skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I always wonder what proportion of that group is due to insufficient income

According to the Social Security Administration [1]:

2017 Average net compensation: 48,251.57

2017 Median net compensation:
31,561.49

The FPL (Federal Poverty Level) income numbers for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility [2]:

>> $12,140 for individuals, $16,460 for a family of 2, $20,780 for a family of 3, $25,100 for a family of 4, $29,420 for a family of 5, $33,740 for a family of 6, $38,060 for a family of 7, $42,380 for a family of 8

Wages are not keeping up with corporate profits. That can't all be due to automation.

The minimum wage is only one factor linked to price inflation. We can raise wages and still keep inflation down to an ideal range.

Maybe it's that we don't understand what it's like to live on $12K or $32K a year (without healthcare due to lack of Medicaid expansion; due to our collective failure to instill charity as a virtue and getting people back on their feet as a good investment). How could we learn (or remember!) about what it's like to be in this position (without zero-interest bank loans to bail us out)?

> and what proportion is due to terrible financial literacy.

The r/personalfinance wiki is one good resource for personal finance. From [3]:

>> Personal Finance (budgets, interest, growth, inflation, retirement)

Personal Finance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finance

Khan Academy > College, careers, and more > Personal finance https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/personal-fi...

"CS 007: Personal Finance For Engineers" https://cs007.blog

https://reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki

... How can we make personal finance a required middle and high school curriculum component? [4]

"What are some ways that you can save money in order to meet or exceed inflation?"

Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps to financial freedom [5] seem like good advice? Is the debt snowball method ideal for minimizing interest payments?

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html

[2] https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fp...

[3] "Ask HN: How can you save money while living on poverty level?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18894582

[4] "Consumer science (a.k.a. home economics) as a college major" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894632

[5] https://www.daveramsey.com/dave-ramsey-7-baby-steps
Joey Hess raises questions: "What I would ask my lawyers about the new Github TOS'

If I were looking over the TOS with my lawyers, I'd ask these questions...

4 License Grant to Us

This seems to be saying that I'm granting an additional license to my software to Github. Is that right or does "license grant" have some other legal meaning?

If the Free Software license I've already licensed my software under allows for everything in this "License Grant to Us", would that be sufficient, or would my software still be licenced under two different licences?

There are violations of the GPL that can revoke someone's access to software under that license. Suppose that Github took such an action with my software, and their GPL license was revoked. Would they still have a license to my software under this "License Grant to Us" or not?....

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/what_I_would_ask_my_lawyers_abo...
Notre Dame doesn't belong to the Catholic Church. It's been owned by the French state since 1789.
I mostly have your attitude, but it isn't in fact correct. Money saved is to be splurged with latter. However my splurging will be on emergencies or a nice retirement. Anything leftover after the above should be on toys today (though I might need to save for them)
Yes, that was done in the days following the fire. But the article seems to put that in doubt, based on a report that I believe was written _prior_ to the incident.
For this sum, if you have paperwork showing what you should have been covered to, you have grounds for a lawsuit.
There will always be a crackdown. This is how entrenched power works. It happened with India and immolation and the Boston Tea party. Standing up for yourself means someone will always try to knock you down.

Ramifications of the Boston Tea Party: https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-aftermath

India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Sati_Regulation,_1829
Porn is inevitable though even with the laws... I think the parent is referring to people making games and writing stories based on popular franchises.

Look at game companies stopping fan made games. I remember hearing about a fan remake of PS1 Metal Gear Solid. Was gathering huge fan far and had kojima's blessing, but the studio shut it down.

https://gameranx.com/features/id/159002/article/10-incredibl...

A success story for one fan project though was Sonic Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania

I have also seen theories for movies on r/writingprompts that blow actual sequels out of the water.
The argument that passing a constitutional amendment using the approach to constitutional amendments set down in the original constitution is a "wanton approach to the legal system" is ridiculous.
There also is Eric Russel’s “Wasp” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_(novel)).
Hijacking this to say that we need the following:

1. Risk Limiting Audits (RLAs)[1]

2. Software independence [2]

3. Paper-backed ballots (which are the official record of the vote) that are physically voter-verified (as a requirement for the above)

4. Paper ballots are anonymized after submission, so as to avoid coercion and vote selling

5. Usability improvements

An app may be a solution to some of #5 above, e.g. as a ballot marking device at the polls, but in order to be secure it should absolutely have #1 and #2. FWIW, voting.works will likely support these.

The solution to long lines and timing is a complicated policy issue, which may not be solvable with technology.

[1] https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/gentle12.pdf

[2] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsta.2008...
Twitter Is Running Lots More Ads
I see these kind of statistics but then you see phones in the range of $400-$1500. An average car costs $25-$35k according to data online. And you see pictures of people with grandiose homes if you have ever seen any of those home shows. Or people going out for grand meals or pricey drinks. Somehow those expensive things continue getting sold yet 40% struggle to cover a $400 emergency.
That is how these cameras usually work, but not this one; the article describes a system of overlapping, time-shifted exposures instead, from a single event.
Why not just rip them? I used to rip all of my DVDs, but then found I never watched those rips, and now I'd rather just pay $5 to watch the 4k version than track down my "free" 480i copy.
GPL is in the word of its author Richard Stallman a strategy to maximize the amount of users that can exercise liberty over their own life in regard to software.

I think it is a rather nice trade to give up GPL if we get in return the right to repair to deal with DRM and no copyright to allow for sharing and modifying software.
Across the rich world, an extraordinary jobs boom is under way
I'd LOVE for that to happen. Just so we can finally see if it makes even the smallest change in piracy.
My reading of the linked rant is that RMS is against lumping copyright, patents and trademarks under the umbrella of "intellectual property", but not against those things individually. I don't see anything there to support the idea that RMS is against the idea of copyright (that being the section of "IP" that the GPL most directly addresses).
If they deceived themselves I would expect them to say that. If they are not deceived then I expect them to say something different.
As I understand it, they tried to to make sure pretty much everything was under compression, and tested using scale models (which work well in that case).
It sounds like most of these costs are just from having to finally do the things they skimped on in the first place. If so, it's not really a loss compared to if they had taken the right steps at the beginning. So it may not really disincentivize them from cutting corners again in the future.

It'd be like if the only punishment for getting caught cheating on a test was "well now you have to take the test without cheating". You're probably going to give it a try every time.

I'm seeing a pattern with these "Congressional hearings" where politicians bring in CEOs, let off a few zingers to really stick it to 'em, score some points with their constituents, and then... do absolutely nothing of substance.
> I'm not interested in theoretical arguments contradicting easily verifiable facts that are phrased as false dilemmas.

Theoretical arguments apply to things that aren't happening. This is happening right now.

False dilemmas imply that there is a choice presented as binary which really has more than two alternatives. Since Google is being fined billions of dollars, one option is that they knew ahead of time what would cause that to happen and did it anyway, the other is that they failed to predict that their conduct would have that result. What is your proposed third alternative?

> I don't know -- Google doesn't let me access them without logging in. Nor do I care. It definitely doesn't let you turn off the data collection that Google forces you to "consent" too.

How do you know if you don't know?

Tracking preferences are state. They have to be attached to something in order to be applied to it. What do you propose they use to assign your tracking preferences to you, if not an account?

> The services currently funded with corporate propaganda are instead funded in a saner way. Ideally the public funds it, but even charging people individually makes more sense than ads.

Both of those options are already available. You could have your government fund competing services or pay for them yourself right now, or ten years ago, or at any point in the future.

> However, other goods and services become slightly cheaper because their producers and providers don't spend as much on advertising.

This is plausible, but then why all the indirection? Pass a law expressly prohibiting targeted advertising.

Note that there is a counterargument however. If advertising is less effective, companies will still pay for it but attract fewer new customers to the industry and correspondingly sustain fewer competitors and sell fewer units to amortize fixed costs over, and it becomes more difficult for new competitors to gain customers, which reduces competition and raises retail prices per unit.

It's not clear which of these is the case and it's probably a different result for different industries.
I don't see how one US for all USians can solve its own problems. You have irreconcilable internal differences and gridlock is probably the best outcome. Better than civil war or genocide? Maybe exodus?

Things I believe you'd have to believe to solve the US's problems:

1) The US is not the greatest country in the world (to live in). It is certainly the most powerful empire in history. Its economic success owes as much to aggressive militarism as to some innate dynamism or goodness in the American people.

2) Being wealthy does not necessarily mean that you are good at anything other than building and/or maintaining wealth. Maybe not even that, if it's inherited. There are a lot of wealthy people with ridiculously bad models of how the world works. We shouldn't listen to them for anything except perhaps financial-planning or time-management advice. It's circular logic.

3) Unfettered capitalism is evil. The US brand of fuck all y'all ima do what I please individualism is both personally desireable and also makes it pretty much impossible to fix tragedies of the commons both nationally, and internationally.

4) The US and especially the South has never adequately addressed the legacy of slavery. There is a deep sickness in the US around fear of and disgust of African Americans. The US should look to and learn from Germany as a country that has deeply (though imperfectly) sought to make amends for its shameful history.

5) Ditto Indigenous Peoples, although I have no skin in that game, and frankly Canada is no better.

6) The US is overly religious for a modern nation. Many reforms won't really be possible with such a strongly religious population, without coercion of lots of people. Religious decay and de-programming won't come fast enough to avert irreconcilable differences over all kinds of socially-relevant science and technology in the next few decades.

EDIT> fixed numbering

EDIT 2> I don't see how a bunch of HN / entrepreneur / business types and investors are going to believe 1,2,3.
Most work isn't aimed at making technological progress towards a more ecological or otherwise better future.

Most work is also not aimed at food production or housing anymore because of technology.
> For me, having to put it on a credit card is effectively not being able to cover it,

That may be your personal opinion but that contrasts with both the facts and pushes a narrative that doesn't fit reality. For example, I routinely charge unexpected expenses on a credit card although I am more than capable of easily covering them with my savings. I'm sure thay the sheer convenience of charging expenses on a CC drives the decisions of regular CC users, specially as some CC plans charge 0% interests under some conditions.
2,300-year-old bark shield found
>because in practice the poor aren't that stupid

I think it would be far better defined as learned helplessness in financial matters instead of being stupid. They can be overall smart people, but past experience has taught them views of money that are not beneficial to financial stability. They might even be able to give a lesson on good financial decision making, but on an emotional level they have trouble applying it to themselves.

A much more jarring example of this is behaviors resulting from food insecurity in children. Children who come from very food insecure situations will hoard food even when they are now in a food secure environment. Often this will include hoarding food that does not keep, and any attempts to change this behavior just result in the hoarding being better hidden. From what I remember the advice of foster/adoptive parents in this situation is to provide food meant for hoarding that the child can stockpile and to let the next few years of food security slowly get the child to adjust, recognizing that some level of food hoarding might occur throughout their lifetime.
Pi-top (but has built-in battery).
Why would we want to make GPL the law? Any reduction in the scope of copyright is far more likely to move in the general direction of CC0 than GPL.
But this was temporary pain for future gain.

Imagine doing that for your whole life.
That, and the sheer amount of glass you'd need would make for an excellent workout session every time you went shooting.

Say, a 250mm f/1.4 with an image circle large enough to be useful on 6x9 would be quite the beast (and impossible to focus on my Texas Leica.)
I'd chalk it up to the ambiguity of natural language: "A Rocket Built by Students Reached Space for the First Time" as in the particular rocket referred to in the title reached space for the first time in that rocket's existence.
As a civilian, when we get lasers to take out everyone in the weapons business, I'll celebrate.
Estimating based on the time counter.
Equivalent to ƒ/1.6 and ƒ/2.3 on a "full frame" sensor.
"Afford" is a four-letter word. You can break it into:

1) I have the cash ready to spend right now or in liquid assets.

2) I can get the cash, but from an account/asset I'd rather not withdraw from (IRA, jewelry).

3) I can go into debt to pay it, and it wouldn't make a big difference over the next year.

4) I can go into debt to pay it, but my financial situation would be close to bankruptcy over the next year.

5) I can't access that kind of money by any means.

A good survey should iron out this spectrum of "affording" the expense to make the result robust and easy to interpret.
You do get a majorly diminished catalogue though.
I remember a few years ago when someone wrote a blog post about Facebook that somehow ranked higher than Facebook itself in Google search results for "facebook login", and was innundated by people who thought they were on facebook and left angry comments about how the redesign was terrible and they couldn't figure out how to log in.

A very non-trivial amount of people type "facebook" into Google and then click the first result.

Edit: found it! Scroll to the bottom for the comments.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100213061037/https://www.readw...
TurboTax is one of the most aggressive rent-seekers out there. I consider what they do to be so unethical that I try to avoid Intuit's other services even though they're very useful. (I also don't love how Intuit has done its best to run Mint into the ground after acquiring it.)
We spent $33k on rent and utilities! And that's a deal, compared to what many of our neighbors are paying. We live near SF to keep my commute into the city manageable, and there simply isn't cheap housing to be had in the area.
This is way too generic and inflammatory to count as anything but off-topic flamebait. If you post like this, we're guaranteed a flamewar. However good your intentions and however sure you are that you're right, that's a destructive thing to do, which is why the site guidelines ask you not to, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Please especially don't post nationalistic slurs to HN. Your comment unfortunately dips at least a toe into that toxic waste.
Extracting resources from those who don't protect those resources is core behavior in most evolved animals. That we do it with money instead of other resources due to capitalism does not change that the root problem is on a deeper level than even human nature.
One that doesn't make the MPAA cartel filthy rich. I'd love to pay creators directly for content, but the model is set up to pay the boardroom enormous sums of cash vs. what the people actively working on the production recieve.

Very very rarely does a movie not make money. Even flops make money years after release. The latest avengers movie cost 356m to make, including everyone's salary on the film. It made the studios 2.63 billion. There is no investment in the world that can give you that kind of return. Was that 2.3b in profit split among the cast and crew? Absolutely not. It was feasted upon by the executives of walt disney, those poor deserving souls.
Most of the "entries" that people are making for designs for the roof/spire replacement, and many of the posts on here, suggest that many people think that when you were looking up in the pre-fire Notre Dame, or any other church building of similar construction, what you were/are seeing is the underside of the roof.

It isn't!

What you are seeing is stone vaulting, essentially a great big three-dimensional arch, related to a hemispherical dome in somewhat the same way as a gothic arch is related to a Romanesque rounded arch. It may or may not be painted or plastered or frescoed (ND's wasn't, I think) but the actual "ceiling" of the church—and, crucially, the structural part of what's over your head—was/is stone. The roof in a modern building is often structurally keeping the tops of the walls at a fixed distance as well as holding itself up, but in a stone cathedral, the roof was an extra layer over the top of the stonework, primarily to shed rainwater.

All of which is to say, the loss of the wooden roof structure is a lot less threatening than the loss of (some of) the vaulting; and replacing the roof with glass or stained glass would be utterly invisible from inside the church, whose ceiling would still be the stone vaulting.
>I would prefer the roof and spire of Notre Dame to be reconstructed in a modern design that utilizes all the advancements in architecture.

What form of modern architecture is built to beautifully last for 800 years? I can't tell if you're serious or just astroturfing. Your account name makes me think it's the latter.
As if my users would ever notice. Some of them are still using IE9.
The problem isn't income, the problem is spending. People in general want more than they have. There is always another toy, A bigger widget, a better model next year.
The French government decimated What. It had nothing but growth even long after Spotify. It was a music fan's heaven; it had virtually every version of every record ever released. You can't put a price on that. Also, as a musician of nearly 20 years, I would 100% absolutely rather have a person pirate my music than pay $10/mo to play it on Spotify.

Waffles didn't innovate. The site that launched after Oink shutdown is largely the same site that is up today (figuratively, I'm sure it'll be back at some point).
Note that while this indeed qualifies as medium format, it's pretty far from the classic 6x7 film format. As a fan of medium format (something about the compression and distorsion of a portrait lens, but with the viewport taking in more environment), I really hope we're going to see a more "true" medium format in the future.
100% agree.

The problem is not that there aren't opportunities to improve but that getting those into the hands of users is often nearly impossible. Public officials are not incentivized to improve software or even services. People vote based on emotions and the downside of fucking up a software upgrade is far more politically damaging than the upside of fixing it.

Until the procurement and purchasing process is improved—changes that, in my mind, have to come from within—building better products just doesn't matter all that much. (I say this as someone who co-founded a YC-back company building software for local governments and burned out after 2.5 years trying to sell into them.)
Consider that they placed Gilles Bordelais, a man who as an EU parliament committee determined sexually harassed women in multiple cases, on their list in Germany before voting for the German pirate party:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/german-parliam...
I really wish people would stop equating democrat with liberal.

And this issue is less about liberal/left versus conservative/right and more about simple human greed which respects no political label (and which in America is amplified by our culture of wealth and authority worship).
I recall someone who was a security director at Panera Bread (a US based fast casual restaurant). Was confused and upset when a security researcher contacted them and asked to exchange a PGP key ... I suspect he straight up didn't understand what the request for a key meant or possibly even the issue as it was a very obvious issue and they did nothing about it until it hit the press.

His previous job... at Equifax.

Oh I found the story:

https://medium.com/@djhoulihan/no-panera-bread-doesnt-take-s...
The high percentage of NYT on the internet and especially social media is due to the NYT spending the last few years bullying social media platforms into giving it special treatment.

They aren't playing a "game". They are using their power as the establishment media to force tech companies to serve nytimes' ( and the elite's ) interests.

As the nytimes and other "authoritative" sources get special treatment online, it's going to crush local news and smaller news.

Funny how a few years ago, it was local news and smaller news upstarts ( vice, vox, huffpo, etc ) dominating online and "authoritative" sources struggling to compete. Why compete when you can change the rules to favor yourself. The NYT isn't playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/social media game. They tried for the past 15 years and they failed. So they decided to change the rules in their favor. Why compete when you can cheat?

Also, it was pressure from the NYT and other authoritative sources that forced reddit to start censoring. It was NYT and other authoritative sources that forced twitter to censor criticism of privileged journalists. The push for censorship and control online has been spearheaded by the elitists at the "authoritative" source companies.