skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have one person arguing with me - you.

There are actually a couple people in this discussion who seem to be backing up my points.

> you had some serious help

What part of "less than $50 a month v. more than $500 more in rent" are you not getting here? Real fuckin' serious help. Obviously I was sitting there eating lobster and caviar every day, right? Is that what you think?

My intention is not to "punch down". My only intention is to describe a situation that I think is comparable, based both on facts (namely: the mathematical realities of having to live in a high-cost area with a low wage) and feelings (namely: the emotional toll of having to make the best of every resource available - which, yes, included a whopping $50 a month... wow, so extravagant and sheltered, that'll totally make up for my higher rent).

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EDIT:

Nor should my experience be taken as "invalidating" anyone else's (except maybe the 1%ers trying to "relate"). Just because I was able to stay afloat taking home less than $1k a month after rent doesn't mean people should ever have to do that. We as a country should be paying our workers what they're worth, not merely "enough to live".

I think this stems from me misspeaking and saying $10/hour is "not unreasonable". What I meant was "not unlivable", and that much is true in much of America. We absolutely should be striving for a higher goal than simply "livable" for every American, given that this country was founded on inalienable rights beyond merely "life"; until every American can exercise one's rights to "liberty" and "the pursuit of happiness", this country has not fulfilled its mandate to its people and to the world, and every one of us should be working together to fix that.
A loud 7000 watt (8750 peak) generator runs about $600:

https://www.harborfreight.com/8750-watt-max-starting-gas-pow...

However, it weighs over 200lbs, and is really noisy.

It runs 9 hours at idle. I wonder how long the ford will run at low wattages, and how the gallons per hour compares between the two. (Presumably the hybrid truck does much better at low wattage than the generator or the conventional truck).
Space is also an issue. Try fitting a rear facing car seat into a crew cab Tacoma.
Thanks, really interesting parallel -- though I can't say I'm intimately familiar with how ARM's model works. I'll definitely do some reading.

But yes, we are very interested in helping people get made what they want to get made. It often falls into two situations:

(1) If the customer knows exactly the custom design they want to get made, we can help them find the best way to purchase or synthesize it. In many cases, customers may have trouble coordinating with CROs themselves, finding the best building blocks and route to the molecule, and dealing with logistics. We try to help ease that pain.

(2) The customer has a specific target they want to hit and they need just the right small molecule to "fit" in it. We also help with this, mainly through partnerships. And our thinking is that good design of small molecule inhibitors (such as one targeting the COVID main protease) involves expert knowledge of what can be quickly made and tested to help guide further design.

Lastly, we also work on suggesting molecules that may be slightly different from what the customer thinks they want, but may show similar activity -- and will be much easier to make.
Having a conversation in a bar thinking it's private..

Anyway, it might at well be Pleasantville 1950s for a lot of people. They are both hiding everything and being suspicious AF of anybody with something to hide.
Those guidelines have now been revised to state that conversations about racial inequality and Black Lives Matter are allowed on Nextdoor

I'm not a Nextdoor user but the way I read it it seems like discussions were limited to only local events and proposals. Say, a post about a BLM protest at the local mall was ok, and a post proposing a possible future BLM protest at the mall was ok, but not a post promoting or criticizing BLM in general. The new guidelines appear to now grant a specific exception to the core concept.

I don't envy their position. Doing this opens the floodgates to rule exceptions for every special interest group on the planet and not doing it puts them in the crosshairs of a massive and popular social movement.
It seems like DDG just doesn't want to do more work to make the browser do the sensible thing and instead piggy back on their existing favicon service, and then going to make the argument that it is safe with us. The domain of browser is totally different from reaching out to the website and rendering favicons server side. Do you not see this as a problem? I think it is acceptable to say "We agree this is a problem, and we are gonna look into fixing this" instead of pushing back on an obvious problem.
> I include a random environment variable that I can keep track of which dictates how the password will be generated for a specific user depending on the information provided. And we are set! I don’t need to know my users’ password, I trigger the “sign-in” by triggering the same hashing function using the environment variable I stored before and everything is secure.

Wait, what?
Are you sponsoring Visas?
I was not saying it does - I'm saying it's harder to go after someone for anti-Semitism when they're Semitic.

Although now that I've seen the document in question, I must say there's really nothing there anyway.
The allocation of RF spectrum is unavoidable. It can be done in either time domain or frequency domain; the FCC opts for both.

Similar issues appear for the internet with respect to backbone capacity and video streaming, but political speech mostly doesn't encounter the kinds of scarcity problems that justify such a heavy hand.
It's not wrong, but the mob has come for him and having any contrarian or critical opinion of this movement is career suicide.
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Paying farmers to sequester carbon
There's a fantastic Bradbury interview/documentary here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3uZf4G3Lo
> hiring someone at a wage which is higher than the value they produce is called charity

In the vast majority of cases it's the other way around: workers are producing value and being paid a fraction of it. Some of this might be somewhat justified (someone's gotta pay for equipment and property), but some of it definitely ain't (e.g. managerial rent-seeking middle-men skimming that value).
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Implementing a VAT at the state level is difficult when goods can easily move across state borders. You'd need a federal system of collecting sales tax.
https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance

Uncheck the very last option "Site Icons"
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Paying farmers to sequester carbon and rebuild soil health in 5 year intervals. $100/acre.
In this case, I imagine "monetize" actually means "at least earn some money so the people hosting it don't have to cover all the costs from their own pocket"...
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Disease seems like most likely culprit to me. Even if it's not Covid. Could be another virus.
Those factories are just going to move out of the NAFTA area, assuming Biden doesn't win and undo everything Trump's done.
I've used that one before. And for those who truly do believe they have nothing to hide, you can point to the ~1% of wrongfully convicted inmates in the US who probably thought they didn't have anything to hide either.
You really can't use "we promise we won't misuse the information" as an argument, that's what everyone says whether it's true or not, and the whole point of using a privacy-centric browser is that as a user you can't trust those kinds of promises.
Runnaroo is also a search engine that is Google based (for organic results). IMO it has an advantage over Startpage because of its integration of vertical search sources, like Stack Overflow [0]. I'm the creator.

Mojeek [1] is also a good privacy option that doesn't get talked about as much as DDG. They distinguish themselves by having their own search index.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=python+unit+testing

[1] https://www.mojeek.com/
Ok, so what I'm getting from the extended responses to this thread is that I need to get the hell out of Boston, because I've just been doing it wrong for all of my late 20s and into my 30s.
True, but you can at least show the total shipping cost for the shopping cart, given a zip code or a similar indication, without completing the whole account creation/checkout process.
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I think three quarters is probably still too short to declare profitability overall, especially considering there were $1.1bn in total losses the previous two quarters before that (compared to a cumulative $264m in profit the past three). There are just too many games you can play by shifting losses between quarters, and Tesla definitely engages in them (as does every other public company).

You could play the game in reverse, dump the sale of things like ZEV credits in their $702m loss quarter, and end up with 5 consecutive quarters of losses.

However there are rumblings of a potential Q2 2020 profit, which would be four consecutive quarters and in my (bearish for HN) mind take the "Tesla has never been profitable" criticism off the table once and for all.
That's what I'm thinking, this is being bought by farms. Particularly by farms which are used to using these models.
> To be private and free from surveillance is to be human. If we have no privacy, we lose our humanity.
>there is a direct connection between being watched, and being controlled.

I would agree. Those are very important points.
When people being watched they are not as free as they could be in their actions and exploration of ideas, because they measure what to say and what is forbidden to say.
This can have a huge damaging effect in creativity domain.
Similarly, logging too much makes logs meaningless.
Purpose-based specific log platforms can be useful, like, stack traces go to sentry, tracing goes to jaeger, stdout for global context stuff, etc. All of these going in one stream makes it almost as useless as no logs.
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The best instant coffee tastes like reheated coffee from the previous day, for what it's worth
I mean the risks are obvious, what I meant was small reactors,reactor operated only over low population are at 70k feet and short flight time could maybe reduce the risk enough to make it a practical idea? Instead of thousands of intercontinental flights, small number of arterial flights like this and fast/electric ground transport could help carbon emissions greatly.
This is a tech-industry news site. Half of the people here are on real names and/or provide links for networking. Yeah, I make my professional self "out there" for people to get in touch with on here.
Cripes, that would help explain why I had to jump my ‘16 Outback three times during early shelter-in-place orders after sitting for long periods with very little use. I just blamed it on a crappy OEM battery (which I suppose is partially to blame), but I didn’t know about the alternator situation.
Man I miss Ray Bradbury. Can anyone recommend any authors who carry the torch?
Yeah why not just fine them and make them pay taxes? Better for all parties involved.
Haven't received any "items in your cart" emails from Amazon peronally, but I will end up seeing Ads for the products later on.
Nextdoor sounds like Stallman's worst nightmare and Stalin's dream startup idea. I wouldn't want to be the CEO of this company given the hole they have just dug themselves in.
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Consider companies like Uber....
Privacy has to be scrutized constantly and be the top priority. If it isn't, then you're going to end up with another google.

A direct correlation exists between the revenue Google receives for selling data and the quality of its search. Google focuses completely on tracking and search, with privacy behind a far far away afterthought (if it's a thought at all).
You've just invented shipping containers.
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> Humans are more than the dollars they "produce", in my opinion.

Sure. And in a society with the wealth ours has, there should be a certain baseline minimum income—as income with the freedom of choice that entails—but minimum wage may not be a sensible way to provide that. UBI funded by progressive taxes on income that include equal treatment of capital income may just plain work better. The problem with minimum wage is that it amounts to a minimum labor value at which it is worth hiring, but working at a lower value job is often the best way to get skills for a higher value job.

There's plenty of evidence that within a certain range, increasing minimum wage is a net win in the absence of an alternative income floor, but it doesn't mean that minimum wage is the best way to provide that floor (it's inherently leaky) or that it doesn't start falling apart as a mechanism if raised much higher.

I'm happy with increasing the baseline minimum wage significantly, say to $15/hr in current dollars and indexed to inflation, but also adding a UBI and reducing the actual minimum wage to the baseline minus the $1/hr for every $2000 in annualized UBI.
This is really cool. I like how flexible this is compared to other calculators I've seen before. Info like this is now table stakes at any recruiting process or discussions if available. Anecdotally know that Levels has helped me, and people like me out a lot.
Everyone is missing the point here. Let me break this down as simple as I can:

1. End user does a DDG search for "food"
2. The "food" query returns a list of search results, these results have each have a link, DDG wants to display the favicon for each link.
3. To be clear, DDG does not store or log the IP address of the user doing the query. They do, however, know what was queried, so they know "somebody" somewhere searched for "food". They have to know this, they are a search engine after all.
4. Since DDG wants to show the favicon "privately", and they dont want to put that logic/work on the client side (which could leak your IP), so instead DDG finds the favicon internally.
5. A DDG server, completely separate from anything search-related is then tasked with finding the favicon for your "food" query results, lets say the #1 result is www.allrecipes.com, so a DDG server goes to www.allrecipes.com and finds the exact favicon location.
6. The "found" favicons are then stored in a cache, and displayed from the cache like this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.allrecipes.c... (and if no favicon is found in the local cache, you get a grey arrow by default)
7. I'd like to note, even with all this action, DDG doesn't know if you actually "visited" www.allrecipes.com, they simply know that some anonymous user did a search for "food", www.allrecipes.com was a search result, and a favicon was displayed. They dont know who searched for it because the users IP is not stored anywhere, they dont know if you visited www.allrecipes.com, they prevented you from leaking your IP to allrecipes.com since they didn't force the end user to load the favicon.

So whats the issue? What am I missing here?

PS: You know this works because after doing all these searches for food and seeing allrecipes.com (and even clicking allrecipes.com result in the DDG Mobile App or browser extension), guess what? allrecipes.com doesn't follow you around with re-targeting ads! Why? Because DDG prevented that from happening!
> he's not generally recognized as a "symbol of slavery"

He's not recognized as a symbol of plantation slavery because it didn't exist at the time. But he enslaved the native population of Hispaniola and was incredibly inhumane and cruel to them. So much so that the Spanish crown "canceled" him. Crazy, right?[1] He also never set foot on the US mainland. There aren't really any good reasons to have statues of the guy around.

> Most of the founding fathers had slaves

Is anyone taking down statues of Jefferson, Washington, Adams and co? You're drawing a false equivalence between them and Confederate leaders.

Confederate leaders engaged in high treason, and took up arms against their countrymen to defend their right to own other human beings. They deserve to be "canceled". There was already a public hearing about all of this 160 years ago. It was called the Civil War and they lost. The only reason these people weren't tried and executed for treason is because the Union saw fit to offer generous terms in order to end the conflict quicker and save lives (note how it never occurred to the Confederates that they too could save the lives of their own people, if only they gave up on their determination to own other human beings).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#Accusatio...
I'll state this in no uncertain terms: this is not acceptable, and you need to stop doing it. It makes sense on your search engine, but adding it to your web browser is very much over the line.

I have read your explanations in good faith and they don't cut it. This behavior cannot continue. Good privacy promises are not based on trust - they're based on not ever handling private data in the first place. If you don't quickly admit your mistake and roll this back, it will jepoardize your entire brand - and rightfully so. If you believe this behavior is okay, then it demonstrates incompetence; if you don't believe this behavior is okay but do it anyway, it demonstrates malice.

This is the one thing you Should Not Have Done.
And if prices in NYC fall 40% then there will be a stampede of people moving back pushing things back up until an equilibrium is reached.
> In addition, doing it this way avoids another request (and potentially multiple) to the end site.

Potentially saving a few requests here and there is certainly not worth phoning home with that kind of data regardless of what records you keep how much you do to anonymize it. This is especially true for a company that has built its brand on promises of privacy!

Besides, favicon requests are small potatoes compared to the kind of tracking, ads, metrics, and other often-unnecessary page resources that bog down most of the modern web. And a well-designed website can mitigate the issue pretty easily.
sounds interesting. can you elaborate? Not familiar with what Snowflake does or how it compares. Thanks
Why not do it locally? It is one extra request to the favicon link in the header and cache it. Or cache it when the user visits the website. Or explicit button in the settings UI to refresh favicons locally.

There are so many options.
I can totally understand that US life looks crazy to an outsider right now.

I work for a company with employees around the globe. The Americans are polarized-- on the left, they mostly seem to support 'cancelling' people that don't agree with them. On the right, they are mostly silent, but quite upset.

Colleagues in overseas locations are likewise polarized. Some hold liberal opinions and agree with the left-side views. I've been especially surprised by some people that come from former Soviet-block countries, though. They are mostly horrified at the statue toppling, language 'cleansing', etc. They believe it looks too familiar and is leading to worse things.
Awfully convenient reasoning for engineers. Making half a million dollars a year optimizing the invasion of people’s privacy, for a company that dodges taxes, after four years of government subsidized education is real work and if you get rich in a liquidity event you earned it; assembling $1 million twenty years ago when people were fleeing SF, spending two decades maintaining marketing renting servicing paying taxes on and chasing rents on the property in the meantime, keeping up with and complying with city and state regulations — that’s always just parasitism and if the city you chose turns into a boomtown it’s good luck you have not earned.

Not a fan of landlords as a rule but you are slicing your analyses of privilege way too thin.
Read up on the field on Science and Technology Studies (STS). STS researchers do this kind of work all the time, since the 1970s.

More specifically, check out the work of Matt Ratto, who defended his 2003 dissertation on this exact topic: https://bit.ly/2YQL1yf
The hint is in the name. This thing simply is not a wheelchair. It isn't even trying to be one. It is meant to carry a folding wheelchair as cargo. Therefore we shouldn't compare it to wheelchairs, those things capable of doors and elevators. This thing is a different type of vehicle, something between a bicycle and an electric go-cart. It isn't for daily mobility, for taking to the grocery store. It is for a specific type of wheelchair user: those with dexterity and strength to handle and setup the machine who want to get onto trails at bicycle speeds.
Assuming you're correct, I wonder what caused A to slowly change and become slow like that?

From previously having been a bit innovative?

E.g. the many seconds long load times sounds very unexpected ... How did A change so it now accepts things like that? (Or was it always so -- but we were using Jira 5-6 years ago, don't remember having thought of it as slow)
Startpage was bought by an ad company.
This is not duckduckgo.com. This is the DuckDuckGo-branded end-user web browser.
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Your answer to all these criticisms is a lazy one. You are saying "this already exists for other things so we use it regardless of what the correct method is". Just because something exists in one form doesn't mean it's the correct choice.
Open source operating system for healthcare (for people to store medical records and diagnosis tools).

Medical diagnosis is fundamentally an information problem, which should be both free and open source. But there may be little to no business model here.
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Have you looked at https://www.listenlively.com or are you talking about something different? (It's VC-backed BTW).