skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is probably worse if you would compare wealth distribution globally. Those statistics only represent distibution in USA - 1st world country and currently the biggest economy in the world.
It's not that we're oblivious to them, we just haven't been trained to feel personally angry about it. I learned about the Opium Wars in my 9th-grade world history class in US public school, nearly a quarter-century ago, and it was treated as a pivotal moment in Chinese history. It's very difficult to avoid being reminded about it regularly if you read news about modern Chinese politics and foreign affairs.
Let us not forget GoneME: A fork of GNOME that started with the "Buttonorder" patch, a patch to revert the then recently committed change from "OK"/"Cancel" to "Cancel/OK".

> Reverting the Buttonorder is one of the things that I would like to see done and the first approaches into that direction has been started. When the specific MacOSX way of Buttonorder was introduced it so what caused troubles for me and other participants of GNOME that people filled pages with complaints and rants because it irritates them when they use GNOME applications together with KDE, MOTIF, GNOME 1 etc. applications. They are not consistent anymore and that's an argument for me to revert back. All these nice usability studies - good or bad - but changing something a user got used too for many years is not the best decision and then trying to enforce the same on KDE isn't good either. Some of these people are even going that far that they tell everyone that everything else as order is wrong and must be reported as bug. It's totally regardless for them what the opinion of users are, what only matters is that they must be right because they say so.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180902122151/http://www.akcaag...
Speculation at it's best. Lol.
They should be, but....it’s fairly obvious that they aren’t completely captured by the current price.
POF.com was a multi-million dollar/month operation long before the founder hired any employees!
You’re being downvoted because your claim that white men are victims of discrimination is ridiculous and not worth debating.
The ability to vote? When a state decides to close down numerous polling places, it increases the burden to vote. People at some places had to wait 2 or more hours on line to vote, and that's disenfranchising. You may technically have a right to vote, but if the government puts up too many roadblocks it's in practice a prohibition
> People in cities can’t see stars anymore, so this complaint about the new satellite constellation is almost academic.

There are designated areas of dark skies, and around observatories there are limits as to the lighting that can be used around.

But all that is being rendered irrelevant - there are no areas that won't be affected by these satellites - that's the whole point, they will cover pretty much everywhere.

And these are professional astronomers saying that they are affected. The fact that you, and others, don't really care and aren't affected isn't the point. There's a very real risk that these satellites will kill Earth-based professional astronomy, and large scale space astronomy isn't cost-effective.
The article concludes, as far as I can tell, it isn't fragmented, it just has a bunch of recent enough versions on similar enough devices to run most apps.

Apps don't care what version of Android you run, they care what API support you have, and apps can detect API support at runtime and adapt.

OTOH, the article fails to mention that Apple refuses to let you support devices after EOL, and even some of the oldest Android devices in existence can run even the newest Android, as long as you're willing to upgrade the ROM yourself.

Phone hardware typically is literally falling apart after 3-5 years, any truly old phones are ones that users have chose to keep on life support but not upgrade their ROMs (or made the mistake of buying a phone from a consumer-hostile brand, which is, ultimately, the only valid argument for Android fragmentation).

The only company that is truly consumer hostile is Samsung. And, frankly, I don't know why anyone would buy Samsung or Apple or even Google's own Pixel series... OnePlus charged me $550 for a phone (the 6T) that has the same size screen (and its an AMOLED too), literally same parts, but with more RAM and storage, and a bigger battery, that is otherwise identical to a Pixel 3XL or a Samsung S9+ or whatever top tier extra large phone that costs $800-1300; and that new 7 Pro? Still an amazing deal, and OnePlus supports Android on their phones ridiculously long times.
Diversity is fine. What people are nervous about is if the meritocracy is destroyed to get it. Of course, it doesn’t have to be that way (we can have both diversity and a meritocracy), but bad apples could go about it the wrong way (sacrificing one or the other), and those orgs/companies/careers should probably be avoided as unsustainable.
I'd also like to add a simple thing a lot of us technical-minded folks don't think about that much, and that's making sure the parent's daily driver user account isn't an administrator. That shrinks the attack surface significantly.
From the first paragraph: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-yo...
For reference, a classic study from Jakob Nielsen: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ok-cancel-or-cancel-ok/
Most state hiring boards (schools, colleges, administrators, etc) and federal contractors add points to minority, female, and veteran candidates--essentially a deduct from white male non-veterans.

That they are still winning with a handicap doesn't change the fact that they are being penalized.
> ... none of these Consumer CPU upgrades interest me anymore

What about the Ryzen 3000 line up? The benchmark leaks make it seem like it is going to be a huge improvement and AMD isn't susceptible to Zombieload.
From the article:

> In 2018, Bloomberg reported something similar. “Though employment rates have been climbing back from the abyss, young men never caught up again,” writes Jeanna Smialek. “Millennial males remain less likely to hold down a job than the generation before them, even as women their age work at higher rates.”

> Admittedly, the focus of Smialek’s article and the data she cites is mainly around men without a college degree. But the explanation that Nathan Butcher, then a 25-year-old high school graduate, gave her — “I’m very quick to get frustrated when people refuse to pay me what I’m worth” — is strikingly similar to the one Carlin gives me.

Am I wrong in reading this as "An article on Bloomberg talked about young men mostly without college degrees, and I found a college graduate who sounds like someone from that article, so I can extrapolate this for all young men"? It's not even a handful of anecdotes; it's just the one, and is presented without additional content to help describe why this one case is representative, which is fairly disappointing.

And while the beginning is at least pretty fair in how it represents its hyperlinks, which do lead to real data that is definitely useful and interesting, I started to notice that they got less frequent towards the end. There were things said by a Michael Madowitz but:

The Michael Madowitz cited throughout the article is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_American_Progress, which Wikipedia describes as a "public policy research and advocacy organization which presents a liberal viewpoint on economic and social issues". Not that there's anything explicitly and directly wrong with that, but I'm certain the author could've found a source without an explicit political lean, or have compensated for it somehow by bringing in other viewpoints.

On the whole, I would say that while some of the content this article is made of/links to is useful, the composition itself is not.
Hey, I don't seem to be able to see your email on your profile. I might be doing something incorrect though, I'm new to being logged in to HN
Someday I will learn to triple check when I use speech recognition.
I think he meant the mother would lookup the actual phone number in the yellow pages and call that number.
I don't have a comment on inequality generally, but what's your point specifically about a phone being a requirement?

Toilets are also a "near requirement" in any meaningful sense that phones are a near requirement. But toilets (and sewage more generally) are obviously quality of life improvements over what humans had in previous epochs of history.

Stated more succinctly: hasn't it always been common for major improvements in quality of life to eventually become the default, rather than the exception? Or am I misunderstanding your point?
What to make of that is it's a racist belief that Western people hide behind to convince themselves that sure, Chinese people might be smarter, but it's a rote-memorization non-creative type of intelligence and China will never be a leader. They're wrong, and they'll be blindsided by their own racist underestimation.
That's because the salaries are most likely not what a white guy is willing to accept.
The cost is more than 25 cents/mile. There is a lot to factor in. Typically when you are a salaried employee and use your vehicle for business, this mileage allowance is on top of your pay. She is not earning anything other than what Instacart pays. By the time it's all said and done, she'll be lucky if to brake even. Maybe that's enough for her.

Here is what he IRS has determined the cost of driving is. I would imagine the costs in CA are greater due to gasoline prices, traffic, and general cost of living.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-issues-standard-mileage-rat...

54.5 cents per mile
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued the 2018 optional standard mileage rates and beginning on January 1, 2018, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck will be: 54.5 cents per mile for business miles driven (up from 53.5 cents in 2017)Dec 14, 2017

Includes gas, oil, repairs, tires, insurance, registration fees, licenses, and depreciation (or lease payments) attributable to the portion of the total miles driven that are business miles.
A middle class dad that's anxious about not having enough cash being told consistently for years that 'others' want more of his money may be a bit selfish or lack perspective but he's not a "bad" person. The same way a substance abuser isn't a "bad" person.

Those who feed toxic beliefs/prey on folks' insecurities for personal gain, range from misguided/unscrupulous to bad.
10 years is a pretty big time range, and so you’d expect to see generational effects to show up. (i.e. people fall off the list, because they’re dead.) But this does highlight two important points: intergenerational and intragenerational mobility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...

WRT intergenerational mobility, the US does quite poorly when compared to other modern economies, with a very strong correlation between parental wealth and the child’s wealth. For instance 42% born into the bottom quintile, stay there in the United States, but only 25% remained in Denmark. 8% rose to the top in US, but again, 14% did in Denmark.

Intragenerational mobility in my opinion is a bit of a red herring. Often you’ll hear someone trumpet some number about people moving from one group to another in a single year, but you have to look closer to the reasons why. Some people are just on the cusp of the cutoffs and so will bounce around it. Others are experiencing temporary outlays, and will very quickly return to their original levels. Unless the person’s move has some stickiness, along with some large absolute change, it’s meaningless noise.
Which part? I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but it certainly seem to describe the situation of myself once upon a time, many of my friends and many who I have met.
Keep them offline. Get them smartphones, preferably iOS. Educate them about scams.

My parents still conduct the majority of their personal business offline, and though I have scoffed at this in the past, it makes more sense for them and also keeps them safe. Their bills come in the mail, and its not uncommon for them to go to a department store and pay the bill for that chain's credit card in person. They meet with their financial advisor in person at their house, and it's someone they've worked with for decades. They keep all of their important documents (social security cards, birth certificates, passports) in a safety deposit box at a local bank. All of their insurance agents are local, and they meet with them at their cluttered, homey offices. They call the hotlines for their primary credit cards fairly often, and listen for fraudulent charges.

Their online experiences are mediated through things like Facebook. They get e-mail, but I have them set up to use smart clients that filter out the most pernicious stuff. If they think something sounds fishy, they will ask me to look at it for them. Any digital documents (airline tickets, hotel reservations) they want to save go to both the Apple Cloud (which they can occasionally do, though I have to help) and to the printer so they can keep records.

The only downside of this is the sheer amount of mail they receive, and the difficulty of finding hard copies of documents despite their best efforts to file things. Even their mail is somewhat protected, though, as they live in a gated retirement community.
It's an "escape" sequence that should switch coding system, but I don't recall from where it came from, I need to check my notes.
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The graybeards among us might chuckle at the thought of calling it "distributed version control" when the CI system requires a centralized copy of the repository acting as a source of truth in order to work.
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We were promised utopia but it never gained any traction.
tell them to stay offline ... but they won't listen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

Increasingly, I've seen being blindly dismissive due to awareness of usually helpful but sometimes harmful cognitive heuristics to be a source of mistakes in reasoning.

Human reasoning has a multitude of biases and approximations that evolution has preserved in our behavior. They are not always in our best interest, but nor is our alternative behavior when we try to act to contradict them.
It's not vaguely anti-white, it's straight out racist by ascribing all the problems to just one thing: The person is white.
NTSC uses 30 FPS because it's half of it. The same reason is why PAL uses 25fps as on Europe we have 50 Hz on the grid
To be clear, that article is about mental health, not economic depressions.
So... not to undercut the message of anyone who is trying to reform the catastrophically broken mental health system, but - there is a massive elephant in the room in this discussion, and that is trauma.

It is nearly inconceivable to me that a leader in the field, a guy who wrote an earlier version of the DSM aka bible of modern psychiatry, manages to talk about the pros and cons of meds but never mentions the experiences that are known to drastically harm mental health.

We don’t need a “moon shot” as Dr. Frances suggests. At least in terms of expensive research into completely novel technologies or drugs to determine the root cause or treat much of this suffering. We may need a moonshot in terms of getting over our stigma around talking about trauma and abuse, so that trauma-informed care becomes the rule and not the exception.

The closest thing the DSM has to a trauma diagnosis is PTSD and complex PTSD. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps The Score, incredible resource on trauma) has proposed the diagnosis “Developmental Trauma Disorder” but this has not yet been widely adopted by mainstream psychiatry.

As far as I’m concerned, adding this single diagnosis and training mental health professionals to screen for trauma will do a lot more to help people than writing doomsaying articles like this one.

Source: grew up with developmental trauma from abusive family environment. Lost my little sister to suicide after her severe trauma was not screened for and was misdiagnosed as “bipolar”.
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Do you or anyone else have a perspective on how mnemosyne compares in this aspect?
https://github.com/mnemosyne-proj/mnemosyne
I don't get the negative sentiment here. When Vulkan was brand new Google didn't want to force it in 7.0 or they might have had even more devices still stuck on 6.0 today.

The fact they made it mandatory and independent of vendor in 9 is laudable. Doing so absolutely costs them adoption of the latest releases but they did it anyway.

When you say "first you need a device with Android 9" that is on the vendors to provide. And the scarcity of 9 can in part be contributed to compulsory Vulkan support. Most of Googles first party phones now run it, even though their general attitude of abandoning 4+ year old products is still egregious.
I work for one of the major bootcamps and I can tell you that interest has significantly declined over the past 1 year. The market for data science has indeed shrunk. The reason? I'm not sure, could be that it didn't live up to the hype.
> So, no - you don't need to pay for the convenience of Sony's app by allowing Location access as it's not required but for a singular feature that is fundamentally based around setting profiles based on your location.

I reinstalled the app to see if I was misremembering it.
The app requests for always on location information upon installation and pairing with the headphones. The garden path in the UX of the app is to allow location access. If the user chooses to not allow location access by tapping the tiny "Later" button, the main screen prominently features a Switch control (which is off) for Adaptive Sound Control, tempting the user to toggle it on, which requests always on location access. Given all of this, it's very difficult to interpret this "feature" in a favorable light.

Fortunately, the app's privacy policy[1] does not seem to mention anything about them collecting location information (but they do claim to collect "country or region"). On the other hand, the manual for the app[2] also has no mention of it requesting always on location access either, which doesn't inspire much confidence. Not to mention the 27 month data retention policy and the policy of sharing with their "affiliates".

After having read the privacy policy, I'm glad I chose not to use the app and will continue to do so.

[1]: https://musiccenter-cdn.meta.ndmdhs.com/headphones/pp/201903...
[2]: https://helpguide.sony.net/mdr/hpc/v1/en/index.html
I had a twitter account from 2007 to 2016; enjoyed using it. Though the email attached to it I lost access to and Twitter doesn't care to help you get your account back. I haven't used Twitter since!
Hahahaha I point out that yuppies like you have a hysterical oppression complex and you respond by comparing yourself to an Auschwitz rape slave. Thanks for proving my point in the most spectacular manner possible.

I'm going to undignify myself by walking through your example anyway: if the crime that billionaires commit is perpetuating an unequal distribution of wealth then you are, then the counterfactual setup is a more equal distribution of wealth, under which you would be worse off than you are. Therefore you are a beneficiary of inequality. The Nazis, on the other hand, were committing genocide, and the counterfactual is no genocide. Someone who gets genocided more slowly than average would still be worse off than if there were no genocide, therefore they are not a beneficiary of the holocaust. QED.
Well, even back then, most of the people missed that due to not being part of 1st world countries mid/upper class.
>But I sincerely doubt that all of these companies will pick up and move to China or Europe if the United States builds 5G networks slightly slower.

Author is not aware that there are not US based telecom companies left to compete for 4G/LTE/5G air infrastructure installations. There are only two Nordic companies and two Chinese plus Samsung with the smallest 3-4 percent market share.

US has never been the the fastest to adopt and install new mobile infrastructure and this has lead to the current situations. Nordic companies had small advantage in their home turf and they took over. Chinese came late into the game late are result of systematic work by their government.

Home markets are important for new technologies. US companies and startups are not going be first to sell 5G technologies and services to foreign markets if their home market is slow to adopt.
Money is debt.

Imagine an island with two residents. Alice and Bob. There is no difference between these two scenarios:

1: Alice has 1 seashell. Bob has 0 seashells.

2: Alice has 0 seashells. Bob has 0 seashells. Bob owes Alice a seashell.

Either way, Alice can go to bob and exchange her wealth for an apple. In scenario 1, she gives him a seashell. In scenario 2, she pays by voiding his debt.

Either way, Alice owns 100% of all wealth.
The best way to do this would be to set up a program similar to a built-in game that regularly tests them by presenting them with realistic situations and gauging their response. Pen testing with built-in realtime negative feedback of some kind when they make a mistake would keep them learning.
I've worked at places with surprising (for the South-East amounts of diversity). I liked it, and I've seen some of the jackass discrimination that goes on, things like trying to run out one of best engineers because she had a complicated pregnancy. I'm hardly going around smacking my female colleagues on the ass and telling 'em I like my coffee black.

When I see a company that makes a point of flaunting how diverse they are, I assume that place is full of the social justice crowd and is probably being run on emotion instead of sound business practice. In my experience, those people and places suck to work with. At best I'm going to end up hearing a bunch of ideological bullshit on a day-to-day, which I don't at all care for at work, and now I have to worry that I'm going to experience discrimination because folks have come up with some weird notion that my pale skin and scrotum means my life is just all kinds of easy and that other folks should have access to programs or a "leg up" that I am not eligible for.
So close!

It's eking. Eke, eked, eking.
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