skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have the idea of the "independent entrepreneur", that adult woman who is proud to use sex as a creative expression, it's true that she's making her life better. If it's a scared 15-year-old whose mom kicked her out because boyfriend was starting to make comments about her ass, and she has no idea where to go or what to do but a guy say she can have a place to sleep if she has sex with him (and then he starts pimping her out to his friends), that's a very different situation. Or if you're an LGBT teen and you're kicked out by your parents for being gay and fall into a similar situation.

The article is pretty nuanced.

"So I pretended. I pretended all of it was a kind of adventure. That what I gained from it was more than rent. I dismissed how much that rent meant to me. I pretended that I was not so poor, that I had not grown up poor. That I had not cried out of fear of not knowing where the money would come from next. That I did not steal food from every restaurant I ever worked in. That I never ate the food people left on their plates."

The whole economic system we're in is coercive to many.
Probably because most religious people don't tend to flaunt it everywhere they go, and in my experience the ones that do also tend to be jerks. It's also possible that wait staff tend to remember the ones that do more than the ones that don't because being religious and a jerk is more memorable than religious and not a jerk.

Disclaimer: I am a religious person.
There's a part in Brene Browns "Daring Greatly" where a guy says that his wife and daughter would rather he die on his horse than to fall off. Brown comes back with a very impractical response to the effect of "well then they have work to do too".
But what was the effect for the consumer?

Did they read less news? Was that a problem?

Did they read other news?

Did they visit more smaller news sites as opposed to a few large ones?
WeWork was valued at >60 billion by the same bankers who valued it at 20 billion a couple days later.
I dont mind executives earning millions, but perhaps their salary should be capped at 100x of average employee.

The do not run the ship alone, and if the ship does well, the rest of the crew should be at least paid lip service.
I would like to see some framework for doing that, whether that is profit sharing or relative salary caps.

Also I believe all salaries in the country should be public. How is free market suppose to work if no-one knows the price?
Here in germany if you have a private insurance you will kinda get scammed. Cause hospitals can make more money out of you they will make all kinds of tests on you, cause private insurance will pay it. This wastes your time and doesn't actually benefit you. On the plus side, the waiting times are reduced greatly, you are basicly a high priority patient for them cause, again, you make them more money.
In theory everyone could get a private insurance but in practice only very rich people, self employed and people working for the government (the latter two are not eligible for public insurance) do actually get one.
I don't know anyone here complaining about healthcare, it generally works great.
I think that depends on how it's set up, right? I rememember on my old iPod Touch with a tethered bootrom exploit, you could reboot without a computer but it would start up in non-Jailbreak mode. If you wanted to boot Jaillbroken, you had to find a computer. (This was the origin of the term "semi-tethered Jailbreak").
They're not! Confidence and unregulated overt vulnerability are conflicting (but not precisely opposite).

By acknowledging the possibility that you may have done something wrong, you make yourself vulnerable to judgment, and by doing so confidently you gain respect. Facing judgment is a sign of confidence and it requires making yourself vulnerable.

In a more subtle example, showing signs of vulnerability in personal relations is a way of letting others know you, and that takes courage. There'd be no point to having social interactions if you were invulnerable, any interaction would literally be inconsequential for you and thus unmotivated.

You "dress up" the vulnerability with a higher level strength (e.g. the capacity to listen to and analyze your own shortcomings), and then it's all good.

There's a difference between being vulnerable, and putting yourself in a situation that will hurt you. It's fine to show yourself vulnerable if you can do so in a way that incentives good behavior from your peers.
>I once heard a haggling tip when buying something: make an initial offer, when the seller make a counter offer, walk away. Then go back a little later and offer slightly less than your first offer. The psychological effect is to make the seller feel like he’ll either lose the deal or end up at an even lower price.

That wouldn't work well in e.g. some chinese markets, where the vendors sell to touristy looking people for 5x or 10x the reasonable price.

So, they ask for $200, you make an initial offer of $150, they refuse, you leave, then come back and make an offer of $120. They accept it and you think you've won -- but they might have gone down to $50 too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IJhD6D75tE
Would the author be in trouble by posting this? I really hope he would not.. I'm just afraid there's some sort of clause upon registration against this sort of hacks..
So what's the message that's to be read if you could read between the lines?
A huge part of CVs are full of straight up lies. When I was interviewing there was practically no good value in a CV outside of initial screening and ideas for talking points.
There are many people who are very dear to me, that I talk to once or twice a week. My parents for example. I live alone, hundreds of miles away.

If I died today, the only place that could figure it in a day or so out would be my workplace. If I didn't work, then it could be a week before my parents or friends began to suspect something.
Google hiers plenty of people out of college who didn't produce a product yet. I'm guessing they want to avoid excluding all of them.
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It seems like free markets has a lot in common with anal sex. It's all fun if I do it on you, but don't you dare try doing free market on me!
Anecdotal much?

Let's see... that's one, lacking objectivity, and full of bias. Millions of data points to go until we get a good, solid picture of reality ;) relative to your claims
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When you buy bottled water, you buy a bottle with water in it.
Points 2 and 3 heavily depend on the field you’re in. I’m currently in the medical field and not a single MD here has ever heard of or used LaTeX, type-setting is all done by the journals. The rest of your argument is of course spot on!

The most ironic part of the current system was once having to use sci-hub to download my own paper, as we didn’t have a subscription to the specific journal...
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I think we’d get further if we asked, “should employees be paid so little”. Extreme inequality isn’t healthy for a free society, but paying CEOs less isn’t going to help people who are living pay check to pay check.
There was an interesting article[1] a while back about the social/community roles that McDonalds plays for a large variety of groups. They are usually pretty good about "loitering" if you (a) buy something and (b) are non-disruptive.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-c...
It serves some women, too. Moral Women can cement a higher place in the patriarchal society than Immoral Women and pass a lot of unpleasant tasks to them.
When a company does well it is usually because the mid-level management is effective. This article doesn't say much about the hiring, training and promotion of an effective mid-level management team, which are all key tasks that must be managed well from the top.

On the other hand, when a company does badly, it is usually because top level management has made a bone-headed decision, e.g. makes a big investment in a product that fails in the market, fails to respond to a major change in the market that obsoletes current products, or makes a big acquisition that is a disaster.
Thank you for both that comment and that link!
> China never obeyed the rules

did China had a say when the old rules were made?
I think it's clear that everyone would like HTTPS-by-default, it's just a question of how to do it in a way that doesn't cause a massively degraded user-experience in the short term and still provides security gains (racing the two gets around the UX problem, but provides no security benefit). We might see something whereby we use HTTPS if the hostname has previously been connected to over HTTPS (even without HSTS).
Google already did give the option of publishers controlling the way their content shows in places like Google news, including multiple controls over if the snippets are shown, how much text can be shown, whether the google cached link should be shown, and more.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en
Only if you also consider Reddit a neo-nazi platform
Any language can solve similiar problems.

Take this built-in php function: array_column

array_column() returns the values from a single column of the input, identified by the column_key

To perform the same in Javascript you either need to write something or find a package. There are many examples like this of build-in useful functionality.

PHP allows you to do a lot with very little code which allows you to focus on a difficult problem rather than a difficult problem and how to shape it with whatever language.

Keep learning javascript but don't try to do everything with it. Ignoring php, ruby or python on the backend will slow you down. Ignoring sql would be another mistake.
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You forgot backstabbing on the side
If I am the reason for you, to have customers, then you could be a bit more relaxed about the fact, that I show a one- or two liner from your content. Because, that is all a snippet gives.

You want to play a role in the game? Well, then do your bidding...
Article 13 is medieval era legislation. We should be undoing copyright laws, not clamping down on the most fundamental freedoms.

I say this without jest: At least the giant corporations can be held to account - I can choose not to use their services, or decide to use an adblocker. The EU can't and I can't opt out of it.
But that doesn't help with mitm attacks at all. HSTS preloading is crude but probably the most pragmatic working solution.
HIPAA aside if you have unsubscribed and you continue to receive email... you might be able to go after for violators can spam act... check it out here https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
Majority of athletes and musicians are paid extremely little, if anything at all. It is only the top 0.1% that takes home serious money.
They also knew about it when they made the decision to keep i8 in the US store, it's vulnerabile still.

The issue is probably that the security team doesn't have much pull (if at all) when product lineup changes are made.
Ask HN: Why Is Speedtest Upload Test Disrupting Pings?
We have been recently blessed with Gigabit Fiber connection from AT&T. In my unscientific attempt to gauge connection stability I usually run 100 DNS pings and SpeedTest - all via latest Win 10 connected directly to router by short Cat 6 (gigabit) ethernet cable.

Today I noticed serious slowdowns in Ping but ONLY during Upload portion of the Speedtest, which itself reported 700mb/s. While 940 mb/s Download test has almost no impact on ping timing. Any idea what may explain this?

Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=222ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=266ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=285ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=303ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=321ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=337ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=352ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=368ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=379ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=389ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=53
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=53

It starts around same time as speedtest started, and at the end you can see "normal" results when speedtest is finished. You can see that download test reported higher speed and had barely any impact on ping test timings.
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Siraj is getting bad press from this. It wasn't Siraj banning students, it was a TA who did the banning.

Props to Siraj for not throwing that person under the bus. (Yes, I'm a TA. No, it wasn't me.)
The risk and reward of hiring the wrong CEO is way, way higher than a single engineer. Combine that with supply and demand to try and hire the best exec, and it's not hard to see why exec comp can get very high. It might not feel "fair" but this is capitalism and the market pays for value not how hard you toil in the field.

> should they have almost complete financial and reputational immunity for their "bad" actions and decisions? (unlike regular staff)

Do they? Bad execs should be fired by the company's board. If the board is not doing a good job there, the business is bound to fail spectacularly. Also, execs at public companies tend to be public officers - their reputation is very much on public display. They are taking a big risk personally compared to a typical staff member. Maybe not so much financially - but they are employees, not founders.
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>> Someone whose core business is losing money

What, oil? Go look up the average barrel cost for Saudi oil (hint: it's less than 2 lattes). Demand needs to drop to essentially zero before renewables are competitive with their oil. They are not losing money.
You could probably top up pretty well in the time it takes to get your food picked up from the drive-through.

I don't know what it is lately, but McDonalds takes forever to make a burger now. At this point it isn't good, it isn't fast, and it isn't cheap.
Is webassembly port planned? /s
The pool of js developers available include php developers.

Specifically node developers cost more and are far fewer in numbers.
[Dev] I understand your arguments well and accept your criticism. The problem with the bookmarks has been solved so that the user can send them by email. The links are stored centrally and I can access them directly from my computer, laptop or smartphone. A text file on my OS is cumbersome and I can access it very badly with other services.

Yes, it is really difficult to surf the Internet without Javascript. But I deliberately decided against it, because Javascript is not necessary for my information retrieval. I need information and I need it fast. I don't have time to load hundreds of single JS scripts, only to display advertisements, blink features and unnecessary menus. The web has evolved into a massive blob of additional features in recent years. That's ok if you want to be entertained. The browsers have adapted to it. But, so now I have to ask a question, why does news.ycombinator.com allow me to login and comment without javascript? Because the focus is on a good and fast service. And this is what the Alligator Browser is designed for.
Google is not the one issuing takedown requests on YouTube for music in the background.

This whole concept of a small sample of something violating copyright IMHO is the death of culture, it's excessively injecting chilling effects and barriers into information sharing. We went through this in the 80s with Hip-Hop artists and sampling.

I mean, if my son quotes a paragraph out of a French news website for a term paper, and that paper is published online, is it now a copyright violation? When does text summarization down to 2-3 sentences violate copyright? How far do we take this?

The publishers business models are collapsing, but their foray into hyper monetization and litigiousness surrounding any use of what they publish, if anything, will only serve to speed up they're demise.

We have to find alternate models to support local journalism, and this ain't gonna help.
> I would say that it's a pretty good salary even for Warsaw standards

Still less than what you can make working remotely for western European companies.
I’ve got ADHD pretty bad, and I can definitely understand why that’s an impediment to blogging.

For me at least, the “big picture” of a concept is definitely there, but it’s in the back of my mind. I can access it and talk about it, but particularly when writing, it takes serious concentration for me to convey that information to others, because in general, I’m more interested in fully understanding the mechanics of particular components of the picture.

When I attempt to write about a topic in-depth, I’m typically doing it in one of two ways: either it’s a sort of stream of consciousness sort of writing, full of digressions and errors, or it’s the result of a lot of planning, in which case it often takes me so long that I just give up before I finish.

I’m not a big Twitter user at all, but I have to admit that I’m drawn to the idea of writing about my interests in a more granular manner than traditional blogging generally permits.
That’s actually an ton. For all of the heat big pharma takes regarding drug prices, the spending on prescription drugs is like 8%. Meaning the entirety of the costs of the pharmaceutical industry is less than just what we are paying for physician salaries.
As a patient I can’t disagree more. I have been hit by a $5000 fee because I was seen by a doctor who wasn’t in the right network, despite it not being a choice I was able to make.

Doctors lose negotiating powers and are paid a lower wage? I am fine with that. Wait until we have universal health care.

It’s not fair to extract full market value from users when the penalty from not paying is death.
If you like these country maps, you'll probably also appreciate: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator

> This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size.

Likewise, it is web-based and interactive
Has anyone found proper PoE injector/extractors modules that do negotiation (not passive) at a decent price?
How does it highlight how prostitution is different from other forms of "wage slavery"? The article describe this problem:

> "how to avoid the director when he’s trying to get you to blow him between takes and your jaw needs a rest"

It quite clear that the author consider the sex in the shooting and the unwanted sexual attention by the director to be two very different things. One of the two they agreed to before hand and is getting paid to do, the other is unwanted.

It seems identical to the problem that has been on the news regarding directors in the movie industry in general.
A fire safety inspector, or people in charge of infecting nuclear facilities should earn millions
As more of the actual science comes out, the politicization of the IPCC becomes more evident.
Assuming you're not desperate for work you're interviewing them just as much as they are you. Perfectly valid.

And you clearly misunderstood what they meant by technical debt.
In December of 2009 my dad died. He was getting the mail, slipped on some ice, and hit his head. He laid there for about 30 minutes before a neighbor found him. He was put on life support but the damage was done.

I’m still mad, 10 years later, about the fact that he has 2 amazing grandkids who won’t get to know him, or that I can’t ask him about the state of the world.

I don’t know if the Apple Watch would have helped him, but I do know that you haven’t done a full risk assessment. He wasn’t in an isolated area, he wasn’t inexperienced. Falls get scarier and scarier the older your loved ones get.
[Dev] So far I had not included webassembly in my planning. I will read myself into the topic. At the moment I can't make any promises if WA will be implemented at some point.
Note: in France you pay MDs 35 for a visit, 16-ish of that is covered by social security, while a private security costing 50-ish/month covers the rest. I've always got a same day visit if I called before noon.

Edit: I moved out 5 years ago, so the numbers might have inflated a tiny bit. But not much, knowing France.
It helps with passive sniffing. But yeah, if attacker blocks HTTPS, then it's ineffective. I'm not dismissing HSTS, but rather suggesting to use both of these techniques (HSTS as site admin, Smart HTTPS as an user).
A country implements certain policies and after some time effects are seen. Conclusion? It depends. Do the like economists like the policy, yes or no? Have things gone well or bad?

1. No. Bad. Things went bad because country did not do as economists said.
2. Yes. Bad. Things went bad because country did not deal with past policies that economists don't like.
3. No. Good. Things went well because of past policies economists do like.
4. No. Bad. Things went bad because country did not listen to the economists.

Economists are always right. There's always enough of the ideal and the non ideal going on to establish the desired causality, and negligible chance of exact recurrence.

I only take economists seriously when they talk densely and fluently about history and its complexities. I recommend Mark Blyth.
Indie developers build businesses on the back of Slack and Atlassian
Doesn’t seem to do anything on IPhone’s safari.
Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer
Its not singled out. There are labor laws in general that prevent possibly consenting people to work more (at least in europe)
Yes, I think this is the core of the piece, or at least the most interesting part (along with the later bit about how all women were put under suspicion):

« The “violation” felt by these two men at the attention of female prostitutes disrupted their ability to move about the city as they so chose, but it did not necessarily put into question their status as potential clients. Insofar as these “assaults” may have elicited a sexual response, they may have heightened their awareness of their status as sexual beings even as it challenged their gender privilege. »

It sounds like "violation" includes being propositioned.
That's true, although e.g. qutebrowser still displays the current URL because it has a small status bar anyway, so it just uses the remaining space for that. It doesn't have to be as large as in many common browsers though, I agree.

Whenever I install Firefox somewhere the first thing I do is remove half of the UI from the top area. I really, really love that FF has this feature.