skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you care how much somebody else has? People often refer to things like the French revolution as a warning of what can happen when wealth inequality gets out of control, but that comparison is completely absurd. People were not upset that the aristocracy had great feasts, liquor, and lavish lifestyles. They were upset that they could not afford even bread.

In modern times this is not even remotely comparable where ever more people have ever more access to ever more things. But the richest of the rich have even more things. For comparison if we break this down into an anecdotes of toddler the French revolution would have been Joe having 0 toys while Jane had 10. In modern times Joe has 500 toys while Jane has 5000. By most of any metric, except in comparison to Jane, Joe has a ton of toys. And so his complaint seems more petulant than justified.

Let's put this another way. Imagine I told you that in 100 years somebody of the lowest social class would have what would be equivalent to 10 million dollars today in terms of spending power. That sounds unbelievably amazing. Would that somehow suddenly change if somebody at the top had a quadrillion dollars of spending power? Taken to extremes wealth at the top can decrease the value of wealth at the bottom (largely due to inflation), but that's not really the case to a significant degree today - people just seem upset that other people have more than them.
In terms of poverty, is there a difference between getting more wealth vs everything becoming cheaper? I don't think there is - your life has improved just the same either way.

Fixating on silly numbers that ultimately mean nothing doesn't seem like a good way to make the world better. We should look at concrete things - and how often you can eat an orange is the kind of concrete thing that really matters.
Yes, it’s getting better and better I think.

You couldn’t set up a bank account remotely for a long time. But you can now setup a Holvi account online and it’s really easy, doesn’t even require a Skype call.

There are still some niggles, if you need insurance for example (professional indemnity) it doesn’t seem easily available. But I’m hoping more services will become available, and things will get easier.
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Ha! Epriest is actually the primary Phabricator developer by my read of their webpage.

Can you guys advertise more? I hear about Atlassian on NPR and my IT team has guys fully sold on their stuff but my team has been operating very cleanly off a Phabricator VM for years now. However IT keeps pushing me to go all Atlassian so they can "support it". I'm like, yo, git pull every few months to upgrade and keep the VM patched. They're like but Atlassian has conferences.

What should I do?
"The plaintiffs alleged that Microsoft abused monopoly power on Intel-based personal computers in its handling of operating system and web browser sales"

Thing is, Apple platforms aren't a monopoly at the eye of the law.

You are free to just use something else with bigger market share.
>Bitcoin, gold, diamond

You're being dishonest if you're pretending these things are identically comparable.
Or you don't because you literally default on the mortgage. Or perhaps you rent and it's really hard to consider housing an investment. It's more like some hybrid of necessary living expense optionally coupled to a consumer investment not amenable to being written off as a tax loss.
There'll also be a lot less energy consumed in the cooling process - A/C is probably grossly inefficient compared to moving water around.
How can you put gold bar, diamond ring and string of 0/1 in the same sentence in terms of "resources wasted" ?
have to give props for that, using Tor for daily browsing was annyoing and horrible a few years back, it got a lot better
Holy st. Unless these graphs are misleading somehow, it's indeed interesting.
Long-Run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-Being
Accelerating query processing with materialized views in Apache Hive
The urge to populism is natural, a result of a sense of getting screwed over (which is actually happening). The focusing of that populist urge, on the other hand, is subject to exploitation by certain powerful elements.

Don't confuse the two.
Uber is bringing its Jump e-bikes to Europe
Dataturks – ML data annotations and labeling made easy
if you close down Facebook - the users will spill out
onto other sites - and that shouldn't be allowed

That's the longest song I can justify writing about it.
Right now, millions and millions of the poorest people around the globe are being lifted out of poverty by expanding industrialization and capitalism. If you look at the "elephant curve" (ref. below), the only people that did not have rapid increases of income from 1998 to 2008 are about the 70% to 90% range, coinciding with the middle class of wealthy countries.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2016/09/17/s...

A common interpretation of this is that globalization has resulted in the middle class of wealthy countries now competing with the hungrier, more desperate residents of poor countries. This suppresses the former's wages and raises the latter's.

Capitalism will always have a "race to the bottom" to find the cheapest way to complete a product or service at the lowest possible cost. It can be exploitative, but it is not a zero sum game. With every passing year human society bootstraps itself into more wealth that is used to solve our daily problems.

To me, this is net positive to the world. The global poorest are in the most need of more income, and stand the most to benefit. Efforts at redistribution and charity, while well-meaning, pale in comparison to individuals working hard to better their lot in life. The middle classes are not suffering too greatly on net from globalization (their income did not shrink, it merely stagnated or rose less quickly).

It is easy to weave and popularize a story of middle class deprivation and suffering, because this story provides an interesting tale of the demise of bourgeois values- and who doesn't like that story? But in reality the economy is more nuanced than that. Maybe in some number of decades, the elephant curve will begin to flatten out as enough people rise to relative wealth, or cheap energy will boost the economy with gusto. Until then the middle class can wait.
Is the log policy for this onion and 1.1.1.1 exactly the same?
> Eventually all growth will be captured by a few large enterprises.

You can't just assume that a trend will continue in a linear manner forever.
I'd define a system's robustness as the tolerance for systemic shocks. Even a highly robust system, dynamically stable and self-correcting, is just waiting for a big shock, which is inevitable. What you really want is a system that benefits from shocks, using the noise to improve itself. Still, a big enough shock and it'll fall apart.

The internet ain't going away. Your points aren't specific to Facebook. Between your phone and your credit cards, companies have a pretty good idea of what you do on a daily basis.
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When the antikythera mechanism was recovered, it was embedded in a lump of mud. Nobody realized what it was so they left it in storage in a museum until a long time after, when the lump, now dried up, broke into pieces revealing its secrets.
dnscrypt-proxy is compatible with Cloudflare and now has built-in support for Tor.

Just add `proxy = "socks5://127.0.0.1:9050"` to the configuration file.
Good. And if it ever degrades again because we've broken something and not realized my email address is jgc (you guess the domain).
Dude. I feel like you need a bro hug more than advice. Don't despair.

My friends work on and have milestone achievements on marijuana legalization, marriage equality, campaign financing, DREAM ACT, family leave, increasing the minimum wage, etc, etc.

The biggest impact any of us can have is on the local level. The cliche is that states are incubators of democracy. Well, cities are the incubators of states.

While the federal government is AWOL, it's left a huge vacuum, which many states, counties, cities have chosen to fill.

The opportunities have never been more insurmountable (h/t Yogi Bera).
The payees in my case are numerous enough that a dictionary would be too much to maintain. I don't actually clean up the payees, although I have thought about it. At the moment I leave the payee string so that if I use register on my bank account, for example, it looks exactly like my bank statement. I generally don't care what shop I bought groceries at. Those payee strings also sometimes contain interesting information like the location of the shop, so I wouldn't want to lose that.
My guess is that you change disks often. I've had multiple fails over the years, either from overheating or more often from overuse for extended periods of time (aka more than five years). Although I've never had a failure before the guarantee expired.
In Australia a large amount of police work is conducting welfare checks - suicide threats, people not showing up for work for a few days, distant family concerned about an elderly relative, health support workers who are concerned their mentally ill patient hasn't taken their medication, people who show erratic behaviour at a bank or government welfare office after talking to staff.

Especially in country areas where they are limited Ambulance/Paramedic resources, police are more often than not the ones conducting checks and will be first responders.

If paramedics are concerned about safety on a particular job (weapons mentioned on call, previous history of violence), they will wait for police to make the area safe before attending to a patient.

If paramedics are unable to gain entry to a property, police are required to be the ones to force entry.

Also if paramedics require to take someone involuntarily to hospital for mental health evaluation they require police presence to "arrest" someone under the Mental Health Act to allow them to be taken against their will due to health concerns.

Due to large amounts of mental health work with police, on most shifts police will have a specialised unit (car) on duty in each area which has a combination of a police officer and specialist mental health worker / psychologist. They focus on any jobs relating to mentally ill and can conduct assessments without having to wait for an ambulance to be available.

There are a lot more police on shift than ambulances, and ambulances are often tied up for hours at hospitals doing transfers of patients, so police can and should be the ones dealing with welfare of the general public. They have a very close relationship with health workers.

Police will NEVER undertake a welfare check with guns drawn, even if forcing entry to a property. When arresting someone under the Mental Health Act police will not draw their guns. Guns are a last resort only.
There's something painfully ironic about this article being behind a paywall
Most of negative comments I read come from senior devs, those who remember the company in the 90s. It was a ruthless fight back then.
> Less than a million, in total, for Google at least. That's two or three engineer-years.

Your estimates are not based on average salary anywhere that I'm familiar with.
I will be curious to see what competitors of Microsoft, who host projects on github (google,facebook, etc) do. Where previously Github was an unbiased host for open source projects, now being under the umbrella of MS, other entities might see it as clashing with their corporate policies.
Unfortunately, we haven't seen the paradigm shift in game engine development that would be necessary to really get away from hyper optimized single threaded performance. Until someone figures out a way to efficiently utilize (highly) parallel execution in a deterministic game engine that has to run at at least 60fps, there isn't an incentive to move beyond the tried and true ways of doing things. At least, I don't think we have, I'm not in AAA and only keep a tangential pulse on that level of gamedev.

That said, I'd be really interested to see how some of these Battle Royale engines tick (no pun intended). It seems like there's a ton of potential for "clustering" execution, essentially treating separate sections of maps as separate games, but considering it could come down to 100 people all being within the same 100 square meters, you can't necessarily rely on that model.
There are a few Add block options on iPhone what are they missing?
Police murdering Chelsea Manning would raise lots of suspicions considering her history. A lot of police are conservative, and a lot of conservatives are mad the last president commuted her sentence.
Programming owes its strength to our long legacy of knitting
Could you please start commenting substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, a horrifically mismanaged city that collapsed into corruption when it's tentpole heavy industry packed up and left makes a great example. That's not necessarily representative of anything, though.
“VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 devices is worse than we thought” (Ars)
I have always thought an augmented reality headset would be the best interface for something like this. It would help eliminate the need to switch focus and be less disruptive to others. I guess it’s just not affordable enough yet.
First sentence of the second paragraph: "As it was mentioned in the original blog post, our policy is to never, ever write client IP addresses to disk and wipe all logs within 24 hours. "

So, yes.
Anandtech updated the benchmarks eventually: the massive performance drop that they attributed to meltdown/spectre patches vanished.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-r...
Microsoft GitHub just censored GitHub Evacuation project
Apparently I'm a supercommuter, with my 1 hours and 15 one-way trip to work. I can tell you that no matter what these people say: it's not worth it. You essentially turn an 8 hour work day (plus whatever lunch time you have) into a 10.5 hour work day.

Given 7.5 hours sleep and 3 hours to do stuff like waking up, cooking dinner and other work around the house, it leaves you with a meagre 3 hours of spare time each day, which is very little time to spend on hobbies and, if you have them, loved ones.
If you’re in the US but not in NY Give https://www.bhphotovideo.com a look. They are are large shop based in NY and don’t have a national physical presence so it’s possible you can save a couple hundred bucks on sales tax up front.
"And unions look like monopoly sellers of labour—cartels, intended to leech rents from society as a whole."

That's what they are.
I feel it's worth reminding that there's a difference between autonomous trains, driverless trains and unattended trains.
The L train is considered Grade of Automation 2 - it starts and stops itself, though it has someone in the driver's seat who controls the doors and gives control to the ATO system. Driverless (GoA3) trains move that role to a train attendant who controls the doors from within the train. Unattended (GoA4) trains function without needing an on-board operator at all.

The driver probably is just sitting with a hand near the emergency stop button most of the time, but they're still required to pay attention. I imagine it's harder work now that they don't have to necessarily concentrate to operate the train.

I live in London, where a lot of tube lines are already (or soon to be) GoA2, with the introduction of a part-GoA2 mainline service this year (Thameslink). I don't think we'll see a GoA 4 tube for many years; aside from the obvious union rows, you've got safety concerns (primarily platform-edge-doors, which can't be retrofitted to cramped stations), and there's mixed public opinion on the idea of being stuck on a broken down train in a tunnel without on-train staff. Then again, people don't seem to acknowledge that the airport terminal transfers are unattended GoA4.
You can at least change the spelling on the main page to Tasks and Bugs, Code Review, etc.

Agreed that serious business mode is slightly too serious. I miss the acsii dragon when pushes were denied by heralds.
I don't think it matters so much on Windows, because the colour information is sent out of band. When you call SetConsoleTextAttribute on the STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, and that handle is a file, the call simply fails.
>"we pick the null hypothesis so that we can when we collect data we can calculate probabilities of that data assuming the null hypothesis is true."

That is an awful reason to choose a null hypothesis. You should choose a null hypothesis you derived from your theory so you can see if your theory is capable of making accurate predictions.
Ex PHP developer here. The codebase is an absolute nightmare and doesn’t conform to any best practices (it’s not even MVC but a weird mess of .php files, there is no HTTP routing, it’s all very legacy PHP).
I think this had more to do with the Iron Curtain than poverty.
But DNS over TLS already provides that even without Tor.
Honestly differentiating between Salt Lake City and Utah County is splitting hairs and pointless. The vast majority of people in Utah live on a 40 minute stretch off of I-15, and the "Silicon Slopes" brand is centered right in the middle of it. Basically any tech company in Utah in that stretch from SLC to Provo is considered "Silicon Slopes".
> In terms of poverty, is there a difference between getting more wealth vs everything becoming cheaper?

Yes. The delta between the richest and poorest indicates a lot of things about a society.
I believe your parent is referring to the 'citizenship saga'.

This isn't a constitutional crisis in the 'dismissal' sense.

It's just the operation of s44 of the constitution causing a headache for parliament. Its been found that many of the parliamentarians are dual citizens, which is forbidden, and their seats in parliament have been nullified by the high court.
Dust Rising
It specifically mentions information YOU post. Facebook collects metadata about you and your activities. That metadata is whats more dangerous... and conveniently unmentioned.
Where are you headed? Wife and I left and have been delighted; happy to chat if you like.
I'm sure it's a distribution rights issue - probably someone who didn't want to deal with Humble Bundle owns the book rights in those regions. As a non-American I see it all the time with media.
Well, these articles seem to suggest that there are two types of people: people who love to be surrounded by people and "energize" from the noise around them, and "introverts". I just wonder why there seem to be so few of the former.
The world already downloads and executes everything. In browser sandbox, that is. And using native app truly means executing anything, but now within bounds of much weaker mobile sandbox.
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Money forces people to listen which is inherently very different from speech.

And there are plenty of laws limiting speech for example in schools. So, outright limiting say TV advertising would be completely constitutional and have the side effect of limiting exactly the types of speech you're talking about without constitutional issues.
Using the ice cream scoop method to transition from monolith to microservices
TIL. Those pesky Vikings.

My cousin, from Indiana, is currently serving as a minister on Stronsay. The scenic photos he's sharing are certainly encouraging me to contemplate a visit.
The data on this topic really changed my entire worldview. I ran into this [1] when actually searching information on the chiseling out of the middle class. And that paper does describe that chiseling of the middle class. In 1979 the middle class controlled 46% of all income, and the upper/rich classes controlled 30%. Today (well at least today as of 2014) the rich and upper class control 63% with the middle class left with 26%. There's even been a chiseling out of the middle class as a whole declining from 38.8% of society to 32% of society.

But the eye opener is this. This is the change in the size of each economic group between 1979 and 2014 as a percent of the total population:

- Rich: 0.1% -> 1.8%

- Upper Middle Class: 12.9% -> 29.4%

- Middle Class: 38.8% -> 32%

- Lower Middle Class: 23.9% -> 17.1%

- Poor or Near-Poor: 24.3% -> 19.8%

Such tremendous progress in just 35 years is absolutely remarkable. Statistics like this are certainly subject to biased interpretation and 'massaging'. If one is curious about the source, wiki has a section on the political stance of the Urban Institute [2]. Though the paper itself is very transparent in their methodology and extremely readable. I found it all eye opening to the point that it actually changed my worldview.

[1] - https://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Institute#Political_stan...
> Maybe you don’t care that much about the world outside the US or Western Europe

I don't think that's a fair reaction. It's possible to care about the rest of the world and recognise context. Workers looking for greater bargaining power in the US shouldn't accept "but things are much better in Eastern Europe these days" as a reason for them to not organise - the two are entirely separate issues, and can happen independent of each other.
Well for starters, if everything in the universe is computable, ie. digital physics, then they are all just configurations of information..
Your description of the facts in the article is sloppy. Law enforcement seized more than burglars stole. Throw in other theft crimes and crime wins.

And if you take out the Madoff case (a $1.7 billion case of law enforcement run amuck if there ever was one...), seizures didn't even top out burglaries.

Of course now someone can shrilly denounce me for defending asset forfeiture, but that isn't my point.
Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West?
Not really limiting. Crockford used it in jslint [0][1][2] to parse JavaScript, and OIL Shell also uses it [3] to parse a shell language.

[0] https://youtu.be/Nlqv6NtBXcA
[1] https://crockford.com/javascript/tdop/tdop.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_parser
[3] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/03/31.html
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> And who was it that changed their algorithm for handling TorBrowser traffic so that there's no need to show those CAPTCHAs? Oh. Cloudflare.

Thanks, that'd be great news! I couldn't find any information about that, any chance you could pull out a link like for your other points?
He's completely right that the data is messy and sometimes makes no sense at all. Even a passenger waiting for a train, if paying attention, will notice trains appear, disappear and "jump around" on the countdown clocks.
I notice the numbered trains are all coming out ahead of the lettered trains. Is this taking into account the bug in the MTA data where the countdown clocks for the lettered trains weren't accurate at the terminal stations until a week or so ago?