skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the U.S., your $120,000 of capital gains/dividends isn't taxed at a high rate to you, but is taxed at a high rate. First the company has to earn a profit, and out of that profit pay state and federal income taxes (35% + state). Then it pays whats left to you, where you pay your 15-20%, making the total tax rate usually over 50%.

Given that taxes on corporate income is a direct tax in investment, it's counterproductive, it reduces investment, and productivity gains that increase both wages and wealth. It would be far better to have a zero tax rate on corporate income, and tax capital gains* and dividends at personal rates. That restores not just investment incentives, but also progressively of our tax system, so that the person with $1M in dividends and capital gains is paying a higher rate than someone with $20,000 in income.

And this would probably raise more tax revenue in the long run. Corporate income taxes are a relatively small part of overall tax revenues, increasing dividend/capital gains rates offsets most of their loss if they are eliminated, and over time more investment will drive higher wages/income and increase tax receipts.

* If capital gains are taxed at ordinary income rates, they also need to be indexed to protect from inflation. If they aren't, we risk taxing phantom gains, i.e. if an investment is sold for 20% more than it's purchase price, but inflation was 25% during it's holding period, it was actually a loss, because it lost purchasing power. This is one of the reasons capital gains has special rates, but that's not a good protection. In the 1970s high inflation hurt investments because historical equity returns were money losers adjusted for inflation. Investors preferred high interest bonds to protect their principle.
Why would a bank switch to blockchain internally? What's wrong with the existing ledger?
Tell me more about this nominal independence. The biggest state owner of IAG (BA’s corporate parent) is Qatar. Lufthansa is fully privatized. France owns ~15% of Air France-KLM.
1. It's far more conversational. It understands vague questions far better, and the speech understanding also works far better for people with deep accents.

2. It has great integration with other Google services if you're already a heavy Google user (maps, mail, calendar, Fi/GV, hopefully Keep soon...)

3. It has fantastic uses with chromecast (netflix, youtube, pause, rewind, volume, etc).

Obviously, #2 and #3 will vary heavily for people; you can probably get most of #3 if you get a Fire stick. It really depends if you're already a Google/Android/Chromecast user or not.
Because before apple came along, batteries were considered the consumable and were user replaceable. Now apple wants the whole phone to be the consumable. This not good for users nor the planet. Only people who would want a marginally thiner phone in exchange for buying a new one every year and apple's profit margins benefit.
> In an ideal capitalism society, the most talented should earn the most

No: in a capitalist society wealth can create wealth - by definition of capitalism.
That means the wealthiest will earn the most.
My wife and I purchased dumb phones but there were a few pain points we encountered. First, my wife especially would get lost and so we were going to need to buy a GPS, possibly for both cars. We also have a two year old and capturing moments with a camera was limited; we figured we'd end up spending $500 or more on a camera with equivalent features to an iPhone.
Eventually we settled on enabling the parental controls on one anothers phones. I aggressively turn off notifications, to the point where my laptop doesn't even display the time as I consider it a distraction to constantly glance at the clock.
> SoC exist with builtin LTE/CDMA/etc.

But inside the Echo? It's not my area of expertise, but I'm almost certain that there are people with the expertise that are looking for exactly that and if Google or Amazon had those built in, we'd know about it. I think we can at least rule that one out.

As for the compression, that is very interesting indeed. I had no idea you could compress voice that much. If / When they're going for 24/7 recording, this would be most likely the way to go and it would be extremely hard, if not impossible, to detect.
>salary, which is taxed at a higher rate and more difficult to earn.

The fact that actual productivity is taxed at a higher rate than capital gains is our rulers just rubbing it in our face.
The "green" behaviors in this study are oddly specific. At least four of the six experiments appear to be heavily biased towards grocery shopping, and one involves contributing to a nonprofit (WTF).

You have to feel a little sorry for the four male authors. They spent countless hours scouring twenty-plus-year-old research to cite sources and claim these articles say that men don't care about the environment. One seventeen-year-old paper is cited as saying that men "leave a smaller carbon footprint," but all it actually suggests is that out of four specific European countries, single-man households in Greece and Sweden use more energy (in statistically significant amounts) than single-women households in those two countries.

In Study 4, I don't see how anyone could draw a "green" association with a lamp, battery, or backpack. All of these products have tradeoffs.

In Study 5, note that the female cohort in declined in "green"-ness for the manly packaging. This suggests to me that the control was probably somewhat feminine, and people are more likely to prefer products that correspond to their gender norms -- whether or not those products have an underlying pro-environmental utility.

> Although only mem [sic] had been recruited to participate in [Study 4], 14 participants reported their gender as female and were therefore excluded.

WTF kind of methodology is that?

Finally, I note that the archetype of a manly conservationist is strong in the USA. Teddy Roosevelt. John Muir. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ansel Adams. These people did more than carrying a disposable shopping bag to Whole Foods, and selecting the "green" backpack.
OFF-TOPIC - replying to an old thread

the original thread is locked because it's old so i can't reply there, but recently saw your comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425678

> me: i need to generate avatars as a jpeg

> you: The jpeg requirement seems odd. Even if it has "jpg" in the url, you can serve up a standalone SVG (with a jpg extension in the url) as long as you send the right MIME type

i tried your suggestion and it worked - thanks a lot !
Auto-Tuning Compiler Transformations with Machine Learning – Dr. Biagio Cosenza
If the Internet, unbeknownst to most of us, is actually supposed to bring about a uniform world culture, or world peace, or no more secrets/privacy... well, who’s to say it isn’t succeeding? You wanted your idea of utopia on your schedule?
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So A needs some kind of global ledger to keep track of how much cash B actually has, and double check whether it's already told C, D, E that they have all of it.

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

This is a long solved problem. No blockchains necessary.

As an aside this is a problem I often see in fintech pitches...
The difference between heavy and super heavy spacing is only 30-60 seconds (depending on airport), which is a lot less than an additional arrival/departure slot (which come in pairs for obvious reasons).
I didn't express an opinion there as you seemingly assumed. I just stated that it ended up becoming controversial and this can be seen by referring to the documents and historical records of the meetings discussing the subject. One could see what I'm talking about if they at least skim through the blog post I linked to in my comment.

Also, controversy is not a comparative matter (and this one indeed is an opinion).

Edit: Grammar.
Try querying a blockchain.
I'm not sure. I'm hoping it's not some combination of wishful thinking and denial. :/
How Bitly Reaches and Collects Data on Billions of People Each Month
You have offered no evidence for any of your assertions for the ill effects.

When Elon Musk becomes obscenely wealthy by creating affordable electric cars and space flight, everyone else gets the benefits of affordable electric cars and space flight. Not talking trips to mars, but constellations of satellites offering super cheap worldwide internet.
>How does someone having wealth stop anyone else from acquiring theirs?

Through lobbying of laws that increase their wealth more than others. Tax breaks that give scraps to the poor while giving massive benefits to the wealthy. A legal system that only the rich have a chance of truly navigating.

Ideally it shouldn't matter. One person being rich doesn't make another person poor. But politicians have been for sale for some time, and even basic concepts such a free speech and the open exchange of ideas are strongly tied to wealth in a way that ends up being bad for the little guys.
We’ll have 1200 years to think about it.
Mostly soft skills represent your ability to react rationally and appropriately to your own emotions and to the emotions of others--even emotions that you're anticipating and not just experiencing. The most basic soft skill in my mind is empathy, which is your ability to anticipate how others will feel in a given situation. If you're not capable of empathy I do not want you as my manager.
I would hire whoever produces the best quality of work for that amount of money, but if they all produce the exact same quality of work, I would hire the one who takes the least amount of money.
They can have all the formal procedures that they want, but none of them are legally committed to implementing the WHATWG spec. So it ultimately comes down to power, your share of the browsing market[1]. Everything else is ultimately a facade, that will crumble if it diverges too far from the underlying reality.

[1] The power of the different vendors isn't a straightforward function of market-share of course, you have to factor in: shares on the different form factors, shares that are locked in (e.g. WebKit on iOS, Blink on ChromeOS), spending habits of the different user bases, etc.
The clipboard is insecure and can be accessed by any app that is running.

It's not a secure solution, period end of story, to copy paste a password to a shared location on the device that all running processes can access.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/copy-paste.h...

I mean, there's the guide. I wouldn't put my passwords on the clipboard, personally.
Very true, but fortunately the people in charge of making these momentous decisions are well compensated, win or lose;)
Ah...

closes eyes, breathes deeply

inhales smog

...the nasty 'Nnati.
That argument doesn’t make sense because when you receive a salary, the same taxation is passed through the company as well. Companies have to pay corporate taxes before they pay you too.

The only difference is the “last mile” tax of when you receive the money from the company. For capital gains it’s 15% federal, for salary it’s 28%
> How does someone having wealth stop anyone else from acquiring theirs?

The wealthy person (a) does not need a 9-5 job to subsist and can devote all their time to a launching a business, (b) has a lower tax burden via capital gains, (c) can afford to fail multiple times, (d) can buy their way into a top school if they don't get in on merit, (e) tends to have better family connections, (f) etc.

Then the question is then whether startups exist in a competitive environment, which of course is true. Tech, and the web especially, often approaches a zero-sum game.
> The A340 was not competitive. The cost of a 4 engine plane with the seating of a large twin.

Well, they built the A340-600 hoping it would. But it couldn't - and the length caused CG issues which reduced cargo capacity.
The person raising the objection (the petitioner), pays the USPTO fees of $6000 to $18000+ depending on the type of post issuance review requested. The more expensive and complicated ones are more trial-like and require more back and forth between the petitioners, the patent owners, and the USPTO. This requires more attorney time which makes them very expensive to pursue.

edit: to add - still very "cheap" compared to real trials
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive comments and ignoring our request to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
"When two banks transfer money, there's no concrete thing being moved or transmitted. It pretty much just involves bank B telling bank A "You hereby have $100k of my cash". So A needs some kind of global ledger to keep track of how much cash B actually has, and double check whether it's already told C, D, E that they have all of it."

No, there's no global ledger, and it isn't required. There are checks and balances and regulations that allow money to work in a completely distributed way. Unlike cryptocurrencies that use a centralized ledger (all the 'major' ones, at least).
So you would hard couple your architecture to your current org structure?
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There are quite a few notifications on my phone that are, provided by the OS, or whose app I can't identify, or the app cannot be disabled in any fashion.

Google's traffic notifications, for example. I literally don't care that the traffic is lighter than normal at 2 AM. I literally don't care about traffic at all. My life does not revolve around traffic. But can I disable these? Nope.

T-mobiles application updates. I don't care about T-mobiles application updates. I don't use T-mobile's application. I don't trust T-mobile's application. Can I disable that notification? Nope. It wastes precious every resource a mobile device has.

"Select Keyboard" notification when I have a keyboard open. Uhh... I selected the default keyboard. Is that not enough? Apparently not. I don't know how to get rid of the notification though.

I install OS updates pretty regularly. But there's a few updates that are pushed without consent because the "I agree" form has no way to opt out, not even for "no I don't want to reboot my phone right now, I have something more important to do" after a few days.
Try Robo Recall. Most fun gaming experience I’ve had all year.
The short version is that loneliness is crippling me, whereas in the past I used to find comfort in technology. For whatever reason this comfort is gone, and I long for human contact.

However by nature I am very introverted. Not socially anxious, just I get extremely tired around people, and in general can't hold a conversation about any non-tech topic. Also I am a cold/distant person with relative little emotions, not sure why. The couple of friends I had were similar to me, and we can be comfortably cold together. However I work with very warm and caring people from diverse backgrounds, and recognize that I love the qualities they posses. Rather then be happy with who I am, I figured it must be possible to 'train' emotions, so that I become an overall more positive person.

However as a result I now attend around at least 1 social event a week, which goes ok. But sometimes if there are multiple events planned close to each other, my sociability drops off a cliff, but I have trouble recognizing when it happens. Not sure if I should dial back and be happy with the progress I made, or keep going and try to focus on breaking this sociability wall I am hitting.
They are not my arguments. These are the arguments of women competitors. I thought it best to center women's opinions in this comment of mine. You can read them in full here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/fide-does-it-again-...

Also, it is not a huge reach to say that it will have any impact whatsoever. Knowing what chess is and actually seeing / meeting a female world chess champion are different and most people realize that.

Furthermore, yes, activists in nearly every oppressive regime are jailed or killed. Mandela was jailed. MLK Jr. was jailed. Manal al-Sharif, a women's rights activist in Saudi Arabia, was jailed. All of them were jailed under existant laws in the country at the time of arrest. But the fact that countries jail outspoken activists isn't reason enough to boycott an international event, else you'd be able to go nowhere.

As someone else mentioned, there is a fine line between boycotting and attending international events in controversial settings. On the one hand, you have a chance to further international understanding, show citizens what other cultures and people are like, and influence the country which is hosting you. On the other hand, you may be legitimizing oppression. Jesse Owens ran in the Olympics hosted in Nazi Germany. If he had boycotted, perhaps some would have agreed and others disagreed. Similarly here, some women agree with the decision and some disagree. You and the chess champion in the headline, as women, would boycott. These women, as women, would not. Both have some valid reasons.
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True, a news agency like Reuters aims to be a neutral observer whereas a polemical site like Breitbart wants to influence politics. Reuters succeeds to the extent that it sticks to transmitting basic facts to newsrooms around the world. Which is already very hard to get right.

But a lot of what also passes for quality journalism involves not news agencies but newspapers and magazines. I consider a lot of these to be just more sneaky versions of Breitbart. They are more subtle, use more sophisticated language, have specific formatting and typesetting, have a longer history and they mix up their activism with a broad spectrum of neutral news. (I'm mostly familiar with the press in my own country so it's hard to give widely recognizable examples.)

And of course, then there's publications like The Economist. In my very personal opinion, even though they may be "honest" in their intentions, they still end up giving their readers an illusion of understanding. You don't really know what happens in Iraq or Syria or China from reading the Economist. But it's so well written that you might end up believing you do.

Anyhow, I see enough reasons not to trust anyone who wants to use this fake news scare to punish their competition or to herd the population to the "proper" sources of information.

The untamed internet, when used properly as a source of information, will just give a snapshot of bewilderingly diverse points of view. Which is still not much, but so much better than the best polished story written by the best journalists.
> but I have my router only allow access to sites like that for certain hours in the day

My router can do this, but not for sites using SSL (that is, just about every respectable site out there, these days). Do you filter IPs and not by domain?
All awesome and great for people working in IT. Key questions:

1. How many people worked in the old companies and how many work in the new ones?

2. How many non-IT people work in the new companies?

If both answers are what I expect them to be, they point to a huge social problem somewhere along the line.
1) Due to the fact the government is going to tax cryptocurrency trading, pre-emptive sells

2) Speculation: negative cases

3) Fees increasing to trade BTC
BillionToOne (YC S17) is hiring a Senior Scientist to build next-gen diagnostics
Drink?
It's licorice...
The Nazi party adopted the hakenkreuz (swastika) in 1920. So yes, swastikas were associated with fascism long before WW2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Nazism
The dark side of women tech groups – Marlene Jaeckel
1) Vue

2) React

3) Python

4) Deploying apps with Nanobox

5) R
You could use a hosts file and a cron job, perhaps, for something similar.

Or do what I do, and just edit the hosts file manually. That means I often go for days without changing it, because it forces me to make a decision, rather than act on impulse.
In the 1970s the 747 averaged 32 orders per year. In the 1980s it averaged 43 orders per year. It peaked in 1990, taking in 122 orders that year alone, but from 1992-2000 orders dropped to average 27 per year.

Ironically in 1993, the year A380 design work began, the 747 had it's worst sales year ever (till then), with only 2 orders.

The A380 was approved for production in 2000. In 2005, Boeing announced the 747-8 to better compete with the A380.

From 2000-2009, the 747 had 214 total orders, almost all after 747-8 was announced. The A380 had 212. Combined that's 43 orders a year. The market did not grow, despite substantially better, more capable, and more efficient, products.

From 2010-2017, the 747 and A380 have booked 18 orders per year combined. It is by far the smallest jumbo market since it was created. And what point to point advocates predicted.
Doesn't that indicate a modular architecture or just feature flags rather than microservices?
Yea, but after watching a TV show for 5 hours, you begin to miss all the details and are just satisfying a craving at that point. You are ruining the art by overexposure.
Qantas will be retiring all its
747s in the next few years as their replacements, a mix of A380s and 787s, come in.
Weeeeeeeeeeeird.

But then, I'm Jewish Israeli, so I don't have a lot of first-person experience with the full interrogation experience, just second-hand accounts from both sides of the table.
>In the US, more people are moving up and out of the middle class, than are moving down and out of it. That has been the consistent trend for 50, 30, 15, 10 years.

You're going to need to provide a citation for this statement.

As for the rest, how many people are getting wealthy from these companies? Largely the same people who were getting wealthy from previous generations, and a few lucky individuals who managed to gain entrance into the elite class. But really, it's the VCs making all the money here. The same sort of "already wealthy" people who have been making most of the money for the past several decades.

On your examples, they are extreme hyperbole. GE dying? Their revenue is 123 billion and have over a _quarter million_ employees. They span everything from aviation to healthcare to things like lightbulbs. Presumably you think Tesla is killing them or something? They are at 7 billion revenue and only 33 thousand employees. In automobiles GE has already simply bought self driving and electric car technology and by the time it's mainstream all their cars will have it. Tesla is amazing, but giants like GE have so much wealth they won't be going anywhere that easily, which is part of the point.

Ditto for the taxi industry. Dying? They seem to be everywhere still meanwhile Uber and Lyft are getting more and more regulated, or outright banned in some countries and cities. No, the end game isn't the death of taxies here, it's simply a change in the industry. Taxi companies will need to become more like uber and lyft, meanwhile uber and lyft will be regulated to the point where they are little different than taxis. Self driving cars might change the game, but by the time they are normal lots can change.

Most of your examples are not example of fundamental change, but rather simply the same rich people changing technology. Cable didn't die, it became netflix, hulu, amazon, disney, etc. Channels become streaming companies. Ads become product placements and internet ads. Same old stuff in new clothes, with the same cast of people running the show.
1) React Native

2) Some Japanese for a trip next year

3) Better meditation practices

4) General and technical knowledge via my goal of listening to 25 audiobooks next year
What do you consider a digital tech stock? He's the largest single shareholder of Apple:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/warren-buffett-ive-never-sol...
Ports is great. I have only used FreeBSD lightly, but macports is the only package manager for OS X that has been reliable for me. Nix is not a strict improvement, but it improves things in a lot of directions compared to ports.

Hardcoding dependencies at build-time seems to me like a fundamental first step towards a stable system that has been absent from Linux since the late 90s.
Looks pretty cool, I just write plain text though