skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that a decrease in labor power has probably contributed to rising inequality. That's not what you stated though; "It's a factor" and "it's the most important factor" are separate points. If you read the study I linked, you'll see that in advanced economies globalization and the skill premium have had roughly the same or larger impact as changes in labor institutions (which is a much bigger category than just "union power"). Regardless, both studies only show effects after 1980, not before.

> The second point it makes is about the role policy-making plays, which of course is probably as important, but is intimately connected to the presence or absence of union power because who the hell do you think lobbies for those policies?

Organized labor frequently advocate for policies that benefit their members at the expense of non-members (for example, licensing requirements) with ambiguous or detrimental affects on inequality. You use the example of minimum wage, but that's an ambiguous example too; we have some evidence that a high minimum wage actually decreases total low wage worker earnings[1], but a small increase (at least in the US) would probably be beneficial. To quote from the study I linked earlier

"Stronger labor market institutions could increase unemployment rates, reduce the wage differential between high skill and low-skill workers, and affect the labor share of income. The overall impact on income inequality, however, can be ambiguous: they increase unemployment, which tends to raise inequality, they can reduce wage dispersion, which tends to lower it, and they increase the wage share, which can have an ambiguous effect on inequality"

To be clear, it might be true that a decrease in labor power would be associated with policy that increases inequality but that's a non-obvious conclusion.

[1] https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/NBER%20Working%20Pa...
Same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16493489 ?
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> HSBC was the bank of money laundering of the mexican drug cartels.

HSBC was created in hong kong by the british to launder opium money after the Opium Wars.

""The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank" was founded by Scotsman Sir Thomas Sutherland in the then British colony of Hong Kong on 3 March 1865, and in Shanghai a month later, benefiting from the start of trading into China, including opium trading"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC

Old habits die hard.
Oh, an even better quote: “In a very expensive fashion, used chemicals so that nobody will ever be able to see them."

He literally said they used chemicals. Are we supposed to call this “true” just because some emails were in fact deleted?

I’m not ignoring your supposed underlying point, I just disagree with it. The statement was clearly false. That there’s some truth to the general idea if you strip away the wrapping of confusion and lies doesn’t make the statement itself true.
Ha yeah. Everyone pointed that out the first time this came up and I guess he ignored the feedback.
Loans are not made to people who do not have collateral. That's what backs them.
You're being too dismissive IMO. Do you really want the linux kernel to focus mainly on 4MB picture frames at the expense of everybody else? As an embedded dev I very much welcomed the device tree, having to create a billion variations of the same BSP to support various configurations was not fun. "Conditional code" is more prone to bitrot than anything else since you have to test a bunch of different configurations if you want to make sure that it even still compiles correctly.

Besides you're still free to make your own single purpose micro-optimized kernel with only the drivers you want if you feel like it.

I can believe that today's kernel is harder to get to work decently on a 4MB picture frame than in the past. On the other hand it's a lot easier to work with modern embedded SoCs. I think it's a worthy trade-off and a very good pragmatical decision.
I’m sorry Jack, but just log into your own service and try to read the message you just posted, and maybe it will dawn on you why Twitter as it currently exists is antithetical to healthy and civil conversation.

And once you’ve lost trust (which you have on all sides) any steps or “measures” you implement will inherently be distrusted.

Good luck with your “hate machine” as another poster aptly describes it. You’re going to have to dig a lot deeper than sentiment analysis to find anything close to redemption.
Online trolls love figuring out and exploiting automated systems. Any computer-evaluated "health metric" will just become another weapon in their hands. You need human moderators!
This is well known. Mostly what (public) companies spend money on these days is share buybacks. Especially for retail, they'd be better off in the long term paying benefits for their hourly employees.
Your argument would only hold water if distribution of wealth were independent of race. On the contrary, it is intimately intertwined with it. Race is the fundamental foundational rift that the nation constructed itself on, and it had better bring its primary focus to it.
Why can't I get two colds at the same time?
Telecom doesn't even deserve to be in that batch. A $50 or $70 cell plan is close to meaningless next to the cost of home ownership, education and healthcare.

Cell plans also have not gotten more expensive over 30 years inflation adjusted. When you include what you actually get in plans today, they've gotten cheaper vs 30 or 20 years ago.

Cable Internet as another example, hasn't gotten expensive out of line with inflation over the last 20 years. While simultaneously what you can do with cable Internet has dramatically increased.

Those other items on the other hand, have seen cost inflation dramatically beyond other consumer goods.

Telecom costs a median American $100 to $150 per month. That's more like the cost of a home insurance policy.
In my view, it has become extremely popular to believe that higher education is a waste of money and time -- famous people like Peter Thiel are promoting the idea, and there are of course supporting "studies" like there are for all popular ideas.

But there is a caveat that I see: If it is true that not all people benefit from college, likewise, not all people benefit from not going to college. I'm thinking of myself here. I would have been a terrible bricklayer. For one thing, I'm not a physically strong person, though laying bricks might have rectified that situation. I also don't know if I would have been able to live with the nature of the job for 45 years, including its physical effects.

I might have been a terrible computer programmer. I learned programming in high school, at a time when it didn't require a college degree. But would I really have enjoyed being a programmer for 45 years? And so forth.
Iceland and Denmark have closed ties.
Im not sure that real in the context of math means anything other than the real numbers or (at a stretch) existence. I agree with you.
And no one talks about this but a priori i dont see why even the natural numbers have anything to do with reality either. "Counting" some objects seemingly would require a notion of the object and some way to determine whether each part of reality was or was not the object which already seems fairly abstract and removed from the world. I think certain parts of math just seem more intuitive to certain people
What you're saying is that we should be giving up many human lives every year to maintain the status quo?
But the language being imposed isn't a Native American language..

If a Frenchman shoots someone with a bullet made in Germany, would you say the victim was killed by a German?

The origins of the language don't matter to the point being made, which is that having one's native language adopted by everyone else provides massive benefits in spreading one's culture and values, while weakening and even killing off others.

This notion that languages are something that need to be preserved is antithetical to the purpose of language and the history of the development of languages. We have many languages because, historically, we had many groups that didn't have regular contact with each other.

This is not the whole story, languages were and are created for the purpose of demarcating and separating a subculture from the majority. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant_(language)
Amusing to me that people consider a ton of modules to be a sign of high code quality.

What was your role in the project? Did you swoop in and do a copy and paste refactor into a bunch of tiny files and declare your victory?

I’m going out on a limb here but I’m going to say you’re a little bitter at the value of the consultant vs. your own textbook, indignant idea of value.
He might say he's shorting for a good cause, but we don't know if that's true. From what we know of his Valeant involvement, there's nothing indicating that his investment decisions are based on morality.

(Based on how much money he's lost, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it's hard to say exactly what else his investment decisions are based on.)
I disagree on one point; namely I think most of the suck surrounding Twitter has to do with a few UI decisions that could be tweaked at little cost. Not broad philosophical notions (dare I say: bloviating wankery from @jack) of what "healthy conversation" is. This is a topic that's indescribably far out of Twitter's wheelhouse.

1. Notification throttling

The experience when you receive a bunch of replies is terrible. Even if those replies are good (but especially when they're negative), you're still dealing with your phone filling your notification screen. It leads easily to feeling dogpiled, especially if the character of the replies isn't positive. They quickly become too many to read and deal with.

Notifications should stop after around 5 to 10 replies to the same tweet, user-configurable.

2. Conversation muting

It's all too easy to wind up in a long conversation you don't want to be in anymore. Since tweet chains use direct @uernames, the only way to get out of the conversation is to block the offenders (which is a nuke where a knife is needed), or ask nicely for people to drop your username and hope they comply.

There should be a way to opt out of further notifications in the same chain of tweets.

These two things alone would do wonders to improve the user experience.
I don't think it works that way, either. When you reach for a door, do you first think "I'm going to reach for that door," in English? Or do you just think it wordlessly? For me, personally, when I inspect how I'm thinking, I really do think wordlessly a lot of the time. It's only in communicating my thoughts to others that my ideas become verbalized, or if I'm in a verbalizing mood, I might be talking to myself. But when I've gone hours without talking to someone, I'm probably not going to verbalize much in my head.
I'm 49-51 on that test, but that is not how my friends would describe me (US).

I do like to think I approach politics more intellectually than emotionally.
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reminds me of mine ( http://reu.iwarp.com ), also on iwarp :p
I feel like it needs more blink and marquee tags, and a tiled background.
I just found mine from web.archive

http://web.archive.org/web/20000529170547/http://karakedi.vi...

There is supposed to be more content, but it's ridiculously broken under webarchive indexing

Backgroundlar (wallpapers)
Gif arşivi yenilendi (gif archive)
Duvar Yazıları (some wall texts)
YENİ 1 ICQ KULLANICISI(Toplam 17 Kullanıcı) (apparently i had a list of potentially Turkish users).
İnter Emlak bölümünde kiralık ev arayan biri var (and my attempt for starting an online real estate site.
My current personal site is like this! www.shanewilton.com
You are the target audience for https://wiby.me - the search engine for old school websites
Basically anything on http://wiki.c2.com/. The antipattern section is a fun read.
Not to be trite, but note that Iceland's total population (~300k) is less than half of San Francisco's (~800k).

> “It’s called ‘digital minoritisation’,” said Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, a professor of Icelandic language and linguistics at the University of Iceland. “When a majority language in the real world becomes a minority language in the digital world.”

This makes the phrase "digital minoritisation" seem pretty silly. We should definitely try to protect the heritage of uncommonly spoken languages like Icelandic, Basque, etc. But it's not clear why the plight of Icelandic, a language with its "own country," is particularly deserving of this sort of dramatization.
Newsflash: the thing you're afraid of happening is already happening.

Google, Facebook, Amazon exercise editorial control of their platforms all the time. They delete spam, malware, porn. Just this week Google pulled right wing YouTube content as they moved to remove gun content [1]. They banned anything with the word "gun" in their shopping search [2]. These were never neutral platforms and they never pretended to be. The tech industry lobbyists cloak themselves in the language of free speech and liberty to avert regulation, but they have always been censoring content on their platform if it served their commercial interests.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-28/youtube-s...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/27/google-gun-shopping-sear...
You were an AI researcher in 2000 and decided to take a risk and join a startup, this is a very poor definition of luck.

Luck does always belong in the conversation - "All great events hang by a hair, I believe in luck, and the wise man neglects nothing which contributes to his destiny"
I really, really wish I could find my old Geocities website. It was mostly just a bunch of jokes I found around the Internet, and it'd be interesting to see what kind of stuff I found funny back in 1999.

It might be sitting on an old hard drive in my basement (I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters).
mean literally generates hate, as in, put a bunch of people with diverse perspectives on Twitter and by the end of the day they hate each other more than when they started

This is entirely by design. The emotions that generate engagement with social media are outrage, jealousy, gloating, fomo, loneliness. Even if the people running it didn’t consciously decide (tho’ I bet they knew) the algorithms would have figured it out. The entire concept of social media is toxic. And all to show you more ads.
The feminisation of the educational system has a lot to do with it. Females are more about credentialism than actual seeking of knowledge and applying it. Once they clogged the education system, from being the teachers in schools to filling up the universities, the whole system titled towards the female paradigm which is just having the credential in something matters more than actual knowledge or any pursue of application of the knowledge in the real world. There will never be a woman Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, you will never see a youtube video saying "look what I have done in my garage" and find out a woman in it, because women are about credentials, not about seeking and applying knowledge. We should reduce the amount of women in universities to 20% and that's should solve most of the problem.
What if that privileged website has XSS vulnerability?
<!-- '"AWS"' -->

What does this line do?
I'm fairly certain you can use `--flag` with the standard flag package from stdlib: https://godoc.org/flag (in the section on command line flag syntax).

Though supporting `-flag` does remove the very nice combining of short flags.
It's not about whether big tech companies — or any companies — cause "market failure". It's whether their behavior is anti-competitive. Are they leveraging their market leadership in a way that hinders other players from participating in the market? Not just, are they making a better product, or have more users: are they interfering with other companies efforts to compete?

How that question is answered regarding AmEx will shape how future similar cases, many of which will involve tech, are judged. There's no equation between them; it's just what this decision will mean.
>> American Express, for example, charges both merchants who accept its cards and consumers who use them. Using this concept, the Second Circuit held that the government would have to show that any price increases for merchants also harmed cardholders, or at least didn’t benefit them. In effect, the court introduced a dramatically new rule, making it much more difficult to win important antitrust cases and to stop anticompetitive behavior.

How is that even relevant? The issue is weather the card company can gag a merchant. Not just from disclosing their terms, but from recommending a competitors card. Sounds like the second circuit has some friends.
While I appreciated your clarity with regards to the instant dead-ing, I think your response here shows a disconnect with the reality of taking a position counter to the status quo on many of these issues.

To associate viewpoints with your real identity that regularly involve a spectrum of mob justice and workplace dismissals seems foolish in the current climate. If you doubt such a climate, I'd ask you to examine the post which you un-deaded, observe that it is now re-flagged and re-dead, and I'd ask you honestly if you as a moderator think that is justified.

Even on my primary account wherein I substantial reputation, I would not touch threads like this with a ten foot pole, let alone express my honest opinions. My livelihood is far too important to risk even over a topic which I consider as worthy of discussion as this.

I'd also address your statement that this is "the same argument time and again". This (OP) is material evidence coming out that adds critical depth to an issue that thus far has been painted as very uni-directional, and is, in my opinion, going to influence the next N years of tech workplace culture in dramatic ways. If HackerNews can't handle this well, why can't we take this as impetus to think deeply about that? (With the additional datapoint that discussions "on this topic" that support the status quo seem to be maintained, whereas those that oppose it vanish, so I might suggest the topic itself spawning unproductive discussions isn't the problem)
Bershidsky's take here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-02/twitter-s....
"The Met" isn't just any old museum

This is true. We take it for granted but the Met is one of the world's great museums.
>That's a fine excuse for being a loser. When you get tired of that, however, you can always choose better.

Insults are unnecessary. This kind of individualist, man-as-an-island concept is appealing but it isn't true. What are "you" made of that doesn't originate as something outside of your control? Of course it all was at the start, the way we get to feeling individualistic is by laundering our experiences, pretending that we made each decision a bit on our own and building that up into an end-person who makes decisions totally on their own. But of course that narrative isn't true.
> I can't just decide what I want to learn.

Sure you can. You pick the college, you pick the major.

> only an A/B test can teach you that.

You learn how to do that and how to interpret the results in college. That's what your statistics class is about.

> The opportunity cost is enormous.

My college degree paid off enormously for me. Of course, I picked a major that paid well, and carefully selected the classes to maximize my value in the workplace. I also took accounting classes in college, because running a profitable business requires knowledge of accounting.

(Most startups fail because the owners don't understand notions of profit, cash flow, balance sheets, etc.)
Sounds like the Monty Hall problem :) keep your door or switch. I'd say the ones who left were wiser ex-ante
Thanks to web emulators you can play the game online. Try it.

https://classicreload.com/wing-commander-ii-vengeance-of-the...
This got me wondering if Matt's Script Archive was still around and lo and behold: http://www.scriptarchive.com/

Making interactive forms and CGIs was where I really started getting inspired to learn programming. Matt's scripts were some of the first perl I learned from. I basically transformed WWWBoard into a web-based chat back in '97.
Their criticism seems justified:

Claiming rampant false accusations of rape and violence is one of the most prevalent men’s rights and equity feminist talking points.23 Who Stole Feminism?, a classic among conservative “feminists” published the following year by Christina Hoff Sommers, similarly argues that “gender” or “radical” feminists lie about rates of rape and domestic violence. Speaking on campus sexual assault in 2014, Sommers, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, repeated the same themes of “false accusations” and “[i]nflated statistics,” declaring, “I believe that the rape culture movement is fueled by exaggerated claims of intimacy and a lot of paranoia about men.”24 A spokesperson for A Voice for Men (AVFM), one of the most prominent men’s rights organizations, rejected rape “hysteria…as a scam” and baselessly claimed that sexual assault affects only about two percent of women—far from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s one-in-five statistic.25

Although equity feminists reject the existence of structural constraints on women, like Men’s Rights Activist (MRA) they suggest that American boys and men suffer at the hands of gender feminists. In 2000, Sommers wrote The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, and a flurry of concern over boys’ educational achievements in 2013 landed her in major outlets including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, and The Atlantic. Psychologist Helen Smith, one of IWF’s “Modern Feminists,” suggested in 2012 that “the deck is so stacked against men that they are ‘going Galt,’” a reference to Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, an MRA favorite.26

Equity feminism’s depiction of women as liars with “victim mentalities” dovetails alarmingly with (and legitimizes) the online manifestation of the men’s rights movement, which uses more virulent and hateful rhetoric to convey the same argument.
XIP was a thing with PCMCIA 2.1 25 years ago, but then it became more and more of a niche solution. I like to blame the ascent of Linux/x86 for that, at least in part.
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> You can always pay to keep it up for maybe five or ten more years, but what is the point? Memories are free and worth way more than the tiny nameplate.

In the US, it's often possible to find the gravestones of ancestors going back for hundreds of years, scattered across the country in various cemeteries. This makes genealogical research a little more fun, in that you can track down some physical remnant and memorial of the people you're looking for, and of course it also helps verify names and dates.

It never occurred to me that the same thing wouldn't be possible in other countries.