skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customers boycotted Stop & Shop when workers went on strike earlier this year, and it worked out pretty well for the workers[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/stop-shop-strike.html
The media has lately claimed that "Americans want to buy SUVs", but if you go to a car dealer, even an asian car dealer, you might see a large number of deeply discounted SUVs in front and get a bunch of excuses about why they don't have any new small cars for sale.

Of course you always expected this from general motors, but it seems like when a flood washes out the factory that makes Honda Fits and CR-Vs you have a lot of trouble finding Fits but no trouble finding CR-Vs.

I think it's more accurate to say that carmakers want to sell SUVs as opposed to drivers wanting to buy them.
Maybe in general, but being educated in the US with good job prospects in China might change that.
I'm in favor of protecting animal species from human beings, but i'm not entirely sure we should be in the business of choosing winners and losers in nature. Invasive animals are still animals and those mice didn't do anything wrong by going there. Let them do what they do.
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> Is steam really that great?

Yes. Yes it is. Steam built the online games distribution market from basically nothing to where it is today. They helped usher in the indie game explosion, and gave players unprecedented tools for finding and assessing games. Not to mention the normalization of high-discount sales.

Oh yeah, and also Valve went ahead and made Linux gaming a more realistic proposition than it has ever been in history.
The flip side of this is that it makes it harder for you to stumble upon something related, but new, outside of the filter bubble Google is making for you.

There's no arguing what you're describing is useful, but it's nice to keep in mind that there are downsides even if you ignore the privacy argument (which, IMO, shouldn't be ignored).
Honestly I think its been inevitable once we first started to introduce robots into manufacturing.

Robots replacing humans is not new, we have been doing this for at least 40 years.

Resources continue to be spent on this technology (and related technology, even if not originally for this purpose).

Unless we stop any robotic research, its happening wether we like it or not.
How does it work? I looked at the website but I didn't see the drug or hormone being used listed.
Which OS did you test this on? Every time I have used a Windows device with an NVMe drive the difference is immediately obvious, but on my Hackintosh and Linux boxes I haven't noticed any difference at all.
It was probably just a question testing your ability to estimate. Of the “how many manholes are in Seattle” ilk.
the tragedies of California are almost too hard to believe, for modern people enjoying the luxuries of today

Jul 16, 1981 - Five helicopters sprayed the pesticide malathion over 10133 acres today... and,

Farewell, Promised Land
https://www.ucpress.edu/op/9780520211230/farewell-promised-l...
Short answer: Because everyone else is doing it.
Patches have been posted to the linux-nvme mailing list adding support for 2018 and newer Apple NVMe. It looks like there are two main ways in which Apple's violating the spec, both of which can be reasonably handled by adding device-specific quirks to the driver. I expect these patches to be cleaned up and pass review in time to be shipping in stable kernels before the end of the year.
Regardless of its search index or anything else, Google's dominance really comes more from it amassing a large userbase from the early days of the internet when no other search engine came close than it does from its search index.
Yeah, I hear that "4x as much" figure a lot but few people seem to actually charge that. Instead, what actually happens for most people is that (for example) they are covered under their spouse's healthcare policy, so they don't need to cover the cost of benefits.

Historically, a full-time job with benefits was designed to be held by a married man who was worth that kind of compensation because he gave his all at work, went home, collapsed into a chair and said "Woman, get me a beer!" and "What's for dinner?" Then he slept like the dead.

Research shows women with children typically cannot give their all to a job like that. They get stuck in Pink Collar jobs that preserve time and energy for the "second shift" of cooking dinner, doing housework, etc. They need to be able to get up in the middle of the night if their kid is sick and so forth.

People are marrying later, having fewer kids and so on. I routinely see comments online about the downsides to that, for example how it's impossible to work full-time and cook from scratch to feed yourself properly as a single person. Cooking for one is too time consuming and labor intensive. Home cooking makes the most sense when one person is cooking for an entire family. This leaves a lot of people living on takeout and the like, which amounts to overpriced junk food in most cases.

Employers need to get enough value out of the transaction to make their business viable. They can't pay a living wage with benefits out of the goodness of their hearts. And we no longer de facto expect the wife's labor in taking care of her man to be a hidden part of the deal for ensuring that the employer gets enough value out of the deal.

I think these social changes are major driving factors in the gig economy trend. It puts the onus on the worker to figure out how to accomplish enough to pay their bills at a price that makes sense to the employer.

And part of the answer is that supplementing your income with low paid, small tasks using scraps of time that you previously could not have used to try to make money helps that equation make sense for both parties.
There are several really good sentences and/or writing prompts hiding in that gibberish.
I think you're thinking different acronyms? He meant Proof of concept?
Maybe you can offer teachers (or others with existing professional experience with kids) a part time summer job to fill the gap in volunteers?
>Scabs are workers who cross the picket line, not customers.

That's not the way unions themselves use the word.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24904995/boston-union-ca...

"Boston union calls Yankees 'scabs' for crossing hotel picket line"
They do share a lot of code, though; so there's really more like 1.2 alternate implementations of win32.
What the pilots did was incredibly dangerous. There's some limit to what software can protect you from.

For instance there was this crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XL_Airways_Germany_Flight_888T

which practically seemed like the people involved were trying to make it crash.
The fact that you can't "do any sort of reliable or trustworthy background check on every account through the app" is what justifies charging money.

Something that can be done purely in software by the app should be free. That could mean verifying that the user has control over a web site, or that they use Android, or that phone location services places the user in a particular city.

Cheap things would include credit checks and other simple background checks. Registered mail could be used for addresses. Property records could be looked up. Educational transcripts could be obtained. Some verification could involve a notary public.

Since the user would be paying for costs and a profit, there really is no limit to how complicated and expensive things could get. If the user wants to pay to fly out a team of investigators, that is fine.
Disclaimer: Googler.

I'm going to retread a comment I made when I first learned about Epstein a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167084

In short, and ignoring my ad hominem attack on his motivations, I encourage you to read/skim his two "studies" [1][2] and see how absurd they are. You might dismiss my claims and summaries as biased, but I think I was pretty open-minded towards his conclusions until I read them.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/33/E4512.full.pdf?with...

[2] https://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_&_ROBERTSON_2017-A_Metho...
Here seems to be the opposite, no? He made a move against his old company.
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I wish this sense of German/European sensibleness w.r.t. things digital could be transplanted into America. I'm really quite jealous of it.
That would require everyone to own a robot, but most people do not have the foresight to purchase one or involve their money in such a thing.
Heya! Yes, bigger and more flexible plans coming soon! Templates are a brand new feature and we're working hard to enable Helm template support there - but eventually the "template search" will make its way to the main deployments page (and will get a looooot more templates!)
Ironic title considering there's not a single photo through the windshield. :]
Mark Zuckerberg got $1B richer following the news of Facebook's $5B fine
Why didn't you just use the Algolia API? I used the Algolia API to build a 24 / 7 live stream of randomly selected highly voted HN vídeos https://www.crowdform.co.uk/hntv saved me a lot of time
Boycotting IBM may have saved lives at Nazi concentration camps if it was attempted... (IBM assisted Nazis in processing big data (of their time) during most of WW2)
I'm not sure how much an impact breaking Google up would have, and I say this as someone who has built a product that competes with Google's G-Suite. I want there to be a more level playing field, sure. But each of these siloed businesses would still be a monopoly in its own right.
I remember an entry from 2003 that wasn't a winner, but has stuck in my mind ever since... and maybe you'll see why.

It was a dark and stormy night. The rain plastered the cheap dress enticingly to my thigh as I bent to peel the still-warm gum from the sidewalk."
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You’re right. We could also make the choice to smash cars, because they take jobs away from the horse and buggy industry. We won’t, because the problem is not humanity’s total productive output growing larger, but how this output is managed and distributed.
I just can't stand the humble brag posts!
There are organizations which rank charities.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/?c_src=WPAIDSEARCH

https://www.givewell.org/main?utm_expid=.Mr3umtjnSuel86Mlr0l...

https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities
Unless your skills happen to be those that a charity could make good use of. Someone has to do the work in the end.
I don't even have to think about it:

"That branch of the Lake of Como, which turns toward the south between two unbroken chains of mountains, presenting to the eye a succession of bays and gulfs, formed by their jutting and retiring ridges, suddenly contracts itself between a headland to the right and an extended sloping bank on the left, and assumes the flow and appearance of a river."

That's the beginning of "I Promessi Sposi" (The Bethrothed) which is one of the most important books of italian literature, and IMO has one of the worst incipits ever written.

And I feel the 1834 english version[0] is actually more readable than the original.

[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35155/35155-h/35155-h.htm
Auto manufacturers, Airlines, everyone does this.
So the fix to this is Amazon laying off all their workers?
Now do one that finds and downrates videos shot with the camera turned the wrong way.
I wish apple would let me firewall my mobile devices.

I'm not talking about some apple weakened/curated interpetation of privacy or security.
It's posted a few other places in this thread, but it already exists: https://commoncrawl.org/
With a military complex big enough and autonomous weapons, I don't see the problem, to be honest. Just using some of the currently banned chemical weapons can eradicate those numbers with minimal effort. It's all a matter of politics. Once it tips, those numbers won't matter, other than being a statistic for the annals of history. "X people were massacred...". If it doesn't tip, it's going to be game over, though.
Only because it's a way to use and coöpt language for your cause, not because it's the way the public understands it. It's like AOC insunuating Pelosi racist. It's used for effect.

Or, imagine a nurses' strike, but I as a patient don't honor their strike, am I a scab?
I just did some research on Chinese tech companies and realized how big Tencent is in the gaming. They have 40% stake in Epic Games, majority in Supercell, Grinding Gear Games, Riot Games and Miniclip.
" Because you can't democratize management and organization like you can with donation of individual goods and small amounts of money."

Sure you can, by volunteering on the board of directors of said charity. Like my wife does, helping organize a charity large enough that it runs a free hospital, a dental clinic and home for otherwise homeless people in a major US city.
Well, using Tor doesn't mean you're looking to abuse a website. But you may find out that 99% of your Tor traffic is abuse and decide it's worthwhile to you and your users to block it.

I would imagine Wine is in a similar predicament.
Here's an exercise for the reader:

* Why is this coming from "tulsatoday"

* Why is the article written in a particular manner?

* What biases and agenda is the publication attempting to platform here?
But we still haven't answered the actual question: Why doesn't "email" come up in autocomplete for Hillary Clinton, when it clearly should?
This type of "low tech" idea seems like the kind of thing Google, Yelp, and all the other big companies should be doing a better job with.

I have celiac and presumably Google has figured that out by now (or could, if they spent some time determining allergies for accounts). Yet in Google Maps I have to type "restaurant gluten free" when looking for food options. Then I have to poke around to see which might be legitimately gluten free. I've been typing this in for a decade, and never has Maps learned this basic time-saving assumption it should make.

Same with Yelp. It hasn't figured out that I always filter by gluten free and search reviews for that. It never just makes gluten free restaurants prominent, nor follows up with me the next day on whether it made me ill or things like that.

As you say, it's baffling the simple filtering that could be done based on known user information. Note that my story is about gluten free, but would apply to any number of food allergies or dietary preferences, yet the "market leaders" seem unable to innovate on this specificity.
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For me it correctly "hopes" I'll go down science rabbit holes, which I do. I'm similar to the person above, I watch a lot of educational content, and I also get suggested great content.

Right now I see the follow up to the guy who build his own VGA card, video of someone building a camera that can see wifi, and a PBS video on the "quantum internet". All great suggestions.
> the photo recently going around Twitter of the ping-pong table marked with "NO PLAYING BEFORE 6 PM"

I love how that completely sends the opposite message.

It is convenient though, it makes it clear that the management team (as a team, maybe some are ok) has no ability, or can't be bothered to imagine how other people think / respond / feel.
It might be true that Google is in such a dominant position that the greater society needs to think about regulation, transparency, etc., but I think we need to develop better and more clearly differentiated terminology that clearly differentiates this form of dominance from an anti-competitive monopoly. This is not a monopoly in the standard sense, and since anyone can crawl the web and build their own index Google isn't hindering anyone from competing.

Through hard work and good strategy they have achieved a dominant position, and I think that as a society we should both honor that and recognize that they have been pretty good players in the market. At the same time, if Google were instead run by the Koch brothers we could be in dire straights, and so we should also realize that we can't safely leave such power in the hands of private citizens without demanding accountability, transparency, openness to scrutiny, open dialogue, etc.
Headline is at least misleading, IMHO plain wrong. This is only in Hesse, one of the 16 states. This doesn’t mean this interpretation of the Hesse Data Protection Office is valid for the whole of Germany. /pedantic
Yes. For a lower price than the 2018 model. Seems like manufactured outrage.
There are technical solutions, but I don't expect them to be applied, since they ain't applied now in conditions where they should.
Along the SF lines, my favorite first line ever is:

The sky over the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

From "Neuromancer", by William Gibson.
I am interested in hearing other opinions, but I personally do not care about exclusivity. I can download any store front application (Steam, Epic, GoG, Uplay, etc) for free, so the only inconvenience is having another app. Compare this to the days of console exclusives, and it's almost a non-issue. Outside of couch coop, I have no familiarity with Xbox exclusives like Gears or Halo because I could never afford more then one console until this current generation.

My first experience with the Epic store was to get Satisfactory. And while it was annoying not being able to have it on steam, it really became a non-issue since everyone I play with uses Discord. Again, I am curious to hear other opinions on this because I really do not see the big deal in my experience.
Thanks for the tip !

ACM membership for something useful.
> Given that Tim wants to force everyone to use his crappy launcher

This is a pretty wild accusation to make with no lead-up or follow-through.
When I studied computer science (for my Master's degree), I was one of three US citizens in the entire program. If the US gets rid of foreign students, it gets rid of upper-level CS, at least.
What happened on December 2011 and June 2013? Why is there no data?
Policies like "one-click deploy and one-click rollback" or "no long meetings" are the result of years of hard work.

An executive can't just decree "no long meetings" and have it stick. Avoiding long meetings takes a culture of preparation and transparency. It takes clear agendas. It takes people showing up to the meeting knowing the agenda and the material, and being ready to approve, review, brainstorm, or do whatever the agenda calls for. It's hard--and worthwhile--to work on developing that culture.

An executive can't decree "one-click deploy" either. Obviously. It too takes a particular culture and a lot of time.

As for the perks: it takes a "no magic" culture. If the coffee runs out, some real human has to get more. In a big company, maybe that work can be outsourced. In a pre-revenue startup, there's no magic. You want coffee? Go get some. (They sell it at Starbucks and Costco, you know.) If you have an intern who will tolerate being asked to go fer coffee, send the intern.

Dirty bathroom, small company? No magic. Clean the bathroom.
Every time I see someone talking about immigrating processing times, the number seems to go up...

Per the state departments August 2019 bulletin, the actual backlog to file for an EB-3 green card is currently 3 years for China, and 9 for India....
There needs to be more of these types of solutions. Though, I'd like to see people moving away from Google as a whole. There is a decentralized publishing platform called LetterMesh (https://lettermesh.com/) and it uses the content from (disclaimer: this is my company) Graphite Docs (https://graphitedocs.com)
The church down the street from me has it's own food bank (with actual staff, the leader earns $57k according to guidestar) and is also partnered with a local food bank network. It's not like these things run in isolation of each other or are necessarily running that differently just because it's a church.
Turkey got few steps further:

Almost all ready made software recently become practically illegal to obtain in government tenders in Turkey due to "usability guarantee" requirement. Exact article translated (from the presidential administrative decree):

All software and hardware contractors working for
Turkish government shall provide a guarantee stating
said soft/hard-ware does not contain backdoors and/or
features unfit for intended use, as far as possible.

Servers for goverment services are also required to be in Turkey, even if it is not possible to set up one in situ in the respective institution. This goes so far to require all data processor to have their own or peered IXPs situated in Turkey.
I am in favor of notational changes, but calling this a 'flaw' is simply wrong, and the teacher profiled should correct the journal allowing his idea to be misrepresented.
Any sentence with parenthesis in it.
1TB is plenty for the MBAir cases

Especially now that there is "the cloud" (and external hard drives)
CSGO (where leagues and MM use third-party anti-cheat) is an example where the community deems the vendor's AC insufficient. The most extreme example is Rockstar Games / GTA V, the multi-billion-dollar revenue AAA title where anyone with a free to download menu has far more power than all Rockstar administrators combined.
How does the government determine whether something creative like hair dressing is at a good enough standard?
Thanks for including Euphoria in this! Nice to see our language still getting some love.
> I find that there's always someone willing to clamor that CEO's are with their weight in gold

Keep in mind that HN has a disproportionately high number of owners of startups compared to most Internet communities. You'll see a lot more CEO worship on this site than reddit or any other site.
Or you know, millions of dollars.
This is the main dilemma for startup employees across the board! The ideal situation is not leaving the company until after an IPO or M&A after which your options/shares will be liquid. The purpose of the options is to keep you at the company by locking you into "golden handcuffs" and raises the cost of changing companies.

If the company is successful, the money you will make can be life changing. If the company fails, then you lose most if not all of your investment.

However, in the last few years, many solutions have appeared to address this binary situation. I work at the ESO Fund and we try to provide a middle ground. We provide money to exercise and any potential taxes in exchange for a piece of the upside and we do this on a completely non-recourse basis (meaning you don't have to pay us back if the company fails). Our deals are structured to give you the majority of the upside without having to invest your own personal money!

Feel free to reach out if you have any more questions!
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Ha, I thought the funding would be less obvious than in the US. Amateurs, everywhere! :)
Pick workers at robotized FCs stand in one place at the nexus point of conveyors and robots. Robots bring them shelving units of products. Conveyor belts bring them empty containers. The human selects products from the robot and puts it in the container.
So, this will fund ~2-3 people over the next 3 years. That's by my estimate.
And only those who don't value personal freedom. (read Tiananmen square, Uighur camps as your starting examples). Sure the US loses out on some talent, but that will always happen and once we move past the current administration we will pick up talent from elsewhere if need be.
People say it's impossible to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it. People don't do this conciously. Instead, I think people's worldview naturally changes to be one that benefits their employer.
> if you are buying food with the money you have to do that anyway

I assume when purchasing the foodbank can standardize and become much more effective. E.g. A family of 4 gets package type A, a family with a newborn gets package B, etc.

When dealing with donations you can't do any of that as every request is going to be a custom assemblage of food stuffs.