skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So do you think the very idea of negotiation is absurd, or is it only a problem when mere humans attempt it? If the company wants to buy the labor from those subject experts, it has to provide a satisfactory trade. End of story. Negotiation is free-speech and pro-democracy.

It's not extortion just because you don't personally like it.

And your proposal that they quit immediately... has the same effect as threatening to quit, while being more confusing and inefficient. How does that help? The company is still going to care about consequences, and adjust its behavior as needed. It doesn't stop the corporation from being "bullied" by the people that comprise it.
Its better if they accept remote companies.
austin looks like a good candidate to me. not sure about noncompetes, though.
I find it interesting that all of the examples ITT so far are vaccination and public health related, the products of rigorous nonprofit science and implementation done by researchers and clinicians --- i.e. not in the private sector. Of course, the origin of the buzzword is (I assume) the Apollo program.

Think on that a bit.
aoc will drive them out
I see a bright future for products and services focused on remote team management
I wish he shared more reasoning in why he decided in 2017 being the pivotal year. I mostly agree with 2017 being a bad year for the bay area startup as that was the period where a lot of the top startups like airbnb, uber, and theranos were getting significant negative outlooks, and probably some others that I have forgotten about.
It's not so much about performance, but their impact (responsibility). If the CEO of a small mom and pop shop says something racist online then few people will care, but when the CEO of Papa John's said something racist 11% of the valuation of the company disappeared. That's on the order of $100 million. People might've been laid off because of this or more likely, people didn't get hired because of this.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
This is the only time I've spoken about a user negatively like this in all my years on HN. I've made my points in hundreds of comments without attacking people. So I think I can follow your orders boss. Sorry for speaking out against an egregious campaign boss.
> libertarians don't have any personal gripe against the discriminated

It's worth pointing out that 'the discriminated' refers to both the hated and the hateful. And in fact, the hateful are hated themselves for being hateful.

The law generally doesn't change on an issue until there's at least a sizable minority of people in favor of the change. So when the law does change, it's more of a lagging indicator, anyways.
The campus is so full of parked cars that there's no space for cars to move, let alone autonomous cars.
At least it’s not called “less”.
> A gigantic share of US consumer goods are also shipped from China, but you don't hear similar complaints about the cost of goods in Tennessee .

While I'm certain you are infinitely more knowledgeable on this than I am, this doesn't seem to be a fair comparison. Doesn't the scale difference (Hawaii vs the continental US) have an important impact on efficiencies and costs?
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Hey, I'm the creator of Leon.

The project is pretty young today, you can see what Leon is able to do over here: https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages

For the first release, I wanted to focus on the foundations instead of his modules (skills). Now it is quite easy to scale by creating new modules.

Contributions are welcome.
> In other words, anything illegal

You're missing the point where blockchains are much more efficient and trustworthy than a court or government institution would be.

It's pure math versus interpreted law and it's brilliant.
I just spent the week in San Jose and I marveled at the ocean of vacant office space. I find it hard to believe that Sam is only now coming to this conclusion.
Imagine a Venn diagram where there is no overlap
Actually, ICE/USCIS is doing something else with the data. In old days, when things were not digitized, people used to resort to many tricks: acquire a new identity and get immigration benefits. Recently, ICE/USCIS has been digitizing old records like fingerprints; later, they are scanning for any fingerprint collisions. Now they are going after people for lying on their applications. This, not migrating to AWS, is the real effect of technology.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/scann...
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One of the biggest reasons so many startups moved (or started) in the Bay Area was because VCs didn't bother traveling and funded mostly local companies.
Has that changed?
We're building a fully remote team at Flyreel (https://www.flyreel.co) for AI and computer vision.

It helps to have access to talent anywhere in the US.

So far investors have responded positively to our distributed setup.
Because it takes a ton of people to offer support on video games. If you have millions of monthly players then you need a lot of employees to manage the community.
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Nah I don't think a technolibertarian heavy site really has any lessons to offer on moderation or discussion. But you can't really go from [dead] to being able to view the post without moderator intervention in such a sort timespan I would think.

It's two separate things. Sorry to confuse the issues.

I know some of you desperately want there to be some moralistic lesson here. But it will never happen.

And to be perfectly clear, I'm never upset about moderation as long as it can be discussed. So don't get confused with generic talking points that no one is presenting.
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In other words, datasets.
I've been interested in the idea of semi-off-grid live/work communities for remote workers and startups. It's inexpensive and not a bad lifestyle.
> I have this problem because my main, personal number is actually a twilio number (as I built my own personal telco within twilio) and this means I cannot receive validation messages from shortcodes (like a bank)

Why does Twilio work for me for SMS 2FA? Is it because I m using an '07' number in the UK?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227631
The social norm under discussion here is exactly when and to what degree those ostracism campaigns ought to be waged.

If the answer is “never” we are going to see a lot of pedophilia, Nazism, and spam. If the answer is “whenever people disagree” then we are going to be a world of mutually unintelligible and isolated factions. The correct setpoint is an interesting and non-obvious question, and the limited scope of the First Amendment doesn’t answer it.
So long, and thanks for all the rent!
Out of curiosity, how do you view America A-bombing Japan? Do you think that it would have been preferable to go forward with operation downfall? In that case, it was a situation where America weighed massive losses on both sides through brute man-on-man mayhem versus using technology to inflict massive casualties on only one side.
They just moved demo day.... To SF.
The big guys got addicted to the “stamp” AAA games over the last 15 years and their competitors are eating their lunch in terms of gameplay. They have tons of resources and could pivot to making just plain great games but probably not sustain the sheer buckets of guaranteed money their investors priced into their stock ticker. Monetizaion strategy is all Wall Street wants to hear about during product announcements, and players are listening for it so they know not to go.

Of course, massive amounts of games are still being sold. Just competition is taking a big bite out of them.
>VCs didn't bother traveling and funded mostly local companies. Has that changed?

VCs will travel for a great opportunity. If they cant recognize it then they are not good at their job :) (like a lot of VCs)
> [...] $279 for a xx60 class card, and which performs like a $379 card from two years ago.
Netflix's median employee salary is ~$180,000? Seems really high. Do they have a non-traditional org chart?
Yes, but Lockheed has the label on the door. You know that you're going to be building defense technology that is used in (foreign!) wars. Building technology that can just as well used at home at a company that faces consumers and puts funny colored letters on the door is very different.

When Amazon develops facial recognition technology that can just as easily be thrown at migrants at the border the line isn't as easy as talking about building aircraft to fight fascism in Europe.

In liberal democracies there's a line between civilian technology and military technology, and you generally know what you sign up for. This is also precisely what the engineers here talk about, they did not join Microsoft to build weapons.
I think so too.
The gold standard of productivity communication - slack, doesn't have voice clips, whatsapp doesn't have searching in voice clips, etc.
none of the messengers have screen sharing except for fb messenger.
Would be nice to see something that isnt very expensive and had the needed features.
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In China there is a lot of issue with fake milk powder. You can now buy powder which contains a barcode in the container sealed at the factory that you can look up online to Ensure it came from the factory and not a 3rd party counterfeit. Blockchain adds exactly 0 value to this.
primitive.io is a collaboration tool for developers that uses VR telepresence and code visualization
My understanding also was that VCs wanted startups close by, so if they found someone elsewhere... they moved them to the area.
AI Takes Orders at This Fast Food Drive Thru
I'm Brazilian and watched this with my American gf and although she found the photography and story beautiful she understandably couldn't really relate to the context.

Here in Brazil (perhaps specially in the older Northeast, where I'm from) having a maid is still very strong but has changed considerable in the past two decades.

It used to be the case that these maids would work for a family for decades without any of the guarantees that Brazilian work laws guarantee. Whether or not one agrees with those laws is secondary to the fact that these workers were largely kept out of it for ages.

It used to also be the case that families would require maids to sleep in the house. Woman who had their own family often had to accept spending nights on their "patrões" home to make sure they were there ready to work at 6am.
You're talking about a coup or revolution. If you want to say that, I think the efficiency of a coup or revolution doesn't vary according to the government system that is getting attacked. The efficiency at which such attempts operate are a function of how organized they are.
I think it basically became the year when the "norm" for talent in SF Bay Area was 1) work at a FAANG or 2) work at a late stage private co (like Uber).

Working at an early stage startup was already risky, but the opportunity cost sort of peaked around then and remains high.

Unless the opportunity cost noticeably drops (i.e. a massive recession that causes a 50%+ drop in public stock market) I think smaller startups will thrive in places like NYC more so than SF.
That's part of a longer list of rights. Clearly they are not all about petitioning the government.
Thanks for the thoughts. I didn't know Chromebooks didn't ship with a hard drive.
I would agree with you. There's no point in the statement I can see unless one is about to make a prejudiced remark. I'm happy to be shown why I may be wrong.
Totally agree. From my experience, operating out of the bay area means you pay more for rent, employee salaries, and employee retention (higher turnover). All up, it costs somewhere around ~$50K/year more per employee.

If you run a modest team of 10, you're paying an additional $500K/year to be in the bay area. That's huge for a large fraction of startups.
Ha, good point. It's worth knowing the difference between law and statute...
I get the impression most people in the general population were enamored by bitcoin based on how high and how rapidly its value was climbing, not its features or potential to upend international monetary systems.
>When these technologies become embedded in society, he argues, life is reduced to checkboxes.

This idea is part of why I think it's so crucial to teach the humanities to all people, especially those in STEM fields where the humanities are lacking at best and received as hostile at worst. I firmly believe most of what it means to be a human is not quantifiable and we lose a tremendous amount of meaning in our lives when we're literally reduced to "going through the motions": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig
Hasn't changed much, but I think the trend Sam is predicting is that startups will move here to raise money and then relocate.
It's changed in that there are more VC's in other places now, and more branch offices. There are VC backed companies that are entirely remote as well.
The Apollo program.
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I see that myself. And I mean this as absolutely no offense to anyone in the area. I've met incredibly intelligent people there, among the best. Though, I believe the very best are distributed throughout the world, and command the ability not to move.

All that said, first, well, the silicon part is all but gone. I find the signal to noise ratio pretty low. For every 10x developer, there are 50 people who did a bootcamp and/or moved for the easy jobs. Salaries are high because the cost of living is on the breaking point. People complain about the area because of high taxes, high cost of living, and of course the homeless epidemic. And to top it off, everyone who can seems to leave the area when they get the chance.

Again, I mean no offense, I think it's a nice area on the whole. But if I were in need of a lot of good engineers today, I'd first offer remote only. If I needed collaboration or a lot of people in one area, I'd look to New York or Northern Virginia before the bay area.
I agree, but quite a few people get lonely working remotely and not having a proper office to go into, and software won't solve that (at least not until VR presence or something of the sort is really good). I've managed great engineers who have complained about this and I haven't seen a good solution.
I suspect the VC industry itself will be disrupted at some point (the irony of the VC industry is that the biz model has remained basically the same for 50 years when everything else has changed).

It will become incrementally easier to raise money from non-traditional sources at better terms as "accredited investor" laws are relaxed e.g. through a Security Token Offering.
Similarity and suitability are two radically different scores. But for various reasons - including, but not limited to, the ease of calculating a similarity score - we end up conflating the two in a lot of cases.

While calculating similarity scores is getting easier by the day across a lot of content formats (think image classifiers, sentiment scores, etc), the same is not true for suitability scores.

Technically, I'd think calculating suitability would need more than just matching patterns based on some selected criteria, which is how essentially all recommendation engines work today.
Hmm. Weird. Almost my entire data science pipeline is in Go.
Could be a quick Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script hack to grab the date from the URL and links to the nearest Wayback Machine version using https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php
Interesting concept: HELPS IMMENSELY with the: 'affordability' -- circulation -- community -- interaction -- & other like issues... Not so sure that it will be (so) GREAT in Boulder, CO area -- with 2ft of snow -- & (fairly) HARSH winters / wind... None of which is an issue in Nederlands... http://bit.ly/2Xka61F
In some ways escrow is safer because blockchain transactions aren't reversible, no? Yeah, the transaction is there for everyone to verify, so everyone can tell the guy cheated someone, but without law enforcement (not necessarily easy across borders), how do you get the guy to honor the contract when he has no honest intent?
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It's the same exact thing where YouTube is promoting pedophilia. These systems are content agnostic and will give you what it thinks you will click on. If somehow people really really liked videos about the number 27, then if you click on one video it will start showing you more. It seems to me that it's a fundamental part of what these systems are. It's nigh impossible to say "do this but keep the bad stuff out" unless you have human moderation. I'm certainly not saying these companies aren't culpable. It just seems weird to talk about individual cases in abstraction like Instagram is going out of it's way to promote self harm.
Ha, if the Lyft/Uber/taxi driver even gets to the address! It's a constant annoyance for many at my dad's dialysis clinic that every car service basically decides to stop in the middle of a lane on a large street and leaves after 30 seconds, rather than pulling into the parking lot with loading zone in front of the waiting room. Even if you put the pin in the right spot.

I've been trying to convince my dad to use GoGoGrandparent instead of using the Lyft app so someone else can deal with ensuring the driver isn't an idiot, but he actually WANTS to track the driver himself.

Anyway, I'm feeling like by the time level 5 autonomous cars are around, we'll also have worked on improving helper robots for a big chunk of those needs.
I'm not sure what you mean by market.

Let's say people watched 99% of video on youtube. I guess that's inconvenient if you can't do your thing on youtube, but that's not a lack of free speech, it is a lack of attention.

Free speech doesn't guarantee that if I go shout on a street corner I'll get as much attention as youtube or any other street corner. It has always been that way.
Absolutely agree. Antirez is a legend and I always look forward to his thoughtful posts on Redis development.
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Also, just to clarify, we give out $10,000 ($2000 per month)
That’s untrue, and ignored evidence from many newer forums and their descent into madness.

Take HN, gaming forums and so on - they work decently.

Here’s my rules of the network from a moderators perspective

1) politics and religion are about maximally polarizing. If your forum/topic has no need for these topics, exclude them with great prejudice.

2) there are 2 types of forums. Some forums are built around goal driven topics. Like vectors units, they have both intensity and a direction.

Scalar topics, tend to gather opinions.

Of the two, vectored forums are easier to manage. When people have a goal and progress to make, it naturally reduces a lot of non-specific wool gathering.

3) the web is the best and worst of books and phones. Like a book, you can always revisit what was written. Like a phone you can always interact with what was said.

This means that if something is incendiary, it stays up for days, and people respond to it as if it was spoken aloud a few seconds ago.

Removing incendiary content early is better!

Community cohesion can happen by content, more than demographics.
This is pretty much the right answer in a sea of nonsense and angry comments here. CEO pay is where it is because those boards believe it’s necessary. If they thought they could pay 5mm instead of 20mm they would in a heartbeat.
Remember when the only way to watch an Apple event live on their site was if you were using an Apple device?

It’s likely not malicious in the sense that they want to punish Linux users. And blocking Linux for this particular site may not have been something they even wanted to do. But in general Apple has been unnecessarily hostile towards non Apple devices, and it’s not hard to believe this is a consequence of that.
“Way less corrupt”

Just because an internet search puts America as less corrupt than the likes of China and Russia. Doesn’t mean it’s actually less corrupt.

The perseption of America is that it’s less corrupt but in reality we have absolute no idea what’s going on behind closed doors and what deals are being done.
A coworking space stipend perhaps?
I think the point of the story is subtler than that, its not so much that people consciously lie, its that their recollections are shaped by their own desire to be in the right.
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That is only one aspect and I think a minor one. What made silicon valley is access to capital, proximity to stanford and a feedback loop of successful entrepreneurs using their experience to create the next generation of successful entrepreneurs
Mostly I agree with you but maybe you need to rephrase "illegal" as "out-of-legal".
Then why dont they? Or are there 2 people willing to take the place of every person leaving?
There are intermediate steps. Lots of retired people live in specific communities which could control the layout of their streets and make them very compatible with self driving cars. Just community <-> medical center would be huge. Nearest grocer, bus terminal and that would cover a lot.
A lot of this stuff is just bootstrapping though.

Suppose you have someone designated to identify plumbers, call him Bob. Bob has a public key, and if a plumber, call her Alice, comes to him and proves in the usual meatspace ways that she's a licensed plumber, Bob signs the plumber's public key, along with their name and license number and the date, signature good for a year. Maybe Bob works for the government, maybe he doesn't, but in either case he's a trustworthy guy who genuinely only identifies real plumbers and both the landlords and tenants trust him to do that.

Now the contract says that if the tenant identifies a plumbing issue, the landlord will provide a plumber identified by Bob to have a look at it. So the tenant can sign a statement declaring a plumbing issue and if the landlord doesn't get a signature by an identified plumber saying it's resolved within a given time, the landlord is in breach, verifiable with math. But if the plumber comes and signs a statement that there wasn't a plumbing issue, the errant tenant has to pay their fee for showing up, again verifiable with math.

Then the remaining issue is corrupt plumbers. But you can't solve every problem all at once, so you rely on the state to revoke licenses in demonstrated cases of corruption. Or on Bob to stop authorizing them.
That’s weird: what disincentives offset the cheaper cost of commercial space?
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The optimal strategy for iterated prisoner's dilemma is tit for tat.
I think you could pretty easily guarantee that every candidate will read email from you (where "you" are their point of contact with the company) prior to the interview. Why do you need to direct them to the essay from your blog?
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Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729499
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