skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies- I meant to write rent. Even if their numbers include 2 BR apts, my point still stands: a single person affording rent for a 2 BR apt is not a reasonable baseline for a living wage.
This is extremely scary, it would totally convince me this is written by a real person.

Any publications on what technologies are used for this?
Not going off the article, but if you think that 100% of smart contracts are useless, I would like to know why the uniswap is useless in your mind. Its a decentralized exchange contract for trading tokens on ethereum

https://uniswap.io/
So this is the future - we can't trust anything and so we trust nothing but our pre-existing biases

Bugger that.

This is a tech-created problem it can be tech-solved.

1. Photo manipulation leaves traces on the pixels, and this must be worse.

2. cameras can hash / sign every other frame or similar - we can build a chain of hardware to image that can be followed - and of an image or video does not have a CA cert chain it should be as mis-trusted as a web site without TLS

3. Err - there must be other ways.
> read some comments today from people who unironically believe that humanity will be wiped out within 12 years.

If they are the widely reported ones for which that timeframe is cited, that doesn't seem to be the consequence they were talking about. (Yes, the phrase “the world will end” was used, but the world ending is a common hyperbolic metaphor for things other than the end of humanity—and even with the end of humanity it's still a hyperbolic metaphor, since that does not literally end the world.)

> Al Gore said that 20 years ago and here we still are.

No, he didn't.
Sanctions are an act of war. The US will only do them against countries it has a huge military advantage over.
I wasn't very clear. if you make a reasonable effort to plan ahead and something totally unforseen causes you to be unable to support your children, that really sucks and I would be happy to contribute tax dollars to help people in this situation. I don't think minimum wage is the best way to solve this though; probably direct aid would be more suitable.

also, my heuristic is meant to be more like a bloom filter. you can't know for sure when you are ready to support a small human for the next eighteen years, but it's not hard to tell when you are definitely not ready. making barely enough to support your single self is a pretty strong signal.
Relying on congress to respond to public issues is fundamentally weaker now, and weakening by the year due to the duopoly in politics: any issue one side takes up is immediately something that - if possible - is criticized and turned into a point of differentiation; and media are growing into that too (online media already are highly polarized).

Whatever small forces of reasonable consensus remain aren't enough to address issues like this: because let's be honest, it's not really all that clear exactly what the problem is (there are lots of aspects), how serious it is, let alone how to address (if that's even possible). You're not going to get proper consensus overnight on an issue like that in the best of times, and it's hopeless now. At best - and I don't think even that's likely - you'll see some hyper-targeted no worker-abuse kind of laws, but nothing addressing the underlying dynamic that creates the situation, and something that a creative business is likely to be able to route around. Essentially a base-pleasing legislative patch that punts the problem until it reemerges. Given the topic that's only going to happen if the democrats win both houses.
I spent a while working at an accessibility company, and while I was there, worked on two separate things:

1. Remediating customers' sites that were inaccessible. (Which, btw, for all the "ambulance chaser" comments: Something like 100% of our customers were working with us because they had been sued; none of them were doing so because they had a sincere commitment to accessibility, so there's a reason these lawsuits happen.)

2. Developing our own web-based software, which obviously had to be fully-accessible from minute one, both because a large fraction of the people using it would be blind, and because obviously it had to be, come on.

Making changes to customers' sites was deeply, deeply painful, as we tried to work around fundamentally inaccessible designs and make things as close to acceptable as we could, given the reality of what we had to work with. Everything that the parent comment says here was 100% true.

Building our own software to be fully accessible, on the other hand, added some extra effort (largely around manual testing, since automated testing can only take you so far), but we're talking about like... 10%? If you have a dev team that's been trained on a11y and is committed to producing an accessible product, it's not super-hard to make that happen. That basically no dev teams work this way says nothing good about our industry.
Holy fuck that was mostly convincing. I had no idea AI generated text was getting to this level - I thought we were still at "Her mouth is full of Secret Soup" level: https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1006961202998726665
There is no penalty to quitting if the workers are unhappy with the work or feel it was misrepresented to them, and the warehouse jobs are still there waiting.
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Using the image of the wolf as a bloodthirsty, uncontrollable killer...

In South Carolina, state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch (R-Georgetown) is foregoing science for a call to arms. Goldfinch, who declined to comment for this story, told WMBF News in Myrtle Beach that killing coyotes should be South Carolina’s top priority.

“The state’s perspective is every coyote needs to be a dead coyote. Trap them, shoot them . . . however you want to get rid of them,” Goldfinch said. “. . . This is now about going to war with the coyotes.

When predator control comes up I always find myself wondering- sorry, which one was supposed to be the bloodthirsty killer?

(I realize the Goldfinch quotes reference coyotes, but it's all the same story)
Aren't the valuable collectibles generally small batches with messed up production, like a skipped layer of printing or a misaligned coin stamping? I would be surprised if a graphic design mistake printed without issue on millions of dollars of currency would end up being very valuable.
Really interesting read, thanks. But I have to wonder... why? Was all of that effort worth it?
The author keeps conflating the "hate speech" talking points with what this investigation is actually about, it's like they can't help but pad the article with all their google grievances.

It sounds like this is due to COPPA complaints because a lot of kids watch youtube videos and apparently they are not supposed to, but if youtube was found culpable then everyone would because COPPA is a mess.
Ask HN: Quit my new startup job just 3 months in? It wasn't what it seemed
Before I took this job, I was freelancing and noodling on side projects, professionally satisfied. Then, this startup found me. In a field near and dear to my heart with what I saw as an ambitious and needed product, I heard them out. Just months from launch, what they showed was impressive, especially for a small team. Well funded for seed-stage, seemingly with hearts in the right place, I signed up.

That impression fell apart fast. The product was actually a large prototype built by overworked juniors. When I joined it was hitting diminishing returns - work had all but halted as each fix or feature bred more bugs, the unarchitected and untested code was hard to refactor, and sales was busy making unrealistic promises. All this in a regulated sensitive sector where errors come with big costs. A rewrite and new infrastructure would be needed to meet the stringent quality requirements.

The CTO, surprisingly, agreed with me and also thought that we need 4x the engineers and another year. An introvert IMO more suited to coding than leading, he had failed to communicate this reality. The rest of the c-suite (young, hard-charging, permanently optimistic guys) simply didn't know that the prototype wasnt a product.

Fast forward a few hard months and I’m leading from behind: pushing strategic tech issues up the chain, pushing to shrink the product, driving hiring, trying to coordinate the dispirited tech team. Now there's a small chance. If I stay, I'll have a hand in turning this around, and will do well by the coworkers who now look to me.

For at least a year, we'll be racing our runway and promises. I feel obligated but misled - this isn't the well oiled machine of responsible adults I was sold. I have a rich and treasured personal life, so while I’m willing to do the very odd 60 hour week, a year or more of white knuckles is a no go. Quit 3 months in? Feels abrupt and defeatist. Or stay a bit longer and hope it looks up? I’m torn and looking for perspective.
Awesome, sounds like you're on board with the common definition of Living Wage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage): "secure food, shelter, clothing, health care, transportation and other necessities of living in modern society".
Anyone else get the impression that this team is more excited about getting into YC than building a successful business?
> I'm aware not everyone is like me.

You are now. Didn't seem to be previously.

> you should delete your own to avoid hypocrisy.

I wasn't the one over-generalizing from personal experience. I didn't say "it's no big deal" as though that would be true for everyone. There's no hypocrisy, so spare us all the whataboutism.
I remember it by thinking that Left (error state) has to be handled first. This forces developers to always think of the erroneous state first and foremost. And then define the Right (success state).

On the other hand, it may be easier to forget the error state if it were the second argument. As is often the case with Promises and JS developers.
>And then the defense catches on

And has to redo everything. It's whack-a-mole.

Doesn't have to be powerful actors really, either. There are many less powerful actors who would love to get selected things removed from YouTube.

This isn't the same as spam mail filters, because you generally don't know what sort of emails other people are sending each other. If you did, you could deliberately try to manipulate filters to flag your competitors' emails as spam.
Realistically it'll probably be a bit of column A and a bit of column B haha
At the last Rust meeting I attended, people were complaining bitterly about Cargo. I didn't get what it was, exactly. But there was talk of a replacement in the wings.
The better you can fool your employer the better you can steal your wages.
You're right. His real voice is slightly more robotic.
I was ready to crap on this post for calling your own work "semi-convincing" but this writing does actually resemble most of the random blogs I find when trying to research something like nutrition or fitness.

Not a compliment to the quality of the writing. But definitely not unconvincing. Add some ads that make it impossible to scroll without freezing Chrome and you're good to go.
Of course. Hence it isn't really a flaw if you need domain admin to gain access. It's a vulnerability or major fault if an ordinary user can get access, or worse an unauthenticated user / someone with a specially crafted network packet. Obviously domain admin accounts need to be suitably protected and you hint at this in your comment (ESAE) but that's another matter.

This bug is another such example - you have to decide to enable this and ask Windows to store your password to log you in, and that's exactly what happens, including exposure of any secrets protected via DPAPI / bound to your account. It's a convenience feature, working as intended. Perhaps the impact should be made clearer, but there are even legitimate reasons for this sort of functionality, such as self-service kiosks that are often built with windows images.
Hey Dalton, thanks for the answer, that's fair. I totally agree that in the long-term, moving and failing fast is a net positive for both founders and YC. I wonder how different the YC three-months experience is between founders who have product-market fit vs the ones who don't? It seems like there's a "cadence" to the program highly focused on growth culminating to demo day?
Someone didn't provision enough throughput...I'm getting a 508 status
Hi! I'm one of the co-founders of Smartcar. I'm happy to connect with you if you have more feedback on pricing. We're always looking to evolve it to ensure it is attractive/competitive and can work for your app or business. My email is sahas@smartcar.com
Meh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. It is his opinion, not a fact.

I never believe in connecting programming language with quality product because I see no evidence.
> anyone with the credentials can find the car, unlock it, get in and drive it away

While the first three are true, you can't actually drive the car without an authorized key. Adding a new authorized key requires an existing authorized key. However, if you have a Model 3 and keep a valet key card in your car, then yeah anyone who can unlock your car can also drive it.
This claim is based on... what? Your wandering around the tenderloin and judging people?

Try visiting shelters, especially in the south bay. There are plenty of families without the problems you mentioned.

This attitude is intentional neglect of reality, and its prevalence is literally killing people.
https://github.com/mozilla/grcov though it requires a nightly rustc for now since it uses some unstable RUSTFLAGS.
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I think of this attitude as being a stereotype of mathematicians. "I've already proved that a solution must exist; finding it is just drudgery." Perhaps the author would enjoy branching into one of the more theoretical branches of the discipline, like theory of computation, cryptography, or mathematics proper?
Then maybe we need a SaaS solution to determinine if we're running on Windows.
I'm evaluating Purescript now. I have concerns about developer ramp up time but other than that I like it.

Reason is more popular but it lacks the category theory centric rigor. The syntax also is not as nice as the Haskell style. I'd rather go with something that fits the FP model better than syntax that is more familiar.
But Tesla himself is not even 100 years dead....is it OK that there is a company named after him?
> Many of the people in US prisons belong there.

Legally, do they belong there, "many" of them have been sentenced by a jury or judge; though often not with a jury thanks to aggressive plea bargaining.

Do the prisons also have a legal obligation to protect prisoners from undue harm like rape?

But it also points to issues in our legal system. When the per capita number of warrants in Ferguson is > 1.5. When 3 strike laws and mandatory minimums lead to life in prison for non-violent offenders.

But also, if 4% of death row inmates are innocent; do we suppose that number is higher or lower for lesser sentences? for those that took plea deals? For those where the police have been corrupt.

https://www.newsweek.com/one-25-executed-us-innocent-study-c...
Cool! I didn't notice the dropdown menu the first time. I will definitely be using this, thanks!
I guess I am confused. I use ValetforTesla, granted it runs on my Mac, but I do not give anything other than token generated through an API call via a script, npx generate-tesla-token [1] ; after a NPM install through terminal. So yeah, its not official, but its open enough to know what it does

there are sites out there which claim security to generate tokens for you but I am not going to even begin to suggest them.

[1] https://github.com/ELLIOTTCABLE/generate-tesla-token
That seems much more reasonable. Thank you for clarifying.
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If you want to be more blown away. (warning some comments may be NSFW)
An entire subreddit where every poster/commenter is a GPT-2 bot. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
Are you aware that there are new strains of measles that are causing the "outbreaks" and ALL who are spreading it are vaccinated?
- No different than flu vaccines. They are always at least 1 to 2 years behind the strain of the virus. I expected better research from the comments on here.
- Oh wait, the government advocates the vaccines, and we all know the government is only here to help... so facts be damned.
Mods, can you update this article to have (2018) in the title? The original article [1] was published on December 4, 2018, nearly 6 months ago. The lawsuit was filed on November 17, 2018 [2].

[1]: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Colleges-including-S...

[2]:https://www.scribd.com/document/394914375/Camacho-v-St-Rose#...
https://grover.allenai.org/
I suggest not reading the generated article. Trying to comprehend what you are reading does not feel good in the brain, and doing it long term may severely impact your reading comprehension skills and can make reading into an exhausting activity.

It’s not the same as trying to understand sentences with bad grammar, at least those texts represent a human trying to express an idea, so you know with enough effort you can eventually come to understand what they are trying to say and maybe score a dopamine hit.

In this case, no amount of effort will bring meaning to AI generated jibberish.
no I don't think I am. from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article:

> The goal of a living wage is to allow a worker to afford a basic but decent standard of living. Due to the flexible nature of the term "needs", there is not one universally accepted measure of what a living wage is and as such it varies by location and household type.

this is what I'm saying. who knows what I'm committing to if I say I support a "living wage"?
I work at DL (although not technical team) and can attest that this is attainable for GCP, and we do so on a fairly regular basis. I cannot speak to Azure, but I expect it too is likely.
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Can official numbers out of China be trusted? Do they consider their 'reeducation camps' to hold prisoners?
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Are you saying this is a genuine error, or are you making a joke about spelling in American English diverging from British and Australian English?
A few more...

* Person: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

* Waifu: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/

* SO Question: https://stackroboflow.com/

* Startup: https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/

* Resume: https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/
Facebook discussed Libra plans with Fed, bankers not “too concerned”
I would settle for 2 four-hour days, I think.
You're right, he said the ice caps would be gone by 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI). How are they looking?
I hear guard llamas trample coyotes, flat as a pancake. They are used to protect alpaca.

Makes me wonder if they are really just furry camels.
Regarding #1: not so with widely deployed cryptographic provenance. Also, AI can detect deep fakes and image manipulation.
> many of these videos are from ted talks or speeches by politicians.

I think that's a plus, but it depends on your needs.
This is known as the “Curb cut effect”.
Sharing a cache with other users introduces its own set of problems, e.g., cache poisoning. The problems that arise from shared DNS caches gave rise to "solutions" that in turn introduced further problems.

For transparent proxying, i.e., hotel internet, I use a local forwarder and a remote recursor listening on a non-standard port and it has worked flawlessly.

I prefer to serve static address info via authoritative DNS or /etc/hosts. I have other methods of getting DNS data besides querying caches. I have no need for DNS caches. Most websites I visit do not change addresses frequently. I also like to know when they change, if they ever do.

I have not experienced any problems with DNSCurve.
The most recent iteration involves a package of an Alpha image + a Windows based emulator: https://training.vmssoftware.com/hobbyist/

It is trivial to run it with a Linux based emulator (if you have access to one, and they are not cheap/easy to do so) and it can probably be transferred to hardware with some creativity. However, the image comes bundled with licenses which expire after 6 months, and require you to download a new image...
And let's be honest, being a British politician isn't super helpful in Post-Brexit EU either
Really? Isn't it going to throw a lot of false positives when people try to spend them and the cashier thinks that the misspelling means it's counterfeit?
Newer version of SIMH let you allocate up to 512MB to the VAX instances.
Ask HN: How do I learn GDPR?
As a digital analyst, I would want to work with data knowing I follow the GDPR rules. I want to know more than the information you find in magazine articles.
Are there any good courses/books on the subject - I assume that reading the actual law documents would be best, but they're written by lawyers for lawyers.
> the West always falls for the promise of this huge Chinese market

Historically, the only thing that the West was ever able to successfully import into China was opium, and even that was a small window before native production became cheaper than shipping it all the way from India or Turkey. Over the long haul, China has had millenia-long trade surpluses, to the point that Roman writers were complaining about the trade through the Red Sea in spices and silks siphoning off their gold and silver, and later on so much of the silver of Mexico and Potosi ending up in China that it destabilized their bimetallic currency system.
> But it's been crickets so far. I'd love to hear a defense of this couple and their cause.

I wouldn't offer a defense, because I'm not an anti-vaxxer, and I am not supportive of this couple's actions, but there is plenty of material on this topic here for an interesting epistemological discussion.

Staying emotionally disengaged seems rather difficult for most people though. Vaccines are safe, full stop, is only true for particular definitions of the word safe, not all. The fact that people have died from from vaccinations should be enough to demonstrate this from an objective/logical perspective on a hacker website, but this is where human psychology comes into play. Hackers, while highly logical, are first and foremost human.

> Or -- is this so far outside the Overton window that folks are afraid to speak up?

Well, you wouldn't be able to have much of a conversation on HN or in most subreddits, because the inevitable downvotes would render the person playing devil's advocate unable to respond.

I also don't have much time today despite how much I enjoy such conversations, and I'm quite confident it would rapidly descend into a shitshow of a conversation demonstrating various peculiarities of the human psyche, which you'd think would be interesting to those with a hacker mindset, but there seems to be limits to people's curiosity - certain topics seem to be off limits (this article touches on this phenomenon: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experiments-in-philo...).

Just as a hint, I would be starting with questions along the lines of:

How do we know vaccines are safe?

What exactly is the definition of the term "safe" in this context? Does safe possibly have somewhat distinct meanings at the micro-level vs the macro-level?

Are there any imperfections in the current vaccine delivery and monitoring system that might allow unrealized risk to go undetected.
Am I the only one that uses Google Translate "listen" option for learning pronunciation of weird words?
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> Can official numbers out of China be trusted?

No; which is why I phrased it the way I did. This doesn't change the perception though because the U.S. stands out in the developed world of numbers we can trust.
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