skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And obviously you are being hyperbolic for effect. Nobody would beat the shit out of you at a Google office, at worst you might get some stares and people might comment about you with their friends over lunch. Also, assuming that you'd get beaten up at a La Raza meeting betrays your racism.

Please stop trying to bring the "librul intolerance" right-wing talking point. It's pretty pathetic to paint yourself as a victim, even when you have everything in your favor.
Except that inflation was worse in the 70s-80s when the lower/middle classes were apparently reaping greater income gains vs the subsequent decades, when they weren't:

https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation/DecadeInflatio...

(Note that the graph on the parent article is inflation adjusted. "Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using income after taxes, transfers and non-cash benefits.")
> Sorry, I have trouble keeping up with which bit is being argued, and your edit[1] has made it read differently now.

Apologies for the bad first draft, maybe it should have been embargoed. ;- )

> And you are just angry that the NYTimes posted that this report might not be released? Or something?

I'm unhappy with the tone and tenor of discussions and presentations of climate issues. The part that "97%" of climate scientists agree on is not disputed by the President or his Cabinet.

The agreement is basically a) that the global mean temperature has increased dramatically, b) that atmospheric carbon dioxide increase has almost certainly had an effect, and finally c) that humans have sufficiently affected the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide to consider that these emissions account for a measurable portion of the temperature increase.

Almost everything else is very much up for debate, and when people present some additional assertions as verified fact, the curious people notice that they're being dishonest, and wonder what else they're being dishonest about.

For example, Neil DeGrasse Tyson once quite regularly told people that if the ice caps melt, the water level will be above the elbow of the statue of liberty. As far as I can tell, this does not match the models, it doesn't make sense, and it makes everything these public "science guy" types say utterly suspect.

The gripe I was hoping (and failing) to get across was that even a subtle misrepresentation or overstatement can cast doubt on your entire presentation. This, I think, is a common and grave mistake of people who present on issues which appear to divide people. When combined with smugness, any (otherwise factual) presentation can instantly convert mildly curious people into rebels.
The income growth for the lower percentages has been below inflation. Combined with the fact that the middle class is shrinking while the lower and upper classes are growing, it means that things aren't improving for many, but growing worse.
Judging things by their side effects
Likely the writer is just that - a writer. He has demonstrated (harmless) ignorance of how tracking tags work. The other posters betting on the website he writes for automatically adding affiliate tags to amazon links is the most likely guess here.
It depends on how you use the SDL as well. In ca. 2000, I've written a game using DirectDraw (which I think the high-level functions in SDL 1.x also used?), and it worked quite well on ~400 MHz PCs.

Then graphics drivers stopped hardware-accelerating 2D graphics(?), and the same game turned into a CPU hog that performed much worse even on much more recent hardware.

This thread is vaguely about the same issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1rpwig/sdl_blit_is...
OK, so it's specified elsewhere in the essay. Does that change the argument in some way?
Germany doesn’t use the MasterCard or the VISA network, instead having an entire separate payment network, EC, which uses under the hood wire transfers via SEPA. This is the E in EMV (EC, MasterCard, VISA) which created most of modern payment infrastructure.

SEPA is the Single European Payments Area, standardizing how to process fast and cheap payments, all transfers are in Euro, from 2018 on also having a standardized API between banks, wire transfers are free or below 1 cent each, etc.
Utilizing Etcd3 with Go
Is this something that only triggers above a certain threshold? On the east coast, whenever I go to the grocery store, its just insert chip and press ok. I've never had to sign or enter a pin.
Yeah, I don't really partake in the weird side of youtube, the number of things i've learned how to do(fix things, build things, cook things etc) from youtube is enormous. Most things I should be able to do myself, and it's because of the people who post things on youtube.
This is the chilliest I've yet felt the chilling effect.
> If more and more people start to feel that their life stagnates the economy will stagnate too.

Or worse, they start pulling out the guns and guillotines.
AI Will Make Fake News Video – And Fight It as Well
I think if you replace three by the, makes sense
Since support for Merkle trees is being added, does that mean that it could allow for someone who seeds a torrent to also seed a shared file of a peer that leeches a different torrent?
https://fee.org/articles/you-are-richer-than-john-d-rockefel...
> Does 95% beat getting shot?

Totally inappropriate.

> Hacker News is infiltrated by people likely to be paid to post pro-hyper-rich propaganda

This is an entrepreneurship-centered link aggregator. You are insane.
> He wants to use different means to address “the problem,” he insists, and doubts that the tradeoffs of getting to a staff of 50 percent men and 50 percent women would be worth it

A lot of people are rushing to give this guy bonus points for saying "I'm not against diversity" and acknowledging some women should exist at Google. (Just as long as they're fewer than men, apparently.)
Your metric is unhelpful. To start with, as of 2013 the top 20% of earners held 85% of the total wealth in the United States[1]. Let me err on the side of caution and say that this is close enough to your figure of 84%. So it seems the top 20% of earners are only paying what their 'fair share' would be if there was a flat tax rate, ie. proportional to wealth (admittedly, wealth != income, so things can be a bit fuzzy there).

Secondly, the entire point of a progressive tax system is that the utility of wealth is not proportional to the amount of wealth. Doubling the wealth of someone below the poverty line can completely change their life, whereas someone with $10 million net worth lives much the same as someone with $20 million.

Progressive tax rates allow us to extract more wealth from the rich (who don't "need it" as badly) for the benefit of society as a whole. You can call that socialist if you like.

[1] http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Having used a fuzzy logic model to do some analysis on a social project in the 90's and a heating problem around the same time frame, I don't think fuzzy logic needs a defense, it needs a PR agency.
Just count your cash as you queue. Though that whole thing in the US of showing prices not including tax seems pretty wack, what's the point ?
> Peace treaty is an interesting metaphor but falls short on many levels. Primarily because peace treaties are more focused on geographic separation (whether country-level or block-level) and agreeing on borders (keeping people apart), not about rules of behavior within a single community

Actually, the Peace of Westphalia, described in the linked article, included a provision allowing freedom to practice their faith outside of the established state denomination [1],

> "shall have the free Exercise of their Religion, as well in publick Churches at the appointed Hours, as in private in their own Houses, or in others chosen for this purpose by their Ministers, or by those of their Neighbours, preaching the Word of God"

[1] http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westphal.asp
Yes.

The biggest % change was during the years 2003-2008 and as far as I can tell the chart peaked in 2011 and receded slightly after that.
Yocto does not seem to support CC3200.
or the sinking of the maine
Airbnb is banning people trying to attend a white supremacist rally
Regardless on your opinions of the memo, this article nails it right on the head; Gizmodo and other major news outlets handled this very irresponsibly, posting their version that had no citations, and leading the reader, even at the very beginning, into forming the opinion that this was simply a guy being "anti-diversity".

Whatever your thoughts on the subject are, it needs to be pointed out that this type of journalism is absolutely not neutral (even though they will swear up and down that they are) and should be, at the very least, condemned for doing so. This is and will be an increasingly difficult problem, especially when people just read a headline and a summary.
> The only explanation I've ever seen that adequately explains those curves is inflation. Inflation drives up prices, both of goods and of assets.

Actually, this disparity growth has been driven by the extremist anti-inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve Bank under Alan Greenspan and his successors. Reduced of inflation allows accumulated wealth to mean more over time, whereas higher inflation puts pressure on workers to demand (and obtain) wage increases and keeps the inequality in check.
Thanks for the critique. (Admittedly, I did roll my eyes pretty hard at the original article, so I could've tried more to reduce that tone. Cheers.)
Yep, and sadly even major news orgs like CNN are doing this now. Case in point:

"Google CEO cuts vacation short to address controversial memo that argued women aren't biologically fit for tech jobs "

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/894904419766108161

"A Google engineer argued that women aren't biologically fit for tech jobs."

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/894951392779141120
Specter of coup, surge in violence haunt Venezuela
Cash Workflow:

- Cashier gives you the total
- I pull out the bills I have and find the best denomination
- I get a bunch of change back I have to stuff into my pocket along with my bills while getting my stuff out of the way for the next person

Credit card workflow:
- Cashier tells you the total
- You say "debit" or "credit" and the cashier pushes a button on the register
- You pull out your credit card, touch it to the machine, and then put it away and start packing up your stuff to leave
- The machine beeps and you leave

Far less fuss, far less opportunity for dropping change. Simple and efficient. I have my card out, tapped, and back within 5 seconds and my transaction is complete, and I never have to worry about if I have enough or too much.
The claim made is that they "decreased the false negative rate".

Google has long prided itself on rejecting large numbers of qualified candidates. Since decreasing the false-negative rate inherently means "hire a greater quantity of qualified candidates", I fail to see how the bar was lowered.
The Wikipedia author cited a quite unclear CNBC story that said that bitcoin "can be used for tax and trading purposes".

From what I can tell from other sources, what it really means is that one must pay VAT when purchasing stuff with it.
Inflation has been trending lower for decades, so this is an unlikely cause. Also inflation benefits debtors and punishes savers. Many middle-class households have debt in the form of mortgages and have therefore benefited from high inflation. There's got to be another explanation.
Not really.

Until 2016, the costs were 30€/mo+0.125% for EC, 160€/mo+4% for VISA and MasterCard, 160€/mo+7.5% for AMEX in Germany.

Most German merchants run on margins below 1-2%. Good luck paying 7.5% transaction fee on a margin of 1%.

This is why EC was far more widely accepted, although even that was too expensive for small places, such as farmers selling stuff on the market.
If you're going to claim poetic turn of phrase, you really have to look at the text in its original languages. There are many examples of strained translations or outright mistranslations for religious texts.

The word used in the original that was translated into English words for day, night, morning, and evening could very well be "an unspecified subjective length of time", "literally 86400 seconds", "literally 43200 seconds", "the timespan for which any portion of the sun is visible in the sky", "the interval between waking and going back to sleep", etc.

The objective reality is that Genesis is a myth written by primitive screwheads that predated the invention of scientific inquiry. Any similarity to any extant theories on the origin of the universe are purely coincidental, highlighted by human brains that are hardwired to find patterns and meaning even where genuine relationships do not exist. There is no shame in having a religion that makes no sense scientifically, provided that you can keep it separate from any matters that require rational thought grounded in observable reality.

Let the religion be what it is. Attempting to reconcile it with scientific theory is pointless, and ultimately a waste of time, because science may just discard that theory and take up another any time new data become available. Indeed, theories like the Big Bang only became widely known because they are remotely reconcilable with Genesis. It isn't the only cosmology theory capable of explaining all the available evidence, nor is it necessarily the best one. Reconciling religion with science makes as much sense as explaining the biological basis for Harry Potter.

It does not matter if religion is made-up nonsense. The important thing is the tribal sense of community one gets from knowing all the same nonsense as everyone else, and the artistic inspiration one may draw from it.

Believing one's religion is the literal truth and also believing that scientific inquiry is the best method at our disposal for understanding and affecting our universe is no more difficult than believing that Star Wars is set a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, while also believing that Star Trek is set a century or two in the future, in an alternate-history version of our own galaxy. We can simultaneously believe that all fantasy universes are separate, and never shall any two meet, and that they all somehow link together through the Stargate inside the Dark Tower.

Science and Genesis are incompatible. But they don't need to be compatible.
I am senior at my job and I disagree with that assertion. People skills are indeed helpful and a good benefit, but they are nowhere near primary. Consider the following two people:

(A) Understands people hardly at all, is constantly confused by hem, but understands computers very well

(B) Understands computers hardly at all, is constantly confused by them, but understands people very well

Which of these two candidates is going to be able to design and build a complex software product?
Both Netto with and without a dog in the logo (competing chains with the same name) now accept credit cards, same with other discount markets such as Aldi, Lidl, and Kaufland. Major exceptions in the food sector are most Penny and many Edeka stores (a lot of the latter I would categorize as "upscale"). You are right about independent stores and restaurants. Unless you know for sure all places you plan to go to take cards you should carry enough cash.
Massive shift of the taxation burden from corporations to citizens.
> Wages are stagnant but the cost of housing, education, and health care can only go up and up and up.

Wages are not stagnant.

From the article: The news regarding the American middle class is not all bad. Although the middle class has not kept pace with upper-income households, its median income, adjusted for household size, has risen over the long haul, increasing 34% since 1970. That is not as strong as the 47% increase in income for upper-income households, though it is greater than the 28% increase among lower-income households.

Nominal wages are clearly increasing. The "wages are stagnant" argument is more valid only if you discuss real wages (backing out inflation), but then you can't reasonably (IMO) say "real wages are stagnant, but inflation is happening".
> Why is this a problem, as long as everyone is not worse off?

First, humans are animals with an innate sense of fairness, it's a problem because it's not fair, and when too many people feel things are too unfair, war results. So it's a problem because this shit is what starts wars.

> Growth should go to the people who make it possible

That would be the workers, those actually doing the work, and that's the problem, they're not getting the growth. The capitalists aren't doing the work, they're not where the increased productivity is coming from.

> Now these are people like us.

No group of people should be capture so much of the economic improvement we create by eliminating those other people's livelihoods.
I'm not an expert, but the more detailed your maps, the higher chance that they are inaccurate. Details of SF streets change regularly.

If they don't have good coverage of SF now, it's not just a fixed effort to make it more detailed. It's a continuous effort.

Also there is no map of detours, etc. I had thought that many self-driving algorithms were not relying as much on maps for this reason, but I could be wrong.

At least Elon Musk said that humans don't need a global map to drive. They just need two cameras pointing out the front windshield. Global maps help to navigate, but they don't necessarily help you drive.
Well, yes. If any of those owners were to suddenly sell their stock in sizable quantities, that would have an effect on the market, as they too are participants in said market. What point are you trying to make?
I don't think inflation by itself is an adequate explanation. If inflation was happening in isolation, you would expect labor prices (wages) to increase as well, which they have not been for the most part.
Uh, OP's point was why does it matter if people are no worse off and people are worse off. Point does not stand.
> I just don't see this technology ever going mainstream

It already is though.
Footnote on the chart says the figures are already adjusted for inflation.
> They're not really growth curves, the curves show relative growth rates. Not quite the same thing.

An exponential growth curve is an exponential growth curve, irrespective of what it measures. Thanks anyway for the pedantry.

> And if you think some central mechanism has gone horribly awry, what central mechanisms changed around 1980?

In 1974, the US dollar switched from being a store of value to a store of debt: https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserv...
The Congress warn big tech: tread carefully
"the top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government"

An easy way to lower that percentage would be to lower their share of income. If your income share grows disproportionately it's to be expected that your tax burden grows disproportionately too. You are also forgetting that their tax rates have gone down a lot in the last 30 years.
i meant that the goal atm is not 50% but to get above the 20%
As very few Germans even have credit cards, most Germans pay online (if they don’t use PayPal) via SEPA wire transfer or SEPA ELV. And even PayPal and Amazon support using SEPA ELV to pay for stuff.
Alien Limbs: Living in a Struggle Between Body and Mind
>This is somewhat off-topic, but I've always thought that the requirement for using a paper prescription for controlled substances was counter-intuitive

Is this a state-specific requirement? My wife is on a few controlled substances and we never receive paper scripts, but instead her doctor sends it in electronically and the pharmacy calls us when it's ready.
then you're arguing for diversity of opinion or viewpoint, rather than gender or skin colour? Because that's the opposite of the approach google is taking here.
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> what central mechanisms changed around 1980?

The Copyright Act of 1976, perhaps? If we look at the list of wealthiest Americans, most of them are there because they provide something to the world that nobody else is able to directly copy. Without competition, there is no mechanism to spread the money around.
I think he was referring to a violent revolution, not to you being shot in particular.
> Cool, which ones?

Forming data requests on the client/consumer side.

> JSX and its variations are game-changers.

don't be so sure
That unfortunately doesn't apply to all their NDs. Some of their newer ones (like the self driving car ND) doesn't offer any sort of tuition back.
From the studies I've read it seems clear that there are biological differences between males and females. This was not fashionable to claim 20 or so years ago, but I suspect the dismissal was mostly based in politics, and the current trend in psychology is starting to acknowledge this.

The problem is that many people seem to forget that the difference applies to averages, and therefore mean very little on an individual level.

In other words, it's not far fetched to assume that a part of the gender gap in STEM/CS is because of biology, since an average trend would influence said gap. Conversely, it's incorrect to claim that a specific woman is more ill-suited doing STEM/CS than a man, just because she's a woman.

Also, I didn't go through all the references, but Adam Grant (at least indirectly) cites the 1995 study by Steele & Aronson which has been proved to be of shoddy quality. Like everyone else who denies any possibility of biology influencing how people think, he seems to have a political axe to grind. I therefore consider his opinions somewhat unreliable.
Charts / sources?
No, everywhere else in the world (basically) it's chip-and-PIN. In the US, it seems to be chip-and-signature (which defeats one of the biggest benefits of chip cards).

When I was in Seattle at a restaurant trying to pay, the owner told me that they also couldn't accept tips if they used chip cards. I thought she was BSing me into paying cash but she tried to swipe the card instead so that I could.

It's amazing how, in the US, even the implementation of new technologies is broken and awful.
That's not apparent. Unless you subscribe to the wrong-headed notion mentioned in this article as well.

> the tradeoffs of getting to a staff of 50 percent men and 50 percent women would be worth it (a position implicitly shared by every company that doesn’t have gender parity in its workforce)

If I have 1 employee and I'm a woman, it has to be a man. Otherwise I am implicitly sharing some viewpoint about diversity. Nonsense.
Thank you for explaining those, but I'm still not sure what they have to do with the "real cost of dealing with cash". EC and SEPA seem to be digital payment technologies, and therefore aren't dealing with cash.
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Here's the thread where everyone reveals their social class.
Essentially what you're saying is that, because he's a white male, his opinion on the matter isn't taken as seriously. In other words, this is a clear case of sexism/racism.
Yeah, that happens. It's near impossible for two strangers to know and take into account every perspective and challenge someone else has faced. And everyone's individual struggles feel enormous to them.

But still, people "punch up", and progress gets made.
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Chip cards in most places in the world require a PIN. It's only the US where (I've ever seen) chip-and-signature (which is a horrible and flawed implementation).