skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for us to judge the historical impact of his work; we haven't the perspective.
> We just reduce the influence of class and wealth.

How?

Since the dawn of time, people have been split into rich and poor. It seems to be the most persistent bifurcation in the history of human civilization. Even in a society like the USSR, where there was little to no private property ownership, material wealth was controlled by a small cohort of politically-connected individuals who passed their influence to their children.

The best antidote to wealth inequality has been criminality and chaos - plagues, world wars - which seem to be on the decline.

It's easy to target a few thousand billionaires and apply some estate tax to recapture fortunes upon death. But the real reservoir of generational inequality - as you imply it to be - seems more likely to be the hundreds of thousands of upper class families who pass on intensive amounts of educational, cultural, social, and financial benefits to their kids in ways that are harder to track and harder to crack down on, and which no amount of Government programs for the poor are likely to replicate.

With that in mind, what practical steps can you take to meaningfully reduce the influence of class and wealth?
My spouse is similar - he finds women easier to be friends with. I'm the opposite - I tend to get along better with men than women. (We are an opposite-gendered couple, btw).
To answer your last question: Yes, for some reason there is something controversial about men and women being just friends and I wish folks would stop worrying about it.

I got a lot of crap when I was younger because of my friend choices. Teenage years? My parents wouldn't trust my friends. Didn't like me hanging out with them. Folks assumed I was having sex with this group of guys, which was really weird as I didn't generally date within our core group. In many areas, it simply isn't socially acceptable. Yet it is completely socially acceptable to be somewhat possessive of your romantic interest, up to and including forbidding them to have opposite-gendered friends. For men stuck in a "macho" society, it can signal that they might be gay and made fun of for it (and I don't actually understand why). It sucks, and I'm quite happy my spouse isn't one of those people.
I don't think I can completely agree with that. Should a meatpacker who skirts food safety regulation get an ethical pass because they believe government regulation is despicable?

I think the more ethical stance would be to advocate for changing the law.
A society in which you're stuck by virtue of your parent's choices doesn't seem like a meritocracy at all. Why not just call it a "low mobility aristocracy" or a "bounded caste system" or something of the like?
Nobody argues that there is no such thing as murder. It's not begging the question just because people don't agree about edge cases.
Calling multi-generational meritocracy the same as aristocracy is a misunderstanding of what these two words mean. Yes, societies are messy, and what happens in one societal structure can sometimes happen in another, but that does not mean that the underlying rules defining the two are equivalent.
That sounds like most the old webmail clients of yesteryear, except for speed. Squirrelmail was pretty bare bones, but worked. Beating Gmail for speed is going to be hard unless you work with some non-traditional backing storage.

If you really, really want speed, simplicity (beyond initial learning curve at least) and access, getting access to a host that allows shell access, has mutt and screen or tmux installed, and accepts mail delivery would hit all your points as long as a SSH session is doable. Screen/tmux keep the client open when you are disconnected to speed (no need to scan a few hundred MB or couple GB of messages in mbox or Maildir format), and mutt will be as fast and configurable as you can imagine (plus you generally get procmail).

If you're actually interested in that and don't want to run your own mail server, sonic.com (used to be sonic.net) has free shell accounts for customers, and they have non internet services you can sign up for still I think (such as hosting). In any case, you can just call or email support and tell them you are looking for a shell account to read your email and they might hook you up with a shell account for a couple bucks a month.
Finally, HTML5 apps for desktop, running in separate window without any additional downloads. A win for developers - no more building installers for each OS, and a win for users - running web apps on latest (and presumably safest) version of internet browser.
pg is Nostradamus, this list is amazingly prescient

- #5 explosion of upstream SaaS

- #6 tons of higher-res components of CRM software

- #9 instagram

- #11 google drive

- #22 smartsheet

wonder if the few on here that haven't been solved (wrapper for customer service) are simply unsolvable, or something has to shift for the economics to make way for them.
Assumptions, assumptions... doesn’t the 10x tool require proper training and handling?
We don't violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. We're still increasing entropy, but we're processing so much fuel that the equations are still balanced when we locally increase order.

Comparing lifespan to the bonds of a molecule is also pretty cringey. :-/

Obligatory link to Aubrey de Grey: https://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_a...
Fully agree. Narcissistic men are annoying - I don't get how they seem to lack self-awareness, and they are toxic for teamwork. Not that women don't have their downsides, too - some can be neurotic, but at least the bitchy ones tend not to work in IT. I'm really glad we have a few female developers.
Why would you be lying? It seems more like either of:

- You're mixing up the difference between personal preferences of an individual and emergent results of groups of people.
- The fact that you prefer something doesn't mean it's best for general productivity (or even your productivity for that matter).
> It can be really very difficult to let go of some things I strongly feel the user needs to see, but when I do, it's surprising how often I find that "less is more".

I find that when a screen has a lot of options, it usually means that the creator is un-opinionated / didn't make a decision on what's important and surrendered to implement everything that was asked, whereby it feels like a clown fiesta.
I think that is quite possibly the best deal of all time.
I know schizophrenia can develop into dementia if not treated. Perhaps depression, anxiety and other mental disorders also result in faster brain deterioration. I've also found studies linking calming pills like xanax and valium to earlier dementia.
I agree. This sequence of courses is the best I've found.
IT is more than internet connections. It's also, for instance, reducing your need for employees by having class registration done entirely online.
I assume you need a Nvidia card for this? Also has anyone tested it and seen how long it takes to render?
Baap ka darrrr
Implementing a Gaussian Naive Bayes Classifier in Python
And 184 mL (about 6.5 shots total, 1.5 fl oz each) of hard liquor (80% ABV).
I find the small private offices (say 4 people) the worst of all worlds.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11684718
How We Almost Burned Down the House
When the Terminator pulls up at the police station to kill Sarah Connor
> Monads force a denotation of sequencing

Aha! Now we're on to something.
> 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid.

Airtable founders: "Hold my beer."
I miss the +/- zoom buttons, and having Google Maps respect my zoom level when I hit the "center map" button.
In HN parlance, once they shut down their own app do they become a... patent troll?
Transistor switching frequency has almost nothing to do with processor clock speeds which are almost entirely limited by wire RC delay. You will get increased drive currents by switching to higher mobility materials but the performance improvement over strained silicon isn't that large.
>2. Simplified browsing.

Midori is the simple browser I have ever used.

http://midori-browser.org/

>17. New payment methods

This one has certainly come true! Cryptocurrencies have absolutely exploded.

>28. Fixing email overload. A

Astro tries to solve this problem. https://www.helloastro.com/product/
Know what to focus on and what to clean up

Astrobot’s AI-powered Insights remind you to follow up on important emails, questions, time-specific requests, and @mentions.

Plus, Astrobot makes suggestions about lists to unsubscribe from, emails to archive, and emails to move to folders.
I'm the one asking "Why?" in effect. I can't answer your question since it would be effectively answering my own.

I think the Uber example in particular assumes that following laws is itself essential. But opposing immigration laws and enforcement of them undercuts that axiom. I don't see how people resolve the tension there in a philosophically coherent way.
FTFY: ...everything is "just mathematics." ;)
https://xkcd.com/435/
You have to conform to the "life plan" of your station, what your parents expect, what they raise you to, what your peers (from a similar background) are doing.

From the wiki: "prefer the continuation of a harmonious community over their personal interests". That's directly opposed to meritocracy.
Thank you for sharing this research. As someone who abstains from drinking and is very health-conscious, I've been conflicted about all the research supposedly showing health benefits of moderate drinking. The evidence just seemed too intuitive. This gives me something to explore.
Thanks for the advice. I think I'll just put it up for sale, make a website for it, hook it up to Stripe or something, and post it as a Show HN. If I post it as an Ask HN, the mods may not allow a Show HN about the same topic any time soon afterwards, and reasonably so.
Separate society into 'spheres.' So for example I'm of the mind that education and healthcare should be totally separate from wealth. You shouldn't be able to buy a better education for your kid and you shouldn't be able to buy better healthcare for yourself. We should all be 'in the same boat' so to speak. In this way the wealthy have to advocate for universal improvements instead of using their wealth to opt out of bad systems.
Use one iteration of Newton's method to approximate distance to an ellipse
The word "meritocracy" was not coined as a positive term. It was intended to describe a dystopia. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
This comes up regularly when a big natural catastrophe (a tsunami or such) happens somewhere in the world, the TV stations ask for donations with a "codeword" like "Tsunami relief South-Asia" andf donations pour in.

And then the Red Cross or whoever cannot use all that money sensibly. Maybe the catastrophe turned out to be a bit smaller than expected. Maybe there is need for more tents and food and water, but for some reason there is limited transport capacity available. Maybe there is an armed conflict breaking out or going on and they don't dare to go fully in.

And then... there are lots of other worthy causes. Other natural catastrophes. General anti-hunger initiatives.

But they are forced to leave the money laying around because they are not allowed to use it for another crisis. Even if most of the donors would probably shrug and say "well, too bad, but sure, go ahead and help where you can".

For this reason: always refrain from designating a specific use. If you don't trust the organization to do good, give to someone else.
that's been tried multiple times (communism/socialism) with generally unpleasant outcomes.
For producing "normal" English with longer words it was invaluable. It also handled multiple languages with ease compared to the default iOS keyboard. But I could tell the last few years that they weren't really maintaining it. I'll probably use it until it stops working and then switch to the current state of the art.
That is exactly why urban planning needs to be from the top down, at least for high level activities. Arranging for an entire area to be re-developed at once is a top down planning activity.

Conversely, the precise details of what goes in to an area should be 'bottom up', but within zoning policies similar to how Japan does it.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540845
> A great many of Apple's customers care a lot about this kind of thing.

And an even greater many of Apple customers do not care about those things. The number one deciding factor for many people in the world is how much the monthly payment will be. Full stop.
because in an aristocracy or caste system you're truly stuck and your descendants are as well. Not so in the society we live in.
Programming ARM microcontrollers in Rust at four different levels of abstraction
The world isn't governed by a few simple rules. (Or at least we don't know the few simple rules the world is governed by yet.)

The world doesn't provide perfect knowledge of itself.
We may not be able to defend Taiwan, but for only $1.07t we have "won" Afghanistan.* /s

*https://www.thebalance.com/cost-of-afghanistan-war-timeline-...
Not all laws are created equal. I personally condemn both actions, as I find them both to be quite harmful.
How so? Google controls over 85% of the devices those mobile apps run on, and they sell ads through those apps as well.
LibreOffice 6.0 scores close to 1M downloads in just 14 days
How We Bootstrapped Our Mailing List to Ramen Profitability of $2k/mo
> the bank failed to validate someone's identity good enough and try make it out to be your fault by saying identity theft.

Are you referencing Mitchell and Webb? Because you're practically quoting one of my favorite sketches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOQBpHN_kS0
Isn't that just a tautology, though?

I mean, if someone says "No moral viewpoints are more or less true than others; a person acts ethically as long as they think their actions are fully justified" and "People only do things they think are fully justified" then immoral action is impossible.
>If the company CEO replaces half of the workers with robots that can make 1,000 widgets/hr, the workers won't benefit from that because they're still making 100 widgets/hr, while the executive just 5x'd the factory's output, which is likely to be worth a bonus.

Where's the value add of the CEO here? They didn't create the robot. They are not operating it. They're a middleman.

Middlemen should typically have very low margins in an efficient market.
cat .vimrc

set background=dark
I think of this differently. I think in terms of "spending" people instead of "employing" them.

As a society, you've only got so many people. What are you going to spend them on? Well, traditionally, the answer was that you had to spend a lot of them on your food supply. But we found that, with better tools, we could spend only something like 3% of our people on food supply, and the rest could do something else. Some of them had to make the tools that the farmers used. Some could make a whole range of other new things. And we - the whole society - got richer as a result.

Now we're finding that, with newer tools, we don't have to spend as many people in factories. We can do something else with them. The whole society can become richer as a result - if we can find something useful for them to do.

I'm optimistic, but I must admit that I see the problems. We seem to be losing a lot of people into despair and poverty and feelings of uselessness. (I don't know if the same was true at the start of the industrial revolution, so I don't know if this is something to kind of expect at a transition, or whether this is something new.) I see that the income distribution is way out of whack. (I'm pretty sure that was true at the start of the industrial revolution, and it got corrected, but it took unionisation to do it.)

Do we spend most of our people on space exploration? On better medical care? On herding robots? I don't know. But I'm optimistic that there will be something useful for them to do, which will improve our society as a whole. I don't know what it will be, though. (If you wish to maintain pessimism, there's your opening...)
You are "eagerly waiting" for a combat engagement between a close ally of the US and Russia or China? Are you insane? This is how world wars start.
It also has the ability to export as an HTML file.
Europe’s banks brace for a huge overhaul that opens the doors to their data
EDSAC Simulator
Yeah I get a lot of mistypes but it still feels a lot faster than peck typing. I can also do it while I'm not really looking which is nice on a non-tactile keyboard.
I have to disagree. Having one mini cinder block = 5 properly scaled cinder blocks (approximately) is close enough. You just use 1-3 instead of 5-15 to build the appropriately sized walls.
>> Carrier-defeating tech has been out for years
Just curious what kind of tech you are referring to?
But will there be a server which serves it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-20

"At least six J-20s are in active service, with tail numbers 78271-78276 identified. Another six were believed ready to be delivered by end of Dec 2016.[86] On 9 March 2017, Chinese officials confirmed that the J-20 had entered service in the Chinese air force.

In September 2017, the J-20 officially entered military service with PLAAF, making China the second country in the world after United States wielding fifth-generation stealth aircraft, and the first in Asia.[87][87][88][16]

In January 2018, Chinese media reports that J-20 is in full operation-ready deployment.[89]"

https://www.economist.com/news/china/21737074-some-technolog...

"in two years’ time, if not before, America is likely to lose its monopoly of radar-beating stealth combat aircraft with the introduction into service of China’s Chengdu J-20. This has a much longer range than America’s new F-35 fighter and will be a serious threat to American warships in the Pacific."

"Another system, yet to be named, would provide China with an ability to knock out targets as far away as 400km, a far greater range than any other air-to-air weapon in service. It would threaten aircraft that currently operate safely from a considerable distance, such as tankers and planes used for airborne surveillance and control. "
Huh, I does appear to be in the preface of SICP. It does seem more of a Knuth-y quote though. I can see why it can be accidentally attributed to the literate programming guy, vs. the meta-circular interpreter guys.
"There's no universal answer, but in the canonical example of better machines, then part of the higher productivity is likely due to the judgment in recognizing where machines could be deployed, which is managerial labor."

And using those machines was labor labor.

"but I was just explaining why we shouldn't expect higher total output to mean proportionally higher wages"

But why not?

"If the worker is pushing the same buttons and the machine is doing more, wages should not be expected to increase and there's no mystery."

Why not? The company is doing better; why shouldn't those who contributed, including the workers who made the widgets, share in that?

"If the productivity is from workers becoming more versatile and able to handle a bigger variety of situations with the same capital, then we should expect higher wages without a higher return to capital."

That is almost never seen.
The "intergenerational earnings elasticity" cited in that curve work as follows [1]: "In a society with equal opportunity, a father's income would have no relation to that of his son (a correlation of 0). On the other hand, a country where jobs and income transition from one generation to the next would have a correlation of 1."

So if we define "intergenerational mobility" as the economic mobility of a family over multiple generations, Japan is actually on the lower end, as there's less correlation between your parent's occupation/wealth and your own. As an example, your father could work hard and gain a higher economic position, but in Japan that advantage has a smaller effect on you and your potential.

I understand there's a fair argument on the other side where you could have more power to determine your own future, but I doubt that's directly correlated to your parents' ability to provide opportunity and a better life; unless we assume a zero-sum game.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/intergenerational-earnings-el...
Yeah, well, hold on to your hats because this is about to become messy.

And, I don't know why we continue to advocate for obscurity. It doesn't work, guys! But I agree that AI should become more like an engineering discipline, which would include training in best practices and safety.
Not really. The study in Newsweek is about moderate drinking, not disordered drinking. Also there are plenty of confounding factors in that study. If you're healthy in your 90s, you're more likely to be at social events where you drink, for example.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

I sort of understand the design decision in Outlook to make the search folders a separate (and flat?) tree. What behavior would you expect from operations like copy, search if you put a search folder inside another (physical) folder? Anyway, I'm sure there are sensible ways to do what you're asking for, but it opens up questions about what a "folder" is and should be. Very interesting.

Notification settings agreed! I always turned all of the notifications off when I had Outlook.

Portrait mode, OK. Many email clients do give some few options for various horizontal/vertical splits. Are the options in Outlook enough in that respect?
Yes, and also -- where do the really creative types land? Do we get rid of art? (we are doing a great job at that these days) If our public education systems serve mainly to train "workers" or increasingly "soldiers", we aren't educating toward the future. we have been educating (in public school) toward the past for a long time. That means we favor what had been practical in the (increasingly distant) past and devalue ( really have zero idea or vision concerning) what skills will be useful in the future. It turns out that it doesn't make sense to train kids and people to behave more like robots when we are building an army of much better, tireless robots. Our public education systems in the US avoid intellectualism, creativity, and the arts (shaping the arts for the future isn't an option- we just cut them from the curriculum).
Ontario, Canada has some decent laws in this respect, but for now, it seems weak.

I'm optimistic about federal legislation that has some teeth.
No, because characteristically, organisms dominate niches. Previous generation's ability to move out of the way prevents new generations from getting a chance to try out their new mutations.
http://www.10000yearclock.net/index.html
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That is, unless they've perfected a test for what actually constitutes disinformation.