skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, overall work-life balance is certainly better than in other places, but mental health is still an issue here. 13 % of all days absent due to illness are attributed to mental health problems[0]. Especially in jobs, where you have lots of responsibility and pressure for very little material reward -- nurses, geriatric workers, teachers.

[0]: https://www.deutsche-depressionshilfe.de/depression-infos-un...
One big manufacturer of parcel lockers is polish. So i wonder - how popular is using parcel lockers for e-commerce is in Poland?

Also, using parcel lockers can make a lot of the logistics much easier, and this might explain how allegro.pl could offer a Prime like service.
I think that is always realitve. Sure, in absolute numbers that might be true (I didn't check), in relative terms not so much if I remember well. At least in some countries affected by the Arab Spring people started to demonstrate against increasing bread Prices.

That and general uncertainity combined did not cause the revolts but definetly a factor. What thfollowed was a bad handling of the crisis by the Western powers. And with all the convenient dictators, viable road-blocks for everyone trying to get to Europe, in North Africa gone already existing refugees had open venues to Europe. Add to that all the People trying to get out of the civil wars that followed after the revolts in certain countries and you can explain a big part of the so called refugee crisis.

Unfortunately this crisis, despite being basically over in Terms of numbers, is playing an ever increasing roll in European politics. And I personally don't like the results a single bit, not every country is realizing what voting for righ-wing populists means like the French did. Germany certainlly isn't.
I'd agree, "even" was more a reference to the fact that many companies don't seem to regard storage of front-end assets like JS files as being as important as more obvious targets like database servers.
If you turn it into charcoal you keep most of the carbon locked up in a non-biodegradable form.
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It is "phobia" if you hit the wrong guy back. Which is something America is pretty good at doing, all the while still crying foul.
IPv6 involves more than 128 bit addresses though. It would have been possible to create IPv4 but with longer addresses, even if that would have been a wasted opportunity for improvement and would have presented new scaling issues.
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In Switzerland we don't have Amazon. We have local shops instead, but I miss Amazon customer service (especially the no questions asked return policy).

So often I order from Amazon and import the product myself.
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Hey, Australian here, we are doing just fine thanks.
As corv just wrote, the decline in tourism is a result of the Arab Sprint and the instability, let alone wars, it produced. Not the other way around.

The linked article from 2011 is great reading in hindsight.

> This might be the last and best opportunity for the West to facilitate the creation of another “island of peace” — a sympathetic democratic community in the much-troubled Arab world.

If there ever was such a plan, it failed miserably.

Anyway I'm no expert on the subject, just a witness of the time and I don't remember anything that links these two.
Sorry, I meant to say "You don't need read to consider this specific case invalid." Didn't have my coffee yet!
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We got pretty lucky though, George Washington and others were exceptional people.
I wonder if you could use this surgery combined with a specialised prosthetic arm to create movable yet simple replacement hands.

Imagine a prosthetic arm with a hollow body and a hand that can open and close in a simple fashion. Run a hydraulic pipe from the artificial hand up to the pincer and secure the presses/cylinders at both ends.

When the amputee closes their pincer inside the artificial arm the prosthetic hand would then close. Differing amounts of pressure would allow the amputee to exert different amounts of pressure to grip, pick up and move objects.

Also, there would be no electronics to go wrong. Hydraulics are very stable, cheap and reliable technology!
Could you dig up a few of those CDO washing theses?

The Inside Job documentary showcased a few economists that had conflict of interest, but haven't mentioned anything concrete about CDOs.

> Much to the contrary, they went on enjoying the same mind-boggling luxurious elite lifestyle they always did.

The culprits had money and they will have money. They own the banks, and of course they opposed regulation.

But they are not the same as those who know what's going on.

"It is well known and documented that the financial crisis was no accident; everybody who headed the financial services industry to the state it was in did so knowingly, knowing full well the inevitable consequences, but not giving a damn because the arrangement let them to become handsomely wealthy, beyond our imagination."

This is incorrect. Some knew and bet on it. (See the Big Short for example.) Some knew and exploited it. (See Goldman Sachs selling shit to clients, for which it paid 550M USD, and the guy got charged with fraud, etc.)

It was an emergent phenomenon. It's not an accident as a car accident, where you look away for a sec and you rear end someone because someone stepped before the car before you, but it's very much not a conspiracy.

It was a systemic breakdown, fueled by the very much gutted oversight and misaligned incentives created by money in politics. And that's something very hard to escape.

The lack of jail-time verdicts is not surprising, after all the laws are very much set by those who have the most money, and they usually don't like to go to jail if caught.

So we're left with DPAs ( https://www.penningtons.co.uk/news-publications/latest-news/... ) and they are pretty effective from time to time ( https://www.osler.com/en/blogs/risk/december-2017/the-long-a... ) but it needs investigators, staffing, and cooperating legislators.

Banks (and the financial industry) listen to incentives. Jail time is meaningless if all you can get is some middle manager. For that the reporting and compliance regulations help - as higher ups have to sign off on certain stuff, so they can't deny knowing this or that - but this means that really shady things will turn into compliance issues, and into fines. (Which is a lot better than remaining in the dark without any consequences, as it was before compliance regulations.)

> It's feudalism with extra steps.

Agreed.
Kind of a vicious cycle. First, Europeans travelled less, then these countries became "unsafe", people travelled even less to these countries aggrevating the existing Problems making these countries even unsafer. Whatever was there first, well I can't tell. Not that in matters as it doesn't change the result.
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Giving something substantial thought does not necessarily guarantee that the thought was any good though.
You could sell it, maybe trick people into doing stuff with it, like making buildings or durable goods.
How much energy can you store in a stack of cement blocks?
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And it's wrong already. We already know all primes uses in encryption (just download a prime-number list).
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Same for me on Chrome 68.0.3440.106, macOS 10.13.6. Clicking on the other faces does nothing.
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Ah, nice, I used to work there, in the royal mint. /wave Enjoyed watching yachts prepare for races; now I watch insurance people.
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With CloudBuddy, it costs $1 per 10GB per month and setup takes less than 1 minute.

s3 is both more expensive and much more involved to setup. With s3, it takes longer than 1 minute just to be able to figure out the pricing! LOL

Here is a link to s3 if your curious
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0764CYKPB
(I found this by googling SFTP Gateway to Amazon S3)
You mean security experts were found all around, but patted themselves on the back after preventing a single SQL injection attack.
> native applications

That would require deploying on at least five wildly incompatible native platforms, and break when they change architecture.

The web is not so much an integration layer as the no-mans-land of the platform lockin wars; it's a space that doesn't "belong" to any one platform owner, which is both its great benefit and great disadvantage.
If your solution for corruption at higher levels is to make a billion (or hundreds of million, since we now know that there are ghost entries in the Aadhaar database too) people suffer, not have access to food, die of starvation, not get their pensions, etc., then it's a useless solution that has no place anywhere in the world, more so in a democracy!
Do you live close enough to any border? Might as well just get it delivered there and import it yourself.

But I agree with your point. It is really frustrating to find certain things in Swiss shops. And even if you do it is just crazy expensive.
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Because a two-line package should not need money to maintain it.

The payment is intended to make up for some of the time the developer of the dep expended, it's not supposed to be proportional to the utility other developers get out of it.

That's what makes it still OSS and not commercial software.
Personally prefer it over any other method - the most comfortable pickup in a mid-sized city, given somewhat irregular office hours. I've noticed some friends were having serious misgivings about trusting this method of delivery, but having tried it once, loved it. Apparently for 2017 it was apparently 22% of buyers, over 11% in 2015. [1] Worth noting is that the same service provider (Inpost) also handles courier delivery and pickups at gas stations and other such.

As for sellers, surprisingly not every one is providing this option yet.

edit: Notably some models of the parcel lockers welcome users with rather heartfelt messages - and count and show the short time it took to pick up the goods. Those trivial functionalities makes it so much more joyous to use.

[1] http://www.dlahandlu.pl/detal-hurt/wiadomosci/po-firmach-kur... "
thanks. And a change should be very visible and only take less than a second. We will look into this.
>The web still needs interactivity.

[citation needed]
Financial terrorism isn’t even defined as a crime. It would have to racketeering or something, not easy things to prove even in gang/mob cases.

Legislative neglect also isn’t a crime that lawmakers can be prosecuted under. You can, however, not vote for them during their reelection campaign. You can also vote for lawmakers that would bother to push for such laws.

For better or worse, western countries are generally strong rule of law ones. If this was a country like China that practiced rule by law instead, I’m sure they could find something to throw them in jail on, but it isn’t.
I can point to all the underwriters that approved loans with no income verification, fraudulent paperwork, officially stating they did checks for a physically impossible number of mortgages.
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One might be tempted to expect a similar result to apply to the more general two
sector model when only rent-seekers are the top earners. In fact, since the top earners
are all rent-seekers, rent-seeking imposes a negative externality, and the government has
a desire to redistribute from high-earners to low earners, this seems like a clear case for
high marginal tax rates on high earners, as discussed in the introduction. As Theorem 4
demonstrates, however, this intuition is not complete. The key reason is the additional
sectoral shift effect not present in a one sector economy: By lowering the marginal tax
rate on the top earning rent-seekers, total equivalent effort E increases and thus wages
in the rent-seeking sector fall. As a consequence, some agents now find it profitable to
leave the rent-seeking sector and become traditional workers. Since the traditional sector
is socially more productive, this shift is always welfare enhancing (S > 0)

This took me a fair while to grok. So I think the point is that a Pigovian tax rate[0] is what you'd expect with a rent seeking sector and a non-rent seeking sector (trying to minimize the negative externalities of rent-seeking).

Now if we have nothing but rent seekers in the top income bracket and try and set their tax rate independently, you'd think that you should set it to the rate which is the value of the negative externalities that that sector produces, right?

The reason for the difference appears to be that in doing so, you make some of the people who would have been rent seekers switch from rent seekers to non-rent seeking behaviours, so to be pareto optimal, it "costs less" in taxes than the pigovian tax, because the logical thing decreases the "attractiveness" of being in the rent seeking sector, and the (logical) agents move to the socially benificial sector, thus producing an outsized effect of net good.

Is this right? can someone confirm whether I'm reading this correctly?

[EDIT] formatting

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
"Do you believe that the CEO of any company that fails should be jailed or just banks?"

At a minimum they should have lost all their money and not walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars.
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> So i wonder - how popular is using parcel lockers for e-commerce is in Poland?

From my own experience: extremely. It's the default option, everything else is considered only if the parcel doesn't fit the locker.
My naive view as someone standing on the sidelines and watching game companies, this sounds a bit odd.

> Matchmaking is a complicated process, and when large player populations are involved, many popular matchmaking approaches touch on significant areas of computer science including graph theory and massively concurrent processing

My impression is that a good matchmaking algorithm (especially in ranked ladder play) can make or break a game - so when you finally shipped your game, it's awesome - then the balancing comes. After the balancing... matchmaking can still ruin it, so it seems to be a very delicate process. To cut it short, not the thing you'd want to grab some random code from github (from Google especially, where you never know how long it will be supported... ah well, at least better than Facebook) - we're not talking "I'm taking a webserver battle tested by millions of users" code reuse.

So either it's a new problem for you, then you don't need scale. Or you have problems scaling - then you probably already have some matchmaking algorithm you're happy with - so where does this thing come in? Applying some engineering framework approach in making your thing scale? Sounds like a very small niche.

Honestly a little confused.
> I see this sentiment fairly regularly on HN. It's the idea that laws can sufficiently encapsulate ethical behavior (the rules) when they're strictly enforced, that they're the best thing we got, so live with it.

> But there are many behaviors which aren't "crimes" but which are morally repulsive.

I don't agree with that concept. I don't think it's possible to legislate morality and the entire concept is downright scary. What's even more scary though is metering out justice based on perceived morality. Justice needs to be impartial, otherwise you're literally putting people in jail because your dislike them.

> The danger of not reacting, one way or another, to such inequities is that people lose faith in the system. Already, the election of Trump and rise of fascist sentiments everywhere are like a giant "fuck you" to politics as usual.

On the contrary, I see the election of Trump as a demonstration of people's faith in the system. It worked as intended and they got what they (electorally speaking) asked for.

> It can get much worse. At some point, as one billionaire said, "the pitchforks are coming". I don't think we'll be able to avoid it the way things are going.

I really doubt that. I've got significantly more faith in our shared humanity and the rule of law. I do find it disturbing how a lot of the politics on the left has shifted from policy disagreement to directly stoking violence. But it'll eventually pass.

Unemployment and immigration policy is at a tipping point where the only choice for employers is going to be rising wages. The left is going to have a hard time arguing that's a bad thing.
I’m all for that, and some new civil laws were introduced. Trump is busy trying to undo them ATM, but there we go. The problem criminal laws, however, is that they should be really well defined without being overly restricting. Being greedy can’t be made a crime; it has to be fraud, racketeering, or something obvious.
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Civil society decided that retroactive application of laws is a very bad idea.

So prevention is the name of the game. But that requires competent regulators and oversight. Compliance and reporting laws, and so on. Investigators with staff and time, prosecutors willing to chase a case, and of course independent judges.

The SEC and DoJ could have tried to bring more charges, and they got billions in deferred prosecution agreements, maybe not enough though. (They - I mean DPAs - are not shiny like a jail time verdict, but they do work pretty well https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/soci-t-g-n-rale-sa-agrees-pay... see also https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?httpsred... )

If we want to make up for the money lost by the innocent, then we can chose to tax those we think benefited. But that's completely different than blind vengeance.
Thanks, missed that auto correct!
Vim, ssh, irc, mumble, and screen all the tools I need for collaborating on code with others.
It doesn't work that way. If you paid 1k$/lb now and the competitor waited 5 years you got 5 years of profits which easily accound for 4 or 5 rocket launches on today's costs. Satellite operators make millions/day of operations.
China's capital punishment system of forced confessions and secret executions
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Confidence in the market, and preventing panic was the highest priority, which is why no bank executive was punished in any meaningful way.

Frontline did a great piece on this, which I watched years ago. Not sure if this is it: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/meltdown/

I believe it also explains why the election hacking of 2016 wasn't and isn't being addressed fully. If the US were to admit actual votes were changed it would create panic and instability. It also doesn't help that one side literally invited the hacking, and refused to investigate because it helped them. I'm sure there were tons of people who made good money in 2008, who weren't eager for investigation or actual reform.
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> to take away opportunities from its own citizens and start giving it to countries like China after the fall of Soviet Union.

Citation needed
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Perhaps. Not being snarky but how do you establish precedent if you don't try? In the context of justice, I find it troubling the (US) gov made no effort.
Me too as we already had an attempt called suisse ID (10 years ago now?) and mobile ID. Both which cost money limiting adaption greatly.

Personaly I like mobile Id which makes logging into PostFinance or swisscom easy but not all phone providers are able to offer it.

Sucks that for post and sbb I need yet another system, Swiss id....
It's quite scary to think that a bank only fix obvious security issues after public shaming. There are a lot of internal services in a bank that are not exposed to the scrutiny of security researchers and will therefor never get patched.
PostNord operates Denmark as well I think? They’ve brought in the same thing here in Sweden, a 75kr “admin fee” effectively for just handling the VAT processing
Why would that result in loss of respect/trust? k-anonymity works great and is perfect for application into password managers and on-registration password security checks.
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Burn them for their energy and keep more coal in the ground seems like a good first step.
Are your issues with bi-polar and focus self-diagnosed or have you tried some professional help?

You need to focus a bit on yourself and apply some fixes. You say experience and connections but also talk about too many burned bridges and interviews that seem to suggest that your experience may not be good enough.

If you are talking about being burned out it suggests not only some physiological problems but also not feeling like doing it (psychological). If you get low pay and you despise what you're doing maybe try looking for something that you would enjoy? 40 is not end of the world. You can dive into a new thing at 60 and 70 if you keep trying to make some use of your brain.

I know that it's all very difficult when you need to keep providing for your family and focusing on them too instead of just being able to take a few months off to try to sort yourself out, but difficult position is where you already are, so what's left is trying to figure out how to get out of it.

Only you know your situation well enough, so get an hour of peace, take a piece of paper, think about what you don't like about the place where you are currently and think about solutions that you can implement to help yourself. If you think you can be useful at any job then you need some problem solving skills - start with this problem.

Hack around, if you get 1% response to your CV then look at how other CVs look like. Make it more like them. Heck, post a job offer and see what candidates look like.

And remember that sleep is super important.

Sysadmins job changed a lot. If you are somewhat decent, you already know how to code. So you could try applying as full stack coder instead.

And try to look past the age barrier. If they invited you, then the age is not the problem. But if you psychologically despise the fact that some kids interview you, your body will send signals to them about that. Regardless of your competence there will be lack of rapport, poor communication and unwillingness to cooperate.

Shit could be worse. Good luck.
Actually, Prime Video and Amazon Music Unlimited are widely available in Europe:

https://www.primevideo.com/ (worldwide)

https://music.video.com/ (several dozen countries, including Finland, Sweden, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria)

As for retail, Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/) offers English language and free shipping to ~10 European countries, including Sweden and Finland. Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg get Prime shipping benefits.

The implementation still leaves a lot to be desired, though - e.g. there is a lot of untranslated content (German reviews, for example).
Just had to look up what you mean by 'alt-right':

Quoting Wikipedia:

"The alt-right, or alternative right, is a loosely-connected and somewhat ill-defined grouping of white supremacists/white nationalists, neo-Nazis, neo-fascists, neo-Confederates, Holocaust deniers, and other far-right fringe hate groups."

This does not sound like the average citizen to me, but rather the extreme part of the spectrum of values.

I'd rather be with Popper's position on a valiant, liberal society, and will not accept people who stand against human dignity, protection of minorities, and the lessons from history. There are no excuses for doing this.
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