skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few quick things that come to mind that may be possibilities:

1. If people use your dataset, they can do research into things relevant to you

2. Some people like working for companies that share data/code back with the community, helping hire & retain staff

3. Bits of publicity, either to potential engineers/researchers or others seeing lyft in a better light

4. Improvements in the domain, no matter where they come from, may be beneficial to your business
I think there's a pretty big gap between "software first" companies and engineering driven ones (car companies, "Maschinenbau" etc.). Sometimes the cultural gap is pretty shocking to me. I made a career decision to avoid engineering driven companies for software related jobs because the situations are usually similar to your scenario.
Why are we so obsessed with mocking groups? Is it really a necessity to deligitimate and derrogate the claims of an entire class of people for the sake of some laughs? If that is the case, I'd rather not laugh at all.
In DC.
Glad that you appreciate the business model analysis.
Without a supporting business model, it's hard or nearly impossible to sustain a service/product.
> there is not enough difference in quality of life between "working poor" and just being on public assistance and unemployed.

> My position is that, from experience, yes there are able-bodied people who are choosing not to work, it is a problem, and the proper way to deal with it is to make sure there are substantial benefits to having a job.

This is the fundamental appeal of the UBI to me as a replacement for means-tested benefits. If the benefit is truly universal, then every bump in income actually does give you an increase in your personal revenue. Some people will choose not to work and just live on UBI. But I don't actually care all that much about them. UBI isn't enough to make anyone rich, and realistic proposals are still pretty minimal. The fraction of people who will take advantage of it to live a better life are the ones I care about.
I would agree I gave this fight up sometime in early 2000s.

Since email is only valuable as a network, it didn’t make a lot of sense to me to constantly argue with colleagues to send plain text + html, let alone to only send plain text. Ultimately, I decided using elm was my issue, and they were doing the natural thing.
We have a CSA with a vegetable farmer. It's crazy how many government programs are just unavailable to her, which she'd have access to if she grew corn.

For example, this spring we had tons of really heavy rain and she lost a potato crop. No crop insurance available, that's $ straight out of pocket.
From what you posted:

“Lack of awareness: Many citizens are not aware of the existence of a statutory provision that ensures a minimum wage rate. "80% of workers earn less than INR 20/day or less than half of government stipulated minimum wage rate (rural INR 49 and urban INR 67)”.[2] On certain instances of doubt among workers on existence of a minimum wage rate, officials have denied claims of any statutory act or legislation.[11]”

“42% of all wage earners in India receive wages below the national minimum wage floor rate.[62]”

“In Mumbai, as of 2017, the minimum wage was Rs. 348/day for a safai karmachari (sewage cleaner and sweeper), but this was rarely paid.[5]”
You are saying that the previous poster's estimation of 8 USD/Gallon (3.785) without subsidies is not realistic and far too high?
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I’m wondering how he got that deal past IT. Perhaps he claimed that he was licensing the code to them so that they couldn’t see it?

I’m not familiar with how to deploy Excel macros, could this code be checked into a source repo and then somehow automatically deployed? If not I can see how he can sneak this by IT by saving it was hard to deploy and that’s why I’m giving you a binary and tell all your users to hit this URL to install.
Similar way of doing business as the drug cartels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484197
I think 95% of the email formatting complaints regarding images are related not to this, but to highly-formatted signatures (usually with a variety of social media links)
The MIT license is extremely permissive. It's a stupid measuring post for comparison, because it basically doesn't say anything at all.

Yes, they could have consulted with and paid a lawyer to tighten up the wording. But unless you either own a company, or intend to use this in consulting work, I don't think this license should bother you at all. The intent and general meaning are pretty clear, even if you could argue over the definition of one word or another.
> companies' tradition of rewarding management incompetence over technical competence

I witnessed this and moved out of the large rich corporate to a small startup to keep my sanity.
The designer of this language, David Moon, was also one of the designers of Dylan and Common Lisp.
I mean, when you see his other tweets ...

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/115224093101546291...
I'm surprised to see this is a prison term kind of situation.

We're talking about the choice of an algorithm in a spreadsheet delivered by a contractor being a criminal offense. It's not like that's impossible but it seems a lot more like a contractual issue at first glance. I mean fundamentally it's a string of ones and zeros, it's a piece of software.

What if he says that it was his policy to put an expiration into all his software deliverables? How is this, as a criminal legal matter different from a company that disables a piece of software without a support contract in place, or similar?

It seems a lot like a contractual issue, a discrepancy between what he delivered and what they expected, with monetary damages as the legal remedy. What am I missing here?

EDIT: Upon reading a little more about it it's a Federal charge, which seems even more insane. I can't find the actual complaint to see if it's a CFAA charge but it looks that way.

This looks a lot like yet another case of "person vs. giant multinational billion plus dollar company" on a computer issue, which means massive Federal charges for some reason, along the lines of Sergey Aleynikov, Aaron Schwartz, or Weev.
While I do like a good FPS the only thing I've really played in the last year on my stupidly expensive gaming machine (and super high spec monitor) is Rimworld, a £25 indie game.

Hundreds of hours vs. maybe a dozen in games that might actually need that power.
>Hotstar has been killing it. They have the massive advantage of streaming live sports, especially IPL and other cricket matches.

But is there anyway to cast your mobile streaming videos from such apps on TV? I tried raspicast but it only works for YouTube not for any other app like Zee5, or hotstar or Amazon prime video.

Is there anyway to make it work on TV? Even if it requires rooting android device or smth.
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Personally I suspect another aspect are ugly aspects of (high school) social order and anti-intellectualism. If the people they look down on start succeeding they get really mad.

Virtually nobody complains about bankers and businessmen taking their jobs with outsourcing and wasn't taken seriously. Automation and AI creating more productivity instead of just moving jobs? The "nerds" doing it? "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!" hysterical reactions and rage. If tech becomes involved in an industry suddenly it is the great satan like Tesla, or any of the artificial meat companies and spoken of as not a part of the industry in spite of larger and smaller existing players and even foreign businesses receiving more respect.

The mythical long lasting tech-bro insited as everywhere from countless hit pieces which hold homeowners blameless for rising rents along with other business jobs but engineers and programmers solely are clearly the great evil responsible for high rents.

It harkens back to deep feudalistic stupid where the peasants and aristocracy distrusted the merchant and miller for making money from working smart and being "anomalys" to the social order. Money not made through serfs or conquest? Clearly deeply unnatural and wrong. Just look at Belphegor - literal demonization of discovery and ingenious inventions. Judging by actions and impacts alone he should be an angel.
If I open a business and my business is successful because I have labor that's expected to make less than what's required to provide basic subsistence living then my business model is broken. Why? Because the government will end up picking up the tab by providing healthcare, rent assistance, and food assistance to my employees. Which means that my business model is being subsidized by the government and is effectively a welfare business by the transitive property. We can either say, "That's fine the government should subsidize these businesses." or we can say, "The market should handle this, local government should push minimum wage to the point where government subsidies aren't required and then allow businesses that can't make it fail." In the first case if we want the government to subsidize business of this nature then we should raise taxes on businesses because they're the ones who want subsidized labor. In the latter, the ones that will get hit first are restaurants that have low prices and serve food to people in the price tier of the bottom half of the middle class. Which also highlights a cultural shift that may need to occur, the reality that the amount we eat out at restaurants and have others providing food preparation for us is economically broken and that a large portion of the population that currently enjoys this benefit by eating at these restaurants in reality can't actually afford it, at its non-subsidized price, as frequently as it's currently enjoyed.
Toilet paper is also different from country to country. In Argentina most toilet paper is very thin, and as a result people uses a lot more. Maybe it is the same in Brazil.
Makes sense that some taxes go higher, I should remembered about this. What are the dollar amounts, I'm not familiar with payroll taxes in the US.

Also, my original calculation assumed 8 hour shifts for all employees per day, which is likely wrong (could be more or less)

Granted that $1800 is a decent amount of money for a small restaurant but staffing levels are at 40% of what they were, is the service/quality not going to suffer a bit (a lot?)?
Terrible legal advice. Remote work does NOT automatically make you a contractor rather than an employee.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Booking tickets under fake names, whether for your luggage or for random people you may meet at the airport and want to travel with, is fraud. Full stop.
The issue here is that most people looking for plain text email want to receive plain text email.

These instructions really only help you to send plain text email. It's unclear if the receivers care either way.

I am sympathetic to the issues around HTML email but it's a hard ship to turn.
A big company doing mainly nice white fridges and yellow construction machinery. But they also do parts for planes. After quitting I heard, they were having some military project and had strict rules for it... Same building, same strict rules for everybody.
Yup, tho I can access it ok without an account. Limit I guess.

Alternative here:

https://time.com/5633280/neil-armstrong-estate-6-million-set...
I don't know much about farming, but I wouldn't expect a corn farmer to be equipped to suddenly farm rice. None of his machines really work for that, and manual harvesting seems out of the question at US wages.
“If John misses his next check-in, events will be set into motion that I cannot prevent once they have begun. John has secreted data with individuals across the world. I know neither their identities or locations. They will release their payloads if John goes missing.”

Isn’t this technically blackmail?
Hundreds of ethical hacking, cyber security, computer science resources
I'm quite surprised indoor farming powered by renewable energy isn't being taken more seriously.

I remember seeing these concept towers where food was grown inside in what was essentially a 40 stories of hydroponic grow rooms co-located inside cities so transporting of food was easy.

I guess I'm insanely naive about growing food at scale and indoors (I've dabbled with produce on a small scale) but why hasn't this approach taken off?
Yeah, the sequel sneering in other posts in this tree is not a great look. Mortal Kombat changes significantly between iterations and while 2D fighters are not my cup of tea the depth and intricacy of the way MK11 plays is really well done (even separate from the self-aware and campy story stuff, which is good for a couple evenings of fun--we popped when the final boss threw a dang dinosaur at me!). Ed Boon and crew do good work and writing it off as "psh, sequels" is just not smart.
The fracturing of video games is really interesting.

I used to game...a lot... constantly. But times have changed and a career, family, and I now play with my kids.

I'm quite happy to just be limited to the Nintendo Switch and for the most part Nintendo first party games, and some indie games.

I don't even know if old devs and gaming companies I used to follow religiously are any good anymore, or exist. The gaming news outlets stink at providing information that isn't a hype train about what is next... that I can't play now.. and if you're not reading them all the time so I'm just out of the loop.

Meanwhile Nintendo does a pretty good job telling me what is up in their ecosystem...
Eh, Breath of the Wild notwithstanding, I haven't found a game, indie or AAA, that scratched that old itch in years. There is a glut of games, for sure, with no easy way to filter them and no promise of a game I will actually enjoy.
Visual Information Theory (2015)
Man, I'd kill for that kind of plan. I spent a year in Austria ages ago, and even they have substantially cheaper plans that still had higher data caps than German ones.
Then you should talk to someone, because that doesn't sound healthy. There are no externalities that should be triggering depression.
They are still up in the UK.
It's Boris-season in the press at the moment, for obvious reasons. Sadly, this article is very poor, seeking to harness anything vaguely related to tech (apparently, that is - a garden bridge?) and spin it negatively, whatever the real situation.

Within the article, he's criticised for:

* supporting ideas which were explored but abandoned (the estuary airport idea, and the garden bridge) - when surely this shows a leader who is willing to be imaginative but who is also willing to listen to reason... which I would have thought would be a good model to espouse?

* supporting people in his wider organisation in exploring tech ideas which were innovative (the gang matrix, for example) - when surely we should praise our governments for adopting more of a tech-style approach to be willing to try new ideas and fail fast?

* things being popularly named after him, whether they were controversial (Boris buses), highly successful (Boris bikes) or unsuccessful (Boris island) - when none of these would have been officially named like that by him (they would probably have been thus named by the press due to his prominence in their creation or start-up, and his newsworthiness, approaching meme status) and when it would have been impossible for him to influence the popular name once adopted by the public.

Don't get me wrong - I'm genuinely not a Boris supporter. But this article is nonsense, jumping on the zeitgeist with weak, trash journalism.
To be clear, I was interpreting the abundance of Swift frameworks as proof of it being written in Swift, not as something bad (a ton of Swift frameworks is still a lot better than Chromium + node + a ton of npm packages)

I'm curious why they didn't use Xamarin.Mac though, they could have shared a lot of code between apps.
Also GitHub is down (cannot use the website nor push to my repos)
I think this is unfortunately mostly preaching to the choir. The "industry" is moving in the opposite direction - the page should have a section on "AMP for email".
Multiplayer is a shortcut to replayability. Developers saw games like Counterstrike get played literally for decades due to compelling multiplayer and wondered why they were spending millions of dollars implementing single player campaigns.
Indeed, lots of people are normal employees, but not in a central office.

On almost all other points he seemed incorrect for most of the jurisdictions I've worked in. I'm sure some of it is true for some jurisdictions, but way overgeneralised.
Jio already has JioTV (with 600+ channels) which is free with Jio recharge. I don't think Jio would be comfortable bringing on what would essentially be a competitor for its services and give it a cut when it already has a free offering.
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Artificial intelligence programming especially deep learning and machine learning was present everywhere in 2018, so you don’t think that this hype will die down over the next coming months or years. Of course, this hype will dry down in two to three years, where artificial intelligence will just become another consistent thread in the tapestry of most people’s lives.
Or perhaps the parent commenter is part of the lost generation of email users that never properly used quoted replies in email conversations. And this is not necessarily an comment on the age of the parent commenter, but rather about what email programs were common at the time. I blame Outlook mainly for this, but Gmail hasn’t done much to help here either.

The use of quotes in replies is also part of the article and is definitely a better way to go with bottom replies than the current default of top replies.
> When do you stop beating a dead horse?

If they had just release MK1 11 times then sure, you could class that as "beating a dead horse".

But that is ignoring the fact that these games evolve. Sure 1 to 2 might not be a huge step or evolution, but 1 to 11? To assume they are the same is ridiculous.
Every comedian mocks vegans eventually. It's the same stupid jokes over and over with every comedian when it comes to how people eat. It's on television, it's even a joke is Scooby Doo. It's lazy comedy. There are entire YouTube channels dedicated just to mocking vegans. Yes, vegans are legal to make fun of, doesn't mean they aren't beating a dead horse at this point. First it's about how weird they are, then usually something about bean sprouts, then about how the vegans claim it tastes just like the real thing, when no vegan would want it to. Then end with how the vegans are dicks and the comedian will just enjoy their burger thanks. I've seen this routine verbatim by at least 5 different comedians.
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>> This baffles me. Who are these people that buy games like MK11, a new FIFA game every year(?)

I see your point, but Mortal Kombat is not really the best example of a cash-cow franchise that keeps selling the same game over and over. The successive games in this series have huge differences, especially since the reboot a few years back. If you like this style of fighting games, there are plenty of reasons to buy the latest version every few years.

FIFA on the other hand is terrible in this regard. I can say with confidence because I've been buying each entry since FIFA'09, and while there have been a few major changes in 10 years that are worthwhile improvements, you are indeed more or less buying the same game every year. I sometimes wonder why I even keep doing it, I guess it's just because it's become a tradition I cannot get away from, getting the game on release date and inviting my brother to play it until deep in the night.
ESL here, what's wrong with pseudonymization as a derivative of pseudonym? I think it brings the point across. But if we want to stop beating around the bush, what about "nameless identification"?
When I saw "Rs", given that I work in an academically-related field, I first interpreted it as relating to the R statistical language.

Then, during the parsing of the title, my second interpretation was that "Rs 199" was the model number of some sort.

The letters "Rs" do not, as someone from North America, mean a currency to me. IMHO, using a 'special' character like ₹ would help me interpret things better.

(But that's just me.)
It probably is a humblebrag. But since I have no interest in many of these things that appear to be very popular, I am also genuinely curious about what is it that people find enjoyable about these things.

Is it the fact that these things are a 'common denominator' and as such are a 'neutral' choice of something to enjoy with friends that may have otherwise diverse interests? Or do people genuinely prefer these things, even if they were the only person left on Earth?
In a pure capitalist society, how does one decide what is critical to the national economy and worth socialising its cost?

Why farming vs k-12 education vs university education vs healthcare vs roads?
Unblocking second-generation smart meters
> Company's start to scramble when they cease to grow. Stakeholders double down. Employees start looking elsewhere. Executives make brash decisions based on emotions. etc etc.

However also similar stuff is happening in growing companies because of other factors. Also companies often survive quite well even if they don't grow that much.

To me it seems like coinbase is still in a very sweet spot. Crypto markets are not going away, and coinbase helds massive first-mover advantage. No matter how much they will fuck up on exec level, they will probably still make good revenues if they just can keep their current service running.
Dunno about surgeons, but first responders absolutely do get PTSD from repeated exposure to horrible things.
In a lot of businesses with stronger profit margins, labor costs can go up with no downstream effects.

In a brutally competitive industry such as restaurants, where profit margins of 6% are considered extremely healthy, there has to be some sort of downstream effect to keep the business viable. Most likely they'll all just raise prices, but something has to happen for these businesses to have any chance at surviving the next recession.

So you're right that minimum wage labor is inelastic for many businesses, but in restaurants a small change in costs can make a large number of businesses no longer viable.
It seems to become cost effective for fresh leafy greens. For crops like corn it makes no economic sense and maybe never will.
We send syntax highlighted code all the time via email at my job. I hope you're not suggesting we should use PDF instead?

And no, creating snippets on a wiki is also an extra unnecessary step. Email is just easier and faster.
Now that page recommends using git send-email, on which the author also made a tutorial: https://git-send-email.io
hard wrap at 72 characters seems pretty conservative
They got to shortlist him, by eliminating candidates until just 2 remain. Then the choice is with the party membership. Which is not the same as voting for him.
It's pretty clear that those terms are all defined in the context of whatever they might mean under Czech law, which I am not familiar with.

Also, those quotes are taken out of context for dramatic effect:

You will not engage in using this Software that will interfere with or damage the operation of the services of any third parties by overburdening/disabling network resources through automated queries, excessive usage or similar conduct.

You will not use this Software to engage in any activity that will violate the rights of third parties, including, without limitation, through the use, public display, public performance, reproduction, distribution, or modification of communications or materials that infringe copyrights, trademarks, publicity rights, privacy rights, other proprietary rights, or rights against defamation of third parties.

GP is really trying hard to smear this author for some reason, but you read the actual license you'll see that their criticism is based on fiction.