skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you keep buying the same product after a store raises its prices, you were probably cheating them in the first place.

So. Good point, but I'm not 100% that that's a valid symmetry to assume. On the one hand, you have an industrial scale process to produce massive amounts of commodity with an efficiency that can't be replicated at smaller scales. This industrial infrastructure was iteratively built during a time when companies were more equitably sharing a chunk of the profits with employees, and has seen minimal innovation since we hit the 80's I bet. All today's giants are built upon those toils, and wrapped in a culture that has shunned any type of openness about compensation structures, granting an information asymmetry advantage to the producer over the worker.

>Paying less than what you would be willing to pay if there were no other choice isn't "cheating".

I might believe this if unskilled labor were making enough to be able to build up stock portfolios, and be able to maintain a cushion against potential vehicle failure/medical emergency, etc... I don't see that. I see costs skyrocketing in markets flush with "skilled labor", to the point where normal service industries are having their unskilled staff get priced out of local markets. See San Fran and the Silicon Valley restaurant problem for the most recent example I'm aware of. If you pay attention to your local area, you'll likely see the same forces at work. "Cheating" in this sense, is any behavior that skews success probabilities toward any one side of the population over another. I don't expect equality of outcome, but I do expect equality of opportunity.

>Taken to its logical conclusion...

You make the mistake of attributing to human societies the quality of operating through purely logical mechanisms. Humans have a capacity for logic, but are in no way bound to act purely in logical ways. To preserve the ability to peacefully coexist, it is important to be able to abide by a set of norms that are not only largely logical, but also take into account humanities irrational side. (Juries have final say in the American legal system for instance).

In short, if you have a bunch of McMillionaires, surrounded by people who can barely scratch together a living, don't be surprised when your society can't come together enough, or muster the feeling of unity to thrive.

Put even shorter: When the wave starts lifting a few instead of all boats, watch out; troubled times are ahead.

Good food for thought though. Thanks for the reply.
TL;DR College-industry PR/advertising, made effective at scale by government subsidies in the 1950s, grew a social algae bloom aka economic bubble in academia and made some people richer.
Either way, both steps are required.
What would happen if we posted jobs that said preference would be given to applicants without University degrees?

Then, still others disqualifying people with a master's or higher?

It would encourage people who were so exceptionally competent that they could survive in their fields without the degree, and filter anyone who cheated or faked credentials at the least. Fun thought experiment.
Why? Because of side effects. The sexual side effects are terrible. I am sure it has contributed to my weight gain. I am not sure there are studies on what happens after decades on this drug.
Having grown up with it, truck culture is just... cancer.

I love the idea of subverting it by making a straight up better product in every way except price (and you can market around the price issue, "What you're too poor to afford a real truck? phh").
It depends a lot on people, but two cups is enough to develop an addiction to caffeine, yes.

It's very easy to get addicted, and since the withdrawal symptoms are not that obvious (it's basically just not feeling good, some slight headache, etc) it is common not to be aware of it at all.
Yes. Another issue: The author has been promoting GNU Parallel pretty heavily on many StackOverflow questions dealing with xargs or parallel execution, even when an additional tool is neither needed nor wanted (because it's a) not already installed, unlike xargs, and b) because of the aforementioned citation issue which I disagree with).

It's a great tool I'm sure, but I've been able to get by using just xargs, flock, etc., for most usecases.
Why we built our core engineering team outside of the SF Bay Area
According to the article, in a city of almost 900k people, only 5600 properties were sold?! I don't know what a normal number would be, but this seems incredibly low.
It's like the old saying about Russian vs. American missiles, "The Americans build a bomb that can flatten a one mile radius and drop it on the target, the Russians build a bomb that can flatten a ten mile radius and drop it near the target" his offer to "give away the drug for free if they couldn't afford it" wasn't realized, he may have intended it but people off insurance that didn't qualify for medicaid price reductions got hit with the full price - additionally insured customers who were getting the low out of pocket price were still being penalized for requiring such an expensive drug. The system is broken, absolutely, but that doesn't give him a get-out-of-ethical-violations-free card.

There's a sibling post I wrote with my personal experience dealing with the ridiculousness of drug pricing, these tricks and games do hit people.
There's a huge lobbying push for "5G" coming from somewhere. Yet the claims for it are totally bogus. Remote surgery? Self-driving cars? Coordinating agricultural equipment? Huh?
Agreed, and that's kind of the point - this shouldn't be a problem to begin with, aside from the fact that "everybody" prefers to write their own shit from scratch :)
I love Centauri Dreams. It's hopeful, makes me feel perspective, and realize how small and primitive we are.

We fret every day about consumption, waste, and energy, and here are some people discussing methods of moving planet-sized objects. It's a kind of optimism that's so rare it almost feels outdated.
For that you need to shell out even more for an EV Cert. If you just have a regular cert, people are still warned when running your app.
Our target customer is not a consumer, there are plenty of consumer CMS choices in the market. We're trying to solve the problem for teams of developers and content creators who don't want to waste time diverting developer time to CMS management.
finding the truths that connect two separate fields of study
The difference is the poor does so in a struggle to survive. We could solve a whole host of issues in this country (crime, healthcare, housing, etc) if rich people decided to put their efforts towards the public good instead of being greedy.
Crossing the boarder without going through customs is illegal. As an example from a news report on one of the migrants "... the man traveled from Honduras and had MS-13 gang tattoos, as well as a felony conviction for weapons misconduct in Maricopa County...". However we should be careful not to condemn the entire group do to just few criminals being present. That being said reporters should be allowed to report on crimes or criminal behavior, that is an essential part of their job. Unless there is specific data pointing to a reporter being engaged in helping a criminal then this reporter profiling is something that is in poor taste. The stopping at the boarder for extra questioning may constitute harassment which might be getting closer to illegal behavior. I would ask you when you say "...I'm really super confused about this". Is that really the case or do you just very strongly disagree or strongly disagree with the writers "facts"? A great way to win someone to your views is to make sure they understand that the are being listened to even if you disagree with them. Pretending not to understand, as an argument style, may be really unhelpful.
Lots of good examples also here: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html
I found the second example to be way less janky. I want to be able to see what I type as I type it (e.g. for spelling mistakes).

Taking a second to correlate that with results I am willing to accept, but if an app is janky with basic interactions I am leaving.
From what I understand he only raised prices that insurance companies would pay. He offered the drug for free to anyone without insurance who couldn't afford it. So, not exactly.
What? A compiler can't tell if a given program is "safe" any more than it can tell if the program will halt.
France’s tax on tech giants is happening
iPad sales in 2018:

Q1 2018 13.17 million
Q2 2018 9.11 million
Q3 2018 11.55 million
Q4 2018 9.67 million

I think a few people still buy them...

So if you spend $2500 on a MacBook Pro, $800 on an iPad, and then $1000 on your iPhone, boom, you're over $4000.

$4000 doesn't go very far.
Writing a Book with Unix
If you read further down (https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1098553736656572416), you find out it's because certum didn't allow them to use "notepad++" as the CN (probably because it's not a valid legal entity).
I'm Tina's (the author) co-founder at Transposit; happy to answer any questions about what we've built!
People are always talking about wealth inequality, but why, exactly is it bad?

Here's what the psychological research says about wealth inequality. There will be a certain number of young men who will make the calculation, "There's no way I can compete for mates in the current social order. So there's no reason why I should subscribe to it." Then they become law breakers or revolutionaries.

This isn't an absolute comparison. It's a relative one. So even though the poor might all have a home, refrigerators, and TV sets, the relative status calculation still applies. Also, the best guess, is that this has been part of our evolutionary heritage for awhile now, and so is wired into Homo sapiens at an unconscious level.

My conclusion is that any society needs some form of wealth redistribution, even if it's in the form of some sort of noble "everyman" and "everywoman" pastime that's provided by markets for a cheap price.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE
Putting everything in global state gets really hard to maintain above a medium-sized app.
I've found the stigma depends a lot on the area of the country. I used to live and work in New York, and there was a huge cultural stigma to not having completed college. There even seemed to be a stigma against people who owned their own companies doing electrical work or plumbing that were doing quite well. Obviously, there are exceptions to the rule, and not everyone felt that way.

Now that I'm in the Texas panhandle, most people appreciate skilled workers possibly even more than college degrees.
You're right. There's an Email field on the first signup page, but you can just click Next and set up an account.
I don't think that's the point though. If I understand correctly, the point is that it's okay to charge by usage -- just not specifically giving different rates to different things.

Net neutrality says that the ISPs can't throttle Netflix's speed while giving priority to another streaming platform. It's okay if users are charged by usage (even, perhaps, non-linearly) -- but it's not okay in the eyes pro-NN people if the ISP charges more for Netflix than, say, their own streaming platform. A byte should cost the same regardless of its use (much like a kW of electricity costs the same for a toaster as it does your refrigerator or another brand of toaster).
How would that work when it is voluntary by the employer?

It won't be.

We've had a go at letting employers "voluntarily" provide a reasonable living wage to low-skilled workers -- but obviously that tactic has failed miserably.

So it's time to try something else.
Pros: super easy

Cons: It's a global namespace and easily cluttered, and the clutter is visible as the default background of your display.

It's like "saving things" on my physical desk - a bad habit I tell myself not to do, but still find myself doing. (chucks a few things that have been on my desk).
Your criticism would be fair if FOSS authors were rightly conpensated for their work.

This isn't nearly the case, so until then blaming FOSS authors for some experimentations is just unwarranted.
Making C++ Exception Handling Smaller on X64
If you're using GNU Parallel for simple, non-parallel command line tasks and scripting, I've written a tool which I find to be much more intuitive:

https://github.com/Miserlou/Loop

The author of GNU Parallel wrote a pretty detailed comparison, which you can find in the linked README.
What is your current MRR?
North Carolina is gerrymandered so that Republicans reliably win 77% of the seats despite getting only 49% of the votes, that's 2% of the House of Representatives right there.
Pouring steamed milk over good hand-brewn coffee is a slightly disturbing idea. Why would you want to do that to your coffee?

That said I too love my electric milk frother its hot chocolate option.
I agree with you. For me, it's better than CA. I live near The Woodlands, so the hurricane thing is not so much of a worry. My wife has family down in Montrose, and it can be fun down there, but I would not live in Houston proper due to the sheer amount of time it takes to get places, as you know. It takes a vast amount of time to drive across Houston, even at night. People don't realize that Houston, area wise, is like a small country. If I want to go to the beach from here, it's like 2 hours.

Like I said in another post, if I ever came into serious money, I'd buy some land and build a house outside Burlington, VT. Proper four seasons, proper fishing, proper winter activities.
Thank you for the response. Yes - I have more tools in my mental arsenal now (meditation, stoicism). The problem is: when the dosage was lowered, it was not clear whether I was seeing a relapse or it was withdrawal. I am amazed by the sleep deprival note you mentioned (something I was not aware of at all) - thank you for that. Why stop? Because of sexual side effects (I don't want my partner to suffer my lack of drive) and weight gain. I am glad I am happy and stable now - the question is: is this my drug or am I recovered?
... or an increase in the price of goods and services, per the Scandinavian model.

Which seems to work well enough for those countries.
"A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that investigators cracked Cotten's laptop and discovered money was missing. In fact, they have possession of his laptop and identified money was missing through public blockchain records."

That will be a much less exciting scene in the movie. Itll be some dramatized "people around a computer watching traceroute"
ya don't gotta downvote me for reposting media coverage! I didn't write the article, if it's wrong, thanks for pointing that out. Just trying to see what there is about it to figure out what's going on, and help people reading skip a step, if you wanna tell us it's wrong, great!
When Shkreli got vilified, he missed out on one of the biggest opportunities to push for meaningful change. Media and Congress were "not kind" to his price increases. Well, who passed the laws that allowed for those price increases and stifled competition? At the time, I was hoping Shkreli would double down, go all in, and blame Congress for passing the laws that were allowing for such price increases and preventing competition (which big pharma had lobbied for and gotten passed earlier). Demand that if Congress was serious about getting him to reduce prices, all they had to do was repeal those laws. I.e., pass the buck back and say "well if you don't like this behavior, then why did you pass these laws?" and "oh, by the way, how many campaign contributions and PAC donations did you get for passing these laws?" He could then pivot to say "hey, I'm not raising prices to make money [at least not anymore], I'm raising prices to increase awareness and bring accountability to Congress and hold their feet to the fire."
How funny, a friend recommended it to me last week and I just started reading it yesterday. I'm only in the beginning, but I must say I really like it so far.
Thank you for relating your experience.
So: shoot ourselves, catch the bullet, shoot again?

I think the logistic issues of catching a bullet are probably the limiting factor here. Light at least _wants_ to be absorbed. Matter just wants to go through you.
This makes me really upset and that seems to be the intention. Is this art? No, this is the downfall of society and a mockery of real art, rationality, and order. Chaos isn't art it's just shit.
>Seems pretty logical

There will always be explanations for such lists. And they will always be criminal activity or terrorism. That no such lists were made in the past is always considered irrelevant. That identical circumstances elsewhere produce no such lists is glossed over.

>Lots of flagged comments here...USA collecting information on its own citizens is the biggest question

The biggest question is why so many people are perfectly happy with this along side "press is the enemy of the people" and an arbitrary declaration of emergency. Perhaps by questioning and studying why a population suddenly accepts things they never would in the past, other counties will adjust.

And it's not really a question, it's really just observing another country following the path of Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Venezuela, Philippines, Russia and India all at various stages along the same trajectory.
I have never been thoughtful enough to realize that the exclusions mentioned (women, POC) throughout US history fit the definition of 'identity' or 'identity politics' so well. I'm always impressed when someone comes up with such a rock solid example that points out _specific_ hypocrisies. Normally, using hypocrisy to counter someones argument is a logical fallacy, but the omissions present, and the effects of historical politically enforced inequalities must be taken into account when discussing these issues philosophically, especially when dealing with those who suggest that this is only a contemporary issue.

This issue is only contemporary in the fact that we are still burning far too much energy knocking down these doors in the first place, or trying to keep them open, when it comes to women's rights, and the issues present in "The Color of Law". I'm impressed.
Art is the production of veblen goods. Duchamp, in his genius, realized that though the ability to buy something painfully handcrafted does signal wealth, buying literal garbage is a much better display of wealth. Someone who can afford to buy a meticulously painted portrait, well, one may be will willing to make sacrifices for beauty. Someone able to spend millions on literal garbage - now that is a rich man.

Another aspect is photography allowed normal people access to create cheap reproductions of beautiful art. High-class people used to be able to distinguish themselves from the mob with beautiful things the mob couldn't afford.

But this does not work with cheap reproductions allowing one to signal the same taste.

In this way, there became an incentive for high-class people to acquire and inculcate a taste for art that is actively repulsive to distinguish themselves from those normal people who desire beautiful things.

Mostly this doesn't matter. They are only hurting themselves. But the effect of these incentives on public architecture has been pretty horrifying.
Microplastic pollution revealed ‘absolutely everywhere’ by new research
Exactly, after 15 years of web development, I never lock any customers into any proprietary anything. The cost, time, suffering, that come with the failure of a company we rely on is no longer worth it.

We have dealt with this a couple times with shopping cart providers, mls idx search systems, do-it-yourself website systems, captcha systems, cms systems (paid-for, now with no upgrade path for things like PHP5 to 7), payment processing systems, and more I probably can't think of at the moment.

If it's not open source, and self-hosted, then we walk away.

The only things we kind-of lock into now are hosting providers, email providers, and domain registrars. But we use pretty big and established operations for these just so we hopefully don't have to move things.
My line of work makes me pretty familiar with the insurance market, there is no way a drug manufacturer can ensure $10 out of pocket, they can lobby for certain drug level coverage in formularies but where they land and what those levels translate to in terms of cost is up to the drug company, ways around this that have been tried (drug companies offering manufacturer rebate coupons to lower out-of-pocket costs) can be countered by insurance companies refusing to cover costs that a rebate would cover or refusing to cover any costs without the rebate being activated...

What you said is not an achievable statement.
Media is really selling the "trade school" thing HARD lately.

I recently was talking to a relative of mine who is in his freshman year of college. He wanted to drop out because "If I am an electrician, I can be making 80k in 5 years"

So, I decided to fact check his thoughts here. If you look online, you can see in the average pay in his area is really more around 40k. So he is already being lied to. 25% of what a software engineer can make, for back-breaking, dangerous labor. Sounds like a great deal to me.

I feel like this comment, among others in this thread, really hits the nail on the head.

I want to focus on how hard a lot of trades are on your body. You do not realize how IMPORTANT maintaining your body is until you are a bit older and in pain. You only get one body.

A lot of trades, specifically electricians, lead to overexertion and stress injuries.

I'm 29 right now, and I have recently decided to get my health in order.

I know several people who were injured during high-school sports, who are now basically unable to exercise without pain. A few others were in the army, and it shot their knees. My father was a funeral director for 30 [0] years, and he suffers from similar stress injuries.

You do not understand how profound an effect stress injuries can have on your life until they happen. Consider the opportunities you are losing out on.

Working out and getting fit? Painful. In danger of further injury, further disabling you.

That hiking trip you wanted to go on? Walking a few miles? Visiting a foreign country? Playing in an intermural sport? Keeping up with your children? Standing somewhere for a long period of time?

0: 30 years, not 50. If it was 50 he would have been directing funerals as a toddler xD
> majority of public

Do you have sources? I personally believe in the free market, and think fast lanes are beneficial for customers.