skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of this is a perception issue. Since he did everything basically through his computer, to many people it doesn't feel much different than playing an elaborate online game. So many people can envision themselves getting into a similar situation.

This case has often been compared to Breaking Bad, where main protagonist starts off with someone that many people can identify with, and it is only through some twisted sequences of fate that leads him to getting deeper and deeper into the criminal world. And it is only really in the last season or two where it finally sinks in that he really is the bad guy.
“These milieux, with their party newspapers, clubs and societies, were usually rigid and homogeneous. Already before 1914, this has resulted in politicization of whole areas of life that in other societies were much freer from ideological identifications. Thus, if a ordinary German wanted to join a male voice choir, for instance, he had to choose in some areas between a Catholic and a Protestant choir, in others between a socialist and a nationalist choir; the same went for gymnastics clubs, cycling clubs, football clubs and the rest. A member of the Social Democratic Party before the war could have virtually his entire life encompassed by the party and it’s organizations: he could read a social democratic newspaper, go to a social democratic pub or bar, belong to a social democratic trade union, borrow books from the social democratic library, go to social democratic women’s organization, enroll his children in the social democratic youth movement and be buried with the aid of a social democratic burial fund. Similar things could be said of the Centre Party but also to a certain extent of other parties too.

.......

The older generation of political activists were too closely tied to their particular political ideology to find comprise and co-operation with other politicians and their parties very easily."

- The Coming Of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, page 84.
"This page has been blocked by your network operator."

Oh, come on, really!?
The internet that is to come is going to be a very unfunny place.
There's a "stack" data structure.

There's also a "stack", a layered architecture.

Don't confuse the two. They're unrelated.
The pain of Trump's tax law in California can't be understated ...the cap on SALT deductions means that you cannot deduct more than $10k in income + property taxes anymore, which barely covers an average base salary for many people. Double taxed on income we'll never see.
JWebAssembly: Java to WebAssembly Compiler
What do you propose? Shut down the welfare state and stop taxing rich people since they will evade taxes anyway?
> But along West 69th Street and stretches of West 68th Street (where I live and work and am also serenaded by the drilling, including at this very moment)

The article was written because the noise is annoying to the journalist that wrote it.
this idea is bad because some actors can potentially earn more money from the manipulation towards a bad policy than they will lose as a result of that policy being bad.

the whole reason corruption exists is that the punishment and loss potential from corruption is too small compared to the huge benefit that comes from affecting policy makers.

the worst policies will have the highest bets because they will always be a small price compared to the benefits from those policies.

all the companies will vote for obvious bad policies which will reduce their competition to zero, because they can afford to throw that money in the trash to keep their monopolies in place
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Exactly. I thought I wanted to make games professionally for a long time, then realized that I'd just be a cog in the machine if I worked for a large company.
This is not in the paper because of rich people. It's in the paper because the article's author lives near the jobsite and is self-interestedly complaining in print.

"But along West 69th Street and stretches of West 68th Street (where I live and work and am also serenaded by the drilling, including at this very moment)..."
A comparison worthy of a throwaway account, right there
Only if union membership is both required and restricted. In each of my workplaces, union membership has been optional and open to anyone who works there. It's weaker bargaining-wise than a closed shop with entry requirements, but we've still been able to collectively negotiate to better outcomes (the current round is UCU's dispute with the universities and their pension fund over proposed changes to the pension scheme, which we look to be fighting off).
The Incredibles also took a few stabs.
ding ding ding.

I use a few different versions of keepass on two laptops and an android, and they all share a keyfile through dropbox. I get most of the same functionality that my wife does through LastPass. It's convenient enough that I don't see any reason to migrate to LastPass, despite their much more polished user experience.
> Vending machines and convenience stores near ubiquitous

Yeah that's the last thing people need for a healthy lifestyle.
>but by extension that unions are evil, corrupt and lazy organizations infiltrated by organized crime.

That's because, in the US, it's all true, historically. Auto unions were a big reason why Detroit's automakers were so uncompetitive against the Japanese automakers in the 80s; autoworkers got ridiculous pay for menial work, which is why Detroit moved a lot of their production to Mexico and Canada, and other automakers moved to Southern states where unions didn't exist.

The simple fact is that unions in the US in the latter half of the 20th century and beyond were nothing like unions in Germany, where by almost all accounts they seem to work out extremely well.

>Most people in Europe may not actively be a part of a union, but they normally recognize them as beneficial entities in the labor market

Yes, in Europe that's true. In America, it just hasn't been the case. It's just like public transit: in Germany, trains and subways are fantastic: they're inexpensive, clean, and efficient; whereas in America, they're an utter disaster: dirty, expensive, constant maintenance problems, and just a miserable experience. Try riding the subway in Munich, and then riding the subway in NYC or DC; there's just no comparison. The problem isn't that subways are bad, it's that subways in America are bad. Same goes for unions.
Name is good. You don’t need a customer-facing GUID, you can automatically keep track of which customers were connected to which call centre person. You could easily combine that with the automated transcription you’re suggesting, which I also like. Heck, make it an MP3!
> The market responds with a variety of policies. Some work, some don't. The policies that work increase the wealth of the people who bet on them.

There's incidentally no way that actually works in practice; different policies have different shapes of effects over time, multiple policies exist simultaneously, and there's no way to isolate the effects of one policies on the outcome at any given time.
>They don’t need to unionize, they need to realize that they have a unique and valuable skill set.

Without unionizing, even if all of current employed and poorly paid game developers realized this, there would be no shortage of people coming in to undercut them.
When I read this, yet again I think of all the wasted incredible brains and talent that end up in ad-tech companies like facebook and google.

All this brain power could be used to help with this sort of injustice, in what seems to be essentially a battle of brains (IRS lawyers vs rich people's top lawyers).

But then the gov needs to find a way to competitively pay for this stuff.
I'm from Portugal (where we've had somewhat similar experiences to Spain with the mentality for unions).

When I was young I believed they were good as it was what I was taught and fell in the socialist-leaning mentality of much of the country.

Having started to learn about economics, entering the industry, and seeing the arguments many people make for unionization have definitely led to me to swing much harder to the "unions are evil" side of the argument.

That said I do believe they are a double edged sword of sorts. When the only employer for a certain profession is the government for example (i.e. not driven by profits and losses, or not a part of a competitive market) unions can actually help make things fair and get a point across that otherwise would not be visible. But in general they are much less efficient than profits and losses in a competitive market and in those situations will lead to a decline in growth that you would otherwise not get.
Unions improve compensation by increasing the share of the profits pie given (or returned, rather) to labor, not by putting a stranglehold on new hiring.
Related would be JWebAssembly (Java to WASM compiler): https://github.com/i-net-software/JWebAssembly
Is that really all it is, though? Hire wizards and they cast spells to make your taxes lower? I think being able to lower taxes has more to do with your billionaire status (there are more loopholes and deductions for wealthy people) and less to do with hiring professional help.

Nearly 100% of my income is W2 labor, and I always do my own taxes. A long time ago I thought I'd hire a CPA to do my taxes, to double check that I was doing mine optimally. Total waste of money. He cost about $400 (I understand that's a pretty good bargain these days), and found no additional deductions, and was kind of a pain to deal with. For working class and middle class people, there really aren't that many ways to get creative with your income to reduce your tax bill.
That's not "the point" of ebooks, it's just one attribute they have.

I'm well aware that you can fit lots of ebooks in one device, but so far I've not been particularly limited by the information density of regular books.
Sure, in this case, "white supremacist" might not be the technical term for the bigotry involved. And, regarding the many meanings of kek, Pepe, and all that (and aside from the fact that the person who asked him to "bless" the statue is a white supremacist) --- sure, if you say so, dude.
==The current state of social media is a symptom; it's a mirror. ==

This is true, but its worth acknowledging that these apps are purposefully built to be addictive [1]. Things like endless scroll, pull to refresh, like buttons, gamification, and more have been developed to make that mirror more psychologically compulsive.

[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/trapped-the-s...
In the UK at least, there's also quite a few people working on 'reinventing the union' (e.g.: https://www.organise.org.uk/ [1]). There's definitely an element to which old-school unions aren't particularly well suited to the modern workplace.

For example, they don't work very well for freelancers/gig economy type jobs; and their traditional focus on job safety in factories/assembly lines doesn't really apply in the same way to programmers sitting at desks.

[1] I'm not affiliated with them, but have met the team, and they seem like smart people.
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The password length defaults to too short, and in some circumstances is seeded poorly.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/77345/security-...
How would a consumption tax help against accumulation of wealth? The super rich spend a lot less of their wealth on consumption than average people.
>A huge chunk of American housing supply is in places that only made sense to settle because they were connected by freeways to downtown parking.

Err, no. It's because the government heavily subsidized it at the detriment to city centers. You don't have to be NYC. City centers by their very nature our extremely economical beneficial and affordable.

Our current housing infrastructure is in no way reasonably affordable or even sane. Building houses in a dense manner is not expensive.

I'm not sure what the confusion is here.
> Do they not realize that type of work isn't normal? I've worked at a lot of places and maybe I can just see bad management when others can't?

As you can tell from the fact that they have chosen to stay there and keep doing it, they apparently don't mind it that much. Certainly not enough to leave anyway.
Are there any "think before you speak" browser extensions out there? Thinking of doing a hackathon project that analyzes a comment in a comment box before you post...
The easiest way to debunk your claim that it is purely propaganda is to give easy counter-examples. In this case, may I present to you New York's finest: The MTA and LIRR. where rampant abuse of the system is everywhere and somehow, amazingly, have one of the highest disability claim rates out of any group of workers in the country.

Either working for the MTA or LIRR is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, or this is quite literally "organized crime"

And who could forget this story? Is this "25 years of propaganda"?
https://nypost.com/2013/12/20/ex-lirr-union-boss-in-gravy-tr...
https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-d...

Anyways, not saying there aren't good, hard working people in unions out there, and they don't provide some functional value, but like anything in life they have become corrupted.

Unions can certainly succeed if the the employee side also has a vested interest in the success of the company just as much as the company has, and that balance is maintained. Then, you truly have a collective.
I think there might be a misunderstanding here.

I'm not sure GDPR applies to employer's holding information about employees.
Bingo. Apparently there is another CC that also has this benefit (according to a CC article I read once) but I was never able to track it down. Anyone know?
I feel like neutering the IRS is going to have long-term negative impacts on the country. I hate taxes as much as anyone, but I do think the IRS has been a force for good in our country. Not just by ensuring that wealthy people make investment in our society without the expectation of direct financial return, but also by virtue of being a powerful enough to tackle corruption.

The anti-tax rich are totally fine with continuing to shovel government money into their pockets, via contracts, grants, etc. Which suggests that a greater share of the cost burden of enriching these people will fall to regular Americans.
Agreed. But the EASA ought to be at least in a position to put pressure on FAA to put their house in order. You can add this to my very long list of reasons why the UK really ought to decide to remain in a position of influence within the EU instead of choosing to join the Trumpist libertarian shitshow those far-right loons are trying to push us into.
People who have already made their money love to call for this sort of thing. They're rich enough to be insulated from it; it hits those who might actually try to get rich in the future.
They probably won't be there afterwards, either. Just adding some theoretical value to yet another vacant property in their portfolio.
This comment reveals a fundamental lack of understanding of how LastPass or other cloud password managers work.
Hmmm, how many radar pulses need to hit a target to generate video? Sounds potentially irradating... ;)

eg: WARNING Don't attempt to image living creatures WARNING
You clearly don't know what the situation of Seattle is. The influx of people to Seattle is to work on high tech companies. These people make enough money to pay for the increasing costs of rent. The locals (Americans, by the way) are forced to leave the city because they can't afford to live here anymore. The poorer ones that have no prospect of finding jobs in another city become homeless. That's the perverse reality.
Odesza, Nombe, Ben Murray Smith, Volvo, SG Lewis. Electronic recommendations under ‘Discover’ in Spotify.

Or brain.fm if I really want no lyrics and to focus.
It would take an intrepid determined cook to produce the culinary metaphor of what a modern microservice landscape looks like: a bucket of ravioli that are connected to each other by a web of spaghetti. (Does that sound like more pasta than filling? Yes, it does.)
ERV. Also, keeping it covered, greatly decreases the rate of evaporation.
here's the outline for Dalio article:
https://outline.com/GHeFsV
Media queries are instructions that the client can use, unlike other methods like user-agent there is no info being sent over to the site. Of course a malicious page could implement js code to try and understand what bersion of the page the client is actually rendering, but it would be quite easy for the client to circumvent that.
Too much evil spirit for a single company to contain. And they had to pay like 80M Eur in damages to a pensioner being related to Glyphosat being carcinogenic. This ruling may have set a precedent for the future.
> To claim estimating is "impossible", when many of us do it absolutely fine, is ludicrous.

How do you do it? I mean, how do you know when you reached the necessary granularity? And even if you know, sometimes it just means more questions that the client might not be able to answer at that time. Do you come up with a worst and best case and carry that delta up the breakdown hierarchy of components? Are you able to do this for every kind of task that can come up in a project? (From frontend design to backend implementation and third party system integration and infrastructure setup and then product deployment.)
> I'm not clear what makes this one construction site newsworthy over the 100's of others?

The author lives there.
> Which has nothing to do with the question of what would be preferable to European citizens, US surveillance or Chinese surveillance.

> Its not about the justifications for surveillance programs but their direct effect on people living in Europe.

That's a bizarre question and pretty self-centered. Also, as a European, if you're trying to somehow choose between one or the other, wouldn't you want to most strongly oppose the surveillance run by the regime that's least aligned to European/Western values?
> Unionisation may help, but the only practical solution is for people to stop taking on terrible jobs because of some sense of 'passion', and to go where their skills are appreciated/where they're treated better/fairly compensated

This. Unionisation is basically an attempt to reject the reality that there isn't enough demand for all that labor to be valuable at/above market-average.

Ultimately I don't think there is a right answer and which way you choose is up to you. But it sounds like a "you can't have your cake and eat it too" situation.

Lucky are those who are passionate about things the majority of the labor pool hates but many businesses need.

Edit: Just to prevent misunderstandings, this is my opinion on Unionisation in this particular industry where there are many (private) companies. It can be a different story if your only employers are not driven by profits and losses or are not in a competitive market (e.g. a government) and I wasn't trying to make a sweeping generic statement like "all unions are always bad"
Prediction markets are for helping communities of people make decisions that benefit the community.

Whether or not they cause wealth inequality is another question entirely.
As long as they help communities come to good decisions, then futarchy is a success.

Peanut butter is for tasting good.
Even if peanut butter was causing wealth inequality, it would still achieve its goal of tasting good.
hence why you do not report on something as being a fact before it is proven and before you investigate the claim. Its like me reporting the earth is flat because someone said it.
If you're a good developer, and it seems like a lot of people leaving the games industry are, it's not hard. Study up on your Cracking the Coding Interview, HackerRank, Leetcode, and similar stuff, and then just interview for Software Engineer positions. On your resume, list your previous experience as something like "Software Engineer, EA Games, 2016-present" (and include the names of any big games you worked on that people might know and be impressed by).
Why would you need "a whole VM"?

Just run it as a systemd service or a Docker/Kubernetes-managed container on one of the VMs that run the rest of the application.

Also no need to use all those AWS-proprietary services, just use an existing task queue system based on PostgreSQL/RabbitMQ/etc.
>Cool as a demo but not really something I recommend other than as a way of salvaging low value legacy java applications (of which there are a lot) where the UX is secondary

Are we talking about the same app?

The UI here is better than most web SPAs (and where it's not, it's not because of the libraries used), and indicative how more uniform, streamlined, and familiar web apps could be if we had gone with a rich widget set and layout engine (like Java has and this uses) from the get go.
I actually rather like visiting Manhattan but a few days is about my limit. Even for people who find ordinary city living quite tolerable, Manhattan takes things up a few notches compared to most places. I lived in Manhattan one summer for an intern position when in grad school (admittedly in a dirtier/more dangerous city than it is today) and pretty much decided I couldn't live there no matter how much money I was offered.
Thank you so much for the analysis, I will file it accordingly.

I must be very self entitled for downloading a digital representation of a book which I have paid for.
In many ways, Tesla has achieved what it wanted to achieve...to become a "normal" car company for the masses. The downside to that is that the "magic" is dissipating from the consumer perspective...you're just another car company selling another car.
You are missing the forest for the trees. The commenters above are trying to articulate that ultimately, you are okay with a group of people shutting down a discussion if the views of the participants involved don't align with their own. You seem to have strong opinions regarding how this can apply to discussions about trans issues, which is fine, but you are still saying that if someone doesn't hold an opinion you agree with, then it's perfectly okay to prevent them from participating.

What's the point of a discussion if the only people that are allowed to participate all agree on everything?
What do you mean by “have to”? The whole point of nesting is that the association is implicit.
The best idea i’ve heard is to abolish taxes and print money instead. Inflation becomes the tax and you just print enough to provide the services that are critical (health, police, fire, Ubi etc). That way you wouldn’t have to waste the brain power on pointless legal squabbles (antechamber on the other hand...).
The OP didn't say the counter argument was that trans people should be killed, but that they shouldn't exist. You are taking the take to the extreme.

Routinely, trans people are treated as an entity that should not exist. Or a disease or condition that should be rooted out. Not a valid identity.
You must be joking if you think the FAA technical staff have the software tools and expertise to the level of Boeing's engineering organization.
So only insiders can be on ethics boards?

How about pushing this to congress. None of them know hardly anything about anything. They delegate a lot of their thinking.

So two problems.

1. People who are practitioners are more likely to be for the technology than against it. Tristan Harris is a good example of what you're looking for.
2. Going to the logical extreme on this doesn't work.

P.S. Should we apply this to journalism? Because seriously journalists these days don't even know how to make phone calls to even pretend to fact check.
It certainly makes sense for game developers. They're being exploited with super long working hours, being let go at a moment's notice once a game is out the door, and their pay usually isn't that good. They'd benefit greatly from unionization same as everyone else working on these games.