skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company doesn't become adversarial with its workforce because of unions; a company is forced to treat its workforce more as an equal because of unions. The adversarial nature of the relationship between a workforce and its company is not a result of unions, it exists without unions. It's just that, without unions, companies are free to largely ignore the demands of individual workers.

Control over compensation and healthcare "stuff" (and, I'd argue, even days off) is just as important to the well-being of a workforce as worker safety, especially in a country with a relatively weak "social safety net".

How exactly does a union show that it is worth negotiating with as an equal without things that demonstrate its power, like strikes and bargaining hold-outs?
Try "Google Keep", it's great for shopping lists.
The "pills" like SSRIs also change the actual function of the brain, not simply flooding it with a certain molecule that mimics; the two honestly shouldn't compared to as equals, though I understand the desire to as one is heavily legal because of the pharma. industrial complex, and the others have been struggling for their place for far too long now.

Context of course is important too, like having a ceremony with a group of people or with things like MDMA - outside of a therapeutic setting with a therapist - of positive environment with dance music, etc of course will prime the brain in certain ways, and trigger certain pathways that won't otherwise be triggered if simply taking a pill that forces a function change (vs. using existing flows and function); contrast a ceremony taking a medicine vs. going to doctor who only sees you in the context of a clinic, speaks with you for maybe 15 minutes, prescribes you a pill, and sends you on your way to maybe check back in a week to see how their experiment is going.
And that's how the got the serial killer, from his family's genetics, not his direct samples.
Can you prove this? People could easily run into legal issues if they want to use this and it turns out he didn't grant the use of his name.
Find a project you are passionate about that you can pursue on the side.

It can be both your portfolio and motivate you to keep pushing the envelop.

I do these short little exercises in programming to explore different concepts. Usually make a rough POC for an idea or some kind of interface.
I think I may have been unclear with my terminology; I said tag but I meant the sha checksum of the built docker image, which is unique.
Agriculture, at least in the US, has always been subsidized. As a country we used slave labor (free labor) to subsidize agriculture, and then over time we gave away an epic amount of land to white farmers (via the Land Act of 1820, the Homestead Act, and the Morrill Act of 1862).
This sound incredible unbelievable. Also, all the cultures across centuries use the same idea?

Exist many samples of the use of numbers in the thousands, btw..
What part of what the Mueller investigations turned up do you think proves there's any meat to allegations to Russian collusion?
The relationship between labor and management/capital has historically been adversarial in the United States.

We can’t just adopt the laws from countries with good labor relations like Germany or Denmark and expect the culture to follow.
lol, don’t bother. HNers have no idea of the sorry state of the “””industry”””
That is good to know. Thanks.
Near as I can tell, can't be used with things like Blokada that create a VPN.
I have a question about Triplebyte.

Suppose I'm not looking for a job, but take your quiz for fun (which your site says is OK). I'd probably take the quiz in some area I'm not good in, such as front end web [1], because that might provide some guidance as to what I should be looking at if I want to get better in that field.

There is, of course, a good chance I'll do terrible on that (but have a lot of fun).

Then let's say that months or a year or so later, I've had a chance to actually get good in that area, and I'm looking for a job. Will that botched for fun quiz in that area sink me if I try to use Triplebyte seriously in that job hunt?

[1] I've only had to do simple web stuff--simple PHP generated pages with simple framework free JavaScript now and them.
Employer-Provided Health Insurance Nears $20,000 a Year
People who didn't die of violence, hunger, infectious diseases, accidents, or complications of child bearing could expect roughly as much remaining life span as adults as adults expect today. When you strike those caveats and look at every human born on Earth: yes, people really do live significantly longer now. Whether or not you find this surprising depends on how much you already knew about leading causes of death in centuries past.
> rather than just enforcing access itself.

Could you elaborate on that? I can't picture the alternative you're suggesting.
So can someone help me untangle how this relates to possible Zstandard patents?

Back some time ago, when all public facebook git repositories had a patent "grant" document, there was some angst about what exactly this meant: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/335 -- this was considered "resolved" when facebook decided to distribute the software under GPLv2, though after reading the relevant sections of GPLv2 I can't say I follow why this was supposed to resolve any uncertainty around potential FB patents of zstd.

Under BCP79 it would be Facebook's duty to disclose any IPR it has in zstd; there are presently no such disclosures registered: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?draft=&rfc=8478&sub...

As far as I can tell, this is good news for people who would like to adopt zstd!
1. Would you say you are qualified to diagnose whether someone is mentally stable?

2. Did she partake with someone who is experienced in guiding people through trips?
Not anymore. The original 23andme I definitely found useful, and they had a lot of interesting insights. But then the FDA basically shut them down and for a while the only thing they could offer was ancestry reporting, and that I really didn't care for. It seems like the FDA is slowly approving them to run more genetic tests for various conditions (last I saw it was 10), so perhaps it will increase in usefulness again. But I think it will be a while before it will get to the level of reporting you used to get at the beginning.
True and false in my oppinion.

Mandatory developments, impositions of central banks, national vat's, auditings and bussiness as usual is seen as a cost. You must do this developments. These are fixed costs and banks tend to minimize them.

New products that inovate/diferentiate one bank from another are seen as strategic and costs are seen diferently. What banks optimize in the fixed costs, banks spend in the proof of concepts.
"this yogurt has forty bazillion active probiotics"
Institutional inertia reminds me of the process of indoctrination, learned through memorization and not through experience and critical thinking. It's true too, that this process can result in good people with no sinister motivations falling into certain traps.
This comment makes no sense. There is no discussion here of money being paid from governments to wireless carriers.

Did you read the article?
Python is an object oriented programming language, not a "scripting" language. "Scripting" implies writing "scripts" (e.g. #!/usr/bin/python), but that's not it's only (or primary) use case, and in fact creates the problems I've been talking about above.

Python the language has plenty of flaws. This conversation was never about Python however, it was about the bad habits C programmers bring to Python enterprise development, and how I struggle to work with C programmers because of those good-in-c-but-bad-in-python habits. I was curious if anyone else experienced these problems, and then you arrived and became a perfect example of the attitudes I encounter regularly from C programmers working in Python.

I have no problems with C, it's obviously one of the most (if not the most) important programming languages of our time. My problem is with the habits some C programmers have brought to my Python projects.
They will be making more now than what the bonus would have made them previously though.
I'm using 69.0.3497.81. Make sure your server accepts the header... after changing I stopped seeing OPTIONS requests in my server logs, not that it measurably improved the speed of the SPA. It was several months ago I made the change and FF behavior is definitely different (more relaxed?) than Chrome when it comes to CORS.
Because people have a long-established inability to fully realize the long-term impacts of things when compared to short-term benefit?
Mountaintop observatory sees gamma rays from exotic Milky Way object
Every smart phone uses this interface but presents it one column at a time. It's a powerful and beautiful design.
WSJ Coin: To Understand Cryptocurrencies, We Created One
Great job!!
Motivation and learning.
Excellent
Europe and Japan both use smaller engine sizes, increasing fuel economy pretty drastically compared to North America. Especially when your average speed might be 80 km/hr, rather than 80 miles an hour. I don't know if their different testing regimes reflect that (maybe).

Anecdote: several years ago, I got the lightest, smallest-engined, most-efficient car I could find here in Canada, a Toyota Yaris. And using a calculator to convert units, I see that even so, it only gets me ~40 US MPG (real world) - most because of highway speeds. When I drive mostly 80km/hr, it's about 42 US MPG. When I drive mostly 120 km/hr, it's more like 36 US MPG. The same car is sold in Japan/EU with a 1.2 litre engine, vs the 1.5 litre in North America. Similar things happen with many other models.
I don't think this is an accurate assessment of education in the ML space. There are tonnes of people who have self-taught themselves the material. The issue I see is that employers do not trust non-university credentials, and so there is a strong hiring bias towards PhD graduates, regardless of whether it is warranted.
I think I understood the author fairly well, I just find fault in his argument.

He hasn't proved "1) the food would not go to waste if it wasn't purchased" AT ALL. He's merely implied it through incorrect facts about donations to food banks.

number 2 is likely true, but that actually make it MORE likely that the food would have gone to waste. I've worked with donation programs in my local state that harvest crops left in the field. Large farms will leave crops unharvested if the price drops below a certain point (either because of market changes or because the produce grade would be lower). They do this because it costs more to hire the labor to harvest it than the crop will bring in.

Small farms are much less likely to do this.

Finally: The author of this piece is basically just a competitor in the SAME market. Literally. You can sign up for 16 weeks of BeetBox deliveries for a mere 530 bucks (I'm being facetious if it's not entirely obvious... they're asking 35 dollars a box for self pickup - they're selling expensive freaking veggies.)

So I fail to find the argument that this is hurting donations compelling (or even factual) and I don't believe the author's motives are any more pure.

Basically - this is a hit piece against a competitor in the same market, and it should be read as such.
Meh. Ban me if you don’t like it. The discussion ended up being about politics. Not interest in participating in politics or having my comments be misunderstood as political comments.
Let me guess, you had read that one probiotics study that was done on 15 healthy people that found no effect?
https://xkcd.com/925/
https://youtu.be/xxAaKpRMOTw : this is outdoor baby spring mix operation in California. I know whose this is...the grower, packer and distributor..they have perfected it to an art form. When I see social media photos of a young person leaning over a baby plant grown hydroponically with a pair of baby scissors, I have to wonder if they have a clue about the scale and economies of growing outdoors by the established growers.

Having said that, my position has always been that lettuce(and strawberries) should be moved indoors because they are ground huggers. Lettuce has been easy to automate indoors but strawberries have continuous fruit production and a canopy and keeps on going for a longer season. So it has proved to be meow difficult. Also needs a lot of targeted lighting because it has to fruit and flower.

Automation is a beautiful thing. It comes from a keen study of the repetitive movements that goes into the task at hand. But machines can never replace humans everywhere and for every crop, but it can certainly make farming better.

When I attended TechCrunch this year, in one of the panels, (robotics investment by VC) the moderator asked if replacing strawberry pickers with ‘roombas’ is unethical because the strawberry pickers won’t have jobs.

I was very upset and am pretty sure she hasn’t picked strawberries bent over or even seen the workers do this for hours and being paid by the clamshells and not by the hour. It is also this kind of thinking that is holding back technology and innovation.

Let’s find them other jobs. Better jobs. Make education accessible. Who knows..the strawberry picker could be a genius or a musician or just someone who wants a simpler less back breaking job. Who are these tech people and moderators and VCs go try and ‘save’ farmers and farm workers who desperately need tech to help them.

Instead these are the kind of concerns I heard at TechCrunch. It was very disheartening. I am not very hopeful. They are all throwing $$ down the drain and america’s crutch is cheap labour. Europe is far ahead because they don’t have cheap labour. Japan, Middle East and even down under, they are innovating because their pain points are ageing population, water availability in deserts and in Oz.nz, labour. China is making great strides and surpassing EU with their farm tech innovation and especially with robotics.

We are being left behind because we are allowing something so essential as food production, distribution to become fodder for politically correct faff talk.

I was thinking to myself..that it makes no sense. If you break down some of the concerns ‘tech folk’ who want to ‘help’ farming into words and meanings, it was just dead words...killed by the sword of ignorance and hubris. Unethical to replace strawberry pickers with robots? It was very painful to hear that kind of talk.
If Gmail doesn't scan your email anymore, what's the objection to it?
Can you explain the Fuschia part in more detail?
In every thread like this, there's an argument like yours, taking the absolutist view that individual workers should have unlimited freedom ("completely and totally incapable," as you wrote) to sacrifice themselves for money. In the micro sense, you are possibly correct. However, as a society, we have decided at the macro level that no, workers are not free to make that decision because to do so would inherently drive the collective working environment to the bottom.

We make rules about a lot of things to protect the collective good at the sacrifice of the individual. Workers are not free to decide that climbing a tall tower without a safety harness so as to go faster and complete more jobs for more money is acceptable. Workers are not free to decide to put their unprotected hands into fast-moving machinery so as to be more efficient and complete more piecework for more money is acceptable. Workers are not free to decide to inhale toxic gases, labor in buildings without sanitary facilities, or be worked non-stop until the worker passes out from exhaustion. (These are, of course, generalities but, again, we as a society have also decided that carve-outs can exist where required but these are the exceptions to the wide rule.)

I would also note that the person to whom you replied expressed a favorable opinion of the trade-off for health against money not being made. No rule or law was proposed. That, too, is part of what society does: we debate things in good faith, not with the assumption that an opinion is a dictate by fiat. These rules are generally considered acceptable and good. It is up to you, the person with the view opposed to the current situation, to express why you disagree instead of simply turning the question back on the person commenting.
Same here... from what I can tell, only the browser has reliable information about what's happening. How could the server know code from another domain is making the requests? And if anything, the web is more secure - desktop native applications can usually access each other's data and do malicious requests to remote servers using stolen credentials just fine.
Additional notes:

The top 4 best-selling passenger cars are the Honda Accord and Civic, and the Toyota Camry and Corolla [1].

Their "combined city/highway" fuel efficiences are respectively 30, 34, 27, and 32 mpg for the base engine [2][3][4][5].

How can this possibly work out to 37 mpg overall? There aren't enough hybrid sales to bring that number up.

[1] http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2018/08/july-2018-ytd-u-s-passe...
[2] https://www.edmunds.com/honda/accord/2017/features-specs/
[3] https://www.edmunds.com/honda/civic/2017/features-specs/
[4] https://www.edmunds.com/toyota/camry/2017/features-specs/
[5] https://www.edmunds.com/toyota/corolla/2017/features-specs/
We have a startup, Logical Clocks (www.logicalclocks.com), that just raised money to sell our data-science next-generation Hadoop stack. It has a new verison of HDFS called HopsFS (Nvme storage, distributed metadata) and support for GPUs in YARN. And distributed tensorflow, Spark, Airflow, Flink.

So, what does that mean for us? I am shellshocked. I expect prices to increase (good for us). What else should we expect?
> I remember using these somewhere, perhaps a music player, and how amazing they were.

yuck, I always hated software that uses them. I find them highly unpractical
Your best resource here is probably https://erowid.org/experiences/
It seems like when this talks about "enabl[ing] teams to access private company resources", it means "access 3rd party cloud services that support IP whitelisting"? For example, if I set up another service on the internet to only allow connections from the dedicated VPN server IP. But it wouldn't let a remote employee access a service running in the company's office LAN. Am I misreading that?

Additionally, what protections are in place to ensure Portal Cloud staff aren't monitoring the traffic or accessing a customer's "private company resources"?
New York City Home-Sharing Ordinance Could Create Privacy Nightmare
Any design done by anyone should get the same benefit of testing and iteration, regardless of whether it was a 'designer' or a 'design agency' or a 'developer'.

Biggest issue I run in to (from dev/tech perspective) when working with any 'design' person is that, in pretty much every experience I've ever had (done this for 20+ years in the web world), the person/team doing the design work has one of two issues:

1. they've never done web work

2. they don't provide enough state information

You put 3 toggle buttons and a sample piece of information in a mockup... but don't 'design' out what should happen when mutually exclusive things happen... FML. Because regardless of what choices I make to fill in the blanks (and there are always blanks), they're inevitably "wrong" from someone's view (the original design person, or someone on the client's team, etc) because they're now being presented with a decision to make that they didn't have to think about before.

It may come across as subtlety "passive aggressive", depending on how you word it, but... damn it - when you put a dozen widgets on the screen and indicate they're linked together - you need to actually think about every single possible state (and step flow, etc).

The more 'application-oriented' something is, the less useful I've found "designer" input to be, outside of giving basic font/color/styling guidelines.

It's worse when the people label themselves "UX", but still don't provide any of the state info.
I wouldn't care about flicking screens but this is actually more than just this one second. Once you deal with external screens, proprietary graphics drivers, then it might happen to you that your system doesn't boot at all - when using the flicker free setup. It's actually a nice demo, but I also want to point out that - the allegedly technically inferior - Ubuntu had this already since last year or so. It's quite difficult to turn it off, but I know how because it works really bad if you have an NVidia card and also need the GPU capabilities.
Subsidies and government things are subject to disclosure laws, private contracts don't.
My instinct says this as well. "My equation isn't balancing, there must be something sitting on the seesaw!"
That's annoying but fine as long as it's unique and you can grep it in the codebase.
The Best Way to Hide Text in PDF
I don't see the connection. Even if everyone hated the idea of having a president and we were in the process of amending the constitution to eliminate the office entirely, we'd still care about who had the position until that happened as they have a great deal of power.
The sum total of 50 years of the Israeli Palestinian conflict since 1967 has resulted in about the same number of casualties on both sides combined as the Mexican drug cartel violence last year alone, if either party is attempting genocide they are executing it very poorly.
Hi everyone, Co-founder of Portal Cloud VPN here.

Thanks for checking us out! We're about halfway through YC Startup School, and it's been an incredible experience so far (particularly getting to know/learn from our group). We just launched Portal Cloud VPN two weeks ago, and our goal is to enable teams to securely access private company resources (internal web apps/production servers etc..), and help remote employees or contractors secure their internet traffic.

We think all professionals & remote employees should be using a business-quality VPN, and would love to hear what you think (positive, or critical).

Thanks,
Jeff@portal.cloud
Certainly true. The pointed rejection of all forms of religion after having been wronged by it is common, and Slate Star Codex makes mention of it in a note that's somewhat relevant to this topic.

My personal hunch is that it mirrors an experience my friends have described about sushi and coffee, neither of which I enjoy. Apparently, bad versions of those things are unpalatable if you don't know what would make them good. If you start there, you wonder "why the hell does anyone consume this". But once you've had the very good versions, you "get it" and know what you should be experiencing when you go back to the lesser versions, and more easily "forgive" their imperfect representations of a thing you enjoy.

I've definitely had that experience with religion. I grew up in a family that was ambivalent to such things, failing to understand why anyone would care at all. Then as an adolescent I saw all the horror, at home and abroad, wrought by religion, and rejected it as superstitious mumbo-jumbo at best, and a pretense for violence, bigotry, and a return to the stone-age at worst. When I finally managed to encounter a packaging that let me see what might be good about it, I was grateful to finally understand what the fuss was about, even if I'm not all the way bought in.

I now have approximately the view that Sam Harris[1] does:

"I still considered the world’s religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble."

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-bravery...

[1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/chapter-one/
I found out I had two (!) dangerous recessives (the sort that if you have these from both sides, your body/life is pretty messed up), neither of which I knew about from family history. Luckily, my wife has neither, but I appreciate knowing this and being able to warn my children.