skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago, I would agree with you on profit margins at Costco.

I do not see deals anymore. Sure they like to bundle (especially in threes), but the product is usually the stuff that isn't selling elsewhere, and the price isn't much if the consumer divides by 3.

I used to buy there all the time because of the no question asked return policy. That has changed. They question a lot more than electronics returns too.

Oh yea, most high end watches you see in the case are Grey Market bought, and have no manufacturer's warranty.

What's keeping Costco happy is the membership fees. That is pure profit.
Agreed. This seems like a reasonable request to me, providing there is a warrant.
Generally these activists are 'second tier' who want to usurp the perceived dominant rich white male. So they're usually rich white but female, rich male but Jewish, white male but unsuccessful, etc, who feel they deserve the easy success the rich white male has. They project those feelings of failure onto the marginalized groups they mean to represent.

The minority groups often have totally different values then the activists ( who share the dominant value system and consider themselves and the minorities they represent the losers of that system ).
Exactly... wanted to say this... I don't subscribe to the left vs right dichotomy to begin with, but "kafkatrapping" is a tactic used by both sides. When I was reading the link, I was reminded of a ex-colleague, who thought my transition was wrong because it is pandering to the inherent evil in me. Ah...
I wonder if Zig could add a "mustbedestroyed" annotation to a type, that doesn't actually add RAII-style invisible code, but forces developers do add 'defer' instructions to code that creates instances of the type.

EDIT: Aaand shockingly, I'm not the first to come up with this idea: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
Most protocols that implement 1:1 sessions and use UDP encapsulation conform to a port usage convention that more or less works despite middeboxes.
That you were born with and possess privilege and that acknowledging that privelege is morally necessary. That's the original sin parallel.

You can just read McWhorter, he draws a lot of parallels between Woke as a religion and Christian religion. It is somewhat amusing as an allegory. He's actually a fairly level headed critic.
That perception comes from a fact that it's such a hard challenge that people usually fail at it. And despite failing at it hard, things tend to be sort of ok, at least in the short term.

So the perception forms that managers are bad and not that necessary.
As a moderator of YC’s forum, you have a conflict of interest. That’s an objective fact.

Saying there is a conflict of interest is not saying that you actually feel conflicting motives. I’m not casting any doubt on that. The mere appearance of a conflict is sufficient, in typical circumstances where legal definitions are required.

Recognizing that the (appearance of) a conflict of interest exists and respecting it would go a heck of a lot further in garnering trust, IMHO.
Article says Trump supporters get hate.

Latinx employee group outraged / changes made employee who wrote article fired?

Engineer complaining about the article says they were attracted to medium because of free speech which is gone so now leaving - referring to free speech to complain about the article

Isn't some of this contradictory
G7 set to strike deal on global corporate taxation
I always liked the concept behind BitShares, but I never hear much about it. Conceptually, it seems like it targets the third-party concern.

Anyway, the idea of BitShares is (was?) to ensure stability of their crypto currency through futures contracts. You buy/sell futures contracts that peg their coin to another asset. This guarantees a certain payout at expiration.

For example, you can buy a contract that guarantees you receive (or must pay) the bitshares-equivalent of X USD when the futures contract expires. (You can also have contracts that guarantee the bitshares-equivalent of X ounces of gold, etc.)

So the future (smart) contract itself acts like the fungible stablecoin, even though it's not backed by the actual asset. And it doesn't rely on a trusted third-party. Rather, its stability relies on the futures speculator market that trades these futures contracts.

Such a concept seems like it doesn't have to be limited to bitshares, but can be generalized into a smart contract traded on blockchains like Ethereum, etc.
3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California
Already being discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401862
He used another FE2, which also had auto metering. Neither the F3 nor FE2 have auto-focus.
Agreed, but anyone running vCenter on their own is already running complex and expensive infrastructure.

There is simply no excuse at all for having it directly wired to the Internet. None.
Don't change the example. I want to know how do you imagine a method of authentication not requiring any privacy could work. What could be the way to prevent a theft without PIN or private key if your credit card number leak to public?
No no - I mean 'we' as in we here right now, in this conversation. I'm all for regulating the Data Economy and all the efforts to impose laws and regulations and what not. It's just that all these devices and microchips have opened a way to trade on data that we'll never be able to regulate and control with 100% clarity and precision. So we're definitely gonna have to get more clever than just asking the government to ban them.
The perp died:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55908105

According to the Miami Herald, the suspect was barricaded inside a home for several hours before shooting and killing himself.
How are you envisioning practically attacking deployment of FIDO tokens via phishing? Compared to conventional phishing or spear phishing attacks this seems very difficult to execute.

Suppose BigCorp users are supposed to enroll the new tokens they all received at mfa.bigcorp.example which I dunno maybe they're reaching via a link from blog.thebigcorp.example because of course these organisations have a dozen different domains used interchangeably.

I can see how you could try to redirect some or all employees to mfa.b1gc0rp.example which you control, and that's an opportunity to steal their non-token credentials, but now their token doesn't actually work.

Even though they've enrolled with mfa.b1gc0rp.example you don't directly gain working token credentials for bigcorp.example this way, and almost as importantly for this attack, nor do they. So they're going to call the company IT desk.

I guess if you own a suitable token, you could conduct this as a spear phishing attack where the victim tries to enroll at your bogus site, then you replay the non-token credentials they used for that to enroll your real token on the real site, but again the victim doesn't end up with a working token, so it seems like you're up against the clock.

And while during the pandemic I'm sure new employees were routinely enrolled off-campus, I suspect that's just not the case in normal times, even at organisations which have a very broad work-from-home policy.
The perp is already dead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55908105

According to the Miami Herald, the suspect was barricaded inside a home for several hours before shooting and killing himself.
It is, for people who don't really understand how company, executives, and employees incentives align.
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I don’t know. But based on reading the article, it sure seems like it is talking about YouTubers.
I think it's pretty clear the given definition doesn't apply here. While I do enjoy debating semantics, I don't see that you actually have any argument here, so I'm just going to leave it at that.
Suspect, not perp.
You do food shopping on Etsy?? Ok.
To use your analogy, consider that the hard drive has to store some “repertoire of responses,” some code snippets, that your control unit can pick from in order to solve the problem in front of it.

It still very much matters what is and is not stored on that hard drive, even if the bulk of the lifting is done by the control unit and even if (in humans’ case) the control unit can be extremely creative in combining existing snippets into new responses.
Some people rightly don't trust their 'butcher' or the meat chain of custody that much. We eat shredded raw beef meat here and even I sometimes wince at the idea...
Regarding USDC - people in control of usdc can (and did) blacklist any wallet at their own desire, so it's not much different from storing money in bank, exchange etc

How about DAI ? This stablecoin doesn't have both USDT's and USDC's disadvantages
Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers
Python types are unprovable, since the type of a variable can change at runtime. It's the Halting problem. All you can do is enforce types on static function boundaries - but that doesn't prove you won't send a different type through the boundary at runtime.

GHC types are mathematically provable. Types are guaranteed to stay within your defnitions, so you can analyze the type graph without ever having to run the program.
It's only ethical that anyone who writes LOL should also actually Laugh Out Loud, otherwise it would be deceptive. Same thing for ROFL.
But that’s a polder made mostly by building dykes and draining the land rather than raising up the ground level across 970 square km. Flevopolder is about 4m below sea level.

I think the plan here is different and will not be done by building up dykes and draining the area inside.
Atleast as far as I know, fines, even disputed, of that size are paid immediately into a escrow account. When the dispute is settled, the fine gets paid to who won the dispute.

So MS likely had to shell out that 2004 antitrust immediately.
UFO Sightings Went from Conspiracy Theory to a Serious Government Inquiry
> Could it be that economic links promote peace and stability?

Indeed, they do. No wonder the EU came out of what were essentially economic alliances.
Does Wayland support this?
Scheme, which was an inspiration for JavaScript, works the same way Python does in this case. See page 57 of the spec:
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5600/AIM-848.p...

That was written in 1985. If you're thinking of this as a mistake and waiting for it to be corrected, you're going to be waiting a long time.

Edit: Although it would be awesome if Python had extension functions like Kotlin, which would make this super easy to fix (either in your own code or the standard library). But that would require static typing to be more baked into the core language.
> Go to a welding shop or mechanic or marines or whatever, and everyone can have different opinions about something and nothing bad happens

That depends on the "something". Everyone has views they consider unacceptable. Try telling a marine about how 9/11 was actually justified. I highly doubt he would just laugh it off.
Do you have a reference or repo somewhere for your Docker setup, please? Sounds excellent.
That really all depends on your definition of what constitutes a credible threat. I'm sure any activist would say that continued police brutality against minorities, widespread and increasing hate crimes, etc. represent a credible threat to affected populations.

We can argue about how genuine / common these threats really are, but at the end of the day I think it's fair to say at the absolute minimum that activists genuinely believe they are threats.
IIRC all video codecs (WebP and AVIF are simply intra frames from VP8 and AV1 respectively) work in the YUV color space because the color information is much lower frequency than brightness, and thus YUV is more easily compressible than RGB. Chroma subsampling (making each U and V correspond to a 2x2 block of Y) works for the same reason.
> Why can't you get this simple logic through your head?

Everyone knows he's paid by YC and almost everyone is taking his decade long track record into consideration as an excellent moderator + that he literally didn't do anything wrong here. You're trying to defend your allegation and everyone else doesn't agree with you.

> That's really all you need to get through your head

Perhaps the problem isn't someone else :)
> There’s no reason credit instruments should be on a blockchain in the first place, given you’re depending on a central party for redemption.

Can you elaborate? Say you issue RUNEKs, how do we move them around freely in a digital world with the assumption that you are not required for transfers?
FDA Approves New Drug Treatment for Chronic Weight Management
Valid Signal privacy issues shrugged off while patches quietly rolled out
Is it unreasonable to say that bacteria, spiders, and frogs are genetically driven to exhibit certain behaviors? If not, why should the line be cut at humans?
"doesn't rely on bing" but actually mostly rely on bing, they want to create this illusion to hide this ugly fact.
> If its only for a 35min window, I'd assume the FBI have good reason to want the data.

Parallel reconstruction? (A commenter mentioned Tor.)

> this isn't warrant less or mass surveillance.

They haven't provided a reason as expected for a warrant, and a dragnet is mass surveillance.
Safeway has this problem.

Safeway has managed to piss off every singe one of their employees.

My local Safeway couldn't find help for years.

Since the epidemic, that is changing. They are hiring people who don't care much about conditions, or pay, and I know I'm suspose to say that's great.

Those people will get tired of being treated terribly in the future though.

I bet Safeway is lobbying the state right now to allow booze sales through self-checkout. The only people I see in line waiting five deep is liquor sales.
Vanilla hackintosh with opencore and the right hardware is possible.
>"Growth" can't save us either. We cannot escape by giving the economy more gas, because the faster the economy goes, the more things get automated, the more jobs vanish, and more wealth gets concentrated.

I disagree because there is no demand for growth and productivity improvements if you can concentrate your wealth without doing anything.

>We are rapidly approaching a point where a tiny fraction of the population controls almost all economic activity, and in that future, the only way to fix wealth inequality is to tax that group and spread the money around.

That's wrong, there are four options.

The government as borrower of last resort who then subsequently uses the money on improving its infrastructure. This is compatible with fighting climate change.

Negative interest rates for the first $100k you borrow from your bank. (private/business loans only, no mortgages)

The weakening of cash to achieve negative interest rates on deposits (low cash withdrawal rates would be a start e.g. $3000 per month and $1500 max cash deposits per month). People with low savings can take their money out as cash but people with high savings will be screwed and forced to invest.

The central bank as equalizer of last resort, let them send helicopter money until the inflation target has been reached. The helicopter money can be tied to a job guarantee that pays minimum wage. Given enough inflation people will naturally stop working at minimum wage.

Yes, all wealth inequality problems stem from the fact that the Fed isn't powerful enough.
If you're looking to save on storage/bandwidth (hence not using the max resolution of your camera) it can absolutely be a good idea to spend more bits on Y than on C.
I think it also is related to the idea of "illegibility" there probably are a lot more roles/jobs in tech that can be easily illegible. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/07/31/on-being-an-illegible-... .
The private sector has one sole motivator: the profit incentive. All else is incidental, including the oft touted "making the world a better place". Some companies do make an impact, like pharmaceutical companies developing a COVID vaccine or Tesla leading the charge towards using electric vehicles instead of dinosaur fueled ones. Strictly speaking, for a job not be wasteful in the private sector, it's only required to be useful, not meaningful - but it could be.

Given the motivation, "waste" has a narrow definition in the private sector: anything that doesn't contribute to the baseline. Non-waste can take many forms, e.g. improving product quality, reducing costs, managing brand perception, market research or regulatory capture. There is wiggle room for subjective assessment, like when companies see IT not as a catalyst but a cost centre and therefore fundamentally waste.

The government has a different motivator entirely: the greater good. Waste and inefficiency take on another meaning in that context. Digging and filling ditches isn't wasteful if it ensures people have an income. In a government context, it's a useful job because it achieves stated goals, but still a meaningless one.

The wars on terror and drugs are examples where it becomes more murky. For some, they are both useful and meaningful. For others, they're just one or perhaps neither.

There are also government projects that seem like waste at the time but turn out to have tremendous value and even be private sector useful today. Examples are legion in military inventions that later became staples, such as microwave ovens, the Internet, cell phones. Regardless of how you feel about landing on the moon and NASA in general, we have now have non-stick pans, GPS and solar panels.

In summary: looking at government through the lens of the private sector is failing to understand a simple truth: corporations are individualistic, where governments are collectivist even in a capitalist system.
"I am expected to support them all,"

This, and the "If you're not with us, you're against us" attitude both disgust me. And I've yet to meet someone like that that didn't cherry pick some "other" group to vilify, making them hypocrites.

But I do wish you'd vote. Please look beyond the left/right politics and vote for someone who you think will do the most good. That said, I fully understand if every single candidate looks like they'll do more harm than good, and you just can't bring yourself to support any of them.
Unfortunately the "How does it work" doesn't really give any technical explanation on how does it really work...
For 1% of people those might matter more than self interest. But good luck building a majority on them to support meritocracy.
Correct. But it was 5000 in Amsterdam and 26k worldwide.
so CNN and Fox News would be a part of those outlets?

Also what is "freedom of communication"?
College education, including a fair amount of STEM, is an admission fee to be considered middle-class (or higher, depending on which school you went to). Nothing more. What you actually learn in college is 100% secondary to being able to say that you went to school X (and have the connections from that school).
>> At the end of the day if people working from home get more done, they'll be allowed to do so[...] Instead of being a zealot about it, go prove it works for you.

That's not what's happening though. Apple was requiring all employees to be back three days a week. There's a reason people are getting vocal about this stuff. A lot of people hate working in the office and don't need to and this is a one time opportunity for them. It took a worldwide pandemic to finally show a lot of bosses that "it's not possible to do this job remotely" is largely bullshit. If people relent and go back against their will, it could be difficult to make the shift again.
First, what I was proposing was not about preferences at all, but rather about how things are produced - if you want, you can just take the current consumption preferences, or put in your own into the model. For example, the model could tell you what the price of drugs would be without all the marketing expenses, and I claim it would be (in the U.S., say) several times smaller, and as such we can measure efficiency of the system (or different systems) if we compare reality to this theoretical value. Here efficiency is just a measure of how much waste the real system needs (and this might differ from neoclassical economics definition of "efficiency").

Speaking of preferences, I think you're buying too much into Hayek's free market ideology here. I don't think was proven in any way, in fact as you state, if the definition of preference is that cannot be revealed in other way, then you're starting with that as an axiom.

I would also say that I was born in a socialist system (with almost completely regulated market and planned economy), and it seems the last problem this system had was that the people's preferences weren't clear. In fact, if they weren't clear (for example, as queues for basic necessities) then you wouldn't be able to say that system was inefficient! Also, there was some internal competition, new products were created, and so on. The thing really was that the prices didn't reflect the preferences, which created lots of inefficiency (waste).
It's more complicated ... it's "multifactorial". To expand on it, I'll quote from a short review of 'Behave', by the inimitable Robert Sapolsky, that I wrote on a previous thread[1]:

The most important idea in the book: "when you explain a behaviour with one of the various disciplines [biology, psychology, culture, et al], you are implicitly invoking all the disciplines [...] A 'neurobiological' or 'genetic' or 'developmental' explanation for a behaviour is just a shorthand for temporarily approaching the whole multifactorial arc from a particular perspective."

Six hundred pages into the book, Sapolsky restates the central thesis: the biology of human behaviours that interest us, in all cases, is "multifactorial". What does it mean? There's a dizzying array of factors that influence our behaviour; too many enumerate, but a quick few: blood glucose levels; the socio-economic status of your family of birth; sleep quality and quantity; prenatal environment; stress and glucocorticoid [a key stress-signaller] levels; if you live in an individualist or a collectivist culture, and so on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559890
While improving performance is a good goal, chasing after perfect scores in Google tests sometimes leads to increased complexity of code, bugs on older browsers and even bigger website size.
>In 2002, an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labelled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan that collects information from users. The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user's permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, installing a toolbar, and serving advertisements.[11]

Of course, back then we called software that behaved that way malware. Today we'd call it Windows 10.
If a company has almost has no employees, then why help with state aid?
It makes sense on a network with only managed servers - couple the firewall deny in with flow logs and forward to your monitoring system, it’ll alert you to suspicious traffic.

However on a general purpose network I agree. If you’re not using the outbound blocks to alert on you’re just inconveniencing someone who can work around it.
A simple captive portal with ToS would solve it, right?
Ah yes, the imaginary front-end developer who gets to decide what level of accessibility the client wants or what gets into the backlog and is sole responsible of the security of what they are paid to build.
Who are they asking for the data? ISPs, USA today, NSA?