skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s just get the obvious stuff out of the way and acknowledge that multi-billion-dollar companies don’t have fundamental values outside of doing what best benefits their shareholders. There’s no reason to believe Tim Cook lacks his own genuinely held beliefs that are nice and altruistic, but major corporations are more like nation-states today.

Agreed. Anyone who thinks of corporations (or nations) as their personal "friend" is most likely a tad confused. However, corporations are still entities with which you can interact in the real world. This means the level of trust with which you interact with said corporations is up to you. I am personally far more comfortable sending messages on iMessage w/ an iPhone, than with say Skype or Facebook Messenger.
I suggest you learn to read more carefully. I did not suggest syphilis would be eliminated by making extramarital sex illegal. I said its incidence would be reduced. If you make something more expensive people do less of it. Fewer people smoke marijuana now than will once it’s legal because part of the cost is the possibility of a criminal record and all that entails.
> It is their poverty that makes a job you find unappealing appealing for them

What? these inhumane working conditions aren't appealing to any human. Nobody is asking to reduce the demand for their labor, maybe the product should be priced accordingly to facilitate good working conditions and pay instead.
Boost mobile GPU performance by 60%, less power hungry, too
Yes, but as the parent article states, and even what is pointed out in your own link, while dividends are taxed at a lower rate, the manager is paid the lower rate on capital that is not his to begin with. That's the part that makes no sense to me. It is quite simply an incentive payment for his labor: it's income that investors pay him for his expertise, and as such should be taxed at income rates.
It is a strange blessing and mercy that websites unattractive to advertisers, like 4chan, are seemingly spared the worst of it.
Let's say this is true, i.e. there is no motivation for a corporation to maximize anything other than profit. What if the relevant government body (EPA, OSHA) attaches a social cost or a rating to each corporation and that is factored into the tax rate?
I'm sympathetic to this line of reasoning but we don't really measure the bloat of finance by number of people involved but instead by % of GDP consumed. Perhaps reducing new entrants to the field would reduce competition, raise prices and further bloat the field?

(Just thinking out loud here.)
Not a Toyota engineer familiar with the problem, but my guess is a metal object produces a radar reflection significantly different from a pedestrian.
I can update Erlang programs _while they're running_ without any downtime. We do this often at our company.

See http://erlang.org/doc/design_principles/release_handling.htm... for the basics. With no shared state, and no global variables, and no side effects, you can update functions so the next time they're called they're something else.
So, are gaming 7nm GPUs from AMD coming this year or next?
In India people sell thier children into slavery because they are so destitute. Sweat shops are an alternative that allow them to not have to do so.

In several generations, they may industrialize to the point where they achieve a western standard of living.

Is it ethical to deny them this chance because it makes you feel bad about thier current condition compared to your own?
This sounds like whataboutism.
> Might be harder to have disposable culture with high wages though

How so?

If anything, I would be more inclined to buy the latest and greatest tech every year if I had more money to spend. I think most consumers would do the same.
It yes, but there are a handful of very simple heuristics that Reddit (and Twitter) never cared to implement properly.
A lot of people here are saying that although their poor working conditions are unfortunate, those jobs are better than whatever alternative they would've otherwise had. However if those same workers were U.S. citizens in the United States, then for whatever reason a lot of you would then take it more seriously.

Morality should not be restricted by geographic borders.
> Do you mean a new generation of matter, with two new leptons and two new quarks?

Yeah, that's what I was getting at: one of the leptons being the sterile neutrino and the other being the "sterile particle".
Many hedge fund managers are plenty rich, oftentimes orders of magnitude more than some of their clients.
you are very devoid of facts. I'll start with the simplest one:
bush kerry
Popular vote	62,040,610	59,028,444
As much as I respect Coltrane and love much of his work, I have to agree that some of his more exploratory efforts are what I could only describe as "not relaxing". I like to fall asleep with jazz albums playing from time to time, and sometimes the playlists have gotten into some Coltrane stuff that tends to pull me awake.
You seem to be approaching this from some sort of market optimization perspective where a race to the bottom is a good thing.

Consider what might happen if Amazon paid their workforce 5% more than their competitors instead of paying bottom dollar. Competition for that higher wage would improve the quality of their workforce (and then produce a higher quality product). Other employers would them also compete to get quality workers.
If the point of lower capital gains tax rate is to incentivize risking capital then the carried interest loophole makes no sense because the noney manager isn't risking his capital. His "share of the dividend" is just another fee that should be taxed as any other income.
Could same-sex couples soon conceive a child with both their DNA?
Wow!!! Can’t believe it’s so hierarchical.
You & I start a company. I provide $100,000 in seed money but little actual work/time. You provide no seed money but a lot of work & time. We agree to split ownership of the company 50/50.

5 years go by.

We sell the company for $1,000,000. You get $500,000, I get $500,000.

Should I get to pay a lower tax rate than you?
Posting that Epic can import more than one file format does not prove me wrong.

Thankfully, some quotes from Epic Directors can prove me right....

https://uploadvr.com/epic-games-unreal-engine-april/

To quotes the Technical Director from Epic:

“We will increasingly use USD here. Hopefully, we will keep working with Pixar to make it awesome for every use case we can imagine. ”

And,

“The cool thing here is that we don’t need any other separate tools to go from USD to what you’d see on screen with this demo”
Sure, Apple may not be my "friend". But its competitors clearly make money by violating my privacy, and Apple doesn't, so it's clear why I would choose them.
Pirate all your books from Library Genesis. Nobody getting paid is true equality.
It's not that I think Apple is my friend, thier business and my interest align. I pay them money and they give me stuff. My iPhone doesn't have carrier crap, the Mac doesn't have any crapware on it.
We could also chemically castrate everyone through the water supply.

I mean, we should keep all our options on the table.

The Nazis shot people in the head for extra-marital sex. But they never got a handle on the problem. And to be honest, I doubt we can bring more ruthlessness to bear on the problem than they managed.

To paraphrase Darwin: if extramarital sex is outlawed, only outlaws will have extramarital sex.

And looking at other apes for a (very) rough metric, it's really hard to run against evolution when evolution's selected for...at least a certain genetic strain that leans toward non-monogamy. Interestingly enough, many bird species, while mating for life, are not sexual monogamous in that period.

The real question is: what're we going to to with all those chlamydia-infected koala bears?
The girlfriend’s birthday question surprises me. Did they first ask if you had a girlfriend? Otherwise, how would they know? It's hard to imagine that they'd have such detailed profiles for most Americans, let alone Canadians.
I think harryh ‘s comment states everything I could but much more succinctly, so I’ll just second his statement.
I wanted to share in Facebook Messenger and got this:

The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe:
jspaint.app

Is this a mistake?
They can solve optimization problems better than digital computers. It's a wholly different paradigm, for example the analog sorting algorithm has a runtime of O(n). It's called spaghetti sort.

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

There used to be electric analog computers. I've been working on an analog photonic computer (very theoretically so far) that I think could work.

Do you know how many electrons you move when you execute an instruction? It's like on the order of 10^18. I might be able to get away with a couple of photons.
Well, if they don't brake for firetrucks and do brake for shiny patches of ground, then they're also breaking systems.
Not only that, but as social creatures we have evolved mental models of other people, what we expect them to do, and say, and how we expect them to react to us, which in turn means we need to have models of our own behaviour in relation to theirs.
Most places with autocrats have no tradition of democracy and removing the autocrats often leads to civil war. This has been a recurring theme in Africa over the last half century. The West has made some disastrous foreign policy decisions, but I think the idea that we keep autocrats in power solely to extract foreign resources is not supported by the evidence.

Also, here's a list of recipients of US foreign aid[0]. I don't see an obvious connection between material wealth and amount of aid spent.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid#Over...
> the rich have been getting richer since the beginning of time

That's not true and we must be careful not to accept an aristocracy (or oligarchy) as inevitable. That the wealthy will inevitably hold and consolidate power is counter to the history of democracy, a specific rejection of aristocracy, and a system which has worked the other way in country after country to great success economically and politically - great news and great hope for humanity in these times. The foundation of the U.S. is that all are created equal, and after that it's a land of opportunity where merit wins out, not inherited wealth and corruption.

If by that you mean that rich have been getting richer relative to others, that's certainly not true. In the U.S. it's been true since the 1980s, but it fluctuates and in most other advanced economies the proportional difference (the disparity) is much less.

If you mean that there is not downward social mobility for the rich, that's also not true. I don't have the numbers, but I've read about research that overall social mobility (up and down) is significantly less than it was before Reagan. There's also the old American family story: Rags to rags in 3 generations. More concretely, the U.S. used to have higher taxes on the high income, and more importantly, a (much higher?) estate tax: Inherited wealth is not merit, but effective aristocracy. That said, I don't know the inter-generational overall trends of wealthy families.

(Or maybe the parent means something else.)

EDIT: Some clarification + the last sentence
Ooooh. The German original is harsh. "So-called Autopilot."
From that thread:

> Reddit's new "private" chat system is powered by send bird without any additional end to end encryption.

> This means send bird provides a searchable plaintext database of all of these "private" chats.

> https://sendbird.com/features

> I like the (public) chat feature but to introduce "private" chats a feature that is clearly intended to increase interactivity and thus use of the feature without making this clear is just wrong IMO.
Even if you have the right data, I fail to see how getting and interpreting data of any kind is somehow going to magically make people vote for you. The most it can do is give you a good picture of who will be willing to vote for you, but even that's pretty dubious when you consider the research that's been done on the inaccuracy of voter polling.
My other submission of the same story only appear for less than a minute or so. I could see it in my submission list, but not on the first three pages. Why?
From the standpoint of fairness, why should a worker at Company A make more than someone who does the same job at Company B, simply because the owner of Company A is richer than the owner of Company B? That's what I don't like.

I'm sure Amazon would be willing to pay more to well-qualified workers than to less-qualified workers. But that's not the type of argument I was responding to. The parent comment suggested that Bezos should pay his employees more simply because he can afford to.

I don't see how it's reasonable to base employee wages on the wealth of the company owner -- if Amazon stock tanked and Bezos lost a lot of money, should he cut employee wages? If not, then why should he increase wages when his personal wealth increases? It would be better for employee wages to be based on the employee's skills, not the employer's personal financial circumstances.
The suicide rate decreases when Chinese farmers move to cities, so it seems people prefer to live in cities than be subsistence farmers.
Not sure what you got from my comment or if you replied to the wrong person, but I do not support the tariff being discussed.
This is a law that powerful people made for themselves. This is my only hope for a favorable crypto tax treatment: if only enough rich people own these, then the tax regime will be palpable to develop it.
> They are then disproportionately taxed vs old white dudes living on big fees w/ cunning tax structures;

As opposed to the young white guys that overwhelmingly dominate VC in that age group. What an obviously racist, bullshit statement. It's directly accusing Fred Wilson of being a racist (that his motivation is racial in nature), casually, like it's no big deal. It's nothing more than pandering to put that in as an argumentation point, it indicates intellectual weakness on the part of the author.
What. The. Hell.

This is getting out of hand. Bad enough bloody Facebook has entire continents of social graphs. Governments DEFINITELY DO NOT NEED THIS.

This is how you erode or work around legal protections for your citizenry. Once one country starts, others will implement the same, then the information sharing starts.

NO. Just NO. The cat is probably already well out of the bag, but the world really doesn't need this.
This Is Some Scummy Shit, Newsweek
Are you a Mac user? You might be used to seeing the ".app" suffix on your filesystem
While I don't doubt much of this has truth, it's a bit of a one dimensional look at foreign and trade policy. Nothing world powers do has "one purpose". Motivations, intentions, and outcomes are manifold.

States don't exist because they have a monopoly on violence, it is just that a (at least semi-) monopoly on violence is a core trait of a state. Statehood is the evolutionarily stable outcome of any geographic population so far. An area without a state will, without exception, develop one.
Slave Labor. Colonising other countries and exploiting their lands.
Being a foreigner is the issue there, not being a different race or ethnicity. You are just as likely to be denied by a landlord for being a part time worker as well even if you are Japanese.

The first time I’ve experienced anything close to discrimination here was when looking for a house. Despite the kind real estate agent trying his best on the phone, he couldn’t convince the landlord’s wife to even show us the house. She kept saying she couldn’t trust me and my wife to stay quiet and orderly, that she didn’t want to deal with “cultural differences”.

Here, more often than not, you are dealing with scared and uncomfortable people who don’t know how to deal with you.
Here's a cheaper and faster hack: soft tube + weighted end.

The weighted end will tend to go towards where the liquids are. Imagine a bottle being held lengthwise. The weighted end will be in the same location as where the liquid is.

Turn the bottle upside down... the weighted end drops to where the top of the bottle is, along with where the water is.

Standard pressure thingies still work - you still get a spray. No need for custom membranse.
It's called synthesis gas for a reason, if you have syngas, catalysts, and fricktons of energy you can do a lot of things, including making precursors for plastics through Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.
Minimalist C Libraries
Just watched a documentary on the original Tesla (Nikola). Got me wondering if Elon isn't actually a bit like him. A genius, but after his big home run with alternating current, Tesla became obsessed with wilder and wilder ideas that were impractical if not outright insane. He died alone and broke living in a hotel room.
I love to see Cook doubling down on their branding as a privacy-centric company. The work Apple has done to bring usable security and end-to-end encryption to the masses is, IMO, Nobel worthy.
We can argue rules, technicalities and definitions, but here's the overriding one: Everyone needs to pull their weight, pay their share. Nobody is more important than anyone else.

Pulling your weight means equal sacrifice. It might be hard to calculate the equal sacrifice of someone making $20,000 and someone making $20,000,000, but I can tell you that $1,000 (EDIT: or 20% of income) is a heck of a lot more sacrifice for the former than the latter.

I'm sick of people complaining about pulling their weight or saying they are too important to do so. Should taxes (and other laws) now be contingent on the government's judgment of your importance? I suppose the unimportant poor should cover the share of these extra-important wealthy.

Personally, I'm kind of proud to pay my taxes and contribute to the enterprise of my democracy.
Ive seen public reports about this sort of thing. It is hard to verify exactly what is being employed. Sounds like consumer-type lasers, not purpose-biult stuff.
What is the modern argument for preferential tax treatment of capital gains?

Arguments against it seem compelling to me:

1. The American dream is achievement through hard work. But taxation of capital gains privileges ownership over labor. That's just un-American.

2. This preferential taxation creates an anti-productive industry dedicated to re-casting ordinary income as capital gains, leading to misallocation of resources.

3. Many states including California tax capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income; CA is not exactly suffering from lack of investment income.

4. Optics are terrible: I and many other ordinary Americans pay a higher average tax rate than the very wealthy, including ex-presidential candidate Mitt Romney and in all likelihood President Trump.
Sorry must have replied to the wrong comment.
> POSTNET (the old barcode system the Post Office used to route mail up until a few years ago)

Oh, are these not in use anymore?

> The first group had two bits, one representing the number 0 and the other representing the number 5. The second group had five bits representing the numbers 0–4.

Sounds like an abacus to me…
Kind of ironic that a project to collect failure stories failed itself.
Depends heavily on the country and the tariffs.
I don't know too much about employment in Japan, would love it if you could elaborate on this.
Can you elaborate on the phrase "carving wooden headphones"? I haven't heard of that term before.
Very common in other countries, too. Particularly with motorcyles that drive on sidewalks to avoid street traffic or because it is inconvenient to make a legal turn onto a side rode, ala https://www.bangkokpost.com/media/content/20170127/c1_118802...
Guys, please don't be so naive to forget Apple was indeed part of PRISM program.

If Apple gets free chit because they said they didn't know about the program, then so does Google & Facebook.

IMO, any multi-billion $ company with cash balance higher than several countries put together; does have bones under their rug.
I'd have to agree with Chomsky. It would be tremendously difficult to contort ones thinking greatly enough to be able to explain things like why those who suffer total facial paralysis lose the ability to feel anger, then the ability to recall what feeling anger was like, then the ability to recognize anger in other people and other similar body-mind interactions while still holding on to some idea of there being a "non-physical mind" in the manner usually proposed. In my own opinion, 'mind' is a property, not a thing. You need a thing to exhibit the property, just like you can't simply have a box full of "hot" without some material exhibiting it, and consciousness is a property we're sure human brains can have (by definition if nothing else). Going beyond that is difficult, and you're guaranteed to fail if the first thing you do is seek to eliminate all the material while trying to retain the property.

I am unaware of what Newton wrote to 'demolish the body', but I wonder if it is related to chaos theory, complexity, and similar intractable interconnections that limit pure reductionist mechanical understandings of things. We don't quite know how to bridge the gap from "we know we can not discount even the smallest detail without predictions deviating" to "yet we can predict complex systems with reductionist views and attain great accuracy if we restrict how much accuracy we want." Those two things are both true, and seem to be in direct conflict with one another. Should we ever be able to bridge that gap, it would probably herald a new golden age and be a far more important development than anything that has come before.
I guess I don't know why you'd even want an optional if it wasn't for the safety. Without compiler-enforced null checking, I don't see why you'd want one.
I'm pretty sure you can use CSS to make Typora to mimic GitHub style just as well.

https://support.typora.io/Add-Custom-CSS/

EDIT: maybe the existing theme does the trick (I don't use that theme):

> {current-theme}.user.css under theme folder. If you choose Github as your theme, then github.user.css will also be loaded.
Second this. I take privacy pretty seriously and their track record has been better than their competitors so far. I don’t care if they are riding a popular public opinion as long as it leads to a better outcome for their users.
>What? these inhumane working conditions aren't appealing to any human.

This is your privilege talking. Billions of people find them far more appealing than a precarious life of backbreaking farm labor.
Next time consider using Elixir Nerves. This capability is built in to the deployment framework.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_capital_income_taxatio... is a good place to start. Right up top is a nice summary:

"Starting from the conceptualization of capital income as future consumption, the taxation of capital income corresponds to a differentiated consumption tax on present and future consumption. Consequently, a capital income tax results in the distortion of individuals' saving and consumption behavior as individuals substitute the more heavily taxed future consumption with current consumption."

Here is a simplified explanation of the above:

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/27/a-quick-economics-...
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't get what this is doing on HN. as far as I can tell this is just a long winded rant about the ad industry. The writer of which assumes he knows Apples morals, motives & business schemes. It doesn't give us any good reason to distrust apple other than that they are profiting from Facebooks recent scandal(s)

& I say this as a Linux user, I am no fan of Apples closed system ideology