skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on how you categorize yourself and your co-workers. If you value yourself as simply an engineer and your coworkers as a janitor, cashier, etc. then yes I could see your entire identity being wrapped up in making more than others.
If you categorize yourself as a person and your coworkers as other people who also deserve happiness and the chance to ensure their children have a good future at exactly zero cost to yourself then you would see this across the board raising of the minimum as a good thing.

If I make the salary I ask for and am able to lead the life I want on it, then the fact that everyone else I work with is also getting a great salary is only a net positive in my book. The fact that the higher earners salaries were not affected at all means they suffered no harm except for those led by their ego.
To be honest, not a lot, they only let you past the building door. So as a thief, I can:
A. Scrub through a hypothetical leak of all that data, or
B. Tailgate someone (even in security-conscious buildings this isn't much harder than following someone while carrying a box in both hands)

Locks are for honest people.
> The right to hire whoever you want at whatever terms you want to offer.

You are describing the right to own slaves, except that current US law provides slaves with significantly more legal protection than you propose, and the thirteenth amendment limits slavery to criminals.

I feel like this should go without saying, but the article is about illegal strikes, and you seem to be advocating for more aggressive enforcement of anti-work-stop laws.
Yep. The standard method of software development (release it early and fix it later) does not work for self driving cars and medical instruments.
Why do you keep trying to argue against a straw man? I'll say it again: I'm not saying they're victims. I'm not saying that they have less power than they should. I don't feel sorry for them. You made a specific claim: That they had a massive amount of power. I made a counter-claim: That if that were true, they'd be paying less in taxes. Do you have a response to that? Because it seems like you don't.
Rails was never the most popular framework. But for a certain geography it was. Those were the anti-java crowd.
Strange Rider seems to stage all new files without asking for me. I'm on 2019.1.EAP1, but I had the same behaviour on 2018.3.4. It might be configurable, but I don't see anything in the git config within Rider.
While I mostly agree with your comment, I think that what the landlords are really worried about is poor tenants exploiting the price arbitrage opportunity that presents itself to them, though it may be a violation of their leases.

If anything it's the poors' cleverness that is threatening. If you read through the website of the management company mentioned here, they brag that they have been a force in shaping rent stabilized housing policy. They likely set those policies up to ensure a steady rate of return from the state, in return for stabilized rent for tenants.

Now consider that in the context of the corrupt, borderline criminal history of the NYC real estate development industry, who've not wasted any opportunity to cheat on taxes by undervaluing their assets, among other financial crimes.

Only the wealthy are allowed to play games with finance.
This is a general problem with trusting computer AI.

I am talking about image recognition stuff etc.

At the very least we need some invariants on a higher level to kick in and heavily penalize any such results! Not just bottom up but we need top down.

Where is this feeback mechanism?
Can you please edit snarky swipes out of your comments here? This post would be just fine with just the last two sentences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The me_cleaner they mentioned is an attempt to remove/disable the Intel ME, including any AMT.

An alternative to me_cleaner on some systems (like ThinkPad X200) is to replace the BIOS entirely with Coreboot [1]. More recently, it was found that me_cleaner appears to let you remove/disable all or part of Intel ME on those and some other architectures but still boot.

[1] My own notes from when I played with this, which was a mixed success (it was way too much headache to have a huge number of people each do): https://www.neilvandyke.org/coreboot/
Blockchain’s Occam Problem
Another server option is something based on ~2012 Opterton chips which have been freed, such as:

https://store.vikings.net/libre-friendly-hardware/the-server...
Exactly. Rich people like Zuckerberg build high walls around their homes and hide details of their private life, at the same time wanting to know everything about their users or customers.
I've experienced it from both sides.

First job, living in town within walking distance of shops and work, didn't want to carry a bag of bags, especially in summer without big winter coat pockets, so trips to the shop after work had to be pre planned.

Now have a car with a bag with 20 bags permanently in the boot, easy, no planning required.
It can. Python, for example, builds up classes at runtime. PHP builds up classes at compile time. There are plenty of other examples. PHP is really dynamic through eval() but that's more rare.

Although PHP does support the above syntax, it's actually pretty rare in production code. PHP can be optimized like JavaScript is: perform direct variable/member access but provide a slow path for these kinds of dynamic lookups.
The federal government was created to ensure the People's rights and was only given jurisdiction in a limited number of areas (See Article 1, Section 8).

It has seen fit to insert itself into innumerable areas, against which We the People have not protested vigorously enough. And this is despite court rulings, which state the People's sovereignty:

When we consider the nature and the theory of our institutions of government, the principles upon which they are supposed to rest, and review the history of their development, we are constrained to conclude that they do not mean to leave room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power. <B>Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source of law; but, in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies of government, sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists and acts.</B> And the law is the definition and limitation of power. It is, indeed, quite true that there must always be lodged somewhere, and in some person or body, the authority of final decision, and in many cases of mere administration, the responsibility is purely political, no appeal lying except to the ultimate tribunal of the public judgment, exercised either in the pressure of opinion or by means of the suffrage. But the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, considered as individual possessions, are secured by those maxims of constitutional law which are the monuments showing the victorious progress of the race in securing to men the blessings of civilization under the reign of just and equal laws, so that, in the famous language of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights, the government of the commonwealth "may be a government of laws, and not of men." For the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life at the mere will of another seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself. [118 U.S. 356

Yick Wo v. Hopkins - https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/118/356]
Very prudent. I don’t see a torrent magnet link though :)
In Switzerland I've always changed the locks to my apartment and its garage.

1) The landlord is _never_ allowed to enter your house
2) In an emergency, the firemen would just break the door.
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With respect to Matt Levine, the exact opposite is true. ETFs were a tax dodge that became embedded in the system. To get technical, Congress enacted §311(b) exemptions in 1986, exempting gain recognition for in-kind distributions for Subchapter M companies as §852(b)(6). At the time, mutual funds rarely distributed property in kind. The first ETF appeared in 1993, and the spectacular tax advantage is a big reason for its success. Given their popularity, ETFs are also given regulatory exemptive relief from parts of the '33 and '40 Acts. I'd argue this is like frequent flyer miles -- the IRS basically gave up on collecting them as taxable income because everyone thought of them as free.

Credential - I'm a lawyer and value investor @ https://lembascapital.com/ and I spend a great deal of time looking at fund structures.

PS Other smart mutual funds began distributing in kind once they realized this tax structure was sufficiently embedded. See e.g. Sequoia Fund, the famous value investing mutual fund (at least pre Valeant) - https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB921028092685519084
"I'm scared of poor people."
It is neither ignorant nor prejudiced to notice that your standard of living, and that of your children, have been rather stagnant in recent memory.
There’s no reason to “go into finance.” Just get a decent paying job, save, and invest. In some industries this is difficult... but anyone in tech can do this and become a millionaire in 10 to 15 years.
Let's ignore whether this is dystopian or evil for a minute.

Assume that the land lord is right and that this will lower his expenses.

I assume he's going to pass that savings to his tenants or just use it to buy more properties?
"I want a house." isn't exactly yacht envy. It's a standard expectation in most of the country. Having a high-paying job in an extremely high cost of living area makes the economics weird. You're not rich until you can save up a bunch of that money and escape.
I was in a Scottish city of only 200k people, so not nearly the worst by any stretch, but still bad enough to result in soul-destroying journey times during rush hour :(

Unfortunately, cycling isn't an option for everyone.
BrainBox – let's segment 3D brain imaging data in real time, collaboratively
FWIW they did this in Austin, TX (before, as usual, it was overturned by the state lege a couple years later) and IMO in was a really big success. There used to be a ton of plastic bag litter downtown, especially along the creeks that empty into the river that runs through downtown Austin, and after the bag ban there was a huge visible reduction in this litter.
Do Americans not get extra keys for their rental apartments?

Granted, I've only rented out an apartment once, but it was from a big local rental agency and I got three keys despite being the only tenant in a single bedroom apartment. My current studio apartment (although not a rental) also has three keys.
I've heard that computer vision has huge advantages over humans in grading agricultural products, but from the brief discussions I've had I'm not sure how much of that is actually based on machine learning as opposed to other techniques (heuristics, ad-hoc algorithms, old-school statistical methods, etc.).
I guess others don't agree, but I do. People are dying using autopilot, deaths that are likely preventable, and yet very little has been done about it. What's even worse is they're advertising safety claims based on false data, and you have to fight the courts just to have access to the document showing the redacted data.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-safety-statistic...

But it seems nobody cares.
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Choosing to implement this system clearly reflects racial bias.
I think there are some situations like merging on a busy highway where something like a theory of mind is at least a little bit useful so you can negotiate entry. If you don’t, the car is either going to be too aggressive or too timid.
F# variant https://github.com/rspeele/Rezoom.SQL
Nobody is saying people have solved it either, I am saying that the question is at best a distraction.
> Am I wrong to conclude that this result itself is an argument for the existence of dark matter?

Only if competing arguments that account for the rotational speed discrepancy in galaxies fail to explain "galaxies without dark matter", which... I think they do? (I am not 100% sure on this).

Of course occam's razor is only a heuristic, and not a law, but we would prefer a theory that is simpler, and if we have to add an extra level of indirection explaining why some galaxies lack dark matter, then that is less desirable in a theory. Repeating myself, science doesn't necessarily do what we desire.
Assuming that everything you said is true (and it is), why should the engineers care? They are still getting the same salary they had before and likely still have a much higher top tier than everyone else. If they are able to put their ego aside, they would see they were not negatively affected at all. If I was an engineer getting a fair market wage at 70k, and then the janitor gets a raise to an above fair market wage of 70k as well, it does not affect anything in my life. I am not going to quit and go work across the street as an engineer still making 70k just to ensure the janitor there knows I am more valuable.
I would argue that the infrastructure we have could do a much better job of discoverability & catering to a variety of interests. Selection is good & necessary, but none of the big news players have been able to figure out that I'm far more interested in Tommy Caldwell than Kim Kardashian, so to this day pop entertainment headlines I never visit continue to scroll past. Tailoring to interests could broaden the range of useful content that generates views.

I eventually went back to RSS, picked feeds from twenty or so minor news sources focused on my interests, and in general I'm much more satisfied. I eventually started using Pocket as well to retain a small trickle of "best of", which has the best ratio of interesting headlines (to me) I've encountered in an aggregator.
While the idea is worrying, note that there is no “opposing traffic” in the test performed, and very little info on how the car behaved other than a couple seconds of a TV show. The entire conclusion is:

> Tesla autopilot module’s lane recognition function has a good robustness in an ordinary external environment (no strong light, rain, snow, sand and dust interference), but it still doesn’t handle the situation correctly in our test scenario.

Not one word more, see last two pages in the paper.
I don't understand the scepticism, self-driving cars are already a reality and are working very efficiently in controlled environments. Anyone working on logistics already heavily relies on it. Another point, the "dedicated TPU" is also a myth. Neural Networks inference is very cheap and current nvidia hardware is able to run neural networks that would take years to train.
Is it any more messed up than someone having the fortune of inheriting a luxury apartment and doing the exact same thing?

It's a lottery either way. Either there's a problem with lotteries in general or a problem with what kind of person is allowed to win them.
Except the people doing the tracking already know where you live, and in this case, own the land you live on, so I'm not at convinced that this amounts to any kind of loss.
The fob is not read on exit, so no. You can make inferences from frequency of entry, but you can't tell the difference between someone who is away all weekend vs. holed up in their apartment all weekend.
> The problem is that 2MB pages are too much to duplicate for a single byte change.

Splitting up such pages into their 4kb counterparts when dirtying a COWed huge page isn't particularly crazy. I don't think there's much reason to do that when huge pages are used, but given THP it seems pretty obvious that there's potential for substantial regressions without that feature.

> and actually is very hard to do better in user-space with a different persistence model.

Howso? It's not like management of a buffering layer over disks is a particularly new thing. There's plenty of different data stores that have persistence models that don't have the problems (uneven write rate, explosion in memory usage after fork, latency increases due to the increase in page misses, ...) of fork() and then writing out the data in the fork.
> If there was opposing traffic in that lane, would the car still change into it?

Thought experiment for human drivers: if there were a stationary fire truck in your lane, under what circumstances would you drive into the back of it, without braking?
All views are correct. Look at the number of jobs in cities around the world. Ruby was 1 in California but no where else during that time period.
Progress will be when single use plastic bottles and packaging is banned.
This is intentional to prevent rampant speculation. If you could get in and out of shares with no tax consequence then it would cause extreme volatility in the market.

Having the zombie company isn’t inefficient. That company is still deploying its capital to its employees and vendors, paying rent, etc. They are still contributing to the economy.

Also remember companies aren’t making money from stock trades. They already got all the money at the IPO.
> Even in the areas where fast food workers get $15 an hour because it’s hard to find workers, they don’t give you any better service.

Does that amount of money let them live without constant financial stress? Because that's where you really see the benefits of paying a bit more.
I've been using reusable material bags for grocery shopping for over a year. Nothing hard about it, just remember to take the bags back to the trunk. However, I am still using plastic bags for things like loose produce, or meat containers that I don't want to touch other things in my bag, so I don't know the alternatives if plastic bags go. Most of these plastic bags will be clean when empty, so I'll recycle them, and hope they will be recycled. As a millennial, I didn't know what it was like to live in a world without plastic, but reading https://www.onebrownplanet.com/life_before_plastic/ surely left me fascinated. Just half a century ago, people used to buy food wrapped in paper, and swap empty milk glass bottles for full ones. Although food was way harder to preserve, I bet it used to be way more healthy and preservatives free.

I'd love to hear more if anyone comes from that era, or knows stories about those times.
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Are renters considered co-owners? Even if they are, can't you collect that permission in the lease?
Surveillance will always be subject to authority-flavored selective availability and interpretation unless the collected information is freely available to all legitimately interested parties.

This has only ever directly affected me once, in a stupid argument with my apartment administration over a $250 fire exit sign, but it was enough to make me aware of how much power the person holding the footage has. Extrapolating to victims with less soft power and more at stake is not a comforting proposition.
This seems like a problem to be solved by increasing access to public restrooms.
In San Francisco the rent ordinance allows tenants to petition the rent board to lower their rent due to a substantial decrease in services if a landlord denies a request for a spare key.

This seems like a reasonable policy that other cities with renters might benefit from, if they don't already have something similar.
Except for whole foods and central market. Always poorer people have to deal with this kind of unproven laws.
Does this also work for company badges?
And a related project "MicroDraw - Collaborative vectorial annotation tool for ultra high resolution data" (zooming from a full brain scan to a single neuron level, in no-time, in the browser): https://github.com/r03ert0/microdraw
US cities in my experience have very few public toilets. The only exceptions I can think of are the ones in parks & beaches.
It pretty much controls all programmers who read English.
GP was talking about the entrance to the building, not the apartment. Having your own keys to the apartment doesn't help much if you only have one key to get into the building.
Sleep? Inadequate coverage of personnel who have choreographed their blinking?
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Which of the anti-capitalist socialist, racial supremacists, or totalitarians are responsible for the recent drops in life expectancy in the US, out of curiosity?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-life-expectancy...
I think it's like this: Imagine you have a cloud of dark matter, with a combined centre of gravity. Now imagine a "piece" of dark matter falling down to that centre of gravity. It doesn't impact, or slow down with friction, or anything like that, it just keeps going, through the centre, and out the other side, just as far as it fell before. There's no way to clump together, or stay in the centre.
I grew up in Greece, where we go to a second school (private classes), after the main (public) school. And they both assign you homework. We are talking, 7 hours of public school + 3 hours of 'private' school (we call it 'the after school'). So 10 hours of being physically present at some kind of school and then homework from both of them. So expect 2-4 hours of homework added on top of that. 10-14 hours school days. Yay!

You might be wondering why the "after school" exists. See, you need to attend the public school (or an accredited really expensive private one) in order to advance through the education system. But because public school suck you go to the second school in order to really learn. As to how much the public schools were I grew up suck, we are talking kids having sex and filming it during school time - and the teachers dealt with this by banning cellphones to the school. No cameras, no recordings!! When I think back, I honestly feel rage with how much wrong the system was.

Anyway, of course this meant you had to be physically present at some kind of school location for 10 hours per day, and then spend 2-4 hours doing homework in order to keep up. I remember people defending that system to death, making fun of america's homeschooled children and finland's relaxed attitude and how we are the "real heroes" of the education system. Ugh.

PS. I just remembered. We even had homework to "religion class". Oh yeah, we learned about the life of jesus mostly, in theory we had to learn about other religions too, but it was mostly all about the J. So, of course we were given homework even to that too. Ugh ugh ugh. Not a religious school btw, a regular public one. Complete with "why didn't you learn the creed of faith, are you not a chistian?" attitude from the teacher towards 8 year olds that didn't study. What a shithole.
Taking this at face value all it means to me is the lecture model for teaching math is crap. I’m glad all those “world class”. It doesn’t seem like there is any push to change the status quo either.
Even if there is no violations, installing a surveillance might add a motivation for tenants to move out. Make their life as unpleasant as possible within the law.
Some of your comments were probably downvoted because you began them with personal swipes. Could you please edit those out when posting here? They break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It's a pity, because it does sound like you know something about this topic.
addendum: note that by "lose the benefits…" etc. I mean at a social level. It's very distinct to just not have certain businesses exist compared to the self-sacrifice of opting-out personally but still living in a world with these things otherwise.

I'd much rather have the status quo (and stronger) around privacy regulations for medical records than live in a world without that but then be one of a few people who forgo use of common medical facilitaties over personal privacy objections.
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The reason to "go into finance" is you can expect on average to become a millionaire in 4-6 years instead of 10-15 years. So, do that, if you can and all you care about is money. Note: this only applies to smart, quantitative graduates from good schools.