skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get how this is racial discrimination or even how they get to this conclusion.

Example:
We have 3 groups:
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3

There are 2 types of services:
Service A
Service B

3% of group 1 can't use Service A
14% of group 2 can't use Service A
13% of group 3 can't use Service A

Does Service A racially discriminate against any of these group?
No, it does not. It just can't accepts business from people who use Service A. So people who can't or won't use Service A have to go to another business that does accept Service B.

But okay let's play pretend.
Let's say it is discrimination then it's only potentally more effective against certain groups by 10%.
I say potentially because how many in this group would go to a this specific chain? probably less then that 10%.
I'd wager the actual percentage affected falls in the area of margin of error. AKA sucks to be you but it's a free country so cross the street to somewhere they do accept your cash.
If I give 5$ to a homeless person and he then tries to go buy a coffee at a cashless coffee shop, what do you think will happen?

After all he has money, right?
It would also give other companies in the US a better shot at the same goal. The focus on China seems unwarranted.
Humans and chickens share 65% of their DNA. Both have a lot of similar anatomical features: bones, brains, feet. And yet a human is not just a larger chicken.
For starters, Amazon provided a marketplace platform for third parties to sell goods. They then gathered data on which items sold the best, created their own line of products based off this data, and crushed their customers-turned-competitors using their massive advantage in economies of scale.
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I don't disagree with you, but...

> It bars the homeless and poor from the establishment!

That's probably a big benefit to people who own certain establishments.
This is true - you get easy leverage, and your gains apply to this larger principal, however, if your gains average out to be less than your cost of capital then leverage doesn't matter. Additionally, over the infinite timeline these computations and averages can look good, but your ability to make payments puts some risk premium on having large leverage. Over the short term, leverage can be much more dangerous, especially if you are forced by circumstance to realize gains or losses.
Even if you take out the racial view (which is totally valid), it just doesn't seem right that you can walk in somewhere in the US with US Dollars in your pocket but be turned down, and I say that as someone who very rarely makes purchases with paper money. As much as I hate "slippery slope" arguments, I do also worry that this is the first step in the direction of businesses dictating how you buy things. Starting with no cash may not seem that bad, but I don't wont to end up in a world where different stores require me to check out using their own e-wallet or a specific brand of credit card they've partnered with.

The whole thing reminds me a little bit of that 30 Rock episode where Liz Lemon gets stuck with a 50 dollar bill and gets into a shouting match with a convenience store clerk when he wont accept it, saying something along the lines of "this is legal tender, you have to accept it!" Not the same situation as what is being discussed here, Liz's sentiment still applies.
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Here are some reasons a business might not take cash,

* Eliminates robbery: no cash to take

* Reduces expenses: no cash register or bill machine

* Saves time: no change or trips to the bank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSYg17HD94
I think Nintendo corporate position has evolved a lot in the last 10 years. As is typical in the console industry, the breathtaking success of one generation, the Wii, gave Nintendo a bad case of the swaggers and they made a lot of fairly arrogant decisions for a while. The breathtaking failure of the WiiU restored a lot of humility to them, and you can see that in their Switch performance.

It seems a console maker can sometimes survive one generation of significant success without going too crazy, but I'm not sure there's ever been one that has survived two without getting bitten by their own arrogance. We'll see if Nintendo's humility survives the Switch.
One key aspect of this was that on the "big iron", software was under the control of the administrator and generally trusted, while the users need to be protected from one another. On "small iron", there is one user, but the applications come from a variety of sources which may not be trustworthy, so the user needs sandboxing between the apps.

On interaction design: the iPhone may not have been quite the first consumer device with a capacitative touchscreen that worked brilliantly without a stylus, but it certainly felt like it was. Styluses were the bane of pre-iPhone touch devices and I'm surprised that Samsung tried to bring them back.
But you don't need that much every day. You need to charge the amount you use every day during the time the car is outside during the day, or only part of that. What if you can use the car every day and only have to charge it at a station once a week or month? Then there is even one less reason to use an ICE for those that can't charge at home
Seen similar and also used coding tests to good success. I myself don't have a 4 year degree (I got my 2 year, although truthfully I didn't learn anything new CS related when I got that degree), but I'm also an autodidact that was writing assembly programs by age 12, and OO perl/java before I graduated highschool.

The hard problem is finding a way to filter out fresh graduates (from either college or highschool) who can't code from those that can without having to slog through reams of poorly written coding tests in the process. For people who have been in the business a while it's a bit easier because you can usually take a look at their work history and the keywords they decide to use on their CV and intuitively get a reasonably good feel for where they are career wise. It's still very important to have them go through the code test as well though because CVs can be misleading and I'm still regularly amazed at people that come through with 10+ years of experience on paper who somehow still fail at basic programming tasks.

Ultimately I think tech recruiters may need to just step up their game. It's no longer sufficient to just play buzzword bingo to try to find candidates for a position, they need to actually have some amount of technical chops themselves in order to screen potential candidates. At the moment it seems like the industry standard is that recruiters function primarily as advertisers for open positions, while all the heavy lifting of actually evaluating candidates (of all levels) is ultimately left up to the devs at the hiring company.
I don't have it posted, but it isn't that complex, so I can give a quick rundown here:

Breakfast - 2 eggs, scrambled with generous amounts of mushrooms and spinach, and a little cheese tossed in.

Lunch - Veggie mix that I chop up all together every few days - green peppers, pasilla peppers, green onion, yellow onions, eggplant, jicama, cauliflower, and whatever other root veggies looked good at the store - turnips, rutabagas, and such things. I stir-fry them with lime juice, tomato paste, fish sauce, turmeric, coriander, ginger, and cayenne pepper. At the end, I add a little coconut milk, and it ends up being a decent approximation of a red curry.

Dinner - baked chicken wings with some hot sauce.
The question is, why are they un or under banked? What or who creates those conditions? One doesn't see much diversity in or competition in banking products or terms, so it's not likely that anything is going to change.
I always got the impression that, at least in Jobs' case, he was the founder _because_ he didn't have a degree - i.e. he had nowhere else to go.
Yeah absolutely. That is why I do not know how to make it scale. In India often we let the uber driver cancel the ride after sitting in the taxi and pay him in cash thus he makes lot more money.

I think a networked society is colliding with a hierarchical government and the result is confusion.
Reading through these comments I'm proud to say I knew airbnb was the kind of thing I'd never want to participate in and I never did and never will.

Like Facebook. Some things are rotten to the core.
It’s not the same thing but maybe a compromise due to the scale involved: you can work your way up from the Apple Store into corporate without a college degree.

“Geniuses” funnel into QA mostly while “Creatives” funnel into marketing and design.

We did hire many, many interns too when I was there but they were from college programs.
May I suggest an addition?

Ireland has a working holiday visa that lets students and recent graduates come live and work for a year with basically no restrictions (no need for work permit, etc.) It's the only EU country I know offering such a fantastic opportunity, at least for US citizens (Canadians, South Koreans, etc. have more options)

https://www.dfa.ie/travel/visas/working-holiday-visas/

It's fantastic for someone who probably could get their foot in the door but needs to be physically present in the place to get started. Interviewing from another continent is 100x as hard.
I like Warren. Also, I believe something needs to be done about these tech companies enormous influence over information flow. I don't think the solution is breaking them up.
I agree with this. I lived abroad (several abroads) for years at a time, but you don't need however many thousand miles to go meet a new society that has unique rules and different values than yours, just go spend a month at your parent's retirement home and don't be obnoxious to the locals. (Or move to the "bad" neighborhood, take a job as a teacher or police officer in the remote countryside, etc). Middle-class people exist in what is largely a pocket of society that they mistakenly think is how their country is because all the media is about them.
RE Amazon... how is this much different than say, store branded items from a grocery or WalMart, or quasi store brands(ie brands mainly only sold in WalMart, like Brahma boots or Ozark Trail)?
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So you're looking for something that's so rare it's probably a myth? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsnr.2014...

I think what you meant to say is you're looking for people with passion for the field, grit and curiosity and with a proven track record of delivering. The best engineers learn from others and stand on the shoulders of giants.
By definition, since it's owned by Google. You can apply the same logic to any proposed split.
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Conversely, if you didn't build the Internet, you don't get to break it.
AWS has plenty of viable competitors. They should split Amazon-the-website and Amazon-the-supplier-logistics-and-physical-retail-company, and force Amazon-the-website to accept listings from competitors fairly and openly.
Not to mention some of the most popular games of all time - Minesweeper, Solitaire, and the earlier Reversi. And a pinball game in Windows 95.
Gut reaction: I feel like Android would not survive Google being forced to remove all their apps from the Google play store.
I'll remember this next time we're playing rock, paper, scissors.
We can break up Big Tech
Yes. I can read. My point is that, for better, or worse you already can’t use cash for a great many payments.
These complaints are absurd and antibusiness. Every serious retailer sells their own brand of products. For instance, Walmart sells their own products under the "Great Value" label. Every FAANG caliber employee would have to look at relocating to work for a Chinese internet giant to make actual money or move to a proprietary trading firm.

edit: To the people down voting me, I am sorry that you cannot LeetCode.
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Yeah but be careful with that comparison. Using coal harms the well-being of the billions of the humans that aren't coal miners. If anyone, credit cards only harm the people who use them.
It is, as long as you don't need to do anything else on your computer at the same time. It's an absolute resource hog.
Except, they're changing their minds:

Swedes turn against cashlessness
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/being-cash-fre...
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You are 100% correct. I did get vitamin deficient a few years ago, and worked with doctors to identify the deficiencies and resolve them, and have continued testing to make sure I'm doing OK. This routine is a result of that experience more than anything else. That is also one reason I go out to eat every few days - to get some variety into the mix.
FWIW, while I agree this a problem, large box retailers (Whole Foods before the Amazon acquisition, Walmart, etc) are well known for doing this as well.

So if that's the line you draw, it extends further than just tech giants.
"Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree." My bet here is that he's counting retail Apple Store employees. I'm not entirely sure the upward mobility is there for those people.
Reminds me of

"The Norwegian art of the packed lunch, Matpakke - Most Boring Lunch in the world - Ever?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlNmeVK_zLg
the guesser gets 14% right on that sequence, fwiw. And you can just keep repeating it indefinitely.
I think it's a combination of factors. Distrust of the system, lack of steady cash flow, lack of local offerings.
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No-one would know that you+BankCo@example.com is an email address you can even be reached on, unless it leaks out from BankCo.

ADD: and of course, you aren't really going to stick +BankCo after your real name to generate an email to use with BankCo. You're going to give them something generated like you'd generate a password - "ol48eILm@example.com" or similar - so if anyone finds out that particular email address for you it doesn't tell them with whom you use it.
Yeah it seems ridiculous in hindsight. I think what enabled the mergers though was less someone with a brilliant idea that they could just recombine, and more the drastic change in the government's conception and enforcement of antcompetitiveness laws. That is, they wouldn't have tried to merge back together if the they didn't think the government might let them. The government can and does does block mergers, still, and it makes sense that that they wouldn't just want to ban a specific company from a specific market share for all eternity.
> Places should be forced to accept cash until everyone can go cashless

But if places are forced to accept cash, people who haven't adhered to cashless forms of payments have no incentive to swap.
If it is a significant part of the market, then cash-accepting places should still out-compete cashless. If being cashless is such an advantage that the reverse is true, then people should be given incentives to change. This feels to me like a government action that goes against economic interests (whether or not it should still be done is another question, but I'd personally vote against this regulation if given the option).

I find a more interesting argument against this to be the fact that cashless payments actually depend on a corporation or third party entity doing the payment for you. Which, lacking appropriate regulation, would give them the power to ban certain people or business from doing transactions altogether (think China social credit systems).

edit: Regarding the first point, I just mean the government seems to be taking action in the wrong area just for appearances, when the issue would be investigating why people don't have cashless payment options and promoting change there
That's racist.

/s
The only news here is that Elizabeth Warren voiced support for such policies. There have been very reasonable arguments for breaking up Amazon and Google on anticompetitive grounds for years now. Breaking up Facebook from WhatsApp is less about anticompetitive behavior is more about privacy.
Or just die
I'm convinced that, with few exceptions, to succeed in business requires you to destroy that part of your brain that understands the word "enough". What salary next year is enough? How many assets is enough? Business leaders will never say. How much profit this year is enough? Shareholders will never give you a figure--more is always better than less. These people might have goals, but they are meaningless because when they reach those goals, they don't stop. Unending accumulation is the only way. Anyone who does have a concept of "enough" gets out-competed by the ones who don't.
So the idea is to "require freedom of speech to apply" by prohibiting corporations from setting their own terms of service, spam policies, etc? That sounds like a very serious restraint of speech.
Or insurance. Or licensure. Or security, trained staff, inspections, commercial grade construction.

They should be fined or in jail.
Being a large company, I wouldn't expect every team there to have read that. Looks like the Skype Web didn't.
More quotations from the article: "The plan, in effect, is to entrench Facebook’s interests while sidestepping all the important issues...Will it change its fundamental business model, which is based on charging advertisers to take advantage of this widespread surveillance to “micro-target” consumers? ... We don’t want to end up with all the same problems we now have with viral content online — only with less visibility and nobody to hold responsible for it...I think the problem is the invasive way it makes its money and its lack of meaningful oversight."
Umm, because it was illegal? I didn't really want to do for-profit stuff on pirated software.
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You are allowed to crush your competitors with economy of scale provided that you don't do it by selling at a loss. That's actually the entire point of economy of scale. The reference in the article is to passing a law against this so clearly what Amazon did is legal now. Furthermore, we don't need a law for this as this type of thing is well handled by a non-compete clause, which I am surprised wasn't in the seller's agreements with Amazon.
Sure, but those issues can be solved, both short-term and long-term.
'Doldrums' is not the same as 'Doom'.

Specific and non-apocalyptic phrases from the article are

* "Technology startups are finding it harder to attract venture capital"

* "slowest quarterly revenue increase since 2014"

* "Deals are taking longer: a round of funding once raised within a month is taking six"
I think that wildly overstates the influence these companies have. Amazon is trivial to avoid. Just don't shop there or at Whole Foods. Facebook is a bit trickier because you might be forced there by a social group and they have a huge web of trackers.

Google is really the issue. They are dominant in search, browser, and maps, and they're half the mobile duopoly. It's very difficult to avoid using their products entirely and even if you did, their dominance allows them to dictate how the internet works, to a certain extent.
Lovely! Here's a Clojure version of the same that I write: https://git.calmabiding.me/scstarkey/dicegen
> "This viewing experience finally undid for me what I have long suspected to be a meaningless platitude: the idea that art promotes empathy."

I don't mean to be rude, but why on Earth would someone start out from a baseless conclusion or platitude like that? Art by its very nature is incredibly subjective, differs in meaning and scope for every person, and in some senses is literally defined by having a property that escapes classification into previously existing taxonomies (such as, "things that elicit empathy").

Each of "art elicits empathy", "art does not elicit empathy" and "art elicits sadism" are frankly just very stupid things to say or believe. Some art can be argued for some observers to do one or the other or a mix of them.

Why is this worth writing about? I'm asking sincerely. Let alone in connection with Bandersnatch, which was mediocre at best.
Once you start investing in healthy eating, you quickly realize that there are 3 types of food: healthy, sugary, and sluggish.

You always get to choose which one you want, but it's exactly that: a choice!
> When it's in their own self-interest I'm not sure whether they're being friendly or not. Can't really tell.

Does it have to be mutually exclusive. Sure, Google is hoping you're going to go GKE for your Kubernetes/Container needs. But you're completely free to use another cloud, or roll your own.

For all cloud native backend stuff I really love Go (and Rust for that matter).
Californian in Dublin - I feel embarrassingly overpaid in Ireland. But every time I go to the US, I feel embarrassingly underpaid.

My wife and I went from California to Ireland, then back to California for a year, and when she used up her whole 1 week of vacation and we realized even in tech we'd never afford a house where our kids could walk to a decent school, we moved back to Ireland.

I'd make 2-3x as much in the US, but I wouldn't be happy.

Also - "TRUE vacation " - WHAT THE FUCK is up with Americans who think it's appropriate to bug people about work on vacation. Or to have "unlimited" vacation policies and act surprised when someone wants to take what would be _the legal minimum_ in a lot of other countries. And sticking people on pagerduty half their goddamn lives. Seriously, fuck right off to hell.

It's evil.
I just searched bing for “banking apprenticeship U.K.” and the following banks have apprenticeship programmes; HSBC, Lloyds, UBS, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Tesco. RBS and Santander also offer them according to this website.

https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-experience/job-sec...
I wonder if HN readers just have a higher tendency to not care about fancy food. I’m that kind of person. I also don’t care about varying my clothing unless absolutely necessary for the occasion. I’d rather save my money for other things that I care about, such as decent portable and home audio, vintage fountain pens, and the occasional computer gear.
From my limited view of it all. Having no cash means a reduced risk of robbery, burglary, stealing cash by staff, not having to do bank runs, getting change in etc.

I don't know the costs or anything, but it must make sense for these businesses at least?
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This is another nonsensical plan, between ideas like this and 70% tax rates (that would certainly apply to people earning far less than $10M+ annually) there would be tanks in the street by 2026.
It’s even weirder than that: it’s discontinued and supported.
I assume they will pull off a few unscrewed cargo rocket decelerations before offering it as a crewed option.
We also don't absolutely _need_ good health to somehow still enjoy success but it certainly helps, doesn't it?

It's quite the same with education.
She has no proof, she does not need any. this is typical politician using FUD to scare the populace into letting them take actions which in the end only go to bolster their own campaign coffers and personal riches. With the upcoming Presidential campaign you can expect politicians tripping over each other using jealously and fear to get people to plea for action.

Amazon is not a Standard Oil by any measure as they have ample competition when it comes to online sales. Facebook is still an opt in environment. If you don't want to join facebook you don't have to and no retailer is dumb enough (well that might not be true but I haven't found one) to require you to be a facebook member to purchase products or services. Google is, well google. I don't have to use their search engine if I don't want to.