skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bot traffic from data centers
This is in response to a thread about how much bot traffic is coming from data centers.

In our network, 3.6% of all user sessions are coming from data centers. Of that, this is how it breaks down for the top ones:

Amazon.com	6,466 (15.81%)

Microsoft Azure	5,827 (14.25%)

Google Cloud	3,322 (8.12%)

Google	2,397 (5.86%)

OVH SAS	1,721 (4.21%)

TOPNET	1,665 (4.07%)

OVH Hosting	1,635 (4.00%)

Digital Ocean	1,271 (3.11%)

Hetzner Online GmbH	992 (2.43%)

Rackspace Ltd.	932 (2.28%)

Linode	809 (1.98%)
12 to 14. 15 probably still won't be enough to stop government subsidies going to Amazon employees.
Tesco Bank fined £16.4m over “largely avoidable” cyber attack
Show HN: Face decoration web app to show welcome message to your guest
There is no definition of "minimum", "basic living", "safe conditions", "fair hours" etc. Fair hours used to be 10 hours a day 6 days / week. Living used to be able to survive a famine. Safe conditions used to be hunting for animals.

All it matters is people interacting voluntarily, that's the only argument against minimum wage.

But it is disingenuous to suggest that just because there
are people who would take such jobs, that our economy
should allow employers to get away with it

Ex-felons would also "get away with it" (remember there are always at least two sides in an exchange), but they would be in a better situation if they accepted the job
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Commentary on Civilization and Its Discontents
Haven't tried the site, but have a couple of points:
* Why no https?
* Link broken: http://www.bekli.it/whoWeAre
* I don't like the overall design, it looks like it looks like too empty or simple (I'm also talking about the "take a quiz screenshot") - but I'm not a designer at all.

Well done shipping :)
It can be both, and is.
> It's interesting that a bunch of major operating systems decided to do this roughly the same time.

I'm guessing it's due to the popularity of 64-bit address space. There are lots of pointers in RAM, and while they use a lot of bits, they don't have much entropy. So they probably compress extremely well, and with compression, give one less reason to stick to 32-bit architecture. (I don't fully understand why, but I hear that people run 32-bit OSes on 64-bit machines to save memory. As long as one process uses less than 4G of RAM, maybe it's the right optimization. But memory compression certainly changes that calculus and gives the OS vendors one less use case to have to support a 32-bit OS for.)
Maybe some Republicans should troll Bernie back by proposing

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If you think this is a shocking example of "unprofessional" or "bullying" behavior in American politics I feel like you must have just awoken from a coma.
The problem with coming in contact with people like Guzman is you can chose between cooperating or misery & death. I'm sure the head of that jail decided he'd cooperate the moment he heard Guzman would be housed there and who can blame him.

Plato o Plomo....
Amazon would still prefer to collect the money as profit (and use it to expand or whatever). Their hand was forced by the labor unions.
that's the whole point of the job market. The dysfunction displayed by Amazon is evidence of a supply/demand imbalance in the job market for warehousing roles, because if people have an option to move to another company that does not treat them badly they generally will do. As it stands I'm guessing the ratio of Amazon applicants to positions is way too high meaning they can afford a high turnover rate and focus solely on increasing profit per head by squeezing their people for productivity and cutting costs spent on benefits. It's basically the same as those call centers that employ and mistreat students.
It's located right next the the new york police department which is the largest police department in the US with 38,000 officers [0].

It is also located right next to the courthouse and this is the procedure to go to court:

In an article published on April 5, 2011, Jim Dwyer of the New York Times described the experience of an inmate being transferred from the facility to the federal court across the street: A prisoner going to court from the Metropolitan Correctional Center is presented to federal marshals in the basement of the building. Shackled at the ankles, chained at the waist and cuffed at the hands, the prisoner hop-marches through a tunnel nearly 40 feet (12 meters) below the street. The prisoner and escorts go through channels, or corridors, with electronic doors at each end. These are controlled remotely by officers who watch the journey through cameras. More prominent prisoners, who need to be segregated from the general prison population, are housed in the 10-South wing, which is noted for severely confining conditions.

During this passage from jail to court, no one lays eyes on the prisoner except the marshals and the people in the surveillance stations. Once they have reached the north end of the tunnel, they wait for the prisoner elevator. Inside is a locked cage that the prisoner stands in for the ride up to the courthouse cells [1].

I think it is pretty secure.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Departmen...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Cent...
> you deserve to be made fun of

I don't think anyone deserves to be made fun of, full stop.

Grown-up criticism is fine.
Did Amazon actually pay any worse or have worse working conditions than any other unskilled warehouse job?

I'm not sure, but I think most places are OK with bathroom breaks. I could be wrong, though.

If so, why didn't the employees change jobs?
See, this is much more difficult. If the Amazon warehouse pays more than other jobs around - even if the pay is still low - it makes it much more difficult to leave the job. You still need food and electricity and so on. The same sort of thing happens if an employer pays less, yet offers things like decent, affordable health insurance (or health insurance at all). To leave a job simply because of working conditions is a position with a bit of leeway.

If not, why is so much criticism directed at Amazon specifically, rather than at capitalism itself?

It isn't directed only at Amazon, but large employers. I'm not sure why some of the anger isn't directed elsewhere, though. I'm not sure it is fully capitalism's fault, but more of lack of laws protecting folks from capitalism alongside adequate enforcement of those laws. It is easier, however, to direct anger at the company, who can change somewhat rapidly, rather than a government that is slow to act and rarely produces quality change for all.
First, you mean one of his staff. Mad scientists have underlings.

Second, you have literally no idea how much input he had into it. He may have come up with the name himself, or he may have directed his staff to come up with something pithy that spells out "Bezos" or he may have sat around with them spitballing ideas until they came up with something good. But in the end, he was the senator who introduced it, and he gets the credit.
If he accepted the name then that means he found it funny at least.
The point about minimum wage is to prevent labor abuse in crappy week conditions by making sure people are just expensive enough to take their safety seriously.
Firefox Focus has been my go to browser on iOS since the time it launched. The premise is a single tab, which you use and then erase all data from once you're done. As it says, rinse and repeat! If you want multiple tabs, this is not the browser for you (though Firefox iOS could be).

I use Firefox Focus more than any other app, including for browsing and reading through HN comments. It's got a good ad blocker (though not the fastest [1]), but no options to control ad blocking on a per site basis.

The browser has been improving over time. It also includes an extra layer of passcode/biometric protection that can help prevent others from seeing what you've opened in it. The only issue I've noticed is that it sometimes forgets the page you've loaded after sometime (may be because it doesn't save them to the disk, and when iOS removes it from memory, it starts out again as a blank slate).

[1]: https://brooksreview.net/2018/09/safari-content-blocker-eval...
Cool! She taught me 2nd year E&M in 2000 or 2001, although truth be told I remember it being one of my least favourite classes during my physics degree. I had no idea at the time the calibre of physicist she was.
> I refuse to believe Bezos woke up this morning with a new moral sense to change the ship around.

No, of course not, but it's a victory that the pressure on them was enough they felt they had to make a concession.
I didn't buy this argument in particular (though the article in general was compelling). Housing follows jobs. It's not as though there are hedge funds there because a bunch of people with finance degrees decided to move to Manhattan. And even if such a network effect kicks in, there's a limit to what that industry can sustain.

Also how many of those high rises are residential?
Where do you pull that 40% of sales from? I think you are referring to online sales, which are ~10% of sales. So a little over 4% of sales
$14... gotta look competitive.
Sanders had to approve it.

Also, he certainly had a sense of humor back when he was mayor of Burlington -- it would be surprising if it disappeared now.
Seems to me he could almost certainly design a bridge with resistance to failure due to an earthquake. The material and principles involved in designing earthquake resistant structures are well understood and publicly available. The primary constraints on such structures are the cost and time to build them.

As for surviving "the big one"... it depends on how big? I'm not sure humanity in general knows how to build a bridge that could survive a dozen meters of shift between its piers. But that is a possibility in the largest conceivable earthquakes.
Trust me, it's not like Bernie himself was trying to come up with something funny and smart throughout long nights.
In certain media but in other media the opposite it true. The top cable news network for the last decade has been conservative (Fox obviously) and conservative media absolutely dominates talk radio and it also has a robust Internet presence.
> If you can't pay a basic living wage, for fair hours, in safe conditions, with necessary medical benefits, then you don't have a job to offer.

Why not let the employees decide if the job is worth taking? If there exists people willing to voluntarily take a job given its wage/conditions, you have a job to offer.
How Google managed to destroy users' trust in one week
Protecting Software with Obfuscation and Software Licensing
Platform9 open-sources etcdadm to manage etcd clusters for Kubernetes
Crazy world we are living in when demanding the government confiscate less property is considered a totalitarian argument.
That case is a little out there, I've never met an non-pe engineer that has ever gotten in trouble for doing engineering. I think PE certifications are fine in cases where there is one guy having the final say on a massive project that could kill someone if it fails. If my calculator app crashes, no one is going to be crushed to death. I think software and electrical engineering is a little bit different compared to a mechanical or civil engineer that is designing buildings and superstructures. For one, software and hardware is something you can constantly test and redesign for relatively little cost. You can come out with a product that just works and works well. Even if you are producing software and hardware that goes into lifesaving equipment, you can still perform tests on the final product to make sure it conforms. Once you build that bridge, its up there. You can't refactor it and come out with a new version if a strut fails. And because your design is in the public, the county/state/country is going to make sure you do it right. Too many people have been hurt by shoddy buildings in the lifetime of humanity to ignore modern safety code. There should be no reason why having a licensed professional engineer is a bad thing for anyone except those not good enough to beat the exam or those too cheap to hire one.

I really don't see anything to suggests that "illegal engineering" is a trend. I don't think that discussing engineering topics should be illegal but you should be fined for lying about being a PE just as you would by saying you are a medical doctor when you really aren't.
It has (global) settings for a few things, and blocking web fonts is one of those settings. So you can turn that off and get web fonts to load. Sites don't have to be ugly if you prefer them otherwise.
does anyone have a tutorial/guide on how to use hetzner for a k8s deployment, the one of GCP is rather expensive for something of that size..
I hadn't heard about that, but it clarifies something. I've got in-laws in China, and many of them own older condos that they no longer live in. When I asked my wife why they don't sell, she just said there's zero resale value, which made no sense to me. But a law preventing the sale could explain it.
Code.org Warns the Bill Is Coming Due for US K-12 Computer Science
Doesn’t every job with performance targets penalise taking breaks?

There aren’t many jobs you can do on the can, after all!
I worked in a call center and I used to always wonder why they'd accept such extreme turnover, given that there were a few weeks of training before they could put you on (the fact that there was a course in touch-typing as part of that training probably gives you an idea where the bar was for hiring). But I'd read some analysis that suggested that in some ways the employers running these systems found that desirable, because it was hard to unionize a workplace where people didn't stick around for a whole year on average.
$15 an hour will push a lot of people out of being employable. There is a greater tolerance for whom you will accept at current wage points. The other effect of a much higher starting wage is you will have people enter the market who did not think the wage was worth their time. The people who cannot be relied on to show up on schedule, quit and want to come back, have some issues in their credit or criminal backgrounds, and more.

Meaning more reliable candidates will come back in and those who dismissed fast food, warehouse, and retail, jobs as not paying enough will now accept those jobs. You will get some retirees, stay at homes, college kids, and even some recent graduates, coming in.
Socialism has only been tried in third world hell holes like Russia and succeeded so far beyond expectations it ended up being called the second world.

A first world country going socialist would be the equivalent of increasing GDP by between 50 to 500%.
Finance articles keep using the word "liquidity". What is liquidity and where can I get it?

Quote:

Liquidity Is a Slippery Slope

The two major challenges with most DEX’s today are liquidity and UX. The DEX that will win over the masses in the next couple of years is going to be the one that has the liquidity of Binance and the UX of Coinbase. The problem is that there is a lack of standardization across DEXs — no common trading and liquidity protocol. This is the reason that most DEXs have low liquidity and volume — they simply do not share a common liquidity pool. There are many projects trying to solve this protocol problem today. The leader by number of DEX integration partners in this space currently is the 0x protocol and has a great chance of becoming that standard in 2019.

My understanding is that an asset is liquid if it can be sold for cash in little time.
Unless you are a founder, look for product-market fit, growth and revenue. Think like an investor. Otherwise you will show up one day and are told, "We have to let everyone go". Or a permanent 50% salary cut with no notice the day before payroll.
The article perfectly reflects my experience (building/construction sites).

The norms and procedures - even if followed to the letter[1] as much as possible - are not enough to avoid serious accidents, and as a matter of fact they might even be the source of problems[2].

What really counts in my experience is professionality, communication between workers and management, continuous attention and "common sense" (something that is not very common, unfortunately).

[1] In theory safety in the design is one of the main points of the Law, but in practice it is never or very rarely properly implemented.
In theory a safety engineer should have the powers, besides advising, to alter the design and construction method proposing alternate, safer designs or construction methods, in practice these end up as being slower or much costlier and they are discarded.

[2] As an example relatively recent norms make obligatory to use a safety harness hooked to the basket of lifting platforms.
This is a good thing, as it prevents the worker in the basket to fall out of it if there is a sudden bump when the platform moves or however the arm gets hit by something, BUT, on the other hand, if for any reason the platform collapses or tips over, the worker secured to the basket by the harness is more likely to be more severely injured.
And if it is less forgiving then we can probably say good bye to the IPO because it’d Be better to stay private. We’ve regulated away opportunity and so should we be surprised to see inflation in what’s left? Where else are you going to find growth if not in tech?
Oh, the system has defenses. You wouldn't want to meet them in a dark alley.
You could've left off the "You do realize". How do you know this?
It will be discontinued as major of G's startups :)
Because I don't want to starve.
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In case anyone else has as much trouble squinting to read the italics as I do that spells out:

THE ATTAINDER ACT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attainder
Laser beams have gravity and can warp the fabric of the universe
Yes. Quite a large presence and growing rapidly.
As someone who lives in a country which gives its laws sensible titles, I've never understood why Americans have such convoluted names for their legislation. It seems almost ridiculously childish, especially given how serious many of the acts are.
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This is a really good starting point; https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide I've used it for several projects and it works a treat.
It doesn’t make any difference - the probabilities would be the same. You can treat it as a bunch of photons (with the expected photon density that the sun emits) or as a light wave that collapses to a photon in the detector with probability given by the Born rule. The probability will work out the same.
That comment was about the number of women who had won. Strickland is the third woman to win.
Political humor, especially satire, can sometimes cut through the fog of bullshit quite clearly.
Pretty disingenuous posting other car companies.

Their performance has nothing to do with Tesla what so ever and everything to do with the trend in the market towards SUVs and crossovers which Ford, GM etc are highly exposed to.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-05/sick-of-s...
>First, you mean one of his staff. Mad scientists have underlings.

In the real world so do politicians and executives...
> In practical terms, imagine all humans have similar potential.

This is evidently false. The intelligence trait is at least partly inheritable, and not all humans are equally intelligent, so not all humans have the same potential.

Now, if what you actually meant was "both genders have the same potential in general" (as opposed to every individual human being), then it's not as simple as that. There's some evidence that although men and women are equally intelligent on average, the distribution is flatter and wider for men. This means that there are more men than women at the extreme high and low ends of the distribution. This is part of the reason (though probably not the only reason) why men are more strongly represented among the extreme overachievers in STEM fields.
The internet was fine before adtech and data hoarders. I don't know why you think this is the fault of the government. New things pop up and we need regulations to protect citizens.
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Thanks for the pointer, the Lemaitre case looks pretty bad. There seem to be several similar cases that were brought to light in recent years, maybe the committee has learned from such mistakes.

Especially for PhD scientists it is inspiring and motivating that you can make nobel prize-worthy discoveries at this level. This should not be hidden for keeping up power hierarchies.
Smart Airport Construction Market 2018-2023: Global Analysis, Size, Services
Nothing has actually changed about the scale of corporations. That's just a popular talking point (it's actually always a popular talking point).

US GDP in 2000: $10 trillion

US GDP in 2018: $20 trillion

Largest market caps in 2000: Microsoft & Cisco, about half a trillion dollars. Double that to match the doubled GDP, and you get an Amazon today.

Amazon is not more powerful than these companies at their peaks: GM, Ford, Walmart, Sears, Standard Oil & Exxon, IBM, US Steel, JP Morgan, AT&T, Kodak, etc

The US Government's spending has more than doubled in size in the last 20 years as well. Its power has dramatically increased as well since the mid 1990s (just the capabilities for control that the espionage improvements and law changes have given them, is extraordinary).
It hasn't crossed a threshold into being a big deal, but singling out an individual does look like bullying and bullying isn't funny.

Jeff Bezos has to respect the law or face a series of consequences up to imprisonment. We all know he is going to respect the law like we all do. It is mean spirited to write a (potential) law that disrespects him directly. He can't really respond to that.

Sanders should have stuck to calling him names in a speech, or informally calling it the Bezos' Act. That is just discussion and fair game. This type of formal embedding is unpleasant at a deeper level to no-one's benefit. We can do without that in politics, thankyouverymuch.
The legislation doesn't target Amazon specifically, just corporations who are leveraging government welfare programs in order to get away with underpaying their employees.

Wal-Mart is the company that would be impacted the most by this legislation.
People sometimes forget that, even though there are bad actors in law enforcement, there are many good actors. Those good actors are likely trying to do the right thing most of the time.
Gdpr makes using websites a terrible user experience with the million cookie prompts. My parents will click on anything to make popups go away. Please no.
The walking distances isn't really an issue so long as they are given adequate time to actually walk, provided proper footwear and other tools for the job (carts, for instance, so that they carry less), and given proper breaks of proper length (actually able to sit for 10 minutes, for instance). People get used to this over time.

Every move being tracked and being penalised for bathroom breaks is an issue, however.
Amazon's profit is not what I would call "a lot." As recently as 2015 they had some negative quarters. This quarter last year less than 1%. 2018 has been higher but not more than about 4%. Compare the top 20 or so corporations average profitability of about 15%, and Apple's over 20%.

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/profit_margin
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Canada here but I get 40-50mbps single threaded / connection. Anything multithreaded I can max my 200mbps home connection out.
PowerShell Trap
I think turning your employees into welfare-dependent wage-slaves is far worse than unprofessional or bullying, but I guess that's just me and most decent people.

CEOs of large public companies have to take public heat, by name, quite often. It's a huge part of their job; otherwise they'd be COOs.