwali code is particularly interesting.

Pretty much all cultures have some sort of hospitality notion, but a handful of cultures elevate this to an almost sacred duty.
intervier and interviewee aren't speaking the same language

Interviewee just want to say you have been influenced, not interested in defining what a rebel is
Clean your room. Take some responsibility. Bear your burdens.

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While your effort for logging triangulation was helpful, your false dichotomy of caring about "humans" vs. "birds/trees" is not the best way to frame things.

You leave out the real beneficiaries - wealthy/corporations that benefit from the illegal goods.
It never struck me that lean startups were supposed to be about disrupting anything.

Disruption to me is a power grab and you have to do it with some exuberance or why bother?
Why don't you exchange cubes with one of your colleagues who values natural light more?
You could argue that poverty is a negative externality of a low wage business model, and business is responsible for covering that negative cost to society. It's in line with a factory paying for the costs of controlling its own pollution. But the argument really only holds true if you have a deterministic view of people's careers - are some inevitably committed to a low wage career because of external factors? Or are they stuck in those jobs by choice?
> Why should Walmart be tasked with providing a complete livelihood for its employees?

I don't think it should; but on the other end, why would people work for Walmart if the salary it offers is not enough to survive? And why should Walmart rely on the subsidies offered by the state to integrate the shitty wages it's paying?

In other words, the employees work for you, you are the one who should pay them- subsidies are altering this balance. (Ah, and tips too, my other little obsession. Otherwise I'll bring my own waiter, thank you).

Of course the state should provide a "safety net"- which for me includes full, free, high quality medical assistance, education, and maybe some for of low rent housing. But that's about it.
As an aside to the discussion about lean, I don't understand why these guys got 2 billion, even if it is Katzenberg. Netflix already has short content specific to mobile. They're subtle about it, but if you browse on mobile you'll get presented with shorter bits of content in your recommendations.

I guess the idea is that they are starting a studio to create short content, and hope to make billions selling the content?
That's surprising, because Chrome has distrusted Symantec certs for a few months and it's odd that Paypal would not have fixed it by now.