skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few things I disagree with.

1) Income from rent is not unearned. The reason it is called unearned is because nothing new was created. However, many services are this way. For example, fees paid to lawyers, or insurance fees and so on. Income earned from rent is income that comes from providing a service which is shelter or land for other uses.

2) Investment income is not parasitic. A share is a portion of a company. If someone buys a share, they are buying into ownership at a price they think is worthwhile. The prices of the shares are largely based on the value of the company. The value of a company can continue to go up and so profits come from the company being more valuable, not parasitically. Also, many shares provide dividends which is income and the right to vote.

3) It doesn't make any sense to me that rentiers free ride on the labour of others. Do they not have to pay for the goods and services they use?
* Is Flatpak the same as xdg-app?
Yes, while xdg-app was a fine name to use during development we wanted something with wider appeal and more sparkle to it than xdg-app could provide. So as part of formally launching Flatpak as ready for use we decided to pick a more accessible and fun name.*

Interesting - I wonder how it compares with Click packages.
Where do you draw the line? In the US we always side with personal freedom in the courts (e.g. if you want to own something, you can do so, pursuit of happiness and all that).

Antiquities don't have a lot of intrinsic value beyond display, so eventually (maybe 50 years, maybe 200 years) they will all end up in a museum. Generally they have higher value to people in the area from which they originated, so they will eventually migrate home. I'd prefer to be patient and let it happen naturally instead of implementing new laws.
Can I lobby the government to change the law to lower my tax bill? No, I'm not wealthy enough.

Top marginal income tax rates in the UK during the 60s were 98%.
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100.000 british men simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.

Throughout history it has been the case that sustained perceived inequality inevitably leads to revolution. We're nowhere near that point, but if trend lines continue and the middle class gets wiped out, it will happen. Democracy is supposed to prevent things from getting that bad, but we have seen that free elections are easily manipulated when you control the money and the message people hear, which is why these presidential elections will once again be a vote for either of two pro-super-rich candidates.

Ironically it is in the super-rich's best interest to raise taxes on themselves to stop this from getting out of hand.
Yeah, this was the beginning of the end of my support for things done by Google.
You are are applying the standard definition of rent/rent seeking used by economists. But MichaelBurge's post is using the language of the original article, which claims that renting out an apartment, or making capital gains from a business, "rent seeking".

So MichaelBurge is making a valid critique of the original article, whether or not the article was correct in using the term "rent seeking"
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11782364
Sde is still there, just less noticeable - and not noticeable pretty swiftly.

I play ED in the vive, and have no issue with legibility, but I have supersampling and aa cranked - haven't bothered with green text, which was practically mandatory on the dk2.
It will be modular they said. It wont be invasive they said.
Two of these aren't true in the U.S. as I was reminded during a recent eviction where we had to find a new place in 30 days. Let's address them.

"No exposure to the risk of changing housing prices (which don't always go up, and can be hugely impacted by policy)"

In our case, the homeowner thought the home was undervalued or marketable rent wasn't good enough. Just wasn't enough ROI. So, he sold the house out from under us to put the money in a better investment. Many years of on-time rent payments meant nothing. So, yes, renters have to worry about that stuff with quick, dire results when a problem happens.

" Flexibility to move out into a larger or smaller house that better fits your needs"

Most renting these days is done by agencies with formal procedures and tactics to maximize value for them. So, we had to fill out lots of paperwork, get credit checks, and otherwise go through the ringer. They were also all pushing us to accept a higher rate or trying to include stuff in the contract where we fix any problems in $80-200 range. All sorts of stuff. Fortunately, a friend at an agency that knew we were good tenants luckily pulled strings and got us a place just in time.

I imagine that if we were homeowners we'd have had that flexibility of moving into houses that fit our needs. We could shop around, identify the best deal, and move in at our own pace. Unfortunately, we were renters. That meant we had to act on homeowner's short timetable plus fit within the needs of renting agencies who were so picky we wouldn't have had a place.

Suddenly, renting doesn't sound so rosy, eh? ;)
Thanks. There's lots of great points in there, though I have demo'd an old oculus with a Leap Motion that could track both hands and all fingers with ease. Why it isn't bundled and contended by not, I do not know.

Even before this article was published I was saying (I'm sure others were as well) that the reality that the Oculus lets people share is that of a black box strapped to their faces.

I guess the reality phase of the hype cycle has now hit.
Weird Object Falls Out of Woman's Chimney; Internet Tries to Help
Try. Boycot banks by giving them no money, maintain social lending in your local area, see what happen then.
The only unsettling part to me is the cost of litigation.

Assuming the legal system is just, I don't have a slightest problem with whoever funding or managing a lawsuit, revenge-seeking or not.

And comparing an invasion-of-privacy (or libel and slander) lawsuit to opaque state censorship is a huge stretch.
Rents must be tied to drops in pricing in the long run. If rents don't drop with the price of houses, investors would swoop in to buy the high ROI housing, and existing renters would make home purchasing a higher priority as opposed to buying stocks, paying off other debt, or spending their disposable income.

Also, having a uncertain monthly expense is not nearly as much of a risk as having 100% or 200% of your networth tied to a volitile and usually zero-sum housing market. The counterfactual of owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds is much better from an investment perspective.
I hope we can reign in the rentiering, tax-avoiding, propaganda-publishing rich and reclaim democracy before Something Bad happens.

Frankly, I don't believe anything really bad happens to very rich people. A nice perk of becoming super-rich.
The thing is that I think he is hung up on the masses still not really getting that material, so he keeps repeating himself.

Kinda like how a teacher will repeat the same material because he keeps getting new kids every year.

Also, there's this single question by him on Stack Overflow, where he keeps replying to people with "nope, already had that in the 60s/70s":

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...
> Would there be enough interest in having these letters in searchable form to motivate the effort?

Yes, yes, yes.

> Shall we divide the task among a few of us and type this up?

I did the first one, see my other comment. It took me about 20 minutes to type and another 20 minutes to proof read. It is one of the longer ones and handwritten. If a few other join in, absolutely doable.
This reminded me of a question I've always had... there's always a lot of mass of the food not accounted for in the Fat/Carbohydrates/Protein/Fiber. For example, a can of food that weighs 454g net might only have 150g accounted for in the nutrition facts. What's in the rest of the food, besides water?
Salient comment:
"Or somebody could go find the actual problem @keszybz saw here - systemd/systemd#3005 - which is:
In particular, for my gnome session, if I log out, without KillUserProcesses=yes I get some processes which are obviously mistakes. Even if I log in again, I'm much better starting those again cleanly.
fix that, and stop trying to make systemd break the world because somebody's gnome session doesn't currently exit cleanly."
Possibly. These people might lie to them about what they'll do in office. Many poor people are unable to vote due to convictions (such as possession of marijuana), jobs that don't give them enough time off, or just a feeling of disenfranchisement.

If the vast majority of people in Oklahoma could and did vote, I'd be more inclined to agree.
" The prices of the shares are largely based on the value of the company. "

The perceived value of the company you mean. This site regularly discusses companies that make almost nothing with huge valuations. Like with shares, once they're sold they generally benefit a few financially who play the game yet again. Very little is created in the process.

Whereas, the instances that have capitalists investing into new businesses or expansions in old ones do typically create some value for the economy. The capitalists also stand to make money, too. World of difference.
"moving images on the screen aroused a physiological feeling of horror in the audience (shots of an onrushing train) or physical nausea (shots taken from a great height or with a swaying camera)" -Jurij Lotman

You could research the Lumiere Brother's films, and probably find some material on the matter pretty easily.

See also, the history of IMAX (70mm film). Originally invented in 1929, named Fox Gradeur,they cancelled the product for decades because it was too realistic, and was making audiences profoundly uncomfortable.

I even recall reading recently that color film and television caused lots of nausea when they first hit the market.

More recently, you may recall that the Blair Witch project was making audiences around the country vomit, because they were not yet accustomed to jerky handheld-style cinema:
http://amarillo.com/stories/1999/08/13/usn_LA0713.001.shtml#...
Its basically a rally the troops moment. One person can screw with a lot of people, so you probably need to work with others to stop any outbreak.

I assume we aren't talking a technical argument. If we are, then do a presentation and it will all come out in the Q&A.
Since when are governments "culpable and transparent"?
Sigh.

Yes, it is well supported by the research, did you actually read it?

I actually had a nice phone call with the lab that produced this paper. You can explain a percentage of weight changes by calorie intake, but the factors that explain glucose curves (and thus uptake of calories) require far more data (like genetics, etc).
Does Flatpak do anything that nix doesn't do?
Shelter and land are not a service but a physical resource.
Exactly, a bunch of friends tried to move a chatroom from Skype to Discord, and I blew them off, because I didn't want to move my communication to an app from a company just hoping to get bought out by Twitch probably and shut down within a year. A closed source service with no business model isn't something anyone should even try, much less use.
It did not ended with a massacre only because it started with that. Ask ghe First Nations. Lacotas for example.
Sure they can. Their weapon is the media instead of bullets. They just have to convince at least half of them the British policies benefit them. Plus provide them with guns. They'll shoot the other half for the British. Just like Democrat vs Republican politics and media in the U.S.. Nation can't win if it's divided and fighting each other over the actions of elites who they continue to fund and vote in. ;)
Am I the only person who likes the idea of being able to logout and log back in again and have all my processes still running and arranged the way I had them? Maybe we just need a "hard logout" option for people who want everything killed.

Usually log outs are already instant so I'm not sure what problem this fixes.
I've read quite a bit. I have a PhD in a broadly related field. I tried to explain that you're just confused about what heritability means in this context, what the relative effect sizes are of environmental factors vs parents, that these studies have crazy confounds, and the fact that these things aren't settled and are highly controversial in academic circles but clearly that's not working.

I'll repeat something from my previous post because it's very important. When scientists talk about heritability they don't mean it the layman's sense of "these people have low IQ and that is conserved over time unless they go and breed with others". There's 0 evidence for this even if you look at a small and until recently fairly isolated population like that of Iceland. The correlation between your IQ and your cousin is almost non-existent even if you're part of the same cultural group in the same village. You're simply misinterpreting headlines without taking the time to understand what people mean.

There's no "cultural taboo" here. Scientists want to find the truth and we all work very diligently at it. We're just lucky that reality doesn't back up racist and sexist viewpoints and that the scientific evidence is clearly not on your side.
This is a rather poor article.

In particular, it seems to imply that the wealthy are inherently rentiers. By the logic of this article, virtually all investors are "functionless investors" since they are not directly investing in a business by buying shares from the business. Of course, this neglects the fact that having a market for shares is in fact necessary for anyone to buy shares in the first place.

Also, it would be nice to have a definition of how exactly the wealthy are "dysfunctional." They seem to be pretty functional at accumulating wealth. But they're also pretty functional at expanding and building a wealthy society—Apple made Steve Jobs very rich, but it also made all of us a little wealthier as well.

As for justice, today's rich are more meritocratic than any in the past.
I a unrelated story tmux developers ask systemd developers if systemd can "make me a sandwich" .
Just saw your comment. You beat me to it. Here's mine, though, which provides a key detail:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797166
Anecdotally, guy brought his Vive into the office and a half-dozen people including myself tried it out. I mostly tried Into the Blue for about 15 minutes watching the jellyfish. Basically a static perspective and I did not feel any kind of discomfort. The very strange thing was that I felt uncomfortable after I took it off for about 20 min. Another person had more or less the same reaction and was ill enough to actually have to go to the restroom to throw up afterward.

Motion sickness tolerance varies a lot of course, I wouldn't hazard a guess as to the percentage who would have this problem with VR, but unlike say, watching a color television, the percentage is not insignificant.
I still click that button regularly. The "Google Talk" Gmail plugin still works better than the "Google Hangouts" one.
> The problem is that now, or very soon, we are/will be in a state where the 1% can easily put down the 99% politically, socially, financially and yes militarily.

They don't seem to be doing so hot politically. The poor Koch brothers can't even buy a primary election anymore.
It's important to remember that it's not "those systemd guys" who are breaking everything. It's their backer, Redhat. Redhat is leveraging its strong position in the free software ecosystem to bend all Linux distributions to its way of doing things. I think they're mostly guided by a desire to keep Canonical penned-in and in a defensive position.
Probably fiber and water. When they measure fiber, they tend to measure specific types of fiber. I'm assuming there are a lot of undigestible things in food that don't fall into the neat categories.
systemd has turned Linux into a tire fire.

I've spent 20 years with this platform and seriously worry about it being as useful the next 20.
It means one package for all Linux systems, which is a huge benefit from the developer perspective.
I invite you to dig up _comparable_ origin/destination data for all the reported airports, for the different years the transit ridership was available. Then I shall update the graph.

But it's not going to change the fact that ridership of airport transit connectors is low, building expensive rail transit to connect 5K or 10K people is a waste of money. Building cheap rail (i.e. connect to the airport as part of another project) may make sense.

Failing that, you're just going to have to use common sense to obviously realize the Atlanta is not going to do well in this particular comparison. Just like I actually did in the article, where I was being relatively generous with my analysis.
Renting also has the nice added benefit to landlords and capital owners that it can take tremendous portions of the working classes income while exclusively transferring wealth from them every month so they can never get ahead.

One of the greatest necessary advents in the near-term for prosperity of all is the correction of housing towards smaller, more affordable dwellings out of control of the rentiers racket that has now infected property ownership at a near global scale.
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Curious if it is being used in production.
The weight is fine if you adjust the straps to sit below your occipital bone at the back of your skull - and the mass then rests behind/atop your head, not on your face. Also when worn like that you can literally violently jump and roll around (as is needed in some titles - holopoint for one) and you forget you're wearing the thing.

That's kinda the key. You forget you're wearing it. You forget what's real and what's not - I've watched friends fall on their faces trying to lean on stuff that doesn't exist. I read of a guy who headbutted his fridge because he forgot you can't clip irl.

That complete suspension of disbelief, even if relatively transient, is what tells this observer that the tech is ready. It's young, yes, but it works, today.
I normally do when I comment on HN. But honestly there's nothing to "counter" because like I said there's no substance to the article. I could criticize all the little details but that also doesn't feel right. It would be like a professor trying to grade a student's report and having no idea where to start because it's just a long rambling about nothing and has nothing to do with the suggested topic. In these cases they will just say "Rewrite".
I like EITC, but I find the focus on change in the tax system instead of absolutes to be very short sighted. Where are all the articles complaining that EITC needs to be even higher? Because it strikes me as unlikely that every state already has set the EITC at the perfect level, and so only changes are worth commenting on.

Of course it's very hard to say from first principles what the tax system should be, but any attempt to do so is going to be worthwhile. The alternative is the implicit position that every single change to the tax system should make it more progressive, (and not make any single person below a certain income worse off).
Fasting-like Diet Reduces Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms
You probably are talking about some alternative Universe. In this world programs are made to make certain shareholders rich by exploiting certain markets. Including creation of encapsulated artificial markets with maintaining artificial needs, Facebook being the good example.
Canonical does the same thing though (Mir).
At the extremes the effect on the weight is very predictable. Keeping everything else the same when you reduce your calorie intake to zero, you will reduce weight. Or increase your intake to 3 x recommended daily values and your weight will go up.

Everything in between is affected by cumulative margin of error. There are inaccuracies when calories are calculated, then variations of portions, variations of individual metabolism and compositions of gut bacteria. If you throw the "not all calories are equal" in the mix you get even more variations.
They're the same class of jerks, but they don't have the leverage to strong-arm everyone the way that Redhat is doing it.
The margins are where economic points must be argued though.

Your same logic could be applied to consumers. Any one individual buying products does not keep the economy functioning. We could say they're "functionless consumers."

Except if you extend that logic to all consumers, there is no economy.

Similarly, any one secondary investor might not make or break the existence of functional capital markets. But if you extend that logic to all secondary investors, suddenly there are no longer any primary investors.
Government is far from the only thing that maintains "order". I sincerely doubt that the 'fear of getting arrested' is the only thing that keeps me from murdering people on the street, for example.

Government is merely one component of society, (or "civil"-ization, if you want to be somewhat more colonial about your usage). Specifically, it's the axis of society where we condone the non-consensual use of physical harm (or threats thereof) for various purposes.

I guess what you are saying is that the list of purposes should be unconstrained ('whatever it takes to meaintain order'). My contention is that in general, an unconstrained mandate exacerbates social inequality because the agents of government will have self-reinforcing biases, and their unconstrained judgements can be weaseled into whatever justification they choose. Specifically to address your position, the pursuit of 'order' is ill-defined, and historically has led to very bad things like colonialism in the somewhat distant past, and things like racial profiling in more recent memory.

What constitutes 'order' is a very normative and subjective concept - for example, you might consider a group of young minorities hanging out on a stoop to be 'disorderly' and sic the police on them.
If you want your processes to be running the way it is, then just lock your screen or switch user instead of log out. A log out, in my opinion is like a shutdown of the user session. So all user processes should stop running.
Definitely.

Can we find some similar tutorials that show other applications of linear algebra?
How has systemd effected you?
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Wait are you saying we should rely on processes behaving nicely? That's not how you design a robust system. It's why we have pre-emptive multitasking, not co-operative. And why mobile OSes sandbox applications rather than trusting them to be good.
What's funny to me is that "fiber" is just ripped up plant cell walls and interstitial material, which is virtually all carbohydrate. it's just that it doesn't all get truly digested.
Yeah, I thought it sounded very ungrateful when reading: "We said 'Thank you very much, how much was it again?' She said '£9.50', so we said 'Here's a £10 note - keep the change!'"
Well the tests are all optimized to filter for early 20s from a handful of CS programmes.
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> Maybe we just need a "hard logout" option for people who want everything killed.

Maybe we need a way for people to lock their screens without traditionally logging out... wondered the person who implemented the functionality 40 years ago.
I feel the same way about network manager. Maybe it's just me, but I am not a huge fan of nmcli.
I'm sorry but this is reasonable. Systemd is fixing real issues with Linux, and if apps rely on old bad behaviour they should be changed to work the new better way.
I left Linux for BSD on my home computers. FreeBSD has the right mix of OS aesthetics and great practical tools. Between the new binary pkg tool, ezjail, and great native ZFS support, I am very happy with it.