skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If US is the beneficiary of the past few years of emerging markets deleveraging and economic stimulus, middle class is a big recipient of the benefits. For example, any middle class who invested in the stock market would have seen great returns, maybe close to 10X if they invested in amazon, netflix, or apple. also, US middle class income has been increasing, reaching highest level in the last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-middle-cl....
That's the same channel that Mozilla used to deliver js based ad for mr. robot.
It could be this, but I also think it's just...no one has any idea how to market on reddit via paid advertising. Obviously /r/hailcorporate exists for a reason as many marketers are successful in marketing on reddit "organically", but those don't go through their official advertising system.

Reddit users as a whole seem averse (much like HN users) to ads. I would imagine conversion on reddit ads isn't very high, but I haven't looked at any data on that so I could be wrong there - just a feeling based on comments I see from many reddit users.

Also it's hard to implement ad types on the platform that don't piss off users or use shady tactics making them "blend in" to the organic content of a reddit page.
We implemented a LXC based container system on a platform that I architected.

It was not easy ;-)
How does this work? Like Prepack?
My thought here is that there is a significant lack of outrage in weak wage growth and income disparities because the data is not relatable enough. There's certainly some protest at the most abhorrent levels of minimum wage meeting acceptable levels for a living, but shouldn't everyone from the upper to lower class be up in arms if there is such a favoritism toward executives and shareholders? Maybe something along the lines as showing what normal wage growth in tangible quality of live areas (e.g. this is the home you could afford) would look like for certain income levels might be a better way to explain this.
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Strong disagree to your strong disagree. I understand right tool for the right job, but for the job of"front end framework" React vs Angular isn't hammer vs screwdriver, or even sledge vs ball peen - it's like Dewalt vs Milwaukee, claw hammers both.
For a given class of problem, your comfort with the technology will outweigh the edge cases you hit with one choice vs another. So pick your favorite hammer, screwdriver, saw, and tape-measure. If someone else hands you theirs sure, use it, but the time you spent learning the ins and out of everything is _way_ more than any time you will save.
Better is generally better than worse is better. The passive nature of worse is better postpones problems till later on. The philosophy of "worse is better" works for those who are competing mostly on price, but are you sure you want to spend your career in that category? That can be a tough life, ground down by low cost bids. Among the consultants I've known in New York, the better one's definitely avoid the "worse is better" philosophy. I'm talking about those consultants who charge in the range of $200 to $400 an hour. These people are hired to implement a "best is best" approach. I'm working on a project like that now, where we brought in one of the best AWS consultants in this region to build out a complex infrastructure, following best practices. We are pleased to see something take shape that we know is very good.

Consultants of this type can not afford to be passive, because they are being paid, in part, to push pass obstacles, including political obstacles, and implement an architecture as close to idea as possible.
California doesn't seem very interested in starving the beast overall. So it seems unlikely the motivation of this prop was that.
Hi Peter, here is the summary of the situation:

- The person has been a GC holder for a little over 2 years now and has not been out of the US for over 10 years for any significant period of time.

- The person has recently left the previous company that sponsored her GC (big enterprise) after 8 years there in order to join international remote-only startup that is expected to have US presence in about a year.

- The person is not an employee of the startup directly, but rather has a US-based corporation that is providing consulting services to the startup and she is the single share-holder and employee of the corporation. Her position in the startup is in the same field as GC application.

- The person is travelling around the world, while still staying in the US for 6 months per year or more.

- The person is considering purchasing one of the "golden visas" (real estate or business investment similar to EB5) in a foreign country that is different from startup domicile where the person is not planning to reside or stay. This investment program makes her eligible for the foreign passport in 5-10 years even if she is not residing in that country.

The questions is whether you think that either of the last 3 items (providing consulting services to company in foreign country through US-based corporation, travelling, or applying to "golden visa" program in other countries) would affect her GC status or US naturalization application in 2.5 years.

Thank you very much for your help!
Application states. Redux isn't meant to maintain UI state.
Wouldn't it be something if solving world peace were as easy as getting the Donald to grab a combo plate at the Halal Guys on 6th and 53rd on his way to see his friends at Fox while at home for the holidays?

Just kidding. You can't solve the world's problems with a coke and a smile... but it would make a great photo op :^)
When comparing Hungary to Turkey, the "awareness of Soros" thing actually is a caution point to me.

From my point of view, Orban is using Soros as a boogeyman, with huge over-emphasis on this single personality, far more than Soros's actual impact in Hungary, to project disagreement with certain attitudes and things going on in the world. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/once-fringe-soro...)

In Turkey, many of the statistics you cite are in part because Erdogan also had a boogeyman: Fethullah Gülen. Many of the statistics you cite for Turkey were "justified" by Erdogan's accusation that the coup was part of a Gülen plot. (It is uncertain, of course, that this was actually the case, but it was certainly a convenient excuse for rounding up all the "adversaries").

Hungary may be nothing like Turkey at this time, but never trust a leader with an authoritarian streak and a convenient "enemy boogeyman" to demonize against.
Ending Prop. 13 will not solve anything. If more people want to live here they need to build more housing. You instead proposing to kick out people who already live here just because they cannot afford to pay much higher taxes. Sounds pretty close to genocide to me.

And in the first place who said that taxes proportional to property prices is the best economically viable option? Are schools or police or roads become proportionally more expensive with rising property prices?
Would you make the same claim about how we require groups of people for everything we do ? What if we run out of architects ? What if we run out of neurosurgeons (given that we're always saving, saving saving on training such people resulting in their numbers not increasing despite the obvious incentive, combined with idiotic ideas about outsourcing it's becoming a real possibility, certainly for particular geographies)
They do if you win, and don't fight the war on your own soil.
Just as a side note for all these wonderful youtube resources. You can use this recently discussed tool on hacker news [0] youtube-dl [1] for downloading youtube videos. There's also this video transcoder Handbrake [2] that uses ffmpeg [3] under the hood if the previous tool spits out a video in a format that is not specifically mkv or mp4 (whichever of those two you prefer).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17460060

[1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

[2]: https://handbrake.fr/

[3]: https://ffmpeg.org/
TL;DR It is the uniqueness of data in a column
Wouldn't hold my breath even then. They decided to split a lot of functionality in Julia into a standard library, which they will keep changing indefinitely. There goes my hope of Julia having any API stability.
>did not translate into any noticeable self improvement

I've thought about this topic often, and I bounce around on where I stand on it (unsure if I'm just being pedantic or something).

I'm currently of the mind that infotainment like (early) ted talks, a large subset of conference talks, and all "Smarter Every Day"-like Youtube channels are overall no better than general trash entertainment. With general entertainment, you know what it is and self-limit, whereas the former present themselves as a valuable use of your time, and often make you _feel_ like your doing something "good" (I'm learning!), but the actual take away is often at best a factiod that you still couldn't even talk about in any depth.
Won't be a long sleep... The 1.0 beta is here.
What I don't understand is why they can pocket that appreciation. When you sell the taxman should come knocking for all the abatements you've received over the years.
Wouldn't it make sense to have higher taxes on old people? They have more significant money and wealth I believe.
Not Peter obviously. You do not have to be a US citizen to start a corporation in the US, or to be the controlling shareholder. You can incorporate the business from outside the country. No need to have pre-existing ties to the US, and you don't even need a US business partner (could be helpful to have someone in the country however). You do not need a US address either, to form the corporation.

If I'm not mistaken, Stripe Atlas does some or all of what you're looking for:

https://stripe.com/atlas
My interpretation of the argument was that taking privacy away from those who had it wouldn't necessarily cause harm because in some aggregated way everyone would have something to lose and so people would be tempered against 'throwing the first stone'.

I think that notion is false because the negative effects of the loss of privacy will spread unequally and opportunity created for those to exploit the unequal consequences against their foes.
Either word, this commenter, doesn't know too much about what they are commenting on.
haha Rich take a break! :D
For those of is comfortably in the top quintile, this is no doubt true. I'm certain many of us who post here have done quite well over the last decade. However the historical American middle class has, by and large, not benefited nearly as much. The vast majority of the gains have been captured by the top 0.1%.

Please don't mistake me for some kind of commie, PG's essay on the necessity for income inequality to drive innovation is convincing. But that doesn't mean we should celebrate shameless cronyism, kickbacks, and rent-seeking either.

Growing middle class income is nice, but income is a very poor metric to use to determine economic class. Net worth is what really matters.
I'd like to see us address the magnitude of wealth & income inequality, but it isn't necessary for us to end up at a uniform distribution, some inequality in income distribution helps to spur growth in under-served or high risk vocations... but we've reached a rather ridiculous extreme at this point and for some reason we're still retaining strongly regressive taxes (i.e. payroll, and various complex loop holes that allow percentage savings while having mostly fixed costs to exploit)
Eh - time enjoyed is time well spent. No guilt necessary in a difficult and cruel world. Like Franky says, relax.

Or write the next mad max. You could do that too
This.

Sadly, it's highly likely that the current administration will - of course take credit - but more importantly - reap all the rewards (i.e. votes) in the next federal election.

I still am amazed at how Obama pulled the US from the brink of utter financial collapse shortly after taking office. Hopefully the next incoming administration will be as lucky.
Quite right. Yet it's something of a taboo to speak of that reality.
Boeing people in particular know well just how thin-skinned a public in deep denial can be.

Back in the 2000s, a manager uttered the words "torture flights" in a private corporate meeting. Within days his words were leaked to the populist press by rivals within the bureaucracy.

Boeing higher-ups dealt with the ensuing firestorm by disposing of the truth-teller.
I'm not going to rehash the finer points of a debate that stubbornly refuses to die among armchair economists online. But for the benefit of everyone else reading this thread:

1. The market, and the macroeconomic system in general, is not a purely stochastic process. This is a meme.

2. If by "naive chartism" you mean technical analysis, then sure, I agree. But if you're attempting to reduce the entirety of academic and industrial economic theory and practice to "naive chartism", then your middle brow dismissal here is both incorrect and breathtakingly arrogant.

Our entire economic system is predicated on the idea that there exist inefficiencies that can be profitably capitalized on through cause and effect. No one professionally or academically familiar with this idea claims it's a guarantee, but they also don't dismiss the concept of past data being a useful but imperfect measurement for the future state of things.

Even Fama walked back from the strong EMH, and to claim that we can derive no insight about the future from the past is to utterly dismantle everything we know about the credit debt cycle and market macrostructure. If you'd like to believe that then more power to you, but implicit in that belief is a fair amount of hubris.
For what permissions?
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There is likely some truth to this as it encourages new housing stock to be built. I also suspect that it does lead to a more sustainable long term growth that's less likely to have major sell offs since owners will hold onto their property to maintain their tax advantage. I openly wonder if this is the reason that California housing, particularly in the Bay Area, did not implode during the dotcom bubble.
I had a brief dalliance with pony last year, though I wasn't coming at it from a systems perspective. At the time, it was the "lowest level" programming language I had used.

Maybe the author's perspective is just that much different from mine (he's used to things like C++ and Rust), but "simple" is just about the last word I'd use to describe pony. Don't get me wrong: Pony is a pleasure to work with, and it is no more complicated than necessary for the problem it's trying to solve, but adding the capabilities layer to the normal type system makes for a language that has a lot going on. I'd expect that the amount of fighting newcomers do with the capabilities system is similar to how people fight Rust's borrow checker. Maybe the author just didn't have enough actors that wanted to share state/communicate where it wasn't an issue for him.

In any case, I highly recommend anyone thinking about picking up a new programming language to give pony a look, especially if problems you're trying to solve are amenable to high levels of concurrency and need to run fast. The pony capability system basically eliminates data race bugs (within pony), and also guarantees against runtime crashes. It's got a bit of a learning curve, and the package ecosystem around it isn't great yet, but it's doing unique things to solve problems many languages aren't attempting to address.
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Briefly re: discard — since void is not a proper type like say Unit in Scala, it makes void functions (especially with type parameters) very awkward in general. Adding the additional confusion that you can treat a value-returning function as if it was a void function with discard, and it further destroys clarity of the meaning of types, encouraging developers to shoe-horn side-effectful computation into value-returning procs assuming it will just be used with discard (so there becomes weird convention based designs where you think you’re supposed to use something for its return value, but actually the “intent” is for you to use discard).

Basically, discard & result make Nim a nice language if you are programming alone, and you know & intuitively understand the conventions being used or you can control manually wrapping stuff in Option for a bunch of type signatures or whatever and you can enforce it how you like it.

But when writing code for other people to interact with, the implicit return type initialization creates weird ways of coding around it that are not clear or common sense for other people, and then mixing void and the use of discard makes it super unclear when or why it’s useful to ignore the return type in some context, instead of it having been actually designed as a void function (and for this to have a proper type).

This comment on this Nim issue gives a good example of what I mean, < https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/7370#issuecomment-376... >.

But generally, I think it just speaks badly of discard-style thinking. Write void functions to communicate side-effectfulness. Don’t mix concerns about a side effect and an optional return value and assume people will get your meaning and know when to use discard. That is more like coding for the function author’s benefit instead of coding for readers, users or other contributors.
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Speaking only from experience as a third party observer to my Indian friends & colleagues eating habits: onions are often lumped into the same category of 'unpure' ingredients along with garlic. Hindu tradition holds that such things cannot be offered to Gods, and negatively impact spiritual activities. So a non-trivial number of Hindus avoid these foods. Similar lines of thinking apply to other root vegetables. Jain dietary practices also tend to avoid garlic, onion, potoato, and other root veggies for reasons that I definitely do not fully understand.

Aversion to tomato is not something I have encountered though. I suppose it's possible I just haven't noticed it.
Thank you for doing this.

I am from Indian working on H1B. I got my i140 approved in April 2018. I completed 6 years on H1B and extension is in process. Given the situation in US, I would like to go back to India.

If I do this, will I be able to use the i140 at a later point, for example 3 years from now to apply for an h1b extension? Will the i140 itself be valid if I resign from my employer and go back to India?
yes. i often think that, too. from the article itself:

Yet the experience of towns like Ames and Des Moines show that such “labor shortages” might be due to insufficient wages and crummy working conditions — not an unwillingness of workers to switch industries or improve their skills for a job.
Thanks, we've updated the link from http://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oi....
Which language exactly? I am currently studying kanji with anki during my commute.
The US did the same, revolted against a well armed adversary.

The people are the power, paper money is no match.
So you have scatter information about how to actually make guix useful to a large number of users who over 13 different platforms that people use and hope users can use google search to reassemble said info.

This is inefficient and poorly considered. When my family got their first modern computer in my teens it ran windows. When we bought a better one so I could explore computer animation it ran windows. My first computer I paid for dual booted linux/windows. My computers now exclusively run linux.

I switched to free software because it was better ideologically but more importantly because I can presently use it to accomplish my goals.

Dual booting is surely inferior to just running free software from a software freedom standpoint but if I couldn't dual boot I might not have bothered at all.

Making nonfree sofware require an affirmative act beyond apt-install foo is a good step deleting all info from the official platform is unreasonable.
Backstory:
https://old.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/8wixpd/hunting_s...
Wouldn't it make sense to have higher taxes on tech workers? They have more significant money and wealth I believe.

If you want to tax wealth or income just do it directly.
Try this out: Take any current MacOS release, any recent one you like. Now, look at the versions of all the core tools. Stuff like readlink(1). Basic UNIX tools. Look at the manual page, and note the dates. This is the date of the tool it was last synced from FreeBSD.

Spoiler: 10.6 is the last release anything significant in the base system was updated. It's been left to stagnate ever since. For anyone relying on MacOS as a UNIX system for development, testing or heaven forbid, deployment, this release marked the end of any serious maintenance work and the divergence of MacOS X from the mainstream. It's now a decade out of date.

That's not to say no development has taken place. There's a lot gone on at a higher level. But the base system is so outdated it's now presenting real compatibility problems. Scripts which work on Linux and the BSDs may no longer work on MacOS: it's missing a decade of improvements, options, and bugfixes we all take for granted. The complete lack of care here is beyond ridicule. Surely a company like Apple could hire one person to take care of this. It's not like routine maintenance is particularly onerous.
it should absolutely not be based on age ... some old people are quite poor, while some young people are quite wealthy.
I've heard John Deere has a lot of self-driving / automation for their farm equipment. That sounds like it would be interesting.
That's true and I wouldn't use the Option type for that either. There is a switch that warns about variables that are not initialized explicitly (including the 'result' variable) and an RFC to make this switch non-optional. https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/7917
This is very promising! Thanks for the share!
I must agree- we like the idea of absolute neutrality, but the internet is so general purpose it's possible that society will ultimately settle on things like this.

TV and phone are two services both provided over one or two strands of copper, and each is taxed at a different rate. Is social media not just another service? Sure, it's built on TCP/IP, DSL, & DOSCIS, but cable TV is built on CATV and phone on ISDN.

If it is absurd to tax a social media service coming down the wire, then it is equally absurd to individually tax cable TV or phone service over the same wire. Yet, we hardly see that as absurd, we've been doing it for decades.
It's not just SV that has similiar stuff to Prop 13, most places do so. If not, the locals will simply have to pack up and move just because their property value went up which can be quite disruptive. I personally think it's fair. You shouldn't be forced to move out of a city you are rooted in where you have family and friends. Imagine getting old and deciding you wish to downsize to a smaller house because all the kids are grown. Do you want to start over in a new city when you are now replying on retirement income and are old? Of course not. That's what Prop 13 tries to stop. I don't consider it entitlement, it sucks to not be at the receiving end, but hey that's the gain for being their first.

BTW, I don't live in the Bay area and never have. I live in Detroit area and we have this same rubbish and I've had to pay 3x property tax of folks who own 5x the value of my property. It sucks but I understand.