skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teachers are there to teach you math science etc not how to use your cell phone responsibility that lesson falls on your parents.
Travel is highly variable and can get really expensive if you aren't super careful, even if you aren't really going all out. A two-week vacation for two to Europe, staying in the (not over the top) Four seasons, and going to reasonably nice-restaurants could easily cost $20k airfare +8K accomodation + $5K daily incidental. You have to be at different level of wealth to take a $33K vacation without worrying about how to pay for it. I don't have any friends at that level.

On the flip side, going out to dinner with friends, and discovering that you may be on the hook for $100, and not stressing about how you are going to pay for it, is withing reach of a lot more people. I have several friends who have reached that level.

I think the levels are pretty good. Though I would also add two levels of wealth that materially change people's happiness - L0 (Can I pay my bus fare, rent, groceries without stressing. L0 is very, very real). And also, L4 - which is no longer flying commercial. Being able to go where you want on your schedule, without ever having to walk through an Airport/TSA is, I have heard, a material change to personal happiness.
> If the local government is subsidizing them, then if they move to a different place, they lose the subsidy.

No. What if they have operations in multiple locations? They could locate the bulk of their operations elsewhere, and only maintain the minimum presence in the jurisdiction of the local government to collect the subsidy.

With cheap electricity, they're incentivized to locate as much of their operations (that would benefit form the electricity price) as possible.
If the amount of workers is down, and the wages are similar or up, then you have a "shortage". In comparison to the point you measure of course.

Construction pays rather well actually, though it does have high strain on the body.
> Or their kowtowing to the Chinese censors.

And what exactly is the alternative option for them there? They can either follow the rules in China or completely lose all of their business. That is on China, not Apple.
Ummm. Parent isn't saying that. They're quoting Guy, who's saying that.

Edit: Unless I missed a multiple negative.
Medical bills aside (the US system is batshit!!) good financial planning should make going from 2 and 3 to 1 far less likely. Unfortunately many people don't bother to save significant backup funds while things are going well.
You could hash the password again on the server, preserving the property that getting database info doesn't compromise logins.

But you would also have added property that the password is never processed at all server-side.

IDK if that latter item is actually significant.
ICE bus ?
As for camera makers releasing SDKs, there’s a few, though I’ve found them to be unimpressive (binary only blobs for Windows, etc). However more interesting to me are cameras that speak standard(ish) protocols. I’ve been looking into this recently, here’s what I found: Panasonic cameras (GH4 is the one I’m looking at) expose a HTTP API over WiFi, and are able to upload images to an SMB share while you shoot. The API is fairly extensive: lets you control focus, etc. Nikon cameras have a pretty bad story on WiFi (at least up to the D810, which is the newest one I own), so I haven’t got far with them. I hear, though haven’t verified that Canon cameras speak PTP/IP, which is pretty neat. Olympus also has a WiFi control mode, but annoyingly it seems to disable the on-body controls when you use it (tested on an OMD EM1 Mk 1). I’m yet to get my hands on a Sony camera (will probably buy an A7 later this year), but I’ve seen videos that suggest it should be fairly straightforward to control remotely.
Your numbers are completely wrong...apple just had $50B in revenue for its weakest quarter...last quarter they had $60B and in their strongest quarter Q4 they had $89B pre trump tax cuts. If their current growth rate stays the same Apple will hit $280B revenue and $65B in profits.

I’m not sure how you are calculating equity but they have $240B in plain cash. They have so much in IP, and extremely low interest loans.

Market cap does mean something, it’s literally the most meaningful value the world puts on a company
That's a good point. I also don't like that these discussions of wealth are always accompanied by a discussion of income and then they end. Especially in an article where debt is featured so prominently. Significantly raising one's income and seeing it as the sole dividing factor between oneself and others becomes part of a false system of hope for many.

A saving habit _and_ reasonable living on one's income, no matter the level, will _often_ quickly result in the kind of savings that will pay for those big restaurant meals, if needed, or those vacations, if needed. My friends who are good savers tend to take vacations to really nice places without needing to spend a lot when they get there. So they have more money for the next vacation, etc.

There are people who are unfairly saddled with debt, to whom this doesn't really apply as readily, but it'd be nice if messages like "wow, sad, income levels make life so hard" could be accompanied by "but here's what many of you who are reading this can do at any level to feel on top of things." We are short-changing our children by not bundling that more realistic discussion with discussions of income.
The independence can only ever be relative. No one is truly independent. As a self-sufficient farmer, you depend on weather. As a millionaire, you depend on the continuing functioning of the financial system.
Again with the LIDAR argument... Humans drive using only eyes (computer vision) and having a sense of location (localization/3D maps).

Early autonomous test vehicles used LIDARS because camera and compute tech are not at the same level they are today. It's a legacy system and more of a shortcut. In essence, Object recognition > LIDAR judging distances.

Yeah it's true that a vision based system is much harder to solve. However if Tesla cracks it, it will pay dividends.
No. That would be Domino’s Pizza. https://m.nasdaq.com/symbol/dpz/interactive-chart
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Thank you for saying this. I'm tired and shocked of people not understanding such a basic thing.
Neither it implies the premise is true.

Is the even a country with the likes of such a "sex market"? Is it worse or better than others?
Fine, but the point remains that the article is way off base with its numbers if it doesn't include images.

"Human factors" certainly must include considering that humans like pictures. Oh, and videos.
Be warned that if you sign up with your Google account it wants permission to view your Google analytics data and data on your verified sites.

I’m using a throwaway Google account to try it out.

I wish I could double flag it. The website is too JavaScript heavy and bad to use on mobile.
> The 30% fee is not baseless.

I said it was extortionist, not baseless. Of course they deserve a fee. But it's extortionist in the sense that you have no choice, if you want to sell to worldwide mobile users with deep pockets. Apple also forces as many payments as possible to go through their network, and bans apps that try to take payment outside the store if the app does not provide sufficient justification. In fact, they could just probably charge 50% and developers would keep paying them...

> Steam charges 30% to be on its store

Pretty sure Steve Jobs didn't set the 30% price point by looking at the Steam store, lol. More likely it was the other way around and Steam is 30% because the App Store is 30%...
As in many things, appearances are everything.
Meals can easily cost 2,000$ a pop. So it's more like a 10x - 100x jump. Which IMO is a reasonable scale for wealth going from 10,000$ to 10,000,000,000$.
I will be supportive of this when adults decide to ban cellphones in cars when in the driver's seat. Studies show driver's even with handless systems are significantly more likely to get into car crashes.

If you support curtailing young people's cell phone use but don't support curtailing the use by adults which has proven to lead to traffic fatalities I'd have to ask you why.
Profits are not what make wages go down. Profits make wages go up, because then more gets invested and capital competes for labor. We are also in a decade since the recession of record profits, but that might not be so in the next decade or so (from a macro perspective).

Putting a ceiling on profits will not raise wages.
[Maybe I'm being excessively cynical]

Sorry to rain on your paradise, but is there something old-fashioned about using "Double Irish"[1] arrangement to evade legitimate taxes too?

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/apple-s-cash-mountain-ho...
Wealth is a relative thing, not an absolute. The distribution of wealth is one of the most interesting aspects of it, which is why that is commonly discussed.
Consumers are just as bad at predicting the future as everyone else. Market research is great for making iterative improvements or learning what people are frustrated with, but it's data, not knowledge, and definitely not prognostication.
No, what gives a share value is that someone else is willing to buy it from you for a certain price. The fact that it represents fractional ownership is why someone is willing to pay a certain price to buy it from you. But fundamentally, the value only exists as long as there is a counterparty.
Seems like an awfully big jump. You can have a crapload of internal politics without harassment, sexism, or anything like that. You'll probably also get some of those in any sufficiently large group of people, but it's possible to respond to them well and still be a political minefield in terms of interpersonal relationships and power games.
And what about the residents of the area? Do they now just have to suffer with higher bills, or are they going to get a rebate too?
The life of the doctor called to perform at the Hamilton-Burr duel
Yup, have a Sony A7s2 here, the jailbreak is pretty nice, especially that one can lift the 30min video recording limit. But there's next to no documentation, much less firmware development by Sony, even though there are so many things that could be improved...
Nice idea which will solve the connection issues during standup, enforce time bound update and save the team time trying to align a standup.
The only issue I see is devs might not be bothered to watch it or follow up but it could be quite useful for leads and managers.
Except for batteries. Kirkland batteries last a while, but they leak practically every time.
You can have rising prices and less sales. Its important to look at volume as well.

And land probably is what increased prices the most in the share of costs for developing, due to macro economic reasons.
Yes, but it costs less and is more evenly distributed.
Paywalled. Any alternative sources?
Long time CR subscriber. Love them. They're a UL [https://www.ul.com] for consumer goods and services.

Sadly, CR has struggled to make the transition to digital / online. thewirecutter.com is now my go to review site for most small ticket items.

I continue to hope that CR adapts. Independent labs remain worthwhile, needed.
They can either violate the privacy rights of Chinese citizens, or not sell to Chinese citizens at all.
The majority of their revenue comes from online sales.
did you misunderstand the intent of the statement? It's common usage when talking about products.
Ah, I'm glad someone else tracked this comment down. One of the most fascinating things I've ever read on reddit.
A new type of cheap health care plan is hitting the market
Their walled garden approach is looking smarter and smarter with every EU fine that gets thrown at Google.

As an aside: As an engineer, I dislike their walled garden approach; but I love their approach as a consumer. To be frank, most companies have bad taste and poor UX design. Apple doesn't knock it out the park all the time, but their products are consistently good and their design guidelines for iOS apps enforce some of the same quality. So yeah, I'll take a walled garden approach if the garden is beautiful.
>This will be very controversial

It is, and not only just on HN. Because Apple has $220B in revenue, not $50.
Alright. Who's next?
Apple is the first public company to reach a trillion. There are arguments that Aramco is worth vastly more, but it's not publicly traded, so it's hard to put a number on it.
this is the same problem with photo radar speeding tickets.
We know that for learning immediate correction is super-important, so just like getting a ticket in the mail several weeks after speeding, a note after you fail a test will just piss off the receiver and there's no long term training effect.

also, don't you think teachers have better things to do with their extremely limited instruction time than police and inventory cell phone usage?
DuckDuckGo looking nicer every day.
I mean, implementing a JIT is orthogonal to implementing it in another VM. See JITing meta circular evaluators like Jikes or Graal.
I haven't asked. But he takes his family on some pretty amazing vacations. He's doing well for himself. And he's still buying Apple products...
The idea that you think smartphones are an apt replacement for books and laptops indicates a failure to evaluate both.
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Well, you're free to believe that a platform that places you at the mercy of third party comrades who dictate what you can and cannot install or distribute "for your own good" is a good idea.

I disagree. Wholeheartedly.
The Problem with the Facebook Cafeteria and Free Food
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Healthcare is expensive largely because the decision-maker does not foot most of the bill.

If you have a universal healthcare system that would require mandatory prices.
level 3 includes your level 4, there is no "having to work or not" stipulation, so that's fine. One higher level of "I don't need to think about what anything costs", however, would be useful, if only to unpollute the numbers by taking out the folks who can walk into a marina office, buy a 30 million dollar yacht on the spot, and walk out still having roughly the same amount of money as they did before they walked in.
>It's tax that would not have been paid if Apple did not exist.

You can credit Apple with generating those taxes, but they don't get credit for paying that tax on their profits.

>"Apple must now pay 50% on every dollar they make" guess what would go right into the price of the products...

Yes, Apple's prices would go up to compensate, and consumers would be footing the bill.

>Business owners must pay the federal government 6.2% of every dollar their worker makes ...

Business owners must collect that amount, so my pay is reduced by that amount - I am paying that tax, the employer is just the tax man's agent.
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if the company were to sell you'd get paid. At some point most companies pay dividends. you possibly have a right to vote.
And I'm really curious why people here are not mentioning Apple gave Chinese gov access to icloud data for Chinese people. Kind of double standard I have to say...
As opposed to employing 1st world labor and let 3rd world labor starve?
doesn't matter an iota.

does absolute wealth buy you influence?

no, not even for a moment. if you have a million dollars, you have "a lot" of money. great. but what about your ability to turn your mass of money into societal influence? you can't buy congress if someone out there has a billion dollars. your chump change doesn't move the needle even if you are "rich" because they have so much more money that the sums they can offer are much greater. as the level of wealth rises, the costs of bribing politicians rises too. absolute wealth doesn't help you gain influence.

it's all about relative wealth. if you are more wealthy, you have relatively more say in the way society goes, at least in the way that things are configured currently.
My grandparents bought and still own Apple stock from their IPO. Seems like good news for them.
Six weeks after Hansen’s testimony, Exxon’s manager of science and strategy development, Duane LeVine, prepared an internal strategy paper urging the company to “emphasize the uncertainty in scientific conclusions.” This shortly became the default position of the entire sector. LeVine, it so happened, served as chairman of the global petroleum industry’s Working Group on Global Climate Change, created the same year, which adopted Exxon’s position as its own.

This is lying, spreading lies, with malicious intent. There was no scientific uncertainty.

A proper public policy would be to wipe out the Exxon, and all petrol companies, shareholders. Claw back all profits from all shareholders proportionally going back 40 years, all profits on those profits, and unwind the companies over the next 20 years strictly to public benefit. And if that is still not enough to pay for fixing what has been damaged, the corporate veil should be pierced and make every shareholder of these companies personally liable. And I'm one of those shareholders - I've owned BP directly and indirectly through funds.

And it is also quite damning for an unlimited 1st amendment concept that proposes telling lies is a right. Unlimited opinions however unpopular should be protected, but spreading proven falsehoods should not be protected. It should be used as evidence the speaker is culpable, in part, of the ensuing damage. Criminal? Perhaps. Civil? Absolutely.
A growing concern that America isn't protected from online election interference
And if I remember correctly, NT's kernel was a microkernel. It seemed to be the best choice for the future, back then.
Saudi Aramco is not even afloat yet.
American English abandoned them. They are still used in British English.
Sure, but in the context of lifestyle changes those are really the three major leaps. This is a paradigm that looks at what categories of stress are removed as your wealth increases, not how your raw capability to drive the means of production changes.

The distinctions laid out across these three tiers are both practical and relatable. Each step is another dimension of stress which subsumes the ones below it, which implies that eliminating one level also eliminates the level below it.

Level 1 means you have no debt. That already puts you well ahead of e.g. most Americans. It means you don't have to worry about your purchases in the past. Level 2 is a step beyond that, because it means you need not care about the cost of small luxuries in the present. And at level 3, you need not care about the size of large luxuries in the present.

The floor and utility of money increases categorically at each stage. Without debt, you can focus on "things" unencumbered. If you don't need to worry about the cost of restaurant bills, you can focus on "luxurious things". Vacations realistically cost thousands of dollars. If you don't need to worry about the cost of those, you can happily spend four or five figures on an "experience" that lasts perhaps a week to a month. And if you're not truly not caring for the cost of these things, at each step you can partake of the benefit many times in one year.

I concur with another commenter that you can formulate a step 4, which is "I don't need to work to enjoy step 3", but beyond that I think you're really splitting hairs when it comes to lifestyle changes.
Serious question- why is LIDAR so important? Obviously it’s possible to drive without it (humans do it), so it’s conceivable that eventually machines will be able to do it as well... So I’m guessing your point is, that won’t happen anytime soon and LIDAR is the fastest way to market; can you confirm/expand/clarify?
If the companies could increase their profits by hiring more workers they would do it. Unless the union can sell the houses at a higher price or make its workers more productive, the union can't solve the equation.
Can I buy shares in Norway’s sovereign wealth fund as an American? If not, it’s not really a meaningful comparison.
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Apple was the first to lead with this egregious fee. They should be forced to unbundle the fee into optional components, e.g. five components of 6% each, minimum 2 components must be chosen (12%).

That would subject each service fee component to competitive quality/demand forces within Apple, e.g. app search, trials/CRM workflow, app distribution. Developers and users can both exert choice on the subset of fees applied to a transaction, so they can provide performance-based feedback to Apple.

Even a monopolist can compete with itself, to improve service and product.
> Are you saying that people can't be controversial in "not a good way"? I hope not.

Of course not. I'm just saying that judgement of whether it is in "a good way" or "not a good way" will always be subjective, and representative of a biased viewpoint. Noone is completely unbiased but espousing such a viewpoint publically on a thread about arbitration isn't in keeping with responsibilities of Wikipedia's admins.

> Whether this applies to Galloway is a matter of popular opinion.

The popularity of the opinion should not be a qualifier for it to make up a part of a Wikipedia aministrator's discourse on non-biased arbitration.
They'll still sell cars sure. But Elon musk will fall off his narcissistic pedestal. Does that matter? I dunno
Backpage is not about adults who had the free choice to sell sex.

Backpage is about children who were kidnapped, drugged, and sold to be raped being advertised on Backpage. This happened with the knowledge, and support, of Backpage staff, including the owners of the company.

Even if we legalise prostitution between consenting adults who have the freedom to make the choice, we're never ever going to say it's legal to kidnap a child, drug her, and sell her to be raped.

Please read this. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
because they're utilizing that money so well.
> can a universal healthcare system resolve many of the emerging rent-seeking behavior costs peripheral to the actual hospital costs?

Yes. Universal healthcare systems almost all (with some notable exceptions) can and will negotiate with providers and suppliers to control costs. They are typically the largest buyer, so of course they have a lot of negotiating power.

Notable exceptions include Medicare in the US being legally forbidden from negotiating drug prices.
This is incredibly true, a huge lesson from the iPhone is that consumers can not tell you what they cannot imagine.

Creating entirely new markets takes vision.
This has some decent charts and historical perspective (inflation adjusted): https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/08/22/a-history-...
More like, they'll threaten to leave, and the local government will be pressured into continuing the subsidy to keep them. Or the new location will give more money. All while they don't do what they originally were supposed to be doing to get the subsidy in the first place.
I'm supportive. Feel free to ping me and I'll see if I can give you some pointers of how to make some progress on that ask.