skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time and time again we see the mega corporations and the mega rich in America make life for the common person worse, while their fortunes continue to rise.

McDonalds, Amazon, WalMart, etc. These companies make billions in revenue, and plenty of profit, yet they keep paying their employees worse and worse compensation packages - packages that are completely illegal in every other developed country.

Why do Americans let this happen?

How bad does it have to get before something changes?
One issue with releasing every day or every hour is that that would mean users downloading massive numbers of updates. Sure, you ship deltas, but there's still a cost to each update.
While the statement is nonsensical and innumerate, I think that Bill Gates was making a different point.

There are trillions of dollars invested somewhere other than in oil and gas extraction, because the investors believe they are getting a better return, or they simply don't have a signal that somewhere else has better potential. When a dollar leaves fossil fuels and the sticker price of ownership decreases, those investors receive a signal about higher potential yields.

The issue is that even Bill and Melinda and the Gates Foundation have a limited pile of cash compared to the effectively infinite money already in oil and gas exploration and extraction and the effectively infinite money haphazardly seeking returns elsewhere regardless of impacts on the planet. That is, the supply of money for those industries is too elastic at the scale of only $100B.

I think that Bill Gates is saying that given their limited pile of cash, they have the most impact creating competitors to current energy intensive industries that demand energy and competitors to fossil fuels as alternative suppliers of energy.

I don't know why the title and the leade repudiate divestiture. Maybe it is an attempt to sound clever, or maybe it is a bias toward hopelessness. I imagine some readers will simply ape the statement in cocktail party situations, which will miss the opportunity of advocating the proactive solutions Gates was talking about, and counterproductively reinforce the fatalistic idea that no one can do anything.
please stop astroturfing.
Loved the V2 rocket launch at the end. Back in '48 we didn't have any rockets, but we did have Wernher Von Braun.
Yes, I think this is true, and also that Stallman agrees.
Clearly the NSA is out of control - but these aren't conflating issues. For the record, I don't particularly spend time worrying about either Snowden or the NSA.
The lifetime of each ESR is one year, there's an intentional 10 week overlap.
Basically, only the root record parsing is done in JS and then passed to unbound for resolution. Though it is possible to run a pure JS resolver, it's not really recommended.

There's also a more portable authoritative & recursive [resolver in C](https://github.com/handshake-org/hnsd).

Plus, the whole protocol for node communication and name resolution & proofs is so simple, that it's pretty easy to reimplement in any language.
Having played a lot with both, this thing is so much smarter.

Example, with filled text in [], never retrying or canceling an autocompletion, and with very minimal selective effort between candidates in the first set of options:

"
Type: Status Report

Message: Not found

Description: The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.

HTTP Status: [404 Not Found]

Diagnosis: [The target resource is not present or there is no corresponding file in the local directory.]

Remedy: You should [check the following factors to see if the target resource is still present in the local directory:]

Check [if the resource is not present.]

Check [the origin server status.]

Check [the URL of the resource.]
"

It's read enough to know that a Not Found is related to an HTTP Status and 404 (and how those relate), related to a URL and a Resource (and how those relate), related to a file in a directory (albeit, not a "local" one, probably) and that it's related to a "origin server". It knows enough about those things that it has you check things that kinda actually make some sense (albeit with prompting -- though it originated the idea there being a list of "factors" in the first place).
"Blockchain-based alternative to CAs" has been discussed before there even was the word blockchain (it was called sovereign keys, at least it's pretty close to a blockchain).

I'd expect someone trying at least discussing why that didn't make it. Also I'm really annoyed by the "there was a problem with CAs in 2011, this system is really bad"-tune ignoring what has been changed since then. (E.g. the "You don’t know who all these CA intermediates are" may be true, but that's your problem, because you very well could know, the information is there.)
It was tested in court and found to be illegal:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-nsa/nsas-pho...
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
Isn't this just basically Namecoin but with venture capital money?
I don't really understand this.

Before advertisers had a stranglehold on the remaining American cable networks and newspapers, did cable networks and newspapers consistently get "de-platformed" into non-existence if they violated an advertiser's social stance?

Like, are the populist calls for deplatforming that we see on social media today against other organizations (which advertisers sometimes agree with) new? Or is this just history repeating itself until we get tightly corporate governed internet media that never runs afoul of social norms, slightly "pushing the envelope" on occassion for shock value and entertainment.
The space elevator itself would be something outrageously expensive and dangerous to build - but there will always be people willing to take the challenge.
> I decided to hide pricing for now until the user signs up. Pricing then shows up. (…) Any reason to display pricing publicly?

I’m not going to sign up and give you my email address without knowing if I’m willing to pay whatever you’re asking for the service. By hiding your price, you’re guaranteeing I’ll never be a customer because I won’t even take the first step.

> The chat widget is just the fastest implementation of a "contact us" that I can implement on short notice.

An email form (or just an email address) is easier. Anecdotally, every comment I ever read on those chat widgets was negative.
Too bad the people who got shot aren’t here to offer up their opinions.
Backblaze, here's a story. My dad used to run a mailing service, kind of like a UPS store, but non-franchise. We also had private mailbox rentals (PMB) for customers. My dad ran the business for about 12 years. About year 7-8, my dad was like, I have to raise the prices of the PMBs. You know what his longtime customers said?

They weren't mad, but they were surprised. They said, "Damn, it's about time. I've been wondering for a long time when it was going to up. Good for you."
I'd be very interested to learn who hired them / their firm. Hope we find out!
So from the sounds of it the courts hired coalfire to do pen testing but neglected to mention it should be electronic only so they attempted physical access?
> However, if you drive down the stock price, it's just as likely that you'd be allowing the company to buy back its own stock at a bargain price, which could help the company by allowing them to retain greater control.

Stock buybacks shrink the size of the company. They lose money they could otherwise use to (say) drill for oil, instead returning it to shareholders' hands to deploy in other ways. That sounds like a win for divestment to me.

"Less likely/more painful to raise money" and "more likely/less painful to buy stock back" are two sides of the same coin, both meaning less money invested in the business.
Reminds me of this story posted a while ago:

Story of a failed pentest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475438
Why wouldn't SA companies simply become a better buy?
Go is supposed to be a concurrent, type-safe, memory-safe, systems programming language.

This goal is entirely at odds with an unsafe, legacy-ridden C/C++ toolchain.
World’s largest amphibian identified as a unique species
It's negative 5 million because you don't own it. It is a debt, and debts don't count in net worth.
Keeping in mind that those employees are already making more money than the average person doing a similar job part time.

People shouldn't automatically be expected to pay different prices for the same thing because they have more money.

The back-of-the-napkin calculation from BI they cite to arrive at what Jeff Bezos' "makes" in an hour is tied largely to Jeff's equity in Amazon, which is not really liquid.

You can make all sorts of comparisons of this or that number to another, what matters to me is the principle of it.

If Jeff is being treated to some ill-gotten advantage, let me be the first to criticize it, but the price of part-time retail labour is up to those involved in that transaction, and to a certain extent, up to the law; and both seem to agree with the state of things.

By the same token, we are all entitled to our fair say in what the law has to say about that transaction, and if you believe the minimum price of labour should be arbitrarily increased, that's something you can argue just the same as anyone else. I just won't buy it if the argument is "Jeff's rich, so any company he operates should pay more for labour."
He has a nice piece this week on Greta Thunberg.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/greta-thunberg-climat...
I do locksport and breaching for fun (in a safe, legal manner) and I live here in NY.

Certain tools only have a purpose for forced entry, like the shove it tool and halligan bar. If you are caught with such tools and are not a first responder, you will be treated as a burglar and in all likelihood successfully prosecuted.
I think 7 years is a little short on copyright. I think 10-15 years would make more sense.
...but that's exactly Gates' point: Invest into alternatives, and if those alternatives turn out to be competitive, affected stocks may fall in price, but more importantly consumption will fall.

Cheaper stock prices just due to divestment will have pretty much zero impact on oil demand. Why should it be any other way?
One might easily believe that based upon the name, but a number of changes to how prior art worked in the US were required to implement it. Please consider https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2152.html

In particular, the paragraph starting with "Although some of the provisions of AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a) and (b) are similar to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a), (b), and (e), the AIA has introduced a number of important changes with respect to prior art ..."

Edit: And more importantly, Section 2152.01 right below it.
wow i violated this patent years ago when I made a microsocial network that used an email gateway to interact with users via sms. guess I should have patented it first ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
'Dead Space': Photographer captures Hong Kong's dense hillside cemeteries
> 40% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck can't afford an unexpected 400 dollar expense

The 40% claim (regarding N% of Americans that can't afford a sudden ~$400-$500 expense) is entirely fraudulent, and repeated ad nauseam as an easy - and ignorant - hit on the US.

The real number is around 12%-14% at worst. The routine Fed survey that most people reference (while ignoring what the Fed actually said) makes this clear. Numerous well-written articles have been posted over the last several years pointing out the fraudulent nature of the claim.

Here's the money line from the Fed that buries this lie:

"The Fed also asks respondents how a $400 emergency expense that they had to pay would affect their ability to pay their other bills. Eighty-five percent report that they would still be able to pay all their bills. Only 14% say that the emergency expense would result in their not being able to pay some bills."

A Bloomberg writer recently demolished it as well:

> The question comes from the annual “Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households” by the Federal Reserve. The report finds, in 2018, that 61% of adults would cover a $400 unexpected expense using cash (or its equivalent).

Note: that's the origination of the error. The propagandists then remove the 61% and magically claim that everyone left (~40%) can't cover the expense.

> Instead, as the Fed report makes clear, though “the remaining 4 in 10 adults” “would have more difficulty covering such an expense,” many of them would be able to make it work by carrying a credit card balance or borrowing from friends and family.

> The report states: “Twelve percent of adults would be unable to pay the expense by any means.”

> The report also goes out of its way to make clear that some of the 39% who wouldn’t use cash might still have $400 in the bank: “It is possible that some would choose to borrow even if they had $400 available, preserving their cash as a buffer for other expenses.” In a footnote, the report even cites a 2016 study finding that 76 percent of households had $400 in liquid assets, even after taking into account monthly expenses.

> The common misinterpretation of this finding in the study is particularly strange in light of two other questions on the same survey. The Fed asks respondents whether they are able to pay all of their bills in full. Only 17% say they can’t pay some bills. Again, 17%, not 39%."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/report-economic-...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/04/middle-class-doing-ok...

https://www.cato.org/blog/it-true-40-americans-cant-handle-4...
BPF (and eBPF) disallow all backwards jumps. This makes the halting problem trivially decidable (all programs halt in finite steps), and those programs are still practically useful in their problem domain.
Facebook will train its content-removal AI with police camera footage
Is that a bag of montmorillonite?[1] Is this to see how much coffee hipsters will pay for dirt?

[1] - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09168451.2017.13... "Caffeine adsorption of montmorillonite in coffee
extracts"
Yes, but there's always new people popping up, and it's a useful concept to keep in mind, especially if you manage "makers".
Ask HN: What's the best tech company to coast?
I'm tired of the 9-5 bullshit. I wanna work for a company that pays me well, but where I don't have to do a lot of work.

In my free time, I wanna work on personal projects (both tech and non-tech). I eventually plan to retire early, but I just wanna coast until then.

Any company recommendations for software dev position?
We haven't observed hawking radiation coming off of a black hole, but we have observed it in lab settings.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/10/10/1...
Right, thanks. And I hope my question does not sound too critical. I was just genuinely curious why JS was used.

I think JS is fine for small to mid-sized tasks, prototyping and testing ideas. However, for real DNS servers, used by a lot of clients, I believe C, C++, Go or Rust would be an absolute requirement.
The answer is: quite bad, apparently.

What's interesting is the more corrupt our economy grows, the less money itself becomes a reasonable abstraction people accept and believe in. When common acceptance in critical systems that require common acceptance fails, we have a complete mess on our hands.

The good (or bad depending on how you look at it) news is that people will need to be starving and miserable before that happens. We're entering a full paced modern form of servitude gung-ho. Maybe when it starts to approach slavery people will resist. Why people don't resist now will always puzzle me
Obviously this is a tough one since most users don't know those shortcuts exist and will get upset if those shortcuts stop working in a Web site.
This looks like a neat program. (As someone who has never used ruby): how do I run it? This isn't obvious to me.
I feel you’re talking about the date in brackets, which most people agree is useful. However the GP is discussing a different behaviour on HN where the word “How” is automatically dropped from headlines when it is used as a prefix. This behaviour doesn’t provide more information, as you state, though your opinion of its desirability might still differ from the GPs.
Then minority’s shareholders will sue because their share value declined and the board’s legal obligation is to pursue shareholder value, not do what the majority owners of company want them to do.

I’m torn on that, but minority’s shareholders have a legitimate expectation their rights should be protected.
I said that not having 400$ is a failure of fiscal planning and doesn't indicate that the population is poor.

Declining life expectancy is not an indication that the population is poor either. Consider that obesity, which is linked to higher mortality rates, did not become an issue until the 1900s in countries that passed wealth thresholds allowing such a problem at scale. Similarly with allergies, car crash fatalities, lead poisoning in paint, any number of life-shortening effects come from wealth in a society and are counterbalanced by improving health care levels.
Netflix Cofounder Marc Randolph: Why He Left, Becoming a Mentor, Love of Chaos
i just want to have it for myself and i will do my best to keep it to myself but i have always wondered if someone had a bottle.

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"There isn't a situation where a 74 year old has sexual contact with a 17 year old on a billionaire's private island in which everyone is willing and happy with what is happening."

How about, if the old person would be mick jagger? I could imagine, he still has his charms to some.
Also I have seen young attractive women aproaching old yoga gurus for example ..

But yeah, the old guy wasn't mick jagger, nor a yoga master and at best he did assume the girl was a 18+ old prostitue doing it willingly for money and power.
I’m Suing Lyft
Fresh analysis of LIGO data supports “no hair” theorem for black holes
If it's a typical mortgage, the asset is normally counted toward your net worth.
I guess this is what people mean by something that 'turns your stomach'?

After reading this I am literally feeling a nausea like I want to throw up! I've never had this kind of reaction to the written word before.
This is separate from the DNS resolver being written in JS, but the team behind Handshake also created bcoin, which is the only javascript fullnode (and non-core fullnode IIRC) that has mined a Bitcoin block.

https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin
You made a valid point about the difficulty of judging how sensitive information should be released and the dangers of letting small groups of people make those judgements. I apologise for my somewhat tangential post. I've consumed a good quantity of whiskey and made a reflexive post.
> Linters/etc that run without a need for :w?

That's more to do with how you setup to trigger the commands.

Async here really means that it doesn't block with your typing, jumping around in the text editor if plugin starts doing some heavy work in the background due to some action that got triggered by whatever event you had setup for plugin to do. One of the plugin that I particularly remember was syntastic (I haven't kept up with it to know if they've fixed this or not) that would just create janks every now and then if the workload was heavy.
Sorry, you're right. I didn't realize the extent of his problematic behavior.
Does this case extend to general advice though - that people should stay invested in fossil fuel companies in order to regulate them a bit? It should follow that if we invest more in fossil fuel extraction we can regulate them more. It seems to confound reasonable expectations of what results from investment.
Saudi Arabia is way worse than Iran in terms of womens rights, but nobody cares because theres no propaganda against them... US foreign policy is like the most hypocritical agenda ever conceived. China is communist, but they dont care since theyre making money off China, while the Soviets communism was a target of propaganda all the time. Also, just to add, Iran was very liberal until 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power, and he only came to power because the Shah raised oil prices and the Americans approved of Khomeini coming back to Iran.
You ought to question your health, if hearing of a change in the lawful employment agreement of some part time grocery retail workers, juxtaposed with the increasing valuation of Amazon, induces nausea.
I’m probably going to ask the stupidest question you have ever been asked

how do you actually sell debt

Like can one sell their own debt?
Never heard of this "annual salary divided by 1000" rule but I calculated and it works out about right for me.

I am in a third-world country though, so rates are much, much lower than $150-320/hour
> I wonder why this strategy is not arrived at.

That's always a good question! One thing to remember is that in RL you are looking through large solution spaces. You probably aren't going to find a global optima (if one even exists!). What will happen is that a local optima is found and just one that _works_. This is why having a feature rich space is important, because it helps you escape the locality, but also remember that we don't even know what the solution space looks like and what an optimal solution is.

It is also entirely possible that you retrain something from scratch and find a different local optima. Self play can help with this as well as multi-agents, but we're still not guaranteed to find every solution nor solutions that appear obvious to us. RL just tries things (often randomly) till they start working (then they bias towards what worked).
>Personally I believe the Universe as we know it is the insides of a black hole, and that the predicted "singularity" is wrong.

Well, regardless of whether or not our universe is contained within a black hole, basically no one thinks there is literally a singularity of infinite density inside of black holes. It's just what relativity states (and we already know relativity isn't a complete explanation, especially in regards to some of these incredibly extreme situations) and treating black holes like they contain incredibly massive quantities of mass while basically being a point-particle works for all of our day to day purposes.

String theory and loop quantum gravity both explain black holes without needing a singularity, and every astrophysicist that I've spoken to a read comments from discussing this topic has basically said "Yeah, it's not a singularity, we just don't know what it is, and that whole singularity thing is close enough"
If the ability to sell $1.8Billion of your stock 3 days day isn't liquid, I don't know what is.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-bezos/amazon-chief-bezos-cashes-in-1-8-billion-of-share-pile-idUSKCN1UR4ZR
I suspect no one would want to work with you... definitely wouldn't be recommending where I work.
there's no way they'd find someone with 7-10 years of experience for $122k in the bay area
Time and again we also buy stuff from Amazon and think: wow, this is great.

That's the quid pro quo.
Student loans can also be used to pay rent and meals, and living in an urban center is increasingly expensive. My alma mater is tearing down old dorms and building pricey new ones instead of making student life as affordable as possible.
Comparing stock appreciation to benefits expenses is plain ridiculous. Are they saying Bezos should be continuously selling shares in Amazon to subsidize workers’ benefits?

And will workers start paying him when Amazon stock happens to run into bad luck and he loses billions one year?