skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you making the tabula rasa claim that race is just skin color or some kind of weird pseudo-science?

I'm saying the fact that people have the same skin color does not make them similar in any other way; people in Australia who are aboriginals and people in the United States who have black skin have nothing to do with each other. Because you bring it up, I do agree that race has no validity other than in the eye of the beholder, partly because it's not defined, and totally because it predicts nothing but the response of racists.

> i proposed an idea that different ethnicities that have evolved in different environments with different cultures have different ideas of what classifies success.

Obviously, the parent didn't propose this idea; it's an old one. To suggest it is novel and needs to be addressed from scratch (tabula rasa indeed!) is disingenuous.

> it would be ignorant to just apply my cultural norms to them.

It is equally ignorant to ignore their humanity and the universal things that humans share, or to assign to them anything particular based on their skin color or 'ethnicity'.

> Because im making a classification between european-americans and african-americans?

That is precisely the problem, and one we know well, which has led to more misery than perhaps any other human failing. Defining people by their race, rather than letting people define themselves, is to do the ignorant thing the parent says they wish to avoid.

Also, ethnicities are as undefined as race. Look at 'european-american' - Europeans in Europe often despise each other based on what they perceive as distinct 'ethnicities'; Russians and Ukrainians are shooting each other; think of Serbs and Croats; Brexit voters who want the other Europeans out; Germans and French (and many others) were shooting each other in the 20th century; in the U.S., Italians and Irish would riot, Catholics and Jews were persecuted; but there's an historic European-American ethnicity? What people mean by this conservative ethnicity is 'what I perceived at a certain time should be fixed in concrete, and applied to all these individuals'; but what they perceived was only a snapshot of a rapidly changing landscape, and of course was highly subjective. And the individuals get do define themselves.
Well if you actually buy the all powerful thing, the concepts of effort or complexity don’t really apply
10 years ago....

debt to GDP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/sizing-up...

2008 - 150%

2018 - 350% (official figure) 450% (official figure plus shadow debt)

gdp growth https://tradingeconomics.com/china/gdp-growth-annual

2008 - 12%

2018 - 6%

children per women http://www.china-profile.com/data/fig_WPP2010_TFR_1.htm

2008 - 1.75

2018 - 1.5

China lost 4 trillion wealth to migration https://www.forbes.com/sites/insideasia/2017/02/22/china-cap...

Nothing goes up forever. Eventually they come crashing down to earth. Noone escapes economics fundamentals.
> what’s the difference between a union and a bunch of small 1 person companies all deciding to price fix?

Is this a riddle?

The answer: Both were outlawed by antitrust laws, but labor unions later lobbied to except one (but not the other).
> Denying rivals a chance to innovate and compete on the merits

Apple consistently gives its apps more permissions than normal developers they get. They also reject apps that interfere with business fields they are in/eyeing.
> I've had my share of beefs with Sir_Cmpwn but this post is nonsense. You can't "largely" practice an open source model. Either you do or you don't.

Well, given that there are like 10 different criteria to meet it very obviously is not black and white.

You can view dgraph's source. You can modify and contribute to it. You can fork it, change it, etc. You just can't make it your own product that you sell.

It is open source in many, many ways, and probably the general, colloquial way. Whining endlessly because they don't want other people to sell it, and to maintain some semblance of ownership, is what's ridiculous.
Indeed.

Also, Spyfone has no clue whether others accessed the data previously. For all we know, there's some .onion site selling access to pedophiles.
Instagram actually cloned snapchat in its app. You can send direct messages now. Photos, videos, filters, drawing, text, emoji, everything. Photo and videos can be sent to be viewed once/replayed (like snapchat), or persisted in the chat log.
"ran by sales that need a checkbox for their presentation" is a total strawman. I think we both agree that being entirely sales- and short-term profit-driven is a terrible strategy, but it is possible to have an appropriately long-term outlook yet uncompromising about the unit economics when the success of your business is still an unknown. Being sales-focused is perhaps even a way to keep "what people want" in top of mind, and works especially well for certain products/industries.
I too was a little flustered trying to follow the argument here. These additional sources helped a little:

Troy Segal, "Why would a company buy back its own shares?", Investopedia, 20 Jun 2018.

Annie Lowry, "Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?", The Atlantic, 31 Jul 2018

Katy Milani, Irene Tung, "Curbing Stock Buybacks: A Crucial Step to Raising Worker Pay and Reducing Inequality", Roosevelt Institute, 31 Jul 2018

I'm new to this, so let me share my thinking here and see if I've got it right.

The argument is that money that could be going towards investment in growing the company and/or rewarding the employees is instead going towards buybacks. Buybacks have the benefit of increasing the stock price and consolidating ownership, which generally benefit both stockholders and executives, but exclude many classes of workers who don't own shares.

Dividends would be a similar thing to plow a company's dollars into. Again: benefiting stockholders, but excluding workers who don't own shares.

Companies these days who are involved in feeding money back to investors like to balance between issuing dividends and buying back stock--in many cases, biasing strongly in favor of buybacks. There are a few reasons for this, including investors wigging out far less if you have to cut back on buybacks vs dividends during a recession.

Nevertheless, there seems to be an expectation that shareholders will continue to increase their profits--specifically, that dividends will increase if the company is issuing dividends. Indeed, it seems to me that a company runs a risk of activist shareholders taking them over if they don't do a good enough job of satisfying them. So if a company shifts those dollars away from shareholders and into wages, and the shareholders revolt as a result, does that necessarily make those companies or their employees any better off?

I can see a problem for sure, since the increase in income inequality in the US is an undeniable problem, a lot of workers are not getting any better off from either stock buybacks or dividends, and the Roosevelt Institute makes some compelling arguments for why stock buybacks are not great for long-term strategy and profitability even among shareholders--including the startling fact that some companies, particularly in the restaurant business, are actually putting themselves significantly into the red to buy back shares! I'm not sure that it's a problem that regulators are obligated to fix by going directly after stock buybacks, though.
It surely is, just the same as a dividend not-reinvested.
FYI, netting $1400 a month in China is freaking a lot for somebody who is not an engineer or a communist.

An average fancy lunch costs CNY25 in the most expensive part of the town. Living a careless life on $700 per month can be done effortlessly.

To note, China is a freaking HIGH tax country. Earning $1400 post tax means her gross income must be around CNY25000 with freebies and perks, which makes her into top 5% of the workforce. She earns almost as much as engineers do.
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If they're passively propelled, then it can just become a numbers game. Send a thousand and hope for the best maybe?
How do you receive more ownership? when the company buys back don't the number of stocks for the company remain the same? what am I missing?
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I have posted a position a few times, but I have no way to tell how candidates are applying on ICIMS platform
The best programmers I have worked with seem to be the ones who couldn't finish school. I don't think my system would exist without their genius.
I haven't tried this because I haven't used a bank application on an Android device, but how does it perceive LineageOS with its official SU capability? When the application asks for root, can you deny root in the prompt and the app will be none the wiser?
Those are actions with judicial oversight. I believe OP was referring to NSLs and other IC actions.
Snapchat's security is so lax, everyone has a copy of their software now.
There is a significant difference between repo and divi. Repo takes away from existing float where as dividend is returned PER SHARE. The difference could be more or less "technical" in a flat market but it's significantly more advantageous to do repo in a bull market. And it's not like investors fully reinvest divi especially in current ETF/index environment. This is all from an investment perspective and it isn't necessarily a bad thing since the companies pursuing repo strategies are basically doing what their shareholders prefer to do with excess cash. HOWEVER, I believe there's more to it than just shareholder returns. I posit current wave of repo has contributed to increasing market concentrations across the board and that will ultimately lead to negative monopolistic behaviors.
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"If you program it like it was C then you can get good performance" -> Note that one of the points of the post is that just using "like C" won't magically fix your performance!

If anything, you could say "If you program it like a system with limited memory then you can get good performance". That, I can imagine being a universally applicable thing.

My point is that, for example for the particular case of memory management, there is an associated cost, whatever your language is; and you need to deal with it. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, etc.
What about the responsibility of the worker? Everytime I have voluntarily done contracting, I’ve known up front the trade offs.

The last time I was looking for a job, I wanted to contract because everytime I do, I make more money all in. The people I know contracting as QAs were making a killing - they get paid every hour they work and made more than enough to take vacations - most of them did - pay insurance out of pocket, etc.

Full time salaried work and “the benefits” for most of corporate America is not all it’s cracked up to be.
I'm expecting them to add it to their mobile app.
I heard about Sonder last year and have been surprised how under-the-radar they are. It's a great concept, and the pricing sure beats the cost of a high-end airbnb, which to me is their main competition.

We've had too many dodgy, misrepresented airbnb experiences and my wife has sworn them off. Looking forward to using Sonder when we're in the cities they serve!
And what “protections” do full time workers get?
"Are We The Baddies" is an epicly hilarious Mitchell and Webb comedy skit, for those who missed the reference. Can be found on YouTube. It's been what, a few years at least, and I still think about "Business Secrets of the Pharaohs" constantly ;)

And no, I don't think I've ever had such a crisis of conscious. So thanks OP for reminding me that on balance I've at least attempted to be a decent human being ;)
We already have phones in our pockets. Allow me to stick a cable from my HMD into my phone and I’ll be perfectly content to carry the extra weight around. It just has to look decent at the ‘head-mounted’ part.
Real wages may have stagnated, but overall compensation hasn’t.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/29/-wage-stagnationcommentary.h...
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But that's not "Java in the real world". If anything I'd presume that that's "well programmed Java".
It is in chasing that last easy dollar, that he looked up, only to find himself trapped down maze of mediocrity.
The most succinct way I've found to explain this to normal humes is this:

When you buy stock, to make money, one of two things must happen:

* The company pays a dividend regularly

* The company's share price increases, then you sell

A dividend is just like a salary. A buyback is just like a bonus. Everyone understands salaries and bonuses, there's no reason to lose your mind over thinking buybacks are nefarious unless you thinking giving employees a bonus is nefarious.

Then, there are two key plusses to buybacks:

* You choose the year in which you sell. This has favorable tax advantages, just like if you could choose the year in which you book a bonus.

* Investors punish companies, sometimes heavily, when they decrease dividends. If you cannot guarantee a dividend indefinitely, you probably shouldn't give it out. Instead you should do a buyback. "Things are good right now, so here's a bonus." This is identical to how people think about salaries, so it should come as no surprise. Lowering a dividend later is like giving someone a pay cut, but people don't balk so much if you tell them you're giving them a one time bonus.
Transcript and other resources available here. https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/guido-kroemer

Thanks for sharing!
You can't accept money to talk to somebody about the open-source project. The Commons Clause literally says this! Does the level of bullshit that implies not resonate? Even if there weren't a nigh-universally accepted definition of open source software that precludes it--and it does--in what universe does that suggest openness?
No, any stock held by the company itself doesn’t count towards ownership share.

When buybacks happen, each share owns more of the company.
You're just shifting profits from the Retail industry to the Real Estate industry, but ceteris paribus the amount of GDP remains unchanged.

I'm not an economist, but from what little I know, the Neoclassical / Solow-Swan model¹ ² defines output as a function of Labor, Capital and Productivity. Long story short, consumption doesn't drive economic growth.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solow%E2%80%93Swan_model

2. https://slideplayer.com/slide/4812968/
I cannot agree that rap lyrics are any sign that the contemporary poetry scene is open to a real breadth of approaches. It is extremely difficult to find rap lyrics that completely lack the tropes of braggadocio, social commentary, and/or disparagement or one’s rivals. (I myself have searched for years with little success, though I have nothing against hip-hop as a purely musical genre, and I welcome recommendations). Yet, there is a whole world of other subjects and forms to explore out there in poetry.

Furthermore, how longform can one reasonably go in a recorded or live-concert medium like hip-hop? I suspect that any artist that tried to pen a single composition as long as many longform poems in the canon, would either reach the limits of the recording medium, or of his audience’s patience.
This is... not how bubbles work, as far as I know?

The idealized enterprise value of a firm changes not one whit whether capital is returned to investors via a dividend or a stock buy back. There could conceivably be small differences in transaction costs between the two, but in practice, they’re very similar.

Generally, the enterprise value of large amounts of cash for most firms is less-than-par, because investors fear management making vanity purchases that destroy value. So long term investors are much happier if capital is returned, and much happier if the method of return is via stock buy back.
Reactors are fine, just fix some political nonsense and generally ignorance/misinformation.

There are much bigger issues like coal, and other carbon based fuels.
It's hard to service that request because social networks are closed source and most research into webs of trust is academic. Take email; there's an ad-hoc web-of-trust out there, but it's federated amongst a number of actors. I agree we need something open, but the incentives to make one don't exist.
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> we will have bases

If you change "have" to "could", then maybe it's true again, according to this video at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iMlOH6hdOw

It's quite sad to see politicians make space exploration this hard.

Even more sad after you find out politicians also the source of so many wars on the Earth.
I normally wouldn't comment, but in this case we're talking about a promotional article that leads readers down a conversion funnel. Because some steps at that conversion funnel are dishonest, I want to make sure that people are aware of what they're actually looking at.
Oh it was Democracy that caused misery in Russia, not the hang-over and cultural destruction of 70 years of party dictatorship and failed experiments with various degrees of Communism? Not to mention mass genocide, starvation, poverty and oppression on a scale of which humanity has rarely seen.

Meanwhile Czech, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - all of which are Democratic, and all of which have had superior economic outcomes to Russia - haven't had that problem. Turns out when you forcibly hold a giant land mass together that shouldn't be together, there is a high cost.

Was Russia expected to snap instantly into a perfect Democratic model from that? How many elections did they hold that were Democratic before returning to a dictatorship? Not a very long experiment as it turns out.

When did Iraq get Democracy? Was that before or after the vast civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and demolished its cities; or was it before or after ISIS ripped the country in half? Immediately after leaving a brutal dictatorship that had tortured the nation for decades? Another mass of land arbitrarily forced together by a great power, with horrible consequences.

Afghanistan got its Democracy with a helping of decades of religious civil war that decimated the country and continues to this day with everything persistently under attack by the Taliban. They're expected to accomplish what beautiful form of Democracy in that atmosphere of on-going civil war?

Using those three as examples of Democracy causing misery, is plainly absurd.
Windows is very different from iOS in that it had no sandbox and its API allowed developers to do everything they wanted. Users unknowingly granted admin privileges to every application they ran.

iOS, on the other hand, restricts its apps heavily - they are sandboxed, can't access other apps' files (no ransomware) and need explicit user permission to meddle with their private data.

Now, yes, exploits exist, but look at macOS - Apple still controls developer certificates and can pull the plug on misbehaving developers. An alternative to the app store wouldn't be nearly as devastating as win32.

You raise an interesting point about Android malware. Does it stem from the fact that Android apps can access the filesystem?
Nobody here has argued to start striking outdated websites off the record. However the advent of reader mode has certainly helped things in that neighborhood come through a bit cleaner.

But as yet websites don’t control rapidly evolving and privacy sensitive hardware on mobile devices. Also, user time spent in apps versus web browsers is hovering around ~90% versus 10. Might it be possible that having an up-to-date experience as it’s enforced by mobile platform owners could contribute somewhat to this abundant user preference for apps?
Didn't I speak directly to that in the part of my comment you didn't quote?

I guess I was being too cute in my comment, so I'll switch to frankness. As a total outsider to all this, your and others' assumption of bad faith and willingness to accuse people of outright lies here is very unconvincing and off-putting to me.

I think they're probably just trying to make a living off of software they put a lot of time into creating. It's reasonable to disagree about their approach, but you're uncharitably going further than that.
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Actually, I think that talking about Java's multithreading here is a red herring; note that LMAX had to abandon multi-threading because it was destroying performance.

And this is important, because they explicitly made a very interesting point of current architectures being at odds with current thinking about best practices for concurrent programming.
Surprised Airbnb doesn’t just do this themselves, though I suspect it might just be a matter of time?

Agree the one thing I really don’t like about Airbnb and why I still prefer hotels is the inconsistency of the experience from check-in to check-out. If I’m in a new unfamiliar city all I want to do is minimize the unknowns as much as possible and everything about Airbnb from key hand off to cleanliness to whether the listing is even real is a big question mark until you’re actually there.
>The funny thing is the verdict is "mostly false", yet it confirms everything I said.

This is how Snopes generally operates – create a disingenuous headline, debunk it in a big blocky font at the top but then lay out the facts that don't coincide with the headline in the article. They know most people only read the headline and then disseminate whatever is in it.
I'm more interested in how you manage to be this productive. Any tips on managing time and projects?
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That isn't that crazy though.

Hedge funds can make 100s of millions per employee.

I suspect Google COULD make much more per employee. But by 10xing their staff as they have over their last few years, they can maybe 1.5x their revenue. Sounds bad, but at the end of the day it is still a lot more profit.
That sounds really interesting. Can you point to any of those reactions?
The code is more about a simple set of rules for research involving human test subjects. That is the baseline. It started because of that and got adopted by the scientific community as the most basic rules. I'm not implying anything about war crimes because I would've still referenced if they were created randomly by any other random event.
Your numbers are out of date.

In 2002 I recall eating a huge bowl of noodles in rural Yunnan for CNY1. Today an average "fancy lunch" costs at least CNY60 in a Tier 1 city. Hell, even one beer usually costs that. That's USD$10.

In Shenzhen, an average bowl of noodles is CNY20+. (The cheapest of the cheap, if you can find it and are willing to eat it, is about CNY8-16.) In the airports it's CNY60+ nationally. In high speed trains nationally a central kitchen produced low quality mass-meal in a thermoform container is CNY45, and perhaps purchased by 1/3 of travelers.

For more reference prices take a look at http://ele.me/ delivery service. The delivery fees alone are around CNY7 (USD$1+). This is not "fancy lunch in the most expensive part of town" but "the stuff the average white collar worker eats daily".
> You just need to connect the key to your account

Which account? Where is the account? Who runs that account?

In a 10-person office, I want to be able to hand 3 keys to each person (1 for use, 1 for loss, and 1 just in case the other two somehow foul up), and then have them use those keys for computer login, email login, AWS login, GCP login, NXP/ST/SiLabs support forum login, etc.

And when one of them goes to another company (it happens), I need to be able to shut those keys down without their cooperation.

Until I can do this, 2FA is going to remain the province of big companies and not be very useful.
Wow, I was just thinking about this recently having been in the bay area for 3 years. I guess things never change and I might be wrong.