skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's getting bad over here in the USA.

We have propaganda about things like this, but direct observation has been made over a number of decades and today's 55 year olds who will one day start collecting Social Security Retirement and/or begin benefitting more from their health insurance than they are paying in, are still not behaving very differently than 55 year olds at the time going back quite a bit into the previous century.

These are the 55 year olds who are still paying in to their respective Social Security and insurance plans, otherwise they would not be the ones that will receive significant benefits later.

Of course eventually as each individual reaches 65 and is eligible for full benefits, the true actual worth and buying power of those benefits has always been gradually declining.

To the point where you might have been better off without having these earnings immediately removed from your pay right off the top all along by the enforcing authorities.

And without having any need for a Social Security number.

The fundamental flaw with our Social Security is that the entire bureaucracy, infrastructure, business cash flow, collections & distributions is based on taxes on income rather than commerce.

Like a lot of things, but with SS it's even worse since only the lowest-income workers have their entire income taxed. As higher-earning pay levels are achieved, a decreasing percentage of earned income is taxed for SS purposes.

Regardless, with SS as one of the UBI systems with proven long-term functionality, it's too bad the full untaxed BI is still only universal for the 65 & over paid members in good standing, and only if they actually quit earning other income and truly retire.

And too bad it's not enough for a senior citizen to live on, so it's not up to quite basic levels but it's something.

This is because there are bigger tentacles that have been reaching into your pockets during your working years starting decades earlier in the 20th century than the FICA has been doing it.

If you do the math considering these resources, there is no excuse for not having gradually extended full benefits to much younger ages in a direct march toward full UBI. These have been the most highly productive hard working people in the most prosperous country in the modern history of my home planet.

Same with Medicare, it could have gradually reduced age of eligibility and achieved higher levels of health coverage for a more universal portion of the citizens far ahead of any less propsperous nation.

This all would have only required that an affordable portion of the resources were invested wisely to the advantage of the citizens from the outset, and only somewhat wisely at that. Markets can do amazing things, enough wealth was removed from working citizens before Nixon to have been leveraged to full UBI sometime between then & now, even using a no-brainer approach.

And when there's no excuse, you tend to get a lot of propaganda.

Even if you work for Apple, be careful about reality distortion effects.
It’s the accountants who’ve taken things too literally.
Scene from Total Recall, made 30 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWIHv7a6luY

Hexwave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOI32PdPew4
As far as I know on Android Firefox is the only one that does ad blocking well. That't because it supports plugins, including uBlock Origin. It's market share is 0.36%

It was ad blocking that drove me to Firefox on Android. Screen space is precious on mobile, and ads taking up a lot of it drove me nuts. I found I preferred the UI but sorely missed Chrome's "translate page option". (I changed my search engine to DuckDuckGo for the same reason - google search now shows so much "useful" ancillary information I have to scroll past to get to the actual search results I switched to DuckDuckGo just to avoid the scrolling).

But at 0.36% I'm in the noise region as far as browsers concerned, which I assume means most people don't care about ad blocking or noisy search results, apparently.
I have the following;

1) The translation by Gregory Hays is the most accessible. Get the "Modern Library" hardcover edition. Has a nice introduction and notes.

2) The translation by Martin Hammond in "Penguin Classics" is also very good. Has detailed introduction and notes.

3) The translation with detailed notes by A.S.L.Farquharson is considered one of the definitive ones. Get the hardcover published by "Everyman's Library".

4) Finally there is a good translation by Robin Hard in "Oxford World's Classics". Robin Hard has also translated Epictetus "Discourses" and hence you may find his work unifying.
For these encounters to coincide with the first tests of next gen tech, it's entertaining to imagine these "aliens" were caught unawares and subsequently improved their stealth posture as a result of us seeing things we're not supposed to.

Some hubris in that, but if they really are just automated probes, they may be reactionary in nature and adjust behaviour accordingly, and not, say, analyzing our comms and behaving "intelligently"... Of course it could be that they just want to be seen.

Or that we really are imagining things--the ghostly artifacts of a complex system with kinks not yet sorted out.
That said it's nothing compared to the homeless situation in SF. My Japanese gf visited SF for 2 months, and she was seriously shocked by how horrible the homelessness situation was. She never imagined any developed country could have such awful conditions, and felt like she was in "the city of the walking dead."

So that's the reputation American cities are getting internationally. Something to really be ashamed about.
The only other mitigating scenario is that this may be politically motivated. In fact it could be both real and political. It’s a warning shot to Facebook who is arguably more important politically.
One started with him hiding in a nursing home, after faking his death. I don't recall specifics, but I suppose that it's possible that all of the other characters are his descendants. And they had spent a long time looking for him.

In the other, he'd been resurrected by some godlike AI as a meatspace agent. Millennia after the Qeng Ho era, I think.
All the things you mention would save 2-3x the money with a normal grid connection too, it's just that energy is much too cheap for people to care. Thus 10kW of continuous primary power consumption for each American.
If you define "British origin" to include Irish Protestants, which is reasonable.. But the country was barely 50 years old by the time that cultural hegemony started eroding as German, Dutch, Irish-Catholics, etc poured into the country.

There's even an infamous 1899 political cartoon that asks "Why should I let these freaks cast whole votes when they're only half American?"[1]

The fact is, the US has spent a majority of its existence feeling like there's an immigration and/or integration crisis, starting in the mid-1800s with Irish-Catholics and stretching to the modern day with Latin-American immigrants.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Hy...
I could hire someone if I was expecting to make a living from that, which I didn't. Unless, as I said, if I decided to do a lot of marketing for these books.
It definitely would, but I don't feel concerned about it. I think it's an overrated "problem" that misunderstands what people fundamentally want (better ways of building tight communities online).

The main problem I see with echo-chambers today is the culture war type of thing. I think there could be interesting solutions to that: based on the karma "distance", build clusters and adapt network topology so that you can only discover clusters that are at a finite distance. Minimize risks of conflict while letting people explore "fringe" ideas (for them).
Yeah this seems like a way to perpetuate media bubbles.
I wrote a very niche App for people who like Opera. It's most important purpose is to display Opera track listing meta-data correctly. (You can see comparison screen shots at https://ariascribe.com). Along the way, I discovered that, even though the genre "opera" has long been recognized, and even has an official ID3v1 tag (103), I have never ever seen the tag used in CDs or downloads. My App has to figure out whether or not an album in a users collection is an Opera. Should have been trivial. Was in fact hard. Very hard.
The author doesn't provide any reason why this should be done. I'm going to assume it's some sort of ideological and moral (under some ethical frameworks that are not widely used) justification.
The employee shortage that currently exists has not reached the point where people could make demands like this.

>Say you’re a solo founder. You’ve worked full-time on your company for a year (4 quarters). You hire your first full-time employee after 1 year (4 quarters). After their first 3 months (1 quarter), you own 83% (5 quarters / (5 quarters + 1 quarter)) of the company, and the employee owns 16% (1 quarter / (5 quarters + 1 quarter)).

This completely ignores risk. let's say I've launched a startup on my own and after 1 year of work I am now hiring employee number 1. Presumably if I'm hiring anyone I've found some product market fit. So why does employee number 1, who is presumably earning a salary (something that the founder was not doing) and is joining a startup that is somewhat proven, deserve an amount of equity proportional to the time they have spent in the company?

It also ignores the motivation for many to start their own business. The obvious one is to be rich, another is for control and independence. Why would someone seeking these things give up such a large amount of equity?

If you want 16% equity in a company that you have not founded on your own, you need to either have been part of the team from the start (when the idea was not proven, and thus have taken the same risk as the founders) or you need to bring something that is transformational for the company to the table (sales, management, connections, technical knowledge).
I'd love to hear more, have you blogged about it? :)
No, you don’t. When I put a Facebook pixel on a landing page, Facebook doesn’t tell me who they are or where else they have been, and I have no idea what they do on any site other than my own. I setup a campaign at Facebook that says “show this ad to everyone that spent more than 30 seconds on my landing page”. Facebook then shows my ad to only to those people if and when they return to Facebook (or Instagram).

That is the entire extent of retargeting campaigns. Comments like yours are nothing more than fear mongering. Unless you have installed malware on your computer, nobody is “constantly tracking” you.
It's not trolling, seems quite a valid observation.

Still, to disagree though: Hashing and storing digital evidence seems like a good use. You can prove without a doubt that a certain picture, video, OS image existed at a certain point in time.

Current police methods for digital forensics leave a lot to be desired with regards to this stuff. Chain of custody gets a lot murkier with bits and bytes.
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed an interactive tool that, for the first time, lets users see and control how automated machine-learning systems work.

That's a really bad way to formulate this. If I were a researcher from "elsewhere" I would feel that my MIT coauthors are dismissing my contribution and are taking credit for my work.
FYI; The allegorical tale in the "Tablet of Cebes" is also worth reading and pondering over. A good translation can be found in Keith Seddon's "Epictetus' Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes: Guides to Stoic Living".
Benson: "The agency, she says, has approved new oil and gas leases, including the controversial Dakota Access pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock American Indian reservation."

What a ridiculous response. First of all, the Standing Rock Sioux reservation is over 1200 miles from BRC. Secondly, the Dakota Access Pipeline project does not even touch the SRS reservation at any point, let alone "run through" it.
FreeCodeCamp moves blog off medium
> (Nature’s news team is editorially independent of its publisher, Springer Nature.)

I doubt the credibility of that claim... Don't bite the hand that feeds...
> or the fact Google didn’t honour his deletion properly?

Alexa is an Amazon product. And in this case it's not clear that Amazon could have known the device was transferred. They provide the authentication layer, but the authorization is, as I understand it, in the app.
Barber paradox
Most beautiful CGI sniamted short film on real life titled“alike”
I believe alternative forms of ownership aren't discussed nearly enough. As we see more wealth become concentrated in the hands of fewer people, and with new companies being one of the sources of wealth creation, we need to re-evaluate our current system of corporate ownership and ask if it is really what's best for society.

I'm not necessarily sure if this is the best way of doing it or not, but I appreciate the viewpoint. I've thought about how best to manage company ownership in a worker owned cooperative, but I haven't settled on a personal answer.
> Renters pay most of the cost of home ownership, with the added feature of being unable to [...] meaningfully become part of a community.

Why can’t we become part of the community? I’ve been a renter for a decade now and I think I am more involved in my community via volunteering and local politics than the average person.

Further when I was a kid my single mom rented an apartment — during that time she worked to create a community at our apartment complex. When we moved there barely any one said “hi.” Now, almost a quarter century later she still keeps in touch with many of these old neighbors despite them being scattered all over the U.S.

Renting sucks, we both agree with that. But the trope about renters not caring about the community needs to go — it’s part of the reason apartments are illegal in the majority of California.
A piece of land in a great location that you can't build a house/apartment or carpark on is still worthless for all intents and purposes.

The only reason someone would buy it is to speculate that one day you can build something there.

Zoning dictates prices, it's a struggle to get people to understand that sometimes.
You're still not understanding the economics of the issue: the publishers are paying me do the writing. If I do what you suggest, I will have to pay for this upfront and make the project an investment, which will only pay off if I'm also willing to do the marketing myself. In other words, unless you're willing to do significantly more work, self publishing is a money (and time) losing proposition, even compared to standard publishing.
"Pre crime".
It's not so impossibly complex. After all, even for a typical big corp like Google a dozen people or so will be respectively responsible for understanding the functioning of each of their sub-organizations. They will have to understand it in and out -- especially the business/human consequences, if not the technical details. Any new member (at "vice president" level or something) will be on-boarded in this matter in a matter of weeks to months. So it's definitely possible for someone to go in now and get to the bottom of some of these questions.

That doesn't require exceptional "intelligence", but it does require a tenacity in finding information and the integrity to relentlessly ask questions till you understand what's going (without prejudice regarding the outcome), without being prematurely satisfied that it's "too complex".

And of course, it will be a when team of people, who would have developed a similar understanding of other comes situations, and they will have significant help, and the authority to ask questions.

If you want a more explicit and hands on understanding of the process, look up narratives of major investigations, eg: the Challenger disaster investigation, or the investigation that led to the breaking up of AT&T.
Apple kind of invented the overlapping windows paradigm

They preceded the X Window System?
This won't work very well in practice. You need to pay a new employee a market rate, and if equity is going to be a part of that, it depends more on the value of the company than the tenure of its employees.

You can very easily overpay or underpay new hires in equity if you adopt this system. It seems to make it more difficult to find the correct amount.
China to 'fight at all costs' for 'reunification' with Taiwan: defense minister
How would you state facts on the ground without getting an ire of people whose own political position puts them on a collision course with truth?

I'm not being provocative here. Saying that "genocide of Jews during ww2 is an established fact," for example, does not feel to be an insult or provocation to any level headed person.

Why are you accommodating such people?
Apple isn’t making the smart thermostats, google is. I had a lecture at school where nests business model was in part to monetize home owners electrical and heating use data (eg, to optimize electrical grids).
If you are a swe, be mindful of what you say. You have your own bugs. They have their own. Wyze is a small company that is trying to stay afloat, and kudos to them for fixing it. I am sure they will have more bugs going forward, but each one will make them stronger.

Cheer for the improvements, not blame them for bugs.

Even non-swe people have bugs in work they do. Banks do mistakes all the time.
Looking up LinkedIn dark patterns will show you tons of stuff. Just alone on HN you’ll find tons of stuff. It Is common enough on HN itself so I don’t think the OP needs to back it up.
i feel like i know where you're coming from here, this isn't exactly what you're describing, but it's pretty dang close. really made the transition to window tiling far less intimidating than i imagined.

https://regolith-linux.org/
Why aren't they though? What's the point of the justice system if they spend their limited processing capacity in actors that are less damaging to society?
>Feels like a kind of SQL Injection ("voice injection attack"?).

We used to take advantage of this on conference calls, where one of the participants was on speaker-phone and had an Alexa.

"Alex, play 'Never going to give you up' by Rick Astley"

Hopefully, people start waking up to this attack surface, as it's taken adventage of more because it's a very dangerous "gotcha".

Consider, for example, saying, "OK, Google, show me my last messages," during a conference call, in which Google will also read the messages aloud.

Fun times...
I've been looking for a lightweight browser I can use on older machines- Dillo and NetSurf both seem worth checking out!
For a real-life anecdote, last year I lived in Tokyo in a 6 jo apartment (tatami bed + living room around 110 sq ft + about equal size bathroom and kitchen), and my rent 40 minutes by train from Shibuya station and 15 minutes from Kichijoji (#1 most livable Tokyo neighborhood) was around $430/mo.

I have also heard that prefab is really common - in fact just walking around Tokyo it does look like there's a ton of prefab houses. That said I've toured around some and been inside some, and they were very comfortable, more so than my current rickety San Francisco apartment and similarly to brand new NYC ones I've been in - so I don't consider them lower quality than what I typically see in American cities just because they're prefab. Rather it's far more efficient and that keeps costs down.

There is something to be said about traditional Japanese living being more space-efficient - folding out your futon means that you don't have to have separate permanent bedrooms, dining rooms etc like a Western apartment would have, which allows for you to have a decent living in ~220 sq ft like I did - but if you want to live like a Westerner, you will have to pay up for that, and I do hear that Western style apartments are more popular these days.

After living in San Francisco, I felt like I had hit the jackpot, but as it turns out that's just "normal" in a functioning city.
You're not going to be able to stop the scanners, but you can probably convince people to employ enough decoys to jam the system. If they're getting false positives on 15% of people, they're going to have a hard time justifying the expenditures.
MCAS use(s/d) one sensor at a time, rotating which one is used.
What happens if both parties are moving? They start back to back, fly a distance, both turn around and meet.

Each should see the other as dilated, no?
Would people be even remotely okay with this if mass shootings weren't becoming a daily occurrence? It seems like the 2nd and 4th Amendments may end up mutually exclusive.
Early Christianity is the fulfillment of 1st Century Judaism with Jesus Christ being revealed as the Messiah and King. Modern day Judaism, that is Rabbinic Judaism (which followed some time after the destruction of the 2nd Temple) denies Jesus as that expected Messiah and has an expectation of someone else that is to come.

For Christians, The Old Testament and New Testament are very much coupled together. There's a lot of prophecies and typologies you can read about from the Old Testament that finds its fulfillment in Jesus and the New Testament (such as the suffering Messiah).

I'd suggest C.S. Lewis' book "Mere Christianity" (who was good friends and influenced to convert by J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton) to get a clearer picture of Christianity without the sugar coating we commonly get from the media today. Lewis brings up the Trilemma, which is unique only to the founder of Christianity.
I was not talking about policy _at_all_. I was giving some additional info to a specific person about their specific situation. Why are you doing this? How did we now arrive at a tangent about UBI? What does UBI have to do with how that specific person I was replying to should decide about driving for GrubHub? Are you suggesting that that person should first go lobby government officials to implement UBI and see if that works before deciding to drive for GrubHub or not? This is nuts.

Okay, you're obviously a troll. I fell for it. Lesson learned. I'm going to disengage. Got me, nice work.
Agreed. ISP monopolies are so obnoxious, and they basically bought legislature in many states to prevent any meaningful competition. All this is amplified by them swallowing each other and huge media companies in billions sized deals.
Yeah I wonder if this raises the risk for cancer it can't be good for you.
Sorry to hear about your partner :-(
The first part of the last paragraph makes sense. Multi-cellular -> more cells dividing -> more chances of mutations -> more chances of cancer.
The second half of your last para implies that cosmic radiation / something similar causes cancer. I’m genuinely curious : is there some link between cosmic microwave radiation and cancer ? Any sources ?
That doesn't sound right. English, being a Germanic language, has bizarre amounts of vowels. Some interpret English to have >20 vowels alone, up to low 30s, highly depending on the dialect. And then it has ~24 consonants.

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

English has all consonants Turkish has, except [1] /c/ and /ɟ/ (also the highly debated Turkish phoneme /ɰ/ which does exist in some English accents). But English has many more consonants such as 2 dental fricatives. There are some Turkish accents with velar nasal (ng in siNG) but most Turkish accents lost this phoneme (only some southeast ones have it). And Turkish has only 8 vowels.

But note that, I think this is a bad example. English is a language spoken in a large geography and thus has many dialects. Turkish has fewer accents and thus less variability in phonology.

[1] Note that even /c/ and /ɟ/ exist in some dialects. Such as k in 'keen' can be pronounced as /c/
I don't have a link to the study, but the researchers of the study I read were very meticulous and did discard all other obvious explanations before concluding that altitude was the best explanation.
But mostly Bing