skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neoliberalism generally refers not just to a set of economic theory but to a whole political ideology. A common application is the idea that privatising any public assets and reducing regulation will lead to better service and lower cost to consumers, or that lower company taxes will lead to economic growth, but after almost fifty years of this being the mainstream modus operandi in the west this has basically failed every time we've implemented policy based in the ideology. All that happens is that (in aggregate) wealth is shifted more and more towards the already wealthy. So it's not just a misused model, it's a theory and ideology that says it will achieve one thing but consistently does something else (and generally worse for most of society).

An interesting thing about neoliberalism is that it often purports to just be about 'free-market' but isn't really. It actually relies on Government to create a lot of the wealth which is shifted to wealthy people through privatisation, and relies on Government to protect monopolies, subsidise private sector activity etc.

For example, in Australia we have universal healthcare (basically the complete opposite of neoliberalism) that the right-wing of politics has been trying to cut funding to and sell off for the last 30 years or so, but so far have failed (it's political poison). At the same time, anybody can choose to use private hospitals, and to do that you really need health insurance. But our public system is so high quality that in general most people would rather just use that (the main exception being waiting times for elective surgery given underfunding). So to keep the private insurers in business, the Government brought in a health insurance rebate where they basically pay a quarter or so of your health insurance premium. At the same time, if you make a certain salary, you are penalised for not having private health insurance through an extra tax. So most people earning average wage or above do. This is purportedly to take pressure off the public system, but studies have shown that the public system is actually quite a bit more efficient than the private system here.

This latter scheme is based in the neoliberal ideology. Even though it would be a lower cost to society to just divert that rebate into the public system (where every 10c more goes to patient care for dollar spent vs. the private system according to studies), this way the private insurers are subsidised with public funds.
After trying several tools.
I did choose and use Devonthink[1](https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvi...).
It is easy, cloud sync, encryption, plugins and is very smart.
I can collect all kind of data (web pages, csv, json, formated) and it always fit nicely.
Give a try

[1] - https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvi...
This would be awesome to make an embeddable, html form, so essentially any website you want to share links with your friends from, can be done on the website itself coming from your email address.
It’s piggybacking off of IMAP/SMTP, so you use your existing email provider.
Damn, I had this idea once, shame I didn't do anything with it. This looks like something I'll actually use though!
Deep neural nets approximate polynomial regression. That's probably the limit now.
Unfortunately, out of the 13 Danish MEPs, only 2 are against with 1 having no track record.

:(
Right, we certainly would never have a global credit crisis, blowup, and ill-justified austerity based on rigorous quantitative financial economics.

On the topic of the article: The desire to focus on questioning whether a framework for economic analysis and planning is achieving outcomes for humans that we want isn't properly and morally substituted by 'rigor' papering over one's policy preferences if those human outcomes are at odds with the human outcomes we want. If that makes less sense than I intended, let me simplify: A key part of the scientific method is examination of whether what you are doing is even working.
Ask HN: How to Convince Customers to Switch from One-Time Fee to Subscription
How would you convince customers from an industry who are used to paying one-time fee for a product to move to a subscription based model? What would be your compelling argument(s)? What approach would you use to nudge them towards a subscription model?
IIRC you can also pay with a CC inside (less likely to have a skimmer at register).

I had to a couple times when driving to California for an internship, because despite telling my CC company this I didn't specify exactly what days I would pass through which states, so even after entering my billing ZIP (and calling to confirm, yes, I assure you I'm traveling) I'd be forced to pay inside.

You had to specify a specific amount though and most interestingly, if you overshot (asked for 50, used 46) they refunded the difference in cash.

Personally, since I am not responsible for credit card fraud, I simply choose to have a separate card for re-occuring payments like my phone and internet. If someone skims my daily spending card, I'll just report it as fraud and not worry about it.
> And sure, maybe (maybe) the legal system will penalize the driver, but is it going to change anything? No, because our society has decided that cars are more important and we're not going to curtail our usage of cars at all, and accidents like this are unavoidable because of the nature of cars and ever-increasing traffic.

Yes, this is the problem that is being discussed -- and the problem that we really need to solve, for a host of reasons ranging from public health to climate stability -- and it is a distraction from discussions of this problem (and also, condescending and unnecessary advice) to suggest that the victims of reckless motorists try harder to not be victims.
Sure, if it's a marginal cost increase or if you're wealthy.

But middle-income families typically aren't going to spend 25-50% more on a comparable product to save on CO2.

There was a big push decades ago to buy American, but it largely failed because for the majority of people living paycheck to paycheck, spending 25-50% more to have an American flag sticker on your purchase wasn't worth it.
Isn’t this what EXPLAIN ANALYZE is for though?
Apple's 'Modular' Mac Pro Design May Mean Units That Connect Like Lego Bricks
I guess not. But he was still in prison for 2 years. And anyone else can be put in prison for 2 years without actually comitting a crime too. The CFAA is just that vague. And they likely won't have the legal support that weev did.

That's the real precedent here. The feds can and will throw you in prison for years for not comitting a crime.
One of the more difficult parts of self hosting with a service like digital ocean is managing your own database. Luckily DO just introduced managed postgres databases. Also you can use DO load balancer so you don't have to manage a load balancer and deal with setting up let's encrypt ssl certs, and only have to worry about deploying your web app. I wouldn't go with docker for production just yet because while docker is great for immutable servers and dev/ops parity, it makes things like secret management, logging and monitoring more complicated.
I use the cheapest Philips Wake-Up lamp and it works great for me (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F0W1RIW/). The down side is that the alarm is crappy so I drilled out the piezo speaker with a small drill bit.
Okay cool, how can I get in touch with your ex then and let her know about this conversation?
Adding Feature Flags Service to a Rails App [video]
I'd be surprised if that's the case, as surely somebody else would have replicated it by now. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-investment-strategies-of-... describes something that sounds much more complex than what could be achieved by linear regression alone.
>I've skimmed the relevant passages and it didn't seem to me like she's claiming anything that's not true.

The "link tax" is certainly a false claim. Paragraph 1 of Article 11[0] clearly states:

>The protection granted under the first subparagraph shall not apply to acts of hyperlinking.

Also:

>The rights referred to in the first subparagraph shall not apply in respect of uses of individual words or very short extracts of a press publication.

[0]: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Art_11_unoff...
Citizen Scientist Finds Ancient White Dwarf Star with Puzzling Rings
Maybe that's a notable fact because markets are equivocally equated with capitalism. Mutualism[1] is also a socialist economic theory and is a form of market socialism[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism
Hmm, it seems we need to have some discussions about civility in this country. It seems like people have become confused about its role and why its important. I guess it's easy to lose sight of that when the President goes around calling people childish nicknames.
I've found it hard to find out who was responsible for PLRA, but what I do know is that it seemed to enjoy wide congressional support, received little scrutiny, was signed into law by Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden was one of the only senators who raised concerns about it preventing meritorious lawsuits. [1]

[1] https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-100-issue-2/please-pa...
We use plenty of research from Nazi scientists, that's actually a horrible example, lol.
Understand Recruitment: 11 Industry Jargon to Make You a Better Professional
Hi tptacek,

You're absolutely right. I'm revisiting the AES. Thaks for pointing it out. As for the rest, this is absolutely a wrapper around it -- working with tweetnacl.js directly could sometimes create a barrier of entry to developers. I wanted to make it easier for myself and others. There was already multiple references to dchest's tweetnacl, but I added more, because his library is awesome.

Thanks for posting the article previously talking about nacl. ;) This was a reaction to that.
If anything there's too many good podcasts - I usually set my device to keep the five most recent, and there are good shows I simply don't get to.

(I never could "zone out" and program while a podcast is on like some people, I need ambient/classical/electronic music to do that)
But while those policies didn’t benefit the public they did benefit the people who formulated the policies. That’s the smoking gun. When someone shoots themselves in the foot it is likely an accident. If someone shoots me in the foot and somehow winds up with my wallet in their hands, I’m inclined to think it was intentional.
Yea, I think you're right that most people believe in regulated markets, but the question is how to regulate them.

A lot of ideas on the Left have government paying for and executing public services (single pay healthcare, etc.), which can work some times, but can be subject to lack of accountability and poor efficiency.

These next-gen neoliberals are more likely to recommend public-private partnerships of various kinds where the government is paying / overseeing the execution by competitive private entities.
I was shocked to see that quote in this context. The author is an idiot to even use that term even in irony.
It would have useful overlap here, but an awesome "Falsehoods about Programmers" would also be helpful.
Ask HN: Factors Any YC Company Will Consider When Hiring a Dev Agency?
We are building a team focussed on Javascript, react.js and related technologies for providing product development services to startups. What are some factors important to any YC company while hiring a dev agency for their work? Thanks in advance for inputs/ideas :)
I'm going off topic at this point but I'd think for a native app the main advantages of a binary format would be the static typing and code generation that come from using an IDL.
I'd recommend quicksy if she's really clueless. It's an xmpp client that uses the users phone number as identifier and does autodiscovery with the users address book to check if any of their contacts are registered too. That functionality aside it's still a fully functional xmpp client, so you can talk to her with conversations, gajim, dino etc if you want.
Plea bargaining makes innocent people admit to things they didn't do. Given the choice to plead guilty and receive 30 days in jail vs taking a chance in court at the risk of 3 years in jail, which would you take? Not to mention the insane costs of hiring a lawyer, which only wealthy people can afford. With the current trend of "guilty until proven innocent", it's no wonder folks take this approach.
Police Boss Unloads on Smollett Over Alleged Race Hoax
I do try to get it right or the Red Hat affected cve pages.

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-8912

The problem is one can only really talk about CVE's within the context of the product, perhaps a global CVE wiki /discussion page that can have edits/discussion would be a useful resource.
Bogus NIST.
I have seen other users bring this up, so I think it should be stated in its own parent comment: most of the public uses yahoo or gmail to host their email, so chatting with them is all tracked by yahoo or google. That is something that needs to be addressed.
Some points to ponder:

- You're doing this to yourself, buddy. There's always more work to be done; it's not your responsibility to do all of it.

- You're not going to outrun a train by running faster on the same railroad tracks.

- When (not if, but when) you finally crack up, you won't get a word of thanks for your efforts. They'll just ease you out of the company (gently or, more likely, not) and hire someone else to replace you.

My advice is:

- Gradually start padding your estimates until your work fits into a 40 hour week.

- Learn to say "no" or at least "not right now" to requests from other people and other teams.

- If you get dinged by your management chain for reducing your pace, find a new employer ASAP. Good managers want their employees to work at a sustainable pace because replacing good employees is expensive and risky. You clearly don't have good managers.
One thing is the metrics and, another, the model that you use to understand the metrics and to make predictions.

The problem is that you can make a model to justify whatever you want.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann.

For instance, metrics tell us that public health system are more efficient, but this is anathema to the "neoliberal mindset" and, therefore, to their models.

That's without taking into account the big interests that are passed as sound economics. Just check who finance many of the think tanks that publish economic recommendations.

We could also talk about development economics and the recipes sold by the IMF.
No. This article is trying to imply that because a staffing agency is paid more the contractor is. That is FALSE! The staffing agency takes a large cut, while they pay the contract worker as little as possible. A Contractor is not an employee. Look at the lawsuit: vizcaino v microsoft

Contractors dont get the bonus's, the benefits or the same level of compensation a normal employee gets. The contract worker system is abused by many companies for tax purposes, while contractors get paid less, with bad benifits but do alot of work while full time employee's get the credit.
They’ve also gotten very adept at showing disrespect without seeming to.
Agreed. A single 5KB email isn't bad, it's when that email turns into a back-and-forth chain of emails with your signature attached to each reply.
Ask HN: Anyone Specialise in Communications/PR for Open Source Projects?
Hey everyone,

We are currently about to push out our free open source app to help journalists and activists manage their digital and physical security. We are wondering if there is any one who has experience doing communication/PR campaigns for open source projects like this? We have some knowledge but would really like some basic support to make sure it gets out into the hands of the right people.

Thanks!
By experience, and this is a good example, subcontractors are waaaaay more clueless than government employees. There are actually very competent tech peopme in government, although not at decision levels. For subcontractors you often have cheap labour with a high turnover and no worries about consequences of bad actions.
Curious to see how one can churn it...
It's deeper, its for people who need it.
The First Private Mission to the Moon May Launch Thursday Night
So many people have seemingly given up on wood for strength and durability. As an engine mechanic by trade, some of the strongest equipment in my shop is wooden.

- My diagnostics table can support a load of 2000lbs. You could park a golf cart on it.

- my Stronghold work bench will handle up to 8000lbs of load. You could park an F250 on it.

both of these are maple top/butcher block.
First, really nice app, nice to see clean line graphics constructed with real lines (strokes) and exploiting its benefits. I often find myself writing such icons by hand because I want them to be like this and it feels mostly faster to make it yourself than to search for some ready existing, because these are mostly exported to fills, presumably for better reliability.

I have some remarks about the "size (px)" / "stroke width (px)" descriptions.

The "px" (or more precisely "virtual / CSS pixel") value for stroke in app would currently apply only for icon size value of 24 (px, matching viewport), what may seem quite misleading. "1px stroke" in "16px size" is obviously not rendered as full colour CSS pixel, and hypothetically might be rendered as one physical pixel on screen with 150% DPI ratio if they happen to be shifted by half CSS pixel. I'm pretty sure you know what I try to describe: SVG line with stroke-width="1" sitting on whole integer coordinates in non-resized SVG on display with 100% DPI scale will be rendered as "2px" aliased line around that pixel boundary.

It would be interesting to (try to) introduce option to have real (CSS) pixel stroke widths accompanied with mechanism that will align them on CSS pixel grid. (I'm not sure it is doable and worth the effort, because it presumably does not have universal solution for every single DPI, but maybe something could be learnt trying.)
I wonder when hey are going to start working with Palantir, Blackwater (or whatever the hell it's called these days), Monsanto and cigarette companies.

Goldman Sachs is evil.
Citation needed on that one.
Nearest petrol station to my house is the unattended one at a supermarket. Chip&pin upfront to reserve transaction, dispense fuel, wave to cameras, drive off. No option to pay by cash.
now i need to find a very very very big balloon
All debian maybe.
Google I/O 2019 Ticket Drawing Submission Now Open
> You really think an oncology specialist would be unaware of that kind of thing?

Yes. I know there is an unfortunately large number who are. Doctors generally and oncologists specifically have an epic amount of research and publications to keep up with. I know the doctors and researches who work for and with my company do a ton of outreach (e.g. going to conferences, trying to raise awareness, trying grow partnerships). If you don't believe me, go to ASCO or something I guess? You definitely don't have to take the word of an internet stranger for this.

> Specialists may have their reasons, or they even may be wrong, but as a software engineer, it really is not your call.

You're 100% correct - I am not a doctor and not qualified in any way to give medical advice. I work for a company that provides CGP tests. I am not and could not possibly begin to advocate for a specific treatment path. I also do not want to imply a given specialist would be wrong for either not recommending or recommending against CGP.

> Saying late stage people should contact your company to identify advanced or even trial therapies!

That is categorically not what I am saying. As far as I am aware, you as an individual cannot order this type of test. Your pathologist or oncologist has to work with you to make the decision. CGP can provide a ton of insight, and I personally would absolutely do it if it was an option. I do really hope more people have this as an option even if they opt to not do testing. As I said above, awareness is really a big issue.

Just to be 100% crystal clear for now and posterity: I am not a doctor. I am not providing medical advice. I'm a technologist in a forum for other technologists discussing some of the cool tech we work with.
I'm a little surprised this ended up being resist. Photolithography usually involves quite a lot of looking at SEM imagery of test patterns. (These usually go in the scribe lines.) The problem must have been pretty subtle for it not to get flagged. Maybe (since they mention unexpected polymerization) it left an unexpected residue after cleans? Post-photo clean usually starts with ashing in an oxygen plasma, so it would have to be some pretty serious gunk to survive that and the subsequent wet clean.
This comments comes back on every single case like that no matter what the amount is, it's almost a cliché now.

Sure prison would be nice, but 4.8 billion dollar is very far from "a slap on the wrist", it it more than half of their yearly operating income worldwide.
My experience with jail:

I was having severe heart palpitations in jail and the guards would not give me my medicine. When I got irate they would threaten to throw me in the hole without food and water for a few days.

I also have a spine disorder that brings me extreme discomfort and the cots were the same units they'd ordered in the sixties. No stuffing at all, and I would wake up slightly paralyzed waist up for a few hours, with intense shoulder pain and barely being able to walk from sciatic flare-ups.

I coincidentally was suffering from multiple dental infections accelerated from black mold in my apartment, sometimes running fever, again with no medicine because I "didn't feel out the medicine form". They never gave me one and wouldn't give me one. They wouldn't cover an emergency dental operation either because "I wasn't going to be in there long enough". I really thought I was going to die or at least become critically ill and in need of hospitalization while in there. Only two or so weeks after I got out, I ended up developing an infection that paralyzed me almost completely until I was able to secure antibiotics.

Best part was, the entire conviction and incarceration was illegal but the prosecutor changed my public defender and the new one refused to help me or let me appeal my case. I was also handed the maximum allowed sentence for the conviction, despite absolutely no evidence and several conflicting testimonies.

The American justice system really is something.

Edit: forgot to mention a juicy part: The jail lied to me and told me the only way that I could bail out the night I was arrested was if I signed a particular form which I later found out waived my right to a fair and speedy trial by jury. I was tricked into taking away authority over my case from the people and bestowing it entirely to a judge with corrupt motives.
I don’t always use cash, but I almost always walk inside to pay for gas.