skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On that note, one of Elizabeth Warren's primary focuses seems to be the concept of who the government works for. To that end, the boogieman of "big government" can either be positioned as something that fights for its citizens or fights for special interests and corporations.

I think the idea of "Big Government" is amorphous, in that is calls into question the purpose of a governing body.

Who, or what, should be the governments number one priority? It seems universal that keeping its citizens safe (military, police) and supplying fundamental services (roads, fire departments) are accepted by all but the most jetpacky libertarians. Do we believe that we have the capacity to extend other foundations of wellbeing to be rights as well? This is the crossroads we're at with healthcare, protecting the environment (by investing in clean technologies and slowing down the harm we're inflicting through other practices), and living wages?

That's what I see as the crux of this conversation. Who does the government work for? And who SHOULD it be working for?
New Nvidia driver update cuts latency down to the bone (Updated)
It's kind of a cultural component but it is also the weather and the kind of people the weather self selects for. I lived in Del Mar for college a while back and a lot of people who trained for triathlons or liked to surf lived around there. In general people wore less bulky clothes and were more active. Even if that was not your profile at all, you were more likely to be self-conscious about not being healthy.
Why must serious guy and nut job be my only two options. And why must they be mutually exclusive.
Google search would not exist without AdSense
$600/mo to live steps from the Brooklyn Bridge? [0]

I imagine the former occupants are furious they have been "saved" from that "horror story" they were so forcefully subjected to.

I understand the fire code violations and that the other occupants of that building did not agree to live in a building of that density, so it is "not OK" in it's current form.

But it is also not OK to have minimum size requirements for living quarters in a capitalistic society where the rents are limitless.

You can't have one variable holding steady while the other related variable keeps shooting through the roof.

The entrepreneur in this story was obviously filling a societal need by breaking the laws that he broke.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/rpCNVS23FBp5XMdQ6
Good calendar sync is my #2 wish for Taskwarrior.

Does todo.txt have support for multiple/shared Todo lists? Dependencies? Priorities?
It's an important distinction because without it, it implies some human being is reviewing information linked to your name somewhere, when in reality the information is being anonymously evaluated by algorithms to target ads.
> And this would equally apply to Apple and Google who have a number of apps on their app stores. This would then lead to even more bundled apps on the phone e.g. Garageband which would decrease competition.

...or it could cause Google and/or Apple to spin off their app store as an independent company, and allow other independent companies to offer their own competing app store.
It reminds me of the late 1980s-early 1990s era calls to split Microsoft off into separate companies: OS and Office. A credulous judge was quoted saying "Microsoft can just take other people's products and incorporate them into Windows!"

Today, the notion of Microsoft as a threat to the world seems quaint and laughable, though at the time it was deadly serious business.

In my opinion, the FAANG monopolies will pass, just as the MS-IBM hegemony passed. Something new will emerge - a 5G-based tech, maybe, or a Chinese AI or quantum machine - that will render the current tech giants irrelevant. Warren's plan is pointless and probably would be counter-productive.
Ha, it had some twists and turns. Smoking was maybe the most innocent part of my high school experience.
Current Edge is not the "Chrome Edge" (or "Edgmium" has become a common name I've seen), which is linked to download here, as "Chrome Edge" only just made it out of Developer-focused Alpha testing to user-focused Beta testing (which is why it was reposted to the HN front page today).

As a user of current Edge:

1) The Favorites Bar shows up as a folder in the Favorites list sidebar, and doing in the list sidebar seems to work better for moving things around, in my experience. (I currently feel like favorites management is worse in Chrome Edge, but mostly because I don't like a lot of the feel of Chrome.)

2) Syncing has more worked than not for me over the years, but it's never been entirely reliable. Bookmarks have seemed reliable, but I don't use them much and wouldn't likely notice if they synced very slowly. Open Tabs have never synced, but the History of them does (and shows up in the Windows Timeline thingamajigger), and faster usually than I expected, but sometimes hit or miss. Overall reliability seems to fluctuate with project priorities, and right now with Edge work on "Chrome Edge" being the focus and it having an entirely different synchronization system, I am not surprised that reliability is especially all over the place right now.
Linux on the desktop is a real mental harm for the user.
They commute into a major city on a bike
Even if the IRS "profits" from spending $1B to collect $2B, that's a 50% processing fee on that incoming money, halving the efficiency of that marginal dollar. If that's still worth collecting, it's better to raise taxes. Really the appropriate stopping point in IRS funding has little to do with whether one of these numbers is close to another.
Bitbucket had free private repos and free public repos.
Ultimately if all those other brands go out of business, the cheaper option may no longer be that cheap.
> "Lots of people are overweight purely because of hormonal/genetic factors"

Yes. That's true. But that's not why the obesity rate is so high. We know this.

As for depression, fair play. But let's not forget that many insist exercise is an effective way to deal with depression. Let's also be mindful that excess weight causes hormonal changes that are also mood-altering. So perhaps your cause v effect - at least in a good number of cases - is in reverse?

Finally, I never said shaming, nor did I imply it. What I said was, if we're going to normalize certain behaviors for individuals then we should not be surprised when those things spread "virally" throughout the rest of the society. So, to your point, when we normalize food as a means for self-medicating depression we're not doing anyone any favors.

To clarify. I agree with your thoughts in general. However, they are the 20% (at best). What about the other 80%?

I also like to add, we're doing it "your way" and frankly, it's clear to see, it's not working. The medical costs associated with T2 diabetes is massive. In nearly all cases, T2D is generally preventable.
I'm considering starting a solipsist meetup group. I can't be sure that there are any like-minded solipsists out there.
I think the implication is it should also apply to sales within their brick and mortar shops too, otherwise it's a bit hypocritical. It would also create a disincentive to use online sales channels, which could create knock on negative economic effects.
Not OP, but: it becomes a cost of doing business. If you know that 10% of every dollar of revenue goes to the tax collector, you set prices and budgets accordingly. Grocery stores prices all jump by 10%, and things carry on as normal otherwise.

I'm not saying that there would be no effect, but it's not a complicated one.
This is exactly the problem with zoning and building restrictions. So long as they're built safely (which these don't seem to have been) the size of the space shouldn't be up to the government. If people don't want to live in them they won't.
I lived in something like this when I moved to New York. A tiny (albeit regular-height) room in a converted loft. My 4+ roommates were split between full-time residents, like me, and part-timers who spent a few days in the city every week. The conversion was illegal: minimal personal space, shared bathrooms, no windows in every bedroom, likely unsegregated security deposits.

But the rent was cheap. Given the midtown location (and resulting savings in transportation), it was a steal. It let me save enough from a good entry-level job to co-found a start-up in my twenties. (It was also a terrific social space, letting people of different ages and backgrounds mix.)

I understand the need to remove code-violating apartments. But the code feels like it was written by NIMBYs opposed to density. Not people looking out for the public's safety.
I'm currently remote for a grant funded initiative at a University. The work is great, but I'm the sole developer. I move around a lot and don't keep a home office. I like it, it's technically satisfying most of the time, but there are only so many days I can spent just working through technical problems at a coffee shop. It's also really great if I want to go off on a road trip or something. I'd like a bit of diversity in the types of problems I'm working on, and miss building something up with people who have different skills or knowledge than me. So I'm looking for work that's at least partly onsite, but that lets me do whatever I want to isolate myself and work through a problem on my own if necessary (in Vancouver if anyone's looking). At a previous position, eyebrows were raised when I chose to take my laptop away from my desk to sit in the lobby and code so I could get away from Bill, the jackass who brought in a mechanical keyboard and screamed through sales calls on his bluetooth earpiece. Bill, of course wasn't a jackass. I eventually brought him aside and simply asked him to be a bit quieter.
And don’t forget this other mainstay of British understatement:

I am just going outside and may be some time > I’m committing suicide, don’t wait up for me
This looks great, but I'm all in on OneNote now, super happy with it.
On an iPhone, will this work when you try to login to your google account in system prefs? It's been my experience with Bluetooth Fido keys that this does not work.
Mean world syndrome. Its just gotten worse and worse.

Its not like its entirely inaccurate, there are lots of bad things happening. School shootings are terrible, but, nobody seems to mention that while those have increased as time has gone on, you no longer hear about serial killers.
Do your services compete with those of third-parties you sell on the site?
If it's a shared resource why is there a need for one contribute in order to view the resource? The underlying implication of a private repo in this context is that the owner can at anytime lock the gate and make it pay to enter.
> So, where are the squares in nature? Hell, where are the circles. Where is the constant curvature.

They exist! The crystal structures of molecules are rather Platonic, for example. Nature is elegant when you get very small, requiring fewer and fewer core concepts as you work your way down to more fundamental levels of understanding. (At lower levels those fundamentals might be irrational ones, but still, those few primitives [like spirals in complex space] become the only tools you need.)

The inelegance, then, comes from modelling the interactions of mind-bogglingly huge collections of these fundamental things, at high levels of abstractions, and then expecting your abstraction (which is just that: a formula that allows you to make some useful prediction of these super-high-level interactions) to be as elegant as the fundamental forces operating at the lowest levels.
> then they would have to more aggressively go after advertising dollars to ensure they are growing revenue

Aren't you assuming that they are not already giving it all they've got?
Google already stores your browsing history in the cloud if you're signed in, which most users are. The "keylogging" wouldn't really add any value to the data, and thus I don't really buy that cost.

If you're not logged in, as I'm sure FSF people are, then this is a much bigger deal, but it doesn't apply to the vast majority of people.

All that said, the keylogger would take a good deal of interpretation to get a complete or even partial history, since autocomplete choices would likely be chosen anyways, not fully typed out URL's. If they send that history anyways on any time you press enter, the autocomplete feature again doesn't matter because they have it with our with.
If you read the FAQ, he stopped working on most of this around 2014, so a lot of the newer stuff will be missing.
> While fears of this law muddying the waters are justified, I think it is purposely misrepresented in Western media.

That is very much is the case. Western media gives a lot of time, space, and prominence to the fears that China could extradict anyone they wanted for any crime they wanted in HK. Meanwhile, it's not that hard to figure that the amendment only allows 37 out of the existing 46 offences listed in Schedule 1 the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance; upping the minimum sentences to 7 years before the extradition is considered; retaining the clauses for double criminality, no political extradition (which is determined by HK, first by the CE, then could be challenged by the courts), etc etc...

I compared the proposed amendment (the earlier one that had a minimum 3 year sentence) against the existing FOO, and the amendment isn't that drastic as a change.

What would be concerning is still some of the existence of white-collar offences that applies, and removing the requirement for the CE to first notify the LegCo and require their approval. The latter, as I understood it, does not happen in other countries, and interesting in HK politics because the pro-democratic camp has most of its sway in LegCo.

What this CE had bungled badly was the lack of consultation and attempted to ram this whole thing through, believing that she had enough votes to do so anyways.
Sounds pretty similar to my situation, to be honest, plus a couple of decades :P

I used to describe myself as 'semi-retired' and people seemed a bit baffled. I think they interpreted it as me being some sort of trust fund guy, when the reality is, other than the odd toy, I just live as if I earned about minimum wage.
> First of all, RTFA

Err... that’s exactly what I said - emergency relocation because they made them homeless.

> For the same price you could split a bedroom somewhere further and commute in.

‘They were just people who didn’t want to share space’ seems unlikely for people literally sharing their vertical space so much they couldn't stand up.
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If you come at it from the perspective that Google is your friend, as in not like a real friend (who I wouldn't let change my passwords), but a friend that's even better than a real friend, then sure, these points are paranoid.

If you start an argument with a false premise (like the above), then sure, you can come to just about any kind of conclusion you want.

The GNU perspective is very distrustful of the idea that anyone else should be administrating their devices [etc etc]

Which is a perfectly reasonable position to have, and no one takes issue with GNU for having it.

What one takes issue with is the consistent use of manipulative language, egregious omission of context (e.g. like what was just said about Google in the post above) and other generalized mindfuckery that GNU folks seem to routinely resort to in order to get you to buy into their shtick. As exemplified in the article referred to in the original post for this thread.

And which has gotten to be way beyond old. For like, multiple decades now.
Personally, I've found a good coworking space helps with this. I don't work directly with anyone there, but having people around from similar disciplines that you can chat with/have lunch with has been so valuable for me.
Welcome to Costco, I love you! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc
Yahoo "owned" the net not that long ago, now they're completely irrelevant. Microsoft "owned" the browser market with Internet Explorer not that long ago, now people cringe when they have to use IE. MySpace was at one time the most visited social media site in the world, now it's merely a quirky bit of internet history.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. do not "own" anything. They are businesses that exist in a fiercely competitive environment in which consumers have zero loyalty and will gladly switch to the next hot thing at the drop of a hat. These businesses are successful because they continually innovate and deliver products that people want. There's no guarantee that any of these companies will still be around in a decade, much less "own" the market they operate in.
pull out the lithium and make batteries?
I agree, Amazon having a house brand while knowing the sales numbers and margins for other products is completely analogous to Walmart and CostCo having house brands while selling competing products.
I don't get why they can't reuse the speed class: Class 30, Class 60, Class 90.
One is Google. The other is some ads company owned by alphabet. They're separate companies, in the same vein that YouTube is not the same as Google.
I understood your point just fine, it seems. What I'm saying is, "go find something else to do". If you can't do that, I understand, but I'll also point out that it just illustrates my point.
I do not consider myself an audiophile (too much BS in this field) but I do buy lots of physical music releases (vinyl and cds, preferably cds). Beside the obvious audio quality, there are other reasons to do so, all of them as a whole making for a very different experience from streaming. Downloads don't cut it either. Alas, physical releases are not always available and that's a shame because there is no shortage of good new music these days. I found myself down the rabbit hole of Bandcamp very often only to find that some great albums don't have any physical release. That's how it is, I guess.
Yes, and effective regulation is precisely about preventing broader emergent patterns that harm innovation, competition, and society as a whole as a result of the (inevitably) short sighted, individual actions of consumers who indeed often only care about the cheapest prices.
Asher Edelman would like to have a word with you.
It would only be a Bill of Attainder if it targeted and punished specific entities. From what I can gather, this just sets parameters. It would likely fall under our existing antitrust framework.
Moreover, if a physically undetected clone is managed, it will be detected soon through the spec. The WebAuthn spec includes monitoring an always increasing counter for each key/site pair. One of the clones will start to fail.

So really there's no point in cloning. Straight up theft is the bigger concern.
Stock buybacks are a misappropriation of capital fueled by QE/low interest rate environments.
What, and give up all that lobbyist money?
Elsewhere too. I lived in a 140 square feet studio here in Montevideo (not as expensive as SF but most expensive in South America), wasn´t too great but it was tolerable, I think slightly smaller is still liveable.

Other posters do have a point about probably illegal wiring and no fire exit planning. And the low ceiling must have sucked (Japanese micro apartments actually have high ceilings, mine was standard height).
yeah why the heck do they need sudo for their send event command?
They can't do anything to mitigate. What are they meant to do, rewrite parts of Windows by themselves?

The only fixes here come from MS. Until then, the more people that know, the worse it is.
More realistically, the price of everything in grocery stores would go up by the amount of the tax, as would the price of everything everywhere else. It's not clear that this would change much for most grocery stores: their own profit margins would remain the same. It would make things harder for the poorest customers, but many of them are already stuck with less-than-ideal higher-margin options for groceries.
yeah but is that just a snapshot of a process before a "refactoring" that would occur naturally? i mean, i don't know the answer, but wonder that question.
The cost savings to employers is so extraordinary ($0 per square foot in office space, $0 on HVAC, electricity, $0 on corporate wifi and the building's ethernet, $0 on cleaning bills, $0 on toilet paper, ink, toner, desks, etc etc - the employer literally is happy to buy all of the above), and to employees a free 5-20% reduction of work hours due to the total loss of mandatory unpaid commute, plus all transportation costs, that I can't help but think something must be missing.

Any employer that could leverage remote workers could have the equivalent of a $1 trillion headquarters employing 1 billion people, tomorrow: at a cost of exactly $0.

So it stands to reason that there is SOMETHING keeping remote-only workplaces from eating their competitors for lunch. Something turns off that growth or ruins the economics.

What is that something?
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How exactly is Big Tech depressing wages? Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft all pay more than almost any other companies, regardless of role. Amazon pays all its employees at least $15 and offers far better benefits than any other large employer to those lowest on the totem pole. Compare Amazon to Walmart and then tell me who the bad guy is. Google and others have raised the median wages for tech workers through the roof, to the point that a career that barely existed 20 years ago is now one of the best-paying jobs you can get. Tech employs millions of people making six figure starting salaries, many of them self-taught or with very affordable educations. Tech has created the largest crop of millionaires in generations.

I'm not saying there aren't problems with large companies, tech or otherwise, but how exactly are they depressing wages? Who's getting screwed?
My main problem with the idea of breaking up big tech, is that foreign companies are just going to pick up the pieces. China for instance will use the weakness to use their mega partially-state owned companies to crush everyone. I just don't see how that's a positive. We live in a global economy now, we have to think of the consequences of our corporate laws globally as well.
The problem's not the "ex post facto". The problem is the "Bill of Attainder". You can't pass a law that, e.g., breaks up Amazon - to do so would be to deprive them of property without trial.

But you can create a law that Amazon (and potentially others) will be in violation of, and following proper trial, they are broken up.
It's quite possible to write your own Git CLI, the fundamentals are well exposed.
I don't think it's quite that simple. I'm not in the business, but every time this comes up someone points out that stores don't actually always buy inventory. Often times they are simply selling the shelf space and it's up to distributors to stock it themselves.
This reminds me of patio11's analysis of tarsnap from a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953

"all Mercurial repositories will be removed"

does indeed sound quite at odds with why people use Bitbucket. dissonance re core value-proposition.

I hope Atlassian finds a less destructive way to phase out Mercurial support. Gladly they do have enough time to clarify / reconsider.
I think you make a lot of assumptions about what is considered ethical or obliged.

My point is that you need to defend your assumption that maintaining cultures of tissue samples requires consent and compensation. Concepts like intellectual property (copyright / patent / trademark) don't apply to things like tissue samples.
Reciprocity with credit cards is a thing too. It's how Amazon was able to re-target me with a product carousel for something I impulse bought at a Macy's.

I'm not really complaining but even tech savvy people can underestimate just how much of their information is out there.