skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only happens in highly competitive markets like say, cotton t-shirts, gasoline, or wheat. It is not like Facebook is now going to have charge more for a social media account to stay afloat among a sea of other social media companies. No, Facebook (and Google, etc) will have to pay their corporate tax like they should. Although I think the new US corporate tax code is already going to prevent the current evasion schemes until, of course, new ones are invented.
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For the curious ones, this thing runs on Flask with MongoDB and Consul. I'm using Prometheus to collect some basic metrics and Grafana to visualize them. And yes, I'm going to open source it soon.
I stopped using Facebook because of their mobile site sabotage. Switched to the desktop version on my phone for a while, but at one point I stopped and thought "why am I fighting with Facebook to use it the way I want?" And just gave up.
At least she is self aware. Most people have a blind spot when they are the receiving end. For example, "This was my Grandpa's watch." is more often said than "I bought this apartment with my Grandpa's $500,000". The original ownership of physical items is flaunted, the original ownership of money is quickly hidden.
Honestly, I feel the same a bit. Like the company itself is cancerous - their complete lack of regard with the way they let hate spread on their platform is shameful. But...I've been on since the old days. I remember when it was actually a community platform and all your friends were there. That was pretty cool.

Not sure where that's going to pop up next.
People treat drug users as if this was something that they chose to do. In fact, most drug addicts are in this situation because they suffer from a tendency to drug abuse. Many of them had good jobs and lost them because of this condition. Holding up on the UBI program for everyone else because of the behavior of a few that need treatment is absurd.
It's probably not a recruitment tool, but it does feel like one when you read it.

> Basecamp has offered such a refreshing counterweight to the Silicon Valley unicorn mantra. I believe if some companies, such as Evernote, had followed in their path, they could have had a profitable and useful product that would have continued to be loved and used all over the world.

You're right here. Silicon Valley is built, these days, on high valuations and eventually-profitable businesses (at least that's how it feels from the outside). Once you leave that bubble, and the tiny bubbles in other cities, you'll note that most tech businesses start with profitability in mind and to remain private.
Basecamp's "calm" ethos is in direct opposition of so much of SF's "to the moon at all costs!" mentality and the types of devs it attracts. Seems like a direct conflict of end goals.

I'm sure it's completely possible for a very talented rails dev to live in SF and be aligned with Basecamp's values, but just not as likely as one might assume.
For me its the general sense that Facebook + most mainstream social media has been having a negative effect on society, both in terms of socialization and unethical invasions of privacy. The fact that for a large part of the world that facebook is "the internet" is a rather negative thing in my mind - its a devil's bargain that the US and the west is grappling with, while the benefits are still outweighing the costs for developing areas.
> yes the original charges pre insurance are ridiculous but thats everything.

Why do we do this? (I'm just as guilty as anyone, btw, not calling out you specifically.)

Why do we acknowledge that the system is totally broken, then shrug and say, "Medical prices sure are weird, nothing we can do."

It seems pretty rare to see the conversation turn towards, "It was only 3k after everything, but the original prices were way out of line with what they should have been. We should really try to fix that."
But you could use the Bitlbee FBMQTT Plugin [1] and WeeChat's scripting functionality to implement it for your personal account. Probably an afternoon's worth of work if you have a VPS or t1.micro lying around to run a daemon on for a few months :)

[1]: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoFacebookMQTT
[2]: https://weechat.org/
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but could someone explain the rationale for taxing gifts within a family? Ignoring the possibility of using it to circumvent an income tax, etc., my initial thought is that if my dad wants to give me $30,001 this year, or even $300,000 this year, that he's already paid taxes on it and it's not the government's business. I feel the same way about inheritance taxes, although those are high enough I'm not too concerned about it.

I hope this doesn't start any arguments, but that's just my take on it and I'm open to hearing why it's a bad idea.

Edit: I appreciate the responses, they've cleared up some misconceptions I had and moved my viewpoint a bit.
Nitpick, but this is not quite true. There is the Earned Income Credit, as well as various welfare payments that working class are entitled to.
No, it was just a mistake. Blizzard said in their own official forums that Linux (or Mac) users will not be banned for using Wine or Proton.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/can-we-get-ban...

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9g111m/blizza...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blizzard...

> UPDATE - 14 Sep 08:03: Blizzard is investigating and they will be looking to overturn the bans if this is indeed the case. There appears to be at least five reports of bans so far and does indeed seem that the most likely explanation is a false-positive from Blizzard's anti-cheat technology having issue with DXVK.
> It still feels like a recruitment tool for Basecamp

Not so much when you consider that they aren't hiring anyone right now.

Something that surprises me is the number of people that don't believe a company can actually want to remain small.
how are working class taxed on first dollar earned? most dont pay any federal income tax.
The value of this gift is much greater than then nominal sum.

My parents gave me $3000 for the down-payment on my first house, which cost $100k. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford to buy a house. But I bought instead of renting and ended up selling it for $200k years later. That was a big financial win early on and meant I was never in debt again.

My financial situation at the time was barely-making-ends-meet, so I had to sell the house to recover the equity to buy a car and move across the country when I was transferred.

Had my parents given me $30k as a one-time gift, I wouldn't have had to sell that house at all and would have rented it out in perpetuity. That would have been about $1000k a month of income for me, in addition to keeping the equity in the house.

I've resisted spending money on a lot of things like, say, home renovations, new cars, etc. until I felt like I was paying for it solely from interest earned on investments or the purchase was an absolute necessity. The only reason I was able to start investing at a young age, on a very small income, was the sale of that house. Those savings have compounded, but more importantly I've always had enough cash to cover incidental expenses and that's enabled me to continue investing.

Even small gifts can lift you out of a cycle of poverty. $3000 at the right time made a dramatic difference in my financial situation and will for the rest of my life. But $30k at the right time would ultimately have been worth about an extra $500k to me twenty years later.

$30k a year like in the article would have just ensured I was as rich as my parents. That would have all gone to investments.
> What kind of stylistic changes are you talking about?

It's the level above the decisions a tool can enforce which I've seen tending towards bikeshedding.

> But code reviews are for other things than just catching bugs...

I don't dispute that there is value here. I think that value is tremendously overplayed in comparison to the costs incurred. Or rather, I think the costs are underplayed.

> And why is it a bad use of time if it actually helps finding bugs?

Tweak the numbers slightly: would it be reasonable, for that purpose, at a rate of 1%? 0.1%? Think how much time has been spent on the reviews at that point, and how much delay has been injected between initial commit and release. There comes a point where you have to look at the process and think "this is not a worthwhile investment of everyone's time."

> What method do you know that is more efficient?

I don't. That's the point. As an industry we seem to have latched on to code reviews because they're one of the very few techniques which there's actually any evidence for, to the extent that questioning whether they're the best we can do is discouraged.
Although isn't it the case that the actual product is almost entirely developed outside of the UK. It doesn't seem unreasonable to repatriate money to pay for that. It is exactly what happens to physical products that are manufactured overseas. The correct way of taxing that is VAT.
>Was also a bit bizarre that about 6 of them came along to a meeting with 4 of us

Ever seen that scene in Halt and Catch Fire where IBM comes to meet with the small company and a hundred IBMers flood into the office? That's the most accurate scene I've ever seen in any movie or TV show ever.
They aren’t evading taxes. If they were evading they’d be prosecuted rather than a new tax being introduced. They’re avoiding. Like we all do with our ISAs and pensions.

If you misuse the terms it makes it harder for everyone to talk precisely about the issue.
That's with style tools in place.
Yep. It seems Foxconn is being allowed to bypass certain environmental regulations covering construction around wetlands and waterways. To my understanding, the waivers apply to the construction of the plant, not the operation of it.

More info: https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Does_Wisconsin%27s_Foxcon...
> I can't tell if this shows a terrible bias towards NA

YC requires a 3 month relocation to Silicon Valley.

That itself creates a pretty strong bias.

There are probably language, cultural, and other biases at play, too.
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YouTube's comments engine is garbage.
This also, by no means, spells 'the end' of FB. They allude to as much in the article, but personally I've deleted / reinstalled FB multiple times this year (along with Snap and Insta), as an effort to decouple myself from the digital dopamine IVF.

'A new survey finds XX% of users aged _ to _ have rode their bike to work instead of driving this past year' does not mean that people are giving up their car.
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I guess it just depends on what you mean by "very recent," to me that would mean at most 5 years ago (and really I'd think more recently than that because all I can think about when I hear Wisconsin is the 'Making a Murderer' clusterfuck).
Sure, but have they been given a legal right to do it?
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Great, now you have one less company selling your data out of thousands. And remember that FB will still retain your profile forever and continue build on it via shadow profile - from everyone you know, and probably from bartering data with other companies you still use. From Google/Apple powering your OS, from Cell operator collecting info with baseband chip, thousands of them.

I'm not saying FB is good, I just say that this fight is already lost, delete FB account or not.
I think you can long-press on a notification (from any app) to open the OS settings on that app's notifications.
> Many founding teams came from around the world, but put their company headquarters in the Bay Area because

...they have to for at least 3 months to be a YC company, and after that the question is what is the compelling reason to move?
This looks very nice! I've been toying with open LIDAR data from my country (0.5-1 points per m^2) in MeshLab but always got very noisy/spiky meshes.
We have shifted a focus on the developer comfortability than on the user's. All these new implementations (or libraries fundamentally) biggest selling point is making the developer life easier. Although it may make them more productive, we lose sight on the user needs.
Sears falls into the "utter contempt" category, along with utter incompetence. It was obvious to every outside observer their model was busted. It was obvious how bad their stores were to anyone who went there to try to buy something. There was nothing sudden about it, really. I think many could see this happening more than 10 years ago.

Also, unlike IBM, Sears has very little of worth which would uniquely identify it as "Sears" after asset sale. It's all fungible land, rent, concrete store walls, and staff. They have many competitors with practically identical overlap in business. IBM is not like at all like this.
Are you breaking Reddit TOS by storing/hosting posts?

If someone deletes their post on Reddit it will still be stored and available on your site.
Nice to see WSO2 represented here!
If you think that being smart and vigilant is enough to protect yourself from this type of manipulation, I think you're wrong. I find it very easy to fall for social proof in internet comments, and I've been in the tech industry for over 10 years. This has nothing to do with intelligence.
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Ok, cool. Why would I want to use your library, and not, say, Tensorpack, which, in addition to everything you promise, provides dozens of high quality model implementations, and is very fast (i.e. much faster then Keras)?
No.

The laws have to be technically correct, if legislators do not understand the internet it behoves them to hire experts that do.

Can you imagine them writing similar, nonsensical health related laws?

Moreover - the issues are not that complicated, they can be explained in an hour.

They are idiots, and also too lazy to learn trivial, common things.

Don't underestimate the arrogance and entitlement of European legislators: they went to expensive schools, they've mingled with the intelligentsia all of their life - of course they must 'know better' than the common person! (sarcasm).
From a biz perspective, yes, but it's different.

If anything, IG works better for facebook and its users because it's more honest. It's a platform for photo and video sharing and loads of people just use it to voluntarily follow brands anyway. In some ways, instagram is facebook's distilled product - rather than a directory which became everything, it's just a feed of content, so the terms and user expectations are different.
I wonder how long that will continue. I get so many spam calls every day (about a dozen now) that I am looking towards a future where I don't have a POTS number.
Sure, but it violates the compact. The compact only allows use of the water inside the basin. What's going on here is the factory is going to use water from Racine (which is on the lake) and therefore allowed to draw the water even though the factory itself is outside the basin.
Well, somebody has to care enough to further the research.

If the human population was serious about quality-of-life improvement, they would eat healthy and exercise. But they don't. Most people in this forum don't.
A common misconception is that gifts within a family are taxed. They are, but only after one exceeds the lifetime limit. That limit is around $11M (per parent). It is true that if you exceed a certain amount per year you have to fill out a form, but that is not to be confused with paying actual tax on the excess gift. It's good that you feel the same about the inheritance tax because it's the same tax code that govern each.
Ah, so that's what .museum domains are for.
"You're taking the exception (people buying several houses and renting them out) and just declaring that it applies across the board."

No. Like I said there's a lot of people who could afford their homes, maybe even many.

I'm saying there's many people who were buying multiple homes, who shouldn't have been and that was part of the problem.
Note this is among American users. With Facebook moving into other markets (see East Asia where their introduction and use might have helped kick off the crisis in Myanmar) drops in the US could easily be covered up by increase elsewhere.
Madison to Racine would have been a tolerable commute had Walker not killed the high speed rail.
Definitely qualifies as a publicity stunt and seems to have worked.
I doubt there is any conspiracy here, Google is unlikely to be manipulating the comments themselves.

This is likely just simple incentives:

- Google uses comment count as a measure of video engagement

- Monetization is based on engagement

- Content producers are therefore incentivized to generate comments

- Controversy is great at generating comments, so content producers get creative
This is actually mind blowing. Because in the last six months (I think) there are more developments in this front compared to last six years. Sure, there are little warts and niggles as of now but with this development speed I think we'll have a proper linux systems which can play non-linux games with negligible performance loss.

In addition to proton and steam play one has to add Lutris as well. It makes the emulation of games in wine really easy.
Why would they be willing to pay the hyper-inflated "market-rate" for SV employees when they are optimized for remote workers, so being located in the Bay has no value to them?
Yeah that's the part I don't get: how is Google "manipulating" the comments?

And the article is not about kids; if you made it to the end you'd see implications for e.g. the November midterms in the U.S.
If you're into 1990s-era games, which would generally be the ones that require Win98, take a look at PCem. It meticulously emulates PC hardware, to the point where it's running the original PC BIOS and video BIOS code against it (which means you have to find and download the corresponding images - but they're easily found online). Needless to say, when it comes to software compatibility, it's superb - you can run the original Win98 just fine under it. Or the original MS-DOS, if you want to dial even further back.

Because of that low-level emulation approach, it's not exactly fast. But modern high-end PCs can just about handle something on the order of Pentium 300 + 3dfx Voodoo, which is adequate for pretty much any game from the 90s.

https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
I never said that anywhere was any better. I'd like to think Hacker News is a place where fewer people would be fooled, because this is a place specifically for critical thought and discussion.

YouTube is not. It's a website that everyone uses, and where the most impressionable or least politically aware members of the population are the most numerous, easiest targets.
Unpopular opinion, especially among technophiles, but I agree.

People will now go for news to Google. Google doesn't hire a single journalist and will happily cash in all the ad money. It is not sustainable.
I'm also a musician. I play about once a week, and never for a lot of folks.

But it's amazing to me how much I've learned over the last 20 odd years just doing a little bit every day.

If it helps, the more you know, the funner it gets, at least for me. It's gotten continuously less boring the more I figure out.
> Yeah i'm sure i'm one of the outliers, but if I'm not voting with my wallet then why would they ever listen.

I mean, if you are an outlier, voting with your wallet is never going to work. That is the problem of being an outlier.
Agreed. The gameification of FB brings forward a lot of empty content these days.
I see. Yeah, I meant more like 10-30 years.

I measure governments in terms of "politician generations", so 5-10 years is still "the present" in the sense that anything less than 10 years can very easily encapsulate just a single set of people in leadership.
It's a fun quote that has some truth to it, but not much more than that.
I guess that's one way to stand behind your products?

I question the size of the market for this kind of thing. You might wear one if you're paranoid or an undercover cop, but otherwise who, exactly, would wear this? If you're on a range, an actual vest isn't out of place, likewise for actual security or guard duty. If you feel the need to wear armor every day and can't openly wear a ballistic vest, you might want to consider moving.
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/u-k-to-roll-out-developed-w...
Yes but if you let the banks go down, they would have taken each other down, and the entire economy would have gone down a black hole.

That's why I said 'closest thing' to capitalism, because capitalism would have eaten itself in 2008.

A better bailout would have been to wipe out bank shareholders and nationalize the banks for a few years.
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It's not just YouTube. Twitter and the rest are vulnerable to the same problem. The whole idea of humans socializing on the internet is vulnerable to this.
This excites exactly nobody who rides the commuter rail.

What would excite us is more staff. You can only get on/off a train at a door where there is a conductor (you only get on/off at a door opened by a conductor) regardless of platform height, most time spend getting on/off is waiting in line for everyone in front of you to go through whichever few doors are open. We don't need faster clock speeds, we need more cores (metaphorically speaking). Even the conductors complain about this. They could literally hire more people tomorrow if they wanted to. Three is no need to go through a long RFP + proposals + procurement process like they would need to do for new rolling stock.

This entire piece reads like some aloof central planners telling everyone else what they need without actually assessing the situation.

Another thing that would be exiting is trains that run on time. Whether they run on diesel or whale oil won't matter to most people as long as they're an improvement over the status quo. A week doesn't go by when there isn't a (mechanical breakdown related) 1hr+ delay on any given line.

Edit: Yes, raised platforms are faster but they're not so much faster (and they're certainly not cheaper) than utilizing the existing infrastructure (i.e. all the doors on the train) to a greater extent.
At low levels, which aren't taxed, it's not going to affect anything.

At high levels, like giving your kid ten billion dollars, you're making it impractical or impossible for others to advance economically. 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's what inheritance tax and gift taxes seek to disrupt.
I've heard this kind of argument a lot. I heard it when someone was defending the Charlottesville tiki torchers surrounding a synagogue with torches as "free speech" because they were standing on a public sidewalk. By that logic, it's okay for me to point a loaded gun in your face, as long as I don't actually pull the trigger. That intimidation and threats are just "free speech".
Er, I wouldn't choose either. If a friend asked me if Facebook tracks conversations, I'd just give it to them straight from the horse's mouth:

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/facebook-does-not-use-your-ph...
Honestly can't relate. I usually use HN when I have a poor cell signal because it loads so damn fast regardless.
Enlighting, I never realised what the eponym Amazon service meant until now.