skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that concentration of power is corrupting (this is a general rule). But if the power is held by a dumb algorithm that simply invests and divests based on simple rules (i.e. an index fund), and IF this preserves most of the benefits seen in a free market economy (big "if" there), then that would seem to sidestep much of the concern about centralized corruption.

That said, I see some strong concerns with this approach:

1) Is this dumb algorithm easy to game by virtue of being so simple?

2) Is it possible for a tyrant that gains power to turn this passive equity into concrete control over the economy organizations?

3) (Probably most germane in the context of the OP), if the majority of the economy is owned by passive investment vehicles, would there be market competition any more? Or would high-risk investment capital dry up, to the detriment of startups and small businesses, and causing the economy to be less efficient overall?

This last concern also applies directly to Altman's American Equity proposal, at least to the strong version where most of the US GDP is tied up in the program. It's possible that the weak version (where a small chunk of the GDP is in the program) would be positive, while the strong version would be harmful.

I don't possess enough Econ expertise to have a strong opinion here, but would be interested to hear others' thoughts on this.

Also, perhaps we should call this concept something other than "Communism", since it only partially overlaps with that ideology; Communism explicitly identifies the "working class" and "capitalist class", and describes the exploitation of one by the other. While the outcome described by American Equity looks like the Communist endgame, in that wealth is collectivized, it is also quite different in many other ways, specifically the preservation of free markets, property, etc.
When did some of these of prominent tech people begin thinking that acting like psychopaths was the way to achieve business success?
Airbus partners with Rolls-Royce and Siemens to build an electric airplane
It was less about eliminating emotion and more about recognizing what is and is not within our control, and not letting ourselves become mastered by things outside of our control.
Object rest/spread: not yet Stage 4 in TC39
When doing Android development.

Kotlin has gotten official support from Google, including documentation as part of Android SDK.
I hope they go hard on them. I hate the way in the US it's just become expected that everyone is corrupt as hell.
Draining Millennials of Their Blood to Rejuvenate Boomers
Justices debate Patent and Trademark Office’s rules limiting scope of inter-partes
What if it is extraterrestrial in origin but also exists on earth (originally coming from elsewhere)? How would they know the difference then?
Those are very general conclusions to draw from one test case. The bouncing ball test runs at 60 FPS for me on macOS; most of the time is spent in painting, as expected. Likewise, Stripe scrolls at 60 FPS for me.

I should note that the bouncing ball test is the kind of thing that WebRender is designed to improve—painting-intensive animations—so it's obviously untrue that there's no interest in improving this sort of workload. When running your bouncing ball test in Servo with master WebRender, I observed CPU usage of no higher than 15% (as well as 60 FPS)…
Likely because you haven't read any of the links to cases or explanations in the thread about the history of the issue. See the following summary or check any of the synopses in the thread about the historical background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._v....

You aren't going back in time. The FCC will not have the tools it did prior to Title II enactment to enforce NN. This is WHY Title II classification is in place.
meh where to start with this ...

So it was this kind of hyperbole that largely did EFF a disservice in my opinion. The W3C is composed of very experienced people who can see through straw man arguments and unsubstantiated facts.

The main argument from w3c was that they deal with technical specifications, not US laws.

It now seems that the EFF are starting to get this, and looking to tackle the actual issues.

The EFF acted poorly through out this thing scenario.
> I'm not going to go down a rabbit hole of point/counterpoint with you any longer
> Aside from just being contrarian (which I think a lot of people get a kick out of),
> I suspect you are enjoying being a non-conformist
> Of course this is the total point - to kill the conversation and end discussion,
> I'm not saying this is your intent or that you consciously are doing it, but it works extremely well so its hard to expect people to not do it.

Way to invalidate opponent's points by pointing they are driven by some kind of psychological flaw or behavioral defect in the opponent and basically are just trolling, without actually having to address them. And then blaming the opponent for "killing the discussion". What you mean by "discussion" then - everybody agreeing with you in their own creative ways? If you want to know "what's wrong with politics nowdays", it is this. Not factual rational debate, but instead finding a way to most conveniently dismiss the points and look good.

There are multiple studies that suggest the 2015 approach to NN is not reaching the goals and will do more harm than good - e.g. see a nice list here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/11/tak... But discussing those is useless if it's all "tactics" for you that you need to find a "counter" - i.e. not discuss anything on merits but just find a right way to dismiss it. "We" (the people who agree with you) just need to find a way to make nobody pay attention to anybody disagreeing with you, and that would automatically make you right.
In my experience kids are spending less time with friends, and more time at home. So more time with parents. But is that a good thing? Is it quality time?
Er.. no. Credit ratings are basically a giant risk assessment.

The more you demonstrate your ability to manage debt (and you can do that by simply paying off your card every couple of weeks) the better you demonstrate your ability to do so. More data points, so to speak.

Of course if you can't manage that then that's data too.
How successful was the 20th century communism experiment?
The thief starts the car and proceeds to drive away.

Will the car continue to operate once the thief is out of range?

Is the purpose of this just to get access to your car to steal goods?

Or is this just an extreme demonstration to get automakers to tighten security?
Depends on your neighbors and your neighborhood. Definitely not a universal, but it can fit an existential.
I’m saying they’re not made in the ideal case, free from external pressure, influence, and so on.
> Some UBI plans require UBI to be taxable income for them to work

That's still equivalent to an NIT (specifically, it's equivalent to adding the kind of refundable credit that creates an NIT, and reducing the standard deduction by the size of the credit, which may result in a negative standard deduction.)
You can also download Tao of Seneca from Tim Ferris' blog:
https://tim.blog/2017/07/06/tao-of-seneca/
Berlin police find radioactive iodine on playing cards
Fathers can't be involved if they aren't around.

Single motherhood rate in 1950: 5%

Single motherhood rate in 2010: 41%
It's just another form of the law of averages, the signature ingredient in the rationalizer's cookbook.
They probably already knew it was coming.
In Amsterdam, Purmerend, and Volendam you'll get the question "ui 'n zuur d'r bij?" [1] in an almost incomprehensible Volendams accent. I got zero credit though; my accent ain't from that region.

Instead of going for the volume deal like 4 for price of 3 I recommend to eat one with bread and water. Else they're too salty and you'll be thirsty or get stomach issues. YMMV.

[1] "onion and sour with it?" where sour means pickles.
Fathers can be around without being married to the mother.
How is this even possible when nearly all households requiring dual incomes?
Being a tradesman during a downturn is a bad time.

At least a programmer can write not-useless things to potentially make money. A plumber can't wish work into existence.
Soccer game results on command line
I'm surprised this is getting so many upvotes, there are a lot of problems with the statements and arguments in the article.

It almost entirely rests on a bogeyman of high "costs of regulation", with no argument or evidence that these costs under NN are actually high. NN is trivial to comply with and we've had two years under it but no evidence presented that it is burdensome.

Then, many of the arguments boil down to "Net neutrality is good, but regulation is too costly so let's hope the free market enforces net neutrality on its own without regulations." This is backed up by a claim that there have not been systematic violations of net neutrality, but this does not match the facts and has been addressed multiple times in this thread.

Also, the author several times incorrectly claims that zero-rating does not violate net neutrality, but actually, it is one of the primary examples of a violation. Perhaps they are confused with the fact that cellular companies like T-Mobile are not classified as common carriers? But this refutes one of the main points: For companies like T-Mobile not subject to NN rules, we do see systematic violations of NN, for example, zero-rating.
http://www.prb.org/pdf10/single-motherfamilies.pdf

This paper says it's 24%. Do you have a source for 41? That's too high.
The UI experience is however atrocious. Anything is better then the death by a thousand papercuts on Linux.
Google has learned the proper way to make a cheeseburger in Android 8.1
>> Because they still want people that can afford to pay $50k/year to pay it.

That's not quite what I was getting at. My question is: Why are they making alumni find the $120M in grants, when they could just forgive the loan directly?

There's nothing that says a lender has to collect on its debt. It can choose to forgive the debt.

So it's possible for Brown to charge $50K/year generally, collect it from the rich kids, and then forgive the debt incurred by the poor kids.

But that's not what they're doing. They're keeping the money, and asking alumni and other charitable institutions to pay them.
WRT antitrust, what’s generally regulated these days is nothing, nada, zilch.
Been there, done that..

You can also take pictures of all letters you mail, right before you slide them into the mailbox, so if you ever wonder if you really mailed the mortgage check or perhaps it just slid under your car seat or blew away when the car door opened, there it is in your phone..
I've mentioned this before on here, but for me tossing the smart phone and getting a flip phone has utterly changed the dynamic with my children. It has been 3 months, and I am still amazed (although I guess I shouldn't be) that being actually present with them when we interact has seemed to reduce their neediness/anxiety and improved our relationship/bond. If you can, I recommend giving it a try.
Oppression is violence [1]. The willful disregard of laws enacted by a democratically elected legislature (from Uber's disregard of Taxi Medallions, airbnb's disregard of occupancy laws, to 2008-era banking scandals) of the upper class (successful entrepreneurs) is oppression against the lower classes.

Usually, this is taken care of through the courts, wherein the judicial system punishes people for crimes -- again, an act of violence. However, in the absence of punishment or a judiciary aligned with the interests of oppressors, the oppressed are morally justified in enacting punishment and responding to violence in kind.

[1] Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1967.
"Relay" attack in UK. "Thieves" - or is it hackers? - steal a Merc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8pffcngJJq0
I absolutely disagree with all of your statements and think they are equally unjustified.

You have your unshakable opinions and I’ll leave you alone with them.
"So it’s pretty clear by now that “don’t make mistakes” is not a viable strategy."

This is more generally known as Constant Flawless Vigilance: https://capability.party/memes/2017/09/11/constant-flawless-...
What is the yield curve?
And that means that they, in turn, could be a credit risk. Which is what was being talked about.

Although it has to be said a running balance is not actually a direct credit risk. It doesn't make financial sense, as you're racking up interest fees, but if you are safely managing your payments (no late ones) and your credit usage (a percentage of what your total available credit lines are) then it's not a bad thing for your credit score.

Not that I would recommend it of course.
This would increase the attack surface area.
> With the page at stripe.com, I don't see any difference between FF52ESR, FF56.0.2, FF57.0b14 with servo enabled, or with it disabled. On my 2012 Macbook Air with macOS 10.12, I see about 98-108% CPU on each, according to iStat Menus CPU meter. With Safari it's about 35%. That's exactly what I would expect based on past experience.

> I would probably close this as invalid, as it's not something new or specific to Quantum or Servo, or as a duplicate of one of the older bugs, though I'm not sure which.

That likely points as to why there's little movement on this bug. It's title can be interpreted to indicate a Quantum regression, but it's a general issue that's longstanding, so it may be the people that are seeing it are not focused on it (they're likely tracking down and fixing actual regressions, not known problems).

I know that doesn't help your issue, but it may help you locate the relevant bug report and lend your weight there, if you feel so inclined.
I can't get my kids out of the house. I try. All of their friends are on SnapChat and/or Steam games. No one leaves their rooms. It is really depressing. Kids are not getting fresh air anymore.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/18/the-u...
Leave Britney alone! Or at least her Instagram account. https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/russian-hackers-tur...
I am no RF expert, but I would guess that it wouldn't take much shielding around a fob to keep its signal from being relayed (given the poor range of the fobs in general, the transmitter in there can't be very powerful). Seems like potentially an Altoids-style tin would be enough of a Faraday cage?
Are people really allowed to shill like this openly?
They're kinda unrelated. I don't think WebAssembly has explicit SIMD operations yet? Then again, maybe WebAssembly could be delivered in a form which makes autovectorization straightforward for some subset of use cases.
Unlikely -- As a parent, I am regularly exposed to messaging from local, state and the federal government, public school system, healthcare professionals, and parental advice "experts" on the importance of family bounding and spending time with my children.

I go out of my way to be more attentive to my children in the evening after work, and during the weekends. Their day to day lives are significantly more structured than my own upbringing.

Perhaps the rise in family time is due to this decades long mass messaging campaign around the developed world. And I don't think this is bad! Why? This social response is natural response to the rise in use of social media, entertainment and other electronic distractions.
In Japan, there is a tv show that secretly follows 4 or 5 year old kids on their first trip to the store alone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMZp8KsZ5k

So free ranging is not decreasing in all countries, just a few.
It's an H.266 competitor. H.265 competes with VP9.
It's interesting that reactions to stories about parenting are always default-negative no matter what. People are saying this stat just shows we are smothering our children. Had it been the opposite (half as much time), people would be accusing parents of outsourcing childcare.
"The Maryland parents accused of child neglect for letting their children roam freely had to retrieve their children from Child Protective Services after they were removed from a park Sunday by police."

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/silver-spring/md-free-range-...
And those 35 sources can do credit swaps and various other kinds of deals with other sources...
What's funny is that if you ask different people the same question about Rust's selling point, you'll get a different answer most of the time. Rust has a lot of features, and it's the sum of all the parts that make the whole, rather than a specific part in particular.
Easy to do, but hard to do well. And as a layperson in the photography world it's hard to know what you're missing until you compare an amateur and a professional side-by-side.
It could.

If you want to re-extend one of the muscles QUICK ;)
Leo here:

1) As long as there hasn't been any public notice of your funding (from your VC's blog, an errant mention in a a round-up article, or even a tweet), you can make the announcement when it's most advantageous. Journalists don't care about when the actual round was closed as much as that it hasn't been covered yet.

That being said, if it did happen a while ago and a journalist happens to connect the dots and ask why you waited so long to announce, you should have a good reason prepared. We've never seen it be an issue.

2) You definitely should try! It just means there's less of a guarantee the news will be covered. We've seen funding announcements of as little as $500k get covered. In these cases though, it helps to have another piece of news to include: a substantial product release, a notable new advisor, a major partnership, etc.
Ask HN: Small Biz owners (ROI $50K+), how much did Tech/Stack matter in success?
I've been asking for this for a decade.

I'm glad it is finally coming.
Why fast for so long? How is this healthy?
From a technical perspective sure. From a statistical perspective, the point is a distraction.
>...That's why a house costs on average 24 times more today than in 1960,

There might be isolated cases of that happening, but in general, nothing close to that.

>...In fact, if you look at a fifty-year period after World War II, home prices were absolutely steady. In 1947 the Case-Shiller index stood at 110, and in 1997, adjusted for inflation, it stood at 110 again.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/08/chart-day-hous...

There is a chart at the bottom of the article.

In terms of wages, it is more realistic to focus on total compensation:

>...Economists long have noted that focusing on AHE rather than total compensation yields an inaccurate picture of labor compensation due to the omission from AHE of employer-provided benefits.

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/es/07...

The page has 2 charts showing the differences when you compare wages to total compensation.

The tax burden has basically gone opposite of what you imply. For example, the top 10% paid 49% of taxes in 1980 and paid 70% in 2014. (http://www.ntu.org/foundation/page/who-pays-income-taxes) The "top marginal rate" means very little by itself. What matters is the effective rate which takes into account the credits/deductions that are allowed, the other lower tax rates, etc.

>...The top end tax bracket needs to go well above 50% to make it riskier to invest what's left in those markets, rather than taking a risk on starting or growing a business, the expenses of which are 100% tax deductible.

If the effective federal tax rate would be > 50% and there would likely be state taxes also, why would anyone invest in a small business? The vast majority of new businesses fail in the first 5 years. With such high tax rates, why take a risk when the vast majority of the time almost all the money will be lost and if you are able to make a successful business, taxes will take almost all the profit? Much more rational to invest in government bonds.
Can you cite some cases of that happening, preferably a pattern of said cases?
Less household chores to do these days, more time sitting next to kid refreshing Twitter
I'll just go let my best friend know that the several CPS inspections she had to endure last year when she left her kids at the park unattended were not real.

Anyone can call CPS for just about anything, and having someone pick through your home and point out every little flaw, with the threat of taking your kids away is a real issue. Please don't downplay it, and don't downplay how shitty people can be to each other.
I agree with the spirit of your argument, but I am pretty sure that this actually has happened.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parent...
My 11 month old already sees my iPhone as a threat and goes for it with his teeth whenever he sees me using it. Or he just wants to play with it himself; at anyrate it is very difficult to use my phone around him now.
I think there might be a use for recording devices which record an encrypted record which can then only be played back as part of a due process investigation. I think the due process requirements could largely be enforced by proper key management -- basically the keys would be stored in escrow with independent (and disinterested) entities.
For me the solution was to make my phone super boring. It's basically a dumbphone with WhatsApp (because where I live WhatsApp == texting). It does have a browser but I can't get to it easily (basically i have to start some other app and trick it into starting a browser). No social networks. No games, etc. Maps is the most interactive app on my phone, by far. All that other stuff is for the computer.

This works well for me (except weird quirks eg I sometimes take my laptop to the toilet). It forces me to consciously choose to "dive in" (because opening a computer takes a bit more time as well as physical space).
> [for men] child-caring time has jumped from 16 minutes a day to 59.

I always wanted to spend more time with my own children than my father did with me. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who managed to pull it off.
Image classification on CIFAR-10 – starting deep learning hands-on
I like OmniFocus. It works on laptop, tablet, and phone.
A famous example of this technique is Weegee's photos from a movie theater. You can tell infrared film was being used by looking at the subjects' eyes.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/01/19/weegee_captures...
Me too!! I have so wondered why none of the OS makers was going in this direction. This is a complete gamechanger.
A quick Googling says otherwise. Here's one of many.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protective-services-called-on-m...
Most comments are talking about todo lists. I use those a lot. I keep a detailed hierarchical list of tasks in OneNote, and move them to a done list when complete.

But I think you meant checklists like pilots use to avoid human error. I make those very reluctantly, preferring to simplify whatever system seemed to need a list.
Here are some rough calculations on the matter: https://what-if.xkcd.com/117/
Please don't spread FUD. I'm not a huge fan of Ubuntu but be honest, its so-called telemetry drama from several years ago never required the command line to turn off, it was a switch in Unity's graphical settings app. Since that controversy it has always shipped opt-in, and non-Unity versions of Ubuntu never had the issue to start with. There are no Amazon "ads" apart from a link on the dock that is removed with a right-click, again no command line wizardry required.

Please don't lie.