skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting - instead of suing under the idea that scraping itself is wrong (courts have ruled that public information that you can get on websites can be scraped... I think it is something like 50%+ of web traffic in the U.S. is bot traffic), they are suggesting that scraping through a logged-in account is somehow different.

If the user of the account consents to have the plugin installed on their computer and is made aware that the plugin will scrap this data, you could argue that there is nothing wrong here.

However, people post on Facebook under the idea that the information they share will only be viewable by their friend group (or as dictated by their privacy settings).

That's where this gets interesting... does the friend group of the person with the plugin have any rights to privacy that dictate what the person with the plugin can do with their data?

If I take a picture of a newsfeed, for example, that has information my friends have posted, and share that somehow - am I violating their privacy legally?

If not, how is this different?

Will be interesting to follow this one.
I wish your comment was at the top.

Money as metric for success leads to destruction.

Someone who helps a stranger is successful.

I wish more people would understand that everything that devides us as humans leads to destruction. Everything that unites us leads to good things, which I call success.
This is one of the reasons Indians cheating on the OSCP is such an issue. I don't know if they realize that destroys the value of the cert for everyone... cool you got the cert but now its worthless.
Using AWS Lambda as a Consumer for Amazon Kinesis
Feedly as the aggregator, Palabre on Android as the reader.

I rarely read rss on my laptop these days, but Palabre keeps the read articles in sync so I can hop on the Feedly web interface and resume at any time.
That kind of error would have nothing to do with MobX. Hard to say more without knowing the specifics.
Using drugs is natural for intelligent beings. It is similar like saying only poor people listen to music. Everyone does it, but the propaganda is focused on people who governments deem undesirable.
I'll explain why I was wondering about disposable income in a little more detail:

In some dense cities in particular, renting (typical for young people prior to property purchase) can be very expensive.

My sense is that this creates a large transfer of wealth from professionals to property owners on a monthly basis.

Across San Francisco or New York, for example, what percentage of the paycheck sums paid by employers is redirected to their landlords?

If that percentage were to rise it would become more difficult for young people to become property owners since it'd be challenging for them to put savings aside.

With that context provided: disposable income is an attempt to quantify how effectively people could save towards property purchase - regardless of whether they decide to take that route.

(and to some extent it's also a 'guard metric' to detect communities that rent-seek to unsustainable levels)

Edit: 'tech companies' -> 'employers' in third para, and remove assumption of high salary. This doesn't just affect tech..
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> 90% of the time users pick ads over paying

Or don't get the option. Please make my local newspaper take a subscription for ad-free browsing :)

There are also the times when the subscription is as predatory as the ads, like the traditional US large publishers where you can sign up online but have to call a number and go through marketing to cancel. Those aren't any better than the ads.
The problem with using the median for income is that it does not tell anything about inequality. If the top 1% get their income doubled (or the bottom 30% their income halved, or both at the same time) with all else being equal, the median does not change. You really need a high percentile as well. Low percentiles are not that interesting, because the distribution is much more compressed there.

In essence, a median that keep climbing nicely is no indication that the situation is not becoming catastrophic. Granted, using the average is arguably worse.
Would also say corrupting gene names, but in this case the scientists literally decided to rename genes to not conflict with Excel's treatment of date-like strings.
What is the price of electricity where you live? For me to pay as much as the card is worth in electricity, even running it continuously, it would take 11 years.

Granted, electricity is exceedingly cheap here, but still, 11 years is a long time.
> the scrapers are acting as agents of individual users.

According to the article, it's the reverse, the individual users are acting as paid agents of the scrapers, a proxy giving scrapers access to data through the users' access to Facebook.
Well how about we don't try to compare pears with apples. Privacy and poverty are both pretty important in their own way, let's not make clickbaity claims just for the sake of it.
Yes so true. The golden toilet in Trump's 5th bedroom, has no practical utility to him. He never even uses it. In fact, its a liability. It will likely fail and flood his mansion eventually.

If it serves a purpose, it is to be symbol of his wealth and power. Like a juggler, that juggles a sixth ball. To wow and impress.

There is a point where all possessions become a liability.

This is why I think rich people are sometimes caricatured as Scrooge McDucks. Every new possessions is a problem. So some overreact, and would rather just hold onto money to an extreme.

A local billionaire patches his rusty international bridge with wood beams.

Extremely rich people fascinate me, because their psychological faults, and inherent human pathology has the fuel to really flower.
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> Existing certifications in software are just attempts at making money off gullible people

I'd argue the AWS ones are worth it... we get a workload credit for certifying people.
Doesn't answer the drunk driving or smoking issue. "Your Freedoms" always have limits. Without a strong safety net and worker protection, some at risk people are being forced outside to survive. Sweden at least has a strong safety net, some would even consider it relatively socialist. That can't be said for everywhere.
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Good work is still highly valued, it's just that the value is not paid to the worker, but to the company owning the work. If you increase a company's profit by $500k annually through setting up a new automation system, you'll still only get your $40k internship salary. And the company will pocket the remaining $460k, to be paid out to the owners as profits.

So yes, I fully agree with you. This hits the young people the hardest because they are the ones to own the least, on average. But more in general, everyone who is not part of the elite owning those companies and their preferred stocks is suffering.

It's almost a cliche "owners vs. workers" class war at this point. But for some reason, everyone in the US expects to enter the owning elite within years - no matter how ridiculously improbable that is - so nobody is willing to stand up for the workers.
> Your stats are basically gonna look the same as the housing map

If I move to the big city, and I go from spending 30% of $50,000 on rent to spending 50% of $100,000 on rent that's going to look bad whatever measure of housing affordability you use.

But after rent, I've got $50,000 left instead of $35,000 - so maybe I'll get a BMW instead of a Camry.
E pluribus unum is a bit reminiscent of the fascis. I'm currently searching for a word for the rods, all trimmed to the same length à la Procrustes, that constituted fasces, and will report back here if I manage to find it.

(a different motto, unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno, not only mentions the relation of the parts to the whole, but also that of whole to its parts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661326 )

Edit: so far I've learned only that the axe was the securis and that holders of high office would have their servants put the fascis on the ground, instead of holding them aloft, when they wished to emphasise they were on the people's side of an issue. Still no word for the individual rods, however.
> Most applications cannot be built statically, at all.

That’s a pretty bold claim. Can you identify a specific C program that cannot be built statically, no matter how hard you try?
What do you they should do?
So if I ask a straight man "how many guys have you slept with," how do you expect him to answer?
Yes, jumping from 15ms to 100ms is rubbish.

To compare network latency in terms everyday techies can follow, use video gaming: 15ms latency is 60 fps, and 100ms latency is 10 fps.

Which game would they want to play?

That said, it's not clear if you mean "time to first byte" or "time to transfer 1000 bytes" or both combined. The first is less of an issue; figure out which part of the request and data transfer timing is changing.

(Disclosure: In a past life I built a white label global content delivery network.)
It's also paywalled for me.
Russia, China, Europe, etc don't arrest American citizens for not comply with local laws (which sometimes are as shitty as American's KYC paranoia) in the internet.

Doing KYC for US citizens would require doing KYC for everyone, which is not fair at all (on the other case you can't say that particular guy is not from US). That effectively force the whole world to live under US laws requirements.
You can't conclude that with relative data.
I still get “This article is only available to subscribers” garbage
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The data scientist exposing US white supremacists: 'This is how you fight Nazis'
There is a chance that Buffet could say "no" to a deal just because he felt it was rushed.

“I call investing the greatest business in the world,” he says, “because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate, the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! and nobody calls a strike on you. There’s no penalty except opportunity lost. All day you wait for the pitch you like, then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.”
I don’t use the training features much, but I love the consistent UI across the web and iOS interface. You can also host your own instance (I do not though) and use the iOS with it.
I don't think every performance metric has to be tied to an explicit contract. There are thousands of such metrics in a large organization's tech stack.

What OP is asking is whether the performance they are seeing is comparable to the industry-leading load balancers that HN readers are familiar with. The answer to that question is independent of any contract.
Thanks for the recommendations. Will check them out. Garlic is definitely happening during the next hot pot session.
Now we need open firmware for our tvs
It's funny, I was just thinking about the gold standard, but of course it couldn't be returned to as that would destroy the valuation of the holdings of the various financial elite.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

(As an aside, the IRA and 401(k) were introduced in 1973 and 1978, respectively- a great way to trick the public into thinking that runaway cash valuation was a valuable move for America.)

Many people don't think it will continue for long, which is why everyone's buying guns, I guess.
> When I asked oil and gas industry insiders why Pembina would push so hard for a project with such dismal economic prospects, they offered a startling explanation. Pembina doesn’t have to turn profit in real life, it only has to convince investors that there’s a chance, even a small one, that it will eventually succeed. Any proposal that attracts venture capital makes money, they said, even if the pipeline is never built, even if the market for natural gas remains depressed. So while most 2020 headlines about Jordan Cove forecast its demise, they miss the fact that people like Gow could still lose their land and foreign business interests could still get very rich, even if they never break ground. Riches can be gained and property can be taken based on the idea alone.

I thought this article was interesting as it is a non-tech example of how too much capital sitting around is causing bad, or even impossible, ideas to get investment.
We bought some fish balls, but they weren’t great. Need to experiment with others or better yet, make our own.
> light trucks shorter than 121 inches.

This definition excludes the best-selling vehicle.
My first job in 2000 was converting files from the "PC" so they can be used on the Mainframe - and this was one of our biggest issues. Some things never change. Used to rename csv files to anything but csv to import them so you'd get the wizard.

Hey, but luckily they removed the import option recently! /sarcasm
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But the autopsy shows novichok.
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So you pay money for a television that displays ads.

When will they pull a Kindle and sell special "ad-free" versions of so-called Smart TVs for an extra $100?
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I wonder if there is a market for dumb TVs. They basically don't exist today. Closest thing I could get was a Dell conference room monitor, which is $1200 for a 55 inch, and $4500 for a 75 inch. A far cry from the $700 I spent on my current 75 inch TV, but I'm strongly considering it.
Space station maneuvers to avoid debris
That maybe a little aggressive.

The comment above hit the nail on the head, it's actually pretty simple.

Old people = asset holders (aka holders of financial obligations, bonds and stocks)

Young people = usually in debt (student, auto, credit card, mortgage) and hoping to earn their way out with income.

Aka the young are the very debtors that the old creditors are lending to via their retirement funds of bonds and stocks.

An the Fed, well really their only tool is to print to do what? Buy financial assets.

So in times of stress they buy those assets/liabilities, pushing up their prices first through decreasing long term rates (hence buying government bonds) and then with QE infinity, eventually buying the actual same asset/liabilities that make up the rich people's portfolios.

Hence we response to a drastic income shock by...bailing out rich people.

Ideally the Fed would just monetize government spending directly to those poor people, but as you can see with Pelosi-McConnell 2020, that stuff needs to go through Congress, which is a partisan mess.
Not even SIMD on recent GPUs, it's SIMT.
How hybrids have upturned evolutionary theory
> "Another downside," our source added, "is that some clients block Trello which can be really disappointing after you've just built a big board together."

Why is Trello being blocked?
I now have ads on my expensive Samsung. Teaches me right for not heeding the advice and getting as dumb a TV as possible.

I should not need to run a PiHole to deal with this.
> For instance, gtk and qt are not desktops. They're ui toolkits.

And I never claimed that. Again, as a user the difference between gnome, cinnamon or unity is not all that interesting, so I simply wrote "gtk-whatever" as an umbrella term and "qt-whatever" for kde plasma and lxqt.

My basic question is the following:

- If I find software that is only available as a snap, I will use snap. It works on any distro.

-If I find it only available as a flatpak, I will use that. It works on any distro.

- If I find only an app image, I will use that. It works on any distro.

- I get an installer from some big commercial software. It unpacks itself in /opt or uses a docker image or... . Again works anywhere.

Why should I, as a user, care which distribution mechanism you chose if they all work anyways? Why is "fragmentation" an issue, if whichever you choose works everywhere regardless?
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His numbers are correct, because they never actually claimed that it was possible (on average) to put yourself through college in 1986.

> In fact, I bet it wasn't actually possible to put yourself through college in 1986.

Possibly, the numbers don't claim otherwise. They just compare the median teenage wage to the net tuition of the time — across 2 different snapshots.
Fair enough. I shouldn't have generalized; there are some that are valuable in certain niches. MS and Cisco certs come to mind (and back when I was studying at university, the learning resources for Cisco certificates were our go-to sources for understanding computer networks). But in my impression, it's an exception to the rule.
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> when his dementia got worse

Source?

> don't have a successor in the works.

Source?
The Francis Option
Lightweight single node kubernetes are released. They are suitable for small devices.
Palantir is a real threat to liberty, I am surprised to see so many “freedom” types support them.

This update illustrates how important control is to the founders.
I don't know enough to comment one way or another and so would love a critique of this comment from a downvoter's perspective so I can learn more.
This is a good point I forgot to expand upon. The EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry is a hugely import symbiotic relationship to the chip industry at this point. The two sort of go back and forth driving each other forward.
To get at least one through the spam filters.
And a little candle for Lotus 1-2-3, grand predecessor of Excel, killed by bad design and management decisions.
mostly stealing their content in various ways and not compensating them for it
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I’d rather have no telly at all than buying some crap Samsung tv for €2.000 only to see their programmatic advertising. Whoever at Samsung decided this must be drunk! But hey, I guess there still are enough people around who don’t care.
Congrats :) the project has made so much progress since I last saw it a couple months ago
If you are intrigued in the argument but would like a less inflammatory author, check out “Tools For Conviviality” by Ivan Illich.
Heavy use of Excel has literally changed the way I think, and it's what piqued my interest in learning how to program. Using macros was cool, but being able to record and see your actions "transcribed" to visual basic code was pure magic. Excel will always be one of my favorite bits of software.
I agree with everything you said, but having worked as a contractor for the civil service, there's not a lot of morality here- more incompetence and cruising for pensions than can possibly be believed, though.

As an aside, that pay cut is exactly why the gov't programmers are struggling. Top talent wants money, and the government will not offer competitive salaries, so the government IT structure is all garbage, and the cycle continues...
A few years ago I would have disagreed, but today I quite enjoy it.
What changes my opinion was mostly having a decent IDE configured to deal with the annoying bash syntax errors, and a quicker way to prototype.

Though in generqal I always thought Bash scripting to be fun, due to the wide array of programs available that you can directly invoke in your scripts script. The feeling of gluing programs together with pipes into a larger abstraction is just amazing, and bash does that very elegantly.
I'm sorry that you experience racism regularly. It's unacceptable. If I've said something that you consider racist then I sincerely apologise.

You are right that I thought you were white. It is because you said, "don't start calling all white people racist for being nothing but white". I apologise for the assumption.

You did, however, call me a moron, which doesn't really strike me as arguing in good faith.

You also said this:

> The aboriginal people of Australia face real problems. The police isn't one of them.

If you live in Australia and you don't think that cops are, at least until relatively recently, a huge part of the problem with Aboriginal welfare, then maybe you missed the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody [0]. I was in high school when that stuff went down, I remember how many people were being killed, and the fact stands that Aboriginal people are 10x more likely to die in prison than Europeans.

"The key finding of the royal commission was that Aboriginal people are more likely to die in custody because they are arrested and jailed at disproportionate rates. That remains as true in 2020 as it was in 1991." [1]

> For what it's worth, "statistically, aboriginal people commit more crime. Studies have shown that this is because of chronic health and economic issues which have never been adequately addressed by any Australian government" Was pretty much the gist of what I was getting

But that's not what you actually said.

> I thought that was pretty obvious given the context and adding the context doesn't really make my statement any more or less factual.

Mate, there was very little context in what you wrote. If I took you the wrong way then I apologise, but maybe you can accept your part in this too. Maybe you didn't express yourself as well as you might have. That's cool, but how you express yourself is not my responsibility.

> if you took my remarks on good faith it wouldn't have been a problem. But that is the problem

You called me a moron!!

> with this American narrative

...and you assumed I'm American? Or that I don't have my own reasoned narrative? That's not really good faith now is it?

> everyone is too busy trying to win, nobody is trying to look at facts for what they are and find the common ground therein.

When you say that "Aboriginal people just commit more crime", that's not a fact, it's a tautology; of course they commit more crime, they are generally poorer and sicker, because of how they've been treated. I'm pretty sure that poor white people commit more crime too. Aboriginality has nothing to do with criminality; and just because a statement is true, through some twisted logic, doesn't mean it can't also be racist.

That doesn't mean that I think you are a racist; I have no idea. But I do think what you said is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_Aborigin...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/11/death...

edit: add quote
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For the First Time Ever, Scientists Caught Time Crystals Interacting
+1 for mentioning Carissa Véliz. Her podcasts are really good as well - https://www.carissaveliz.com/podcasts.