skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough; not everyone is abusing that feature, and I can understand how a large home like that would legitimately cost $150.

But many are, and Airbnb isn't doing anything for the UI that lets you adapt for that and sort by total cost. There's almost an arms race for how much of the cost you can obfuscate that way.
Or, recognize that the company is worthless without its laborers, and that the laborers can use collective bargaining to change the company mission.
If you stick a cheese up in there, restic will probably lose some of its ability to deduplicate.

If it does compression, then it's not an opaque process to it. But if you do it, you are essentially obfuscating the structure of the data.
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It's well known that these companies pad the ticket price and share it with the production team. It's how ticket prices can increase without customers feeling it is, and the ticket company gets to be the bad guy, not the musician.
Ah I didn't know this...Thanks! I will check this out.
Yep! Most of the allocations die very young.
If you want to make a dent in the ticket market, come up with a solution that Burning Man will adopt. Their system almost never performs correctly. Every year something new goes wrong and thousands of people take to online forums to complain about bugs such as being kicked out of queues or not having their preregistration links work at all. If someone can earn BM's business, then they'll likely get a ton of business from their regional network of smaller events.
Ironically, it's impossible to read this ACLU page without enabling Javascript, which opens one up to more browser fingerprinting attacks, potential Javascript vulenrabilities, and tracking.
I cannot find in your quotes or the article where it says they are giving them the product for free. One of your quotes mentions a $56k payment.
At this point, ordering certain products from Amazon is basically playing Counterfeit Roulette. You never know if that bag is a real Michael Kors or a Chinese knock off
I think that's exactly what we're seeing. Software engineers at the big-name companies are exceptionally well off; even low-tier hires are generally above national median of income. In that environment, the most significant thing keeping a lot of people at the job is pretty high up the Maslow Hierarchy, closer to self-actualization.

And if an employee can't shake the feeling that they're helping to repeat IBM's mistakes in the '30s and '40s, they'll walk. Company doesn't even need to fire them.

(This suggests one could possibly use "employee churn at major software companies" as a secondary indicator to societal upheaval).
It's not clear to me why tech unions would do this. People keep bringing this up, but there's no reason tech unions would ever have to be structured in this particular manner. Given that, I don't find it a compelling argument against unionization in our sector. Most importantly, of all the people who are working on organizing the tech sector, to my knowledge none of them are trying to implement tenure-based seniority or pay scales.
TV networks - at least the ones using public airwaves in the US - can not reject political ads, as a consequence of FCC regulations.
Eek. I can definitely say I've had my fair share of bad managers (both direct and indirect). I can also say that I've left orgs as a result of them too. Great advice though.

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Whether government agencies do their work effectively is absolutely a partisan matter. Remember the founding of CFPB? Remember Rick Perry campaigning on getting rid of the Department of Energy? Remember the per-party vote on the act that created DHS? http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll367.xml

I mean, yes, ICE is a government agency, but it's political parties that decide which government agencies exist and what they do.
Israel got about a million highly educated ex-Soviet immigrants who kick started the hi-tech industry in the early 90s. It’s slowly declining tho as Israel focuses more on educating kids about their “Jewish identity” than science and technology.
Nope, but it'll get you a lot of unwanted attention to the point where it might as well be.
Dumb question. Can you not “just” do a charge back? I feel like Amex would refund me. Especially if there is any documentation.

I’d also wager that if every case of fraud had a chargeback to match that AirBnB would start making changes far sooner rather than later.

Has anyone tried (or failed?) to chargeback AirBnB fraud?
What a defeatist attitude.

In the end, companies are made of people. If you want to affect positive change in the world, leaving does almost nothing to help your cause.

Companies are made of people, you are one of those people, and thus you have ability to affect change. You could either choose to give up, pick up your bags, and flee for greener pastures, or you could try to actually make an effort to improve society by affecting change from within. And, at worst, you could do nothing, and be complacent with whatever the company is doing.

Tech workers affecting change from within is nothing new, either. Your comment seems out-of-touch - employee protests can and have worked in this industry.
I don't believe pure communism can ever work, but yeah, I agree with the principle of this statement.
Honestly, maybe partially scale, but not really. It's more a factor of what it was meant to do.

Going to the moon means extra hardware on top, which means more fuel, which means lower TWR at launch.

If you're just going to drop a 6000kg bomb on earth somewhere, you need a lot less rocket on top of that first stage, and it's going to take off a lot faster.
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the reverse is also true: companies that work in bad faith don't deserve employees. They exist to employ people so that they can sell product. If the company's not going to be a team player, then there are billions of other tech companies its employees might choose to go work for.

See Deadspin for an example of the inverse of what you're calling for: people sticking to their guns and letting a company go for conflicts like this.

TLDR: it's really unwise for a company to fire people for disagreeing with its controversial choices. It's a great way to accidentally damage your brand and lose a lot of staff to competitors.
> You work in exchange for cash, plain and simple. If you aren’t on board with the company mission, go find a different one.

Only if you take the most simplistic view of how a company should work.

Almost every company is successful due to the people that work there. Without the people, the organization (whether its a for profit corporation or otherwise) are completely useless.

Human beings deserve to have a voice in the governance of institutions that they spend their time and labor to make successful.
There is a giant flow from KS to gulf coast TX. I assume those are grain exports?
People that deliberately commit crimes typically suffer all of these things, yes.

If you believe that illegally crossing a border is not a crime, then that's a different discussion that could be had.
> caring more about other people's rights

Except when those rights involve things like freedom of speech. Or even privacy.
My experience with Israeli companies suggests that a culture which values intellectual achievement and competition is more widespread there.

Similar cultural enclaves exist elsewhere in the world and are presumably similarly effective, but they just aren't as large a portion of the population.

Even small cultural differences can have outsized effects because of pollination-- e.g. it's easier to learn from an expert in a domain if there are more experts around you.

I think your question isn't really that much different to asking why the bay area has "punched above its weight" in terms of producing successful tech companies compared to other regions around the US... or why other regions have had a lot more success in other domains.
The 16-bit segments weren't great because you were forced to jump through all these hoops in order access the full addressable space. 32-bit segments that weren't crippled led to a lot of really interesting applications that weren't able to be replicated with what we have now. Hence why there's this gap of amd64 CPUs where there's no virtualization support in long mode but 32bit OSes could on the same chips.
In theory, the electorate. They vote out politicians who lie. In practice, people don’t seem to care.
The agency will live on past the current administration. The main function of ICE is needed. The policies imposed upon them from above are the root of the problem and need to be removed. But they will be gone in time, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Non-rhetorical-or-sarcastic question: What human rights violations would ICE have to commit to make it political for you? e.g. above or below Abu Ghraib prison level?
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My hospital mates told me that sometimes people go from GA to real sleep. Probably in that case they do feel some time passing and have difficult awakenings. Probably that's what happened to you.
>"Adam Nuemann referred to her maternity leave as a “vacation” or “retirement,” and another high-level company official, Jennifer Berrent, commented, “Wow, you’re getting big,” in front of a WeWork executive."

This is the most disgusting thing I've read so far about this entire WeWork disaster. Why is Jennifer Berrent still at the company?
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Intel produced SoCs for mobile devices, concretely Speatrum SC9853i and Spreadtrum SC9861G-IA.

If you want to scale even further down, consider Intel Quark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark). For an analysis why it failed in the market, consider http://linuxgizmos.com/who-killed-the-quark/

To me, it seems that the central reason why these chips failed commercially is that at the lower end, SoCs offer a much thinner margins than CPUs for laptops, desktop PCs and servers.
I don't see the parent's post advocating for removing money entirely, rather flattening the curve or reducing the winner-take-all effect. I think most of us would be happy with not a flat curve but a more gentle gradient, instead of a hyper exponential curve.

By the way every time there's an unrestrained hyper exponential curve, it leads to civil unrest pretty quickly. A lot of terrible things come in the wake of economic hardship.
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Whether it’s the by-the-book definition of partisan, it is still reasonable for people to have strong moral or ethical objections to working for this client.
> Half the issue with Spectre is that there isn't a clean way to describe to the processor different memory security contexts except with a page table pointer swap.

There are ways to make page table swapping cheaper. E.g. SPARC and S390 always had separate page tables for user and kernel space, with an "ASID (address space identifier)" to avoid having to flush them when switching.

I believe decently modern x86 CPU's also have this in the form of "PCID".
Unions are majority rule democratic. When I worked at a plant for one of the big 3, the candidates the union submitted for trades promotions were universally white men. The union didn’t look out for women or minorities particularly well because the majority rules. People assume a tech union will lead to things being somehow more just, but be careful for what you wish for. James Damore might just have the votes.
Ah yes, nothing says collective bargaining by labor like "Worker leaves company where most value is generated by automation."
Vupen turned into Zerodium. How would this law be enforced if (hypothetically) I took an encrypted pen drive to Zorodium's office, they like what I demo and pay me, they then resell.

Who is tracking / investigating what just happened? How would they even know?

Would getting an export license even be possible?
Doing nothing and accepting money from an organization like ICE is 100% a political choice.
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With cats, you need to meet them halfway. I've never met a cat I couldn't bond with, including a number of "lost causes", ferals, etc.
I second that. High performance image processing with NVIDIA means writing low level CUDA, something I am not willing to invest my time in (at least for now). Translating all the code and custom kernels I wrote for Core Image would be quite a hassle to put it mildly.
you are making a convincing argument that the organization is extreme, but you haven't addressed the issue of whether or not it is partisan.

to do so you'd need to compare and contrast its behavior across administrations under different political parties. as one data point, roughly same # of people were deported under bush/obama (the definitions changed, so not quite apples to apples data wise).
I love git. Literally the only way to be productive when you've got more than 4 people touching code.

Do you guys allow remote work?
My ideal would be for some external regulator to police political ads, like the FEC already does to some extent. The policies would be made in public. The regulator would work with advertising platforms to set and enforce guidelines.

Another option which would avoid some of the problems is to limit how tightly a political ad could be targeted. If misinformation is included in an ad, everyone should be able to see it and make a judgement. Targeting the most vulnerable people would not be an option.

I think if a platform doesn't know whether an ad is true or not - any kind of ad - they should be very hesitant to run the ad. I think Twitter's decision to just not run political ads makes sense because it's hard for a private company to make policies in public. Even if they are really careful, there will always be some suspicion that they are favoring the highest bidder or Jack's favorite.
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It depends. At a small company? Sure. But no individual employee, or even small collective of employees that aren't VP or key contributor in an irreplaceable knowledge-base, have the clout to turn a Microsoft or a Google.

At a major company? The only thing you can do as an individual is take the wind out of their sales or refrain from working for them. Which these companies do notice; Google hiring keeps tabs on candidates who tell them "I won't work for you for ethical reason X."
I’m in diamond 2 and I definitely micro in battles. The difference between platinum 1 and diamond 3 is largely macro but it very soon becomes micro as well.
I charged back a fraudulent charge to a local company, and they sent it to collections. Immediately sent the collection agency a registered letter demanding they validate (prove) the debt as required by the FCRA and California law, then another one a month later after they ignored me, and that was the end of it.

There's often no reason to fear these shenanigans. Companies get away with it when people don't understand their rights regarding credit and debt and cave in to the shenanigans.
Really interesting question! Thank you for asking! That being said, is productivity really not growing in the construction industry? Also what sources do you have on low utilization of software? I suppose computer science have a very high saturation of competence on task management systems. Still keeping track of materials and so forth must be digitized since a long time along with the blueprints for the buildings and so forth?

With computer usage being so widespread isn't it quite unlikely that at no point someone would have interest in computers and any particular industry that tried to combine their knowledge from both fields.

So in short, is there really any low hanging fruit left? Also could you elaborate on why you say that the construction industry is not using software efficiently.
I wouldn’t want anyone picking a hotel for me. I might appreciate if the host calls a few hotels to see which ones have space but I want the final say. My perspective has been that “when I use Airbnb I always have a plan b”. I do. I don’t negotiate, if the listing has issues or was miss-sold I walk out and activate my plan b. Airbnb will always refund if you do it like that.
It's not nearly automated enough to run on its own without an army of engineers to keep the corner cases from becoming the common cases. ;) We're nowhere near that close to a technological singularity.
>My point is that everyone else, even people who aren't related to me, are now paying the price too.

Right, but when people picket outside of a building or march down the street in protest....are bystanders there not suffering the same fate? Why is that not acceptable only when it's directed at a person? Do you think picketing outside of a large corporate building has much effect other than an attempt to raise awareness to others?
If you disagree with the Constitution (Eighth Amendment), I would lead with that caveat.
That does sound useful! Yeah I now realise the title is ambiguous :S
> they’d also take business from an “ICE-alert” system

We have no evidence of this.

On the other hand, we have the statements that I literally quoted in my comment, where GitHub's COO says "it's important that ICE get its job done because they do X, Y, and Z, which are good," you have sales staff using American flag emoji, etc. Would you expect GitHub's CFO to also "it's important that this ICE-alert group get their job done because ICE does X, Y, and Z which are bad actually"?
CACHEDIR.TAG seems to be based on a spec that multiple pieces of software are starting to use. Give it a quick google.

I can't think of any reason why you would need to customise the name of the file, but I'm sure there are use cases out there.
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I did some searching and found some demo videos. In this video, part of the announcement is audible: https://youtu.be/IcVuubU4BTU?t=90

Starting at 1:30, "NOVEMBER SIX HOTEL LIMA, POSSIBLE PILOT INCAPACITATION, SIXTEEN MILES WEST OF KILO CHARLIE LIMA--" at this point the voiceover talks over the announcement, and I have trouble making it out, but I'm pretty sure I hear a "...LANDING ON RUNWAY..." in there as well. For those of you that don't know pilot jargon, that's the plane's registration number (N6HL), the situation, location relative to the nearest airport (KCL-something), and what I'm pretty is a declaration of intent to land on a specified runway.

So, your guess is correct, what the system does is announce its status and intentions and let ATC clear the way.

Other comments have speculated about uncontrolled fields, but I think that's less likely to be an issue. Per the demo video, the auto-land feature requires a GPS approach with altitude guidance published. If a field can't afford a staffed tower, would it be able to afford to have a published GPS approach with altitude guidance? My intuition says no, but as I'm not a pilot, I could be wrong about that. On possible scenario I could see is that the tower isn't 24x7, and so the field is uncontrolled at night. Perhaps such a field would have a GPS approach published, and if the auto-land selected that field, it would be up to any pilots in the area to be aware of the announcement and get out of the way. AFAIK, having one of your radios monitoring the emergency band is considered best practice, so other pilots in the area should be able to hear the emergency announcement and react appropriately.

But at this point, I'm speculating as well. For all I know, the auto land only selects airports known to have a manned tower at the time of activation.
But not to receiving their services, apparently.
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Whenever you're asking for a full refund in cases of fraud, regardless of the business, be sure to use the word "chargeback" with the customer service rep.

Fraudulent sales can be easily reversed by your credit card provider. In my experience, saying "If I don't get a refund, I'll issue a chargeback through my credit card provider" gets them to process the full refund immediately.
> IBM was also leaving out politics when they built custom tabulating machines to help Nazi Germany's logistics.

Yes. If IBM built something that helped the government during the Obama administration, would you consider it "political" too?
Hm so you think a GitHub union would be less likely to work with a unionized government agency?
> How many people actually worry about these spy agencies?

I don't really worry about the spy agencies themselves -- I am not of any interest to them.

However, I worry a lot about the likes of NSO and the tools they produce. They are likely to end up being used, in one form or another, by criminals and corporations.
You say that as if that is always a top down transformation, and not the result of entrepreneurial founders losing motivation or leaving after a lockup period. Regardless of cultural differences or how the transition is handled, the fact that a studio is no longer an independent entity affects how you view your work and how much value you can extract from a commercial success.

There are some high profile examples of studio acquisitions I’ve had insight into where the publisher has been blamed for perceived changes in a studio’s output post-acquisition. The reality on the ground was almost the inverse: the publisher gave the acquired studio a great amount of autonomy and runway, even more than than internal studios, and the acquired studio struggled in an environment where they had relatively more freedom than they did pre-acquisition. It let bad habits fester and poor managers calcify in roles they never could have survived in during scrappier times.
Agree that doing political activism on company time to get the company to ban targets of your partisan political agenda seem highly inappropriate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dpn9oy/man_gets_p...

I for one don't weigh issues like this by the number of people who are on side X, I weigh individual people by the positions they take on such issues.
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First. I don't want Facebook to be forced by the government to fact check its political ads, but I still think it's the right thing to do. Allowing the free dissemination of lies isn't a virtue. They may not have a legal obligation to do something, but I think there is a moral obligation.

Also the USPS is a government body and for the most part mail is confidential. Facebook is a private company and the ads on its platform are public facing.
People who deliberately commit crimes typically suffer risk of being deported when they committed no crime because of racial profiling?
My take? This is really a pretty simple equation for FB. Politcal ads = good business opportunity ....perhaps essential.

Since FB tends to be a self-reinforcing echo chamber on both ends of the political spectrum, political ads will keep users engaged with the platform. For a variety of reasons interest in the 2020 campaign is likely to be sky high so allowing the ads should keeps FB's DAU's & MAU's in the preferred direction. Not allowing the ads could in-turn adversely affect those metrics and subsequently pull down ALL of their advertising rates. Freedom of Speech rational of allowing adds? (scoff, scoff, snort, outburst of laughter.....)
This points to the heart of my internal debate on philosophical positioning: When is it the most moral option to not resign from companies that openly conflict with your moral compass but to fight from the inside and struggle day-by-day?

I haven't come to any definitive conclusion, but my basic thought is:

(A) If you and your allies have a decent opportunity to build a worthy competitor or work for one (ie: a similar company that aligns with your purpose), do it and shout about it from the rooftops.

(B) If you and your allies don't have enough resources to build something better, fight from the inside until you do.