skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Properly governments operate by the consent of those they govern.

Don't gangs operate by the consent of their members?

> Gangs rule territory and the people within it almost strictly by violence

Is this not the case in real world governments? After all they use the police to enforce their rule via violence.

> by the constant arbitrary application of violence to keep people terrified

Isn't this already the case in the judicial system? Sure, it is not as arbitrary as street gangs but certain people will receive bigger sentences than they deserve to set an example, or you have people like Ross Ulbricht that were sentenced for things that were not convinced for.

> peaceful consent - representative government

More like the dictatorship of the masses, where the people that do something that the majority does not like get punished. Though, it is true that this is not so similar to street gangs.

> constitutional rights protections

The constitution does not seem to matter that much in a lot of countries, including the US, as they tend to either introduce new clauses to the constitution or to create laws that contradict it.

> Codes of honor that are strictly adhered to within the mafia or gangs is wholly a fantasy, a lie, cheap hollywood bullshit at odds with all of history

Would you say the same about the yakuza for example as well?

> objective application of rules of justice ... objective laws

I can't really see anything objective about laws myself. To me both the command of the top of the gang and the laws are subjective.

> where human rights protections should be the primary concern and are not up for arbitrarily being tossed out the window

This seems to happen regularly even in the western nations.

> When the next leadership of the governments of Australia or Sweden come into being, they aren't going to randomly decide to murder a lot of people to establish their dominance.

Wasn't Germany was a democracy when that certain Austrian whose name we dare not to speak got to power?
Yep I completely misread that, sorry.
No, here's the title in another form but with the same message: People who had meaningless but safe 9-5 jobs and escaped, how did you do it?
I can't see LinkedIn ever having the kind of engagement Facebook gets but it also seems harder to leave completely than Facebook. When I decided to stop using Facebook it was fairly easy and had little to no impact on my life. Though I don't really like the experience of using LinkedIn it's harder to avoid as I'm often asked to look at profile of job candidates there for work and I imagine if I'm ever looking for work in the future my profile will need to be updated as part of the job search.
I'm a US citizen living abroad, and when I flew into Newark once, an agent turned me away because I could not give him an address for where I was staying, since my mother had just moved. I believe his words were "no, no, no, I can't deal with this right now" and he yelled at me when I tried to explain. There was literally nowhere else for me to go.

After walking around flustered, I decided to try another kiosk and that guy let me through. That's how stupid and arbitrary the process can be for an arriving citizen.
This is wrong, most companies at scale use the cloud nowdays, the operational cost + expertise you need to replicate those cloud platforms is huge.
>The same 3 GB of data would have costed you $30 with Fi. Given that 15 EUR is about 18 USD, you essentially saved 12 USD.

First, EUR15 is about USD$17.25 for me, or it was when I was there. 1.2 is a lousy exchange rate.

Anyway, that quibble aside, saving $12 is more that worth it: having to use Fi at home would mean having to use the T-Mobile network, which in the US is absolutely horrible. I've used T-Mo in the past, as well as Sprint, and they're both lousy; they just don't have very good signal quality, especially if you get outside a major metro area.

>Personally, I would have gladly paid $12 to not have to go to a store in foreign country,

Personally, I would gladly pay $12/month to use a cellular network that doesn't suck in the US.

>have to worry about hitting the 3 GB limit

They have prepaid plans there with lots of different data allowances: 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, etc. Pick whatever works for you. I didn't come close to using my 3GB, and could have saved even more money by getting one of the smaller plans.

>lose the ability to call or text anyone in the states,

As I said before, I had no trouble using apps like LINE to do this, and was frequently sending texts and photos to people that way while I was walking around. If your friends are too stupid to use a messaging app instead of SMS, then I can't help you. SMS is the worst way of texting. But, to each their own.
Where do old people hangout online? If my mom is any indication, Facebook and email.

I think getting advice is the hook to get people to the site. Once you get some valuable advice, the theory is that some of those people will be inclined to participate.

I'd think about this approach:

1. Seeding this with advice from people you trust. Don't even get them to register - just get the advice and input it yourself

2. Aggregate advice into posts e.g. "Top 10 lessons for peopel in their 40s from the future"

3. Share / pay to promote those posts on Facebook

4. Profit (?)
Amazon has for years been stealing from merchants on their platform and AWS is just another part of their platform. They are everything we caution people against when they depend on a single API like being a superfluous Twitter client getting crushed, just a much, much larger API.

In Mongo's unfortunate case they couldn't stop people from deploying to EC2 before Amazon determined it was worth stealing, but it doesn't even have to be software you use on EC2 it can be your software too.

They copy products from third party vendors selling on Amazon -

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/amazon-s-...

http://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/

They even copy SaaS hosted on AWS if the number are good -

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...
> From friends living their, it's impossible to actually strictly follow what's on the books, particularly for foreigners.

Could you give an example of laws that your friends found impossible to follow? If they don't speak Chinese, that would explain it, because obviously you first need to understand what the law says before you can comply.
Ask HN: As a contractor can I list projects I've worked on on my resume?
Hey guys,

Just started out full time contract work this year with some great success. I've worked on some very well known web sites.

Is it ok for me to list these websites in my resume? Do you guys do this? Including these projects in my resume would make it much more impressive and would lend me a great amount of credibility to potential contracts that I'm looking for.

On the other hand I'm not sure if this would be a breach of an NDA agreement or not. And what if I haven't signed an NDA?

My rule of thumb has been to only talk about projects that I've worked on that could be deduced from publicly availible information, but I'm not sure even this is ok.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me!
Ah yes, I see it now. Thanks :)
Turkey is an authoritarian country run by a near-dictator, so I'm not sure this is a very good example.
I'm pretty sure shumway is dead judging from bugzilla and lack of activity in that repo

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=...
I respect your optimisim
Ask HN: What are the limitation of a library/language you use?
I have seen so many A vs B comparisons which compare A and B like apples and oranges and conclude that anything can be used as long as you do it properly.

I created this question in the hope that we can build a definitive guide to actual dealbreakers when comparing language/framework/library etc.
> Almost all browsers except for Firefox use Chromium (blink) as their browser engine.

Edge and Opera have only a fraction of the Firefox, IE, and Safari usage, so I'm not entirely sure why you're phrasing things this way.
This is a brilliant idea. I'm curious about a lot of the implementation specifics like how audible the white noise is in a silent room and what kind of UX trade offs it brings.
This very rarely happens at the direction of senior members of the government.

No system is perfect, but in the US we can generally assume the government to be bound by law.
Get used to the idea that embedded is 15 years behind PC. Which is initially frustrating but if you step back is kind of a good thing.

I’d also like to see Rust make it’s way into embedded. C support for things like data serialization or RPC for interfacing to web stuff is limited, people just don’t port it to C. And C++ doesn’t thrill me in terms of its non-deterministic garbage handling and difficult to debug nature. Rust though, seems modern and still safe, but I looked over the crates for embedded it’s prstty slim pickings!

When I see mfgs pushing out their own Rust libs, or a professional IDE with support I can buy that uses the Rust compiler, I’ll give it a try. Until then, it’s clearly hobbiest-only.
Is it accurate to say that rank-n tensor is to n-D array of numbers as linear transformation is to matrix?
I guess there's not much point in just trading anecdotes, but that's really not my experience. I've generally found US customs to be friendlier than British customs, for example (and I'm British).
How does one approach watching Handmade Hero? There's just so much content...
And I love it!
from what i read this morning yes he was, don't have the source available on my hands right now
The fight between the upzone & affordable vs NIMBY & rent control coalitions in my jurisdiction (not SF) has been illuminating, disappointing.

I'm as commie pinko liberal as can be, aka pragmatic (maximum benefit most efficient way possible).

From where I'm sitting, there is no "Left". Just some temporary coalitions around some topics. I've heard some of the most patronizing, condescending views and beliefs from otherwise "liberal" people. Not even "conservative" (eg traditional principled defensible positions). Just regressive beliefs.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that outside of a small basket of issues, "left" and "right" is case by case, and a person's position on one issue is a poor predictor for other issues.
Just wanted to say that many rss feeds come with a legal disclaimer that prohibits filtering. It is without teeth, but it could still cause problems for businesses.
China and NASA Collaborated on Monitoring a Lunar Probe
It's hard to travel anywhere these days. But the US "justice" system is not any better (just more hypocritical - at least China doesn't pretend to follow human rights). Pissing off the US is generally a bad idea due to all the extradition agreements in place. Take for example cyber crime: Guys like MalwareTech are being made an example of.

A country that imprisons people just because being poor and runs it's prisons as capitalist corporations, not to mention champions black sites to torture others shouldn't have an extradition agreement with anyone. The US partners in Europe are as bad.

I'm not suggesting the US is alone with this but us Westerners should be careful with pointing fingers at China, (or Russia) and claim that we have any right to lecture them on human rights issues or our superior legal system. Not in the age of Trump, Bannon, Farage, May, Kurz, Orban, Seehofer, and all other fascists in power today.
> in a manner of 'App X used Y% of your battery in the last 24 hours.

I am pretty sure that my stock Android 8 is doing that already
China (vietnam, singapore, etc) has been executing drug smugglers for a long time now. Nobody really raised a fuss when they were executing africans who may not have been aware of the consequences. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-16137327
I get more polite service from minimum wage workers at Burger King or a regional grocery chain.
I believe that Naughty Dog also scripts game logic in their own Lisp dialect.
It sounds like you overthink uncertainty, which is something I was stuck in for years. If I just reason it out enough, and have a good idea, and think it all through, maybe I can solve the problem before I quit that cushy job, or so the thinking goes.

It turns out that as long as I'm employed as a factory worker cranking out pointless Jira tickets all day to integrate another A/B testing framework, I don't have any good ideas. Boring works makes people dull.

How to escape: have f-you money. Pay off debts, save ruthlessly. See e.g. Mr Money Mustache [0] or The Simple Path to Wealth [1] for more. Bonus: you'll end up making better decisions at your 9-5 job because _you just don't have to put up with all that_, if the need arises.

My strategy: realizing that having a boring 9-5 job I found unfulfilling would make me insanely unhappy in the long term. You can always get another job if you decide you'd rather do that again.

Did I regret it? Am I happy? N/A. I know for sure I'll regret wasting another day arguing with a project manager that putting a ticket in the "in progress" column isn't actually the same as progress. In any case, others' experience doesn't have any bearing on yours (fortunately!). However, I strongly recommend against discussing this with your coworkers. They've chosen the same path you have, and will demotivate you despite having best intentions for you. If you go on an antarctic expedition, you'll run into a lot of people interested in the South Pole, and may begin to think it's common to spend lots of time thinking about penguins or the aurora australis. Well-intentioned but bad advice is pernicious.

You can't go wrong spending your days doing something that matters to you.

If you haven't read it, I recommend Post Office by Charles Bukowski.

[0] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com
[1] JL Collins: The Simple Path to Wealth
Most people need 7-8 hours of sleep. So if you want to wake up at 5, you need to be in bed by 10 PM.
> It’s hard to not be sympathetic to MongoDB Inc. and Redis Labs: both spent a lot of money and effort building their products, and now Amazon is making money off of them.

I disagree.

Many early adopters got on board with MongoDB because the DB was released under a permissive open source license. Later some of them became hostages to it.

The second reason is no one forced the two to develop the software and do business that way.
It's a de facto poll tax. You may wish to research the history of such, it's both fascinating and horrifying.

Your idea of using income levels is an interesting and intriguing one. Thank you for bringing it forth for discussion! However, have you considered that it may pose some complications, such as how one can document and prove income without a way to prove identity in a system where every such document is tied to identity? Might it not be easier to skip that administrative overhead entirely?
His racist, sexist and homophobic statements are reflection of what UK and most of the west was back in the day. He is outlier now, but he was once mainstream.

Going after old bigots from bigoted era seems like counterproductive. Best strategy would be just ignore him.
True. I signed up because US audiences though intelligent don't always have a good grasp on international historical context.

A lot of wars can be avoided when this education gap is filled.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Rust, is in fact, Rust/LLVM, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Rust plus LLVM ...
MongoDB Instance Spills 200M Chinese CVs – Infosecurity Magazine
Why do you think you will have another full-time job? Why not pursue working for yourself and building things as a continuous lifestyle?

That's not me trying to be snide or anything, I'm in your exact position right now and whilst I can see a circumstance in which I end up in a full time job again, the goal is to make this the way I engage with the world and make money going forward.
Any reason you can't get a cert for those machines as if they were going to be https hosts, and use that?
I would suggest it is between 2 and 3 times, but it depends on what kind of code you are running.
Why do you assume RSS is immune to bots? The attacks on the election focused on Twitter and Facebook because they where dominate not because they were uniquely vulnerable.
Google had better understand this kind of fragmentation is what makes their platform useless.

It's fine for vendors to do specific things, but it has to be very clear, documented, and within certain parameters.

Google has to realize that they are responsible for coordinating and publishing this information, and making sure it's clearly communicated to developers.

That they don't grasp this is byzantine.

There's a corollary in tech, relating to how many API's are released without proper documentation, thereby rendering all of the 'hard work' of making the software basically useless.

I should add: dealing with these kinds of problems are quite fundamentally different than other engineering challenges. For some reason, while working on this stuff, I can't help but feel frustrated and angry, mostly at Google (and the vendors) - because we're essentially 'solving their stupidity'. It's costing you money, and many small businesses don't have spare money and risk to hand out. It seriously strains developer relations and perpetuates an existential notion that developers have been 'lied to' by the platform vendors.
Customs agents everywhere freak out if you don't have $INFORMATION to hand. That's not something unique to the USA. If you travel a lot, you learn to have this sort of information readily available whenever you cross a border.
Artificial intelligence, bias and clinical safety
There is more to accessibly than screen reader compatibility. (I want to emphasize this point, not because I think you said anything to contradict that but because I think that is a point lacking from the conversation in this thread)

For example, I'm autistic and use a "normal" browsers, but garish websites (for example those displaying animated ads) are less accessible to me, because those lead me to becoming overstimulated, making me less likely to absorb and remember information presented on the page as well as being physically and mentally exhausting.

I am perfectly willing to pay for content (and am, through Spotify, Netflix and Patreon), but much of the web is actively hostile to many disabled people. My physical disabilities don't prevent me from using my computer in the standard way but every time I misplace my mouse and try to navigate the web solely using keyboard (which isn't that far from how I usually use my computer, so it's not like I don't know the shortcuts) I am reminded how it must be for people who are unable to use a mouse and have to rely on other input methods. Many websites couldn't have worse UI when it comes to accessibility if they tried.
Perhaps someone will build a little robot that listens like this Alias, then takes the Alexa/Home out of a soundproof box (or just opens the box) and passes on the commands, then closes the box again. That'd get rid of the static...
Oh, I hear people complain all the time about them and how they're going to switch to Linux (usually because of Win10's spying), but I actually have yet to see anyone make the jump. It's all just hot air.

Anyone who actually would abandon MSFT already did so, many years ago. People who haven't abandoned them by now, will never do so.
Yeah, I'm wondering how it should work when you say the wake word too. Like if I say "Sister Assumpta, what's the weather like?" is it just going to repeat the same command but replace "Sister Assumpta" with "Hey Google?" Thus slowing the whole thing down?
> In the decades to come, making China a superpower will be looked upon as one of the most foolish things The West has ever done.

This assumes this is something the west did. Or that this is something the west should have prevented.

By trading with China the west certainly accelerated growth. But let's be clear hundreds of millions of people have been pulled up from extreme poverty -- overall I think that's a good thing.
Gäfgen is a rather unique case and arguably not comparable to e.g. an illegal search.
The author should add that it's consumer-grade cameras. No professional or semi-pro device there.
I'm not sure why you're latching on to this notion of appropriating the work of others.

In the Netherlands (what I'm familiar with), healthcare functions through compulsory private insurance. Healthcare is paid for both by insurance contributions (on the order of 120eur per month, with a deductible of about 385eur) and by taxes. If one can't afford to pay the premiums, it is subsidized by the government. It's free if you're under 18. The system functions with a sort of gatekeeping by general practicioners, where GP visits cost nothing in addition to the health insurance premiums and if there is some issue beyond which the GP can handle you are referred to a specialist.

>Health insurance is supposed to pay for catastrophic losses, similar to auto and home insurance.

In the Netherlands it pays for routine, preventative care as well as catastrophic losses. That's why it's compulsory for everyone.

> Is health insurance a human right?

Yes, in the NL.

>What does "affordable" mean? What happens when hospitals and physicians reject your insurance? What co-pays and coinsurance are considered affordable?

Government policy, which also dictates who is eligible for subsidy. Insurance rejection isn't a thing.

>Does the right to health insurance extend to people who willingly destroy themselves for pleasure? Do they pay the same amount as people who take care of themselves?

Yes, though I'm not sure what medical discretion there is if for example an elderly life-long smoker needs a transplant. Suffice to say everyone has the right to health insurance.

>Can "healthcare is a human right" extend to Americans who travel to Europe for the purpose of obtaining free elective medical care at the expense of European taxpayers

An American cannot travel to the NL for free healthcare.
Yikes. Just FYI in case it’s useful in the future, as a US citizen you have an absolute right to enter the country. They cannot keep you out, period. They can cause you a great deal of trouble first, but they can’t outright turn you away. Hopefully you never have occasion to use this knowledge!
These are all good points and I agree, especially that race is a social construct and not a scientific one. It's not my intent to diminish the impact of bigotry, whatever its source. Racism, sadly, is ordinary.

I do think that the trend of stripping people of their titles over political issues has gotten worse lately. Since all of us have beliefs that others don't like and all of us do things others don't agree with, it sets a dangerous precedent.

Being a racist may make someone a bad person, but it doesn't make them a bad scientist. I guess that's what I was trying say in a nutshell.
DNA pioneer James Watson loses honours over race remarks
Gov security falters during U.S. shutdown – Netcraft
Portable 17.3 gaming laptops -Preview of thin models from Alienware, Asus, MSI
In the United States, the guidelines penalty for trafficking in 200 kilograms of meth is life without parole. Canada's sentencing rules are more lenient. The question is whether Canada will go the wall in what is really a dispute between China and the United States. China does have an aggressive regime of trying to protect its citizens overseas--see, William Sampson--that the U.S. lacks. Sampson was at least arguably innocent while this trafficker is not. There is no doubt that Canada will suffer because of its extradition treaty with the U.S. The question that Canadians have to ask themselves is this: is helping the U.S. to apply its laws globally worth all this trouble in the absence of international consensus?
I'm curious whether it will handle the audio trigger as well as Google/Amazon/Apple. It takes some pretty advanced audio algorithms to catch "hey Google" in a busy kitchen. It would be pretty frustrating if this device caused these devices to trigger even more inconsistently.