skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, you mean collective employee action can be used to force an employer to stop exploitative behaviors? Who knew? :-)

I'm really glad to hear that Google made this step, now if they would drop the overly expansive ownership claim in their employment agreement and the right to surveillance on personal property it would be a much more employee friendly place.

I also hope that it gives them an edge in hiring which would encourage other employers to follow suit in order to be competitive.
I've been working in the industry in Tokyo for 15 years. And why should we care how everyone else uses the terms if we are professionals? Even the document's title says Automated trading.
Pretty cool, I guess I never picked up on the behavior because I am mostly on my laptop.
It seems that belief is unfounded. See the link posted by @xtian.
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Keeps the company's public image clean.
Is democracy good? If something has democratic support does that make it right/moral? There was democratic support for slavery in the US at one point, something to keep in mind.

If democracy is not necessarily good and does not bestow moral standing, then does the characteristic of being anti-Democratic automatically imply that it is bad or wrong?
I admit I felt some disappointment when I reached the end and there was no stats table. That said, I don't regret reading it. It was a well written post. Thank you for writing it.
If I were other companies, I'd be scrambling to prevent this from happening with my employees. Can't assume it'll spread without organized effort (hint, the U word).
Also have a professional proofread your posts. 'Around the bend' is not the connotation you were looking for.
"Balto" was also the name of Elizabeth Holmes' (of Theranos fame) dog:

For Holmes, the dog represented the journey that lay ahead for Theranos. As she explained to colleagues at the company’s headquarters, in Palo Alto, he was named after the world-famous sled dog who, in 1925, led a team of huskies on a dangerous, 600-mile trek from Nenana, Alaska, to remote Nome, Alaska, bearing an antitoxin that was used to fight a diphtheria outbreak. There is even a statue of Balto in New York’s Central Park, Holmes told one former employee. The metaphorical connection was obvious. In Holmes’s telling, Balto’s perseverance mirrored her own. His voyage with the life-changing drug was not so different from her ambition.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/inside-elizabeth-hol...
There is some cabin-wide or train-wide surveillance, sure. But there isn't a camera inches from your head pointed directly at your face, covering your entire seat in its FOV.

You might reasonably expect a bouncer or a security guard at a concert to be overlooking a crowd. You wouldn't expect one assigned specifically to you breathing in front of your face.
When you've already locked down your citizens, control all guns, and record their wrongthink in databases linked to credit and their livelihoods, there's probably less danger at any one point.

Hell there aren't mass shootings in China either. Again, authoritarians often cite Order as the result of just giving in to their oppressive tactics.
This is great but won't we be quickly limited by most providers Email Sending Limits?
With IM you're quickly over 100 messages per day.
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Forced arbitration overwhelmingly favors the employer.
From the article: "Forced arbitration ensures workplace disputes are settled behind closed doors and without any right to an appeal. These types of agreements effectively prevent employees from suing companies."

When employment contracts including a binding arbitration clause, the employee is agreeing to resolve conflicts privately with the company rather than through public means, such as a lawsuit. This reduces the public profile and resolution of such an action.
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Google USB-PD. Devices on either end of the USB cable could be dumb, and it would revert to some base minimum requirements (5V 500/900mA or so). But notebook may not be able to negotiate for higher power or higher voltage for charging.
I just don't go in with a toxic mindset and have never had a bad experience.

I'd rather not feel negatively for no reason, because it hurts me and doesn't help me in any way. Maybe you have a better reason to go through life unhappily, but I don't.
Those are some really good examples of the opposite of what you intended to say.

> * Wonky unwieldy hypertext systems instead of the WWW

Which ones? Gopher wasn't hypertext, but it is still going and still a good idea. A conversion to Gopher would be a huge usability and accessibility upgrade for many current websites.

> * The Nomad instead of the iPod

iTunes is garbage. iPods sucked until (certain models) had Rockbox ported to them.

> * The Blackberry instead of the iPhone

How about the Nokia n900 instead?

> * GNU Hurd instead of Linux

I'm "stuck" with BSD. Send help?

Ambitious projects are cool and should be encouraged. Being an ignoramus about existing developments (not saying that that is what the people behind Matrix are doing) and getting distracted by anything that claims novelty should not be. Hoare had a great bon mot about this: "Here is a language [Algol 60] so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors."
> Rather than “finding” the money to “pay” for universal healthcare, governments can electronically create money out of nothing. When inflation begins to rise, the state can employ its fiscal lever, taxing excess money out of the economy.

Yeah, but see, in the US at least, it's Congress that controls the taxes. Do you trust Congress to put the brakes on at the right time and to the right degree? Have you looked at Congress lately?

That's assuming that MMT actually works as advertised, which I think is quite an assumption. I think it's more likely that MMT = "Magic Money Tree" (I stole that; can't remember from where or I'd give credit where due). That is, MMT is a too-good-to-be-true offer of free money that won't work in reality.
> Should any contract be void if all of the parties to one side or another dies?

Well, in the words of Alexander Hamilton (paraphrased):

"We signed a treaty with a King whose head is now in a basket

Would you like to take it out and ask it?

Should we honor our treaty, King Louis' head?

'Uh do whatever you want, I'm super dead'"
Is the original data freely available on the net ?
I mean the courts make this public on the web ?
And aren't there plenty of interesting personal blogs out there?
The Trinity study said a conservative number was 4%. Since then a lot of people said "Well, I don't want a conservative number, I want a number that has no chance of failure", so went to 3.5% or 3%. Practically I don't think that's a wise choice, a vast majority of the time most of the time, any failures comes from sequence of returns risk and the remaining percent coming from simulated bad returns coupled with a very long life.

This means that as long as you're willing to cut back on expenses if the market dips soon after you retire, 4% is fine, and it's probably not worth the extra X years of your life to try to get that number lower.
You're right. My father was a gardener, so I should have known better than to feel that way. I saw him prepare the soil, sow the seeds, and give the plants the support they needed to thrive over time. Thinking about the process of gardening makes me understand how it could be a passion. What about the classes of passion? Can gardening be put on the same level as art? Why or why not? They certainly at least have a different pace about them. A painter can work quickly, but a gardener must have such patience. Obviously a painter also must have patience with the process as well. I would like to think of this in a more mathematical way. This idea that in the space of gardening there are certain operations and objects that are distinct from, let's say, the domain of music. When you look at it that way, what is the character of the constructive mathematics being done in these spaces? This is now apparently liberal arts news.
Optional as long as you're ok not having a job. I have yet to sign a contract with any SV company that doesn't include forced arbitration.
> How'd you get into the management consulting world? Is there a 500k/yr salary just waiting for me if I fake like I'm a Wall St guy from the 80s?

Straight from undergrad. I went to a tech-focused school, majored in math and CS, and did a financial course series as a requirement for a scholarship. That, and I guess I'm a good interviewer / have people skills?

> I can appreciate that you might need a wardrobe with nice suits, a respectable looking car, and a few stories about places you've been and things you've done. It doesn't seem like it would super hard to craft that image without spending a lot of money.

This is not difficult. I wore mostly hand me downs I had tailored. Worked in a big city, so lack of car was not a problem. I also had my fair share of 'stories' (mainly because being student body president at my college exposed me to a world of very rich people).

The difficult part is that you enter in 'classes'. You and thirty other people who just graduated start at the same time, and you are put through the grinder together. There is an expectation you do all your socializing in this group. For me, part of the problem was that I was engaged and planning our wedding, so I had to take time off to do that and not partake. The group would collectively decide to do things every single weekend. If you did not attend, you were ostracized. These were not things like playing board games together or even clubbing (although there was a lot of clubbing). These were things like, 'so and so has a birthday, let's go to Cabo!' or 'let's rent a boat' or 'let's rent a mansion'. These things cost a lot of money, and the company does not pay. However, if you do not invest in maintaining these relationships, you will face issues later on.

The company encourages this by throwing extravagant parties every few months. And I really mean extravagant.

For example, before we accepted the offer, we were all flown out for a weekend filled with free booze, clubs, etc. We were all 'beautiful people' so to speak (although, I personally think I was the ugliest person there). The company provides enough of an exposure to a lifestyle that it whets the appetites of status-seeking 22 year olds, who then seek to accomplish the same 'epicness' on the non-company-sponsored weekends.

> Is there a 500k/yr salary just waiting for me if I fake like I'm a Wall St guy from the 80s?

No. The salary is piss poor. Starting undergrads in 2014 made $75k/year in San Francisco at my firm. The big bucks only roll in after you've been there for many years (and thus have that large debt hanging on your neck).

As my first manager said, "you can wait until you're 30 to have a family and free time." She told me that the week before I quit.
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I believe you've misunderstood this. A function can be very long and do only one thing or very short and do many things.

The function:

func ManyThing(i int) int {
fmt.Println(i)
return i+1
}

does two things, and it's two lines long. The function tcp_send_message_locked (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/ipv4/tcp.c...) does one thing at it's 261 lines long.

Shorter code is _indicative of_ orthogonality (what he asks you to break on)__but_ it is not the same thing.
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>nobody eats the feathers and beaks and poop.

Well..chicken feathers and poop are fed to cows which are fed to people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry_litter#Use_as_cattle_f...
> Next up the 1K price point for these things.

$9.80 @10ku for the part on the Discovery. Not shipping yet, but other parts in the STM32MP family are.

https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/microcontrolle...
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I absolutely agree that this attitude exists, and it really is a shame, because a lot of people are limiting themselves from achieving real happiness.
It’s common for a programmer to want to write an algorithm that tries to beat the market. For better or worse, that’s what motivated me to want to learn how to code.

The wisdom of driving people away from trading does make sense however
I think Calacanis said it best: https://calacanis.com/2019/02/11/what-is-a-startup-vs-a-life...

VCs are optimizing for the unicorn, and there is nothing wrong going for the non unicorn either. It's just you shouldn't go for VC financing. If you make a business that hires 50 people and throws off $10 million a year to you, you'll probably make more than most founders ever will anyway after 3 years of that business.
I partially agree with you. I don't like audio books, because I prefer the pace of thinking and reading a book.

But, for conversational topics I love podcasts. Long form interviews (1-2-3 hours) that used to be impossible now can be done.
What exactly is the analogy being drawn here?
This is a helpful thought experiment that exercises what you're describing: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_as_theft#How_many_men...]
Well that is a click baity title. What he really meant was that encouraging people to trade stocks is a bad idea period (he is a big proponent of index funds).

I can't say I disagree with that, not that I would categorically lump all financial managers into the 'useless' category either.

But it is important to note that he uses 'trading' in the sense of actively taking and releasing positions in different stocks in order to capture their short term change in value. Not 'investing' which is buying and holding equity (stocks) in company that are growing or otherwise generating wealth (and ideally paying a dividend).
You're just describing weak willed people.
It's a bit disappointing their demo doesn't appear to leverage certificate transparency logs as a source of truth for which certs are out there and instead relies on pinging the server directly
With respect -- a long haul flight in economy (or even premium economy) and a long haul in business class (not to mention first class on airlines that offer that) are VERY different experiences.

In many business class seats, they are designed so that you cannot even see the person adjacent to you unless you specifically put your head out of the curved herringbone shell -- and that's when you're sitting. If you're laying flat, your head is completely obscured by the seat.

Delta and Qatar have doors on some of their business class seats.

People walking through the cabin can observe people sleeping, of course -- but these products are literally designed for sleeping and privacy. It's one of the reasons they charge such a premium for those tickets.
> That regulation and consumer protection designed to reign in their abuses won't be a problem for them, and will hurt the little guy. It's interesting how loud they plead that they won't be hurt by regulation aimed at them.

If this is really aimed so squarely at them, it could be worded more precisely to just target say "multinational corporations with monopolies in on-demand media distribution", but it's not. This is because the aim is to yes, extract as much money from Google etc. as possible, but also to make sure there's nothing that could ever replace YT because it would be handicapped from the get go.

> The answer is that that line of argument is bull---- and always has been. Small outfits using reasonable moderation practices will never have a problem with any sort of copyright regulation.

Again, it could have been made very explicit that that's the case, in fact amendments in that direction have been proposed and rejected.

> Because a real, human person must be handling appeals, rather than the little automatic deny that Google currently does. It will cost YouTube a massive amount of money to adopt this on it's scale

As problematic as YT is, I highly doubt this is an attempt to promote the adoption of PeerTube etc. Rather, it is likely to be an attempt to crush an outlet where almost anyone can become big without a publisher.

> but will cost small websites or platforms nothing: They already have humans that read their email.

Email? Huh? I don't think "John's Portfolio Website" is the concern here. The concern is a small business that is a platform, say a new Reddit, or even a YouTube alternative. Say this does displace YouTube. How is an alternative with 5 employees going to deal with this?

Also, you didn't address the privacy question. What about platforms that perhaps want to offer zero-knowledge file storage/upload? Are we fine with this being just dead now, or what?

P.S. Also, it's not always the case that because something may inconvenience a monopoly, (Google), that it is automatically beneficial to everyone else. Article 13 is specifically NOT worded to target JUST Google-size businesses.
The thing is, if the employer and the employee both wanted arbitration, neither would need to be forced into it - something along the lines of "arbitration is always available as an option with consent of all parties" written into the contract would be perfectly fine.
I further like the idea in that it can expand as a product in several directions.

Eg. Also do a dns txt lookup for "chat" which can have a specialised server that the recipient is in control of (or subscribes to). It could bypass the legacy issues of email, but still provide a fallback in case the recipient uses email only.
If it is such a huge benefit to everyone then both parties will simply always agree to it in the pre-lawsuit negotiation phase, and you don't need a preexisting agreement to mandate it.

Corporations often insist on adding it to their employment contracts and employees almost never insist it be added to an employment contract that was missing it, so you can guess who it benefits.
> Not because they win and decide they have had enough...no-one

I was lucky in that I had my CS qualifications. I left 6 months in, and got a better paying job. Only gave them a weeks notice.
Why isn't forced arbitration illegal?

You're effectively agreeing to renounce to your rights to sue a company. Seems odd that US laws allows that.

Or, is the clause only that arbitration has to be attempted but not binding to the fact that an agreement may be reached?

This case would seem far less evil.
I don't understand something.

> 5.1. Consider fewer, larger packages

> 5.2. Keep package main small as small as possible

If you have one package, which is the main package, then how are you supposed to keep it small, and at the same time not creating more packages because somehow that is the work of the devil? He is telling me to try to fit everything into one package, but at the same time keep it really small. It is not going to work. Maybe I misunderstood?
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Super wise gentleman, thoughtful speaker, inspirational story... not always right though... Trading stocks, or active investment is important for the ecosystem, and having people learn hard lessons like not to gamble with money they can't afford to lose is equally valuable. Free Markets depend on willing participants, and progressively greater efficiencies (including in investment)

Epsilon Theory has a couple of notes regarding Berkshire => e.g.
- https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1098596558495453187
- [thread] https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1096360266416209920
Investopedia makes the same mistake. When you sleep and computer makes you some money, it's automated trading, systematic trading, mechanical trading. This kind of trading was in the industry for centuries: you incent some rules and follow them. Algoritmic trading is about executing large orders by slicing them and filling them thru a trading day. These are the terms seriours industry professionals are using. If you apply for algo trading job in a bank you will not be writing a cash making bot.
People preorder something like this with missing specs? I like the philosophy of it but I'm not handing over $600+ without knowing all the hardware info. I'm not interested if all the specs don't exceed those of my Pixel 2, which will be at least two years old when the Librem 5 is released.
If you believe that democracy is a good feature of government, then policy outcomes (such as, arguably, the existence of billionaires) which threaten the effectiveness of that agreed-upon-good are failures. This is not saying that that which has democratic support is right/moral, it's about allowing the existence of the institution we nominally support and allow for its uninterfered operation.

If, conversely, you don't believe that democracy is a good feature of government, there are bigger things to discuss than the impact of wealthy individuals on that process.

A lot of these discussions take this framing for granted.
Euclid’s lost 6th Postulate:

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> “Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.”

Good life advice, especially for dealing with people who have a tendency to boast of their accomplishments.
The parent comment is just replying to say that it's anti-democratic. You're side-stepping the question with an orthogonal one.

There's no perfect political system. Despots can be good and they can be bad; they can free the serfs, or they can instigate a genocide. But unlike well-implemented democracies, despots have a single point of failure. What happens when the 'enlightened' despot is wrong?
Yep

https://www.ziosk.com/the-experience

"Scan coupons and gift cards with the built-in camera"
I'm of the same mind. I never considered being on a plane a private space, any more than being on a subway or bus.

In terms of corporate espionage, our security tells us to never work on sensitive documents while on a plane as it's considered a "public space".
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Does this mean it doesn't support standard linux socket operations, or am I misreading it?
Segment is a good concept but when they bumped their pricing up to ludicrous mode, it justified a small rewrite to reproduce their functionality in our back-end to drop them and we haven't looked back. No way i'll be going back to their service factoring that experience.

Interested to see what the back-end of this 'free period' will cost for the startups who get in bed with them - $120 per month for up to 10k MAU and then 'custom' pricing beyond that according to their pricing page.

It's worth a lot less than that to us.
Two fit bits, with a recorded stop time for each of you (offset a little bit so that the part immediately before you went to sleep is repeated). When you wake up, the segment in between the two stop times has already been extracted and sent to whoever fell asleep first so that they can catch up before jointly continuing the podcast with their partner before bed.
>Tax all of europe X amount of money and shift that wealth to indonesia and ASEAN to achieve an equal living standard?

You're literally the most evil person I have ever seen on the internet. High IQ Europeans, who have secular values, who have the greatest respect for human rights, who invest a lot in their children, and who already suffer under an excessive regulatory/tax burden, do not owe the rest of the world anything.
Roderick from Backblaze. All of that is of great interest to us and I can assure you that we are monitoring the TCO of different approaches to data storage. Due to the very high number of drives we purchase, we have close relationships with drive manufacturers, who make sure we know about the latest tech. FYI, they all closely read our Drive Stats posts.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I would be okay with an IR camera scraping audience engagement at a movie or a concert or a billboard - even after hearing the slippery slope hypotheticals against it.
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