skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. The US is currently undergoing a renaissance of successful government programs that have massively cut poverty and homelessness over the last 15 years.

"Child Poverty Falls to Record Low [nearly a 50% reduction since 1967], Comprehensive Measure Shows Stronger Government Policies Account for Long-Term Improvement"

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/child-p...

"The U.S. Social Safety Net Has Improved a Lot. ... Its social safety net is only a couple of percentage points below the OECD total, and larger than that of Canada, Australia and South Korea."

"Furthermore, U.S. government transfers have been increasing over time. The U.S. system of taxation and spending has become more progressive during the past two decades. Per-capita government transfers were about $8,567 a person in 2016, up from about $5,371 at the turn of the century (adjusted for inflation) — an increase of 60 percent"

"After 16 years of expansions in the safety net under Republican and Democratic presidents alike, the U.S. has a much more robust welfare state than people seem to realize."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-16/the-u-s-s...

The National Alliance to End Homelessness, reports that total US homelessness declined by 27% from 2005 to 2017. The drop was from 763,000 to 553,000 for all forms of homelessness (while the US simultaneously added 30 million people to its population).

"the rate per 10,000 people is at its lowest value on record."

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...

(their 2013 report which gives figures back to 2005):

https://b.3cdn.net/naeh/bb34a7e4cd84ee985c_3vm6r7cjh.pdf
And didn't the share price reflect that at the time, which has now grown considerably now that the market has more confidence in them.
Comcast and AT&T are slightly different, in that they have government granted advantages (not just usage rights to infrastructure, and infrastructure access which is much harder or impossible to achieve now, but in some cases the government paid for that infrastructure before handing it over), not just the benefit of coming up prior to regulation and already having practices in place to deal with regulation.
No, I think the key difference with Amazon is that they aren't losing money on each individual transaction - ie selling everything at a loss. Amazon's non-profits were due to aggressive reinvestment, not pricing.
I'm presuming purple (being red + blue) means a district that could either way?

Lucky you. Here we don't have elections that matter because thanks to redistricting and gerrymandering, the outcome (along party lines) is well established.
This reminds me of the quote that the four most expensive words in investing are "this time it's different".
It's not paranoia. Modern advertising/tracking really is awful.

Why should I care what uses of my information you believe are legitimate?
I'm 48, but I remember my quarter-life crisis pretty well. Long story short, I sort of realized I was getting tired of the 8 - 10 hr a day coding job and felt the need to do other things, specifically go to film school. But I did not have a definitive sense of that - it was a bit of a tug of war feeling.

After dithering a bit, I decided to stick around at my job as a new project had started - I ended up being architect for a satellite link control system for the DoD. It was a hellacious project, a bit stressful, but it actually got into the field (unlike a lot of DoD projects) and was of some use to the troops [the bureaucrats did not want it because it put them out of a job, aka less paperwork]. So in terms of life achievements, I actually did something...

After that, I went to grad school (again, asked myself: film school?), got my MSc, then after really getting tired of the BS in IT after another couple of years (right before the 1st Internet bubble popped), I finally ran off to film school. It only ended up being a bit of a vacation, however; if I'd gone when I was 26, I'd probably be in the film industry. Or maybe not...

Anyways, the therapist I was seeing when I was 30 (before I went to film school, trying to figure out the depression, dissatisfaction with life etc) told me something quite useful - part of the unconscious reasons for choosing a particular career path are tied to your emotional needs at that particular point in your life. I wish I'd stuck it out with the trying to do film related stuff after going to school, but for a lot of reasons, life got in the way (got too used to the easy money...) The BS in the film industry is much like and worse than the BS in IT...

What you say in your writeup struck me - the need to communicate with others. So I suspect you are in the same general place as me when I was 26. That I took as a sign something emotional and unconscious is going on. You are young enough to try something different, if only for a few years, and it won't affect your life path as much compared to being over 30 and still having the same fundamental difficulties (which you do not want, believe me)

If the reality of being a ski instructor turns out to not be exactly what you need, you will still have gotten useful information about what you actually might need, even if it turns out you just needed a break from IT for a bit. So my advice is to go for it, assuming you don't have any other pressing responsibilities that insist you ought to stay in IT.
This is one of the laziest articles I've read. Let me boil down the author's entire argument into one sentence: "These tech billionaires want to help millions of people, not just the person next door. How heartless!"

There are many valid critiques that could have been made. For example: "Zuckerberg claims that all lives have equal value, and hence, we should prioritize the countless future humans over existing ones. However, human quality of life has been growing exponentially across generations. Extreme poverty has been decimated over the past generation, and can realistically be eliminated completely in the next few decades. Similarly for medical progress. Hence, it is those suffering in the present, who will suffer the most, and need the most help."

Or with regard to Blue-Origin or OpenAI: "Bezos and Musk think that by pouring billions of dollars of resources into sci-fi projects like AI and Space exploration, we can best help humanity. However, these projects are nothing more than vaporware. We have no idea how or when truly intelligent AI will be built, and worrying about super-evil AI, is like worrying about dinosaur attacks. With regard to space exploration, humanity's problems today have little to do with physical resources, and everything to do with disease and human development. Building space rockets isn't going to bring humanity forward any more than building ferraris. That Bezos and Musk are spending billions on such hobby-projects, shows how out of touch they are with the suffering of the world's poor."

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with the above arguments, but I can at least respect them. Unfortunately, the author doesn't present any such argument whatsoever. "These billionaires have big ideas on how to change the world, and how to best help billions of people. How heartless! Clearly they have no respect for us as individuals." /s
Looking at the original analysis, it looks like 108 IPOs, where did you get 30?

https://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/files/2018/01/IPOs201...
Sort of?

I mean unlike 99.9% of the first wave of DotCom startups they managed to avoid actually going bankrupt.
I also think there is a key difference between re-investing in the business and simply bribing customers. I'm sure Amazon sold plenty of products at a loss but they also ruthlessly cut costs and found places where they could truly make money.

I feel like a lot of startups are simply using investor money to give unreasonably inexpensive products to customers.

For software companies, there is often a point where growth simply makes you profitable because your costs are relatively fixed. For my own B2B startup, we had plenty of graphs that showed at exactly the point where we no longer subsidizing our customers businesses and instead making a profit. Sadly we ran into a few road blocks and ran out of cash before hitting that golden mark. But, when your costs rise linearly to the number of customers you have, then you can never achieve profitably through growth alone.
Is it "returning" a thing to sell it back to the people from whom you "borrowed" it?
Not really could just have tiered prices 6.99 for weekdays before 5:30, 9.99 after - and say 12.99 at the weekends/holidays.

For example my local VUE in the UK I can get a ticket on Mondays for less than $6 full price is $16

I suspect that its the paying up front for a year when a substantial majority of its customers wont goto the cinema
Bezos is right. Most people don't think about the long game.
What can we do today to more quickly increase our tech tree 25, 50, 100, 200 years into the future? If we spent more of our GDP 50 years ago on R&D, our knowledge would be much greater than today. Solar energy, electric vehicles, etc would already be mainstream, for example. Our ability to treat cancer(s), alzheimer's, heart disease would be 20 years more advanced.

"Jeff Bezos, too, is thinking at the species-existence level. “The solar system can easily support a trillion humans,” he says. “And if we had a trillion humans, we would have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts and unlimited, for all practical purposes, resources and solar power unlimited for all practical purposes. That's the world that I want my great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren to live in.” That’s why Bezos is spending a billion dollars a year on Blue Origin, his space travel company—and that’s why, controversially, he thinks that Blue Origin is really the only way to spend such enormous resources. If something you did today could materially improve the lives of trillions of humans in the future, then that benefit would have to outweigh anything you did for mere millions of humans in the present."
I'm getting like 3 fps over here. But the graphics are neat!
Sorry for the late reply. Since the ID is not a # variable in the URLs, it is passed to the web server hosting the content, meaning even if the data/metadata is not stored on any server you own (it doesn't appear to be), you could still be expected to block URLs which someone wants to ban.

# variables are not part of server queries, so they are better for user privacy as well (not stored in server logs). I'm not saying you won't ever get takedown requests with #, but it is easier to argue to authorities that Peerdium is merely a user-ran software you are not in control of when using #.
They did this in the 90s. I remember I had the All Advantage tool bar running at all times and made like $20 a month.
It's not my responsibility to help you with usability or anything else that you consider "legitimate."
Raising prices may even make things worse, as it will just narrow their customer base to those that are most expensive to service.
Why not? Don't be rash, and actually read the link.
cellphones? cellphone tethering?
Blue Apron stock is barely holding on. It going away won’t do much really. Not compared to the other huge examples.
And hilarious. And justified.
In those examples, however, the meaning is, in current usage, 'calculation' or 'computation', not as a measure of computational work.
Airgapped exfil is a whole research field. Priority one is making accidental leaks or infections all but impossible. Priority two is making large scale intentional leaks as slow and difficult as possible. As long as there are human eyes on the data, some level of leaking is possible.
Preventing exfiltration? Nobody tell them about my library [1], they'll need to ban line out ports and headphones :)

1: https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js
I think you are misreading the business model.

The MoviePass price is per month. There is NO cost per viewing.

You could in theory see up to 31 movies for your single $10 payment.
Okay I don't think either of these are really that bad but in no world can you justify a bad action by saying "they made URL's ugly". No.
Not quite true.

If there is a wave election in November, gerrymandering backfires and ends up losing you more seats than you hope to gain through it. You pack the districts so that you win with 55% to 45%, except for a district here or there which will go 10% to 90%.

In a wave election, it only takes a shift of 5-6% in those gerrymandered districts for them to be lost.
My hot take is there's no way that's even remotely legitimate. Justification for projected ROI in FAQ includes "The question - do you believe in Bitcoin or not? In our case, we strongly believe in BTC BTC" and "ROI of 439% per year is easy to explain thanks to 20% monthly reinvestment"
That almost never happens. It's not in the gov's interest to tank successful companies that employ a bunch of people - and large companies are in the best position to give personal feedback to politicians to customize the process so its particularly easy for them. That's how regulatory capture starts.
> near .com saturation

What on earth are you talking about? If a name is taken, a name is taken.
Check out ark.intel.com for confirmation.

https://ark.intel.com/products/136863/Intel-Core-i3-8121U-Pr...
The Republican Party is not only against regulations in general but they have explicitly come out against Net Neutrality rules. They (House Republicans) even made it part of their demands before the 2013 federal government shutdown: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/revealed-house-gops-de...
Asking Apple for all my data
Well, it goes you a chronological ish timeline. It still insists on trying to insert blocks of "content you might have missed", and it still has crappy conversation views that can't be turned off.

A strictly chronological timeline is only available via third party apps.
I am curious, why do you believe that ads do not work? Why would large entities continue spending on them otherwise?

I ask because I operate a few businesses that have ROI > 1 on FB ads. I assume larger corporations, especially those like Amazon, Newegg, Fashion Nova, etc would be profiting off of them too.
They call hiring people who live in lower cost of living areas of the US "rural sourcing". That's half the reason to hire remote workers, they are cheaper. Also with rural sourcing, the time zones are more compatible than outsourcing to a foreign country and its easier to arrange occasional onsite face to face meetings.

As far as companies not wanting to hire remote workers for senior level positions, I found it hard to find any senior developer/architect contracting positions that paid well in my local market. All of the companies that wanted my skill set at my price wanted permanent employees. I was going to contract this time around but I ended up takinng a perm position.
If we're going to squint at charities, there's a lot more squinting to be done one or two rungs down the ladder from Gates and Bezos. Of course, that would involve uncomfortable observations about people who care about what is said about them and have the resources to spread their displeasure, so we don't see that journalism.
It's interesting to me to try to view this early file in various environments.

I've tried it on Mac in Chrome, Safari, Emacs and Sublime Text. Most of them appear to render all characters correctly, except Emacs fails on the Braille characters, rendering full 6-dots for every one of them.

Spacing is very broken on the browsers, the large "drawn" equation doesn't align properly at all on any of Chrome, Safari, and Emacs. Sublime does a pretty good job but still has some small issues.

The box art at the bottom is completely messed up in both Chrome and Safari, pretty good in Emacs, and perfect in Sublime.
Nope, I wouldn't want this in netflixes real product... until there is facial recognition tech that can be completely silo'd from the online app... maybe I just give it permission to send out if I'm watching or asleep somehow.
Advertising seems like a good description of the subsidy applied by Uber and Blue Apron?
As always, follow the money.
> first-ever truly dominant programming language?

... after Visual Basic.
It’s one thing to rank results differently as you type but I can’t comprehend how entire results go away when they still should match as you continue.
I don't think it's only his philosophy. In fact, before, I would have thought that personal philosophy to be common sense, but it then turns out it isn't. It still bewilders me how it's the status quo that when you buy an expensive piece of electronics, it's never really yours to use as you please. It's more like the companies are lending it to you for a one-time payment. They keep full control. If they want to remove features[1] or brick the product you bought from them[2] or place arbitrary restrictions on features that require no work from them and then charge extra for lifting the restrictions[3], it's totally ok. How does that make sense? Yet it's the dystopia the industry has been turning into day by day, and it's all made possible because of closed source software.

[1] - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100331/0128358800.shtml

[2] - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150321/13350230396/while...

[3] - One example of this could be Amazon's ridiculous rental of digital books, since it can only work by downloading the file to your device and then charging you more for it to prevent your device from deleting it. Another example is YouTube Red, to be able to download videos the app already downloads for free anyway to be able to stream, and also so that it won't pause videos when you move the android app to the background.
> so why would you let your vote hinge on that one issue?

Single issue voters make policy, and this is a case where the small weight of my vote could tip a scale and actually accomplish something.

Plus, I hate our current state of extreme polarization, and I value politicians who have the independence to go against their party. If he'll do that, it's another aspect I'd like to reward.
Office 365 is pretty close to that, actually. You need Premier support to get anything useful.

My favorite O365 support story is where first level support dicked around so long with a missing mailbox that by the time they escalated the ticket, their backup had been overwritten. Luckily it was a user’s archive mailbox and we still had their source PSTs, so not a lot was lost.
> On the OS level only HID devices were allowed via USB

Of course that's enough to run malware. Just inject Win+R, cmd, enter, <your shell code here>
Good that you're better. Maybe try to work lightly (2 hours a day) on a project someday and see if you can complete it without herculean focus or dedication.
Google, please stop breaking Chromedriver
Makes sense it is a bit like having a fire-drill
I recall Webvan well. Still have a few of their crates holding stuff in my attic[1].

No idea what it looked like elsewhere, but their spending blitz in the Bay Area was incredible. Everywhere you looked, there was their name. For a little while...

[1] When they first launched, they used really high-quality, solid crates for deliveries that were well worth the too-cheap deposit.
In that PDF it breaks out the number of tech and biotech IPOs.

66% of the "other" category (ie everything else) reported being profitable. Something the article goes out of its way to not mention.

The 30 tech IPOs and the 32 biotech IPOs dramatically tilt the number of unprofitable listings as a percentage.

If you only have 108 IPOs and 32 are biotechs, which are almost always unprofitable, you start with an extreme tilt.
This is a dual-core 2.2GHz processor at a TDP of 15 Watts, how does it compare to modern ARM mobile processors?
Looks like pure bullshit or utter incompetence. Yeah, your mountain is actually at 12°C, but with 50kW or more of processing power, you're actually creating an oven if you haven't got ventilation or cooling. Stupid
Building out warehouses does not hurt earnings. The whole point of accounting is to try to match revenue with cost. If you build a warehouse you don't expense it one time. It gets expensed over time.

If they develop software than that is treated as expense or buy movies that gets expensed.

Their core retail business is not that profitable. It goes from 0-3%. Its pretty much the same as walmart or any other retailer.

AWS is more profitable than their entire retail business.
The FHA makes it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status.

I very purposely didn't include any information about any of those categories in my ad. The only thing you could discern from my ad was that I was (and still am) married.

That's like saying employers looking for candidates on LinkedIn or the "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?" thread is "little more than an end for employers to get around anti-discrimination laws."
Another example: widespread availability of tracking data lets burglars know when they should break in and rob you.

Again, this cost is not borne by the data aggregator -- it's a negative externality borne by individual citizens. Good luck suing them.
Yet they didn't give access to replacements until today.
Most technology people have internet access anyway. I would also assume you would have some place in your house to use as an "office" even if it's just a kitchen table for your laptop or a desk in the corner of your house somewhere.
There's a tiny bit more information in the recent short article about this CPU at WikiChip.[1]

[1] https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/1285/intel-launches-cannon-la...
I can't think of a month in which I wanted to see three movies in current release...
Many opinions shift in five years.
> They (House Republicans) even made it part of their demands before the 2013 federal government shutdown

Not the same people that are there now, and not the same political circumstances. It is unlikely but not impossible this will pass the House.
How can you make domain renewals be monthly or quarterly?
Last meeting I was in with an IBM rep, he wanted to download some slides that were not part of his stock presentation, to address some specific questions we had. By the time he got connected to his VPN about 10 minutes had elapsed, and the download was going to take another 90 minutes. He ended up saying he'd email them later.

Corportate VPNs are great, but if they don't perform people are going to work around them.
Awesome! A GMSK modem in js? Good on you. Submit for show HN?

Have you tried other modulations?
As far as I can tell, flatness/basic layouts emerged right around the time the total number of possible device resolutions was becoming insane. Sadly, simple rectangles without edges are probably the easiest way to ensure a consistent look everywhere: nothing to align, accidental overlap is invisible, etc. And of course, it looks terrible.

Still, Windows has behavioral issues that are a problem regardless of appearance. For instance, why in 2018 in an OS NAMED “Windows” are all my window locations and sizes and screen choices borked simply by closing and moving my laptop?
> Yeah, because people usually compile their programs before running them.

The developers do, yes; with Javascript, they don't have to worry about compiling for multiple platforms like, say, a C developer would, they could even just ssh into a server and edit a single text file while everybody across Windows/Linux/MacOS/iOS/Android/etc can run the new version as soon as you save the file (mod browser compatibility issues, of course). I think their point was that Javascript is the only language that can do end-to-end simplicity like that.
This business model makes sense for some products, like Snapchat. Get as many users as possible and maybe eventually the advertising revenue will pay off.

Focusing on monetization early makes for successful businesses, but good products happen because they fix or solve a problem --not because they make money.
From brain waves to robot movements with Deep Learning: an introduction
Here it is where the missing notifications that you all are complaining about are gone!