skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://money.howstuffworks.com/mcdonalds2.htm

Not spelled out there is that the real estate portion of the business was advantageous to Kroc. When it became the vast majority of the business he could use his resources to leverage out the McDonalds.
Sweden also has a 25% VAT (sales) tax on just about everything you buy there. After they rake hard from your paycheck they rake hard again when you spend what's left.
> Capitalism cannot function without people exploiting the system for personal gain.

That's a baseless claim.
Startup idea: AdRev for knitting patterns.
Of course it is up to lawmakers to decide. Nothing to do with my point or capitalism, though.
> a certain type of enterprise-related corruption, that can't be brushed away

If a system of government promotes X then there will appear X-related corruption. Capitalist governments promote enterprises, thus appears enterprise-related correction. Governments which promote the church will foster church-related corruption, etc. etc..

I don't see how this observation about capitalism is a particularly interesting one. Perhaps you could make some ground with "and capitalism uniquely allows this corruption to flourish on a scale never seen before" but that's not what I've seen in these kind of kneejerk criticisms.
It’s funny... I got the joke reading it, but I don’t think I would have gotten the joke had I heard it spoken in an interview. Is that just me?
Not newspapers but I subscribe to or regularly purchase Monocle and Delayed Gratification.
If they're not software companies your pitching to, I doubt they want to build the software in house.
> I'm going to assume you're not in the USA.

Am not, but follow the politics there closely.

> Washington DC is over 70% Democrat

Am not talking about the actual place "Washington DC", am talking about it as a seat of power, the seat of government. The politicians in the House and Senate and their leanings.

> which is our left wing party

The Democratic Party is nowhere near "left-wing" by what most of the developed world understands that to mean. The Democratic Party has policies equivalent to the Conservative Party in Britain, (The Conservative Party is a right-wing party).

It is precisely because of the extremely right-wing ideology of most lawmakers in Washington that you have moved to such a position where the center-right, (Democrats), are called "left-wing" and the far-right, (Republicans), are refereed to as "center-right". Only in the USA. You don't have a viable left-wing party over there.

There's people like Bernie Sanders and AOC that are what I'd call center-left, but because how far right the acceptable debate in the USA has shifted, they're "socialists".
I don't see a problem with this if it's properly disclosed to investors, workers, and users of the service. If you don't like it, literally nobody is making you give your wealth to him, and there are plenty of alternatives that would benefit the local economy wherever you are.
We should add two mandatory clauses to cooperate law:
1. Major shareholders must disclose any business relationships between the company and shareholders' other business interests.
2. Shareholders can demand a vote on whether an above-mentioned business relationship causes a conflict of interest. If so, the relationship must be terminated.
Socialism, ie a system whereby resources are allocated according to some sort of public good as opposed to mere expansion of capital
You can’t change use/bin because that’s a common malware attack vector.

It also has the nice effect of forcing user installed utilities to install in the /local/ variants (which user build projects should be doing on Linux iirc), so an OS update doesn’t overwrite user data.
that's for posts, not comments.
I agree in principle, but

- I don't

- think that

- individual paragraphs

- for a list

- is a very good

- use of space

- on small screens

- or on large ones

Code blocks are crappy for small screens, but so are lists written as a series of paragraphs.

Unfortunately, HN seems opposed to supporting non-paragraph linebreaks, lists, blockquotes, or any other sort of formatting. That's fine, it's up to dang and the other admins who run the place and they don't want to support other formatting, but it means that the code format gets abused as a poor approximation for these things.

EDIT: I should also point out that your source says "fixed-width is intended for code." You left that word out and it's an important one. If it said "is only for code" the meaning would be different.

Side note, reddit lets you do a line break by ending a line with two spaces before hitting enter. Just tested to double check, it doesn't work here. I wish it did, and replacing space-space-newline with <br> seems like a pretty trivial and unobjectionable feature, but here we are.
The state enterprise side of the economy is planned, but the private capitalist - sorry, communist with Chinese characteristics - sector accounts for 60% of GDP growth and half of fiscal revenue[0].

That strong grip does more harm than good IMHO. Just look at how appallingly badly they mismanaged their domestic stock markets over the last few years.

[0] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/06/c_137020127.htm
Your 61.85% seems pretty weird. If you look at the same site they point to 37% in the US instead of your 22% (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-income-t...) and that's for an individual with an income above $400K.

I strongly doubt that someone winning $60K pays 61.85% in Sweden. Your source seems strongly geared towards rich people.
I won't vote you down, but I think this is a pretty gross generalisation, is it not?

For every person shouting about crushing it and hammering back booze there are another handful quietly getting on with their work, happy to have an office space with stable, fast internet, clean, stocked kitchens, 24 hour access and clean, comfortable spaces - where they don't have to worry about sorting bills and contracts, cleaners, etc etc etc.
Slightly OT, you know how people hated on C++ ranges for readability? Honestly this messy soup of C is no better.
Insider trading is a balance.

On the one hand, we want market prices to be accurate. This means we want people with material information to trade on that information.

On the other hand, we need some fairness in a market. This is mostly to ensure people keep trading. In a world were inside-info is commonplace, trading without it is just stupid. This would cut off a lot of people from investing.

The line needs to be drawn somewhere. The US approach of insider trading requires a broken 'duty to keep secret' isn't nice, but considering the above trade-off I think it is better than "All non-public information is off-limits". Especially because it captures the 'most disruptive' form of insider trading: people who work at a company that is getting acquired / going bankrupt.
I derive that same conclusion by using common sense, but unfortunately I don't have any answer other than that. I could find some anecdotes online, but that's all.

There's also this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24917038
Capitalism is the only system that limits the corruption. Unless the people are being forced to work/buy/sell with amazon, they are by definition not being exploited. Bezos is the richest person in the world because he provided a better service with a focus on long term profit. The world is different now because of it and people think its better because they are choosing to do it.
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Yes, very much. Not only are they doing it but they're peddling it to the unwary. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919906
This is a point I bring up when casually talking with non-tech minded friends when they start talking about machine learning taking over everything...

I bought a Dyson last summer. Amazon is still suggesting that I buy more vacuum cleaners.
Can't read with uBlock Origin default settings. Text is fuzzed.
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The situation has gotten so bad, and the political machine is totally oblivious, because they are only listening to the people who fund their campaigns; in other words, moneyed elites. The rest of us are deeply in debt, isolated, taking medication to cope. The vast majority of the country supports healthcare for all but it’s still considered politically impossible. I worry that we’re living in France circa 1785. When the dam bursts it’s going to be ugly.
Researchers dont get any money for writing papers in those journals, Infact, researchers have to pay to get their paper published in most of these journals.
> Although the small number of patients prevents United from drawing any major statistical conclusions

A small number of patients only prevent drawing major statistical conclusion if the effect is too small compared to the size of the group.
The lesson here is to do your job with passion. This man loves his job, otherwise he wouldn’t be posting and making videos about it.

It’s the same in tech. If you don’t have passion, you’ll bounce around tech companies, never moving up, always making money, but never enough. But it’s the passion that gives you the edge to deliver something 1% better than the next guy, and so you get the big bucks.

Be passionate and the money will follow.

Edit: uhh did I say something wrong? Why the downvotes?
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> Eventually, it will either fail, or be successful and become the new status quo.

The book "Animal Farm" is so prescient, it's scary. I know it was written about governments but it applies to a lot of different organizations and industries:

"The creatures outside looked from <new> to <old>, and from <old> to <new>, and from <new> to <old> again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Just swap out <new> and <old> with:

Uber/taxis

online streaming/cable

AirBnb/hotels

Not saying all of these will come to pass, but generally as the disruptive <new> are encumbered with ever increasing regulation over time they eventually become <old> again
So, if reality doesn't match my hypotesis I dissmiss reality?

By the way:

> The record snowfall in Europe does not care about the scientific paper you posted

Confussing climate with weather?
Hotels are cheaper and more convnient for shorter stays anyway. Also the checkin process and key pickup is abominal sometimes
You never amend commits or rebase locally before pushing? I rebase before pushing almost every time.

Git’s workflow wouldn’t even be sane without the staging area. This is what allows you to fix mistakes and make your work presentable for remotes.
I suspect those examples were chosen from conscious knowledge.
There’s a ton missing from your calculations. For example, insurance is a system where some users (healthy ones) subsidize others. Since you’re against that idea, I’m assuming you want people to pay for healthcare ala carte. That adds up to a lot more than 24k a year.

Also, let’s look at what that 24k gets you in Swedish healthcare:

* Automatic paid sick leave for any duration that your physician orders you not to work.

* Capped payments on drugs per year, after which the government pays for you

* Cheap visits to generalists or specialists, capped at a low level, after which the government pays.

On top of all of that, they have lower infant mortality rates, lower rates of preventable deaths, higher average lifespans, and employ _more_ nurses and physicians per patient despite spending HALF of what we do as a percentage of GDP.

The most revealing statistic however, is that Sweden dedicates a lower percentage of government revenue to healthcare than we do. They get much more than the average American citizen while spending much less percentage wise.

Free healthcare isn’t free, but it’s sure as hell better than what we have.

Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_system#International_...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Sweden
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> The entire image and “vibe” of this guy / his team is supposed to be an egalitarian re-invention of the status quo. The kibbutz story. The “community adjusted EBITDA.” The rebranding to “We.”

This is all just marketing. It's like believing all the actors in a commercial really are elated and blissful just because they chose the right brand of soda.
What makes HN community stand out all that time?
I see online communities come and go. Others, become very boring and lose interest. Others, fail to take off.

Are there any design choices that we can learn from HN to apply to other new online communities?
Except your suggestions here ignore that the surplus given by UBI will be amortized into rent and staples costs. It's all well and good until you get into the weeds and realize that a lot of price fixing or pseudo price fixing needs to happen before UBI becomes realistic. If the argument is getting rid of legislative and bureaucratic bloat, it's definitely not quite so easy or quite so effective, choose one.
What if I told you the NYT has been doing "untargeted" advertising for 150 years?

Besides if you advertise in the NYT you ARE technically targeting people: namely NYT readers. Thats a demographic right there. And a lucrative one.
Probably Mike & Son Sharpening Service , just used them last month, such a great guy, highly recommended.
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>On an unrelated note, highly polarized opinions about languages and frameworks are characteristic of people who lack real-world programming experience and are more interested in building an identity than creating computer programs.

How incredibly arrogant. It can't be that people have legitimate grievances with elecron, like not wanting to use a program based on an incredibly bloated and poorly designed platform, oh no, they just "lack real world experience" and are "more interested in identity" (whatever that means).

High-and-mighty types like this are exactly why working in IT or contributing to FLOSS is so draining at times.
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What I wonder (and search for "hours" had 0 hits) is the number of hours solo founders put in vs 2+ founders. I founded a company with 5 founds, 3 of which were in daily operations. It was a lot of work and I can't imagine doing a lot of that early work by myself (until there was enough revenue to support hiring).
Individual actions like driving or biking to work are drops in the bucket, basically insignificant. We know that 100 companies cause 70% of the pollution on this planet. We know their names, and the names of those who decide their strategies and policies. There's no need for this amorphous "its all of society" crap.
Are you refering to the obligations of long-term rental landlords? I don't see that having much legal relevance to short-term rent like Airbnb.
I love her.

I promised "till death do us part" and I feel bad that after all this time I want to do my own thing.

I know she will move back home and I may never see her again.

She doesn't like to live alone.
This has never made sense to me. I've seen others say that they commit only parts of a file. How does this scenario start? Are you working on solving one problem, but then notice some other unrelated issue and fix that too, before committing the first change?
My Facebook/Instagram are stunningly on point. I've even bought a few things from them.
Correct. That's how I meant it.
Oh, they have. See e.g. https://coko.foundation and https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs.

The problem is not creating the software. The problem is getting academics, and the people funding them, to recognise alternative publishing outlets as valid, as long as the research they publish is valid.

(Disclosure: I'm working on something addressing that.)
Then perhaps we as a society need to engineer more diseconomies of scale.
I can’t help but think the only thing most people buying ads go for is demographics (age gender race income) rather than more personal interest targeting, since that’s been the primary driver of TV ads for the past many decades. Interest targeting seems like it doesn’t work, or if it does the interest based ad buys are few and far between.
That's what makes it a library.
This: "I've also noticed the quality of the places I've found on AirBnB has gone down."

Is the direct result of people listening to your own own advice: "Don't rent out your home if you don't want the risk of people damaging it!"

I rented my home a handful of times when I knew I would be out of town on the weekend. The first renters were great, the next 2 caused a combined $1,200 in damage that Airbnb refused to cover. Refunding me the cost of dry cleaning my comforter that was left with blood stains(!) instead of the cost to replace it was bullshit but that was all they'd offer. There was also no real recourse for one of the guests having at least a dozen people over for a midnight afterparty. I was still finding cigarette butts and trash out of my backyard landscaping for months after that final rental. There's just not enough money in Airbnb rentals for people who only have their own property to rent and don't desparately need that extra income, this the noticeable decline in quality. You're not the only person I've heard say that Airbnbs are becoming more like cheap motels than nice hotels.
I think the issue is the scale of the operation. It's not that the desert doesn't have the capacity to absorb brine, it's that pumping all that brine into one spot creates a local ecological catastrophe. To avoid a concentration of toxins you need to spread it around, which is expensive.

My expectation is that the brine will have to go back into the ocean. The deserts a big, but the ocean is bigger. What the paper mentioned in the article points out is that you can't dump this all in one place.
This happens even on the small scale. My SO was an exceptionally good paralegal at a law firm that was imploding due to issues like this, so after encouraging her, she convinced her boss to leave the firm and they started their own. It started doing well very quickly, and suddenly the lawyer she was working for became the very thing he hated in the first place. Doing stuff like spending 10-15k a month on the firms American express on hunting trips, spending so much time hunting he's in the office half the year, pulling multiple 5k "disbursements" a month for himself (on top of salary), to the tune of nearly 40k a month in personal expenses, and then for a few months had to take out a loan to meet payroll!

Thankfully she sees the writing on the wall and is about to get her CPA and bounce, and I'm going to laugh when it all collapses around him because she's basically running the firm, but lawyers have a racket so you can't do profit sharing with the non lawyer plebs (by law) like paralegals so she gets a fraction of the pay to do most of the work while he lives the high life, which is exactly what imploded the old firm!
In fairness, this is an understandable mistake for any automated system to make, even more so when compared to Amazon thinking everything is a consumable I repurchase every month.

Hint to Amazon: not everything is a consumable ;)
I know a lot of local politicians. I've met a few state level politicians. I know people who work professionally in politics as part of the machine. I'm consistently told one thing politicians are most afraid of is phone calls. When people care enough to take time out of their day and cold-call a stranger, then a politician knows it's a big deal. Emails, form submits, fax--who cares. But a real constituent calling a staffer is a big deal. Enough call, then the politician gets cover from their funders to act in the peoples' interests.
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AOC literally refers to herself as a socialist https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/01/democratic-sociali...
US spends more tax dollars per capita on health care than Sweden, and most other OECD countries, so the extra tax expense goes to other things. Ignoring of course that your tax calculation is way off.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
Hiring for a programmer position, It's January and it's the coldest day of winter, down in the low single digits.

The candidate is a 40-something man with a pretty good resume for the slot.

I start off with small talk.. "Wow, can you believe this weather? I can't remember the last time it was this cold."

He replies, "Is nothing. In Russia is where cold grabs hold of you, deep in bones. Only one thing help."

He reaches into his bag and pulls out an half empty pint bottle of vodka, opens it, takes a pretty decent swig and offers it to me.

"Is that from today??? I ask.

"Yes, very cold this morning."

End of interview.
I agree on the YT front, but I don't remember seeing Spotify ads.
Here's a clear, clutter-free version:
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Excited for the update! Glad that Keras style is being made the de facto default.

But it's also nice to know that I can always go as low level as I want to when needed. I think it strikes a nice balance this way.
> Or their firm would tank, because companies that don't put profit first can't survive on the market.

I would argue that this is not strictly speaking true. There are successful companies which don't (seemingly) put profit first. Examples include Morning Star (tomatoes, not the newspaper)[1], Mondragon[2] and perhaps most co-operatives in general.

[1] http://www.morningstarco.com/

[2] https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/
I heard a podcast where the guy did this out of his house. He had a self-serve dropbox in his front yard that people could deposit knives into (in addition to going around to businesses).
Answer: Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender and a friend named Clayton “Doc” Kaufman had taken a solid plank of oak, painted it glossy black, attached a pickup at one end, and strung its length with steel strings.
Yep, same here. After the latest iOS updates my entire family has been using it a lot more.

I just wish it was cross platform. Seems like a good way to creep people into the Apple ecosystem.

As others have mentioned, Google Photos works pretty well, even on iOS, but I have zero trust that Google will commit to it for more than a year or radically change the functionality.
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We could print more money. The inflation will hit people who have a lot of money saved up more than it will hit the people getting UBI.

I'm not sure it's the right option, but it's something to consider. If you have someone below the poverty line and you tell them "I'll give you 30k, but due to inflation each dollar will only be able to buy half of what it can now." I think they'll take that deal.
Thanks to all those downvoting and not giving a reply. Figures came out of Wiki and other World Data sources. As much as I dislike the idea of how we define poverty, that is how most of the economist today are defining them.
I'm really glad you enjoyed the article. It's a hard process to select screenshots that properly showcase as many features of the game as possible, while also being visually pleasing and interesting. Often I want to take as few screenshots as possible and showcase as much as possible from that.

I agree that screenshot wasn't the best possible example, however since it included both fog and reflections I decided to go with it in the end. The reflections part was one of the last things I wrote.