skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With almost a million employees the decisions by Amazon are impacting a large part of the (150 million) US workforce.

The dysfunction in our government is rising at a time that corporations are growing bigger than ever.

The obvious result is that companies like Amazon will have an outsized effect on the major issues for our society, like minimum wage and healthcare.
It makes you think of Henry Ford.
This would be partially explained by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

I don't completely understand it either though, say you cut one blade of my grass and I pay you $20, then I cut one blade of your grass and you pay me $20, rinse repeat and you get massive GDP, but no increase in wealth. Now do something similar with housing, except this time print a whole bunch of money and pour it all into housing (including construction), and compare that to a country that instead invests into education and building manufacturing plants - who is going to be wealthier?

I think this is all far more complicated than governments let on, or maybe they actually don't even understand it all, from what I can tell a large number of economists don't, so perhaps it's no surprise we're in the situations we are.
These are user sessions coming from hosted providers:

Organization,Sessions,Page Views,New Users,Event Count
Amazon.com,6436,9307,3823,140
Microsoft Azure,5798,8988,4645,2
Google Cloud,3313,5425,2486,0
OVH SAS,1715,3349,872,0
TOPNET,1657,5133,1409,14
OVH Hosting,1628,2787,1232,7
Digital Ocean,1267,3050,816,5
Hetzner Online GmbH,988,2051,529,0
Rackspace Ltd.,926,1644,376,48
Linode,809,1008,272,4
If you've ever listened to Trump or Palin or similar figures speak I'd have to say you would probably come to question this notion.
For actual gameplay, I said A card game, not the card game. Had something like war in mind. Although, I see how that may have been confusing as I made the connection of the card game version in the sentence before.
Yes, excellent point.
That's why any company treats any of their employees well. Google isn't giving their employees all these perks out of the goodness of their heart. They give them to attract the best talent to make the most money. Amazon is doing the same thing.
Are you running pfsense on remote server??
Seems the new normal is to wipe your devices of anything you don’t want made public regardless of country.

I give pause when pondering international business travel. I can’t very well wipe my laptop, nor could I hand it over given what’s on it. Put everything on a VM and move it off the device for border crossings?
Opponents of the minimum wage argue that it reduces employment by creating an artificial floor on wages, that jobs are lost because employers can't afford to pay the minimum. But if you can't pay the minimum, then you didn't really have a job to offer in the first place!

By extension of this logic, employers could argue that they are losing jobs because they can only afford to pay someone who will work 12 hours a day, or can only afford to pay child workers, or can only afford to hire if they get a huge payroll tax cut. Granted, in the job market there are people who would take sub-minimum wage pay for a variety of reasons -- desperation, lack of education, lack of options near their home, felony record, undocumented status, etc. 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.

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.
I don't know if that's still the case; I've seen instances where e.g. voice actors were replaced by non-unionized competitors. If the jobs shortage is big enough, people will allow themselves to get fucked over by not joining the unions and agreeing to working below the rate unionized employees have all fought for. Because any pay is better than no pay. Right?
It has been pointed out previously that BART's infrastructure was totally reasonable...for the original level of growth the city assumed it would face. Meanwhile, SF's actual population growth has exceeded that to a considerable degree.
What are the big drawbacks of joining a zombie startup? What should I look out for?

I'm currently considering an offer from one that basically ticks every checkmark on the list, so I'd love to know what is bad about it
I would argue that the majority of the warehouse staff would opt for the increased wage they just received over shorter walking distances.
don't you know? Californian engineers are the arbiters of truth.
> In practical terms, imagine all humans have similar potential.

We should imagine all humans have the same rights, but not the same potential. If we all had similar potential, then we would all have the same shot at being top physicists, NBA players or chess grandmasters. But we don't.

We know that all humans don't have similar potential because there are women only sporting events. We created women's soccer and women's tennis and women's golf precisely because we acknowledge that all humans don't have similar potential.

> Of course, if you cling to the notion that women are not capable enough of doing this demanding intellectual work and should rather stick to doing menial labor

But most menial labor is done by males - especially the dangerous ones? Why are you so fixated on physics? Why aren't you demanding women go into garbage collecting, logging, steel work, etc which are some of the most dangerous and most male fields?

> surely it must be a fantastically rare statistical anomaly to have a woman win the most prestigious scientific accolade, and thus mentioning it in the title makes complete sense.

Can you please not do this? This type of feminism ( especially coming from a male ) comes off just as badly as chauvanism and extremely patronizing.

If you truly believe what you say, why aren't you out there protesting women's world cup or any women specific sporting event? All humans have the same potential right?

Also your argument would make sense if the west still discriminated against women. We haven't for quite a long time. As a matter of fact, we have had programs and scholarships specifically to encourage women to go into male dominated fields for generations. And yet, women choose not to? Should we force women to go into these fields since encouraging and giving them a choice certainly isn't working.
How is the connection speed/latency for these for someone in the US? Been shopping for a hobby/personal server
Or more recently, McD's introducing ordering booths not long after employees started demanding higher wages.
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Do you see any big budget hikes to the IRS in the offing? They're making a bet that the IRS will never catch up to them and it's not a crazy one.
it's right over there in the corner
When I decided to take a stab at something similar, I settled on a different approach in taking an existing asynchronous UI architecture, React Native, instead of just trying to proxy the DOM: https://github.com/vincentriemer/react-native-dom

I think it works better because the original framework wrestles with the same limitations you mention (though an upcoming rearchitecture doesn't), and while it is by no means perfect, some early results are promising: https://rndom-movie-demo.now.sh
NPR reported this morning that it does.
A side effect of pot being legalised in parts of the US is that cartels now push more heroin and meth because their profits from pot have dwindled so much.

As much as I'm pro legalise everything, I struggle to come up with a scenario where meth & heroin become legal apart from a kind of "look the other way" method Holland uses for cannabis. But this still involves illegal large scale cultivation and import of product that keeps criminal enterprises alive. Afaik most of the hash sold in Holland is smuggled in illegally from hash producing countries like Morocco, Pakistan, Nepal.

"Make drugs legal" is not actually as an easy a solution as it appears to be.
"New findings suggest that more intensive agriculture might be the “least bad” option for feeding the world while saving its species – provided use of such “land-efficient” systems prevents further conversion of wilderness to farmland."
> If so, why didn’t the employees change jobs?

Monosopy.
Again, I think it depends. My MBA definitely played into my first job after; the process started with an on-campus interview. I doubt the school (or probably even that I had an MBA) made a bit of difference after that but then I was in that job for 13 years and my subsequent jobs weren't even business roles per se. I think the background was useful but it didn't matter from a hiring perspective if I had a degree from X school or not.

In my current job, to the degree my educational pedigree made any difference at all, it was my undergrad because that's where my hiring manager went. However, I'm sure there are many cases where business school networks associated with top schools can be important.
Your 1 and 2.1 don't go well together. If DTAG is well connected to other networks, it shouldn't also be congested when reached through other networks.
>If not, why is so much criticism directed at Amazon specifically, rather than at capitalism itself?

What's the point of criticizing capitalism if there are no viable alternatives?
I’m sure it’s hard if you’re a normal person with human feelings and take seriously your responsibility to your employees and shareholders.

If you can avoid that, it must be a great job. Massive pay, no labor, people do what you say, and if you screw up the politics and get fired you’re still set for life.

The implications of this are not great.
Better transit would go a long way, it's true. But for reasons we haven't really been able to diagnose, building new transit infrastructure -- any big infrastructure projects, really -- has become ludicrously expensive in the US. It's almost certainly still worth the investment, but the numbers are so eye-popping that it requires significant goverment subsidizing, which runs into political problems that are hard to get around in the current environment.
Whether a job is hard or not depends on more than just how many hours you work and the physical aspect. Which of those jobs is more stressful? CEO, hands down. The decisions you make as a warehouse worker don’t matter all that much - if you make a bad one, the impact of that decision won’t be felt far. If the CEO makes a bad decision, it could lead to his removal, the failure of the company, huge financial losses, people losing their jobs. Just because something isn’t physically demanding doesn’t mean it’s not demanding.
Maybe I've got no sense of humour, but I think that's unprofessional and something like bullying, rather than funny. Legislation should surely not target one individual by name like that?
That's the idea, but considering Uber/Lyft drivers are deemed "contractors" the line has clearly blurred in recent years.
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Saying that Kubernetes is a bit complicated seems like saying that water can be a bit wet.

Even their documentation can't keep up. And with a release cycle of 3 months, and a deprecation cycle of 6 months, you need a team dedicated to keeping up with K8s state-of-the-art; so much of that knowledge you picked up a year ago is at best stale, and at worst wrong.

Sure, it makes setting up and keeping a set of containers up simple. But that's never really been that hard.

To paraphrase an article from a few weeks ago:

"We made microservices to address the problems with monoliths."

"We made containers to address the problems with microservices."

"We made Kubernetes to address the problems with containers."
I have a hypothetical question for you. Lets say we develop brain scanning tech. Should it be mandatory to perform a brain download to cross the border?
Agreed. Until you do not enter a startup, it's hard to know how it actually works.

During interviews and preliminary hiring-talks they may sell the pitch as if everything were wonderful, but potentially, the unfortunate reality could be that things are not that nice.
The VTA knew Apple of Apple's construction plans for years and yet made no effort to extend light rail to the new campus. Instead they continue to make "investments" in "communities of need" since apparently wealthy tech workers are not deserving of government spending.

If you dispute this, go look at how much unused transit capacity exists in East and South San Jose while places like Mountain View and Cupertino receive no attention. You can't even take the VTA to San Jose airport, because flying is also something rich people do. It got so bad that Palo Alto threatened to leave the VTA entirely.

This is what happens when a transit agency stops addressing transit needs to focus on "justice". If you think anything has changed, go look at the VTA's projected plans...dumping even more government spending in places where their existing investment sits idle. Indeed, the VTA is actually reducing their commitments outside of San Jose over time...its all in their plans available for public review.
Apparently they do considering they hadn’t submitted their own reexamination request of the patent in question that inevitably led to Waymo dropping the patent claim.
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$15/hour is still not much in the international market where Amazon sells its goods. In large parts of Europe it's less than what a warehouse worker makes. It's still barely enough for an adult to be able to pay his/her half of family expenses in the US. A lot of employees will still need a second job.

And it only comes now, 20 years after the company's founding, after it has huge profits (and can deduct expenses like salaries in the profits before paying tax), after it has crushed all competitors with extremely low wages that were only possible because many employees received government handouts too (so subsidized wages), and after it de facto has secured itself a monopoly.

And many employees are still on temporary contracts.

It's too little and too late.
Here you go. I couldn't find anything that even registers in comparison to Amazon aside from Walmart.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Ended up spending 30 minutes of my life for reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Fore...
What we are experiencing is years of years of web development with zero thought around user privacy and how it actually could be a nice, safe experience that also protects the user from mostly selfish corporate interests.
This new $15 line means that a very large group of labor in the US now earns less than the lowest paid Amazon worker. It removes one of the two or three primary criticisms of Amazon (at least for a while).

It's in fact a labor hammer on mom & pop businesses - who never pay well - at a time when there's an intense labor shortgage. Most likely, Amazon had to raise wages to fill its labor growth demands, and it's a PR benefit simultaneously.

Given Amazon's profits are set to explode higher in the next few years, with AWS and advertising (~$20b in profit in 2020 is likely), it'll give them a competitive advantage to continue to raise wages as necessary and crush everyone else that can't follow. Your typical small or mid-size retailer simply can't generate the kind of return that Amazon can from advertising (which has extreme margins), it puts them in a competitive league above and beyond, which will spill over to being able to better compete on labor. It's good for labor, bad for competitors.
How much of the new languages are supported by a new fresh wave of engineers that want to learn things?

To become a good engineer I had to go through implementing my own container types, play with my own little databases and network libraries, implement a build system, ... I published a few of those experiments in Ruby, the new/hip language at the time. Picking a fresh language seems the obvious playground to do this, it's where you can leave your mark.

My impression was that nodejs developers' age distribution was quite young as well when it started.

My point is that it's necessary to introduce new languages once it a while to get good engineers :)
one individual who heads up a company that is around a little over 40% of all sales in the USA....
You do realize it's probably not actually Bernie who came up with the name? (It's one of his underlings.)
>Like build some fucking apartment buildings and run some trains to places where the jobs and housing are. It’s not that fucking complicated.

Are you addressing what the author wrote because it seems like Scott Alexander says it may be more complicated than you claim. He wrote:

>suppose San Francisco dectupled its housing growth for decades, until it was packed border to border with skyscrapers, and was exactly as dense as Manhattan. In a simple supply-based model, the glut of supply should make rents crash to only a few hundred dollars a month or less. But in actual Manhattan, single-bedroom apartments cost $3800 a month – even more than in San Francisco! If your theory predicts that turning a city into Manhattan will make rents plummet, then consider that turning Manhattan into Manhattan made rents much worse, and so maybe your theory is wrong.
The evidence needed to assess the probability of that outcome can be found in New York City.
No, the contract itself is with a separate firm, who in turn pays their employees a minimum wage.
I... am not sure what to say. Anybody can learn a language, especially if they already know any, relatively quickly. Teaching someone to think about how to solve problems is much, much harder.

I'd take someone who can think over someone who knows any given language any day of the week. Even in my preferred languages I still look up documentation and "how-tos", and that's not likely to ever change.

I don't care if someone knows everything in the JLS or is Java Certified. I do care if they can solve problems at a reasonable pace.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120433
Portugal doesn't treat users as criminals anymore but they still consume product that's illegally imported or produced by criminal organisations and the black economy is very much alive.

What legalisation can achieve is to reduce demand. I believe Holland has quite a low incidence of cannabis consumption.

> I think that if the government really wanted to they could stomp all these cartels out of existence

As long as there's demand (and the US has oh so much of it), someone will provide it. Trillions have been wasted on the drug war and nothing has been stomped out of existence. This has nothing to do with lack of incentive.
I love to see companies freely choosing to pay their workers more. I oppose any such government regulation however because of macroeconomics. Sad to see they're going to spend as bunch of money on Congress lobbying now.
> Because I can read and understand a context of a video game, a map, vision, etc.

Did you spontaneously figure out how to read? I put it to you that you didn't, and that you were taught how to by someone else. I'd also put that the entire concept of interaction has to be a learned thing in practice, because realistically nobody learns how it works without interacting with someone else who is already reasonably knowledgeable.

Now obviously that AI can't read because we don't have a good way of telling it how to map glyphs to concepts that it understands. However, to call the glyph->concept mapping the core challenge of a Pokemon game is clearly silly.

The concept of there being something off the edge of the map on screen isn't something you are figuring out from the game either, it is just an assumption from knowledge that the real world is larger than what you can see. Similarly, that is obviously not an important aspect of the game - it is assumed knowledge.

The challenge of the game is to navigate and explore a simple world, figuring out which order of actions to take. Short-circuiting the knowledge acquired through reading and the priors about how a world behaves is completely fair when saying that an artificial intelligence has been developed and can beat the game. A human player is expected to already know how to do that too.
AKA: Central Booking [0]

I spent the night there once, when arrested for a traffic violation. Twenty guys in a cell, one toilet. The bologna sandwiches are terrible.

It's directly connected to the court house. You emerge into the court rooms from an underground tunnel for arraignment. The transition from concrete dungeon to hard wood court room is pretty striking, and probably not without psychological intent.

I also spent three weeks performing jury duty there, and got to see defendants coming from the other direction, with at least a limited understanding for where some of them had just been.

[0] https://www.yelp.com/biz/manhattan-central-booking-new-york
I guess the Nobel committee are acutely aware of the injustice they served to Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the prize awarded for the discovery of pulsars. She did most of the work and analysis as the student, and her supervisors got the credit.
> I wonder if it would be possible to breed for lifespan by breeding only the 'elders' among them

You wouldn't want to breed the 'elders' but the offspring of 'elderly' naked mole rats.
Isn't the title I used for submission more objective and less sensational? I don't understand your objection to it.
Hey Bozo, I never said it is a difficult language. I just said the grammar will be easier for a Russian or Polish speaker than for an English speaker.
In the West there are biased sources (it's impossible to have unbiased sources because there's no consistent agreement on what "unbiased" could be) but there's actually a lot of diversity of content. It's pretty easy to find some articles arguing different sides and get a decent idea of the whole situation, which is obviously not true when the government censors content.
Let us cut off an underlying assumption of the article - that only rocket ship startups with massive exits are worthwhile places to work. That simply isn't true. A long, slow, stable growth of a bootstrapped company can still give a lucrative exit because there is no dilution. You also can be a multi-millionaire with simple saving and investments, no "exit" needed. Non-funded startups also can produce less stress as you get profitable and nobody is pushing you for a billion dollar exit. You can decide as a group if you want to push for something larger or just enjoy the ride and have more time with your family.

These are not bad things. As was mentioned in a few threads over the past few weeks, nobody lies on their deathbed wishing they had done more work and spent less time with friends and family.

While VC-driven startups can give you a large exit, so can playing the lottery. Don't fool yourself into thinking this is a guaranteed get rich plan. By all means, try it if you have the time and energy and enjoy the work. But if you don't have the passion and energy for VC-funded startups, then admit that to yourself and do something else.
If you pay your employees $7.25 you deserve to be made fun off at least. Jeff Bezos recently also said Amazon deserved being scrutinised. I'm not saying this is what triggered them, but sometimes you have to take a strong position in order to be listened to.
Labor in India will be affected by changes in NREGA, over amazon.
Why does that article paint steganography as a bad thing?
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