skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25442

'Have the idle rich replaced the working rich at the top of the U.S. income distribution? Using tax data linking 11 million firms to their owners, this paper finds that entrepreneurs who actively manage their firms are key for top income inequality. Most top income is non-wage income, a primary source of which is private business profit. These profits accrue to working-age owners of closely-held, mid-market firms in skill-intensive industries.'

Without going into the extensive exaggerations, lies and data-fudging of Piketty- do you look at the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans and see a lot of inherited wealth there? A lot of Rockefellers, Morgans, and Vanderbilts? It's a bit surprising, right, because if we accept r > g then Rockefellers/Morgans/Vanderbilts should own most of the US by compounding wealth starting over 100 years ago at this point....

And in fact we find the Forbes 400 is virtually all- self-made entrepreneurs who created their own wealth. If you find a Rockefeller there who's never worked a day in his life but is simply living on rentier income, please let me know. (As I mentioned in the original comment, one of the reasons Piketty's rentier fantasies don't work is that he doesn't gauge consumption- and I suspect idle wealthy inheritant-types who don't work burn cash at a greater rate than r)
China tries to stop academics from taking its constitution literally
In any city where the economics of car vs uber work out in favor of uber, then necessarily the economics of train + bus vs uber work out in favor of train + bus.
One the one hand, 66 total worldwide units doesn’t seem like very many compared to most other pieces of military equipment. On the other hand, the per unit cost of submarines is a staggering $2 billion to $10 billion.

For perspective, the government shutdown fight is over ~1-2 submarines worth of funding.
I effectively quit... I still have an account, but I have not checked it in any way in several months. Life is much improved - i am definitely happier. I also read and interact here and other non toxic places more which I think is an improved way to spend idle time
It weighs 50 tons and is 51 feet could anything really mess with that?

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a263440...
Only for a limited amount of time after you send it, after I wanna say four hours it can no longer be deleted.
Find out for yourself by just not visiting it any more.
It came across as a comment by someone very ignorant of the history around the German nuclear program.

Not only was it nonsensical for Weizsäcker specifically, Heisenberg was attacked by proponents of the "Deutsche Physik" movement, who had a particular hatred of the "Jewish physics" which turned out to be so useful for nuclear weapons development. They believed Heisenberg wasn't German enough - a 'White Jew'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik

Your sarcastic comment also suggests that the physicists on the German nuclear project weren't German enough to even speak German well.

For anyone who knows the history, your attempt at humor instead comes across as a continuation of the anti-Semitic smear attack on Heisenberg.

Since that isn't what you meant, it means that you don't know anywhere near enough of the history to be at the point where you should be comfortable in making sarcastic comments.
More than 70 percent of Microsoft patches are for memory problems.
It's a lot more justifiable to use deadly force to respond when human lives are being placed at risk. The diplomatic consequences are likely to be different, as well.
Also magic-wormhole relies on a hardcoded intermediary servers for which author gives no guarantees.
Absolutely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
It would be much harder to promote new products and businesses through ads.
A comment like this reflects being part of the privileged 10%, probably even more like top 1-2%. Many are not that privileged and will never have the opportunity or chances to reach that. In the grand scheme of things it's more like luck, then anything else.

It reflects how distant some are from reality of majority of people. 5 * 2 * 5 * 4=200. For many 200 dollars per month can be a quite significant cut in their paycheck. Recurring and continuous costs like these are exactly what makes the difference
One of them that will, or at least should be able to continue, is scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt clients on an isolated LAN can share messages with each other. To go beyond the LAN, you point at a "pub server", which anyone can host anywhere. Yes, only russian-based pub servers will be available, and that assumes they are using russian based DNS to point to them (or have a known static IP). However, for the test of communicating within your region, scuttlebutt will hold up.

The protocol, clients, and pub servers (which are really just automated clients) are designed with an offline-first approach, then local, then regional, then global. Messages are copied between clients as they come into contact with each other. One way to visualize it is by picturing islands of people gossiping locally, and then having ships carry that scuttlebutt from island to island.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
Right or wrong, it's a fairly common stereotype: a merchant who insists on cash-only transactions is dodging taxes or selling something illegal (or both, I suppose).

On the topic of criminal behavior, it's also worth noting that doing business cash-only makes you a more tempting target for robbery; if you did almost all of your transactions via credit or debit cards, you'd have very little in the till for someone to steal.
This is an incredibly shortsighted view of Uber if you're being serious. MoviePass doesn't alter the end experience of watching a movie at all, but Uber significantly changes the experience of getting a ride. I'm sure most people would agree that even if they had to pay the same price as a cab, they would prefer the Uber experience over the old model.
There's nothing noble about the theft of labor. Internships can and do exist with fair wages.
> Short of a large, glass-walled, soundproof conference room dedicated to one team, I have found no "manufactured" environment that reliably elicits excellent work.

An old team of mine got relegated to one of those, minus the glass walls. It had been a video recording studio in a previous life.

It was indeed great for team culture!

It had ceiling tracks for lights, we hung a disco ball from it. And a bunch of other stuff, because hey, ceiling tracks!

> "here's a big room. you decide who comes in here. here's some budget for furnishings" and then you figure it out as you go and let the trajectory of the work dictate the trajectory of the space.

Yup! We purchased our own (glass) desks, assembled them as a team. Did a lot of customization to the space, which no one else could see/hear so the space was actually our own.
The Payoff from California’s “Data Dividend” Must Be Stronger Privacy Laws
It has actually been a common issue for many years, including for myself, but the rest of us don't have the social clout for it to make it to HN front page.

These days you have no chance of getting any form of tech support or even issue acknowledgement unless you have a large follower count online.
Is it possible to use the builtin 9P client with non-WSL servers?
What Is Level 2 Automated Driving?
Everything after # in the URL is not sent to server, which makes it handy for storing tokens.
I've gotten to the point where I look at suicide as a reasonable option like any other choice I would make. However that doesn't mean I'm suicidal - simply that I've taken the philosophical gravity from the concept.

That, given what I've been through, I know that it's something that I can do at anytime I want. Strangely enough that makes me feel less trapped in my life, and way more intentional about what I do.

Not that I don't waste a lot of time (mostly here), but that I try and be fully engaged with whatever I'm working on and am completely honest about all those habits and responsibilities. It also means I'm constantly evaluating if what I'm doing is supporting my long term goals.

What I realized is that nobody wants to feel like they are a burden. If you tell your family that they feel like a burden, I would guess they will get out of your way and you'll be able to create an intentional relationship - but then, I don't know your family.

As Camus said: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Too cheap. I suspect we arent getting the entire story. Subs are one of the biggest areas for black budgets. I would not be shocked if this is the final purchase of objects the navy has already spent billions developing.
What Is Automotive Grade? Here’s What It Means – And How We Do It
Considering how many peoples lives were disrupted over that it is just sickening. What a bunch of bs that whole situation is/was/continues to be.
I think a lot of these projects are put together to make use of resources that otherwise wouldn't have an output, and the recent trade "war" slowed the export of these materials to the point where there isn't enough liquidity like there was. There was an article a year or so ago that went over the crisis facing cement plants that had to take out loans to cover interest on prior loans and that most plants are operating at a loss, but still operating so as to at least make some money. When the trade slowed last fall, they sold less, and maybe that was enough to push them past the breaking point when interest came due.
>Maybe because I'm outside the unicorn bubble I can't see the magic, but I find something very warped about a business strategy that combines stratospheric valuation, intentional regulatory non-compliance, perpetual capital injections, service misrepresentation, and unprofessional corporate behavior... and results in massive financial losses year after year.
>When I try to balance the elements, it frankly looks like an enormous grift. Some key early investors have probably made out really well, but at what cost to others involved?

I think you're way too pessimistic here:

(1) A whole industry of rent seekers (medallion owners) was mostly run off

(2) The taxi experience in cities other than NYC, Chicago, and SF got a million times better. Before Uber in a city like Nashville you call for a taxi and maybe one shows up at some point. Since Uber you can reliably get a ride whenever you want. And that's not even talking about discrimination.

(3) Uber caused a dramatic decline in drunk driving. Likely because of (2)

(4) It allowed people to make some money with a flexibility that traditional jobs don't offer

For me, Uber/Lyft has definitely had the biggest positive impact on my life out of any tech company in the last decade. The only close competitor would be Android/iPhone. I don't know if Uber is worth the ~60 billion that they were last valued at, but they definitely fill a legitimate role.
A Junior Dev Jobs Newsfeed
Zen might help. People have said that if aliens had any game we had, it'd be Go. If they had any religion we had, it'd be Zen, which focuses on the realization of the "nature of reality."

Personally, I don't find anything "mystical" or especially "religiony" about the core "doctrine". That's why I call it the religion of the aliens. The core truth has that fundamental discoverable simplicity about it, and addresses the nature of this fear. The aliens won't have Jesus or Muhammed, but strip the incidental trappings on both sides, and they might have Zen, just like they might have Go.
Disabled people who are unable to operate a vehicle need to work too. Sometimes jobs are too far for public transportation to be an option. What should they do instead?
No. I think I’m practical terms this is the major impact on the world, the rest of this thread is window dressing.
Lots of great arguments for and against herein, but how about the reality that the gig economy, that Uber exemplifies, is an unmitigated disaster for society, as a whole?
It does cap it at 128 bits, but it is not an issue. 128 bits of entropy is plenty.
You don’t seem to understand that ride hailing service with Lyft is better quality than Uber. Nicer drivers, shorter wait times, better prices, cleaner cars, more premium experience and you get to associate with a company that’s not tacitly defending rapists or sanctioning disturbing violations of consumer privacy.
Progress for Humanity will happen
On the one hand, the article's title that "solutions should be written in such a way that the intent is clear" makes sense for code which needs to be read and maintained.
e.g. Martin Fowler suggests even 1 line of code methods can be useful if they describe a distinct intent.
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FunctionLength.html

But I don't think the point is well made with a contrived whiteboard-interview style problem.
You might want to investigate the book Superforecasting and the related goodjudgmentproject.com
It does require continuous readiness to launch nuclear ballistic missiles from a surprise location, otherwise the “mutual” part of mutually assured destruction is less assured:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine-launched_ballistic...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike

Also, the US essentially controls the world’s oceans, and that comes with a whole bunch of benefits, wartime or peacetime.
If they value more the money than the work itself (i.e. the experience they're going to gain from doing the internship), then they won't choose to do the internship. There is a choice, it's just that nobody controls internship wages, and you can't do anything about it, even less by regulating it..
It's not disingenuous at all. Snapchat deletes all messages, photos and videos by default, either immediately after their received or within 24 hours.
The choice of not running k8s is better than running k8s + virtual kubelet interfacing with AWS Fargate/etc. Let me give you an example. Some networking company in the bay area wanted to ship out some SDN virtual machines to clients. These guys shipped out these VMS with cloud foundry and bosh. This is a damn overkill.

Cloudfoundry/k8s is meant for deploying many applications that require horizontal scaling, etc.

Just one app with five containers or three VMS is not worth on k8s.
At least bitcoin will be mostly unaffected since you can receive blocks via satellite [1] and if even one satellite connected node is inside Runet then you can at least keep up with the blockchain. Sending transactions can be done via sms [2]. The main problem would be mining in Russia, but if miners know about the shutdown in advance and it's economically feasible then they can get satellite internet to upload found blocks.

[1] https://blockstream.com/satellite/

[2] https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/954271930365947904
Party like it's 1999?

I am every day glad i finished my undergrad before facebook was a thing.
> And to help get everything started, Alphabet plans to move Google’s Canadian headquarters to the Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront.

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/google-sidewalk-labs-waterfron...

> Google (googl, -0.84%) will move some 300 employees in Toronto to the new space, one of the sources said, including a team from its Google Brain unit led by artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton.

http://fortune.com/2017/10/17/alphabet-google-sidewalk-labs-...

So yes, they're moving their Canadian headquarters to the new campus they're building... that they want to tax Canadian citizens to pay for.
Because that is based on the assumption that renewables and no nuclear is viable and going to work based on advances in technology.

I think there is enough debate in this thread to illustrate why that is not a universal position.

This comment explains it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19169073
Ask HN: Are there any open source AI that can study facial expressions
I am looking to categorize facial expressions through video capture and help participants know how their communication is being received on video calls.
Do it in quaternary. Add pairs of bits.
I did read the article.

It read to me like a thinly veiled ad for ghostery.

If that wasn’t the intent, then I would encourage the authors to be more explicit and detailed about their testing methods and how they made a point of trying to level the field as much as possible, even though their own code is one of the tools being tested.
Definitely. Here’s a case where a far larger submarine got caught in a net: https://outdoors360.com/fishing-boat-snags-220-foot-submarin...
Sorry, but it is entirely hypocritical to benefit from tax subsidies in all kinds of ways, such as being employed by a company receiving large tax credits/incentives, taking the mortgage interest deduction, enjoying parks and recreational activities funded by other people's taxes, and certainly, use of the great, yet heavily subsidized, NYC subway/bus system. I'm sure residents of Syracuse and Rochester love helping to pay for the NYC Subway (/s) and they also would have warmly welcomed Amazon (not /s)

http://interactive.nydailynews.com/project/mta-funding
EFF to State Department: Respect Freedom of Speech of Chinese Students
It should be onblur, otherwise you'd send requests for:

- me@example.c

- me@example.co

- me@example.co.

- me@example.co.u

- me@example.co.uk

And you'd have to account for all those tricky race conditions happening there
Actually it's because gender is a hot-button topic, and not just political. Some of us think that everyone pays too much attention to gender, and those who think they don't are generally male and don't have to think about it because everyone follows the "rules" so it all looks normal and no big deal. But it's ever-present, and I think it's quite reasonable to try to ungender things, particularly things that have no biological sex and are unnecessarily gendered in the first place. Gender is insidious and oppressive for almost everyone and I appreciate that the OP balks at it.
It's not always about flipping burgers or waiting tables and even those "basic" jobs needs training. Some employers don't want to deal with untrained staff, so increasing the minimum wage or making internship illegal is going to do more harm than good and the people you want to protect will have a harder time getting trained on the job
> Most of the loot was hidden in his family home. Subsequently, his mother destroyed and threw away dozens of paintings and drawings, some by Cranach, Bruegel and Watteau, and dumped more than a hundred works into a canal. A pious woman, she chose not to destroy a Medieval sculpture of the Virgin Mary, abandoning it instead in a forest chapel.

His mother is a terrible person who should go to prison for life for intentional destruction of irreplaceable cultural items in order to cover up serious crimes.

As far as the thief himself goes his own culpability is much less than hers.
Reading the comments as a mathematician... yup they're tough and require enough knowledge that I know they'll be challenging the next time around.

Reading this as a computer scientist: Knuth is where the education is at. And like project Euler, don't feel bad if you miss a few of the hard ones.

I was trained in computational number theory, and when I used them to teach myself ruby, and I stopped when I got comfortable enough with the language to find the problems tiring
The same would be true for everyone else.
Visa doesn't collect any fees on cash transactions. This argument gets contrived pretty quickly. When you go to a restaurant, technically the cost of toilet paper is factored into your bill whether you go to the bathroom or not. If you shop online, technically the cost of rent for the retailers brick and mortar stores will be factored into the price. Transaction fees aren't a tax, they're the price paid for consuming a service.
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Ah man I hate that so many Americans seem to think they are paying anything for Germany’s defense. It’s just not true.

Sure there are US troops in Germany but only because you need them to be here for your own purposes like that Rammstein base for example which is used to relay data so your drones in the Middle East can work. Of course you’ll have to pay for something like that one way or another. We even pay a percentage (~10%) of the construction cost of your bases. But you‘re not here for us. The majority of Germans is against US troops in Germany btw.

We Germans don’t receive any kind of military financing from the US. In fact we pay you money in exchange for military equipment ($163.7 million in 2014 for example).
That's really cool. I can't tell you how many times I started to make one and stopped half way...
The beauty of Matrix is it's distributed, so it doesn't really matter if you're running your own servers. If someone joins from their own server (like I would from mine), the conversation exists there too!
What is interesting is that most of Schein's book was based on Steve Jobs (the original draft was almost all Steve, but got rewritten to emphasize Steve much less and other executives much more when Steve complained that the book was just about him. But even when using other executives for his examples, Schein was usually talking about Steve.) And at the time of that book we did none of the things in the article. Really, the book is excellent, but hard to interpret well. If I hadn't been working there at the time I would probably be misinterpreting it too.
More creepy photos: https://old.reddit.com/r/SyntheticNightmares/
51% of the population are women, who suffer from these gender roles. That's a super big-ticket group right there.
Forbes 400 for 2018: https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#715eb42a7e2f

Looking at top 40 (because it gets boring to look up bios after a while), I see the following folks who inherited companies founded by their family members:
Charles Koch, David Koch, Jim Walton, Alice Walton, Robson Walton, Jacqueline Mars, John Mars, Abigail Johnson, Donald Bren, Lukas Walton, Leonard Lauder.

That is 11 out of top 40 (or 27.5%) have inherited their wealth. That is certainly a big fraction of billionaires who did nothing but win the birth lottery.
CS 294 is a great deep reinforcement learning course that I highly recommend [1]. Sergey Levine is god tier RL pretty much.

[1] http://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/
This isn't so much a problem with Facebook, but just gated communities in general.

Heavy moderation by participants push out opposing view points until all that's left are echo chambers.

The downside of this trend is the vast majority of people don't tend to realize they are in an echo chamber and take what they are interneting as gospel because people tend to trust the wisdom of the masses.. they just don't realize the masses are carefully culled.

IMHO problem is worse on Reddit, but likely affects more people via Facebook.
The posted price has to be the CC price, but retailers can offer a cash discount. They don't want to see a CC surcharge.

https://www.cardfellow.com/blog/cash-discount-eliminate-proc...
After looking at the way public infra projects like the high speed train projects in California are managed, I am not sure how one can say that public only infra projects are proven to be successful
The university was completely free for you because someone else paid for it.

If you're not free to make the decision of internships how did you choose the company you went into ? Also, I guess the company and their managers, because they have a budget to respect, are not free either to make decision, by the same logic ?
Unpaid labor is wage theft.
As a small business owner in a past life, it’s probably because you don’t need to; not many businesses have customers looking to shave pennies off the price. The margins and competition in gas stations don’t happen elsewhere, I think.

And you don’t want to. Adding another set of prices and complication isn’t worth it to the business owner.

My 2c