skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Like the "pick out a toaster for your 5 years of service" awards.

Seriously -- if you haven't encountered this -- there are businesses that specialize in... "administering" service awards to employees, for other businesses -- typically, for larger corporations, where there's enough volume to make it worth their while.( Or, there were such, the last time I was in such a position.) You, the awardee, get so many "points", and there's a catalog, online now, where you can pick from items "costing" no more than the points you have.

It functions, I guess, not just for anniversaries. Although good luck, for many BigCorp managers, getting any kind of budget for any other kind of "reward".

At least the toaster works reasonably well...

But the whole thing was a pretty soulless experience.

I did also receive one of those company awards, at that company. It was actually pretty low key. Perhaps including because my department had nothing to do with it. I helped smooth out a perpetually bumpy cross-department and cross-division business process.

(I got tired of the hassle, set up a meeting, and walked everyone through the process and their roles and facilitated consensus and agreement about same, including deliverables and schedules. It wasn't part of my job description or authority to do so, but what the hell, and everyone else was tired of the problems, too.)

One day, someone outside my reporting chain showed up with the award. (Maybe it was a division-wide / level award, rather than company-wide.) No ceremony, just thanks. I think I got a couple of hundred bucks and a plaque or certificate or something, too.

It didn't really change the way I operated or my motivation -- what solved the problem, in the first place. But, it was nice to be noticed.

That was also the position where my manager just showed up with pay raises -- despite the company-wide pay freeze.

I got sh-t done. He, and she, responded accordingly.

And the pay raises were appreciated. Substantial, and not a one-off "pat on the back".

By the way, further pertaining to the OP type awards. You can get one, and get canned the following quarter. They often really don't mean much.

P.S. And it can be dangerous if you, the recipient, start to believe they do.
None. Right now iPhone 7 is actually the most durable iPhone. It has no Glass Back panels, which replacement on iPhone 8 / X / Xs are insanely expensive. And its battery or well as other repair are the cheapest among the current line up as well.
Move out into the country. It’s lovely.
First of all, you're quoting prices in China, which means that iPhone has significant taxes tacked on to it. Second, iPhone seems to be $1269, while the Huawei phone is $977.
Highly processed foods are problematic when they’re unhealthy, which they usually are. The impossible burger seems to be healthy, relatively speaking - it’s not loaded with fats, sugar, and salt, unlike a lot of processed food.
Google voice used to work fine, but I've found increasingly a number of the more "serious" institutions like banks have been rejecting VoIP numbers like Google Voice occasionally. If I can recall correctly I also believe that many of the chat applications reject numbers that are not tied directly to a SIM as well. I have used my GV since it was still invite only and have had to give out my real number increasingly often.
> In hindsight, Bezos was playing chess while the retailers were playing Uno.

Keep in mind, his long term goal is to put people on other planets. So he's definitely playing the long game. Blue Origin is a huge factor here.
“We had the concept of private and public property”

maybe in the western world. in a lot of other places the whole “privacy” thing is fuzzy.
The thing that frustrates me, personally, watching a large number of very popular youtubers who are clearly producing both popular and also educational content, is that they still have a "3 strikes" system no matter the size of your channel of quality of videos that you upload. If you hit 2 strikes you can't live stream and if you hit 3 strikes your channel is gone.

And those strikes are not just for copyright but also community violations. But not just egregious ones, it applies equally to "borderline" violations.

3 strikes probably makes sense when the rulings are more absolute and clear intentional violations of these policies. But you would think that channels which have a long history of generally follow the rules and producing original content would have a little more lee-way on the channel-shutdown level of 3 strikes, particularly for more borderline cases.

A common one I keep seeing is popular scientific channel "Cody's Lab". In one case his strike was for a video making basic, centuries old, gunpowder. A topic covered by 100s of other videos still up on YouTube. All of his strikes have been along those lines. In another case he microwaved fruit flies, knowing that they would not be harmed by this, they weren't harmed and the point of that video was exactly that. I would say yes, it's arguable, but it seems to me like these are the kinds of cases that should allow a little more lee-way than 3 strikes and your entire career is gone. Also consider that there is no way to ask for a review ahead of time to say "yes this is OK" - you just get randomly struck down later most often many months after the video was published.

Meanwhile to criticize this after a string of these, he released a wonderful video of him "dangerously" drinking Hydric Acid (also known as Dihydrogen Monoxide): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCdHfyaDLM
> If you look at population growth, starting with Malthus, people warned of the dangers of overpopulation and urged people to abstain from sex, so as not to have too many children. Despite grim warnings that didn't happen.

It has already happened in the west, even birth-happy countries like france have gone under replacement rates and their native populations are decreasing.

Even China is starting to slow down, hence why we see China moving towards introducing baby bonus schemes.

Currently Africa is the big holdout with their population still rising drastically but currently there isn't really any plan for Africa to reduce it's population.

If anything, with African emigration increasing and no other major forces counteracting it, we are probably going to see Africa continue to grow in population for years to come. For whatever reason, Africa just isn't jumping on the pill bandwagon.
The Current iPhone XS implementation of 4x4 Antenna with Intel Modem doesn't work really well, I am hoping they will improved it in the 2019 model along with new Intel Modem.
>You'd have to pay me a lot of money to have me work in a place with separate offices or with people that think that "accidental eye contact is just not okay".

I guarantee that you work with someone who doesn't want to accidentally make eye contact through their monitors while trying to work. You don't even need to be particularly introverted, i think, to find faces distracting when trying to code, and introverts, historically, have been attracted to the industry.
I'm not an economist, but as a left of center libertarian I'd caution that an obsession with metrics and measurement can introduce biases (often biases that encode subtle class-based prejudices) about what one is measuring with an implicit mentality that what is being measured is an accurate metric for the desired subjective outcome, which very dangerously can slide into a mindless optimization exercise of the metric that gets so detected from the original intent that it begins optimizing for something antithetical. It's not quite praexeology, but I definitely came to this belief through listening to critical rethinking of econometrics by Austrians.
> I also don't know that the government should be in the business of incentivising people to study in these fields

That's interesting. So do you want government to only fund the vocational courses and allow the rich class to be the torch bearer in research, art, and culture because only they can afford it?
It depends on how strong your heart is. You have no way of knowing until you have an MI or adverse cardiac event. That’s why high blood pressure is termed the “silent killer”. Same for your liver. You will not know the extent of the damage until your liver enzymes are elevated, at which point it’s too late to undo the damage.

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t drink at all, but just that you should be aware of the consequences because they are non-zero.
> Just because he uses himself the stuff.

…so does Tim Cook?

> Does he code?

Did Steve Jobs? He knew how computers worked, but I don't think he ever sat down and wrote some Objective-C.
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Any EU citizen. There was the fracas recently when it turned out that .eu domains registered by British people would be decomissioned post-Brexit: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/notice_to_stakeho...
I am in total agreement here. I never got the hang of doing "real stuff" on a phone, and prefer a laptop whenever possible. Phones should be small and portable, rather than trying to replace tablets (which are in turn trying to replace laptops, in turn desktops). The last phone I really liked was the droid razr mini. I also liked the galaxy s3.

Please, phone manufacturers: if you hear this, listen. I do not care about large phones. I couldn't care less about "screen-to-body ratio". I don't want a notch or a stupid sliding mechanism. I want a simple, small phone. It should have excellent battery life (don't care about thickness), be sturdy. Calls, texts, pictures, and emails are about all that's necessary, along with occasional web browsing and music playback. Maybe a reader app. That's it.
But I guess you can't charge $1,500 for that.

Edit: Oh yeah, and leave my headphone jack alone. Seriously.
He also writes: "I have just completed my Ph.D. in economics at Princeton, and will be joining the faculty of the economics department at George Mason in the fall." He joined GMU in 1997 according to http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/cv.html .
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IBM’s new quantum computer is a symbol, not a breakthrough
That and consuming media are the only activities the iPad Pro shines. The rest are just meh.
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Good question. First of all, people control the genes they are looking for. Algorithms just find people according to given parameters, they are not racist.

Second, there’s nothing racist about preferring people in your own ethnic group. Most people find their own race most attractive for a partner, and there’s reason to believe that will still be the case in a post-racism world. Yes there will be mixed couples, but people who want a mate from their own race aren’t racist.
Ok, so as a homosexual, i find it easier to integrate into rural and "Christian" communities than cities.

So the answer is, it's actually easier when you have a coherent moral ideology as opposed to a modern one with no consistency.
That's my dream too.

I handled a modern iPod Touch recently. What a wonderful form factor - small, light, but feels durable and well-built. I'd love to get that but with a cellular modem and OLED screen. The rest of the modern Apple features (telephoto lens, Face ID, force touch, 3D touch, etc.) I can live without. Wireless charging is very nice, but not worth making the phone bigger, more brittle (glass back), and more expensive.
In 1999, AMZN peaked ar $80.

Two years later it was trading at $10, and didn’t recover until 2007.

The interviewer was right; Amazon was over valued.
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Seems to me Uber has led to a huge increase in the number of hired rides. So in most cases, the Uber driver isn’t replacing anything, except perhaps the passenger driving themselves for free.
Ironically, the best way to actually play D&D is...online, using Fantasy Grounds software. This saves on an incredible amount of time and micromanagement, creating time for actual RP and gameplay. Highly recommended, plus you can actually include your non-local friends.
You’re welcome to ignore it if you like, but compliance doesn’t mean ‘accepting foreign rule’ if you look at it as a compilation of good practices for user privacy.
> can you give me example of how you would use a vacuum tube port on your iphone?

Cleaning up crumbs?
Phone companies were able to triangulate phones before e911, right? e911 just makes it mandatory to have the triangulation hardware/software actually deployed and linked up with 911 call centers, but (GPS aside) I would have thought telcos could have done that on their own with or without e911.
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Every time I bring this idea up people say it will be the most horrible of societies, but they can never seem to effectively explain why.
Well, I think the point is that 'deathbed' scenarios can be useful - what one can imagine regretting - in remembering what's important in life. Proverbially, no-one wishes they'd spent more time at the office. It's just hard to imagine wishing that, given most office jobs. Regretting not spending more time with friends, family, loved ones seems not unlikely. ‘My only regret’, Keynes said, ‘is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.’

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/11/more-champagne/
In regards to your first point, most US students when they go to college don't have the life experience to know which degrees will give them meaningful employment. A kid who was passionate about reading and was encouraged by their teachers and parents to follow their passions would, unsurprisingly, be likely to pursue a degree in English literature. After they've graduated the real world hits them like a sack of bricks and they can't find a way to earn a living.

At this point they've lost those 4 years of their life, end up with unreliable sources income (gig economy, part time work, borrow from family, etc), they're bogged down with crippling debt, and the world tells them it's their own fault. They even feel deep down that it is their fault, but now they're resentful and bitter because they're suffering despite that they had been working hard just doing what they were told to do all along.

With this proposed kind of loan forgiveness, the years are still lost to them but at least they're not crippled with debt as they try to get out of the hole they've found themselves in.

I also think a system like this incentivizes universities to help students make money and be productive after college. Under the current system, schools will shake down anybody for what money they can get. If tuition is based on future earnings, the university is going to try to get the student to make as much money as they possibly can.

In fact, this system would likely swing the pendulum so far the other direction that it might kill colleges of art and literature because they would suddenly be deemed unprofitable to the university.
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There are many options for validating product ideas without building software in the traditional sense. If you've done something like that already, there are no/low code options that might get you to an MVP. I'm working on something that would help you down the line, though my initial target market is developers...

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Good luck!
There are five BMW dealerships in Washington, including three within 30 miles of Seattle:

* Seattle

* Bellevue

* Fife
I'd like to jump on this bandwagon. IMO a decline of a company can come in various forms and here we're seeing an empire built on mobile market growth starting to feel the reality of 1% yearly growth in a mature market.

Apple is slowly declining (a percent per year) their market share (they are no longer number two - oppo/oneplus has that position now), next year they won't be number three (Huawei). What happens when they go below 10%? Will developer still deliver applications for OSX? Is there a possibility for the same scenario as it was in the Mac vs PC?

Reality is that modern Android mobile phones are good enough for most. Unless you're really into the status symbol part of the Apple, they really don't have something special. Plus there is no need to upgrade a phone anymore. I bought my Galaxy S8+ a year after lunch (much cheaper) and would replace it only because of consumerism - to get a new phone. Arguably there is nothing that really warrants an upgrade today.

Headphones, while a great move, won't help them in a long run - not enough margins and good competition. The silver lining with Apple is the that they have a growing services business. Too bad Netflix is kicking their ass in video content wars. Siri is also mostly mediocre. Homekit - who knows, what happens if your market share is falling.

Reality is that Android won 3 years back. We'll see if Apple can turn around thanks to their endless coffers of cash. It's not over yet, but they need to do something and not just upgrade what they have.
They presumably did think about what it sounded like. And they presumably also noticed that it worked for Nintendo.
You’re not allowed to store personal data in GA by their own terms of service, so the argument is moot: neither consent nor legitimate interest is needed.
> You already know what your programming language strengths and weaknesses are. You can make decisions for your first product iteration already. Are you going to start with a web app? You probably already know what language you want to use.

I think if you are thinking about programming language strength and weaknesses when building a product you need to rethink your approach.

Building a great product has very little to do with technology choice, especially at the beginning. Building a great product is about solving a real pain for your target customer and solving it in a novel and delightful way.
In the Australian case neither the university or a bank is financing the loan. It's all the government. Most of the universities are public as well so there's less incentive for profit, although it does still exist.

Most people will probably earn over the minimum HELP repayment barrier over their lifetime and if they don't then I don't think they should be saddled with debt.
I thought Content ID just referred to the automated content recognition system, not to manually claimed things. That article you linked to seems to agree.

So the video in this post seems to be primarily not about Content ID.
Well, Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs.

He is a different human being, with his own set of skills (and flaws) and that's OK.

He certainly does not "just write emails".
iPhone is 256GB version vs Huawei's 128GB version. Huawei P20 comes with only one storage tier which is 128GB. So I chooses the middle tier to represent iPhone.
Well you are fed with the wow products since iTunes, do you think you'll be impressed by apple watch?

No, but was apple watch less an achievement than iTunes? No.
There's a talk from Bodil Stokke where she explains (w background) and live-codes the core of Clojure's HashMap algorithm, in TypeScript: https://youtu.be/cUx2b_FO8EQ

Indeed there's novel stuff there.
He completely lost me here.

>Of course, if the problem is just inequality, then that’s one case where I would say there’s all sorts of inequality, so why is that actually something that is so bad the government needs to do something about it? Again, it’s different if you have people starving to death versus not being happy that they’re getting paid 5 percent less than what they ought to be getting paid.

Okay so because there is inequality and some dimensions are worse than other, government shouldn’t do anything about anything.

And if you’re not a privileged elite male who was educated, that’s just too bad because you are not the only one. The government should just leave everyone alone, and if some people are discriminated against, then his study on incomes of black males is enough to refute any kind of inequality in the workplace (or anywhere else for that matter).

I’m trying to paraphrase what I understood. How does anyone, regardless of their political biases, respect this guy or his “intellect”? I know I sound harsh, but please enlighten me.

For the record, I’m socially liberal but fiscally conservative.
Today there was a discussion on HN about "Sears vs Amazon."

And comparing the Tesla Model 3 to a Chevy Bolt is very similar!

For instance, Tesla is prepared to sell their cars at a loss, to gain market share. Amazon had the same strategy twenty years ago. Sears was never willing to do that, and Chevy wasn't going to do that with the Bolt either.

I like the Bolt - it's a very nice car. But the Model 3 seems to offer so much more for the money.
The URL is old headline - strange not to post a new story with some sort of addendum on the old one. I’ve added spaces below to prevent the URL shortening.

https: //www.cnbc.com /2019/01/06/ sears-rejects-eddie-lamperts-bid-to-save-company-will-liquidate-. html
I always loved the corporate euphemism “contingent labor” more than gig economy. It contains all the cynicism you need, right in the semantics.
> It turns out to be remarkably easy to make a good pizza, as long as you let the water soak into the flour for at least 40 minutes before you start to work it. If you don't, nothing else you do can save it.

As in my post just above, I have good news for you and everyone else: By actual experience, for about a dozen recent trials, done need to let the water "soak" into the flour at all. Instead, just as I documented, just add the flour to the water in 1/3rds, mix after each 1/3rd, and then proceed with the kneading, rising, dividing into 8ths, let rise again, and get on with making pizzas. The dough in the pizzas is terrific, puffy, fragrant, etc.
I would recommend using recruiters to find work for you, recruiters have a nice rooster of Employers that they can match you with.

Even better than using a recruiter use a site like Hired.com and vettery.com. These sites are great for matching you with interesting employers.

The best thing about the above options is that it gives you access to a lot employers, much more than you can find by searching on your own.

Note: these recruiters and sites can help you find freelance/contract work as well as regular employment.
Do plants favor their kin?
Or was it radically undervalued in 2001?
Not the person you're responding to, but their grand parent. If you look at food costs at the grocery store, it's pretty clear that a plant based burger which is cheaper than a beef based burger is possible in theory. And I actually believe that this will happen eventually, but I was responding to somebody who was stating categorically that these burgers were more environmentally friendly than beef burgers. My point was simply that that's probably not the case today.

And to speak to your point specifically: if it were simply a matter of reducing per-unit R&D costs by achieving economies of scale, they should be selling below cost so that they can grow unit volume. It's hard to achieve economies of scale when your product is more expensive than the competition.
Tim Cook shouldn't have to do those things, that's why they have Craig Federighi, Eddie Cue, Jonathan Ive, Phill Schiller, etc