skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Everyone else" would have received the same breaks for that location and scale of project (less the $500MM you already mentioned).

Amazon left the impression with their year long spectacle they were getting a special deal. They really have nobody to blame but themselves.
trump? really?

pretty sure polarizing and biased shutdown of opposing opinions is prevalent on all sides, and mizz pelosi does control the house these days..
Having thought about it, I think it's more of a Brooklyn startup thing.
Shrugs, sometimes not knowing that something is difficult is the best way to start :).
I don't get how this blog post helps anything. It seems like they're saying, we did what we can and we will keep trying but we're convinced most of you will just come to peace with it because there aren't a lot of better options (have you actually tried importing mailboxes of any size into ProtonMail?).

No thanks. Much respect to the FastMail crew, and as an American I understand what it's like to have your government passing these kinds of laws. But this is WAY beyond what we've done in the US, in that it requires employees to accept being subverted. That's a bridge too far my friends. US access to international email is offensive, but mandated subversion of employees is ridiculous.

I really hope for Australia to moderate their laws a bit, just like I hope the US will. But I don't think it makes sense to say "oh well" and keep using a provider in the law in question. Really sucks for the hard working people at FastMail, but I have to say no and recommend that others do the same.

Employees of FastMail, has the company considered more internal controls to try to pick up on employee subversion issues? Even if I was conceptually okay with government mandated employee introduced back doors, how do we know the extent of the exposure? What if someone else gets in the same way? It's just way too much to write off in my opinion.
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I'm looking for a coding project but feeling uninspired. What are your tips for coming up with project ideas that you feel inspired about?
Pioneering live-code article allows scientists to play with each other’s results
Maybe I misinterpret, but this argumentation by you and some others that "this is easily detectable" is _exactly_ the good part.
* They want to ignore me? Mission accomplished
* They want to discard my clicks and subtract it from the payout? Mission accomplished
etc. in any case they are playing the game for me.

"Good day sir, you lose, I said good day!"
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The US already has the infamous Terrorist Watch List and No Fly List. George W. Bush created that 20 years ago.

There are differences like the watch list is only 2m while the china travel ban is 23m, and the purpose differ quite a bit, but for an individual on either list it is supposedly hard to get out of or know why you got put there in the first place.
Maybe he is programming baristas. Like Westworld style.
Have caught on with pros or people that do not know HTML?
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The state of 727's five years before this event:

Planes equipped with newer Category Three navigational equipment can land on autopilot, even in the worst weather. Pilots never even have to touch the controls.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-02-12-980212...
Since i'm in IT, DNSDumpster.
Just to be clear, free as in freedom, not beer.
It's only March
Eh, that doesn't scale beyond a few devices. There's out-of-band management, yes, but often it's in the form of an isolated management network, which allows automation quite conveniently. Even the serial console is often accessible over a network using terminal servers. You usually also want to be able to download and archive your device configuration automatically using eg. oxidized.

That said, being able to work with standard tools is extremely relevant for debugging problems, still.
Steve Jobs wasn't an athlete nor did he aspire to be one. He was smart enough to know there are millions who do have those aspirations.
Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (1956) [pdf]
Wealth inequality is productivity inequality, not having-less of a fixed amount.

"Fixing" wealth inequality by decreasing the productivity of the wealthy is madness.

"Inequality" is a feature of exchange and production, it cant be "fixed". The lives of those who suffer most can be improved by helping them be more productive. Not by hobbling everyone else. That fails to improve anything.

EDIT:
To clarify, the inequality is in what you can do with your total current assets: including time/effort, but CURRENT WEALTH.

Yes, Jeff Bezos can do more with $100B than you can with $100. And yes, you with 100$ can do more than a person with 1$.

People in poor countries produce things at a rate and with such general demand that their current assets (including their time/effort) arent very productive.

Bezos can make another billion without taking it from anyone, just by deploying his assets better than you cna.
I have a Revolut account, a GBP Halifax account, and a EUR N26 account. Twice now I have accidentally topped up my GBP Revolut from the EUR N26 account instead of the GBP Halifax account, and both times I found that transferring the money from the GBP Revolut account to the EUR Revolut 30 seconds later actually made a small profit from my errors.
I think a survey along these lines is an interesting idea and wish you well with it, though the biggest problems I see in the area of ethics is establishing what is ethical or not.

Your question, for example, says "you felt was unethical".

There are lots of things I feel are unethical that a lot of decent people I know do because it works (e.g. modal popups on Web sites) and lots of things I feel are ethical but others often denounce (e.g. offering different pricing to users for split testing purposes).

I think there needs to be broader consensus over what ethics we accept as a profession or community before we can really nail down whether people are adhering to such ethics or not.
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I like openbsd and have used it happily for a long time, but it's not fair to list sysmerge and syspatch as selling points. If we are being honest, other systems have long had more automatic upgrade procedures and these two tools are essentially minimalist ways of solving the problems with the old way.
>The report said authorities collected more than 14m data points of “untrustworthy conduct” last year, including scams, unpaid loans, false advertising and occupying reserved seats on a train.

That all sounded reasonable until the last one. Textbook "Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking".

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJa...
If the idea guy isn't the developer they have to be the sales and marketing person. So if they have great ideas and can sell them and get money in the door then I'm happy to work with them.
Im not a buddhist or a stoic, but from what little I have read I somewhat live that way.

My parents once told me that one of my biggest problems is that I was too happy. I have always had the mantra "the path to true happiness is to want for nothing". This means you can either have the things you wanted or choose not to want the things you dont have. If I want something badly enough I work to get/achieve it. If I'm not willing to work to get it, then I am at peace with my decision because apparently I didn't want it that badly.

I have a lot of material possessions and I enjoy them, yet if I were to lose them all it would be ok. There was a time in my life where I had to dig change out of the couch to buy enough to eat and I reveled in the moment, that I was a person that had to live that way. There was a certain thrill to finding a dollar so I could go to the farmers market to buy a basket of the veggies of the day which could be an entire basket of green peppers (yuck). I enjoyed learning a variety of recipes to make do with green peppers.

Im happy to be able to travel, help others, raise kids, do hobbies etc. I enjoy them, but the loss of all of that, especially as I get older, I think I can accept. Every phase of life brings something new to enjoy, even pain.

I often think about all the things I will lose, especially people, even to the point where it brings me to tears. I work to accept that loss today and to enjoy the having right now. One day I will lose my parents, I might lose my spouse, a child, a friend. When they are gone, I'll have the sadness, but I'll still have the joy of having had them in my life.

Someday I might not be able to walk, see, or get out of bed. But I will appreciate and treasure the time I did have.

As a concrete example I look at people who are so angry at trump, most of them are simply angry. The anger itself is pointless. In my world view you either act to create the change you want or accept that you dont care enough to act. Each person is motivated differently and people aren't bad because they don't care as much as you.

Even if you act, you might fail. If you recognize that failure is possible, even feel anguish over the failure, yet try to see the pleasure in the attempt and the failure, then you can have peace.

This means not being afraid of failure, because there is still joy in failure, the journey as well as the learning.

If you want peace, you can have it. Many people simply dont want peace.
Stop spreading misinformation. Maajid didn't win.
A lot of rich people use Bitcoin for self-realisation (e.g. to get that special "I own a lot of Bitcoin" feeling). As an average person, you might think it's a ridiculous use case but it's actually very important to them, therefore it's very important full stop.

It's the same reason why fine Art is expensive. People want to experience a very specific "I own a Picasso" feeling.
Normal people don't understand this, but what normal people think doesn't matter in the current economy.
I had two issues with the Amazon deal:
1) LIC (including transportation) cannot support 10K+ workers
2) The deal was done in secret

You need to invest money to make money. I have almost no issues with the subsidies and I have voted Libertarian since the 2004 election. I viewed the deal as NYC partnering with Amazon. No amount of small business can bring what Amazon would have brought. None.

Back to your point, I did not like the fact that everything was hidden until the end, but I also disagree with the referendum. Look at Brexit. A bunch of people simply did not understand the issue. Look at the fools that blindly follow AOC. Same thing.
So, you basically tow the rear Tesla, in case the front one runs out of battery? Good call.

More power to you, literally.
Guess what, opting out is there 'by default' too.
To a less egregious extent this is happening even in western democracies. For example people are losing access to payment processing functionality for essentially thought-crimes. Of course, it's a bit different because it's private sector, but the end result is the same for the individual.
These are fantastic materials, thank you for sharing.
just saw his lecture....fascinating stuff....I believe him
most definitely there are some blind spots I will need to fill in. Other ones I saw that were missing was UX Designer and other designer type roles. I will probably add these in the future, but want to make sure I can find a reputable data source.
Thanks for posting this. It was a super enjoyable, lil heart throb, lil sweet story about true love.
There may have been a settlement, but it's quite clear he was the winner in it. The SPLC president made a video apology and they paid millions to him. (Rightly so, in this case; it was a clear fuckup.)
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We're witnessing the inevitable consequences of believing it's possible to be a good person through human willpower alone. (Pro-tip: It's not.)

Whether it's done directly through well-intending bureaucrats, or indirectly through well-intending FAANG censors, the end result is the same: the mark of the beast.

"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." (Revelation 13:16-17)
N26 also does this. Also sometimes faster than the merchant.
go back to the_donald
I was about to post this. Matt Parker has done incredible things
The United States also maintains a secret list of persons banned from air travel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List
Ever worked for an "idea guy" CEO?
New idea every day/week/weekend.
New science fiction and fantasy books to check out this March
"Social credit offences range from [...] to spreading false information" - this is what it's really about. Force citizens to spread government propaganda and make it impossible to challenge those in power.
The irony of saying "stop spreading misinformation" on a blatantly false post.

> The Southern Poverty Law Center, the venerable civil-rights organization, has issued a formal apology to British political activist Maajid Nawaz and will make a $3.4 million payment over his inclusion in a 2016 list of “anti-Muslim extremists.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/maajid-...
*for being fascists who are pushing an ideology that leads directly to genocide, but okay.
Maybe they can get half of their services to work properly then?
Plenty serviceable as a desktop. That said, I run pretty lightweight software. As with most OSs, an SSD is recommended. I made sure to pick out hardware knowing it would be compatible; that might be the bigger issue.
"Pay money up front, or take all these ads, and no there is NO other way, nu-uh. NO other way. So it is really your choice, but only these 2"

Yeah that is not really a good argument is it?
No, you're not. This also conveniently ignores the additional costs to services.
Its a little bit easier to read if you hotlink to the image https://avc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-01-NYTime...
It seems our institutions for societal problem solving have not changed much since the 19th century. We have prisons, the courts, and money, glorious money: the universal and only solution to all problems.

China seems to be rearranging the rules and making things not only about money, but also behavior.

They deal with their ethnic violence problems through reeducation camps instead of war (e.g Chechnya) or simply giving up and trying to contain the problem( e.g "no go zones").

They deal with their infrastructure problems by largely ignoring all legal opposition including property rights to development.

They deal with the boom bust cycle by printing money and strictly controlling bank behavior and severely punishing bad actors.

Now they are using social credit to control bad behavior without prisons.

It's like they are trying to invent the next level of society, while our system thrives on growing and making industries out of its irresolvabe conflicts.
If I understand the article, it's not that 23 million are permanently banned.

These seem to be temporary bans, and they either expire or you have to do some act to regain your trusted status?
It would be public information if they did receive any tax incentives. As far as I understand, Google, Facebook, and Amazon's already existing 5,000 NYC jobs have been achieved the good old fashioned way, sans bribery.
I think that a more accurate western comparison would the the 'No Fly List'. We had this for years, but instead of using 'social credit', we used 'security'.

I'm not defending either, each one is largely arbitrary.
A counterargument (with a mathematical basis in a paper I could not find) is described at http://discovermagazine.com/2004/sep/math-against-tyranny . The NYT also it in https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/03/weekinreview/why-the-elec...
To be fair, getting punished to be unable to take trains for misbehaving on trains. If the seats are packed in a car and some douche is sitting in your seat and won't get up, and you're stuck standing for a few hours, I think you'd want some justice.

That being said, a fine is probably a punishment that would make much more sense. More revenue for the government too.
Well it's not like it's a new tendency.

We just changed "they look like a bad sort", to "they look like a bad sort, to the algorithm".
That's not at all the point I'm making.

Who said anything about employment law or decency? They simply have nothing in common with a pharmaceutical company that committed fraud and delivered fake medical reports to patients or a festival that scammed hundreds of people out of their money... If anything they could be compared to Uber. We can hate them for how they treat their employees or how they break some laws but they will not end up like Theranos or Fyre festival.
Fixed. Thank you for holding me to a high standard, truly.
How to compare two packed bitfields without having to unpack each field
I initially misread your comment and thought you were arguing something entirely different.

If what you’re saying is that simply removing humans from the equation wouldn’t change atmospheric CO2 for a long time, I think we’re actually in agreement there. It supports my point that population control isn’t how we’re going to get on a different trajectory in the decade or so we have.

But I don’t think it addresses the ideas of effective carbon capture. Soil carbon capture, for one, is incredibly promising. Reforestation is another.
PayPal is preventing people from buying travel tickets?
Infectious diseases could be diagnosed with smartphones in sub-Saharan Africa
This reads like someone's college freshman essay. It's just a recap of existing knowledge, with no concrete call to action.
Found the BMW 3 series buyer who bought on downpayment. No shame in buyer's regrets. Keep on trucking and downpaying.
You can order laptops via phone or email, you know.

Thinking about it, my last three laptops were bought with a discount, just by not being afraid to ask for some.
Python's list type is implemented as a dynamic array in CPython. This is not required.

An optimizing Python doing escape analysis could see a list was going to be converted to a set and swap in a set and change the method calls. Or it could see a large number of concatenations and use a linked list as an intermediate form.
This should be build in standard SQLite.
'or would you try to choose something that is durable and comfortable'

'There's no one in their right mind who would say the right way to buy a computer is to look at advertisements. ...compare specs and functionality'

that's not how any of this works :)

in our minds we're perfectly logical units making deliberate choices based on carefully considered factors. in reality I pay $5.45 for blue bottle pour over coffee, in YETI coffee mug that best resembles my ruggedness.

in fact most people sacrifice specs and functionality and buy iPhones simply because of personality
Ugh. Crap article.
The opinion polling I've seen says that something like 80% of New Yorkers wanted Amazon to come. But it isn't uncommon in political issues for passion to make up for numbers. Most of the supporters seem tepid and those opposed seem like they really might be willing to change who they vote for to keep Amazon away. So it's not surprising that politicians would bow to the pressure.
Seems dope
Great fun. This reminds me of a program I wrote in the days of AIM to convert an image to HTML so you could put a picture in your AIM profile.
I thought it was funny!
Yeah, that second line of development went in another direction with different guiding principles.

If the first set of changes can get positive reviews here, maybe they'll get merged.

The second line could benefit from some questions about its targets and see how they align/diverge with the aims of a common vcs UI model. I wonder how this matches other UIs.

In any event, a roadmap would help so we could put this in a broader view of where and how it fits in to our needs. See also, https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/
Solar panels and electric cars are not as prevalent as the media would have us believe either.
Their financial statements show they provisioned $1.2 B in income taxes worldwide for 2018, I suppose from that narrow perspective you have to define 'plenty'. Their effective tax rate seems like it's in the 10% range?

I think it'd be difficult to measure their employee tax footprint, I haven't been able to find good numbers on that, a Fermi estimate makes their numbers seem plausible if they went according to plan.

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/ce3b13a9-4bf1-4388-8...
Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Banks are constantly making statements that cryptocurrencies are bad because they're used for laundering, fraud, and market manipulation, meanwhile the exact same thing has been happening with fiat, usually conducted by banks.
I have one old Windows 7 machine for playing World of Warcraft. I would (and have) run it on Linux, but the frame rate and object loading is a bit worse due to the CPU instruction latency from wine. GPU model doesn't even matter. I have begged Blizzard to make an unsupported linux elf binary, but they just won't.
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>""Everyone else" would have received the same breaks for that location and scale of project (less the $500MM you already mentioned)."

And this 500 million dollars is kind of a really big deal. To the average NYC resident who has watched their transit system languish in a perpetual state crisis and disrepair this is 500 million dollars in "real" tax dollars woefully misspent.
You’re really gonna go with “both sides are bad”, huh?
It's a nice amount for a month, but the monthly figure is very noisy so it's hard to be all that excited about it.
Many would argue we _still_ live a crappy slave existence in the modern world.
Install apache airflow on kubernetes and set up Active directory authentication
A DIFFERENT GitHub redesign proposal
Wileyfox is in administration, any hardware sold is old stock and not supported.
Arrays are commonly an implementation, while lists are the mathematical or logical structure.

Same as how a hashtable is used to implement a mapping.
ITT: Bitcoin as a store of value not a medium of exchange.

They should look into decentralized stablecoins like DAI (1 DAI = 1$). Particularly xDAI and BurnerWallet https://medium.com/gitcoin/burner-wallet-at-ethdenver-was-fa... are interesting.
Internet in US is just terrible for 90% of the population. Even if you are in the Bay Area or Manhattan you are still getting bad speed and you are stuck with a provider like Spectrum or Comcast and you pay 70$ for 150-200Mbps. I just don’t see this changing anytime soon :(
This was a fun read. I don't really 'get' the product, though. Lots of smart lightbulbs already on the market, with wakeup timer features etc. This is one you can pick up and carry around? Is that actually better?

Those pogo pins aren't going to last very long.
Bitcoin, BTC was taken over by a team lead by Adam Back and Greg Maxwell. With near $100 M in funding they have the set goal of making it as hard as possible for users and in fact push for higher and higher fees on the BTC network.

Bitcoin, BCH, forked before Adam Back and his troll team took over the GitHub repo, so BCH is closer to bitcoin than BTC.
Which only works when there were just a few doing it. You could stand out when it was a little different.

When everyone does it like Apple, no one does, not even Apple. It ceases to have meaning or effect.