skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh. Blame the unions.

Except, Amazon doesn’t need to get bigger.

As a company, Amazon isn’t an essential part of my life, nor do I necessarily want them to become such a thing.
> If you believe that labor is not an exception to the law of supply and demand...

It's not an exception, but there are other concepts in economics that apply as well, like the multiplier effect.
Behind paywall
tumblr.com manages to hit 3 don'ts out of 4: modal login window, magic links and multi-stage login where you have to enter your username first, then password on another page. It's extremely painful.
Mprotect should work because even under speculation the CPU shouldn't allow a read to an invalid address to be executed. Meltdown shows that some CPUs speculate even this sort of checks, but it seems that it is not inherently required for an high performance implementation.
Anyone can supply drugs. It's getting it's distribution that's hard. Silk road used USPS for distribution.
And what happens when the VC funds lose money that they got from government run pension funds and the taxpayers have to make up the difference?
Breakthrough Propulsion Study
> Businesses just like people benefit from the conditions created through government spending, and therefore have some degree of obligation to support that spending via taxation

The issue is that a minimum wage isn't a general tax on businesses that benefit from the conditions created through government spending, it's a tax on only those businesses that hire unskilled workers.

If you want a wage subsidy then why put the burden on the small shops that were keeping people out of unemployment instead of spreading the burden evenly by instituting a UBI?
The big difference is that amanita muscaria is a hallucinagen, so if that got popular it would probably end up as a schedule 1 drug...
> That's a rehash of a number of silly 'nothing to hide' pseudo arguments.

We shouldn't so dismissive of the "so what" attitude that is pervasive in this neverending stream of data collection articles. Many are using their opinion of "great harm" to influence their cries for oversight, I think it's only fair for others to use their opinion of "no harm" to counter it. GP didn't say they had nothing to hide, they said what was collected was harmless and that opinion, especially given the tradeoff in services received, is widely held and it's ok.
Nobody is going to be a sperm donor anymore because of consumer DNA testing. It's not worth the risk. Just wait until some court makes the donor pay child support.
This seems to be the relevant poll:

https://scri.siena.edu/2019/02/12/majority-support-nys-deal-...
Merchants are usually liable for fraud losses (both the loss in good or services + a fee imposed by the bank for the privilege...). This is on top of the transaction costs. Those transaction costs do not cover fraud liability or losses.
Using this[1] map created from the Dutch census data (which included religious affiliation), the Nazis were able to very efficiently send about 3/4 of the black dots on that map to be murdered in the camps.

Collecting that census data probably seemed reasonable at the time. The new use case that needed a new way of aggre4gating and presenting the data happened later, almost as an emergent property. The only y to prevent problems that haven't been invented yet is to minimize the attack surface: if the records don't exist, they can't be misused.

[1] https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/uploads/archive/museum/topstuk...
Supply and demand are not linearly correlated even if you do subscribe to this "law", so increasing the minimum wage may have a disproportionately small impact on overall job numbers, meaning greater total wealth held by minimum wage workers in aggregate. Do you really think Subway franchises are running on such razor thin margins that they'd be forced to shutter stores if they had to pay their workforce marginally more?
The application fee for a new tld is $185,000 not $10,000.
The Parkland school shooting is bringing new surveillance tech to schools
The creator is intentionally not knowable. The idea is that every client has a copy of all public data so hiding it from the computer technician seems like a pointless objective.
The fact that GP disagrees with them.
Use a VPN or proxy?
> But they don't even want to talk about it.

I think that's a broad generalization, perhaps of your own experiences. There are enough people on the cutting edge that you can constructively talk with.

But remember it's still a meritocracy: 'they' might listen to you, but will only take you seriously if you present your own work to them.
How does this compare to KubeFlow?
Any particular reason for the license choice? AGPL may create some friction with potential contributors. Is it related to the business offering?
Leave it to google to break up something like this.
setting umask 027 is mentioned by the CIS as well
> When you choose to call out a person/company (good or bad) in an electronic public square, I think it's fair for other people/companies to jump into the conversation if they so choose.

It's also tacky and annoying. None of the intended participants in the conversation want that, and that kind of behavior is either going push the conversation onto private channels or motivate blocking.

A lot of people value an audience of "real people like me, minus the corporate hustlers and corporate ad-bots." It's unfortunate that are current society lets the latter swoop in an choke to death all kinds of good things.
It isn't toxic but neither is it compromise. Compromising is when two parties meet in the middle. Amazon left, that's not compromise.
In this exact hypothetical: yes, they are. Profit on a middle of America subway is something like 3-20k/year. It’s not much.
Funny how the brain works.

People do realize something is happening. It’s why so many think Facebook is “listening” to their conversations then showing ads for “products I’ve never searched for then talked to about with a friend”. No, FB inferred you would buy it because your friend just did.

It’s hard to comprehend the effects of data collection. Which, of course, makes it even more powerful.
DEC wanted to sell Alphaservers (and VMS). Altavista was a great demonstration of scale and speed and distributed computing (versus a giant mainframe). Crawling and indexing speed. Tons of open ip connections, security,etc were all selling points. Bring large customers to see the physical Altavista and also the ip exchange helped sell lots of systems. DEC was a hardware company. Google wasn’t. Made a lot of difference in priorities.
Again, there is no justification for just jumping in and writing code. Would you cut wood without measuring it first? Would you start soldering without laying out a circuit? Would you write an essay without an outline? You could do all of these things, but the results are guaranteed to be crap.
Google is the registry and not the registrar. That’s why they are ultimately responsible.
> Dev didn't say they made a Common Lisp -- just a Lisp.

The first line in the README after the title is:

> A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in COBOL.
From Wikipedia - "On 8 January 1996, shortly after the publication of the Italian edition of his book The Art Forger's Handbook, Eric Hebborn was found lying in a street in Rome, having suffered massive head trauma possibly delivered by a blunt instrument. He died in hospital on 11 January 1996.[4]"
What makes you think LIC wouldn't have seen both if Amazon stayed? Your line of thinking amounts to "the fewer big inevestments there are, the more smaller investments will make up for it."
CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg 2005 [video]
To take on reproducibility crisis, researchers develop data-sharing platform
WireGuard for MacOS
Too many people exist compared to the past. Optimization has made it where less employees can cater compared to the past. People used to die earlier in life and inheritance was more of an impact upon spending. I doubt we're even seeing the worst situations from people living off minimum wage. Give it 20 more years and people will riot (if not already) or universal income will have rolled out by then.

I live close to my employer and take Uber when I rarely need to go somewhere far. A good amount of the drivers I've spoken to, have a middle class job and they're driving on the side. They do it for a few hours after work or on weekends and typically are raising a family. Minimum & even middle wage isn't what it used to be. A stay at home parent used to be possible for middle class and not only if you're in the upper range is when it can be feasible. Unless the stay at home parent can do work at home on the side it's not possible anymore for the low tiers.
Is Uber really a tech company? Sure they do some R&D on the side, but they are first and foremost a mostly unlicensed taxi company with a ride-hailing app - I think the proper term is "e-hailing company".
Is that something PG said? I don’t think unions killed Wang or DG?
The only poll I'm aware of shows very strong support:

https://news.yahoo.com/poll-majority-yorkers-supported-amazo...

>A significant majority (56 percent) of all New Yorkers approved of the plan while 36 percent disapproved. Among New York City residents support was slightly stronger at 58 percent.

>Support was most pronounced among minorities: 70 percent of black voters approved while just 25 percent disapproved, and 81 percent of Latinos approved compared to 17 percent who disapproved.

Not sure about LIC in particular.

I think what the OP is referring to by "toxicity" is the intense hatred and lowered standard for truth that's typical for so much of politics.

The idea that the jobs are the problem, rather than the cities' willingness to accommodate newcomers, could also be considered quite toxic.

It's been really funny to see Seattle lumped in with SF on these things. Seattle's problems are nowhere near the scale of SF because SF has refused to accommodate even a tiny fraction, whereas Seattle is trying much harder and building up infracsturcture and allowing housing to move forward.
Hi all, author of Dgraph and the article here.

Glad to see this post trending on HN. I'm around if you want to ask any questions, and will share whatever I can about my experience with graphs and the decisions at Google.

Since leaving Google, I've built Dgraph [1]. It is open source, designed for horizontal scalability, ACID transactions and provides incredible performance for both reads and writes. And of course, it solves the join-depth problem as explained in the post. So, do check it out!

And do remember to give us a star on GitHub [1]. Your love helps other open source users give Dgraph a real shot in their companies with similar leadership struggles as I experienced at Google.

[1]: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph
Did you read the article? The implication is that union discussions caused the pullout, not the "toxic minority voices". It's more evidence of Amazon's relentless exploitation of labor.
I'm not sure what you mean. NYC being a thriving city with lots of employers and lots of growth even without the special concessions to Amazon is obvious to everyone. (Even Google, for instance, announced significant additional investment on top of their existing presence just a few days ago.) The effects of Amazon HQ2 are now a firm hypothetical. Is that what you mean by fantasy and reality?
>Amazon not being there doesn't necessarily mean there will be more of something else...

I don't know man?

In most places I might agree with you, but in places like NYC and Silicon Valley?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it means more of something else. Sometimes it can be easy to underestimate the size and dynamism of those two economic engines.
What you're pointing out is definitely an important contradiction. Talking about "mom and pop" shops is a bit of a distraction -- a minimum wage gives even large companies an excuse to become some of the worst offenders, which, in part, contributes to the VC-style sytem.

Take a company like Amazon. Up until recently, they were known for paying their own warehouse workers low or minimum wage and working them like dogs. This is a highly profitable company. What have highly profitable companies done with their profits, by and large, since 2009? Stock buybacks and other types of security investments. This increases the pool of money that can be used for speculation by the wealthy -- and VCs, who can then "speculate" and keep otherwise "non-viable" businesses afloat.

So while I don't necessarily agree with what you say about the small shops, you do have a valid point. These are structural problems.
I always thought gTLD has the same restriction as sTLD (for example, .aero is strictly for airline-related domains, or .mobi that must be optimized for mobile, which TBL strongly disagrees[1], etc.) but in reality I guess it's more like ccTLD where they're free to do whatever they want with the domain.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD
I don't get it...the politicians in power wanted it and so did the people https://news.yahoo.com/poll-majority-yorkers-supported-amazo... . Of course Amazon wasn't expecting a 100% "please come here" vote.
We have seen demonstrable evidence throughout history that "regulation" alone does not constitute the competitiveness of the market or the cost of housing. It is in large part a straw man formulated by the GoP to deregulate megacorps for increased quarterlies wearing the shawl of improving the market for the everman. It is why, in large part, almost all regulation that would be decried as noncompetitive is propped up by special interest lobbies because it enables regulatory capture by monopolists.

Not to say there is no bad regulation, or that we are in a good state of regulation today, but thinking sliding this "regulation" bar up or down does anything but make the rich richer is naive as all hell. The first people to capitalize on new markets opened up by deregulation will be those with the most resources to exploit it, and there are infinite scenarios and influencers that impact business or housing that can drive prices up or down way more dramatically than contemporary regulation:

* The availability of credit to start business
* The demand for whatever your new business would provide
* The variables burdened upon employers to provide for their workers in the US that aren't levied upon them elsewhere (mostly healthcare)
* The culture and climate of the area in regards to new business. Some parts of the country are so startup / business hostile local NIMBYs would protest a non-accredited business startup.
* For real estate, its not just the draconian zoning and NIMBYism that drives prices, its the rampant use of it as an investment by the rich.
* That is in large part caused by gross wealth inequality giving the rich so much money they cannot reasonably invest it in productive business so they hoard it in housing.
* Developers will cater to the largest market of capital for housing, and right now - and for the better part of a decade, and to lesser degrees more further back than that - that has been the ultrarich who want properties that accrue value.

And infinite numbers more than that. Nothing, especially the equilibrium of necessities and the general labor market, is as one dimensional as "we need less regulation and everything would be better!"
> so hiding it from the computer technician seems like a pointless objective.

Scary in jurisdictions where possession is a strict liability offence.
These companies grew up with local data protection laws. UK's Data Protection Act 2018 implemented GDPR, repealing the DPA of 1998, which repealed the DPA of 1984.
I like reading this comment thread on why google may have been superior to altavista. It gives a more “adult” perspective on something I remember as a kid.

I was in middle or high school, and remember using several different search engines: altavista, lycos, yahoo, dogpile, etc. they all were bulky portals and search results probably weren’t great (that’s why I used so many).

Then one day a friend said “hey have you used google?” I said no, and he showed me.

-it was clean/simple

-the search page (and results) loaded really fast

-the search results must’ve been better as well

-I remember I liked the quirkiness of it too. It felt fun to use Google

From that day on I only remember using Google, until recently given their size, been using Duck Duck Go more often. It’s pretty good for regular search (though maybe 10% queries return some less relevant results than Google) but product search still has a long way to go.
Add or inflate the tip, then cash out.

Customer A has an open tab, customer B pays with cash, put B's drink on A's tab and pocket the cash.
Friends don’t let friends work at Amazon
There are icann rules for launching a tld. There is a period for tm holders. Most companies are going to get their company.dev during the tm period. If they don’t, three is always the udrp process.
That only works if the VC money runs out before your alternative goes out of business. A company with enough reserves killing local competition by undercuting it so much that everyone trying to compete has to lose money isn't unheard of.
I agree with you. He had more leverage if he said:

my ISP blocks 8.8.8.8.
I cannot activate chrome cast.
Many of the list are pop-maths rather than fundamental texts.

I do see many in software field recommend Chrystal:Algebra an Elementary Textbook.

I also find Don Knuth, 'Concrete Mathematics' a interesting book for software people.
Your theories about cheap housing being a boon for everyone is hardly a thorough, long-term analysis. Plenty of history shows that constructors will cut corners for profit and build unsafe and/or unattractive housing that is ultimately a negative impact on an area. There are also other problems with lack of restrictions, like how it is easier to tear up and build over virgin land than pave over old developments. This is the reason the industry is regulated. There’s no need to prove that to ourselves here on once more - has that theory worked recently in other countries?

Do you have any evidence or logic to demonstrate that people are inadequately houses currently due to over-regulation and not one of the other dozen factors? Such as (germane to the topic...) low wages relative to high prices, which can result from many economic causes such as interest rates, immigration and income disparity. For example, there’s plenty of housing being built in Denver right now, for people who can afford $2000 a month for a small apartment. The only factor stopping them from building apartments for $1000 a month is a profit motive, in that upscale developments have a higher margin. How would you propose to change that by deregulation?
This view of supply and demand is incomplete. Under your line of thinking there would never be issues of over supply. Which is of course wrong. During the financial crisis there was too much supply of housing that wouldn't be purchased at any price. See farming as an industry where too much supply can result in the need to sell product at a loss. Supply and demand is not some magical system that always balances. Artificial interference and externalities can absolutely throw it into negative-sum territory.
- Your Android/iOS phone.

- Github account : https://github.com/settings/profile

- Twitter : https://twitter.com/settings/account
> Many people do not realize that Amazon leaving doesn't mean +$3B in their pocket it means $0 and even less than zero in the long term.

I don't think that logic makes sense. The absence of Amazon doesn't mean that the land is razed and the earth salted. It means other companies, without the $3B in concessions, can grow there instead. They could be other giant tech companies, they could be small businesses, they could be anything, but someone is likely to move forward with the land. It may or may not be $3B, but it certainly will be more than zero in the short term and the long term.
It's going to sound elitist but it's kinda obvious: the old internet was predominantly youngish STEM academics and tech professionals. I.e. smart people. It also created a lot of tribal alignment which meant that serious moral and ethical conflict was rare.

That said, we also grew up, and now I'm sure a lot of those conversations would seem as inane as the average Discord shitpost. Which, tbh, is terrible... The anime superstimulus girls are grotesque in their exaggerated neoteny, the memes are artless cos the baseline is now what you can glue together on a phone, and the background murmur is gossip pulled in from social media, like a hen party on coke.

I have managed to meet enough interesting people over the years that I can still sustain interest even at age 35, but it's tough. Most people my age are too busy tending their kids, which has permanently distracted them from hanging out, and has turned many into insufferably bland soccer moms.

For the remaining participants it also takes some serious commitment to actually engage in good faith and not let calcified attitudes trump it, for the topics you wanna talk about at middle age. Cos it turns out there's a pretty big difference between saying you're tolerant and open minded among a group of samey youngsters who know jack, and actually being those two things.

That said, at middle age you also just know better what you want. No amount of discussion will convince me sportsball is for me... Most movies are formulaic and predictable because that's what the masses respond to... Math and science is hard and it's taught entirely wrong but the people who can fix it have better things to do than be teachers... SQL is kinda shit and mainly serves as job security for the data priests and constabularies.

(But hey, I'm @geodesic#8759 on discord, hmu if you're interesting)
So why not have an automatic login button next to the password that, when clicked, checks your e-mail to use the correct one?
> It's more evidence of Amazon's relentless exploitation of labor.

That's one interpretation. Another interpretation is it's more evidence of the inefficiencies and corruption created by the current unions.

The truth is probably somewhere in between.
Any books on how to do proofs, that also includes solutions?
No, angry commenter, that is not the only advantage Magic Wormhole has over PGP.
Uber is also in the flying taxi business.

Alternately, Uber attaches their public messaging to external hype cycles and, in fact, is just a taxi business.
I'd assume its two-fold:

The deed itself; the kick of doing something which isn't allowed.

Owning the stolen goods; owning something unique akin to a trophy.

However a legit buyer of a piece of art can show it off (like people -mostly male, it seems- seem to have this urge to show off materialistic things such as their cars or smartphones). Someone who stole something, especially if its unique, cannot show it off because it increases the chance of them getting busted. So eventually, they need a normal income while they own these expensive trophies, or they need to launder the goods. Which doesn't work very well with such unique antiquities.
Not working with JS disabled is bad, but not working on a major modern browser is ridiculous.
If you treat people as commodity then I guess this kind of reasoning might work.
So you think the number of jobs in NYC is a fixed constant? That every extra job created by amazon is one less job elsewhere? That’s the literal opposite of dynamism.
Consider getting screened for ADHD by a professional.

While it's impossible to build a case from one anecdote, some aspects of your story are all warning bells – the hyperfocus on "unproductive" parts of the decisionmaking process, getting lost, decision fatigue, analysis paralysis, and lack of action unless there's external accountability.

Understanding these underlying problems are very helpful to be able to stick with the other tools provided in this thread.
Out of curiosity, what kind of work are you doing in Go?