skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number you're looking for is $465k. https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-much-income-puts-you-t...

>that no one needs to be making $800,000 a year.

And that's where the mistake is. A significant number of people (including me) are fine with someone creating a company, selling it for a few million, or just having 10 good years of operation and retiring. The rewards for creating something new need to be worth the risk of complete failure and loss of income for those years.

This is the problem with using 1%. The bottom of the 1% is filled with normal professionals that took huge risks (starting businesses) or spent a significant amount of time in training (brain surgeon).

>As people see home ownership being increasingly implausible

Not if you give up on living in the most expensive parts of the US. Even then, a housing shortage is hardly attributable to income inequality. Just look at the bay area where there are people making good money. The housing shortage has caused prices to sky rocket to absorb up all of that difference. If you have 1000 people fighting for 100 houses, 900 people are going to get screwed regardless of income inequality.

> healthcare difficult to afford,

A broken healthcare system can't be fixed by fewer rich people.

>fulfilling work unable to be found and less than $1000 in savings

Capping incomes of successful professions will not add more fulfilling professions nor will it increase their savings.

>Who is waging this campaign?

Well people like you who claim nobody needs to make a lot of money and then blame a bunch of unrelated issues on income inequality. I can't tell if it was just the mathematical ignorance of who started the movement or if it was partially orchestrated by the super-rich. But by making it include skilled professionals that had to put in huge risks to get where they are, they lost significant support of the population within 50% of that income.

>is it any wonder people are upset, bothered and judgemental of people who make an impossibly larger amount of money than 99% of people?

I don't know what "impossibly larger" is supposed to mean in this context. Someone who makes $250k will not see someone who makes $500k as making an "impossibly larger" amount of money than them.

If this whole movement had been more carefully crafted to exclude people that had to go to medical school and go $350k into debt, I don't think there would have been very much disagreement from a significant chunk of the US. As it stands, it just looks like an arbitrary cut-off screwing the people who managed to secure a good life rather than being focused on people with enough money to hire full-time Washington lobbyists.
No, it's not out of favor. There are a lot of unqualified people out there pushing buttons on cloud providers dashboards and not caring about security (or not even understanding that it's an issue) though.

When it's easier to just open up a server to the wide world than it is to learn how to connect safely, you'll always get a lot of people doing it.
If simple image matching is effective, scammers will just rotate/warp/tint their images. These techniques might also take the legs out from an MT approach. Sellers might also get a product online with one image, then later change to another/reorganize the album.
“Corporations are people too my friend.”

So the employees being separate people are not the corporation, and their tax situation is not the corporation’s.

Can’t have it both ways, or rather, shouldn’t.
For same reason one of the founders mentioned
>> most people are not the best at advocating for themselves

Is there a service to help negotiate a better raise?
(Of course, working behind the scenes)

I presume this is a struggle for every employee everywhere, every year throughout the career.

I managed to do better a few times by writing a nice email but many a times
I just lacked the energy to compose such emails and settled for whatever is offered.
i completed the andrew ng course recently, and felt that the difficulty dropped a lot in the second half of the course (for example, he stops giving homeworks). im hoping for more in his new DL courses
Years ago, I read the poem "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" https://allpoetry.com/All-Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving...

Whenever there is a debate over the dangers or AI, I keep going back to that poem.

Sure, the SkyNet AI scenario is terrifying. But the benevolent AI scenario is its own dystopia. Super-intelligent AIs will run everything, and humans will be left living lives where we do nothing of consequence. Life may be easy, but will it also feel pointless?

P.S. I believe Brautigan was earnest in his poem. I just take a different message away than what he intended.
>Would Plato's 'The Republic' qualify also an overly long strawman?

Yes, it's designed to illustrate a point and not engage someone in a discussion.

The comment I'm responding to just had a bunch of misrepresentations of people he/she disagrees with.

>Also, why are you telling people how to have discussions?

It's not a discussion, it's a lecture buried in a fake conversation without facts.
He's making a reference to women joining the modern work force in the western world since WW2.

It's not quite the same thing as how men and women worked together historically. There was probably more segregation back then too (and rampant sexism).
I think Bill's right. Anonymity for cash can enable many bad things, I can't think of many moral reasons for it.
> evidence of respiration.

Evidence of photosynthesis as well!
Amazon's approach here is, IMO, both BS and odd-seeming from a business perspective.

Once upon a time, I could go to amazon.com and buy things from Amazon. I trusted Amazon to sell legit goods. But now if I go to amazon.com, it's bizarrely difficult to buy from Amazon, and a large fraction of the goods sold seem to be junk. And Amazon presumably made considerably more money selling things that they sourced themselves.

So why doesn't Amazon go back closer to their original model? I wouldn't mind seeing a strong built-in preference for genuine Amazon listings and a very clear indication that I'm about to order from some random-ass seller.

(Also, I'm quite surprised that there hasn't been a giant trademark infringement and/or copyright infringement lawsuit against Amazon? Amazon.com de facto sells all kinds of counterfeit goods. I wouldn't be surprised if a judge wouldn't let them hide behind the "it wasn't us -- it was a third party" defense.)
Amazon is the new eBay as I like to say. Ever try searching for a Chromecast on Amazon? The number of Chinese counterfeits available is staggering.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_6?url=search-alias...

And since Amazon profits from these third party sellers they are complicit.
You didn't start a discussion. You lectured with a strawman conversation.
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just commenting to thank you for a very accessible assessment of a simple question "is the hype warranted". please do more of these on HN (or elsewhere!)
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Yes, we looked into Brand Registry -- this is my first time seeing the Brand Gating, which looks like it would solve this problem. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

In general, I think there's frustration for smaller companies and brands that Amazon (understandably) doesn't retain resources to support individually.
> No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants

Many companies have been trounced by outsiders unconstrained by their political liabilities.

Let's face it: Ford, Chevy and Chrysler all had sufficient applicants, even as Toyota and Honda were building the processes and company cultures that would dethrone them.
I wonder what would have happened if you filed a lawsuit against Amazon?
> They starts in pre-schools where girls are given a doll and boys are given the lego blocks

It starts before then. Babies only a few days old show a preference for Duplo or dolls depending on their biological sex.
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Happiness is sort of like a flexible muscle. At first, you may need to consciously and actively push on it, but it'll stretch, and over time, it takes less effort to stretch it further.
Of course, it's not exactly similar, because sadness/anger push up against happiness, and stuff needs to be eliminated or looked at from another angle to remove the obstacles.
I'd also recommend Wim Hof stuff.. the breathing technique is great.
This was the promise of Lotus Notes. Sadly, the implementation and especially the UI dragged it down.
Exactly this. Labor has been largely gender-segregated since before our tribal origins.
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OH. Of course, that makes sense. Thanks!
Hard to say, without being converted into units of jumbo jets or football fields.
The hundreds of thousands of "Dreamers" were brought to the US as young children. Evidently there are plenty of immigrants who bring their families with them and seem to make things work.

A coworker of mine once complained bitterly about a pay cut he was "forced" to take. I asked him why he didn't leave. He said he had no choice. I asked why. He said he had a wife, mortgage, car payments, etc., and could not afford even a week's disruption in his pay.

I suggested that he'd made all those choices himself to max out his obligations, so that he had to run to deposit his paycheck before everything bounced. The company didn't do that, he did. He was well paid, and he'd forged all those chains on him all by himself.
Why not vilify George Soros or ultra-rich Hollywood as well?
I'm a bit confused as well, because I've spent well into 6 figures on the site since the beginning days of Amazon, and I've literally never noticed a counterfeit product. So if this is a super common problem, they are some quality counterfeiters.
Same here. I tried every medication, and saw dozens of psychiatrists and therapists. Nothing helped. I started meditating daily, as well as consuming various ‘gurus’ like Tolle and Sadhguru. Depression lifted steadily over a period of several months as I learned to stop thinking about myself. I’ve been ok to happy for 2 years.
Yes, in the early 90s (I'm old), and it was the local AT&T office.

I've also been "discriminated" against for not being Native American (Casino Morongo in So Cal), and not being an Evangelical Christian (Cal Baptist University).

As it turns out-- those institutions are legally allowed to discriminate. It absolutely blew my mind being asked to "describe my relationship with jesus" in an interview.
I feel the same.
Not only that, Amazon India openly allows misleading product description and the cse "overlooks" it when you talk to them. In India it's a standard practice to overstate objectively wrong things about products. Eg. Hard drive model number
product make: pvc dumbbells vs cheap plastic filled with sand. Yes that's a thing on the site. The attitude of Amazon India is we don't care about bad publicity as long as people are buying from us so not even shaming them here, just mentioning.
> Why do the counterfeiters get to use your own picture of your own product? Because Amazon claims the rights from you:
>
> "Additionally, when you add your copyrighted image to a detail page, you grant Amazon and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to exercise all rights of publicity over the material."

IANAL, but that sounds very thin. Maybe it would hold up under copyright law, but that seems dubious. What if the party agreeing to that contract doesn't have that right in the first place? But all this ignores trademark law. If that image contains a trademark and the trademark is used improperly, then the cause of action that the trademark owner has seems like it would have nothing to do with "publicity".
If I take money from your bank account and you don't notice it's not theft?
People have mistaken my Dutch last name for Mexican (I know Mexican is Spanish, but they said Mexican). I think I'm in luck.
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An engineer friend noticed this with civil engineering applications as well.

Chinese companies troll RFPs for bridge and other designs. In this case, my friend saw a unique bridge/overpass that he was associated with in some obscure province that was completed before the original. He knew it was their design because it did not include changes that were made after the contract award.
Spanish or Portuguese?

There's a lot of Indian people with Portuguese surnames from around Goa, but I'd think that Spanish would be very uncommon, unless it's their first name.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to imply the commenter above thinks "centuries of active discrimination is not the main problem". From what I can tell, they were suggesting that programs trying to actively balance gender/race/cultural/etc ratios do more harm than good. If they didn't care for the _goal_ of rectifying gender/race/cultural/etc discrimination, they probably wouldn't be posting in a thread about it.

Your comment is a bit like the reaction one gets when suggesting maybe the department of education is a flawed institution: "So, you don't want children to be educated?"
> A chat client should not be taking over 1GB of RAM

Why do you care so much about RAM usage? All this concern over RAM is completely missing the picture here.

Every conversation about slack or electron people complain about RAM usage. The market could not give two shits about RAM usage so why does everyone on HN complain about it?
> simple image machine learning

When did this become an acceptable statement?
Great question! Answer is, you have to have a legal team the size of Mercedes Benz:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/12/05/amazon-g...
Which is better than 15^2 different standards.
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I would say PHD is sufficient to advance the field. That's no small thing, but only really overlaps at the start when just about anything advances the field and you need a broad focus.

Machine leaning for sorting peas at high speed is a very well trodden area at this point with a lot of industry specific domain knowledge. I expect self driving cars for example to reach a similar state in ~10-25 years.

The risk with a PHD is you miss the specific wave. But, if you want to stay on the bleeding edge it's probably well worth it.
Yeah, thanks.

And I agree; it turns out that planets are really heavy and have an incredible amount of inertia; moving some asteroids around isn't going to cause the Earth to slip on a banana peel and fall into the sun.

The original article about placing 416 Earth-sized planets in a stable orbit does involve a quantity of mass greater than Jupiter (at 317.8 Earth masses), but building habitats out of what we have available in and inside the asteroid belt is a much more modest scope.
You are wrong. I didn't mean to start a discussion. I meant to illustrate how people largely talk past each other yet make very good points overall. Both have ideological and pragmatic elements. Both make good points.

The fact that you think I took apart one and the other wasn't taken apart probably implies more about where YOU are on the political spectrum.

These are the actual arguments that people use. For example "China is one of the most authoritarian countries" is a great rejoinder to all the progress they have made using central planning. You may think it takes the position completely apart - since there is so much evidence lately of China's citizen ranking system and facial recognition and jailing dissidents, very reminiscent to the USSR, and China's history with Mao and so on. But it isn't such a slam dunk as you think. Because yes it is authoritarian but many people are OK with it the same way they are OK with anti terror laws here. They give up freedom for a temporary safety and prosperity, to quote Benjamin Franklin. But that is just one side of the story.

Or for example you may think "You support billionaires" is easily taken apart with "No, billionaires are the result of government." Which is pretty straightforward as most billionaires (in Russia for example) are in fact the result of government favors and being well connected. Libertarians are definitely arguing for eliminating coercive power structures and helping promote an environment where more can compete without coersion or licenses.

But I assure you that the other side's arguments are strong as well, you just dismiss them because they don't trigger in you all the supporting baggage that they would if you actually HELD that position.

In short you are reading a lot of your own bias into it. None of these arguments are slam dunk.
The US DOL says that 47% of the labor force is female and there is a significant gap in educational attainment between women and men in younger cohorts so the available pool of college educated women under 30-35 probably exceeds men.

https://blog.dol.gov/2017/03/01/12-stats-about-working-women
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
That's a great option until you realize they can close your Amazon account for chargebacks, which in my case would mean the loss of thousands of dollars worth of Kindle books.
I'm amazed some of these brands haven't sued over the reputation damage they're likely taking. It's really remarkable Apple hasn't.
Saturn looks blue? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00400
> which presents a UI from 1990

Disagree, the reason why it is so popular is because of its slick UI.

> and the functionality of an IRC client.

Disagree. Did you read the other comments? An IRC client is not the same as a SaaS chat service that keeps history, video chat, infinite scroll, allows communication to happen even if a user is not online, etc.

Sorry to sound so harsh but saying that slack is just an IRC client with a 1990s UI shows a complete lack of understanding for why it has dominated the market for business chat.
For those interested, it looks like the aws stack diagram was created with cloudcraft.
I'd like to leave room for a person who hasn't yet fully realized their behavior is problematic.
Those don't look like counterfeits.
Please, please, please try to communicate to the people you work with how important this is. I've lost all confidence in buying electronics from Amazon. I'd rather shop at walmart and bestbuy because I'm more certain I will get what I order.
Since families grieve here, playing Pokemon Go is prohibited
> Currently, women are overly vulnerable because they are professionally isolated. They get insufficient legitimate interest.

What do you mean by that?
Matt Gemmell was quite the prolific developer before he transitioned out of tech into writing: https://mattgemmell.com
Nathan, we own a Brand that's in Brand registry, don't wholesale, and hold trademarks on the unique products. Guess what? We still get people on the brand. We're told that others can't list on it (at least as new), but it still happens. It's a nightmare.
reflinks should work on suitably recent XFS as well.
Instead of shaming the OP for ignorance, you should be contacting the OP and providing this information before it ever got to the point that this blog post was needed. The shame should be on Amazon's side.
Your confused if you think it's the clouds that are misconfigured here. The issue is the ISPs allowing the spoofed traffic going towards the memcached servers.
Hi Tobias, thanks for dropping into the thread.

When this kind of software becomes mature enough that a consultant can install a robotic arm on a factory line, and quickly (several hours) train it to do the job of a factory line worker, there will be a massive economic incentive to do so.

How far do you think we are from this level of maturity? What are the remaining steps required to reach that level?
How does this have anything to do with OP's point? If a solution is making things worse, then try something different.
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Its a really nice idea, but will the cost not be passed on to the consumer in the form of inflated health insurance premiums? The health industry already stupidly too expensive in the US. Is having Uber suckling on the heath insurance teat a good thing?
The Nobel prize winning author J. M. Coetzee worked as a programmer when he was young - he describes it in his autobiographical novel, Youth. The promiment novelist Richard Powers worked as a programmer when he was young - that part of his life is described in the recent book, The Friendly Orange Glow.
If you want to know the answer to this question, you have to look at the amygdala.

This dual set of brain regions are gatekeepers to long-term memory.

They/it only lets in things it thinks you might need later.

And it grades this need based on emotion.

So, if you want to recall something later, you need a purpose, and if the purpose ties into something emotional, all the better.

(I know some people are going to fight me on the assertion that emotion regulates memory, but do a little research before telling me I'm wrong.)
Measuring influence in scientific fields