skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming the only alternative to laissez-faire capitalism is a centrally planned economy, fine, but please don't call that "communism" and pretend the two are interchangeable just because the USSR called itself communist.

If we had a marginal tax rate of 100% for all profits beyond $10 million, would that be communism? If we banned the sale of certain consumer goods, would that be communism? If we banned the private ownership of certain consumer goods, would that be communism? If we mandated shared ownership by all employees of businesses exceeding a certain size or revenue, would that be communism?

If so, how is the criticism of centrally planned economies relevant? If not, why are you talking about communism?

There are gazillions of ideas other than "let the government control the entire economy" (aka state capitalism) or "let the winners of the free market do what they want and f* everyone else".
Why would someone who inherits money not sit home all day and play videogames? Why would someone with sizable investments not sit home and play videogames?

There are already people who receive free money, and nobody seems to worry about what they do with their time. In general, most people seem to think more money is better for them, so they work to increase the amount of money they get. One of the ideas behind basic income is that by removing obstacles and disincentives to work, maybe people will feel more free to look for a good job.
Speak for yourself; I worked at a DIY store for a while doing basically that. My mum's career is cleaning at a doctor's office. They may be repetitive, but that does NOT mean they are not fulfilling.
Thanks to adapters, you can plug an american fridge in a french socket. I'll still buy the one made for the local electrical system.
Well done! It seems like a very specific niche, but if you think about it, it covers many types of apps.
If you're going Postgres to Postgres I enthusiastically recommend Bucardo.[1] I'm not very technical, but even I managed to get an ~1TB DB successfully replicating using it. In my case it was going from AWS RDS to AWS Aurora. Previously others had tried AWS DMS, but we kept having data integrity issues. And DMS cost us significantly more than Bucardo whose only cost was a medium size EC2 instance and data in/out.

[1] https://bucardo.org/Bucardo/
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Maybe unpopular jobs need to be improved, rather than have unwilling people forced into them.
If I was out of food my dogs would make sure we all got fed.

There are ways to have a symbiotic relationship with another animal without strict verbal communication. Maybe you just haven't taken the time to learn about your animal and the things that make it unique and worth loving. Because it might already be doing that about you.

I know I wake up every morning to my cat purring on my face and nestling into me and she starts purring the moment I pick her up. She's not sticking around for table scraps.

I used to own rats. If you want to really learn just how emotionally intelligent pets can be, get a pair of those. Some of the most social creatures you'll ever meet.
I'm not sure you can deduce that it's pointless. It's not like UBI doesn't have any other consequences (such as the feelings of the people who don't like UBI).

Note that I think UBI is a great idea.
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Google needs sales-people on the ground, plain and simple. I live in a reasonably big European market when it comes to IT services and the Google cloud people are absent, and for that reason everybody goes either with Azure (because MS has got the most people trying to make the sale) or AWS (because it's still seen as technically ahead of the field).

Now, as an aside, rumor has it that even MS's Azure numbers are a little inflated, a big part of their cloud sales is just Office 365, but I think MS does some marketing and accounting gimmicks on the side by "attaching" Azure to these Office 365 sales.
But a pattern of dying young is not evidence that older people don't live long.

Dying raises the average age if you die below the average age, and lowers the average age if you die above the average age. Thus, a 16-year-old dying can only lower the average age if the average age was already less than 16. A four-month-old dying can only lower the average age if the average age was already less than 4 months. (Which, obviously, it can't be.)

Dying lowers life expectancy regardless of when you do it, and it has a stronger lowering effect the earlier you do it. The dying four-month-old has a really strong negative effect on life expectancy, but a strong "positive" effect on the average age. They're orthogonal[1] concerns.

[1] OK, not technically orthogonal. One will help predict the other, especially if you know the average age. But the point remains that a negative effect on life expectancy can be associated with any effect at all on the average age, because all effects of death on life expectancy are negative.
1. It's marketing, as someone mentioned. If the first thing that comes up when you search for GraphQL is Apollo, it's good for business.

2. Marketing aside, they are one of the very few (if any) solutions that provide tools that fill the glaring gaps in GraphQL and make it easy(-ish): caching, auth etc.
Sitting at home playing games all day, or being unemployed are boring. Same for many different jobs that people do.

The physical effort is trivial, I shelf stacked for a year as a teen Saturday job. Not intellectually fulfilling perhaps, but a pretty sociable job. Helping a relative out on his fruit and plant growing smallholding was far more energetic.
This is not getting enough up votes.
Surely you can't see withdrawing from society as a good thing. I mean seriously, why would society support that ?

Also: I've seen people do this at university. I seem to recall that people who truly withdrew didn't do well at all, with some exceptions. People who withdrew into the theory, or into student life, at the expense of other things did much better.
Out of interest, why is there a limit? And what is that limit?

Also, would you change your username if I requested you to do so? (Perhaps I had a bad experience in the past which makes the word “Adam“ something I‘d rather not read)
“No one cares if you have a job, if you are homeless or have to suffer poverty.”

What on earth is this comment. Where do you live in “the west”? Western societies are structured around redistribution which ensures that most people are looked after (nothing is perfect). Your rhetoric is baffling.
I've found the leetcode[1] database problems have helped me quite a lot - especially to see different ways of solving problems and how to do things in SQL that you didn't know you could.

1. https://leetcode.com/problemset/database/
LinkedIn did it to themselves long before MS got involved.
I am lactose intolerant so taking probiotics helps me. I would look at reviews and try some, for 2 months, for example. Anyway, lifestyle, food is important, i had several health issues because of stress from school etc. Diet word can sound boring but there are many ways how to prepare tasty food without some ingredients and make it more suitable for you.

Do not rely on various forum threads, you could read bad diagnosed people or diseases you should not care about.
I think he might be a russian troll?
> So these capabilities will help "real" attackers in the same way they help red teams...

They do. However if you do not enable the Red Teams with this capacity, it does not follow that the real attackers do not have it. It's a bit like guns. If the police don't have guns, the bad guys still do. The answer isn't to distribute military weapons and tanks to everyone but at least have them as an option for SWAT.
Not the OP but I’m an American guy that has been living in ex-Communist countries (Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Etc.) for a few years. I don’t mind the brutalist stuff - it beats mindless suburban America any day.
ahh - it has actually gone down. About 6 months back, it was 150-200$ per month and before that it was always a percentage of spend. I just saw that the old gold/silver/platinum have gone away and replaced with role-based support options.

Thanks for highlighting that!
Wow. Your bar for being insulted is _very_ low.
Mountain View to SFO in 5 minutes

That would be awesome for the 3 people looking to go specifically from Mountain View to SFO at a given time... but not so awesome for the 300 people wanting to get on or off somewhere in between.
Well, it has to be a doomsday prediction, the elite has a very strong interest in keeping the common folks at work. A receding economy is bad, for the people in charge, and the only way to keep it from receding is to increasingly consume, which means increasingly produce.

Companies care about your (mental) health when it's in their direct interest (by paying for mindfulness seminars, ping pong tables, free snacks and other bs), but that's just a way to keep people in check.

You don't have to have a PhD in socio-economics to know that working less directly translates to improved well-being, but well-being isn't going to buy the new porsche and prove the other participants of the global rat race that you're definitely better than them.

"Whereas during the primitive stage of capitalist accumulation “political economy considers the proletarian only as a worker,” who only needs to be allotted the indispensable minimum for maintaining his labor power, and never considers him “in his leisure and humanity,” this ruling- class perspective is revised as soon as commodity abundance reaches a level that requires an additional collaboration from him. Once his workday is over, the worker is suddenly redeemed from the total contempt toward him that is so clearly implied by every aspect of the organization and surveillance of production, and finds himself seemingly treated like a grownup, with a great show of politeness, in his new role as a consumer. At this point the humanism of the commodity takes charge of the worker’s “leisure and humanity” simply because political economy now can and must dominate those spheres as political economy. The “perfected denial of man” has thus taken charge of all human existence." - The society of spectacle
Why not just put this information in a "Contact" page, which most businesses already have on their websites?
And possibly the most unpopular union in the UK, too. I've parted ways with them, as have most of my friends. It's not because I disagree with their decisions, as much as they are completely impotent.

I do empathise; the BMA are stuck between a rock and a hard place, in that their members want better work conditions, pay rises that actually match inflation (shock horror), but the government just say no.

The difference between the other unions and the BMA, though, is the BMA go back to their members and say "the government said no, sorry", whilst the others say "so be it", and the strikes commence.

I'm not quite sure how I'd improve the situation if I was a BMA representative; it's complex. However, there is literally no reason currently to pay the membership fee.
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Commenta saying “it wasn’t real basic income” remind me people who say “it wasn’t real communism” whenever their utopia fails in mass starvation and murdet.
> The issue of skills transference

The issue of skill transferance is that nobody is forcing them to work in such companies; it means they can leave and try to find another job.
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The layoffs in this case are not happening in software development but in sales and administration.
If you'll end up with a product that can't get sufficient fare return to cover all operating costs (let alone debt service), you're better off shutting it down in place, like Brazil's Transnordestina.
I don't know what is their market share but I think the google trend chart is pretty explicit

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...

Acquisition in 2012.
> Nobody wants to be testing against multiple browser/rendering engines in 2019.

Speak for yourself.

I hate to break it to you, but in the real world there are multiple browsers.

Not testing in more than one is lazy, standards ignorant and an insult to your users.

Let’s not repeat the MSIE-fiasco again. We know better. We can do better.
yeah it's a tricky question, I mean Red Teams can never fully emulate all classes of attacker as they're still constrained by laws, but more realistic red teams provide more realistic tests :)

What seems to be the case is that lower end attackers who don't have the skills to create fully custom setups (or high end attackers who don't want to risk their own tooling getting discovered) will use "pentesting" or red team tools to enable their attacks.

So the line (if there is one) is how much do you release in that direction. Some/Many people draw the line at dropping 0-Day others might draw it lower or higher...
If you're advocating that we innovate an alternative to bitcoin, which has the same decentralisation and censorship-resistance properties, but a greatly reduced energy footprint (for the same level of security), then I agree and support that transition.

If, instead, you're suggesting that some (global?) central planning committing should decide which technologies are allowed to exist, based on some subjective determination that a given technology uses "too much" energy compared to how "useful" it is, then I think such a system of control is likely to be abused.

For comparison, 2nd generation cryptocurrencies (like Litecoin and Ethereum) are comparable in their energy usage (per unit of economic value created) to mining rare earth metals, and over 10 times more energy efficient than producing aluminium:

https://s3.cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/728accd677...
I think they got some other funding sources, in addition to Kickstarter.
Paul Graham said he "finished" writing Hacker News 12 years ago. [0]

This might even be more possible for "simpler" softwares.

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1049723540902215681
I heard the same conclusion from the other side just a few days ago. A friend in computer vision said it about robotics.
Well the weird thing is that Twitter is a network defined by length limits on messages. It exists because it forbids users from raising the bar by writing anything long enough to be interesting, intelligent, insightful or polite. Now he's surprised at the outcome? It was predictable from the very start!
Would knowing that distinction have changed my point?
It would be more interesting to find what they did with their time before and after. And also the impact of UBI to the already employed. How their vocational prospects have changed.

Money given to the unemployed is not UBI, it's the dole.
So now it comes out that Sanchez shared some photos (no mention of which) of her and Bezos with female friends, and some SFW photos with her brother. Additionally she backed up her phone to her computer, and her computer was backed up to her assistant's computer. It looks like a lot of people might have had access to the photos.
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With an additional dose of "so what if they do"? If a few want to sit at home on some low amount of weekly money playing games, so what. Most people will want more out of life and in the bank.

It will lead to far fewer falling out of the system entirely thanks to the expense of forms, proof and means testing for benefits (this is well shown), but will also eliminate fractional claiming rates. Means testing and claiming has been shown time and again to put some off claiming at all, perhaps through pride or the current intentional systematised stigma of benefits, even sheer exhaustion from 2 years of seeking work in late 50s to 2,000x rejections.

So we end up with a two tier unemployment system: those in receipt of unemployment, and those who've fallen out of the system entirely or were never in it. I'd rather help those with long term issues as well and have no one fall through the gaps to food bank or suicide.
Yogurt covers a huge range from almost flavourless through salty all the way to sickly sweet... Surely in your case it would be worth experimenting to find one that you can tolerate?
How do you hold the wound shut, hold the thread in place, and apply glue all at the same time without getting the glue everywhere, especially over the hand holding the thread?

I always just use a single-ply piece of paper tissue, and soak that in the glue. It's too thin to hold much glue, so it doesn't get that hot - if you need more strength, you can add more layers. And it can be applied one handed - place tissue over wound and apply glue. Done.
this! x1000
You do it better. In most jobs, there's always a way to do it better.

If you're just doing an assembly factory job, you can assemble it faster.

If you just deal with lots of boring code, you can grind refactoring books and techniques.

If it's a generic tech job, there are new programming languages to learn, frameworks, algorithms, plenty of things to do and enjoy.

If you're a manager who has nothing to do, you can find a way to make your colleagues' day more interesting and fun. You can train juniors, get them to do better.

Heck, even in the worst, most mundane days, I just visualize text and systems into images and try to move them around. There's a lot to play with.

Work life is a lot more interesting than even the vacation periods.
Completely anecdotally speaking - at a few enterprises, convincing customers to make use of GCP has been an uphill battle. I notice deep misgivings regarding the support timescales, and even for supported products, poor support in general (ymmv+++).

GCP do have a clause in their SLA/T&C where they promise a 1 year notice in the case of any services they plan to deprecate, but that hasn't helped assuage fears - they want longer timescales and better support.

> That's just not enough when you need something easy to setup that you can build then forget about for a decade. That's just the reality of how software projects are done for non-technical businesses

Thank you for phrasing this, a few years ago I would not have believed it, and after some experience this resonates quite well.
The speed of making progress was discussed. I feel like twitter has slowed down after they switched away from Rails. Maybe technically speaking they are having problem with Scala in terms of development speed? Does anyone know the specifics?
Homeless people and people living on social wellfare are seen as a pest pretty much everywhere in western societies.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-containment-plan/

That's a top city in one of the most powerful / rich country in the world, you don't have to look very far to find other examples.
How can you live in 2019 without an ad blocker? I'm on that page and never got any ads/intrusions.
You can add QA for publishers too.
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lol, my "higher purpose" is just finding something to commit to and committing to it. For a lot of people, that's marriage, but to me, I just want to do it better, faster, cheaper.
If you run a company you understand that you're not the person creating the profit. If every worker vanished you'd make zero profit (in fact you'd probably lose money because of static costs but depending on the scale you might still contribute some income to offset that).

Entrepreneurs don't create value, labor does. Entrepreneurs seed and lead organisations that direct labor towards profitable activities.

Bill Gates took a certain level of risk, yes. He also had a strong financial safety net and head start by sheer circumstance of his upbringing.

Unless every employee throughout the lifetime of Microsoft was compensated in actual proportion to their contribution to the overall profit of the company, Bill Gates didn't derive his wealth from his contributions but simply from those of his employees.

We have a cultural norm of hero worship but Bill Gates wouldn't be where he is if he had paid everyone their fair share. The reason we don't consider this is that we consider this to simply be how businesses operate.
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Let's ban PPT in lectures – it makes students more stupid and profs more boring
and until that exists?
Some years ago, I ported ngaro (the retroForth vm) to Go, and made it possible to launch goroutines and use channels. It was very cool.

However, it was Go pre-1.0, so it won't work now. For a while, it was maintained by Charles Childers - the original retroForth author - but I do not think the Go version is still available.

If you want to give it a try (making it work with the latest Go version shouldn't be difficult), have a look at:

https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/ngaro/src
If you get banned for something by Google, and create another account, they just ban you again - Look at the state of the google play store
I have little sympathy. Twitter's algorithms can shadow ban accounts at any time for seemingly any reason. I had my account locked for breaking a rule but I never found out what the rule I had broken was.

I sometimes have replies to me I can't see unless I search my username specifically.

Twitter support seems to be nothing more than a dumb script pretending to be a human. There's no transparency and all these anti-user features mean I for one an fed up with it.

When the internet was still young there was Usenet, which wasn't owned by a single corporation. Nowadays we have to submit to whatever whims these private companies dictate. There's no freedom of speech because they're private spaces. Unless we have something akin to Usenet or email where blocking can be done at individual levels but not mandated for everyone by a single corporation I don't want to take part any more.
Because that is a user-facing page, and this is a developer(/hacker?)-facing page. Anything listed on the contact page, particularly for larger organisations will get contacts from any slightly annoyed user who hasn't been able to make contact through other methods.

By putting this in a non-trivially discoverable (yet well-known) location it should cut down on exactly the kind of noise that makes keeping security vulnerability reporting channels open and clear hard.
I'd have thought that trying to eat a varied and balanced diet most of the time would be more beneficial to your gut microbiome than constantly artificially topping it up. The fact that people need to keep taking these things daily is evidence that they're not creating any kind of sustainable culture in there.
>pretend the two are interchangeable just because the USSR called itself communist.

You're not one of those that's still waiting for real communism to be implemented, because all the other attempts were done all wrong, are you?

>You're assuming the only alternative to laissez-faire capitalism

Where did I argue for laissez-faire capitalism? Pretty sure I only made the case for a market economy.

>why are you talking about communism

OP didn't make a case for regulating certain products or industries. OP made a case that individuals choosing how to spend their earnings is essentially misaligned societal resources ... as if they knew better.

>If we mandated shared ownership by all employees of businesses exceeding a certain size or revenue, would that be communism?

Yeah, you're on your way now. There are many Venezuelas on the road to Soviet Union.
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There is also the approach of https://querycombinators.org which is inspired by functional programming but results in a declarative language. Queries are composed of functions that can be named and tested separately.
Not reading an article with a silly title is the inverse of reading it.
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