skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just on "late shaming" in general, sometimes people have legitimate reasons for starting later. They might have been up until early morning in conference with another time zone, they might have family responsibilities, etc. If they're late to scheduled meetings by all means hold them to standard, but if they're just arriving in the office later then everyone else I'm not so sure that's cause to be held "accountable" no matter your level.
>Please provide a finite list of your accounts. Lying by omission is still lying.

It's easy to come up with new stasi operation techniques if there are no civil liberties.
If your goal is to convince other people of what you believe, all of those sound useful.

If your goal is to be convince if you're right, and be convinced if you're aren't, they become less so.
Exactly what Amazon did on "sales tax."

Against it, until their growth created a nexus in most states and required it.

Now they have been one of the most forceful lobbyists advocating for it. They call it, "Main Street Fairness."
As someone who worked in Amazon warehouse, it's still so crap.

Average programmer gets paid $50-100 per hour without any health risk or lifting their ass off a chair.

And we workers are paid $15 pittance.

Salary of warehouse should atleast be equal to a web developer.
I would be more interested in the Kona and Niro which should have US pricing more in line with typical car buyers pricing ranges.

I have a 3, it is a great car, but it is also proof of how far EVs have to go before they can be the only car for many families. I think an EV is a great second car for all families. If you don't make any long trips then an EV might suffice. I did a long trip recently but I had the luxury to stop for the thirty-fifty minutes needed to get sufficient charge for my next stop or destination travel.
I think the author does a lot of harm to their argument by cherry picking data and then having to retract the points.

Furthermore, I think the author is losing a bit of historical context. For all of human history settlements have grown from a central point outwards. There has been a highly dense core, with decreasing density towards the suburbs. As time progresses the density spreads too to match demand and economic growth.

Only in the past century or so have large numbers of people been able to demand that this density spread stop or reverse itself, typically with the application of zoning regulations. This has put undue pressure on the cities where this happens between those trying to continue an ancient growth pattern, and those who are trying to stop it.

So from a very large historical view, those living on the outskirts of a city complaining about the spread of density are being unreasonable, because this is exactly what successful cities have done for all of human history.
Maybe I'm the odd one out, but apart from the new cloud stuff 've had nothing but bad experiences.

Many years ago: HDDs died like I've never seen it before, one every few months with just a couple of servers.

ca. late 2013: We had some production systems running on Hetzner hardware, we regularly! called their support to tell them the DC lost connection because our monitoring apparently was better than theirs and they acted surprised for not hearing something yet.

Only like 2-3 years ago: Got a new server, had SMART issues and had to have the disk replaced before the first 24h after ordering were up.

An ex-coworker of mine joked they must have added the "please change the disk" option in the support form just for him because he was running 20+ servers and actually had to call them every week to replace a dying disk.

Yes, this was all years ago - but I'd rather pay servers out of my own pocket than be oncall for production servers there, ever again.
Genetic Attributions: Sign of Intolerance or Acceptance?
You're right. But ~40% of online ain't nothing either.
Probably it won't but there is a small risk that some people will due to round-off errors end up just below the billionaire line of they start paying their employees a half decent wage. Or it might take some people a bit longer to get there. In the long run it is irrelevant.
While it would be in Amazon's interest to get the federal minimum wage increased after setting their internal minimum wage at $15/hr, why is this negative? Aligning business interests with the public good is brilliant IMO and I strongly feel a $15 minimum wage, plus regular increases, is for the public good. Kudos to Amazon for making the wage increase and aligning their business interests and lobbying efforts to a federal wage increase.
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I agree with you that an important and useful part of the GDPR is deletion of your data. Good examples: No advertising and spam. Prevention of later hacking and theft of your data like e.g. credit card numbers or private messages. You have revealed your true identity on social media and want to remove your posts.

But maybe GDPR gives a false sense of safety and security and control:

- What is technically possible ? When I cite you, must my posts be deleted as well ?

- Who controls what companies do outside of the EU or even within the EU ?

- National police and secret services in the USA and EU might be more interested in the data than some US company. They have no moral problem with installing spyware on your computer.

- Banks and maybe even insurance companies have already the right to know much about you.

- https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

- https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

IMO, you can only trust that the EU and the rest of the world does not give you control when it really matters.

Another example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ&t=1
For me, the images on the page won't load

edit: 50% of them load, 50% give 504
Why We Need a Social Wealth Fund

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/social-wealth-fund-alaska-peo...
Twitter bans distribution of hacked materials ahead of US midterm elections
ورم في الصدر الاعراض المبكرة عند الفتيات
Don't get a dog. Honestly, I think having a kid is better than getting a dog. With a kid, there's a pretty good chance that it's going to grow up at some point and be able to use the bathroom on its own (within a few years), feed itself, clean up after itself, and eventually move out of the house.

With a dog, this never happens: you're constantly going to be taking care of it like it's a 2-year-old. You'll have to walk it every day, pick up its hot, steaming shit piles with a thin plastic bag in your hand (or else get huge fines from your HOA/condo), smell its nasty breath, deal with fleas (you have to take it outside for walks remember), hire pet-sitters if you're gone for even one night, etc.

Dogs are an enormous hassle, especially in a city. I have no idea why so many people want them. If you want an animal companion in a city dwelling, get a cat. They don't need to be walked, they don't eat much (compared to large dogs), they can use the bathroom on their own (tip: get a Litter-Robot automated litter box), they don't need to be bathed or groomed, they don't stink, and they don't mind living in an apartment full-time.
During the second half of the Progressive Era, beginning roughly in 1908,
progressive economists and their reform allies achieved many statutory victories,
including state laws that regulated working conditions, banned child labor, instituted
“mothers’ pensions,” capped working hours and, the sine qua non, fixed
minimum wages. In using eugenics to justify exclusionary immigration legislation,
the race-suicide theorists offered a model to economists advocating labor reforms,
notably those affiliated with the American Association for Labor Legislation, the
organization of academic economists that Orloff and Skocpol (1984, p. 726) call
the “leading association of U.S. social reform advocates in the Progressive Era.”
Progressive economists, like their neoclassical critics, believed that binding
minimum wages would cause job losses. However, the progressive economists also
believed that the job loss induced by minimum wages was a social benefit, as it
212 Journal of Economic Perspectives
performed the eugenic service ridding the labor force of the “unemployable.”
Sidney and Beatrice Webb (1897 [1920], p. 785) put it plainly: “With regard to
certain sections of the population [the “unemployable”], this unemployment is not
a mark of social disease, but actually of social health.” “[O]f all ways of dealing with
these unfortunate parasites,” Sidney Webb (1912, p. 992) opined in the Journal of
Political Economy, “the most ruinous to the community is to allow them to unrestrainedly
compete as wage earners.” A minimum wage was seen to operate eugenically
through two channels: by deterring prospective immigrants (Henderson,
1900) and also by removing from employment the “unemployable,” who, thus
identified, could be, for example, segregated in rural communities or sterilized.

https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pd...
Alain de Botton: Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
What if anything does Cuda do better/differently than OpenCL?
It’s not 30k/year for many of these employees. They are temporary workers that never know when they have work and when they don’t. It’s 15/hour.

Also, 30k is a decent wage for a young person with no dependants. It’s not enough if you have kids, not even in the midwest or deep south.

Comparing wages to the markets where Amazon sells its goods is interesting when talking competition.
Machine learning improvements on iOS 12 and new iPhone X series
Institutional investors are warming up to crypto
If smartphones are not considered a computer, then that probably is the case for the majority of people today.
As an absolute statement that is factually incorrect. My former CTO started as a senior developer at the company 16 years ago.

If you want to make the weaker statement that growing from engineer to CTO almost never happens, you’re going to need statistics.

Realistically, humans are mortal and C suite types are made, not born. While not every engineer will become a CXO just due to disparity in job openings, someone needs to be promoted to take the CXO jobs once the previous crop has aged out of the work force. Some of them will be advanced because they’re good workers, others because they’re good at politics. You’ll need some statistics to back up any claim about what percentage are good workers and what percentage are politicians in business clothing.
No. The majority of "contractors" in America are really just employees of subcontracting firms who have way fewer rights, don't get benefits, and have to pay applicable employment taxes themselves instead of the company taking care of it.
None of the assets will load.
Do you really want to test the limits of Econ 101?

People are willing to work for pennies. Just look at India. If you want to turn USA into a third word country with high levels of income inequality that’s how you do it.

Have some empathy. Otherwise the peasants will revolt, and they have guns.
I think the answer is that full employment is increasingly not necessary to keep the economy running in this increasingly automated economy.
Although they are doing an end-run around the law, I'm not sure they are trying that hard. I suspect the law will become largely ignored (or massively paid lip service just to avoid being the tiniest rare case that is punished), and hope that alternative tech overcomes the entrenched.
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That's not how any of this works. We weren't going to get fines dropping on the first day.
I think what the government is trying to do is to increase people's income, so it can match the level of housing bubble.

Many people think it's a goal that is to hard to reach in time (year 2025 or so), but the overall direction is about right.

However, all of that is before the trade war thing. So what does the future actually holds is a bigger unknown by now.
Social media gimmicks you don’t need, but agencies will sell to you
I make more as a waiter with absolutely 0 experience. Being a waiter is better, more stable pay than many office and warehouse jobs.

Something is severely wrong when food service is more profitable than manufacturing and distribution and tertiary-degree stuff.
>If a new regulation insisted that on entering a hotel room, a member of the hotel staff had to use a blacklight and you needed to explicitly approve every illuminated mark larger than a quarter, then you would be annoyed at that regulation.

How about this. For the past 25 years every hotel that you checked into has kept a record of:

- How often did you visit?

- How much money did you spend?

- What type of CC do you have?

- Did you watch porn?

- If so, what is your favorite type?

- Did you pass on dietary restrictions to the chef?

- Were you alone?

- Did someone other than the person listed as your wife on FB join you for the night?

- etc... etc... etc...

And then, without your consent, without even notifying you they sold this information to credit score companies, to advertising companies and to whoever the fuck will buy it.

Without. Your. Consent.

THIS is how the internet works today. Everyone grabs as much data as they can and then sells it to whoever wants to buy it. You have no vote in this. It just happens and it says so in weird legal terms on page 373 section 44 subsection 7a of their 700 page Terms of Service.

GDPR gives you this vote.

GDPR says: if you want to resell data you harvest you HAVE to get their consent, in clear and understandable terms. Can't bury it in your TOS.

GDPR says: you cannot make your website / app / service unavailable if people refuse this.

GDPR says: you can ask companies how much and which data they got on you and they have to provide it.

GDPR protects you from an invisible industry many people don't even know exists.
I assumed it was an extension of the "dwarf planet" metaphor.
This is disastrous for low skilled workers. It removes the bottom rung of the economic ladder -- if you have no skills or little skills, the best way to develop skills is to be employed. If you don't provide more than 15$ per hour of value then you won't be able to get a job.

This also helps create a moat around amazon - if they can get the costs of everyone to go up, when they unleash better picking/warehouse automation no one will be able to compete with them.
I can think of tons of jobs that are worth less than $1/hr. That doesn't mean I think people should actually do those jobs. Over time we tend to get more-valuable jobs.
This seems well intentioned, but it strains credulity on a couple fronts:

1. This article is referring to VC backed startups, which generally speaking 9 of 10 die. Are you going to statistically better at picking a winner than a VC (consider also that you aren't diversifying your investment as you only work at 1 startup at a time).

2. While transparency is indeed key, there are levels. It's unlikely any company is going to be so radically transparent as to tell you the details you'd need to actually determine their financial fitness going forward.

Consider that Telltale Games last week managed to both hire a new developer, move them across the country and then call them into a meeting to let them know that they'd be let go along with most of the rest of the company in a massive layoff. That's a lack of transparency as to what is happening _within_ the company.

3. VC backed startups are just inherently volatile. I worked for a YC company that raised between $75-$100 mil (keeping it vague) and they were more or less insane: just weird unforced errors and oddness and Steve Jobs complex. They recently closed as their round failed due to a combination of IP theft, "Trump trade issues" and inability to execute in the face of more advanced competitors.
It's often not just one thing that pushes a startup from "rocket ship" to "zombie", it's everything.

4. Being an early stage employee (non-founder) is a rough spot. Typically you're taking less on salary because of "generous" equity. However, you're also expected to work founder hours. As liquidity events have diminished, so have opportunities to actually cash out.

All that being said, I'd still encourage people to work for a startup, but to do it on their own terms: to learn, to get a new experience, to try and set yourself up to do your own creation. Please just don't rely on picking a rocketship.
> What about people who don't need a basic living wage, like students who still live with their parents? Why should they be pushed out of the market?

Part time work. You can work 15-25 hours a week at the higher minimum wage while having time to study or deal with other things. A proper minimum wage should be the amount for a worker to live on after working 40 hours a week. If an employee can not make enough to live in that area (after working for 40 hours), the employer should not be there and is taking advantage of the employees.
As the submitter of the link I cannot even downvote your comment, but something feels odd about it:

Hetzner provides unmanaged dedicated servers, thus you are the one responsible monitoring the hardware. The only thing Hetzner does is swapping HDDs you identify as faulty (you provide them the S/N of the faulty disk via the support form).

Personally I rent the super cheap Serverbörse servers for personal use. The HDDs in there are fairly old (as it's their older generation servers). Over the past 6 years I needed Hetzner to swap about 5 HDDs. When my server logged issues when accessing a disk, I requested a swap, they swapped it less than 30 minutes later and I started the rebuild of my RAID. All without issues.

> The first one was totally Hetzner's fault since they have failed to identify the faulty disks when they check the disks for it.

Did you mean to say that they removed an incorrect disk when you requested a swap? Or did you expect them to monitor the hardware for you?
Volkswagen is the world's seventh-largest company by revenue. Porsche isn't going to disappear overnight because they're backed by a massive corporation. They're at "too big to fail" scale; if they have problems the German government will have to bail them out.

Tesla, even with Elon's ability to raise money, does not have that sort of back up.
That was the first thing I thought of too. It's such an obvious question to ask, too, given that many (most?) of Amazon warehouse employees are contracted out.

I think we're seeing an Amazon press release regurgitated as news on a wire service, no independent reporting involved.
Facebook and Airbus jointly lobby EU Commission on drones, email shows
The Big Disruption: Medium's First Full-Length Novel
I once watched my 8 year old sister play an RPG in a language she did not understand. She had only the vaguest idea what was going on but still made progress. Just randomly trying things looking for novelty is enough to progress through such games given sufficient time.
> GDPR in the US should have the power to audit companies and ensure compliance, just like the FDA

This is wanton overregulation.
All we need is strict liability for data loss. After a few years of watching cases play out in the courts, we can revisit to see if more onerous regulation is required.
Or you know, email and that internet thing got pretty big.
Learning Based Image Transformation Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Sure, but there's a ton of different groups that have already 'established for themselves' that they're right, and are in 'advocacy phrase'.

Every group has people who advocate for the group beliefs in emotional, close-minded ways. Groups that have accurate beliefs will also have people who argue more dispassionately.

If you see a discourse dominated almost exclusively by tribal back-patting, it should put their beliefs in question.
A non-zero probability that probability is involved.
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Well that's OK then (???)
> 'probably smart', 'primarily a salesman'

"A child prodigy in chess, Hassabis reached master standard at the age of 13"

"graduating in 1997 with a Double First[13] from the University of Cambridge"

"obtain[ed] his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London"

"[his] theoretical account of the episodic memory system [...] was listed in the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of the year in any field by the journal Science"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
I should have been more specific. I meant good choice as something other than just clicking to get past the notice.
> The problem with working at a large company is dealing with all the large company BS.

Smaller company doesn't have to mean less bullshit. It's just a different kind of bullshit.
Or work for yourself and have a diverse set of clients, and ideally a diverse set of products and services. Shouldn't diversification apply to work as it does to investments (modern portfolio theory)?
I'm not following this argument.

So, because the world used to terrible centuries ago, and still is in some undeveloped or wartorn nations, we should be OK with it continuing to be terrible here in one of the richest nations in the world, even though it doesn't have to be?
If it's on the NY Times about a trade war and a country the USA is losing ground to economically, it's probably something relating to Chomsky's propaganda model.
That's because they don't believe this stuff for rational reasons but to fit into a group or in some cases as a "fuck you belief" directed at "the establishment."

"Fuck you beliefs" are a personal theory of mine. People sometimes assume ridiculous and deliberately provocative "beliefs" as a means of explicit rejection of a social order. The canonical example would be Satanism as a rejection of Christian culture/society. Believing Apollo is a hoax or that the Earth is flat is an explicit rejection of the industrial/scientific/corporate/university complex and its culture. The absurdity of these beliefs adds to their value as acts of protest. The phenomenon can also take the form of refusal to believe something taught by the hated authority. If the belief being refused is actually true and demonstrably so, it becomes a more potent act of protest.

Talk to the people that hold beliefs like the Apollo hoax and scratch the surface and you'll usually find someone who is under-employed in a dead-end job with no future and too much student loan debt. They are adopting an absurdist epistemology in protest of a society that they see as having failed them.

When I see conspiracy theories becoming popular I see a metaphysical and epistemological version of people throwing Molotov cocktails in the street at cops in riot gear under clouds of tear gas. Maybe this is what mass protests and "riots in the street" look like in the Information Age.
US considered ban on student visas for Chinese nationals
How well it works depends on your setup, in my case I use a routed configuration, I'm unsure if bridged would be better.

The basic gist is that pfSense wants to be allocated a /64 via prefix allocation via a router advertisement (SLAAC or DHCPv6). Only in this configuration can you set the LAN interface to track the WAN, which allows you to use a single /64.

Sadly there isn't a dedicated server provider out there that I know off that cleanly supports this configuration.

In almost all cases you'll have to manually assign subnets inside the /64 (ie a /65 for the WAN interface and a /65 for LAN) so you can route around traffic. It's a bit annoying to setup but possible.

(It's still much better than OVH's IPv6 support which is just plain broken)