skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Final Fantasy VII to Persona 5: style makes all the difference
My 2 cents is that Amazon isn't a major cause. There's a few things going on(1):

- exploding drug addiction and related mental health issues

- Seattle does a remarkably crappy job of assigning the low income housing we build and/or contract for. Too many people get it who shouldn't qualify. Too many non-profits cherry pick their clients. Etc, etc.

- It's super hard to get coherent services out of the system. Which makes it self-selecting in the sense of concentrating the worst cases.

Amazon, to a certain degree, was/is part of running up the price of apartments and homes. Some homelessness is a consequence, but mostly that pushed people further (or totally out) of the area.

I'm not at all convinced that if we raise 2x the money, we'll spend it intelligently enough to make a difference here.

(1)My partner worked in the area homeless system and I'm getting a lot of my info from that.
Well, that's the problem, isn't it. These are supposed to be the "good times" but normal people can't afford to live on the wages all those new jobs afford them (and god help you if you get sick or need healthcare for whatever reason). They're going to be screwed even worse when it stops being the "good times".

If this is what our economy has to offer in the "good times" then............. maybe something is fundamentally wrong with it.
Jeff Bezos, for once in his life, gives away a money and all anyone has to say is that he's a monster for not doing something else. He doesn't have to. It's a free country and he follows the laws.

I work most days inside Amazon Fulfillment Centers. No one is forced to be there and most are happy they have the jobs they do because every other company out there treats them as bad or worse. If they don't want to be there, they can quit at any time. The problem isn't Amazon, it's a society that doesn't give a shit about the lower class and won't pass any laws to help them. Not if it would mean higher prices. Not if it's the demonized 'socialism'.

Complaining about Bezos feels great, but it doesn't do anything. Lobby your congressman and senator for law changes that force all companies to treat their lowest-paid employees better. Tell them to support Sander's "stop Bezos act" too if you like- I think it's a great idea.

Fight the root of the problems, not the symptoms. And don't complain when someone actually tries to do good for once.

And of course, bias note: I work for Amazon but I don't speak for the company in any capacity. These opinions are my own.
Fix capitalism's problems with charity lol
No, because the government subsidizing it reduces the amount people are able to work for. If it's a choice between starving being worked extremely hard by Amazon vs just starving, why would people be choosing the former?
They shifted the entire industry: https://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/14/exclusive-android...
I'm not talking about company officers or other insiders. I'm talking about stock promotion scams, which are the great majority of SEC enforcement actions. Consider for example the SEC action taken against biotech penny stock promoters last Friday.

"The pump-and-dump scheme, allegedly orchestrated by a Frost associate named Barry Honig, took place between 2013 and 2018. According to the SEC, Honig coordinated an effort to buy up shares at a discount, pay a third party to write laudatory articles on Wall Street forums, and then sell those shares for a profit."
I have never seen or heard of progressives voting down on programs meant to help the homeless, veterans, addicts, people with mental health issues, or illegal immigrants. I do see progressives being more vocal about illegal immigrants because that is the only group that is vilified by the current administration. Illegal immigrants do contribute to society by being nanny's, cleaning houses, working at farms, and paying sales tax.
Or he could just pay his employees adequately so they aren't forced to live in poor neighborhoods and they could afford to pay for private preschool themselves if they decided for themselves this makes sense for their family.

But, no, that he won't do. Which means there's actually a hidden agenda here.

Actions speak louder than words. You can charitably argue that he needs a good therapist to help him root out subconscious bias, but you aren't going to convince me he's somehow doing a good thing here.
So you'd rather have him hoard his wealth and do nothing? Or somehow handicap Amazon so it doesn't compete? Your argument doesn't really hold up.
It's a little tenuous to blame Amazon for this. Yes, the growth of Amazon raised demand, but the city's zoning laws are also to blame.

https://medium.com/@15kwhm2a/a-brief-history-of-seattles-ant... is very good. The Mises Institute has come to similar conclusions. When those guys and leftists agree, you gotta think there's something to it.
Great! Have everyone scan their own ballot and enter the results into the spreadsheet for tallying -- crap we just invented digital voting.

What if voting machines left a paper trail that was audited by the voter before submitting digitally and each precinct asynchronously counted their paper ballots and corrected their digital number after the fact if there's a discrepancy?
How social networks can save lives when disasters strike
It is worth adding that the C++ community has wanted to add something called "concepts" since a very long time. Rust traits sounds similar. So C++ will likely move in the direction of Rust here.
States aren’t solving homelessness issues any time soon. Homelessness hits mostly men, and the fewer women (1/3 to 1/8 depending on city) have available beds in shelters anyway.

In France we prefer to let homeless people die by freezing than assign them to a female shelter bed. That’s how far we go to protect women from the risk of being raped. Die, men, die.

If the state had more money? They’d simply assign it to the sexism campaigns. Or to one of the 2000 battered woman shelters in USA (and only one for men – hence homelessness?).

Source: I’m a volunteer for a suicide hotline.
Finally someone realizes that there is a problem. There is no justification in the biggest economy of the world to have this much poverty and homelessness. I am amazed every time I travel to Europe, how few homeless people there are, despite their economic growth lagging the US. And it is inherently a solvable problem with adequate resources. We have $1 trillion for the military. Surely, we can spare a few billions and house the downtrodden and provide mental care for those who can't take care of themselves.
When accusations of intolerance become effective weapons for silencing one's opponents, everything befomes intolerant. There's no mystery principle here: censorship and intimidation are pure power plays.
Article is difficult to read. "now it’s about Worm Capital’s turn, but this time it was a tour of Gigafactory 1."

Here is a better article:

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/musk-says-tesla-can-get-li-...

It appears it's old news, from June (and the above is from the horse's mouth, not an investor).
Despite Cleanup Vows, Smartphones and Electric Cars Keep Miners Digging by Hand
Bezos decided to hire them part time, so the question is kind of ludicrous.
Honestly an author I've always meant to read more of. You never hear the end of him growing up in Connecticut.
Would you take government efforts with political sandbagging as a substitute?
Why isn't 'living wage' != 'minimum wage'

Democracy is not working? Whats the alternative.
Thanks for reporting this, I've solved the issue - was a typo :)
Are you saying humans are basically farm animals to be tended to by the government? Personally I would prefer to be considered a sentient being in my own right with my own rights and responsibilities.

There is a reason we expend so much energy and care in looking after wheat and chickens. It's so we can eat them.
Are warehouse workers getting paid $50k/year?

EDIT: For comparison, 50k USD is approximately 65k CAD, which makes higher than the median starting salary for a mechanical/electrical engineer in Canada. I would be surprised if they are paying their lowest-paid employees that much.
If there is no effect, then what is the OP's problem?
2016, 2017 polls by Harvard/Harris of nation, polls about senators within their states.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/bernie-sanders-...

https://morningconsult.com/july-2017-senator-rankings/
Brazilian scooter startup Yellow raises $63M – Axios
Ask HN: What problems your industry has that desperately need a solution?
There are multiple telescopes there.

Solar observatories need to track the sun, so they use a little mirror (heliostat) at the tunnel entrance that changes angle to track the sun, so you can point it anywhere.

http://www.astropixels.com/observatories/KPNO/KP80-127.html
http://archive.is/Q9qui
And if you're making $15k/yr that's 20%!
No one's shaming him for not doing something better. They're shaming him for having a direct role in creating the problem this charity is supposed to resolve.
I'd speculate that part of the reason for why the U.S. is as dysfunctional as it is is that it still has yet to find its cultural bearings, and many people don't have the same sense of place that Europeans have. When you go to a small village in France, it seems to me that many people will be able to recount with pride (or shame) the most significant events that made that village stand out across hundreds of years of history.

In contrast, small villages in New York State or California only have around 300 years of history at best, and most residents were uprooted from their ancestral homes less than a century ago, so the same sense of grounding and appreciation for history is not there. Even the wounds of the American Civil War have not fully healed and probably won't fully until a few centuries from now.
Google tried to send their top lawyer, Kent Walker, but was rejected by the Senate [1] less than two weeks before the hearing.

[1] https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2018/08/23/senate-intelligen...
Yes. They're similar in ways, but also very different. I know that they have been added to the C++20 draft, but haven't gotten a chance to really dig in yet.
The tech companies are some of the biggest lobbyists around. Large retail, I would guess, are as well.

They also put in massive amounts of effort to avoid unionization.
Newer electric cars (with regenerative braking) have a "one pedal" mode like you're describing (it engages some amount of regenerative braking by default, unless you have the accelerator depressed a little, so you can just take your foot off to slow down).
No.

2 year Chinese tech schools teach practical skills and trades. They may well be laxer than high school studies, in regard that kinetic, practical skills are easier to learn than abstract academic disciplines, but that doesn't mean that they did their job wrong, it's exactly the opposite.

I'm 100% sure who will win if you compare a grad of US college/tech school vs a grad of average Chinese tech institute on their first day of the job.

A Chinese electric bike maker tried to open a shop in US where they simply assemble them from knock down kits. It didn't work for them: engineering undergrads they hired struggled to get around simplest circuits and weren't able to work without supervision whatsoever. In desperation, they started hiring people with way more senior EE background, only to find out that while those will do the job, but only after meditating over circuit diagrams for half an hour for each part...

Something they couldn't imagine back in China, where from their words 9 out of 10 new young workers can learn to assemble the whole bike without a circuit scheme in a day simply because they had a lot of practice in the school.

I myself been around the electronics industry since 2007, and I saw times and times again newcomers from the West failing at running manufacturing enterprises in China because they have zero regard for having real engineers at assembly line, and the level of education of workforce in general. They think that they can hire cheapest grunts possible, and then "smart managers" will somehow make it all work with some smart tricks.
How many paper's are published? Would it be economical to have them translated? Could we have a few people translating papers as a full time job?
A billionaire's philanthropic bribe should not replace fair compensation.
FWIW, a couple of years back I had a gentleman who was a 30 year mainframe programmer in a Rails & Postgres class that I taught. He learned both, was humble enough to take an internship for a Rails job at over 50 and then turned it into full employment.

Anecdotal, but I found it interesting to watch the portability of experience.
Tailgrep:  Following a file, grepping for lines, watching a spinner
You'll notice that pretty much anyone with a negative opinion of the EU will be down voted here.
True, and I don't think it's a meth lab, but using abandoned military buildings does have precedent on drug manufacturing: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wamego-lsd-missile-silo
Closure of NM solar observatory a mystery
Uber to open engineering hub in Toronto and expand self-driving centre
You should look up the Chevy Bolt.

'Catching Up' might be more reserved for Tesla. They cant make cars, but automakers can.
Yup. The stats at the bottom of this page are fairly depressing:

http://homepages.rpi.edu/~newbeh/WhyFundScience.html
Shhhh .... at least don't tell them about the giant space turtles

Edit: nice username ;)
Let's use AI to solve some real issues here. Use AI to watch cat videos at work
Neither "abolish ICE" nor "sanctuary cities" are equivalent positions to "open borders". That's my point. I just searched again, and find only one example of a politician coming anywhere close to advocating open borders (Keith Ellison, representative for MN, wore a shirt saying "yo no creo en fronteras." He has however repeatedly refused to openly say he supports "open borders".) The mainstream liberal/progressive position isn't to clamor for open borders. It is to clamor for every individual to be treated with dignity and respect and compassion for their circumstances. The push to abolish ICE and for sanctuary cities is a reaction to injustice committed in the name of the law by ICE specifically. (In the progressive view, what is "just" is a different question to what does the law say.) All the talk about "open borders" comes from conservatives purposely exaggerating and mis-characterizing their opponents' views.
Yes and presumably other companies should also pay them more but I suppose the blame is more focused on Amazon/Bezos because he is the richest person in the world and this article is about him.
$2B is ~1% of his net worth. Not that impressive. And much lower than Thomas Picketty's proposed wealth tax rate.
I think Bezos probably realized when he paid a bunch of money and shut down construction of Amazon buildings in order to strongarm the Seattle government into killing a tax that was specifically to go towards reducing homelessness.
This is effectively how pub, the package manager for Dart works. At version resolution time, we generate a manifest file that contains the local paths to every depended-upon package. Then, at compile/load time, tools just use that file to locate packages.
I'm surprised about this as well. Even if they didn't want the overhead of running their own tile server, one of the best parts of the MVT format in my mind is that one-off tilesets like this layer can trivially be thrown into S3 and served extremely cheaply as well. That removes a ton of the effort they put into circumventing MapBox's limitations and is cheaper to host.
What concerns me is how the US college system created a market where colleges have been without price controls for a long time. These grant mechanisms seem like another way to just give colleges the ability to crank up fees and drive up prices. Effectively, the "solutions" seem to take the guaranteed loans the students have to pay and making the public pay for it.

Have there been any other systems that have successfully converted out of such a out-of-control market without direct price controls from a central authority?
Yeah, it does. But Bezos/Amazon is simply taking advantage of the laws and the political system (just like many corporations pay so little tax). The real solution is to raise the minimum wage, plug tax loopholes etc and not expect billionaires to play fair, out of the goodness of their hearts.
> There is no non-paper system that can match that quality for our form of elections.

Let me take a stab at one:

Each precinct has a number of voting machines on a local network. Voting machines print a paper receipt viewable by the voter. When the polls close the precinct has an instant count for a preliminary report that can be verified after the fact by a scanner/humans.
Disagree. Progressives very actively campaign on helping all of those groups of people. It's the centrist democrats who are focusing solely on illegal immigrants--to the neglect of the others--because it's a corporate-friendly issue.
Nitpick: It's Belarus, not Belarussia.
Homelessness in the USA in most places is an emotional or mental problem, but in some parts of the country, it's actually an affordability / NIMBYism / price control problem. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area, there is a broad swath of folks who work full time (or more!) who have three choices:

1) Live with roommates, often exceeding the legal limits on the dwelling on the number of occupants, or live in illegal and often not-up-to-code housing.

2) Live two or more hours from their job(s), each way.

3) Live in a van, tent, or truck.

Sometime, people make a sane (for them) choice to choose the last one. Driving around the bay area, one can see these tents and vans in many places. There are obviously thousands of people (perhaps tens of thousands?, it's hard to get a census of these folks) who are plainly visible once you know the signs (blacked out windows, small exhaust vents, generators, etc.)

On the margin, some folks end up sleeping in doorways because of the pressures involved with choosing one of those choices. You could see the evidence for this in a recent article in the Economist which included a diagram of feces complaints spreading out from the Tenderloin (bad neighborhood in central San Francisco) across the city, and the new mayor has hired a "poop patrol" to start cleaning up after them.

Meanwhile, homes that would rent for under $1000/month in many parts of America are renting for over $5K a month. (Actually, in most parts of America, these homes would come with much larger yards, as well as lower prices.) Proposal after proposal to densify the bay area or improve transit get shot down on thinly veiled racist or nakedly self interested grounds. Those proposals that get through are intensely profitable, often to the tune of 5x return on investment or more (not counting fighting the inevitable lawsuits), because the market is so starved for housing.

Forgive the rant, but price controls never work,* and efforts to mitigate the problems caused by price controls are so expensive as to never really solve the problem. The only solution here is to abolish the price controls and the incentives they cause for subsequent laws and zoning which make development impossible. However, that's politically untenable at this time. (So frustration and rants.)

* Actually, the price controls in CA do EXACTLY what they were intended to do, which is to raise the prices on homes, to the benefit of homeowners. As a side effect which many folks foolishly welcome, they also serve to keep Hispanics and Blacks in deeply segregated neighborhoods.
i'm seeing the same, it certainly looks like the intentional blurring that google maps does for sensitive things: https://imgur.com/RqjnQTo
I am a person. And I am not starting to, at all.
I will probably continue to get the Monty Hall problem wrong for the foreseeable future despite understanding the logic. I think the issue with it for me is the difference between probability and calculated probability (which I do not think is a proper mathematical term).

Like...when someone makes reference to a given probability X "changing" from ~33% to ~67%, they are referring to the updated model that we use to calculate the probability. Nothing in reality has changed, but rather the model has.
This gets into conspiracy territory, but there are rumors flying around about why Page is absent and what he was up to with North Korea. You make up your own mind, though. It does appear that Google was involved in some treachery, however. And the ongoing censorship of conservative voices on these platforms, as well as the extremely cozy relationship Google enjoys (enjoyed?) with the CIA leaves me pretty freaking cold. I no longer trust any of these companies and have been moving myself away from them--if they aren't supporting America first, let them rot.

We badly need a 3rd smartphone platform.
Sorry, it took me a while to get back. Why would stock based comp be included in gross margin ? That is not part of Cost of Goods sold. That is reflected in net income.

I have no idea what your last statement means. There is US Accounting definition of what gross margin is and it is Revenue - Cost of Goods. Other expenses such as compensation, stores, are part of operational expense and it included in net income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_margin
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That criticism only makes sense if he never gives anything else.
Gates also has no educational training in Computer Science / Engineering nor Business, and he's seem to have done pretty well in those areas. :)

There's plenty of room to throw rocks at billionaire philanthropists, but Gates is more knowledgeable about the areas in which his foundation operates than the heads of most well-known non-profits and relief organizations.
Well, as a Canadian, I guess I'm surprised we're so similarly outmatching the rest of the world. I figured there was more going on in Italy or Brazil than there seems to be.
Isn’t this “problem created by” anyone who is rich then?
and how much of the increase is going to juicing the bottom line of corporations like Walmart and farm conglomerates? Both parties love food stamps. Total government expenditure, by itself is not a good measure of the actual outcome
The EU is not a failed project, it has tons of benefits for tons of people.
Not that I know of, and as a student I found the competition cycle also a bit off-putting, since it discourages just messing around a bit during random down-time that's not aligned to the schedule.
Heisenberg at work? It is Breaking Bad territory after all...
The Inversion of Masculine and Feminine in Popular Culture
Walmart relaunches Jet with three-hour deliveries to take on Amazon Prime Now
The US has _always_ been the first or second largest crude oil producer since the beginning. Not much has changed. We just have millions of oil wells, whereas Saudi has only a few hundred, many of which had naturally pressureized well heads (no pumping required). In fact the largest single oil well on the planet is in Saudi (it's called Ghawar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghawar_Field, which is such a lovely name) and it's over 150 miles long!
Google whitepaper explains GCP data deletion policies
I don’t think that’s actually true though it’s been repeated a lot - people have left without that large of a crash (and in this case it looks like they joined to help with going private so it’s not a huge surprise they left).

The fast crashes seem more related to stupid media freak outs - similar to FB and the Cambridge Analytica thing.
And will you say good riddance when he's extracting billions in tax breaks from the state in a few years?

It was about 2% of a minimum wage salary per employee. I need more evidence that's unaffordable to a business that does 20+M in revenue.