skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You might want to pay closer attention to the complaints about inequality. What that focus is about is the degree of inequality.

I pay quite a bit of attention to it. I'm aware of what it is people are complaining about. Everything I said stands.

> Most people talking about it are not actually pursuing a world of absolute equality, but a world with reasonable levels of inequality, and with regulations that make a rapidly increasing spread less likely. I.e. we want floor and ceiling not too far apart, and not rapidly separating. Which means UBI alone, or minimum wage, or any number of floor-focused things are not the answer. Neither is a wealth tax, or any number of ceiling focused things the answer, by themselves.

Why? What's good about that? What, exactly, is the benefit we get from pursuing a flat wealth distribution? People often promote this idea, making the implicit assumption that reducing inequality is somehow a good in and of itself.

The point of these things should be to improve the material living standards of as many people as possible. If reducing inequality is a necessary side effect of doing that, then fine. But I see no reason to pursue that as an actual ultimate goal.
When people focus on inequality, are they doing so because they love the poor and want to do something for them, or because they hate/envy the rich? Too often, it's the latter.

Instead of UBI, a negative income tax is a much better approach. There's a lot of info out there about it, but here's a nice intro:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
>Take the analysis a step further though, population density matters, not median income.

With respect, I'll maintain that it's an issue if the supporting cash-flow underlying the market can no longer, numerically, support the market pricing.

>You will find that all housing is consumable by households for which their income exceeds the ownership costs.

That's not what's going on in Vancouver's case and the numbers make it very, very clear. No one here is confused about supply and demand. If housing prices tracked 'people's ability to pay for housing', as you're positing, then the ratio of income to total ownership costs would remain reasonably linked.

The issue is that demand isn't from 'households'. It's from REITs, speculators and foreign capital.

You can feel free to look at the spread between total ownership costs and rental rates. In the most expensive cities the spread is largest. In other words, the rental rates have changed far less than the total cost of ownership, because there is very little ability for personal incomes to absorb the housing price increases.

What's more, the correction isn't going to be quick, nor is it going to be soon. The only rational move as a real estate investor in most of these markets is to continue pumping capital and re-leveraging on the basis of accrued equity.

When the bubble pops and speculators are suddenly underwater, they'll prune their portfolio and keep the accrued equity gains, which will put them very far ahead of those who didn't get in.

This is why people advocate for regulatory intervention. Because the only way this train stops is when it slams into the concrete wall at the end of the track.
I'm almost certain electronics is a major component.
Hate is an emotion. There is no winning against it. It is used as a euphemism for the ideas of certain disfavored political groups.

The policy should follow the First Amendment and only censor speech that is not protected. Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action.
I use --vbr --bitrate 16 and it feels indistinguishable from the original for podcasts. As opusenc takes only wav for input and does not use multiple cores, I had to write scripts for parallel re-encoding of stuff.
They're already in isolated echo chambers though. They're already radical. And having them visible makes it easier to recruit more people.

I don't see any evidence this "sunlight" approach is effective for social media.
> Someone born into the .1% will continue to get richer and richer by literally not doing anything while others on different parts of the spectrum aren't in a position like that and many have negative assets.

What you're talking about here is wealth mobility. And I think we should definitely be talking about policies to promote that. Especially in the upwards direction.
Russia Orders Major VPN Providers to Block ‘Banned’ Sites
Having a diversified portfolio is a good decision.
The vast majority of wealthy families lose it within three generations.

Growing your wealth requires taking on risk: your investments may not turn out well.
Sadly people are reporting issues with the 2018 versions as well. For example, this article hilariously was written without the 'r' and 'e' keys to showcase what's been happening recently: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...
> So you think we dehumanize people we judge to be criminals?

Yes. I mean, that's pretty much what the article posted here is about.

And this extends to other things that also fall far short of heinous acts: people in the US jailed for minor drug offenses are similarly dehumanized by many people in the "war on drugs" crowd.
Not just recommendations for advanced tools, but the unfortunate reality that they are currently necessary means. I reiterate - this functionality must be made upstream, accessible, and visible.
I abandoned Apple not for a touchscreen, but because every time I hit "f", it would type "fffff", and half the time the spacebar didn't work. After fixing it two times at the Apple store, the logic board died with all the data it had on it. Should not happen after paying 1799 EUR for a laptop.

macOS might and is actually great--and hardware might be an afterthought to you, but in a laptop being able to type is kind of an important feature to me.

I run Linux and some Linux distros do have touch optimized UIs if you're wondering. As for Windows, it's a perfectly fine choice as well, and not a lot worse than macOS.
> Instead of reliable WiFi routers and induction chargers, Mac Pros and you know, laptop keyboards that you can actually type on…
> We get a credit card, news and streaming service that no one wants or understands.

They also released a major iPad mini update, spec-bumped machines and 2nd gen AirPods.

At WWDC, they'll introduce a bunch of software updates for September release. I'm guessing there will be a laptop update, and the Mac Pros as well. Not to mention there will certainly be new iPhones in the fall.

Just because they're _also_ trying to build up a more substantial services business doesn't mean that they're not working to push the other areas forward.

Better that they didn't ship AirPower than to ship something crappy.
SEDO Launched – Expired Domains Page
What a beautiful idea
They're also financially incentivised to downplay the issue considering the class-action lawsuits alleging that they were selling defective keyboards.
PIA removed their servers from Russia, but still allows Russians to access non-Russian servers: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/russias-r...
> this concept would be even more useful in a multi-cloud / cross-cloud infrastructure.

Thanks for the comment! Cartography can definitely be extended to do multi-cloud but we're focusing on AWS at the moment. At the same time though we didn't want to discourage others from looking at this by saying in the docs that it was solely an AWS project. There's nothing really stopping it from supporting other data sources.

Edit: we're planning on adding a GitHub module soon too.
Mineral coloration has literally a dozen different explanations. Most of them do not "wear out", but some of them change colors under irradiation.

Green glass is green because of iron (II) oxide (FeO), which is usually a naturally occurring contaminant of the sand used for glassmaking. Amber glass is amber because of FeS2. Neither change color under normal weathering conditions.

The duration of a protective coating depends on the coating, and its thickness. If you layer a glass pane under a synthetic sapphire pane, that would probably be better than a protective coating. The sapphire would protect the glass, and the glass would block UV-A.
Yes! If you see a problem with the design, share your expertise (politics carefully navigated). This is how you become even more valuable to your client. But if you've settled on a design and you're the implementer, make it look like the specs you got!
That first answer is so good. These are those needle in a haystack gems on Reddit these days.
Or a bug! I assume it will also consume less power.
As imagined by Marilyn Manson...
This is a very level headed person, this Abigail.
My main concernsvwith these types of posts are management and defaults.

If management isn't automous, then you'll get fragmentation which becomes a fingerprinting mechanism.

If the defaults are too harsh, then you deter adoption and encourage fragmentation of those that do adopt (as they'll muck about in the config and unbreak different things).

With low adoption, using this could potentially make you more identifiable (mirroring the concern of Do Not Track as of late) , [citation needed, on mobile].

I'll definitely spin up an instance of later today, but it looks like the defaults might cause a fair bit of breakage
I suspect they zealously protect their privacy, but because their cult is considered "weird" in some parts, they do it on the down-low.
Ok but have any of these falsely accused actually had their account removed?
So the footer becomes more accessible in case of lengthy pages. In case of news websites, it's to better surface ads, in this case it's to surface recommendations
"What happens if we throw the ball forward or backward? Will we again have a fictitious force?"

Yes, you will. Only that force will be in the plane of the orbit. Throw the ball forward and you raise its orbit - so it will start going forward, end up going "up" and then cycle back down exactly one orbital period later.

Throw it backwards and you will lower its orbit. It will go back, down, the up again. Unless you throw it too hard, in which case it will re-enter and burn up.
I think you are stretching to find a reason to blame them. It did not prevent people from buying iPhone X which had a wireless charging too, what makes you think that it somehow affected AirPods case sales?
>It is also true that some companies will lose money as a results of losing secrets...

That's the point though, how do Google's stewards square their pottential support for losing secrets, with their fiduciary duty to numerous teacher, firefighter and police officer pension funds? That duty to the investment funds backing heaven only knows how many 401k's? Their duty to countless other pension funds and retirement accounts?

"Society will be better off in the future your honor." Is only gonna go so far.

This is part of the problem, society might be better off at some undefined and uncertain point in the future. But for investors in Google, they will be better off right now, and in the short term future. So we're always in this position of trying to argue an idealistic future, that never turns out the way you plan it in any case, against an optimal present.

I think as techies we have to start presenting arguments for the changes we'd like to see in the world that are a bit more practical. Not only on labor issues like non competes, but also on issues like tech's relationship to labor, tech's relationship to fundamental rights, tech's relationship to children, etc etc etc.

At present, a lot of our arguments sound a little tone deaf at best, callous at worst, and out of touch at the mean. I've said before, in my neck of the woods, if I tell people, "Amazon treats their employees like crap." They get it.

If I say, "Google can track your location with android phones so don't bring your phone to see your weed man." They get it.

I can even say, "Facebook is full of Ruskies trying to influence the election." They'll get it. They'll know what I mean and everything that entails.

But if I come at the people in my small town with, "Big Tech is what drives wealth inequity by disrupting traditional labor markets and causing data privacy issues. Which, of course, concert to cause knock on effects in the larger economy." Yeah, that's the kind of post-graduate parrot-speak that makes them look at my mother disapprovingly for raising such a pretentious ass-hat.
So that's 10,000 people and the city SF Bay Area has 7.15 million, and 880k live in SF proper. It doesn't sound like it'd make a very big dent in prices.
Apple explicitly marketed AirPower support as a main feature of the next generation of AirPods. To a lot of people on Twitter, it was THE main feature of AirPods 2.

Saying "hey, buy the new version of AirPods at a $50 premium because it's compatible with this new thing that's about to come out" and then fumbling on that product you just marketed to drive sales of AirPods isn't kosher.
> it also seems to massively favour what you have watched once - if that is something especially controversial or perhaps otherwise ‘special’.

This is my experience as well. YT thinks I love Jordan Peterson. Four or so months ago, I didn't know who he was, and clicked one clip, found it ridiculous and never clicked another one. But my recommendations are lousy with the guy.
My first thought was the velociraptors from Jurassic Park.
People buy the more expensive Apple versions of accessories all the time even if they are not proprietary.
I love making things. I dabble at designing them. I hate companies that are all about the numbers with a fury (people are not numbers).

But once in a while I see a company run by engineers, and I just shake my head and back away. BD seems like a "tech utopia", with all the bad connotations that can have.
I would love to see such an analysis, hehe :))

I have to admit that the exact definition of the problem is not easy to define:

e.g. if I have on my screen a video about "people-that-hate-bananas", would it be ok to have recommendations that show only e.g. "why-bananas-are-bad" or should I (ethically) get as well videos of the type "are-bananas-really-bad?" respectively "these-are-good-bananas!"?

Using the above example I guess that if Youtube (& similar sites) show only recommendations based on case #1 (which is eaaasy for IT) then yes here I go down the rabbit hole (reinforces/confirms the concept "bananas-are-bad") even if the recommendations are not worse than the original one => therefore even recommendations on "equal" level might have to be evaluated at least partially negatively? (as in this example the recommendations don't promote alternative point-of-views / alternative thinking / search for a flow or compromise, if you understand what I mean)

In any case the evaluation of the results you get might be very hard to do, if you want to do it automatically to understand the meaning (e.g. very hard to understand if "good-bananas-are-bad" is negative or positive towards bananas)... :P (maybe if you manage to you might become a Nobel candidate, hehe, or maybe I'm underestimating the current power of AI, which is definitely possible)
In some ways we already have that with the earned income tax credit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit
Windows Phone 8/8.1 and Windows 8/8.1 are different things and on different platforms. The stats apply to the desktop OS, not the phone OS. Even if you wanted to pretend they were the same, the most frequent complaint was I don't want a phone OS on my desktop.

You can still see this in most reviews, too - reviews of Windows 8/8.1 are generally pretty negative, while reviews of WP 8/8.1 on the same site are positive to glowing.

Windows Mobile 10/Windows 10 are the only ones that are nominally the same and still are in fact very different.

Again, if you talked to people that actually picked up and tried (or bought) a Windows Phone, they were almost universally very pleased with the phone UI and OS. The single biggest complaint you will see is about the app selection.
> Wealth inequality is the main cause of power inequality, and is thus a major reason why something like UBI won't happen just because it benefits poor people.

Poor people seem pretty powerful to me. In a world where rich people are infinitely powerful...what percentage of tax revenue do you think they'd be paying? 0%? 10%? The top 3% if earners paid over 50% of income tax in the US in 2016 [1]. That doesn't seem particularly powerful to me. Or, if it is, that power isn't wielded especially self-interestedly.

> You can't make the world better if you are powerless, and you are powerless so long as you can be overruled by those with more wealth than you.

Your inferences are correct, but your premises are wrong. And if you're worried about money influencing politics, well, i've got news for you: reducing wealth inequality is just going to make the influence of that money even less transparent than it is now.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-...
Ask HN: How Are Webhose or Newsapi Legal?
They crawl news articles from site like CNN, FOX,... and serve them via an API for a fee. Isn't this a textbook case for copyright infringement? Does simply following robots.txt, as they claim, give you automatic immunity against copyright infringement?

I'm curious as I would like to create a similar service and am seriously concerned about the legal side of things.
Ya, the EITC is a negative income tax. But it should probably be expanded, it's a great policy.
I'm not sure that these intuitions are actually correct. For example, while it seems obvious that a four wheel solution should be faster and cheaper, that is only really true if you assume that software and controls algorithms are expensive. This robot needs fewer wheels, tires, frame structure, and drive motors than a conventional four wheel design, and the ability to lean into the direction of motion gives higher acceleration limits, increasing speed. Just like a bike is cheaper and higher performance than a recumbent tricycle, this might actually be cheaper and higher performance than something more conventional. If not today, Boston Dynamics seems to be betting that it will become so in the future.
So...it sounds like the path to wealth is knowable and repeatable multiple times in a single lifetime, if people will just make correct calculated decisions?
This might be good point to mention the only 2020 presidential candidate who is talking about how UBI could address this seemingly inevitable future that is closer than we think.

Andrew Yang. See his discussion with students at Georgetown Univ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tuJ0phjFys

or for a longer exposition of his ideas see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsEzmFamZ8
The underwriters should have priced the deal higher so the company would have more money to invest. Pop is a handout to favored clients of the underwriters (or a subsidy to encourage them to subscribe).

It's like the VCs having the company pay its legal bill when doing a deal: less of the LP's money for the company to invest, while they get to pocket the money the LPs did give the firm for this purpose (management fee -- the 2% of "2 and 20").

And the press describes the pop as a good thing. It's underwriter malpractice.
How A Scenic View Influences Office Culture
13MB [1] for a static site (vugu.org)?

[1]: http://www.vugu.org/main.wasm
Sounds cool to have something like OpenWRT for IP Cameras... really nice, hope this story will be continued
I think the issue with that different treatment is that, aside from the inconsistent availability of dedicated (and hopefully buffered) bike lanes, there aren't spaces "made for" bicycles. I hear arguments along the lines of "roads are made for cars", and I think people would nearly equally argue that "sidewalks are made for pedestrians", so cyclists can't really win: they're the unwelcome interloper wherever they are, and need to yield and watch out for the "intended" users of the space.
I'm using it as one particular proxy for "I used to be able to keep tabs on everything. I am no longer able to keep tabs on everything." I tried to get at this with the change to talking about github notifications, but maybe could have spelled it out directly.
Apple is a lifestyle brand now, not a technology company. Once you frame it in those terms, their decisions make a lot more sense.
Two places I have them: at my desk, on my nightstand. But both are the standing up kind, not the mat.
There are two simultaneous conversations.

One is about extremist content. Extremist content can be interesting. Calling content interesting does not excuse its extremist nature.

There is a parallel conversation specifically about whether JRE is "extremist". The show is certainly interesting. It may also be extremist, but it being interesting doesn't make it not extremist. Because, as I previously stated, calling content interesting does not excuse its extremist nature.

I am not making any conclusions about JRE. I'm only saying that his show being interesting doesn't make it "not extremist". If you're trying to prove that he's not, you've got to do something else.

I also provided some things he has had on his show that probably are extremist content.
For me it's endless stuttering with spacebar, e, and r for some reason.
--incremental looks awesome! Really nice QOL feature.
That isn't accurate. The electric washing machine was first invented and sold en masse in 1928. It wasn't until seven to eight decades later that women started participating in the labor force more broadly. Until then, and even now, the washing machine contributes a significant amount to extra leisure time. And indeed, Americans have a lot of leisure time. That is how we are able to spend 35 hours a week on average on watching television. (Source: Nielsen report on television consumption)
> When I say "extreme" I mean "extreme" in all senses, not just politically extremist.

I don't consider your opinion invalid, but I do get the sense that the majority of concern over the YouTube "rabbit hole" is about promoting politically extreme content. My comments, since the beginning, have been specific to the allegation of pushing users to the extremes politically. I tried had to be explicit about this, and even edited my comment (prior to your comment, mind you) to more explicitly spell out the fact that I'm not talking about extreme things that aren't political (e.g. the "Elsagate" issues of shock content getting recommended to kids).

If this is the issue you're taking, then bear in mind that it is not in scope of what I am pointing out, and I don't think it's on scope for the majority of people's discussions about the "YouTube rabbit hole".
OK, so... Would it be possible to do something similar for video?
It's using so little power that this should not be a problem. In the accompanying video it is stated that

...the most surprising thing probably is that it was being powered off a small solar cell under this dark blue plastic
box. Any more power than that and the motor would spin up, lose control and fly out of stability. , https://youtu.be/wNcgnooayDc?t=129
Bulk Rename Utility (Windows) is something I’ve been using for years to rename my music and video libraries in a uniform way. I usually just use it to rename seasons and episodes of shows incrementally, but it's capable of a lot more advanced rules.

It works well, does everything I ask of it, and it’s just totally free of bloat. Hasn’t changed in years in fact. Just does what it says on the tin. Renames your files in bulk.

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
I'm just surprised they announced a product at all when, especially that long ago, they must have known there were issues that could be potential show stoppers. Whatever his faults, I can't imagine that ever would have happened under Steve Jobs.