skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The income disparity is the game of numbers. When Jeff Bezos’ income increases due to the work of his US employees, people notice. When Saudi Arabian King’s net worth increases due to the work of his US employees (and employees of any affiliated companies controlled by Saudis), people don’t notice it as much, since the King does not file a personal tax return with IRS.

If you were to strip everybody in the Forbes 1000 list of their US citizenship (someone like Singapore or Monaco would surely step up to provide them with a valid passport), relieve them of IRS personal income filing duty, but allow their money to stay in the US economy, the economy would look the same and act the same. But the income disparity numbers would look much brighter.
There's a very good SMBC comic that addresses the "greater pie" fallacy. [1] To summarize: the total economic pie growing and individual slices shrinking are not mutually exclusive.

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-03
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Just use Yakster -- Yak Saddle as a Service. They come to your house and swap it out for a fresh one every two weeks. Highly recommended.
Just because something new-ish exists doesn't mean it's the root of something society-changing. Bitcoin might be a steam engine.
In the few cases I've seen personally, it's because they're afraid of the abuser's reaction. They're afraid that if they go to a friend's house, the abuser will go there and break in. They're afraid that if they call the police, the abuser will find out, fool the police into thinking that everything is okay, and then escalate from there. They're afraid that even if the abuser is arrested, convicted and imprisoned, the punishment is just delayed until the release.
How does the rosiness of this assessment jive with the UN’s report that 40 million Americans live in poverty? Perhaps they are an ancillary component of such a Republic?
Ask HN: My startup is going remote-only. Is this a giant red flag?
My startup company, located in a major city, is going remote-only. Meaning, we are currently in a shared office space, but some time in the coming months, we will no longer have that space and will be a remote-only org. A variety of reasons were given for this decision, including the fact that we already have a bunch of remote workers. Has your startup successfully transitioned to be remote-only or is this a flag I should start looking for other jobs?
"immigrant-friendly" thats very far from being accurate.

edit: strong lang.
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This sort of research is amusing in a sad way. IQ studies on large populations have revealed data for nearly a century that would easily have predicted the outcome of your sister's efforts. The scores for teachers have to be normalized against the best available data for the demographic composition of their classroom, if we're going to bother with it at all.

Unfortunately, people don't like what the IQ scores show, and so instead the Gates Foundation has to spend millions on a grand experiment that "teaches us nothing" as Mother Jones would put it, mostly because they refuse to acknowledge just how precisely it confirms the uncomfortable things we already know.
The environmental factors are huge - my wife used to get students who rarely slept two consecutive nights in the same place - but another challenge seems to be threshold effects. Below a certain level the teacher has little control (e.g. a hungry kid needs lunch more than the best teacher) and over a certain level the kid has so many positive influences (high functioning affluent parents, tutors, competitive peers, etc.) that they’re going to do well with all but the worst teachers. The area where a teacher has the most control seems to be in between, with the kids who could coast but will do more if pressed and may not have other encouragements.

Most of the political discourse tends to treat all of those situations as the same.
" As I've noted before on Business Insider, the part-time gig economy has broken a fundamental link in capitalism that was good for workers. Pay rates no longer move upward as unemployment moves downward because companies like Uber, Just Eat, and Deliveroo can switch their demand for labor on and off on a minute-by-minute basis. Self-employed folks making a living on Etsy, Amazon, Airbnb, or eBay know their clients instantly go elsewhere if they raise their prices by even a few pennies."

Anyone who's studied the basics of Econ knows that this situation is called a Perfect Competition (as evidenced by nothing less than the admission of perfect elasticity of demand). It's not just that employers became 'more powerful', individual workers became more powerful in the sense that startups have been intruding on economic fiefdoms. What used to be monopolistic competition or even oligopoly (e.g news services) is now facing fundamental market structure changes that bring the cost of labor down to its 'true' value. It turns out the 'true' raw economic value of a lot of labor is what it would be under serfdom: subsistence wages. This is to say that individuals have become more able to enter previously restricted markets, with the consequence that few of them pay very well.

(Exercise for the reader: Consider the correlation between the implicit class-signaling based monopoly of higher education and its effect on wages compared to the rest of the increasingly competitive malthusian economy.)
I have no idea why you're being downvoted.
The following short segment is great.

"What's swinging into place Max, is that we have great communication networks now coming about for the transmission of digital information.

Now by digital we just mean symbols. There's this mistake that digital means in numbers. That's wrong. The two commonest programming languages are musical notation and knitting instructions.

That's not fu... why are you laughing."

Knitting was really big back then.
Yes I am confused by this as well. It's a templating language for javascript objects? Isn't javascript a framework/language to create javascript objects? Other then interface with a few APIs (in browser or node.js) it can't do anything else.
This would be a very shitty world to live in unless you were very rich.

It's efficient because it reduces the bargining power of labour to nothing, and those that gain are the owners of capital. With no bargining power, benefits will disappear and everyone will be non permanent except those in very secure positions or in very specialist jobs.

People will no longer have a home - a place to belong, they'll either break up families with parents working on other countries, or children will endure an existence of jumping from place to place eroding the chance for normal development.

Society will be broken and the ability to self organise to build political movements will evaporate.

This will not be a nice world to live in for 99.9pc of the population.
Or what if you scrunched the audio down to a bandwidth beyond what was still intelligible, but still captured some semblance of the speaker's voice. Use the original audio to compute subtitles and store them alongside the audio. That's your file.

Then the player uses both as inputs to ai (some hand waving), which now has enough to put the pieces together and produce something intelligible again, in the speaker's voice.
im glad modern civilizations never sacrifice young people for insane belief systems.
This is really just propaganda.
Your confusing the locally optimal choice of a single member within a system to apply to a description of a more globally optimal state of the system overall.
If that's your opinion then why bother targetting web browsers with WASM at all? You've been able to create highly interactive apps and games using native development for ages. I simply see no need for a new bytecode format, especially when mobile is ARM-only already, and even less so in Web browsers. WASM doesn't define a rendering or sound API, nor does it solve any other single problem game developers are having on established platforms. And, like JavaScript, needs HTML and CSS or another graphic API such as WebGL or canvas.
> It is the capacity for maintenance which is the best test for the vigor and stamina of a society.

Why? Personally, I think I'm quite good at maintaining my code, but my office looks like a mess. The two aspects are totally not correlated, and therefore I don't know why anyone could make that kind of claim here.
Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators (2009)
This is all very interesting and some of this makes sense, but like most economics practice, it's utterly impossible to predict the moves and motives of every party involved when change economic policy. In other words - this all sounds good, but people are irrational and it's hard to predict that irrationality on a global scale.

Source - Every economists research that either does or does not come true from proposed changes in economic policy.
I'm amazed that the name "Rothschild" still has the power to stir up conspiracy theories in 2018.

Rothschild holds only a small minority stake in The Economist.

I think it's less that this article wants to create a race to the bottom, and more that you fear the idea of the 1st world life you lucked into by birth being disrupted by a large influx of poor people who weren't so lucky in the birth lottery.

Jeez these new Nike's I have on are super comfortable.
When I was in Northern Namibia, we illegally crossed the border into Angola to have our evening cocktails. This entailed simply rowing across the river to the sandy shore on the other side.

While we enjoyed our drinks and our illicit behavior, we talked about how the Namibian government had come to the area back when the country was founded and told the local Himba people about where the border was and how they couldn't cross it. The local's response was basically, "WTF are you talking about? We don't recognize any border. Go away," and the government basically did.
I used to use the Firefox extension Scrapbook. Damned shame that the switch to web extensions broke it.

I also think -- and have observed -- that continuing access is only ensured when you have a local copy. Scrapbook was very useful for this.

Just the other day, I wanted to refer someone to a very pertinent resource. To find that that page is gone. In this case, I was able to cite an archive.org link. However, those are currently susceptible to robots.txt retroactive removal.
if we look at this

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

it would appear US is in similar leagues with Canada, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, etc, of having close to 0-1% in poverty. Check out the other countries in Asia or Africa if you really think America has it bad.
Do you have any evidence to back any of that up? Personally I'm seeing a lot of mass migration across the world--not all of it wanted by the citizens of the countries being migrated to--right now, even without globally open borders. Why would having globally open borders do anything but increase this rate?

It's also interesting that you think globally open borders would only affect the culture of America, but you're okay with that, presumably because whatever Americans consider to be their culture currently is meaningless in your eyes compared to the glorious no-nations-no-borders future world you envision, which conveniently has no negative consequences and is only a positive thing for everyone (except Americans who like their country and culture more or less the way it is now but eh tough luck for them I guess)
> That doesn't strike me as a shift, though. Presumably, if sqlite (or, say, its heavier weight, also free, cousin PostgreSQL) can mimic enough functionality of the proprietary company-wide db, why isn't bare SQL enough to access those functions?

It is, but then developers have to make a conscious effort to stick with a portable subset of SQL. It is much easier to have an ORM do that job for you.

> Too difficult to ensure one is writing a portable subset of the language?

For complex applications, that is very difficult, yes.

> This runs into the danger of being a "true Scotsman" type argument if it doesn't apply to at least most popular ORMs (or at least one for each popular language).

Some of the earlier Java EE ORM:s were truly garbage. They included way to much convenient magic. For example, it was often hard to predict whether a someObj.getFoo() call would trigger a database lookup or not. OP might have cut his teeth on one of those and therefore believe they all introduce extra complexity.

> They are, by definition, if one already knows the equivalent SQL statement: one has to learn the additional, separate syntax.

For example, in C# Linq is already used for functional list processing. Using them for SQL is just a change of backend.
I’m not sure this is less depressing but I think it’s not that teacher quality doesn’t master but that we focus on that societally because it’s the easiest to do something about: making teachers’ jobs have higher stakes, etc. is much cheaper than addressing poverty or changing culture so we keep hoping that one more round will do it even though we have close to a century of studies suggesting that we should focus on poverty instead.
It could actually very good for productivity for teams who use other languages in the backend.

I mean, I bet that as soon as possibile all the c# consultancy companies - just to pick a common example of big teams using a single language for the backend systems of all the projects of the company - would switch also their frontend to c# when it is supported by all major browsers
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What a fantastic article – technical, interesting and well written. Kudos!
This article was kind of a roller coaster for me, I was like "no screw that, that'll screw all sorts of things up" then it had all these fairly reasonable proposals for minimizing the impacts and I was ok with it.

>This, they fear, would make life worse, and perhaps threaten the political system that made their country worth moving to in the first place.

The latter part of that sentence is of key importance. Ask the people of Denver what they think of migrants from CA, ask Mainers what they think of the Massholes and the way those groups have affected their society (comically, most Mainers would rather have more poor Somalis than MA migrants). It's really easy to say "well it wasn't that bad" as an outsider 50yr or 100yr after the fact but for the people who have to live through it these changes really suck.

>for five years, ten years or even a lifetime. This may seem harsh, but it is far kinder than not letting them in.

I support this so, so, so, much. So many cultural problems caused by migration would be solved if when moving somewhere your vote counted as 1/X and increased to 1/1 over some period of time. This should apply to citizens too. If I move to the next town over my vote should count at 1/X in town elections but still count as what it previously did in state/federal elections

As an aside, I thought this was going to be a piece about the cost to the economy of transportation and physical distance but I was disappointed.
Sitting still, following the rules, and jumping through societal hoops are all critical life skills for that cushy job adding to the world's pile of webshit in JavaScript. So in some sense schools are doing the job of educating the young to prepare them for adult life.
> A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection said that anyone crossing into the country outside an official port of entry was breaking the law

Surprisingly, this isn't quite true!

You can pre-register for entry from Canada via small boat ("Canadian Border Boat Landing Permit (I-68)")[0]. You make land anywhere and then call CBP and report your entry[1].

[0]: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/pleasure-boats-private-flyers/ple...

[1]: https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/67/~/pleasure-b....
Regarding the downvotes, it may have to do with the fact that the person you're accusing of not having read the article happens to be the author of said article. I think they know what's in the article and are a bit of an authority on its intent.

If you're getting a lot of signals that you're wrong, it's often worthwhile to stop and consider why, rather than dig a deeper hole.
My experience ranges across platforms which is why I call out this ridiculous bias when I see it, especially when it uses dumb examples like Filezilla to represent the whole. Look at the other options for Filezilla downloads. The default Mac one is the same bundled crap from the same source. The Linux one is from the same source too. Of course I would be unreasonable to criticize the other platforms if the forum post was about those instead.

> One hardly ever needs to run on trusted executables, for any reason. If you do, they come from one or two trusted sources, not one of hundreds of private websites

That's just not true if you want up to date software. I can list a ton of software to the contrary and lots of installing that includes just extracting tarballs, or installing their deb/rpm you download, or if they use the distro package manager, they just have you add their server and cert.

> GUI 'wizard' that takes 10 minutes, frequent attention and 20 clicks

Well if you're just gonna give false impressions with hyperbole, a rational discussion can't be had.

Regardless, the issues with installation are primarily the choice of the devs, not the OS. These days they more look like the installation of Nodejs, Go, PgAdmin, VSCode, etc (i.e. minimal MSI's or just zip extracts) than complicated adware of yore. That this is not clear and you think 10 minute wizards with 20 clicks is normal makes it seem like you are not familiar with the platforms you talk about.
I'm curious as to how fast the WaveNet decoder is? The last time I saw an article on it, it took multiple minutes to generate a second of audio.
That doesn't match my experience growing up in a suburb. We biked by ourselves to each other's houses all the time and especially to parks where we would play ultimate Frisbee, football, and basketball games. Finding open park space to play those games sounds way harder in the city because the parks are always so packed due to the density.

And most of those other benefits you cited you cited would have been practically useless to me as a kid because I had hardly any desposable income.
World's smallest computer smaller than a grain of rice made
Yes. There's also this book:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/dripping-faucet-as-a-model-cha...
There are days when I wish all JavaScript was illegal...
Step 1: Go to media website with Firefox on my mobile phone.
Step 2: Mobile phone hangs, gets hot, jerky scrolling, delayed scrolling, unprompted scrolling (as ads load and get inserted and reflow everything), combinations of all of these.
Step 3: Give up and use Firefox Focus for the same g.d. site, and it just works.

Some sites won't load at all though if you block JavaScript. They've ruined the internet.
The quality of the teacher does matter, but OP says it’s not the constraint for most children.

This is basic theory of constraints: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The quality of a students education is a function of many variables, and the teacher is just one of those variables. This is why rewarding a teacher based on their classes performance is unfair. By luck they may either get a class filled with exceptional and privileged students, or a class of children with abuse and attention problems.

The only way to really get a good measure the quality of a teacher, would be to control the quality of the parents, and all the other variables too.
I love this idea. I think it should be applied to all jurisdictions in the US. If I move to another town or state my vote should count as 1/X increasing by 1/X per year until it's 1/1. I shouldn't have the opportunity to vote at a full 1/1 until I've assimilated to that locale. If I'm moving somewhere I presumably like the status quo there so much that I shouldn't have much need to change things.
Basically turn the speaker’s voice into a “font”, and then render text with it.
Pretty sure it’s been done. Large initial delay while you get the whole font download, then basically just the text to be rendered and the occasional hint to the renderer
I have a few questions about the JFET diagram and JFETs in general if someone wouldn't mind answering:

In the graphic we see S, G and D - Source Gate and Drain. Is the source permanently connected to power? If so do all transistor in a circuit connect to a shared power rail?

Must voltage always be present on both the source and gate in order for current to flow to the drain?

Lastly when the transistor is switched "on" does voltage leaving the drain then become input for a gate of some neighboring transistor in the circuit?
Just in case you didn't read the article, it makes no mention of the researchers' maintenance ability.

"According to the researchers, while the study was purely curiosity-driven, the results could be used to develop more efficient ways to measure rainfall or to develop a convincing synthesised sound for water droplets in gaming or movies, which has not yet been achieved."
« The connections are for fetching offers and, if the user accepts the offer, the offered file. What the file is for is written in the offer text. The network requests to fetch offers are done only after the user has agreed to it by accepting the privacy policy. »

Translation:

« Our installer fetches random crapware once you click past the giant wall of text. »
Except that users are in control.
> Just because something new-ish exists doesn't mean it's the root of something society-changing. Bitcoin might be a steam engine.

this is a great comment, i can interpret it at least two entirely different ways.

by "might be a steam engine" do you mean that bitcoin might be one of the key drivers of a major process of economic/industrial revolution?
> If you follow the "modern best practices" to make a SPA, you are talking about pulling in at least: npm, webpack, react, react-router, lodash, redux, bootstrap, and perhaps much more.

I wouldn't call that best practice, more like the hype train. All you really need, at a minimum is a text editor and jQuery. Once you're comfortable with that, you can move on to the more fancy stuff.
If you're interested into digging deeper, this just came out:

https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-collections/
Right, what I'm suggesting is that in a "globalized" world with free movement birth right Citizenship no longer makes much sense - if it did in the first place.
The parents and grandparents of the children in her class were taken away from their families and put in residential schools where they were abused and mistreated their entire lives. They were then released back into the world with a very poor education, and obvious mistrust for the government.

Friend of hers have taught in schools where a cycle of poverty inflicts the population. Most children are raised by single mothers because the father is in jail. When the father is released he has no opportunity to make a honest living for himself and the cycle continues.

The uncomfortable things we already know have nothing to do with IQ. It has everything to do with centuries of mistreatment of groups of people.
cost of housing proportional to wages, cost of healthcare proportional to wages, access to education and the quality of that education, overall life expectancy, likelyhood of incarceration, etc.
The housing market would be fine if people were allowed to build housing on their own land without an extremely expensive and onerous zoning process driven by those with a vested interest in expensive housing.
Having someone count as less than a full citizen for electoral purposes has some disturbing historical connotations. I think it’d be difficult to get past that.