skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stock buy backs lead to higher market concentrations.

Compared to what? If Apple, for example, had not spent billions in buybacks and had done something else with that money its market cap would be higher today so the market would be more concentrated.
But there is no input from the campaigns about how they choose their spending. I might guess they do their a/b testing and keep the ads that engage users more. this might be indicative of each candidate's audience. Assuming that this is true Sanders seems to be having the widest reach, judging from how close m/f ratio is to 50%
The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere: a surprising statistical illusion
Developed RSI 15 years ago, tried all kinds of contraptions. Here's what helped me:

- Kinesis Advantage keyboard w/ footswitch https://kinesis-ergo.com/products/#keyboards

- Ambidextrous mousing (one on each side, to split the load). Favor your PageUp / PageDown buttons over the evil mousewheel.

- Lifestyle changes (biggest bang for the buck). Try to get at least 20 minutes of aerobic exercise in each day, e.g. running.

- Proper ergonomic positioning

This video from the article is a phenomenal demonstration of dictation coding: https://youtu.be/Mz3JeYfBTcY

Fun fact (or myth?): Your tongue is one of the few muscles in the body that can't get RSI. I played around prototyping a tongue-switch a while back using a flex sensor.
I wonder what that's doing to housing prices in Denmark
Using SCSS and using some utility classes isn't in any way mutually exclusive. If anything, it's a lot easier to mix and match. The argument isn't against having utility classes/mixins/extensions in general, but against relying on them solely.

I'm still not convinced — using only utility classes has very clear downsides, while using what's reasonably one of the most common approaches in the industry right now avoids those downsides while also providing additional benefits.
battle royale games are an amazing new genre not really possible to do then.
It's pretty easy to write a bot for Signal too, if you're willing to run a daemon:

https://pypi.org/project/pysignald/
And to step sideways and combine the two, ever hear of the Language of the Birds?

> In mythology, medieval literature and occultism, the language of the birds is postulated as a mystical, perfect divine language, green language, Adamic language, Enochian, angelic language or a mythical or magical language used by birds to communicate with the initiated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_the_birds
“Airport workers say they saw teens traveling with Jeffrey Epstein to and from his private island in the Caribbean”

Actual title of a news article.

This is the state of modern journalism, no one confirming a commonly known rumor until the guy is arrested. It takes a village to raise a child, but a nation to ignore it.
I think this is something that happens more in the UK.

The NHS has a "policy" on these issues. If you have anything that is falls into the category of "poorly understood neuro", you are mad...according to NHS policy. What is even more disturbing though is that the research is fairly clear that these problems aren't psychological...but doctors within the NHS, usually non-researchers, are utterly convinced that it is which has massively hindered the amount of research on this within the UK.

And the massive irony of this is that most doctors in the UK, usually not in primary care, will happily accuse patients of being mad...but there is almost no investment in psychological services in the UK. The doctors are seeing an epidemic of mad people...but don't think they need treating...logical.

Btw, I look after a relative who has something like this and it is fucking terrifying (and upsetting watching someone get sicker every day with no professional help or even interest in help). These problems are usually genetic, if I get sick then I have no-one to look after me, and I know if I get sick there will be no professional help. Let's hope I am lucky.
Zachtronics' Eliza Reckons with an Industry and Generation in Burnout Crisis
Capital has been cheap for some time now, since the economic crash in 2008. It has only been since ~2016 that the Federal Funds Rate has lifted above half a percent [0]. And although the rates have recently been increased (Rate recently fell 1/4 of a percent but is still just above 2%), we are still seeing very low rates. Because capital has been relatively easy to acquire for this time I wonder if this is a more a consequence of the obvious but high cost investments already drying up.

Executives have always wanted to drive up metrics as it allows them to move forward in their work, so I would find it doubtful that they wouldn't want to build out their business further if they are able to (More sales is a sure way to make more profits in most cases). If the capital is there, and we know it is, then these business must not see enough demand to expand.

Many would say that buy-backs are a result of a company having excess capital and no sure investments [1]. With the us inflation rate hovering between 1.5 and 3 percent [2], a loan at ~2.25 percent is close to free money.

I personally worry for the economy because of buy-backs. Not because I believe there is anything wrong with the practice, but because I think it indicates that business is general not going well enough to invest back into it.

-0, https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate

-1, https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040815/what-situati...

-2, https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...
My favorite version was Cube Zero.
You can still edit your messages.
"So? Only one company can read your chats by default, and privacy is a joke anyway, you need to believe their promises or read the publicly available codebase yourself."
Sigh, another brainwashed person who believes that carbon is harmful when in reality it's the most important thing for life...
> I hadn’t heard that NIMBY’s are also NOMS (not on my streets) but it doesn’t surprise me they’re trying to keep cars from driving down the public streets they live on. Is there anything the affluent won’t do to try to exclude themselves from society at large?

What does this have to do with affluence? As far as I know, this affects people who live near a congested major road but do not themselves live on a congested road. I’ve seen it in rich and poor neighborhoods.

It actually seems like it may affect less wealthy people more. Wealthy kids seem less likely in general to play in the streets. “I want to live on a street that isn’t full of cars” is an entirely reasonable sentiment and has little or nothing to do with wanting to exclude outsiders from one’s street.
I don't know,.they could pay employees more, or provide vetter benefits. The evidence it's not working is that there is no inflation except in stocks and real estate.
Alphabet just announced a 25 billion dollar stock buyback.

Amazon and Facebook are growth stocks so investors don't mind them holding some cash to make investments, fund acquisitions and what not (which is what everyone here seems to want). However, they'll both probably hit a 100 billion dollars in cash in the next 5 years and I would expect dividends/buybacks to follow soon after as that is more cash than anyone reasonably needs.
GitHub has been updated with the paper.
the interesting question is why did the government cut taxes promoting investments despite knowing companies would but back stocks. this was an obvious outcome.
The counterpoint is that there are critical public infrastructure and welfare projects that could be funded by taxing the wealthy more (possibly in exchange for taxing the poorer less). Cutting taxes on wealthy seems to trigger recessions and depressions due to drying up aggregate demand for goods and services.
Ah OK, taxing the living shit out of companies or the investors and giving that money to people who spend it immediately seems to me to have nothing to do with companies using their profits on buybacks or dividends. Even with more taxes, some companies are going to do well enough to have made more money than they know what to do with, and sometimes returning money to the investors is probably their best option.
>why did the government cut taxes

What do you think?
Yes but they speak Hebrew in heaven, so the chain continues.

EDIT: Looks like Hebrew speakers use Chinese, so we're in a loop.
I really like my ergodox. I can't go back to a normal keyboard. The only upgrade I can think of is going to a kinesis advantage or dactyl. It took about a week to get comfortable with mine, longer until I was better with it than a normal keyboard.
I think to make that an apt comparison, you'd be buying hardware from Microsoft that only worked with Windows, and only with volume licences. So when sold second-hand they'd be essentially nonfunctional.
Sounds like an opportunity for "pop-up" rooms, Escape from Santa.
Indeed, and we can solve it as it was solved in 1929, through massive economic mismanagement. If the money supply is contracted by a third again we’re guaranteed a large destruction in wealth, reducing inequality. We could use one of the other ways we know work historically too, war or famine. After the Black Death killed 30-60% of the European population there was over 100 years of broad based prosperity, similarly after the Plague of Justinian, the fall of the Western Roman Empire or in Germany following the 30 Years War.

Global inequality has been deceasing for decades.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality

> Global inequality is driven by changes both of the inequality within countries and the inequality between countries. The below visualization shows how both of these changes determine the changing global inequality.

> – Inequality within countries followed a U-shape pattern over the course of the 20th century.

> – Inequality between countries increased over the course of 2 centuries and reached its peak level in the 1980s according to the data from Bourguignon and Morrison shown here. Since then, inequality between countries has declined.

> As is shown in the visualization below, the inequality of incomes between different countries is much higher than the inequality within countries. The consequence of this is that the trend of global inequality is very much driven by what is happening to the inequality between countries.
Well, historically NIMBY's are only successful when they are affluent.. basically, you have to be rich to have political sway.

If NOMS becomes a thing, it's pretty easy to assume it's only the people with political leverage who are going to get special treatment.
I failed to post this the other day (already submitted). Searched HN and it was not here. Probably marked off-topic or similar. When I called it out on an unrelated thread my comment was flagged.

I don't see a mechanism on HN to refute "off-topic" posts.

Marvin Minsky's relationship with Epstein was not of interest to HN readers but Epstein's death is?

Mystifies me…
> This is a frustrating belief

It is not a belief. It is a realisation that came from 15 years of inner work, for which I literally travelled the world.

But if you want to play the victim and wallow is self pity that is your right - it is your life to live as you please. For me, I was done with that shit a long time ago and chose to do something about it.

That said, I would never claim that it is an easy thing to do. I also realise that some people’s physical circumstances may make this more difficult still - I am very grateful that I have been spared these extra difficulties.

> the root cause are entirely NOT self-manufactured

Unless there is a way someone can beam thoughts into your head, or inject chemicals into you, or mess with electrical circuitry in your brain, what you think and feel is entirely self manufactured within your own body. It is simply your own inability to control your compulsive responses to external stimuli that is causing the problem for you.
Is it time for antitrust laws for the cloud? e.g. Google's move away from IMAP
Google as many have pointed out introduced new OAuth verification procedures. As part of this if your application is using IMAP and not using all its features, then you are forced to move over to Gmails API to reduce scope usage (see [1]). As Microsoft uses a proprietary protocol for their email servers, it looks like both Google and Yahoo being the large monopolies they are have no particular reason to stick to standards.

If IMAP is broken from a security/privacy standpoint, why not propose a new standard? This sort of behavior to vendor lock in should be dissuaded by antitrust laws. There was antitrust during Netscape times and a lot of good has come off of that. If you think about the "cloud" based monopolies now, they can stifle innovation in similar ways but there hasn't been any focus on cloud based antitrust behavior.

[1] Googles response to an IMAP application approval below - if you don't use every single feature of IMAP then the user data policy bars your application from using it.

"""
We can allow the usage of IMAP only in situations where the app ALSO complies with our User Data Policy. To further answer your question - yes the https://mail.google.com/ scope is required to use IMAP BUT to gain access to that scope you must comply with our User Data Policy.

Under our Google API Services: User Data Policy "we require that developers do not request access to information that they don't need and should only request access to the minimal, technically feasible scope of access that is necessary to implement existing features or services in your application, and limit access to the minimum amount of data needed." The usage of IMAP for your app alone does not justify the need for https://mail.google.com/ as the functionality of the app can be achieved using more granular scopes.
"""
>Porsche (especially as you step further up a model line into the high end stuff) is probably THE brand known to go out on a track and stay out there longer

not without the mods https://www.sharkwerks.com/tech-articles/the-gt1-coolant-pip... note those are all performance models intended for racing/track day use, shipped with factory deficiency. Race tracks actually have a special rule for Porsche and will turn you back/fine you heavily if you bring unmodified car and break down.

There was even NHTSA investigation, but Porsche weaseled out claiming this defect doesnt manifest during "normal" aka road use and even if it did coolant lines are behind rear wheels so catastrophic failure wont influence stopping ability .... https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2007/PORSCHE/911/2%252520DR/RW... "31 Affected Products"

Funnily enough Panameras and Cayennes have same glued lines, directly above front wheels, and Porsche will happily fix this for you at $2000 a pop, again optionally because car not intended for track use.
I've spent quite a lot time on this. And the Oscar goes to the Typora(https://typora.io/).

Pros:

- You can just add any snippet with language specific highlighting. I added a folder with the name quickscript. It has documented snippets, you can even add some equation in Latex then add the implementation as code snippet.

- Available for Mac, Linux, Windows.

- I store all my data in Google Drive.

- All data is stored in Markdown format. This is very important. You can easily export your notes or edit from raw version even if app would stop working one day.

- Realtime preview of markdown.

- Some sort of Latex support. Well if you are researcher this is very very cool.

- Crazy themes. Mine seems like exactly Bear note app.

Cons:

- No mobile client. But you can use a markdown editor with Google Drive support.

- It might have some non-critical bugs now and then.
"Barbarian" meant "foreigner", not "uncivilized".

Additional "fun" fact: in modern Greek, the onomatopoeia for "babbling" is "burbur".
Unemployment is down to 3.7% I believe. So a benefit has probably been more jobs.
Formatting Dates with Vanilla JavaScript
Nuclear Throne solved this problem by having enemies drop health and ammo pickups which expire really fast. So if you stay at the door and keep taking potshots, you'll just run out of ammo. The only way is to rush in, shoot, dodge and pick up stuff at the same time.
Certainly a reminder that hero worship is misguided. People are flawed — some more than others.
FIFA 20 Leaked
How carbon-14 revolutionised science
Couldn't read past the first section. I'm still feeling guilty for spending $15 getting food from a restaurant last night.
My experience is different here... changing to Dvorak + changing mouse to a trackball in the left hand (along with a MS ergonomic keyboard) made a world of difference for me.

I can currently code a whole day without feeling anything... coming from not having enough strenght to hold a glass sometimes due to RSI -- 10 years since I did the switch already... having to type much slower when doing the switch to Dvorak also forces you to be slower and helps in the initial recovery.

As a note for people with issues, don't go to pain killers when you're still typing, you'll only make the problem worse... if you go to pain killers make sure you also stop typing/injuring yourself.
No, but not everyone is a smalltalk developer either.
I support your point, but there's also one more thing to consider. Some MDs share the social stigma around mental health, and won't waste the opportunity to make the patient feel like it's their fault because they don't want to get better, and that they should make space for patients who have real conditions.
Articles questioning who ought to have power are a lot more common. I found it refreshing that the author left that out to focus on just the issue of what those in power should do. That question may be at least as important, given that those with wealth and power are unlikely to let go of said wealth and power, regardless of what the rest of society may think.
Just today I heard about this guy with motor issues who can play competitive fighting games using only his tongue (not directly, using it to push his cheeks/skin) I would imagine combining something like that with voice recognition would be the best approach, something like press X before saying (on your mic) a variable name, or press Y before saying a control structure, such approach would remove a lot of ambiguity because the number of possible interpretations by the speech recognition software would be greatly reduced.
Use computers less.
Imagine what would happen if investors didn’t buy bonds?
I'm curious to know what issues you have with Signal on Android. I use Signal on Android daily and I haven't had problems with it for a few years now.
I’ve been using Boostnote[1] for several months and I really enjoy it, and it sounds exactly what you’re looking for. It has just two kinds of notes, markdown and snippets, supports syncing with Dropbox/google drive/etc. Though my absolute favorite feature, and the reason I haven’t looked for anything else since downloading it is it supports VI key bindings.

[1] https://boostnote.io/
A majority of Americans hold stock via retirement plans and such. Unfortunately the government systematically preventa many people from investing their money
Άμα δω ελληνικά μπαίνω.

It's not as difficult as you'd expect, because word genders are derived from the suffix, with very few exceptions (e.g. η ψήφος). Compare with German, where there's no relation between the word and the gender (you just have to memorize all of them) and they still have the dative. This makes German grammar a superset (and strictly more complex) than Greek grammar.
Certainly testimony anyway: https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-law...
I mean it's a copy of the Model 3 in the same sense that a Porsche 911 is a copy of a BMW 3 series.
> When I bought my first car in 1999, the very first thing I did was buy an SF Bay Area Thomas Guide and study it. I knew that I was going to be driving in the Bay Area I better learn all the major streets and freeways. I don't think new drivers today do that. They just rely on apps.

I don't think most old drivers did that. I didn't. I got my license in 1997. I don't recall ever looking at a map for where I grew up (Norther Virginia, DC suburbs). I navigated based on memory, landmarks and street signs learned from watching my parents drive.

I didn't start looking at maps until I moved to places I did not intuitively know. Consequently, I had a much better understanding of basic geography in those places than I did where I grew up. Since I imagine more people were like me than like you, I'm willing to bet that with the advent of smarthpones with map apps, more people have better geographic knowledge of the places they are in, not less.
I have not touched PHP in the last 10 years but if memory serves it also has the ternary operator. Ok, lets try it:

$ php -a
Interactive mode enabled
php > echo 1 == 1 ? "foo" : "bar";
foo
php > echo 1 == 2 ? "foo" : "bar";
bar

Looks like javascript has it too:

1 == 1 ? "foo" : "bar"
"foo"
1 == 2 ? "foo" : "bar"
"bar"
Greek here, I've never heard this ever.
Yes the key is to stop taxing capital gains and dividends at different rates. Interestingly here in Australia any company tax paid is passed through to the shareholders as a tax credit. This not only encourages companies to pay tax, but it encourages companies to pay dividends rather than buy back shares.

The price of gold suggests even buy backs are coming to an end of their effectiveness. There is so much money now sloshing around that nobody has any idea what to do with it.
>What's good enough for the purposes of immigration control isn't necessarily good enough for the purposes of voting.

Did you read section 2? The immigration exam is only a third of the questions on my proposed ballot.

>You want motivated immigrants who are willing to study in order to enter your country, but you don't necessarily want to restrict voting to the group of people who are most willing to put in effort, because that group includes everyone on the political fringe.

Did you read section 3.1/3.2? Unless "the fringe" is 80% of people, voting will not be restricted to only the fringe under 3.1. It is less clear how the alternative proposal 3.2 skews the weights of extremists.
Blickfeld is working on solid-state LIDAR. From what I've heard from friends working there, their sensor is/will be available for under $1000 which is a huge cost reduction from the current price(LIDAR) == price(car) solutions
Yeah, self victimization is trendy right now. People are desperate seeking to find micro oppression from their life experiences and wear them like accessories, while in fact they are top privileged.

I would say that is just the new 'rich kids get boring' stories in our post-modern/post-truth world, and the fashion right now is to dress/act as their imagined oppressed.

Cruel pleasure indeed.
Slack is only an electron app on desktops. It’s not just an electron app, at all.
> But its not a guarantee of "receiving" any thing the company makes vague promises which may or may not actually result in a gain to me, its also ignoring the time value of money.

I think you are confused. A buyback returns money to shareholders because the company has literally purchased the shares in exchange for money. Any other effects of a stock buyback are secondary. There's nothing vague about the promises, you're guaranteed to receive the money, and there's nothing to ignore with regard to the time value of money, because the shareholders immediately get money. Unless they decided not to sell, in which case, who cares? If they thought they would be better off taking the money they would have sold.
>That makes two of us.

You're a parent, which seems to make a difference WRT empathy. I can openly admit that I share the viewpoints of Spock more often. Principles are costly.

I never investigated 'delay,' nor have I ever seen it discussed on HN, esp. compared to 'showdead' or 'noprocrast.'
> There is actually a lot of competition in the space.

Is there?

Expedia Group owns: Expedia, Ebookers, Orbitz, and Travelocity.

Booking Holdings owns: Priceline, Agoda, Kayak, Momondo, and Cheapflights.

Ctrip Group owns: Trip.com, and SkyScanner.
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