skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Convincing people the game sucks sometimes requires specific examples of individual players everyone recognizes.

For example, cycling's doping scandals are well illustrated by Lance Armstrong.
Ooof that's brutal. That's like just abandoning a fundamental aspect of the job for an excuse.
MM Algorithms for Numerical Optimization
I don’t know about this math. What if you change jobs and hate the new job? How do you put a dollar value on months wasted working at a place that’s not a good fit for you.

There’s only a 33% chance a job will work out. That is, that both you and the employer agree it’s a good fit after a year. So you are more likely to fail in a job change, and the odds get worse the more jobs you change.
I love the mood voting bar on the right hand side of the page. It's like a laugh track for the news, in case you're not sure how to feel.

"THIS STORY MAKES PEOPLE: Angry"
Lots of Cloud folks in downtown ATL, too!
What areas of the tax code do you think that Amazon is taking advantage of? What "ridiculous loopholes" do you think are problems in this specific case?
> A four-story Texas doughnut can get 50 or 60 apartments onto an acre of land, while the most aggressively engineered West Coast stick-and-concrete hybrid (two-story podiums are allowed now, along with other variations) can get almost 200.

Sounds like we should be building more of these in our cities to increase the housing supply.
Lol remember in the mid-1990’s how self regulation of industry by industry was going to change everything? Industry was going to regulate extremely effectively because it understood all the “nuances” and save the government the expense of having to do it. I guess it sort of did change things but for the worse clearly.
The question is not legality it is morality. And the moral actor is not Amazon but its governing body (consejo de administración in Spanish sorry).
This is what happens when you only read HN, you think MongoDB is going out of business, yet the company is worth $5 billion.
> When companies stop working for the good of democracy/government and for the good of the people/employees, then it is going to be on the receiving end of......many consequences.

This sounds almost like a threat?
Inb4 the bootlickers
Amazon is about the worst example you could have for putting profits over anything. They have a tiny profit margin and are the second largest employer in the country.
VS Code isn't a fork of Atom.
I think it’s an economic reality for for-profit companies that make apps. If company A doesn’t go the html app route, and company B does for the same effective product, company B will have an advantage. It’s almost to the point where if your company app can be developed this way, you must do it this way to stay competitive.
I don't think anyone questions the legality of it. Articles like this are intended to convince people that the current system is unfair and to write their representatives and senators, even if they don't state that specifically.
"Goof"? "The EU figured out our fraud scheme! Waah!"
Hmm.. the chart at the bottom puts things in an interesting perspective. Amazon has been paying federal taxes fairly regularly. It's just the last two years that it has had negative effective tax rate. There's probably a bunch to dig in to there to understand why, exactly.

The way that article reads, it seems like at least for the last year it's entirely due to the tax cut legislation congress passed last year. Essentially the legislation did exactly what it was designed to do. Amazon hasn't really done anything dodgy there.

This article really just emphasises the need to hold congress accountable for their actions.
This reminds me of an old joke:
Q: Can you implement Communism in Switzerland?
A: Yes, but it would be a shame.
Yeah no doubt that's a thing.

Everyone values support when they talk about it... don't want to actually pay for it.
It's certainly true that some minorities are underrepresented in tech. A lot of the irritation you're seeing comes from the repeated accusations and implications that this is due to some unspoken policy of discrimination at tech companies.

Companies can and should make an effort to ensure they're hiring a diverse range of people. However, it needs to be done with the bigger picture in mind - otherwise it becomes a defacto quota system.
I doubt many people would pass up a "pay no taxes this year" card if they were given one.
Uh huh. https://earnestcapital.com/request-for-startups-1-remote/
The last damn thing we need is a government run social network. We saw a preview of how that would be run when the current administration decided to manipulate/fake comments on the FCC site during the net neutrality debate.

The ideal balance for things like this is a properly regulated social network, where said regulation focuses on holding the social network responsible for spread of fake information and hate speech.
Their facts are based the experiences of trying to place their program graduates and the experiences of those people. Code2040 had a very extensive program pairing young people with tech worker mentors, getting them the right education and helping to place them in tech jobs. And after doing that for 10 years they found without companies that were very very committed to retention, even with all of that preparation, it still didn't work. Hence the pivot by that organization.

They started trying to solve the "pipeline problem" and it turned out that wasn't really the problem.
I think it's likely that most people value Facebook below $1000 for themselves, but try to maximize their return when offered money by someone else to give something up. I hardly use it and may stop anyday. But if you want to pay me to stop, I would certainly try to maximize what I can get.
Yes, I’m in the same boat. But I think you’d be a lot more likely to notice that there was something missing.
I would rather the browser protect me from all popups, and only enable such a "feature" by specific request.

I did set what you mention now, but my point is, why isn't it the default, and why is it so hidden (e.g. there are multiple settings you need to do to block those popups).

It's not like standard JS popup is worse than this - standard JS popup does not permanently enable website to know a location of a user, or to bug him with notifications outside the browser, i.e. standard popups are less intrusive!
War Over Being Nice
> When the user's location is stable, the signal can be triangulated. That's how the Defense Department got the coordinates to feed Brazilian authorities in March's raids.

Of course. But specifically how? With satellites in space? Or antennas on ground? If on ground, where? And if on ground, for triangulating these specific people or for other purposes as well? And if sattelites space, the same sattelites that are relaying the signals, or separate sattelites?
I have had the same problem with WhatsApp Web version vs. mobile. Web version had some issues. Mobile one works okay.
He would have been better off just holding.
Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
Really? It seems like they've a lot of things ahead of profits by continuously reinvesting in R&D instead of pleasing stockholders.
I hate white space, just makes my mouse hand tired because I have to scroll 3 times as much. Awful.
Is a used a Lexus a good hack for getting a higher-end car that will also be cheap to fix, because it uses the same parts as a Toyota?
the purpose of journalism is to expose "the game" so that people can write their local representatives and ask them to change it.
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> Lighting $10 on fire is a lot better than spending $100 and getting $50 back.

That's not how the math works with infrastructure projects.

With infrastructure projects there is the upfront cost and immediate returns, but there are also all other externalities and savings from shift in consumer demand and, for example, urban renewal and requalification.

For instance, how much would you save if you cut on the number of cars entering a urban center? This means less pollution, less traffic, less commutting times, etc etc etc

Does that have no value?
Video card and processor prices have essentially doubled recently and I keep buying them so there you go.
Serious answer: no, of course not. That’s a rather (Edit: very creative, totally not stupid) question.

It makes no sense to include factors that the countries have no control over in any scheme supposed to encourage mutually beneficial behavior.
This is the correct answer. Unfortunately PCI dictates that you can use WAFs instead of real coding standards and testing.

For anyone curious why WAFs are so useless, there is a very beginner-accessible talk by Joe McCray here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBVThFwdYTc
When you take deductions when you file your taxes, is this unpatriotic?
I've been toying with the idea of getting into ham radio type stuff, so it's always been interesting to me.

After working with the local detectives / police, it isn't "very" difficult to find where a jammer is. /I never got the chance to work directly with them on that issue though, but they said it's happened once before.

Anyway, it took them one call to Verizon and less than a day later they found who was jamming one area. Did the police thing, and no more jamming. They had the pull because no one could call 911 with a cell phone in that area, and when the squads were out, they'd lose reception around that area too. Both big no nos if you want to stay hidden.

I can imagine if it's a country with adequate resources, it would not be much of an issue.
Most people do not have the resources to lobby for that sort of tax system. Amazon, and other corporations, do.
"It looks like this"

That just shows how little you know. One style in one configuration looks like that.
The fact that it was a single, unconfirmed post and yet people still believe it may say more about the trust issue than whether it really happened or not.
I recently found out from a friend that the Walton family is (supposedly) doing a similar thing here in Colorado. Basically buying up large properties with water rights, and then sitting on them for later. I'm not thrilled about it, but at least they're not developing them.
Turning a large profit and not paying taxes? That part?
> Are you planning to tune that over time?

Yes, very much consider this our next product. Will build, measure, learn, iterate as we go.

> I used a portfolio loan to buy a business to run as a side project

It's a useful comparison but not apples to apples. There are a lot more capital options to fund an operating business (ie SBA loans, IRA loans) than starting a new one. We are focused on the latter.

Our financial model might be a good fit for acquiring co's but it's not our strategy. Happy to help if anybody else wants to give it a shot.
And what power does a local representative have over Jeff Bezos? He is willing to threaten to leave whole cities over small tax increases on his company. Capital represents a lot more power than local government!
> If shit like this bothers you

It does.

> write your local representatives and ask them to change it.

Done and done.

Here's the problem: my voice, plus the voices of all of those who agree, have far less of an impact on the beahviour of the politicians than Amazon does.
Wait a minute. I have seen the argument for Electron because devs "get" to use one language they already know. So, let's just take a step back and reset...
Chrome OS 72: Here’s the trick to download Android movies/music to an SD card
Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions
Some interesting prior discussion in this older comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15929339

My understanding is that out of 3,500 mosquito species, only about 40 transmit malaria. Most of what I've read from experts implies they're not sure that mosquitoes play any biologically important role at all, and it seems like if there is some role (other than killing humans), the other 99% of non-eradicated mosquito species could fill in that gap.

In my (decidedly non-expert) opinion, that's good enough to start making moves towards eradicating the mosquito-causing species.
>> Articles like this are intended to convince people that the current system is unfair and to write their representatives and senators, even if they don't state that specifically.

The problem is that if you don't state it clearly and specifically, that message will be lost on most people, and they'll still redirect their anger at the company as opposed to the actual source of the problem.
If most people just come away resenting Amazon and not "the game", has journalism done its job?
How Microsoft’s cultural shift in empathy is leading new innovation
It’s acticles like this one that will raise awareness of the issue. Doesn’t matter if the issue is illegal or not. The article clearly states one of the proposed beneifts of the corporate tax cut was better corporate citizenship.

Jeff Bezos is the worlds richest person of course people will be writing about Amazon.
You also must provide the Qt source code yourself, giving instructions on how to get Qt from the official website is not sufficient.

You also must allow relinking of your proprietary binary with different versions of Qt. This is easy on desktops but not on embedded or mobile devices.

You also may not begin using a commercial license for your proprietary code which you developed using the LGPL licensed Qt, unless you have written permission. Part of this also means you cannot use, let's say, a MIT licensed wrapper or utility for Qt, because that was probably developed against the LGPL licensed Qt, and thus cannot be used with a commercially licensed Qt.

There's certainly a reason people worry about Qt licensing.

Source: https://www.qt.io/faq/

(And despite all this, let's remember how great it is that one of the best widget toolkits in the world is open source.)
>"Though the situations in dreams call for un-avoidant
behaviour, dreamers act with avoidance."

this is the biggest issue I have with this paper. This assumption is simply false
I don't think I had understood the why behind Google's GDPR fine prior to this. It's also illustrative of the challenges of running a worldwide business with GDPR. Google knew it had a target on its back, is organized and spent a lot of time becoming GDPR compliant and STILL screwed up in a significant way.
Acquiring a commercial loan to your LLC with reasonable rates without a personal guarantee is extremely difficult. In all likelihood, a small business is going to have to make a personal guarantee to borrow money.
And "encrypt data at rest" is most of what you need to do to comply with the GDPRs data security stuff.

Which again, is nothing like "write bug free code or you're liable".
Say you ran a website once. Then you let your domain expire. Someone else bought it, and put up their site on the domain. Would you blame the domain registrar for that?
"I'm even doubtful AI is on the horizon"

Agreed. I dont think this paper was the one I was looking for, but it will do. [1] The authors are working on handling negation in sentiment analysis. Ie, this movie is good, this movie is not good, this movie is not very good.

"One of the most important sub tasks in sentiment analysis is to
determine the sequence of words affected by negation. Most of the existing sentiment analysis systems used
traditional methods based on static window and punctuation marks to determine the scope of negation.
However, these methods do not offer satisfactory performance due to variability in the negation scope,
inability to deal with linguistic features and improper word sense disambiguation. " [2]

[1] Sorry to be in a hurry, i just think this point is important given the hype around AI, and all the talk about using AI to "manage" human conversations. Look up AI winter if you want to learn about hype, AI, and expectations :)
[2] http://www.jcomputers.us/vol12/jcp1205-11.pdf
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It’s fascinating to read stuff like this and try meta-analyze the sentiments behind it.

One huge irony that strikes me is the idea of these ‘middle class bloggers’ raging against Western oppression whilst living lives that are basically upper-middle class EU/US: high income, property owners, international holidays, white collar jobs, $1000 smartphones from which they blog about progressive political issues.

China’s success and rise since the 1980s has been as much about wholesale adoption of Western business/science/cultural norms as anything else. And yet bloggers still see China’s situation in us & them terms?
A big part of it is that they reinvest a large portion of revenue back into the company in the form of growth. So while they're not paying income tax because of lack of profit, they're building fulfillment centers and hiring like crazy. This means income tax for all those new employees and property tax on all the centers they're building.
>the Trump Administration and its congressional allies included lavish new giveaways such as immediate expensing of capital investments.

So this is obviously considered a bad thing by the author, but wouldn't the cost to the government be the same regardless of whether it was expensed in one year or multiple years?
Yes. There's a ton of new age / superstitious practices that use meditation of one sort or another. Vipassana is reasonably secular and to the point.
There's some general background at https://github.com/ericu/CellCulTuring/blob/master/README.md but basically I've got a number of different general classes of cell [background, counter, wall, ball, paddle, etc.] and each knows the kinds of situations that will cause it to change into something else. Within each class of cell, there's further state, so e.g. the ball's a different color when it's moving up and to the right than when it's moving down and to the left. Each cell is basically its own state machine, taking its state and the states of its neighbors into account, and progressing through the substates of its class until it turns into something else.

Say a blank background cell sees a ball cell to its left. It looks at the precise color of the ball to determine that the ball's moving to the right, so the next cycle, the background cell must become a ball cell with the same motion. It's a bit more complicated than that because balls only move every other cycle, they've got internal counters [colors] to deal with moving diagonally, bouncing off walls, hitting the paddle, etc., but that's basically it.

The actual state machine code takes thousands of lines of JavaScript to express.
given the corp tax rate in 2011 was 35% id say hitting 600M in profit and somehow paying only 30M instead of 210M does not really count as "fair" nor regular.
Tcl/Tk interfaces look goofy, but they're very easy to build. You can even build them on a REPL. It's also very easy to understand what they do when you resize.

That's going back quite awhile. Why is it that later layout managers just seemed to get a bit worse then stay that way?
It's been possible for quite some time to delete your Facebook account but continue to use Facebook messenger under those previous credentials, if you didn't know.
And the utility of status symbols.

Now one can reasonably disagree over whether they should be useful. But the case that they actually are not useful is a difficult one.
Looks like a great truck, but the entirely-touchscreen interface makes it a non-starter for me.

I'm still holding out for the Bollinger B1 (and hoping it won't be terribly bank-breaking).
> New train station? Congrats. Now you're finding a new place because your landlord is selling.

And that's ok because you can get onto that same train and look for affordable appartments anywhere in the train's catchment area, which now is far larger than when you first started looking for a rental.
Does that take into account that China graduates 7 times as many people today as 20 years ago? It makes sense that there are few Asians in leadership positions simply because they barely have any educated people with lots of experience.

https://assets.weforum.org/editor/PSSvl1XRKP4L2tFL2PNtPufC-v...
Anyone hit hard this year by the new $10k limit on State and Local Tax (SALT) deductions?
That is...incredibly depressing to hear.

How is the legislature supposed to actually hold the Executive and special interests in check then? It sounds like the entire federal government has been neutered in terms of being able to actually do it's own footwork to guard against encroaching agendas..

This actually explains a lot, now that I think about it.
hammer on nail. I don't know why the demand for diversity in consumer & people oriented businesses upsets so many people.

It's simply good strategy to hire a diverse workforce so your products/services can spread to all types of markets.
Serious question: almost every economists thinks we shouldn't have corporate taxes. So why can't we just get rid of them and properly tax money as it LEAVES companies in the form of dividends or imports?

Recently, stock buy-backs are causing people to get around income tax, so we'd have to fix capital gains, too.

Taxing companies seems like a cop-out. It doesn't seem to have any impact at all on inequality. And it just makes American businesses less competitive.
I just realized that the reason we fully capitalize acronyms in the US is because we don't know the difference between acronyms and initialisms.
You appear to be one of those people who thinks that creating jobs is a carte blanche for corporations to do whatever, including not paying taxes. It doesn't matter how many people Amazon employs, if the majority of the jobs are so shitty that the employees are forced to go on welfare creating even more burden on the taxpayer.
Like Flash was replaced with web technologies, Electron soon will be replaced by Progressive Web Apps. Just have to wait a bit longer for browsers to securely implement missing functionality, like access to file system. Although for most apps that doesn't need any advanced APIs we can use PWAs today.
Why would Apple allow senior executives to do any AAPL stock sales outside of a 10b5-1 plan? Why would a senior executive ever sell company stock outside a 10b5-1 plan? That just seems like asking for trouble. The safe thing to do once you reach a certain level is to do all stock sales of company stock through 10b5-1. Anything else is just stupidly opening yourself up to charges of insider trading.
The box has made browsing using TOR insufferable! It fusses and makes me click storefronts and traffic lights until I run out of patience and close out of whatever webpage I was trying to visit. I assume it has to do with a lack of Google cookies on the browser, essentially punishing me for trying to protect my privacy.
What If We Could Verify NPM Packages?