skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kinda confused. The author was wondering why they were having satellite engineering offices at all, when people could just drive to Racine (Driving from Eau Claire to Racine and back is 500 miles, I think the author didn't look up where these places are.)

You seem to be suggesting these locations are a political favor. But one is downtown (not suburban) Milwaukee, and the others are 150+ miles from Milwaukee. Not in that Charlie Sykes listening suburban ring of Milwaukee.

And anyway, the factory itself is near suburban Milwaukee so why would a downtown engineering (sales/business?) be a favor? And I'm not sure, but Racine is probably the least conservative county that touches Milwaukee.
Jobs was a genius late in life (sans on his own health,) but he also helped run Apple into the ground after early success. People tend to forget that.
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I never installed it at the first place.
Deleted it months ago and don't miss it even slightly.
And how would that work? Google and Facebook could charge more for ads which impacts mostly the advertisers, Amazon could in fact increase the prices impacting average Joes in the UK, but they would lose the advantage over smaller competition unaffected by this kind of tax. This is a globalisation tax that would most likely not affect "normal" people while still bringing quite a few pounds to the national budget.
I _think_ strava is just when a user actually posted to srava, it used to be when they did the ride, but you would miss friend's rides if they only update strava the next day. I slightly preferred the old way, but it isn't too bad so far.
Same. I just kind of reached the climax of boredom in gaming. To be fair, I mainly played CS:GO, LoL, and WoW. Basically games where I could also watch YouTube videos or do other stuff during downtimes in-game (such as death, queueing, wipes)

I am quite safe with still having a gmaing console, since they are much more immersive in a sense that distractions will actually hinder the enjoyment. If I can only either do something productive or play a game, I usually try to be productive.

What's your poison?
Not really it has been pretty much been publicly know from day one of their implementation.
IBM buys Red Hat in $34B deal, adding Linux distributor
There are always exceptions to the rule
The "encoding" here is I think charset encoding, not MIME encoding. The determination of charsets is basically a game of roulette; the last time I looked, only somewhere around the region of 40% of messages actually adhered to the charset they declared themselves as. A classic (and simple) error case is people who write Windows-1252 and then call it ISO-8859-1, not realizing that there actually is a difference between the two.

(Email could use a better binary encoding for attachments than base64, though, since transports are basically 100% 8-bit safe, even if not binary safe. Usenet went with yEnc, which IETF balked at in what is a case of perfect being an enemy of the good).
When he was in jail for his most recent arrest, a sheriff’s deputy even offered to bail him out.

:)

If only real life more often played out like that scene in Scent of a Woman where righteousness wins out and doesn't end in the bad guys ruining the guy taking a stand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAtzy-l3H1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcj1wMZRitI
A rational company optimizes profits, rather than just revenue, when your costs go up, you may be interested in raising your prices, even if it reduces the number of items you sell, because part of the revenue has to be paid to someone else. You can see this trivially if a business only has a 1% profit margin on an item.

It's likely going to fall on some combination of business and consumer that we won't know a priori.
Interesting. Not saying I don't believe you, but I'm interested in what a company might perceive to be the value of being part of the S&P 500. Is it just a reputation boost? Or is there something concrete?
Heart failure stem cell trial to be paused after calls for retractions
The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines Are Bad for Free Software
It's a fine word, but probably we should detach this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325828 and mark it off-topic.
> If workers have any spare time, it doesn’t go into campaigning in their workplace for better terms and conditions. It is spent in the long queue at Aldi and Lidl for cheaper food. It is spent scouring the newspaper best-buy tables for a cheaper mortgage deal, a lower energy tariff or discounted car insurance.

I do feel like life is a bloody attrition war against the universe. Everything is too complicated.

Income tax return? Months of paperwork and letters sent back and forth. Car insurance? You better know what you need or the agent will sell you insurance against squirrel attack. Renting an apartment? You better know all renting regulation nuances or in the best case you lose the deposit. Job search? Months long full time job. Health problems different than broken bone or blood squirting out of your body? You’re looking at months and years long waiting for diagnostics and specialist’s attention. Lawyers? Various legal trolls stalk you, but once you need one, none is available.

Whatever goes wrong - it’s always your fault, never the fault of the corporate or institutionalized other side, and penalty fees are waiting.
Attack conservatives and you loose half of your audience. Paying for political indoctrination
> If you agree his claims for asylum are valid, he should be accommodated like anyone else,

Sure, but there's not a class of cases where there is a discernable generic rule without sui generis considerations in virtually every case. Extended asylum in a diplomatic facility is an extraordinary situation, not a routine occurence with established standard practice.
If YouTube cared about anything aside from "user engagement", they could quite easily whip their comments into shape. They're not really trying.

> The volume of comments that are processed
> vastly exceeds what human moderation could possibly do

For every 500 comments, there is one video. For every 50 videos, there is one Channel with a Google user behind it. Force creators to handle the complaints about comments on their videos... an order of magnitude less work.

I've gone into this before and there really seems to be total buy-in here to the idea that these companies couldn't possibly manage to weed the toxicity off their platforms. I don't believe it for an instant. It's true only if you refuse to entertain any decrease of "user engagement". If you are willing to lose some eyeballs, the problem is manageable.

And that sacrifice, in the case of YouTube, isn't even a sacrifice! YouTube would wind up with more users if the comments weren't so toxic. Susan et al just don't have the courage to change anything.
https://www.facebook.com/local/

I believe you still need a FB account.
Cool project! It strikes me that Django might not be the ideal for this project, have you thought about that? This logic [1] looks shoehorned into the framework.

[1] https://github.com/vespene-io/vespene/blob/master/vespene/mo...
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Oh Christ. Why is Citizen's United bad? All it says is you can make a political film leading up to an election and the production of that film shouldn't count as a campaign contribution. It's a perfect example of freedom of speech.
The deck appears to be the second google result when searching for "NoterBox".
There really aren't any liabilities any more so than in violating the GPL, and people have been over that for eons. Don't sell it without joining the partner program, more or less. Rates are posted, it's cheap, and helps support the upstream.

At least, I don't think I'm evil. Some people might not know me, but I don't feel evil :)
In other words, parasite tries to bite the hand that fed her. Nice.
Hopefully having an ad blocker (uMatrix) doesn't cause it to flag the user like reCAPTCHA v2 does on every single site I go to. I have had to click way too many cars and street signs at this point.
Sorry, I think I'm missing something. Eau Claire is in the Chippewa Valley?
You're 100% right -- I got mixed up. Thanks for the correction.
Slightly creepy, they want to track users around your site to see if they go page to page like a human or like a bot. (Instead of just checking before form-submit or some other action.) But if you already have Google Analytics you're probably not giving up any more information by adding this.
There's lots of innovation and quality tech in Europe. We just don't see it because Europe has much greater diversity of language and culture than North America. This means that companies can target a niche in their country that has zero relevance to Americans.

Not everything of value needs to be a billion dollar unicorn. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I think LIDAR equipment is still the size of a dishwasher
There's actually a fascinating video if a cargo plane crashing just after a take off due to large cargo not secured properly and moving and changing the center of gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M01RmcKsm2k
I also like the idea of pipelines as code. I'd love to see it go a step further and become pipelines as testable code. I've yet to see a pipeline of non-trivial complexity that stays easy to reason about. I predict the next wave of CI/CD (or pipeline anything) will make pipeline testing & sanity checking simple as heck. If this already exists, please tell me about it, because I don't see people using it ;)
>The Walker administration had also exempted Foxconn from the state’s usual environmental rules, allowing it to discharge materials into wetlands and reroute streams during construction and operation. The state also exempted the company from doing an Environmental Impact Statement. At stake was a huge swath of land: the plan calls for Foxconn to eventually own 4.5 square miles of what had been mostly farmland. Adriaens says these exemptions and the fact that Wisconsin is allowing Foxconn to operate unusually close to Lake Michigan are “red flags.”

I am only going off what the article purports as truth.
"Diamond Age" has a subplot to the tune of this
especially on firefox.
currently I tested ublock on chrome and I was done after the first image.
on firefox however with ublock I sometimes needed to try it 2-3 times until it worked.
A look at overnight stays at US National Parks
Thank you for these suggestions! Just ordered on Amazon!
They should just rename Facebook to "Personal Data Collector 2K18". That'll make you think twice about installing it.
This reminds me of posts in alt.sex.stories having disclaimers like "Note: All characters in this story live on a planet where one year = 100 Earth years".

An even cheekier way to drive the point home would be for a sex-stories website to have a slider in the footer to update all age values across the site.
Interesting! I had not heard that. Maybe I myself am becoming outdated :)
I've given up on my Facebook-curated timeline. Now I just have a "friend list" with all of my friends on it, and I read that list's feed instead.
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Hentai is censored only for the Japanese marked, because it is a legal obligation. When it is exported, the uncensored version is normally used.

So you just need to find both versions in order to make your dataset. Add the large amount of decensored artwork and it is not that hard to build a huge dataset. It may even be automatable by parsing imageboards.
This. This. This.

I'm a developer too and I know it doesn't sound technically possible, but after FB's behavior it really wouldn't surprise me. Collecting copies of every SMS from Android phones via Messenger when it only advertised using Messenger to send/receive SMS alongside FB messages? Downright lies and abusive to privacy.

Most of us knew how poor Facebook's developer data policy was and no one cared until Cambridge Analytica. I'm just waiting for this voice scandal to happen in the next year or two.
I never said everything had to be fair. If a worker with a scythe hands it down to their child, that child has an unfair advantage compared to the child of a worker with no tools. It's the degree of the unfairness that matters.

No, not misleading at all. I never said the $10b kid had cash. Obviously, wheat expires (cash) and would be converted into another form of wealth. In this instance, he buys combines which have to be built by someone. You might even say he's a job creator.

But.... and this is a big but.... all investments are not job creating investments. Financial services, speculative investments, automation and robotics that increase worker efficiency but reduce the number of workers. I would argue that the efficiency of $10b in capital in the hands of a single person is far, far less efficient than $10b distributed across many people who use it to consume goods directly. The control of wealth by a small group produces a system where the rules favor the wealthy minority at the expense of the less wealthy. You can only go so far before the guillotines come out and the people take matters into their own hands.
The first Google result for "john lang fresno" brings up this r/UnresolvedMysteries thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4z1kk9...

A top reply links to the autopsy report, which notes among other things that Lang had barricaded his doors and also had functioning indoor cameras, which showed him "sitting in the living room area of the house with a large knife" the day before his death: http://dig.abclocal.go.com/kfsn/PDF/JohnLang-16-01-222.pdf

It's not unheard of for a corrupt police department to commit crimes or tamper/fabricate evidence. But generally, it seems counterproductive to silence a critic by murdering him at home and burning his house down, which draws a lot of attention and complicates the number of agencies involved.
I hope not. I’d be curious who’s telling you to treat them as sainted inviduals.

Here’s my media literacy guide that catalogs all the biases (contributions welcome):

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....
If not us, then who?

Probably our great, great grandkids, when things end up far, far worse for them because it wasn't us doing anything about it now.

You know, to play devil's legal counsel. Er, I mean advocate /s
See https://medium.com/@michaeldehaan/going-with-the-commons-cla...

No discontent. Quite the opposite - providing some options for less things being open core while trying to earn a small amount on my work.

If people want to call that not meeting some definition, I'm ok with that, but ascribing malice to it seems a little harsh.
I don't know much about the Foxconn plant, so you may be right about the particulars there.

I also agree with you that the working conditions for factory workers have been degrading significantly for the past 20 years or so.

$15/hr might be barely enough to live on, but it's still better than minimum wage. Also the nature of working on an assembly line is different from working in a fulfillment center. Being able to tell people "I help build those" has more pride behind it than telling people you run around shoving stuff into boxes for people.

I'm in Iowa, which I imagine is similar cost of living to Wisconsin. My dad worked in factories almost his entire working life. I stand by my statement that if you are lucky enough to land a full time factory job, it can be a viable way to raise a family.
Yes, good point. Thank you very much, I'll do that next time.
I believe when people claim you can't delete a FB account, they mean it from the perspective of FB. That data is still sitting in their databases, it's just tagged as "deleted", from what I've gathered.
No, you weren't misled. Welch was/is a prime example of the primacy of personal selfishness applied to corporate management.
They shouldn't only be ashamed they should be charged personally with manslaughter. It's a big problem that both companies and government institutions always absorb resistibility from individuals and thus prevent proper responsibility for the privileged. The best outcome I could see here is the city ending up having to pay to families of accident victims that were caused by shorter lights. It should be the individuals that made the decision who pay and not the tax payer.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18320880.
Why is an article from 2016 a top story now?
>You're creating a class of people with indestructible inherited wealth that never have to work, that only have to collect interest and rent on the backs of everyone else.

That wealth is invested in profitable ventures that either create benefits in the system (assuming rational actors) or 2) lose value due to poor choices.

Capital is rewarded because the investors are taking opportunity cost risks that advance the sum value of humanity's wealth.
Three dimensions. 1000 times larger in each dimension, so 100 micrometer crystals.
> How have politics become so corrupt?

It's an election year for New York's aspiring Attorneys General. If there is a better source for this man's claims, it might be possible to bring it up at upcoming events. As it stands, it's hard to differentiate this source's anecdotes from those of a nut job.
But it's much more complicated than that because the system is not meant to either incentivise or disincentivise insourced vs outsourced functions (and what you seem to be suggesting would create incentives for offshore outsourcing for them, which would be politically unpopular). And corporation tax is a tax on profits, not revenue (VAT already exists and is a tax on revenue and Amazon UK pays a very large amount of VAT).

Maybe a couple of examples: if I buy clothes from Amazon's own brand/white label, which are manufactured in another country, what is the appropriate amount of profit that Amazon UK should be allocated and taxed on for my purchase? Now what if Amazon sold that operation to someone else? Should they then be allowed to deduct it? If you get that wrong, then you create a tax incentive to either insource or outsource functions (since for the same cost structure, one will save tax over the other), which is an undesirable outcome.

Or let's say I'm a UK Amazon Prime subscriber. I use some of that for video content, some for other services like postage. Some of that video content was created by their own studio in the US or Canada and is only available on their platform; some was licensed from a third party. How much of my prime annual fee should be allocated to the Amazon UK operation? How much to the internal Amazon studio? What about other bits of Amazon which are involved? Again, how do you ensure that that doesn't created a non-level playing field vs third-party studios? Third-party hosting services or CDNs? Third-party payment processors? Etc

Then consider that until last year, Amazon in the US would have also been taxed on the whole empire's worldwide profits but been able to deduct taxes already paid under various double tax treaties. So if the UK taxed amazon more, the US would have received correspondingly less. This is still partly true.

None of this involves anything which is tax motivated - it's all business motivated. Layer in tax incentives various government put in place for other policy reasons and it becomes even more complicated.

"Fair" is very hard when you get to the level of complexity involved in these types of businesses.
It's in Google's interest to make using an ad blocker as painful as possible.
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Probably WAI.

What is the incentive for the site owner to provide a streamlined experience to an user that will consume resources but intentionally prevent monetization?

Not sure I agree with it, but it is obvious to expect that.
Ever left a company because of tech stack direction?
I recently joined a company that, during the interview process, was reassessing their tech stack and planning to shift in a different direction, both front and backend. I was hired to help with that.

During the interview process, we talked about future state architecture and it sounded like they wanted to move into exciting directions.

Alas, months into the job, they’ve decided to move toward more legacy frameworks and less-exciting languages for business reasons (hirability, establishes technologies, etc). I understand the decision but feel like it won’t help forward me career like I thought it would have prior to joining.

Has anybody else experienced this and did you end up staying with the company or move on?
Honestly, I can't think of any suggestion coming from Twitter execs that would actually solve its usability issues, because they are still approaching it from the POV that Twitter is "bringing humanity closer" or serving some other kind of higher purpose.

When all you have to do is spend 10 minutes on Twitter to realize it's full of political bots, crypto scam bots, humans with short fuses, and celebrities shilling their snake oil products.
Okay, so put a WebKit wrapper around that?
So I'm not a homeless person nor have I ever experienced it. But there are various homeless sites I've seen across the internet.

The general recommendations I've seen are:

1. Get a good smartphone, its required to get a job these days.

2. Get a gym membership so you can get a place to shower and look good for your potential jobs.

But smartphones are consistently on the recommendation lists for the homeless. Its not a secret, its their life. People in poverty already know the importance of smartphones.

In my experience: its more useful to ask questions from people actually living in homeless / poverty conditions. They tend to know more about homelessness / poverty than people who have never experienced it. In general: people who are on poverty websites / homelessness websites are incredibly resourceful and understand how to play the long game very well.

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In any case, short-game vs long-game is a basic issue that's understood at all levels of wealth. Some people are just bad at playing the long game.

But in any case, a good phone, with up-to-date internet access to keep connected to today's workforce is ABSOLUTELY necessary, even at the lowest levels of poverty (ie: homelessness) in today's culture.
Actually it is more informed than ignorant. Remove Sweden and UK from the the European list and you have needles in a haystack.

Even if you account for the 'unicorn' adge there is barely have innovation in Europe. On the social front too too, European pay and ownership is more concentrated in the hands of the leaders and is less evenly distributed than American counterparts.

Your comment strikes me a bit as if it comes from a defensive point of view instead of taking a hard look at things.
So I keep hearing but not ever seeing. I know people on the internet love to talk Europe up as some leading tech innovator, but there's a reason why Americans worry about competition coming from either inside America or China.

Europeans should worry more about building quality companies and broadening their tax base instead of getting salty about the money saved from foreigners.
> I just said that "illegal alien" is the only correct term under our law.

Except it isn't.

https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2018/may/09/stev...

It appears in section headers that don't have legal weight behind them, and in reference to aliens who have additionally been convicted of at least on felony.

Just saying something doesn't make it true.
The coroner's report notes that firefighters discovered his home was barricaded at the time of the fire. The cause of death was not stab wounds but smoke inhalation and fire: http://dig.abclocal.go.com/kfsn/PDF/JohnLang-16-01-222.pdf
The "deep telemetry" nature of this doesn't sound like a good idea. It's already been annoying with v2 thinking that I clicked a checkbox "too fast" to be human, to worry about every action taken in a site/app being compared to some weird AI model for "humanity".

That's even before other panopticon questions of who all this added telemetry even benefits.