skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of which actually backs up your claim of 83% being paid by reductions in wholesale cost to the importer.

From https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-tariffs-e...

> A Congressional Research Service report in February found that the tariffs boosted washing machine prices by as much as 12%, compared to January 2018, before tariffs took effect.

> Steel and aluminum tariffs increased the price of steel products by nearly 9% last year,

So unless washing machines are somehow subject to a 72% tariff, and steel is somehow subject to a 54% tariff, no, the Chinese are not paying "5/6ths" of the costs.
From TFA:

Uber would likely have to reclassify tens of thousands of drivers in California as employees — something Uber drivers have been fighting for in court, unsuccessfully, for years.

"Fighting for in court" links to https://www.vox.com/2019/5/8/18535367/uber-drivers-strike-20... - which includes these choice paragraphs:

It’s worth reemphasizing this: Uber doesn’t want to pay drivers to take 15-minute rest breaks every few hours because it would cost too much, even though all US employers are required to give hourly workers paid breaks under federal law.

In the filing, the company says that dissatisfied drivers could become a business liability, as recent protests in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States have interrupted business on the platform. Instead of outlining ways to make drivers happy, Uber suggests it will just get worse.

“As we aim to reduce driver incentives to improve our financial performance, we expect Driver dissatisfaction will generally increase,” the company stated.

Sssssooo this maybe sounds like something employees who have been doing these jobs have been wanting for a while...
> The problem is that most are not making much money [0] and most would be better off working a min wage job.

$40,000 a year is hardly minimum wage. Most of the drivers I've talked to explain that it does usually equate to between minimum wage to $20-$25 an hour after expenses depending on how effective you are at getting surge priced rides. But, unlike a minimum wage job you can set your own hours which is a huge advantage.

> Most Uber/lyft drivers are recent immigrants , working poor who end up taking on a lot of risk for little if any reward.

Yeah, and what would poor recent immigrants be doing instead? Probably work that is much riskier (e.g. farm work).

> Uber also uses psychological tricks to trick drivers into driving more then is rational

I don't see any "psychological tricks" in this article. Telling drivers where the most riders are and where surge pricing is happening helps drivers get more money. And I'm supposed to think this is a bad thing?

Also, I would advise against trusting the NYT when it comes to reporting on the tech industry - especially large tech companies. I have observed grossly exaggerated stories and even outright falsehoods portraying tech companies in a negative light with enough consistency that I do not consider them a reliable source on this topic. Remember, traditional media like the New York Times is being decimated by Google and social media. Fanning the fires of the "techlash" is in their best interest.
>Their jobs went away, the additional money never came.
The jobs will still be gone after banning Huawei. Trump did not ban the manufacturing of crapple iphones in China.
You are still continuing to profit from cheap Chinese labor paid in slave wages while wanting to maximize margins selling at high prices in your own country but somehow Huawei is an evil company for selling the same product at a cheaper price.
Meanwhile in EU :
https://www.taxjustice.net/2018/06/25/new-report-is-apple-pa...
But yes it's our best interest in the world if the US shuts down all competition by destroying China's own corporations, while the US keeps using the oversea cheap labor and destroying their own lower classes anyway because the trade war is not really about bringing back the jobs and you're astroturfing for one of the most repulsive presidents in US history.
Fuck you.
I'm amazed it's such a sensitive topic. Some people are litterally angry in the comments out people suggesting degrowth.

Since we have math lovers here, I'll post a fantastic math oriented conf on the topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=list_othe...
This article will tell you how to do that. Assuming that your edac works on your chipset.

http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Monitoring-Memory-Err...
i'm sure a lot of people that would otherwise have been making browsers decided chrome is "good enough" and assumed google wasn't likely to do anything to scummy like this. monopoly is maybe not the best word choice but its overwhelming popularity and use has given it a lot of inertia and influence over the direction of the web
Yeah, if AMP is antitrust then so is Facebook's Open Graph.
Despite the hate for both on HN, neither format is targeting competitors or hurting consumers in this case.
I will go ahead and bring up a related issue. Most people seem to not see it as being related but in my mind it is very closely related. So maybe consider not burying my comment completely.

Part of the reason we have these technology monopolies is that they provide ubiquitous platforms and that is very powerful for consumers and businesses (as long as your goals don't conflict with their goals).

The issue is that these platforms are being provided by private interests, but have so much scope that they act like public platforms.

My suggestion is to try to create public platforms that business or consumers could tap into/build off of. This would allow for us to audit the mechanisms and also provide a base layer that competition could be built on.

In my mind the obvious technical direction is decentralization technologies. That's the only way such public networks could be feasible.

I actually see this as covering technology in an extremely broad sense. It applies to everything from Google search and ads, to Amazon and online retail, to Uber and taxi apps, maybe even the US dollar and currency, or perhaps even government itself.
Why don't schools concentrate on education?
indeed, that makes more sense this way!
Drivers want it, but drivers probably don't look at Uber's finances. Ask drivers this:

You would get the benefits of employees, but now you would have to work at least 40 hours a week and now those hours will be set by Uber - you will not get to choose your own hours.

Do you think they'd want that situation?
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I'm pretty far on the left and used to be active in communist politics (little bit less exceptional here in Europe than across the pond), but I've always been very irritated by these degrowth movements, although a lot of this stuff came out of 'my' political tent.

It's to me reminiscent of the 'deep ecology' folks, who don't pursue environmentalism with the goal of furthering human well-being, but have a quasi religious attitude to nature as if it is a thing in itself. If you want to have a life of leisure and cooperation, you need material progress and abstract away all the nasty and brutish things which is only achievable in an environment of abundance.

Degrowth will produce the exact opposite. Scarcity, tribalism, zero-sum competition and so on.
>Degrowth is now a buzz word in left-leaning and academic circles around the world

Ted Kaczynski and other far-right thinkers (e.g. Pentti Linkola) have been advocating for shrinking the economy for decades.

It’s not a left/right issue and one side doesn’t have a monopoly on anti-materialism.
>>$40,000 a year is hardly minimum wage.

No, but it gets pretty close when you factor in all the expenses that contractors have to deal with.
Windows 10 calls them Libraries. Open your explorer and it's in the left sidebar. You can create new ones to group files and folders together regardless of where they physically reside.

They are already used by Windows to provide the major Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, etc. locations.
> That is simply not true, simple natural resources, ideas, innovations are making our economy non zero sum.

Thats exactly what I am talking about. Natural resources sre making the economy non zero sum game.
This is the reduction I am talking about, its easy to think the natural resources are simply there to use and nobody owns them ( thus breaking out of the zero sum) but is this smart thing to believe? Where does it end? When everything that can be turned into money has been, what happens then?

"According to sustainability experts, we currently need 1.7 planets to support humanity's demand on Earth's ecosystems."[0]

How long do you think this fairy tale about natural resources being something there outside of our economics game will last.

[0] https://m.dw.com/en/the-earth-is-exhausted-were-using-up-its...
Hackernoon was also on the sketchier side, injecting ads and huge subscribe/tweet/etc buttons on 3rd party posts. Published once there, never ever gonna use a Medium publication again.
Ask the tens of thousands or perhaps million of full time taxi drivers that had to quit their jobs and start 'freelancing' for Uber because there was no more business.
This case is clearly price fixing, not first amendment.

The radio stations weren't broadcasting their prices to consumers, but secretly communicating with competitors to form a cartel, which is forbidden. Doesn't matter if they were radio stations or grocery stores.
Its still easier to fire employees in Germany than in France from what I understand. Germany also has also averaged roughly half the yearly population growth rate as compared to France for the last several decades (even dipping into the negatives for several years). So the supply of labor is more constrained.
Buying a competitor is no more anticompetitive than causing a competitor to shut down because they weren’t competitive enough.

What is supposed to happen to competitors that are actually less efficient and/or produce less appealing products? Do people really expect “competition” to mean a perpetual exact tie between two or more competitors?
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Thanks for this. Lots of developers fall into the trap of discarding concepts because they aren't Facebook/Google scale solutions. The app on which I used Postgraphile/RLS was likely to have only a handful of users, so I thought more about solving the problem effectively than about whether the solution would scale, so RLS seemed like an airtight system. Knowing that it kills performance puts things into perspective. It at least suggests which tool might be best for which job. :)
The “expectation of privacy” isn’t about what you would expect regular people to do. It’s about what you would expect malicious actors like spies (or just private detectives hired to tail you) to do. You wouldn’t expect to be safe from a detective with a boom mic in the public square—therefore, the square is not a place where you should be having private conversations (even whispered) if you have anything to hide.
I think this proposal looks good.

Too many people shovel on slow JavaScript libraries and make the user experience worse. Speed is a tradregy of the commons issue - it's time serious action was taken to resolve it.
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Stupid question. Could trinary processors play a role here?

I keep hearing people talking about them and their benefits over que binary system.
I know many engineers who are not that fluent in English whom you would never contemplate qualifying as illiterate; you would quickly see that (1) they're encumbered by English and (2) are obviously extremely proficient technically, and literate.

People who would make gratuitous grammatical mistakes but have read more classics than the average American college graduate. I can easily count many just thinking of it.
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> Many of us work on things that people like and improve our lives.

Like what? Services that support the ads monetization, lock in users and strengthen control over the ecosystem?
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You can use Whatsapp to whisper to your friend. It's end-to-end encrypted.
And also in London, where a trial fleet of BYD double-deckers has been operating since 2015.

68 more electric double-deckers are due in London this summer, of which 37 are from ADL-BYD (ADL bus body with BYD battery/drivetrain) and 31 from British company Optare.
Expenses are tax deductible. The article reports that his adjusted income was $22,378. The article did not mention how many hours he worked per year, so determining his hourly post-expense earnings is not possible.

And regardless, this is exactly one data point. Hardly enough to draw any meaningful conclusions. And as I have said before, I am not inclined to trust the New York Times' coverage of large tech companies.
Amazon purchases your credit card purchase history from major CC providers, likely as part of reciprocity agreement. They know more about you thank you think.

Source: I was retargeted on Amazon for an impulse buy of an obscure item from Macy's. My CC was the only way to join my data.
Adding on to this:
If you can make one or two SaaS apps that become popular, even if they're small programs, in theory, you'll still be able to live a regular life without working at all. I think it's a pretty good time to live, but obviously 20 years from now people will probably think the same.
It's unclear how many drivers are actually fighting this and how many are actually happy in the current situation and do not want to be classified as employees.

The article mentions "Last month, Uber settled the main court case with 13,600 Uber drivers". That doesn't seem like a lot of drivers (or the majority) of drivers.
To be fair, Amazon probably does "sell even more data than Google about the average American's life" given that Google doesn't sell data.
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So it is no active support but rather 'Amethyst uses resources freely provided by XYZ'? Support implies endorsement to me.
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What operations do you perceive would be faster or more suitable for ternary processors
> The notion is that on windows, even a all knowing user who knew the email contained a virus after viewing it would be helpless as the email client already did the steps required to make the virus active. Where as on Linux, the user would still need to be the facilitator -- not the email client blindly destroying your system.

OK, I see your point, normal usage against exploits, and usually security goes against convenience.

I don't know if I'm overly paranoid, but in this specific case I've started long time ago to keep my autostart dir read only. At the same time I've dirs in my command path that are writable by my user (but those need the execute bit tho)...
> Without iTunes, customers can manage their Apple gadgets through the Music app.

For a moment, I thought it sounded like a good plan.
I suppose that partially explains the historical revisions of this spec[1] circa 2006, including new IP agreement and criteria for "mini" products.

[1] https://usb.org/sites/default/files/CabConn20.pdf
WDYM by "RDS does not support WAL"? I wouldn't know how Postgres works without them, and they are accessible using logical decoding. wal2json is supported on RDS and used by tools such as Debezium for streaming data changes into Apache Kafka (Disclaimer: I work on Debezium).
Google's PageRank patent has expired
I may be mistaken but every major cloud provider, from AWS to Azure to Google, has dictated in their SLA that they don't mine your data (as a cloud customer).
Google stopped mining Gmail two years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html

Any aggregation or segmentation of emails by ML/AI algorithms, as your article talks about, is analogous to having smarter filters in your inbox. It's tech illiteracy to confuse these perception NNs with data mining for business purposes.
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At times, a public square is the best place to have a private/secret talk.
In that case shouldn't the headlines be about charges related to unauthorized access of a computer system?
Encrypted by whom? Who has the keys? WhatsApp is not good for anything private.
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I'm not sure what you mean, I'm afraid. They actively support us by discussing our needs and figuring out how they can best support us. They've each specifically asked to have their names and logos associated with our project.

Perhaps if you can reframe your question I can better answer?
Is Amazon Basics any different than any other store brand? It's not like national retailers before amazon were just throwing darts at a printout of their catalog.
now you would have to work at least 40 hours a week and now those hours will be set by Uber

Why would you have to work at least 40 hours a week? There is such a thing as a part-time employee In fact most low-rung jobs try to keep employees under full-time to avoid the extra benefits that FTEs qualify for.

Or, put it another way, if Uber required its drivers to work 40 hours a week and this resulted in unhappy drivers, what makes you think anyone would want to drive for Uber in the first place?
Why have a standardized definition of what a "fast" website is, when Google can just impose and publish its own standards for Search, or even implement its own nontransparent standards in the back end if its worried about metrics becoming targets? I don't mean that as a sarcastic question, I don't see any problem at all with a private approach.

This isn't really what people like me meant when we said we wanted Google to use performance metrics in their ranking. We wanted Google to come up with its own internal metrics, not standardize them across the entire web. Because performance isn't standard, it's extremely context-specific, and it's important that sites like search engines and browsers be able to iterate quickly on their metrics and to change them depending on what the ecosystem currently looks like.

I genuinely just don't understand what value standardization has here other than to make the system easier to game and less flexible in the future.

What positive, consumer-friendly, non-scammy things are possible for us to do with a universally standardized set of performance criteria that we couldn't do with privately maintained, non-standardized sets of criteria?
Unlike "Et-tu, ______" or "Let them eat ______", for example, "The End of ______" is far too generic, when standing alone (i.e. pre-click), for the reader to automatically expect a reference a 30-year-old, twice-revised, heavily-criticized (credibly) essay -- as opposed to the simple, literal definition that the thing is ending. Had this author titled his post "The End of History? (for mobile)" or "The End of Mobile and The Last Man," then maybe, maybe, I'd agree with you. It would be deceitful to title an article "The End of Climate Change Danger," for example, if that article was in fact arguing that it was inevitable that climate change will harm the planet significantly.

The original title "The End of History?" is itself click-bait, misdirecting readers with a provocative headline that relies on an already obscure, non-dictionary definition of "history." Had Fukuyama simply titled his article "All nations will eventually rule by Liberal Democracy," it would likely never have even been noticed.
I am not the slave of anyone or anything. What I do on my own time is my own thing.
Not that I think employment rate means much (look at japan's very low employment rate compare to their economic growth since 1989, its very low [2.4% now]), but their unemployment rate for April came in at 4.9%, whereas in the US was at 3.6%.
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The Fight Club one I couldn't tell was I looking at Edward Norton or Brad Pitt the whole time. Definitely in the valley for me but I guess I was looking for it.
Let me at least try to lift the value of humanity from being an assumption to being a rationale.

Life seems to be pretty rare[1]. At least on the order of once per solar system. Nervous systems capable of thought also seem rare, based on terran history. Analytical thought a fortiori. We are very possibly the only species capable of understanding the universe within at least a rather large radius. Inter-planetary life is really freaking difficult, but it is a complete cakewalk in comparison to interstellar living, let alone intergalactic life. How many shots does this universe get at understanding itself before the whole thing heat-dies? And, who knows, maybe even doing something about that heat death.

I think that matters. Life matters. Consciousness matters. Beyond it just being ours[2].

Earth is a paradise, but a fragile one. If earthly life (not just humans, any life) is going to end up spreading across the solar system, we are by far their best shot.

Perhaps if all life were destroyed nothing would be lost, because things end. Perhaps the entropy of a dead child is no more significant than the entropy of a cooling car engine. Perhaps the existence of the universe is itself irrelevant. After all, what (and to whom) would it matter if it ended? Starting with different assumptions gives different conclusions. I don't think there is any way to prove either axioms correct. But whether you agree or not, the assumption is somewhat different to the one you identified. And there is – at least – a 'why'.

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[1] The question of the prevalence of different complexities of life is – in my experience – a perfectly tuned discussion for 'well actually's. All of my second paragraph can be quibbled. But I don't think any step would invalidate what I'm doing with it.

[2] In fact, I think is likely that the intelligent life we end up sending interstellar will be descended at least as much from human technology as human biology, perhaps overwhelmingly more so. But again that is not directly relevant to my point here.
I was finally able to unlist successfully by installing truecaller on my iPad where it didn't ask for any permissions forcefully, deactivating my account, and then unlisting. Previously I was using my android phone.
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This has not been the experience in London which will soon have over 200 fully electric buses, most of which have BYD drivetrains. By all accounts, they have proven at least as reliable as their diesel counterparts.
I'm impressed by the numbers, but I'm having some doubts about the general idea of exposing your database via GraphQL.

It seems to expose your internal data structures, and any change to those will immediatly impact that public GraphQL API. Also it seems that this approach would only work well for applications without any business logic, or with business logic solely implemented in the database. At least the applications I've been working on wouldn't fall into this category.

But in any case, impressive work and demos!
Keeping your autostart directory read-only is a great idea.

After that, a ZIP symlink traversal could still drop a script in your command path directories that are writable by your user. The execute bit is not a hurdle, unzip utilities will typically preserve the execute bit on Unix systems.

ZIP directory traversals are as old as the hills, yet they are still a thing: https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability.

ZIP symlink traversals are even more powerful, yet they are hardly spoken of.

Ideally, you want your email provider to be blocking ZIP attachments with symlink traversals or execute bits (but I am not aware of any which do).
Also popular around that time in the 80s:

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

And the book Chaos, by James Gleick

Oh, and The Cuckoo's Egg, by Clifford Stoll