skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a couple in their 70s, moderately successful entrepreneurs, who not only hoarded millions in cash but also refused to put any in the stock market since the early 2000s. They have kept it in ultra-safe, ultra low yield bank and bond accounts, with a relatively small investment in a Florida condo.

Their fear, borne from experiencing repeated stock market and real estate bubbles over many decades, is that yet another crash will decimate their savings.
I'm not sure I understand your distinction between feeling of prosperity and actual prosperity. What do you consider actual prosperity?

And my claim requires an imperfect broad brush because nothing in this world will ever reach perfection in the eyes of everyone. However, I don't feel the need to add little conditions and details to everything I say when it applies to the vast majority of people.

I am a minority. I live in a city of minorities. My days are spent with minorities and people in the majority. My claim applies to the 1M+ minorities in my city. It requires neither willful ignorance nor lack of exposure to minorities.
$100 if you can trick me into inserting a string into my software
I think our habit of discussing such arguments as being about the "reality" of time is confusing and silly.

For the most parts people (except maybe Julian Barbour) are arguing about whether the the concepts of "now" and "change" come from outside of physics, in such a way that the present is in some sense more real that the future or past.

If so we can and must think of physics as how "real things now, change".

The alternative is that time is part of physics, and that every part of the history of universe is equally real, and that "now" and "change" are perceptions of observers within that history.

Both views accept the reality of time. Things don't become less real just because they are physical facts rather than metaphysical necessities.
There never wasn't room for unpaid domestic labor, insofar as cultural acceptance of the role. The economy has stagnated the incomes of so many people for so long most cannot afford, on a single salary, to provide living arrangements for such a job plus children.

There is no room in a civilized society for bondage and servitude through violence. Eudocia in this story was never given the choice until she had lived the slave life so long she was no longer able to adapt out of it, and that is fundamental to any moral discussion.

Strangely, it seems if you give people the necessary tools to have an option, ie, a public education, then nobody seems to willingly choose this lifestyle. There is no real barrier to stop someone from the street knocking on my door and asking to be my surrogate housewife for free, as long as they are doing it of their own free will.

What is important to remember is that Eudocia's behavior was conditioned through coercive violence. She never had the chance to live for herself. She was forced through threats and abuse to be the person she was, as a product of an environment that gave her no reasonable alternative. We should never wish that on anyone.
Wouldn't the sensible thing to be to set rates on a per system (and version) basis?

It's a really, really uniform pool, especially if you also have geographic risk information.
Sigh. Yet another native desktop app I will now have to stop using on my laptop in order to get any kind of decent battery life off the grid. Having Electon.JS apps open effectively halves my battery usage in Linux. Each one is a separate Chrome instance, and Chrome uses considerably more power than Firefox (we're talking multiple watts).

When I'm on the go and want my Lenovo P50 mobile workstation laptop to last an entire cross-country flight so I can get work done (a real use case), I have to use Slack web client, Sublime instead of VS Code, Firefox instead of Chrome, and manually close out of a whole bunch of less important Electron apps (Discord, Gitter, Skype, Upwork, Spotify, Atom, etc.), and only then will powertop show an acceptable < 20W of power draw instead of close to 30 W with all of the Electron apps open, allowing my laptop to have five hours of battery life instead of two, which means it will last the whole flight.

I still have a bunch of native Linux desktop apps that I prefer to use to this very day that are fast, responsive, and don't make my laptop's fans sound like a leaf blower while failing to prevent the heated chassis from scorching my lap.

Devs don't let other devs use Electron -- as a real alternative, consider using the wxWidgets cross-platform native GUI app framework (with its myriad language bindings) so that you can have a single code base that supports all of the major platforms.
Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant Slash Jobs
Ford to cut North America, Asia salaried workers by 10 percent
If they live elsewhere they definitely have freedom of movement.
It often feels like two income households are counter productive. Sure, we make more money, but it feels like 2x the dollars chasing 1.5x the pie out in the world. And then you have to pay for childcare.

As for the household work, I was just telling someone today how much I miss being able to work all the time. I love my kids and they come first, but it's a sacrifice to for me not to work 12+ hour days.
Magit is awesome. It's the one tool that got me using git at all.
If nothing else, more investor competition at the seed/A-stage is probably a good thing for startups. Still on the lookout for the normal seed/A-stage terms to get back to what they were maybe 2 years ago...This could help.
I'm a little bit familiar with Indian culture; I think it's not that easy to tell the caste from the surname. It's probably easier to figure out if someone is Brahmin I guess.
Let me know how you feel about that when your old
The flowery baroque language you use to obfuscate your words is in contradiction with your point.
But that person needs to know the appropriate tool to use, given their experience. They are going to gravitate towards services they're familiar with, and by pricing things on the high end, you'll reduce the number of people who get to play with it.
I just want somebody to explain the connection in 2-3 sentences.
Unfortunately, the CALF series have been notorious for having problems or causing crashes in the past. If you do want to try it out, I highly recommend getting the latest version or building from git as a lot of distributions package an older version in their repositories.
Pre-Industrial agrarian societies have quite a different structure. A "housewife" is defined by a wife performing domestic labor supporting a husband who in turn participates in the market economy. That's not how it works on a farm, where the husband and wife both work on the farm.
Most profitable, not biggest.

If one of them were to disappear tomorrow which one do you think would have the biggest effect? Losing apple would be an inconvenience, losing Foxconn would be a major disruption to global supply chains.

Your definition of value is very different than mine.
The use of vector graphics instead of 3d rendering or bitmap video seems reminiscent of the techniques which allowed Another World to achieve the fidelity it did on the consoles of that era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GVubkh4TE

Tech overview: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/
Our military spending isn't as high as some would like you to think. They always show that stat that says we spend more than the top X other countries in the world combined. That's certainly a damning statistic. But if you look at our military spending as a percentage of GDP we're not even in the top 10. And it's important to note when comparing our spending to other first world countries, other countries get their defense spending subsidized by being our ally. They can spend less because we have their backs. If they had to proportionally provide for their own defenses, we'd look even more reasonable. Believe me, I think we could cut a LOT of military spending, it's just not as crazy out of whack as popular rhetoric would have you believe.
Thereby the term "wage slavery".
I think if you asked my fellow (and often far-more) technically competent engineers many would be hard-pressed to create any chops, let alone realistic ones that pass the gaze of the crowd.
Yeah, I make nowhere near that much as a retiree.
In step 2, while not speaking up, you could get scooped by someone else who notices the defect and the fact that you're keeping mum.
In many parts of India, in most cases, Mr Foo Bar's kid will be called Baz Foo. So as people start calling their kids more modern names not derived from Sanskrit, the text you linked starts getting outdated.
"the history of paid work suggests that the unpaid labor of mothers in the family is the critical thing"

Thank you for this much needed shift in perspective. It should be obvious: mothers' work has been on the critical path for humanity, and other work has shifted around to accommodate it. This is such a forehead slapping observation.
> The trick is to move to a country with proper healthcare

The trick is to move to a country [where taxpayers are going to pay for your medical care]. Nice plan. Several people in this thread already noted that there are ways to make American taxpayer pay, without having to move.
By that logic no American institution would ever countenance racism, given that the 14th Amendment was intended to give equal protection under the law for all and was also a result of the Civil War.
Surprised no comments that I've seen have mentioned the Great Recession. There were many, many stories in 2009 such as [0] about retirees forced to return to work due to decimated 401k's and investments, or people on the verge of retirement who saw their hopes vanish. Considering that the economy is likely due for another recession at any time, it doesn't seem surprising that many people are terrified.

[0]: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-dreams-disappear-with...
He should be getting a settlement, instead he's getting a "go away and we wont fuck with you in court for the next decade".
You specifically claimed Abe Shinzo is trying to war his way out of stagnation.

Who is he trying to start a war with?
It doesnt - they're saying they have such good networking that P is very rare so it's one of the few times you treat it like it's CA.

In case P does happen (a network break), it's a CP system.
It makes the maid dependent on the family -- you can't quit or look for a better job because you'll be homeless.
Yes, it's the best that he can hope for given the circumstances.

If the court had ordered Hyundai to pay him a certain amount of money for wrongful termination, Hyundai would have paid him and then continued with the lawsuit to make him pay back even more. They would have dragged on the lawsuit for years to ruin his life.

Instead, the court ordered them to continue to employ him until such time as he chose to resign. Which gave him a lot of power to dictate the terms of his resignation. He's close to retirement age anyway (most employees of large corporations in Korea retire between 55 and 60) so in addition to dropping the lawsuit, keeping his pension and other benefits would have been a high priority for him.

On the other hand, it takes a great deal of courage and determination for a man to make actual use of such leverage against his employer. Kudos to Mr. Kim for standing firm and asserting his rights not only in his act of whistleblowing but throughout the aftermath!
Our team is equally parts remote and in-office and we've had so many issues with hangouts for our daily stand-ups. Not picking up audio, screen just stops sharing, links outright breaking for unknown reasons. We're a slack house already and will be very likely switching to this after some internal testing to see how we like it.
You might enjoy the book More Work for Mother. (I don't know why this is being downvoted, but the book is about the history of how domestic labor was shifted off men to women to free men up to get paid jobs.)

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-history-...
SoFi’s CEO wishes the US had less student loan debt
For people like this, it's always better for the free market to figure out how to deliver bad news to other people.

I had a coworker who was a hardcore Ayn Rand type who had a real harsh point of view like this, until his infant was born with a congenital heart defect that resulted in hospitalization for 3-4 months.

Frankly, my own experience gave me a similar perspective, although I was more "meh" on the issue. I had a serious back surgery at 25, and spent a lot of time in PT around people whose lives were falling apart due to expenses and lost wages. Meanwhile I had a great employer with generous benefits and leave. The trucker I was around was struggling to live with workers comp and disability coverage. He was selling most of his possessions to keep his house. It was chilling.
The article holds that computer has reduced the need for people to cluster in the same building or the same city. If that is true, Silicon Valley is such an irony.
The mother had to take on a traditional father's role in bringing home an income

This is the primary reason these domestic labourers are so common in the Philippines and in pinoy culture. Also, many men's involvement in their children's lives is non-existent or minimal. A lot of men get their girlfriends or wives pregnant and dump them quickly. So there's also a huge number of single moms in the Philippines. It's a matriarchal culture, and women (including servants, nannies, and housekeepers) are the glue that hold the culture together.
The article discusses this -- they have a pilot in Japan where doctors sell drugs directly to patients. Mexico or France would be good candidates.
>it's usually uncompensated too

In Western society, the act of marriage confers (often vastly) increased wealth and status to the lower status partner, and it is usually women who prefer to "marry up". Furthermore, it is also vastly more fulfilling and satisfying to care for one's own children than one's mistress's children. No two roles could be more different, frankly.
The only important line, which means it's a CP system:

> Even then outages will occur, in which case Spanner chooses consistency over availability.
Why does the government care what the other hospitals think? Would they stop a new burger bar opening too close to a McDonalds, if McDonalds petitioned them for long enough?
Wow that's super progressive. I'm not one for cultural relativism though, I'm afraid. I'm quite the reactionary, unenlightened provincial bore, with my outmoded beliefs like "slavery is unjustifiable".
It's because women's lib effectively doubled the labor force, halving wages. Now only the top 3% can afford a house-spouse.
He is not wrong in general, though. Russia and China do have kids doing it for the lulz, as well as criminal groups.

So if you have clues on the country of origin of an attack, you still need additional evidence (such as methods used and choice of target) to be reasonably sure of state sponsorship.
There's no public information making it clear that there is a connection.

US intelligence officials have stated that the Russians devoted resources to act against Clinton in the election.

There's lots of speculation that people involved in the Trump campaign coordinated actions with Russians. Stuff like timing releases of information or messaging on social media.

People have made the point that regardless of whether there was coordination, Trump and fake news did often end up talking along similar themes (but that can just be one following along with the other).
I was actually pretty disappointed in the story, mainly I suppose because I didn't really think there was a story. I can't really say more without spoilers. As far as true crime goes, Crimetown is leaps and bounds better.
"Online conversions" generally refers to the process of converting a visitor from some lesser-valued status to a higher-valued one. Unsubscribed visitor to subscribed visitor. Lurker to commenter. Commenter to contributor. Contributor to customer, etc.

Closely associated is the concept of a "conversion funnel", which measures the fall-off in participation as additional hurdles are imposed: registration, check-in, passwords, browser compatibility, extensions, screen resolution, etc., etc. The results can sometimes be counterintuitive.

For a sense of just how precipitous that fall-off can be, from an example I've got some strong familiarity with, there's this image showing total Google+ registered profiles, the number which were ever active, within the past year, and excluding YouTube activity (which was being included in totals). The net result was about an 0.3% active public participation rate.

https://d324imu86q1bqn.cloudfront.net/uploads/asset/attachme...

Study:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq

(My work.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_marketing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_funnel
Exactly. I never understand why courts spend so much time prosecuting individuals who kill one or two people by drunk driving, when there are these despicable individuals whose completely sober decisions result in the deaths of thousands.
You might look into the insane stuff that has happened to housing. That is possibly a better explanation for why it now takes two incomes to try to keep a roof over our heads.
I'm aware of that.

People often make indirect little attacks against capitalism here as some kind of socialist dog whistle. I want to call them out, and asking what concrete things they propose. Anything they can put to words has likely already been tried and ended in disaster - people advocating for misery need to be exposed for what they are.
Yes, I know, I watched that around when it was first posted. But how effective is a court-appointed lawyer going to be, controlled for various types of legal hassle, controlled for (in the case of an accusation) actual guilt and innocence? In a case of refusing to disclose a password (or even admit the existence of a password, saying literally nothing), are you going to trust the court appointed lawyer or (if you could procure them) someone at the EFF to better represent you? All lawyers have to meet certain obligations but that doesn't mean they're all equal.

Given that most people talk too much to the police most of the time without dire consequences (police have a lot of flexibility in what they can do with your volunteered information, it's a two-edged sword) a more careful cost-benefit analysis of saying nothing or saying certain things is irresistible to smart tech people. If you're going to take the principled 'never talk under any circumstances' approach you need to have thought of various situations so you can make that principle work the most for you and not let it become an unnecessary cost.
Not every issue is simple enough to explain in 2-3 sentences, especially when it involves many complicated threads and unverified (but compelling) evidence.
That makes it even more important to point it out. Most people would otherwise have no clue there's anything to miss out on. As some people above said, making their own apple sauce made "store bought inedible". The flip side of that is, to make cheaply and badly mass produced things sell, people can't know good things. Once stuff is gone and purged from the archives, it's gone. The feelings of anyone who happens to be around currently, including ourselves, are not even a matter compared to the dangers of that.

We can't remain at the point where our problems with coping with emotions restrict our intellectual movements. This isn't asking anyone to run 50000 miles, or go a week without sleep or a year without food, it's just saying "this thing you think is good is actually kind of shit, and if you knew this actually good thing that would be immediately obvious to you, please don't die now". And while most people (including me) can't have a tree, everybody but the very poorest could save up some money to buy just one "real" apple to at least confirm this. Or maybe buy two, and give one to a poor person, just so they know how bad the apples they sometimes eat are. And then the question is "what does this mean, how can this be improved", etc., and not "how do I live with this blow to my ego". Please, don't take this as me being upset at your comment at all, it triggered me, you could say. I read Fahrenheit 451 recently and since then every HN discussion has aspects that remind me of it.

If people didn't personally identify so much with what they know and do etc., there wouldn't even be any hurt feelings to overcome, but I'm not even going there. Let's assume it's real offensive to be corrected or put down a peg: yes, and, so, what? That should motivate us to head off others at the pass, and to smoothly inspect their lessons and take them on board without blinking should they have merit, to become good at it, instead of attempting to ban it.

> internet folks trashing the preferences of 99 percent of the population

vs. article:

> His words contain the paradox of the Red Delicious: alluring yet undesirable, the most produced and arguably the least popular apple in the United States. It lurks in desolation. Bumped around the bottom of lunch bags as schoolchildren rummage for chips or shrink-wrapped Rice Krispies treats.

Maybe it's a bit rich coming from me after going on such tangents, but still, it takes some mental gymnastics to turn complaints about "ramming [these apples] down the throats of American consumers" into "being a snob for thinking lowly of people for liking these apples so much". No, everybody would be able to tell the huge difference, but as you said, most people don't get the chance. That's the problem, not the solution.
"Lola" was not her "slave name."

"Lola" is an affectionate nickname that means "grandma" in Filipino.
They aren't actual VM instances, just blocks of compute and storage. BigTable is priced the same way.

At the scale they're targeting, it makes sense, especially for large companies who will gladly pay for the reduced complexity and easy scaling while removing all the operational overhead and cost of other solutions that don't come close to this.
Your last sentence does not follow from that definition.
Even if time is an emergent phenomenon, it does not mean that it is not real or somehow "less real". I mean, yeah, we ourselves are "not ontologically fundamental", since we are built from atoms, but I dare to say we are real nonetheless.
> Its also probably true that you don't need as much variation and nutritionists say

Yeah, I've felt the same, and that's why I put it to the test. I can't necessarily extrapolate. All I can say is for the better part of 2.5ish years I've been eating the same thing everyday and my health (according to my yearly checkups) has been stellar.

Of course, you have to hit your macro- and micro-nutrient requirements in your daily regimen.

> I've also lived off of what you suggest and its not that pleasant.

It's a matter of perspective, I guess. I look forward to peanut butter peas or greek yogurt with honey roasted peanuts mixed in or overnight oats made with frozen blueberries and soymilk.

I guess I was just trying to offer up that there is a way to eat healthy, cheaply. Because I certainly didn't know about it until later in life.
welllll, so are plenty of packages people install into production software every day. i think pre release means less to people these days.

and sure, you can blame it on the people using the software, but that doesn't stop a bunch of ssh servers with default credentials being open to the network.
Yes, women control most of the discretionary spending in the Philippines as well.
There's more to that story. Typically the problem is that there are too many hospital beds, not too few.

Outpatient treatment is increasingly more popular and more cost effective. Hospitals often raise costs by introducing massive capital costs that need to be amortized as well as other overheads.

With the exception of lower-cost, higher value primary care, there are rarely any meaningful access issues to doctors in metro areas. Those shortages are largely being addressed with PAs and NPs.