skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one of the examples provided, rustup.sh, there were not complete packages the last time I looked for them. There were some packages on Debian and Fedora but I ran into problems configuring the Rust plugin for VS-Code because it assumed that the rustup executable was present and it was not (at that time.) Going down this path, one then becomes dependent on using rustup to update the Rust installation. Now I need to run two commands to keep my system up to date. (pip? Make that 4 commands pip, pip3. CPAN? Yet another.)

I have some confidence that at the least the Debian packages won't be changing rapidly, making it more likely that any problems will be discovered before they get to me. A script (or tarball) fetched and installed from the Internet can change literally from one second to the next. If a trusted site is compromised the next download could be tainted.

Not all "package managers" instill confidence. I've heard too many bad things about npm and the associated environment and won't have it on my systems, but I am not a web developer so the impact is the occasional utility I have to forgo.
> ... a sexist and a racist, there is no excuse for voting for someone like him.

I will concede that Trump has sad a did some awful stuff. Even with that, there are people who feel just as strongly about abortion as you do about sexism and racism. For them, the choice to vote for Trump was just as apparent to them as the choice for you to vote against.
I'm wondering how they can trace it if you buy it from an ATM with a mask on, or via a VPN on a battery powered raspberry pi you put in the ceiling of a coffeeshop, then you tumble it constantly.

Even if they break the Monero encryption, and the tumbling, it's a dead end at the point of purchase.
The post said that it had been working fine for 6 years, and this is a new, recent bug. Or, more specifically, that the problem's workaround is no longer valid recently because of the new bug that requires longer names.
You have this backwards.

Streaming services are only popular and accepted by big companies now because piracy reduced CD/album sales so much, they had no choice.

A sliver of the Indy artists got popular and signed with a big label after getting pirated so much (which was my point about requiring a label).

The rest make nothing on streaming sales (fractions of pennies) and forget about trying to sell an album. I suppose begging for donations on patreon might work, but it's not a very good way to make a living.

The culture acceptance of music piracy pushed all music in the hands of big corporations. To not admit this is not accepting the truth about your actions. It seems you want to justify your own piracy and ignore all of the negative effects it had on companies...which most likely led to the loss of many jobs.

I connect SAAS to software piracy because I've been in countless meetings over the past 5 years with business owners of software companies saying exactly what I told you.

If software can be turned into a service, it will be..because companies don't want to deal with lost sales, people that somehow think they can get free support with a pirated copy, and the spreading of misinformation when a pirated copy filled with viruses and malware is attributed to them.

Not to mention organic google keywords that lead to the pirated copies rather than the original..causing confusion, more lost sales, and harm to the company reputation.

As for the Immigration issue, blame the Democrats. When you have politicians pushing for open borders, it's difficult not to pay attention.
How is the compensation for the real estate agent structured?

The housing market there is so tight I would think they don't really need to ever chase a buyer.
True, where I worked for, they'd scrap a sprint to fix something that went over CxO's channel.
Very easy; the default is to have zero google proprietary stuff. In fact, you have to jump through some hoops to get Google play store, Maps etc installed, and it's getting harder and harder as Google locks its services down.

Simply set up your default search engine to DDG or whatever you want and your LineageOS phone will send exactly nil to Google.
Yeah, and that 421K number is across the entire US. 1%-er in California it’s over 500K. You can utilize Glassdoor to see that even looking at salaries at FAANG that is not an average experience. People in the top 10% bracket straight up believe they’re in the 1% when it suits their world view and they’re in the middle class when it suits a different component of their world view. It’s maddening.
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> The threshhold for being in the top 1% of income is that 99% or more of people make less than you.

Clearly I mean the threshold for being upper class a term mentioned in your actual comment... unlike "top 1%" which was not.
The headline needs an editor.

"Dutch cure" is a euphemism for suicide. A competent editor would, I hope, have caught that.
Your options are not binary. You could become a teacher. Or a bartender. You could move to Santa Cruz, work the night shift at Walmart, and go surfing every afternoon.

Sure people will tell you should do the one. Or tell you to do the other. Enough of that and you might think that shanting them both is a moral failing. There are important problems in AI, but there's much recognizing hotdogs and putting lightbulbs of maximum profit at the top of the search results.

You could get an MFA with a focus on computational art. Or take up oil painting. Or write a novel. Or a play. Or be a stay at home parent. There are lots of worthwhile things to do in the world. Some are stations on the STEM train. Some are not.

The internet can give you permission for any and all of them. Because you don't need permission. Maybe a rain jacket though. To keep off all the should that people will should on you. It will even keep off some of the should we should on ourselves.

What now? is what an existential crisis looks like. An inflection point. Inflection points are good. They allow us to climb away from local minima. Your future isn't AI. Your future is your life. Working in AI is one (possibly very good) path along which your life might run for a while. Same for a PhD. But "PhD and worked in AI" doesn't make for much of a tombstone. They are potential features. Not a product.

Good luck.
This comment about family is simply not true. Divorce rates are at near record lows:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195955/divorce-rate-in-t...

part of that is due to marriage rates being down, but divorces as a percentage of marriages are also at the lowest point they've been since 1975:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/divorce-rates...
You ignore the fact that Jews make up a massive percent of billionaires. I would venture to guess that white christains have a smaller portion compared to their population size. If the far right takes out Jews it would be equivalent to taking out a large size of billionaires. Not a popular talking point, but a true talking point.
In this case it's the same. The max stack depth is known, and the overflow easily triggerable and controllable from outside. It cannot get much easier.

Wikipedia is a bit confused.
Chicken and the egg case quite possibly
The people who control the people with the guns are the government. In the west, those people are somewhat separate from e.g. private companies, but that's just how we choose to do things, not some intrinsic feature of governments.
It blows my mind that someone that makes more money than me, pays less taxes than me. Why? Well, I know why, but why is it like this? I don't care if my neighbor has more money than me, I care if the rules are the same.

We read that the wealthy are taxed at a lower tax bracket because most of their income doesn't come from a paycheck, but from investments which are taxed at a lower rate. I can never compete, because I do not have investments that would generate a return similar to my current salary. Unfair rules in my opinion.
Violating anti trust laws and being anti competitive is taking money from people's pockets and making their life worse
The High Frontier
Totally solvable. We should have cracked down on leaks already, and have satellites coming on line to do so.
My name is legally “Ed” (not Edward), and I had some trouble recently registering on a website which required a minimum of 3 chars for the first name.
Not ready yet. Buffer interruptions are constant and the metadata scraper often tells you you have 7 seasons of the same Star Trek: TNG (for example) episode.
> The US at this time was literally the only functioning industrialized economy left on earth. If you wanted to buy anything beyond raw materials, it came from the US.

Except for Australia, as manufacturing in Australia was still a thing then. And there were a few other developed nations that survived the war with their economies reasonably intact.

The USA wasn't a total global monopoly. Nor was international trade as common as it is now .
Links to XKCD cartoons frequently get posted in the comments. While they might be funny in the context of the conversation, they don't usually add any information, so I assume they get downvoted for that reason.
But ID checking is also done electronically at some checkpoints. If your ticket doesn't match your passport, your Visa, your Visa waiver, etc. you are going to be in trouble.

That being said last time I went to the US the person booking the ticket swapped my first name and last name. Only the person at the baggage dropoff noticed it, and after much deliberation they suggested to leave it that way. I went through with no issues apart from not being able to register the mileage.
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I guess it's somewhat easier if the product is good enough (Envato features it) and the developer cares more about developing than marketing it.
>Amazon has robust competitors in the shopping space

Amazon owns 49% of US online retail. [0]

If 49% still allows for robust competitors, at what % does that change?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-...
I worked in the same IT company for many years now and wile it's true that many people have experienced burnout and had time off. It really depends on the situation if they come back or not. In the Netherlands they have to offer a permanent contract after 2 years in the same company. If you experience burnout before you have a permanent contract then usually the person leaves the company. But if you are there longer, have a permanent contract and play an important role in the company then you usually return step by step, slowly increasing your hours and days back to normal over the period of a couple months. Just taking 6 months off without a return schedule sounds like a scam to be me and for most employers would put you on the track out.
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Practically speaking, that makes sense. Philosophically, it's abhorrent. Blaming the user is bad behavior in general. Expecting a person to alter their name to confirm to a poor software implementation is just wrong.
I wrote about how my bike helps me think, a few years back: https://journal.dedasys.com/2015/04/20/the-bicycle-a-thinkin...
That is the exact intended purpose of the autocorrelation
Got a link? I remember reading that people were banned from their Steam accounts entirely without any refunds and they had to resort to CC chargebacks.
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Income is not wealth.
> why this isn't causing him serious problems travelling

Because people in the business are used to idiosyncrasies of the software systems and know that the goal is to exchange money for services, not to appease the program.

But, as the author notes, a system now has programmatic restrictions.
So wait, the guy just sent the Apple cards and trusted he would be paid on the honor system?

Doesn't eBay make the other party pay first before you ship? I thought that was the whole point of eBay.
Our gamete cells have been undergoing an unlimited number of cellular divisions since... well, since life started. What's so special about somatic cells that makes them cancerous after so many divisions?
That's just part of the show

It's deception
Google should be able to disable access to a specific service, not shutting down the whole account.

They want to be the identity of the online world, they need the responsibilities that comes with it.
Not all members of the upper class are in the top 1%.

But all members of the top 1% are in the upper class.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/08/democrats...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/bloomberg-running...
Notwithstanding your point, I was referring to aspiring startup founders; some who have hit it big probably used to visit HN, maybe still do.
From a UK perspective the USA has two parties of the right, varying only in degree. :)

The UK Labour Party didn't really cease being of the left and away from nationalisation until 1983, which started the march to being "Tory Lite" of Blair's New Labour. [1]

Around 1980 the centrist people split away from the party to form the SDP (they would much later merge with the liberals to become the LibDems).

What killed the left was "the longest suicide note in history" - Michael Foot's 1983 Election Manifesto. 1983 was the early election that Thatcher used to cash in the Falklands dividend. The Tories were on course for a major loss, or at best scrape a hung parliament prior to the Falklands, after they got a doubled majority and the pattern of the rest of the decade was set. No Labour manifesto policies could have answered that. Yet between that and the SDP it started the journey to Blairism, and almost destruction of the party.

Brexit may end up doing similar to the Tory party - they've kicked many of their moderates. Depending what the December election brings, it could get ugly... Bring popcorn.

[1] OK, if you want to be pedantic, the IMF loan Healey got in 1974, and subsequent IMF supervision kicked them toward the centre -- temporarily. Everyone remembers it was Healey -- no one remembers the negotiations started the moment they got elected because the Tories left no public finances, and of course there was that minor oil crisis. :)
-My parents (living in rural Norway) once had a postcard delivered where the address given was simply their first names - no last name, no street, no town, no nothing.

Having a database in which every citizen's domicile is registered does have its occasional advantages.
Chrome on Google’s flagship Pixel 4 is not as fast as Safari on a 3 year old iPhone 7: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15068/the-google-pixel-4-xl-r...
(See the Speedometer, Jetstream and WebXPRT benchmarks. Admittedly these might not be representative of your browsing habits but the trend is clear)
Web apps suck and all the doodads and gewgaws that browsers now have to implement have made the web a surveillance nightmare that is a worse experience for publishing and reading.

There is a place in the world for lowest-common-denominator cross-platform apps, but I wish it wasn't my browser.
They need to accept that collateral and put clear limitations (ie: x simultaneous users for x/month), or they'll end up alienating their userbase and we'll be back to square one with more users going back to illegitimate providers.
What about this link (2019): https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/20/business/oxfam-billionaires-d...

So top 26 instead of top 8.

Anyway my point is that all these news article lump the top 1% together even though you can make similar headlines about just the top 0.1%, 0.01%, 0.001%, 0.0001%, 0.00001%, 0.000001%.
> We would all agree that what Gates and Bezos acomplished was laudable and needs to be encouraged in society.

I definitely don’t agree that either of these companies predatory tactics, and especially Amazon’s treatment of workers, is something that should be lauded or encouraged.
"None of the truly great achievements of science were done through atomized conjectures and refutations." - that is kind of tautology - only the big steps are called truly great - the small steps are just small steps.
i wonder how much of the feeling is being outside vs just getting exercise.
Don't silence, adopt. Use your tinnitus as an object of meditation. You don't even have to literally meditate on it, if you don't want to. Just broaden your awareness to include the tinnitus along with the rest of your sensory experience. With practice, it stops bothering you. With true meditation, it turns blissful.

It is debatable whether the Buddhist Heroic March Sutra (Śūraṅgama Sūtra) is referring to this "sound of silence" as the king of all meditation objects but it is certainly a gateway to it.
> We would all agree that what Gates and Bezos acomplished was laudable and needs to be encouraged in society.

Absolutely not.

It’s a completely reasonably argument to assert that both men made the bulk of their outsized wealth via anti-competitive monopolistic behavior that was harmful to the markets they operated in.

Gates was in fact accused of this by the US Justice Department so it’s not exactly a fringe theory.
Nope. I'm doing just fine.

As I said in my comment, non-negotiable expenses are high.
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For you it isn't. But for a lot of us it is cumbersome and just plain complex.
Working part-time has become very accepted here in the Netherlands. And that is not only women but more and more men started working part-time now. Especially 32 or 36 hours is very popular.
I noticed while watching the Athletics World Championships,
that the 5000m runner Ben True always had his name shown in the results as:

SMITH John

True Ben

JONES Fred

BLOGGS Bill
I sure hope not. Why do I want web pages to be able to run persistent background tasks? Such an obviously bad idea. The tragedy is that Apple actually is implementing support for this garbage.
I manage my money quite well, thank you.

Im not sure why it's difficult to grasp that the difference between gross and net income can be large for some job in some areas, but that is the case for a small number of individuals.
Discovering hidden patterns in high dimensional time series
Vaping Illnesses Are Linked to Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says
My understanding is that completely de-googling the phone is somewhat hard because of Google Play Services being a prerequisite for many services. I understand that you can get by without it, but many people find that somewhat of a burden.
I was hoping for something that looks like the Brazil Movie computers... http://www.tronola.com/assets/images/Brazil_movie_computer_2...
It depends on whether they are being taxed appropriately on the wealth they have accumulated, then you could make an argument as to whether money is being stolen from you or not. Warren Buffet famously said that his secretary was paying a higher percentage of her income to taxes then he was. If that is the case, the middle class is subsidizing both the poor and the rich.
A Brief Early History of Quantum Mechanics
This is awesome! 1 hour lunch break, I will pack a sandwich and a laptop, plan my trips accordingly xD

edit: someone suggested a nap too
An interesting point I heard on [2], Tim Keller if I remember right. Is isn't that God is "violating" the laws of nature, he's restoring things to the way they would have been without the fall in the garden.
Why be so classical? We could also lower your probabilities or increase your improbabilities.
Bezos makes about $2,500 per second... Within a minute he makes more than most ever make in a year ($150,000)
That's the same Oxfam report from another year. They keep saying the same wrong stuff every year.

Whatever your point is, it's not very meaningful if it's supported by faulty evidence or reasoning.
> non-negotiable expenses are high.

You're going to have to go into a lot more detail if you want anybody to believe expenses that high are possible.
Why are we attributing weather to climate? I hear this many times during a discussion when someone mentions cold weather and global warming, yet so many of these articles do exactly this.

You can't have it both ways.
> The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of society, and wield the greatest political power.

(Wikipedia, naturally)

If you just mean high income when you write upper-class, you’re not communicating clearly.
This is a good model. Companies have two constraints keeping them in line: if they cease making money, they die (in general, at least); and the law can tweak their behavior toward benevolence.
Exactly, most American workers don't have the luxury of taking an hour out of their day to go for a bike ride.

Another key difference in the Netherlands is that 84% of workers are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

Workers coming together to make demands from Capital is the only way to achieve these working conditions.
The main missing part is a good maps/Waze equivalent. I don't need anything else that's not available on F-Droid. Now I'm a GNU/Linux user of strict observance (depends only on Free Software!), so I probably don't have the same requirements as most.
True, but...

Part of what makes the cancer so transmissible with Tasmanian devils is their predisposition for biting each other, especially on the face, well past the point of drawing blood.

I mean, they're not called devils because they're red with horns.
> Though I understand it differently, as reader just waits until all writes and "txn COMMITTED" record arrive at it's node.

Actually, welp, I believe this is closer to the truth in implementation. But consider how read performance compares before and after introduction of Parallel Commits. Before, when readers happen over extant 2PC "prepare" phase markers, they would still have to wait for txn resolution (on the coordinator node of the other txn, or on the node the intent was seen). They simply continue doing the same in Parallel Commits, there's no extra latency added to the read path (except when there is failure, but even then as soon as the earlier txn is recovered, future readers no longer get stuck).
Unfortunately it is no longer free to use a custom address in gmail; it used to be that just owning a domain would do the trick.
14% of the Dutch have burn-out symptoms (1 out of 7) according to:

Dutch newspaper: https://www.volkskrant.nl/de-gids/hoe-opgebrand-is-nederland... which cites : https://www.volksgezondheidenzorg.info/onderwerp/overspannen...

Note that having burn-out symptoms is not equal to 100% burn-out and unable to work.
The lack of a middle class is indeed a characteristic of a fascist (e.g. national socialist) society.
I do not work for google facebook or any other internet company. I do however purchase online ads for my law firm. I also tried turning off the ads for a few weeks to disastrous results.

I can say the big problem in the examples in this article is the keyword selection. For example ebay advertising the word ebay to customers who are googling the word ebay is probably fruitless for the most part. Those people were already looking for ebay and would find it with or without the ad.

However if you are a lesser known online auction and you use the keyword "internet auction" or something similar, it would probably help.

This article, to me, seems to be more about the importance of experimenting and critically evaluating the data rather than an actual indictment on online marketing. With online marketing there is no clear answer: what keyword you bid on, how you target, how you write your ad copies, how your competitors are behaving all come into play. It's difficult for anyone to parse through those factor and really come out definitively as to whether online marketing is effective or ineffective in general. We can only do the smaller measurements and see if our particular ads are effective for our particular business, which in the end is all any of us who buy ads really care about.
I think it's great she came up with a solution..but mounting a web cam to the top of your car isn't really practical.