skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> the growth rate is naturally a multiple of the labor growth rate
> There's nothing natural about it

How to say it differently? We've previously agreed that capital must have positive returns (discount rate/time value of money). Labor gains do not compound (each year, I can only provide 1 year of labor. Gains from labor not consumed become capital for future investment). Capital gains do compound (next year, I have original capital plus capital gains plus labor gains minus consumption to invest). Compounding naturally leads to higher rates of growth for capital than for labor, because compounding multiplies productivity and inflation gains of labor, and surplus gains from labor also become capital.

Propose a different system, please, preferably one that has a demonstrated history of raising hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

> In that very particular and thoroughly unrealistic case, I would say no.

Good, now we have a starting point. We have established that some inequality is allowable and natural, and is caused by saving funds rather than spending on current consumption.

Now how about if we allow capital gains that just offset inflation? (Still good, right? no need for more taxes?)

How about capital gains that just match the time-value-of-money/discount rate? (I'd still say Society has claimed its predefined share, but you may differ - fine, introduce capital gains taxes)

How about if I let Henry Ford use the money for 40 years to make his factories more productive (4X), double his workers wages (2X one year, voluntarily), give his customers discounts (model N was $3000, Model T dropped from $850 to $300), largely create the American middle class, and pay lots of taxes to the government as a company, as workers, as the owner of the company, and as capital gains?

Ford paid 100% of initial capital as dividends in the first year (https://www.quora.com/How-did-Henry-Ford-start-Ford-Motor-Co...). That's the kind of return that generates great wealth for investors and society (or obscene wealth, if you prefer).

And if it turns out that left me with, say, 200 billion dollars (Henry Ford net worth adjusted for inflation), what did I do wrong?

How did it become immoral or unfair that Henry Ford paid all the taxes society required (up-front and as capital gains) while making every party better off (customers, workers, even non-parties to the transactions who benefit from the tax revenue or make money off all those worker wages)?

Please identify at what point that turned against the welfare of society? Why would having 100 or 10,000 Henry Fords that provide similar benefits to hundreds of thousands of people (and reap similar $200 billion rewards) be a bad thing, even if they could each individually buy a mega yacht or two?

Is it by crossing some arbitrary wealth threshold?

Or just when spending some of that accumulated wealth - maybe it was when Ford bought a yacht in 1917 https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita... It was at least partly for business purposes, so maybe he got a tax deduction. Can't find length or cost on it, so I can't tell if it crossed that 250'/$275M immoral line. Sorry.
1 skilled research staff will out produce even 5 early PhD students, no doubt.

But I would be inclined to hire the students. There are more funding opportunities for them (NSF prioritizes students and departments fund TAs) and I’m expected to graduate students. In my field (CS), research staff and postdocs disappear too quickly anyway.
I'm honestly not sure why the password managers don't offer federated login (with SSO helped out by their browser extension). As a website owner, I'd love to be able to throw a "login with lastpass" link on the sign in page.
“If” statements and loops already make use of anonymous blocks, and I think serve as ample demonstration that, no, not all blocks are better off named. What’s missing is the ability to use those blocks wherever an expression is expected.
This sounds very familiar.

For example, the simple task of buying a computer from parts could easily take me anywhere between one to six weeks. And this is after the months it took me to move from the desire to upgrade to a commitment. Similarly, for upgrading my laptop, I have on more than one occasion waited for newer models to be announced or become available, only to finally pick a different one.

There are some things which helped me deal with this tendency to over-analyze such decisions:

1. Accept that this is who you are. Even though it feel as time lost, or spent unproductively, you are still benefiting from it. For me, though it still annoys me, doing the research is also a hobby.

2. You are requesting a tool for rational decision making in the title. But I doubt that is what you need or want, or even if such a tool would actually be helpful. For example, what you could do is write down all requirements, give them a weight and scoring and fill in some type of a matrix. If you are similar to me, you'd likely spend even more time analyzing, tweaking your weights, assigning your scores, etc.

3. Realize that the perfect decision does not exist. And no amount of analyzing will prevent that. Often though, making a 'bad' decision will either have a minimal impact on your life, or, can be easily corrected (return policy / low price compared to disposable income). Learn the difference between those types of decisions.

4. Delegate some decision making. For example, when I am looking for a new car, I'll call one of my friends whose opinion I trust implicitly.

I hope this helps
My other thought is if illegal content is posted, how does it get removed?

Like if a mod removes it and you don't follow that mod, then illegal content would still be distributed to your machine?
Companies should be making this easier by giving their users URLs that redirect to cloud services using their company's SSO service.

For example, employees access their email on office 365 via https://example.com/email which redirects to outlook.office365.com/?realm=example.com.
> You can't create tools for censorship in China and support a free and open Internet

What does following local laws of one specific country have to do with the open global internet? You do realize that Chinese internet is already behind a firewall, and is not open, right?

> Google went out of it's way to protect Chinese dissidents

And we have absolutely facts about what they were working on with Dragonfly, except leaks from a source which was very clearly biased against the project. For all we know, they were coming up with new tech that allowed them to provide services to Chinese citizen while still protecting them.

That to me makes much more sense as to why they were considering re-entering, than the baseless "they were only doing it for the money" reasoning.
An example of what GP is talking about is Github’s “type the name of the repository to delete it” workflow. Which I appreciate. A typo would just fail to delete, which is the correct response.
Website uses AI to generate startling fake human faces
It’s an append only graph database whose edges are hydrated at the local user end. Since the edge construction happens on the user’s computer, the user can control how it is built. For example, if a user decides to no longer trust a moderator, an incremental recompile from the raw database reconstructs the relevant parts as if the moderator was never a mod for the local user in the first place.
The news industry would collapse because they would have nothing else to write about? The news industry would collapse because one of the biggest news distribution platforms would cease to exist?

I would be happy since I won't have to hear about facebook on HN again.
That makes it sad and horrible.
Get your daily dose of economic calamity FUD!
It is indeed arguable what it looks like, but even within chat/IM applications, there is no consensus or convention on should the message be retractable or not. People shouldn't expect one or the other.
Medium does this for me. I created an account with email. I don't have a medium password. I have to request a magic link any time I'm accessing the site after clearing cookies/accessing from a new device.
While the article mostly provides a few links, it's a topic that is worth looking at a little bit.

There is a lot to discover, from the fact that the water quality in the US as a whole is not great for a first world nation and the fact that some areas in the US where people actually live have water which is actually dangerous to consume (Flint).

Did you know that the several aqueducts in California carry naturally occurring asbestos and may be responsible for cancers (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7395855) ?
I used Comodo also (now apparently bought by Sectigo) and they are the worst company I have ever dealt with. First I was trying to get them to tell me if my documents were acceptable before I took them to the notary. They did not seem to speak English particularly well and could not recognize that my internet/phone bill was a phone bill (because it also mentioned internet so they had never heard of a combination phone/internet bill before apparently), could not recognize a financial statement. They kept repeating themselves but with subtle contradictions.

Eventually I complained to K-Software (the reseller) and the guy then referred me to some account rep or something with a Western name. Then she sent me instructions which I followed and uploaded their notarized form. Which the instructions did not even say to upload the documents, just the notarized form. Then they said nothing and I eventually asked them what was going on. Then the Comodo rep replies and first of all does not acknowledge that I uploaded anything, 100% contradicts what was in the instructions, saying that not only the form needed to be notarized, but every individual page. I told the K-Software guy I was not going back to the notary. Then he calls them, I wait, I email him again, then they say I have to have my phone number in a valid third party registry. But they don't say what the ___ is a valid third party registry. And they never said that was required before -- I gave them the phone bill with my phone number on it.

Anyway it took almost two months and maybe thirty emails before I finally got it.
Find a popular service (Salesforce, Wufoo, Asana, Xero, Gmail, etc) and scour the forums for things people repeatedly request to be added. Pick a popular request that you have reason to believe won’t be added as a feature soon (e.g. company said so, it’s been years of waiting, it’s outside of obvious product expansion, etc). Go build it as an add-on (chrome extension, api, etc). Market it on the forums. You can even reach out to people and ask in advance if they would pay. Show them screenshot mockups and state a price.
This sounds like rumination / intrusive thoughts and very much something a good therapist could help with. You also might just be depressed or anxious generally, and if you get those more under control the death stuff might fade in to the background on its own.

Death is scary. Therapy can't solve that. It can probably help you keep the fear of it from infecting the rest of your life.

In the interim, check out Stoicism? The Stoics had a very hardheaded, practical sort of approach to philosophy of life, death, and suffering.
Ask HN: Are the submissions for jobs with no discuss section ads?
Started seeing these submissions with no comments section. Are they ads?
Ask HN: Feedback on idea and looking for cofounder
Problem: when you call support number it goes press 1, press 2....press 7

Question why don't companies simply put menu online maybe even have VoIP probably cost less no?.. it sucks when you have $10000000 touch screen phone and you are still waiting for recording to finish press a number..

Solution. Well making menus online is easy. Getting companies to use the tool might be hard.

What's your take .. would love some thoughts on this.

One idea is ask customer if they're like to see menu online then text user the link so they can make selection in 500% less time
I evaluate such decisions using three measures:

1. What is my time worth? Estimate how much time do you want to spent at most to buy a phone.

2. How much enjoyment do I get from this activity? Estimate how long before you get bored with the "chase" of finding phone.

3. Is it a need or want? Need gets handled quickly, want gets deferred as long as possible.

You spent 20 hours on research, assuming your time worth $20/hr, you could have spent $400 more and get a $600 phone right away.

Assuming you will enjoy the "chase" of finding new phone process for a few hours, let's say at most 3 hours, you could buy $540 phone after spending 3 hours.

It is a need and not a want, so I will default to buying as quickly as possible once the enjoyment of "chase" has waned.

In the end, I would have upped my budget to $540 of money and 3 hours of time to find a new phone.
Ah sorry, by "how it works", I mean from a user experience standpoint, not from a technical one (i.e. I still don't get it :().
Leave my Amazon Basics bonzai tree out of this.
They should remove these things, but they won't.
Agreed there is a difference. Not so much agreed that it meaningfully suppresses the echo chamber effect. The ultimate result is the same. That which sufficiently differs with the views of the majority of the people on this site tends to be seen less, or not at all depending on the extent of the disagreement. Except for us heretics with showdead enabled.
GitHub UI
I was around 14 - 18
The part I really disliked about the NYC cabs is that you never knew how much it going to cost you. And similarly the driver never knew where they would have to go. With Uber, both parties have this information ahead of time.

Huge improvement.
I suppose recreating those would be much harder, because of the gap between them and the other elements.
Christopher Langton (the father of Artificial life)
I lay most of the blame for this with the NYC TLC for restricting medallions in the first place. The real way to reduce congestion is use fees, and it puts a natural cap on the number of taxis. Ideally, the fees are used on improvements to mass transit.
Yes, I miss that time. Mid 90s internet was fun!
Even simpler, a bookmarklet (untested) for those who can't (or shouldn't be allowed to) use devtools:
```
document.getElementsByTagName('input').forEach(function(e){if(e.type.toLowerCase()=='password'){e.type=text}})
```

This should change all password fields on the page into plain text fields, with values intact. Prefix with `javascript:` and paste into a bookmark
Maybe, just maybe, the determined that it isn’t cool to host obnoxious horrible people who incite violence.

Maybe, just maybe, letting everybody post everything is not actually desirable or responsible.
One more reason to love Linux and X Windows: highlight password, middle-click into the field. You can take away ctrl-v, but you can't take away my X Windows clipboard.
This.

Canada Post went on strike early winter as a pressure tactic because it knew the company would suffer going into the holiday season. Ultimately, that only screwed over the customers.
This is where you are wrong.

Anyone in the western world workforce has the opportunity or chances to change that. This is not a privilege. And certainly not luck.

I agree that for many, $200 a month is significant. That's why I'm saying - don't try to save $5, try to MAKE $5 (and much more).

There are so many ways to make money these days, you don't even need "proper" education, luck, access, none of that.

But you do need mindset and will. Most people choose to be complacent. Their mind doesn't see beyond the 9-5, beyond the concept of being a mere employee. They rather spend hours per day watching dumb Netflix content, Twitch crap, gaming, whatever it is that people do other than GROW. Just about anyone can spend a few days watching Youtube and teaching themselves the ins and outs of such things as Facebook ads, Shopify, Dropshipping, Social media management, and of course... Clickfunnels. Anyone can pick this up. You don't need to be a PhD or CS major. In fact, those are often times a hindrance. IF people only spent half the time they waste on Twitch with consuming actual knowledge - they would not care if a Starbucks cup was $5, or $50.
Visa and MasterCard began as consortiums of banks, so they made the system in banks' favors. Good rewards cards pay 2% cash back on all purchases, while transaction fees on rewards cards are in the 2-3% range, which necessitates that most of that fee go to the issuing bank, or the rewards programs would be money losers... they're not.
This will also break stuff like pasting an image via Ctrl-V if it's in your clipboard buffer, though. Be warned.
Yes, IRC is still alive (mainly Freenode), albeit on life support, lol. As for other services, the problem is that it's become (or becoming) scattered (Slack, Riot, etc). AOL as much as ridiculous it was, it was fun, because pretty much everyone was gathered in one place.
The past decade of commercial research has failed to deliver the market successes needed to justify the premium. If you look at the biggest winners for pharmaceutical companies over the last decade (immunotherapy is the poster child), most of the research happened in academic labs. Cheaper to license the winners than do basic research yourself.
OTOH they're probably a lot cheaper to build if they don't have to support human life.
In pursuing a trade deal, the U.S. may be asking China to do the unthinkable
No one stole anything. Two adults came to a mutually agreeable arrangement in which labour would be provided in exchange for training. Theft would at the least require that someone was deceived.

Unpaid internships are a vastly lesser evil than demanding a four year degree for an entry level job. Those four years could have been spent earning as well as learning. A six month unpaid internship is a hell of a lot cheaper than an associate’s degree, never mind a Bachelor’s.
Non-competitively? Seriously man, where do you get your news? Over 100 cities submitted proposals, and LIC's was not the largest incentive package.

https://www.curbed.com/2017/10/19/16504426/amazon-hq2-bid-ur...

Wikipedia says 238 proposals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2
More like “protect against ‘hackers’” they invited into their site via all the insane 3rd party tracker scripts they embed on the page ...

I think “protecting” against attacks (and/or accidentally leaking password details) from these kind of sources has to be a big part of the reasoning that has lead so many big sites to make their login experiences so insanely horrible.

There must be a tracker network or big consultant out their that popularized these kinds of techniques and marketed them as a “low hanging fruit defense in depth best practice” ...
Very true, cousin worked there in early 80's, probably not best source, but was first that jumped out and common knowledge amongst those old enough and into tech at the time to remember.

Was the aspect how they engaged with government bureaucracy and managed to in effect define a work culture that is so far removed from governmental bureaucracy, that you wonder what the early days was like.
The technology already exists: as other people have pointed out you can get test kits for fentanyl pretty cheap. And that applies to almost every drug too, you can buy Marquis reagent which covers most commonly used recreational drugs. But people really are not used to the idea of testing their drugs: when was the last time you bought a shot at a bar and tested it to see if it contains methanol, or checked if aspirin from your pharmacy is actually aspirin?

We don't really need to change an entire society, all we need to do is legalise and regulate recreational drugs. That immediately solved the problem of missold drugs. The societal stigma which prevents people seeking help for addiction might not vanish overnight but it's impossible to do anything about it while drugs like opioids are illegal.
One extreme amusing/alarming example of this: “A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves”

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...
Check Glassdoor if you doubt it.

Numbers probably aren't including housing, which in Silicon Valley puts a ~$7500 monthly salary roughly up to $10k.
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Tampermonkey being limited is huge for us. I used to actually implement a chrome extension for work to automate interaction with some partner sites, but tampermonkey key is so much easier to manage, test on, and update for. I'm dreading having to go back to extensions, especially since all of them will have a review process so there's yet another hurdle.
I half-completed a very similar project to this. Kudos on shipping.

The main difference between this and mine is that mine required accounts to have a certain amount of hashcash-style proof of work before they were accepted. This prevents people from creating a large number of dummy accounts, which means that banning someone actually has teeth, since they can't come back with a fresh account instantly.

Additionally, the posts were encrypted with the name of the community, so that you could make "private" communities simply by using hard-to-guess names.

I toyed with the idea of making hashcash style PoW required for posts, as well as accounts, but I gave up on the project before I got that far.
One possible solution is to allow a url or query param to load a full auth form for each supported provider, in addition to the default stepped screen. That would allow a user to bookmark the form relevant to their auth method.
Quote the original poster: "Most people are quite happy to keeping buying cheap factory-farmed meat and dairy" (emphasis added by me).
I was under the impression that Uber does not reveal the destination of the customer until they have picked them up. Is that not correct?
Bad data in F-35 logistics system resulting in lost missions
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default version https://atmos.atomui.com/default/
Often it makes it through review just fine. It's usually not discovered until someone unfamiliar with the problem or complete set of initial circumstances is exposed to the code, at which time their main focus is on fixing/enhancing the code and not changing its readability or documenting intent. The new dev vomits out some code to meet their deadline and now the code is even more convoluted than it was to begin with.

In a perfect world, readability would be one criteria during reviews, unfortunately it is often overlooked.
This should be repeated a thousand times. Open office hinders real collaboration.
Another rule: DON'T FORCE PEOPLE TO USE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS AS THEIR USER ID.

Such an amateur-hour mistake: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-us...
That sounds like an excuse for it. There are countless examples of accomplished people who typically work too much, and who don't engage in recreational drug use.
As a non US citizen, may I ask you to please read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
The US military defends this privilege. Everyone is open to the US dropping both its privilege, and its reliance on force to impose it.
Since 2001 it's floundered mightily anyway.
Does that mean he'll keep getting wiser as he lives more lives?
Usenet is federated, not decentralised, and the distinction is important.
Changing privacy policies doesn't work that way. You have to inform users of the changes, or they can claim that they didn't know and aren't bound by it.

That's why whenever companies change their ToS you get email/notifications/actual mail informing you of the changes.

You can't do that for DNS.