skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon shares have a lot of value, and Bezos is sitting on a pile of them. What should Bezos do with that currency -- hoard it? spend it?

This supermoney represents Bezos' capacity to incentivize his fellow humans to act in concert toward a goal that he can influence. If he hoards it, then it does nothing for society. Bezos doesn't need it for his personal enjoyment either. After he leases a couple jets, buys a few homes, and pays for his staff, I doubt that costs more than tens of millions per year. Not billions.

If he spends it, then he needs to find undertakings that can efficiently absorb billions of dollars in value and still advance a meaningful goal. Space exploration is one of those undertakings. Bezos said he has been spending I think a billion per year on space travel / rocket engineering. There are few other areas that could so easily use this kind of capital. I would think that homelessness is another difficult problem that can absorb large amounts of value.

Maybe this arrangement of accumulation and philanthropy is sub-optimal, and we should instead tax capital to allocate the surplus democratically rather than allow the person who accumulated it to make the decision. Well, we already do that to some degree, with mixed results. Perhaps a little of both is called for.

In any event, I for one am pleased to see this money going to address homelessness. I don't care who is making the endowment, as long as the funds are used well. This is a serious, difficult problem, and this charity seems meaningful to me, not a purchased indulgence like sponsoring a new museum wing for example.
I could not agree more. It is so frustrating to have a device like my iPad Air 2 sitting unused because the screen got cracked. The cost to repair it was higher than replacement cost.

If we care about the environment even one single little bit repairability should be on everyone's priority list.

I'm sure the sleek new $1100 iPhones that came out last week are even worse.
I don't see why the battery would matter, unless you are forced to use power saving performance throttling.

Flash memory degradation may be a factor, as well as increased expectations.

Also, the perceived value of the product doesn't increase much if the device lasts longer than some average lifespan. For smartphones I believe after 1-2 years most users move onto a newer device, any cost that increases the life of the device past this point is wasted and will result in a more expensive, less competitive product, so market forces push for decisions that may be perceived as planed obsolescence.
People need to work to create them.
I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them
> If this hypothesis is true then you would think that the government in place would do everything they can to stop the far right/far left from rising from the ashes of the failed social safety net.

The problem is that politicians care about their individual pockets, not what happens to society after their term. Politicians are not incentivized to serve the people - quite the contrary. And even if they do end up thrown out of office, a nice private sector job is waiting for those who let themselves be bribed.
People sure do love their favorite media outlets. It’s always the “other guy” who gets it wrong. Allow me to bore you to death with the facts: journalists of all types are human and work in an industry with a very short attention span. They all get it more wrong than right.

A few personal experiences:

I took the stand as a witness in a murder case. The shit the papers printed had nothing to do with reality.

I ran a nonprofit after we lost our child to cancer. We got a lot of press, a lot of incorrect press.

I was in Iraq as a soldier in ‘04 - ‘05. We had satellite news and everyone back in the US was learning about a conflict on Mars as far as I’m concerned. The entire discussion had almost nothing in common with the facts on the ground.

In Iraq I even had cameras show up to something I was directly involved in after we already cleaned it up and left. They were egregiously wrong about that particular situation.

I’m friends with a TV news reporter in a major market. She’s on every night. The things she’s told me about how the news desk operates...

Market and sports analysis written by bots, virtue signaling “intellectuals”, beat reporters who are lazy/tired/hurried/being told what to write, humans having bias.

Honestly it’s all garbage. I just try to read primary sources when I can and when I have time. People think being well read in the media talk of the day is some sort of badge of intellectual self reliance. Nothing is further from the truth.
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This.

Netflix is a good example of how it's very different.

The price of Netflix may be totally different in every country in Europe, because the cost of living etc. is different.

In the US the price of Netflix is the same regardless of what state you live in.

That's just a small example.

Yes each state has different regulations, taxing etc. too, but overall they're mostly the same.

In Europe everything is different, the cost of living, the language, the culture etc. and thus you cannot have a product with the same price in every European country (Well you can, but most likely you wouldn't!)
I'm pro nuclear if costs are not externalized (insurance, EOL tear down, waste management) but priced in.
Will it convert any freeloaders into subscriptions by nagging them with 4 popups before they can even read the content?
So to give Google info about my visitors and later compete with me? No thanks.
If I had the funding to do so, I would love to improve use of Sage for computational physics, particularly for particle physics and QFT. It would be great if Sage could serve easily as a full replacement for Mathematica in those areas, but currently lacks some library support.
That’s closer to manufactured consent. No evidence, vague justification and mainstream parroting to reinforce the narrative.
My experience with scores in both /2 and /4 is in hymn books, playing the piano. I find the /4 version decidedly easier to read than the /2 version, and my brother and dad have said the same thing. It generally conveys the flow better. Naturally, there are other differences in the engraving as well, some for the better and some for the worse, so it’s not a fair comparison.
I don't see how UCS-2 helps with iteration; in particular, it means that characters like emojis get represented as surrogate pairs so you're right back to having to iterate over the whole string to find a real character boundary.
I would argue yes... they keep on improving the materials in every generation. I have a 7+ and my kid has thrown it across the room multiple times and dropped it onto a wooden floor more times than I can remember and even on concrete a couple of times. Each time my heart is in my mouth but each time it comes up without a scratch.
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I appreciate that Google appears to have reached out to local newspaper sites (qctimes.com, napavalleyregister.com), for Contributor. But if I were a major content publisher, the relatively small and mostly non-notable list of current Contributor sites [0] would make me think that Google isn't highly invested in this project. Which is not a good first impression considering that many people think that Google is too quick to abandon projects. They should have booked a few more major sites and media brands; right now, the 2 sites that are highlighted are the National Post and Popular Mechanics.

[0] https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/7324995
I don't know, but I do know that if the phone was covered under Apple's $29 (parts and labor) battery program, I'd go that way for sure.

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power
Apple have done a great job with iOS 12 on older hardware.

I have an iPhone 5S and it runs much better with iOS 12 than it did with iOS 10 or 11. The UI is faster and smoother, apps load quicker, battery life is still decent. In many ways it makes it feel like a new phone.
Totally. I've always felt that's the price for having the Linux kernel be what it is today. Just imagine what kinds of shit would get merged into the kernel if it was run by a council of submissive, overly-polite people with soft handshakes.

I always considered certain kinds of programming to be like smithing on a hot forge: If you can't handle the occasional burn, then it's not for you. I mean this idea is not even a little bit controversial when it's about tangential things, for example people that are unable to work with tight deadlines in stressful situations. Either you can do it, or you can't. Nobody would reasonably suggest changing the market or the business model to accommodate. Because you can't reasonably suggest that, because reality just doesn't work that way. We can only get a Linux kernel of the caliber we have today by using a hot forge. Now it's certainly true that some good ideas will be deflected in these kinds of environments -- just as happens in all environments -- but nobody would reasonably suggest that any kind of environment could achieve perfect meritocratic efficiency, either. Because it's not possible to do that anymore than it's possible to make financial markets less stressful places to work with looser deadlines. This is a roundabout way of saying that this (and everything like it) boils down to innate competitive humanity and as we all know, when it comes to anything that involves more than one person, you can't make everyone happy all the time.
One of the great surprises in the 20th century is that per worker productivity has risen massively, but we still work an unnecessary 40 hours a week. Realistically 15-18 hours would probably be enough to maintain early to mid 20th century output, and 30 hours would actually increase output a bit.

In my opinion we as a society are addicted to work.
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Sure they do.... NOT!

I'll believe THAT when it's possible to replace the battery without dealing with microscopic screws, glue, heat guns, and hard-to-source clippy thingamajigs that require super-human dexterity to install.
Can someone post plaintext?

The oath family popup is awful.. Either agree or 'manage options' which leads to a load of crap.
I'm not agreeing, or drilling into all those options.

Also, when you hit back, it brings you to the same page.. Thats some dodgy shit.
Well, that might be the intention, but I have never experienced an "RSS Reader" that have left me with the want to actually consume the content inside it. I much prefer opening say an article in a browser and reading it with "reader mode" if it has bad text-layout.

Also, my RSS reader is just a web app, not a native application, so when I get through my list of new posts in my feeds, I'm already in the browser.
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Exactly. The other gotcha with US unemployment is that you need to add about 2% to compensate for the incredibly large number of people stuck in prisons, compared to other countries. Approximately 0.7% of the population is behind bars, and most of them are working age.
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In Crichton's 2002 speech which cites the Gell-Mann amnesia effect ( http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/ ) he argues that:

(1) newspapers and other media sources should not quote experts who predict that the 2002 United States steel tariffs will affect GDP or employment, because no one can predict the future, and you should ignore any predictions you read experts making which are quoted by newspapers. Note that in retrospect ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tarif... and links ) research has showed that the tariffs adversely affected GDP and employment, as some experts predicted.

(2) other predictions which people made are wrong and, with the benefit of hindsight, they should not make them. Note that Crichton cherry-picks only those predictions which turned out to be inaccurate.

In retrospect there is a bit of irony in his being forced to "predict" certain future predictions which would turn out to be wrong. The one specific future prediction he happened to choose happened to be somewhat accurate.

Yes, Crichton does use the latter half of the speech to argue that global climate change is not happening, or if it is happening it's good for humanity, and anyway it's considerably less important to humanity's fate than changes in the Earth's magnetic field strength.

What he does not say in his speech is "I have analyzed predictions made in news articles for the past X years, and judged the accuracy of N predictions -- Y% of them were accurate. Frustratingly none of them expressed any degree of confidence in their predictions so I treated all equally for this analysis. This percentage is [no worse than guessing | worse than guessing, so you should expect the opposite of what is predicted with weak/strong confidence | better than guessing, so you should expect what is predicted with weak/strong confidence]. Here are my data so you can see for yourself."

Did Crichton do his homework? Or did he just give up in dismay and cherry-pick some examples of failed predictions? His argument is rhetorically compelling but it's based on anecdotes rather than data and it's hard to trust.

A very quick Web search shows that with respect to opinion columnists (not the same as newswriters), this work has been done at an undergraduate level -- see https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/pundits-as-accurate-as-c... , https://www.hamilton.edu/documents/an-analysis-of-the-accura... -- and has found that some specific opinion writers tend to make predictions which are accurate and some do not.
Run a benchmark on it and compare the numbers. If they are on par with the results obtained when the device was new, maybe your expectations have changed.
> "Jeff Bezos can tout himself as a great philanthropist, yet it will not absolve him of responsibility if Amazon workers continue to be afraid to take toilet breaks and days off sick because they fear disciplinary action at work."

In capitalism/free markets, it is the company's responsibility to generate as much value for shareholders as possible. If paying workers more will not result in more value for shareholders, doing so could be seen in a negative light by shareholders.

Bezos is free to do with his own money as he sees fit, but not with his shareholders (which includes almost all employees BTW.) money.

However, governments are there to ensure that capitalist-motivated behaviour doesn't negatively affect the community, and should use its power to regulate the companies by such means as minimum wage, minimum benefits etc.

I really wonder how the "journalists" here fail to see where the problem lies ... but of course most Americans would say they don't want limits on how little time off they can get and how poor they choose to be ...
I had iPhone 4S, it was insanely fast and snappy with iOS 6, become a bit sluggish with iOS 7 and very slow with iOS 8 and 9, almost unusable. I jailbroken it and installed iOS 6 and apparently it was fast again, so it's not about battery or anything, it's purely software which expects very fast CPU and huge amounts of memory. Mobile hardware evolved significantly over the last years, so it's understandable that developers wanted to leverage that speed.
Check if there is any debris/lint built up in the port. If so, use a toothpick to remove. The downside of a tab-less female connector is that it picks up more stuff and you have to clean it every once in a while.
> to just watch it become a foreign country within a decade.

Jeez, that's basically directly quoted out of the conspiracy theory playbook ("Umvolkung"). Germany has 5% Muslims and people whine about Islamization.

It's bollocks fueled by media. When media and politicians does nothing but draw migrants or "foreign" people as problems, then you'll see the non-whites on the streets automatically, subconsciously, as a problem. THIS is why the Nazi rhetoric and framing is so dangerous.
Unfortunately that doesn't divide too nicely into the approximate 365 days rotation around the sun.

A 6 day week, 4 days on, 2 days off would be much easier to devise a calendar for I think.
So the quote should rather read "don't break the actual userland out there" instead of "any conceivable userspace"?
Man, there must be the really good stuff in that other warehouse. Won't do any harm to go look...
Maybe someone is paying a PR company do push the topic because they plan to release a new product around RSS. Would certainly be interesting.
Occupants of a house are usually aware when a warrant is served.

"Exploration" of iCloud accounts is remote, e.g. ongoing surveillance in search of data to justify a warrant. It can be done by law enforcement from multiple countries globally, while searching of a house is performed by local law enforcement operating under local law.
Presumably, these sites already use Google ads (and probably Analytics too).
I don’t generally enjoy learning from videos, I find reading quicker and like being able to skip around, but Vi Hart (https://youtube.com/vihart) is brilliant.
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Here are the numbers[1].

TLDR: Wind onshore emits a pinch less than nuclear (11 vs 12 gCO2eq/kWh) but far from the 820 gCO2eq/kWh of Coal.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emis...
I don't buy an iPad because I like Android...
I never wanted (and still never want) to work at a startup. Without my knowledge or consent, my business partners acquired a small percentage of one, thereby bringing some measure of that toxic atmosphere into my work environment where I thought I was safe. Now there's at least 3 levels of secrecy and collusion as everyone maneuvers in expectation of a truly enormous payday that I truly do not believe will come. The tragedy is that when the startup in question fizzles, I'm still never going to break bread with these "partners" again, ever. If we had just stuck together and kept our heads down, we could have made plenty of cash, but the scent of blood changed them directly into people I can barely share a respectful meeting with, and they're starting to figure that out.
My last two jobs were two years and one year. I only left the first because I was offered a team lead position working in technologies that I care enough about to run the local meet ups for, and the other I left only because the work I ended up doing was very different from what I was hired to do (ie I ended up doing rather little of the tech I was hired for), if I’d went into it knowing that, I’d have been a lot happier doing it, although I would have stayed in the first job then.

Before that, I founded two failed startups one after the other, so those were out of the ordinary jobs.

So, recent jobs, not very long, but the reasons I left were not because of noise related lack of focus. I try to be pretty open and direct with my bosses about what my plans or needs are and what I can offer given the environment I’m in.
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> I'm still surprised no one has yet figured out a way to store sensitive data about personal interests and preferences on the client-side and let the client itself pull appropriate ads for the user to see.

When I was at Middleware2017 I saw a poster/demo about this, MoCA+: https://koreauniv.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/demo-moc...

I guess the problem is the same as with privacy techniques in general. If you ask companies to restrict their access to data, they just tell you no(1), as it might be worth a lot of money or open up new business oportunities they haven't thought about yet.

(1) This is anecdotal from projects of my colleagues in privacy research
No. ClojureScript works with React Native, and in that case you can use the Figwheel REPL. See http://cljsrn.org

Ambly can be useful in other situations where you are not building a React Native app, but still want ClojureScript driving things. For an example with Ejecta, see http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2017-04-29-clojurescript-eje...
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Sending oneself some nifty HTML email would certainly create some cringe, if one likes that.
But why? I'm having a hard time understanding why you'd outright ban identity (===) and only allow equality (==).

I can think of one instance where I needed identity instead of equality, and I took the time to refactor to ensure that equality would work.
I have iPhone 4S with iOS 6 and iPhone 8 with iOS 11. iPhone 4S is not slower.
When and where? I don't recall ever learning of such a time. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm genuinely curious.
This meshes with the 'hipster antitrust' argument, that the consumer surplus measure is not the whole story. If low prices are so great for us, why is it that small communities are objectively so down-and-out even in the midst of unprecedentedly cheap stuff.
This is the big idea I always pitched at hackathons (like startup weekend). I think it’s a great idea. 100% opt-in ads. My tagline was “a sufficiently relevant ad is indistinguishable from content.” It’s meant to be aspirational. The idea is that if you are looking to buy something, awareness of choices or information about that choice should be so valuable that it’s considered to be a benefit by the user. It’s basicallt an inversion of control approach to ads. The cpc’s and cpm’s would be amazing. :)
Seems to me people often confuse something being illegal with something being an actual crime. They had the insight that these minor regulations can be easily broken to deliver value with very few repercussions
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Sadly, the C64 is also quicker than Apple's iCloud website. Frequently, when I type a new note or a reminder, the lag between my pressing a key and character appearing on the screen is in several seconds. This is on a 4-core machine with 16 GB of RAM that's not doing anything else.
I agree, he seemed to only get personal when he knew the developer, and it seemed like it was mainly because he knew that they knew better, but were still submitting bad patches anyway. I still remember seeing an email response to someone who was just starting college and was telling Linus that he thought the way they were using spinlocks in the kernel was wrong. Linus knew they didn't know any better, so he didn't insult them, and went into a lengthy email about why they were doing things the way they did, and how the student's professor had taught them wrong.

Even though Finns can be much more blunt than people are used to, I think he recognized a while ago that he was going beyond being blunt. During a conference in Australia, someone asked him about how people perceived his attitude and it's effect on the kernel community. He told them that he's not a nice person, he doesn't know why people think he would be, and that if people enter the community with that in mind, they'll stop feeling like they're being personally attacked.
Also nowadays they manipulate what you see. From one source you like you might only get 1 out of 100 posts into your stream, and another source you don't care so much about you get 10.
Yes, they re-launched contributor as a "opt out of ads on a per site basis" instead of the old global "show me kittens or blank space instead of all Google ads". The reasoning given was it was a " better experience" to have no ads on a page at all instead of a mix of Google ad kittens and non-Google regular ads.

Fine, but there are only two sites that support it, so it's fairly useless. Maybe Funding Choices will make it more useful.
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I worked on this a while ago at Mozilla. There was a presentation at ACM CCS '16 on what we did. Unfortunately the effort was discontinued, but we definitely solved a lot of the technical issues.
I'm guessing you can't use `(x: number, y: string) => x === parseInt(y)`?