skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know enough about economics, nearly enough, in fact I’ve decided after listening to an economics podcast for the past month (still working through the backlog) that I’m essentially a know-nothing today.

That said, I have some questions if there’s an economics know-something around here, because there might be an alternative explanation than just a rise in inequality. For one thing, to maintain the standard of equality/inequality that exists today, I would think even the richest would need something to dump their money into. Right now that seems to be the United States economy, mostly, and a few fairly solid foreign markets, Japan, the EU, Hong Kong, Britain, and for the less risk averse, there’s also the PRC and various developing economies. Mostly the US is where you get your safest ROI.

So a massive growth in investment, would seem to also suggest a massive growth in the financial services market. Not to mention the massive amounts of money sloshing around throughout the Bay Area. At the end of the day, you still need bankers handling all the transactions.

And that’s just it, the United States today, near as I can tell and certainly this is what I was taught and the dogma of today, is a services-based economy. Banking, health care, government, etc, not to mention the usual suspects among tech: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Microsoft, Netflix, etc.

Now between them, there’s a lot of products getting designed, and built, and shipped, and sold. Computers, phones, and I’m sure even the cars drivers use for fares and deliveries are consuming a fair amount more resources than your average car. In providing their services, they are charging a premium, and in return you get convenience. If you use AWS or Azure, you’re still using something tangible and real, you just don’t own the infrastructure. But the people that do are benefitting from economies of scale large enough that there are ultimately fewer servers and data center than there otherwise would be if all of their customers bought their own. So in a real sense, it really does seem like more value is being created with less resources that way.

So now that whoever is reading this knows where I’m coming from, here is my question to economics know-somethings (fair warning, my jargon might even be off or used incorrectly): does our economic shift away from agriculture and manufacturing towards a service and information-centric economy have a possible causal effect on our ability to grow the economy with seemingly fewer resources? If so, is there one part of the services sector which seemingly has an outsized influence in decreasing our resource use while growing the economy, be it financial or tech or something else?

Seriously, thanks in advance.
There hasn’t been a single death in Hong Kong.

The same can’t be said about the current protests in Iraq, Sudan, Indonesia, and Kashmir.
Agriculture is mostly down to glyphosate resistance, i.e. GMOs.

If you can spray a field with glyphosate, you don't need to till at the start of the season. Tilling has huge externalities, both the carbon emitted from the powerful plow used, and also the runoff from the disturbed soil. That runoff, which can cause all sorts of contamination, algal blooms, etc., is also leeching needed nutrients from the soil.

If you avoid tilling, you ultimately need to use less fertilizer.
This type of action can be termed a breach of faith, and does harm to China and the Czech Republic’s relationship and the atmosphere of cooperation and exchange. We urge the Prague city government to make a fresh start and to return to the correct path that promotes the development of bilateral relations. Otherwise, ultimately, the damage will be their own interests.

You would think they would put more words between "atmosphere of cooperation and exchange", and what is essentially "Concede to our demands, or else."
Without growth above the population growth, life becomes zero sum or negative sum.

That means that taking and fighting becomes more rewarding than building.

It is either growth or war, no way around it.
Regeneration: “Old” proteins and dynamic cartilage gradient turnover in humans
> The software running on the remote server could even be proprietary software! For the sake of the person running the server, they should not use proprietary software, but if it is running on their machine and not yours, then it is not your responsibility, and (as I understand the GNU position) not wrong for you to access that software.

I'd expect them to prefer you to use free software on the server, licensed under the AGPL.
> session time increased 70 percent, and daily active users increased by 65 percent nearly overnight

They never argue for why increase of session time is seeing like something good. For the user, if they can do something quickly, they can spend less time with the software. The "65 percent increase in daily active users " something that happened as a effect to making the application more difficult to use.

"Increased usage" does not automatically mean the thing you are building is actually useful. A really good tool does it job and then gets out of your way.

Also, looking at the "Polar app" screenshot, not only has the top part of the application changed, but the lower menu is completely gone? Seems like a bigger change than the one on the top.

At this point, I think the UX of the application is way more important and worth doing user testing with, seeing the nitty-gritty of what's happening with the user and the application. Maybe Google did this, but judging by their UX in their products, they are all about those metrics instead.
This just addresses the tax consequences. Theft is something else.

The ruling is basically saying that if your exchange didn't support the fork, you didn't receive any crypto, so there's no taxable income.

But if your exchange did support the fork, you have taxable income once those crypto show up in your exchange account and you can transact with them.
The main cost is the actuators. The servos they use are the only ones out there with integrated feed back from the sensors which is required so they can calculate hardware safety. They also have, albeit pretty bad, torque control which is necessary for many approaches to controlling legged robots and manipulators.
Virtue signaling doesn't mean solely expressing opinions...

I don't doubt their sincerity at all. I believe that companies selling apolitical software services should not care about policing what customers use their software. We are talking about software that tracks changes of software, not facial recognition or drone firmware. Obviously, Github believes otherwise.
Eh, maybe I"m reading too much but having 4 or 5 articles on the front page be dedicated to China news is too much for me.
> NO circumstance in which a child should be separated from their family

In fact, the reason ICE separates adults from children in the first place is to fight human trafficking and child abuse: they used to keep the children with their accompanying adults (who aren’t guaranteed to be their parents, which seems to be overlooked in these arguments), but they found that the children were being assaulted by the primary adult population, so they started creating child-only facilities to combat this.
Also Grindr is Chinese-owned.

An TikTok. Lots of people uploading nude content that CCP can deidentify.
For Apple, that's only due to requirements / tariff impositions by India making it cheaper to manufacture locally.
I don't remember. I think it was something with the iwlwifi driver. It could also have been the "broken dns servers breaks ipv6 in FF"-issue. Probably has been fixed by now but there is no reason for me to turn ipv6 on.
Not at any particular scale -- just enough to avoid import tariffs and keep the local politicians happy. The same thing that you see in the US for military contracts.

Apple is also paying lip service to "manufacturing in the US" by manufacturing the low volume, high margin Mac Pros.

Not meant to be a value judgement, knowing how to placate politicians is necessary when you operate at scale.
Improving Plasma’s Rendering
I would feel a lot better about companies talking out of both sides of their mouths here if what they said in English wasn't already so compromised. Firing the broadcasters and banning the player shows which side of their mouth Blizzard is speaking truth out of, I think.
When I was living in Puerto Rico for work, the local credit union I was using had this same problem. Although the tooltip and messaging on the page said 8-16 chars, only the first 8 were used, and from my testing it had to be case insensitive.

I promptly updated my direct deposit with my employer and used my more secure off-island bank as the destination for the majority of my pay, and had only the minimum required to avoid fees and act as spending money put in that acct.
Ask HN: What chance is there of a TLD raising prices significantly?
I am looking to purchase some .yoga tld domains, and I am nervous about building a business on a domain tld that has dynamic pricing.

Most every .yoga domain on namesilo costs $23.99 USD/year... but some of them like natural.yoga cost $5,000+/year

Is there anything in the ICANN contract preventing whoever owns the .yoga tld from saying "hey I think I want to increase flyGuyOnTheSly.yoga from $23.99/year to $10,000/year renewal fee because that is a popular domain"???

Essentially rent seeking on my hard work that made a "worthless domain" in their eyes "now popular"?

Thank you
Realpolitik. You don't side with the dying empire against the rising one just because the old one would treat you better.
Blizzard is an old and famous game development company. Released big titles, such as World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft, and the game that is causing the controversy: Hearthstone.
Like what? I have an ex-girlfriend whom I dumped when she (among other things) called my family and lied about me getting into a horrible accident because we were arguing about her [several hard street drugs] addiction. I cared about her enough to stick around until after the drug problems started. She tells people I'm a "creep" when she explains why we didn't work out, because we had been together for a while and I seemed like a decent guy. I literally moved to a different state because she'd show up at my home and work frenzied, and I knew a restraining order would land her in jail (and cause her to lose her surprisingly good job, which I was sure was the last remaining foothold of stability in her life; at this point I was literally worried about indirectly killing her by protecting myself). She still doesn't know where I live, some of my throwaway accounts have the phrase "FUCK [her name]" in their password, and (old, because I can't share contact anymore) mutual friends have told me she tells everyone that I developed hardcore schizophrenia and generally behaved like Satan. The shorthand for this is "creep".
Amazon (as well as other cloud vendors) generally handle the licensing for you and factor it into the price of the host OS
Did I see a future detective ?
I'd bet that we will invent a general AI which can invent math faster than we can make theorem provers do something useful.

What separates math from pure logic is that math has a set of very intuitive axioms. So mathematics is first and foremost about stretching and fixing inconsistencies in our intuition, I personally see no value in trying to refactor the foundations of mathematics like constructing integers based on sets etc, taking integers and their operations as an axiom hurts nobody. Theorem provers seems to be like that as well, people don't prove new things in it they just refactor old things to fit in, kinda like people rewriting their services in languages with more street cred like Haskel or Rust.
Behold the "Impossible Milk"!
We might migrate to other planets.
Also time and space are relative.
The video game company who made WoW, Starcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, etc.

They recently banned a player and revoked his winnings for speaking out in support of the Hong Kong protests.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/hong-kong-hearthstone-b...
Never Trust a Platform to Put Privacy Ahead of Profit
I had this weird, uncanny moment when I first realized that atmosphere being transparent at some infrared bands means a device exploiting this is literally cooled as if it was exposed to interplanetary space. It looks into the abyss.
Ahh but those machines are constantly becoming simultaneously more efficient and more powerful. And soon enough they'll all be ran on renewable energy.

OP said nothing about growing the population. His statement can be true even as world population growth is slowing.

Like many things, there may be no purely immaterial, but there is much (and increasing) practically immaterial.
Exactly. The primary inputs analyzed here are manufacturing inputs and if manufacturing has been outsourced so should the consumption of the inputs.
Original post on Hearthstone weibo account: https://www.weibo.com/3229779100/Iax22g4xQ

similar post on the Blizzard account: https://www.weibo.com/5883095259/Iax1avYRU

Which links here: https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289

EDITED: to add hearthstone account link.
Scott’s Cheap Flights no longer sending deals outside of the USA
It’s been a little while since I’ve received a deal email (located in Australia) and I just received this email today.
Such a shame, this service not only saved me money, but also gave me a little day-dream every time a new destination appeared in my inbox.

Anyone know what has happened?

——

Hi there,
Scott here. I’m reaching out to let you know Scott’s Cheap Flights is no longer sending flight deals departing from airports outside of the United States.

We’ll be issuing a prorated refund for the time remaining on your membership as of our last date of international service, which was Wednesday, September 25th, 2019. You’ll receive a [redacted] refund in about 15 business days. If you don’t receive a refund, please reply to this email and our Advocacy team will help you out.

Thank you so much for being a member and giving us the privilege of searching for flights for you. I hope that you scored some incredible deals.

Love,
Scott
Maybe then the 3rd day is more for you, with a Internet Archive link instead, where it seems more links are working: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...

Edit: Man, Internet Archive is really saving things out there, consider donating if you can (not affiliated but I like what they do) https://archive.org/donate/
>I don't disagree with any of them!

Well you sure "didn't disagree" at great length above!

>you're gonna need a much stronger argument for this than a list of things from 50 years ago that are obvious huge inventions and...what, a much shorter list for the last 50 years?

I don't think I do need a much stronger argument than this: you just said above you agree with all of my examples. Now you say ... my examples aren't enough. Yet you "feel" I am right anyway? What would be "enough?" Simply looking at 1969's vision of the future is pretty damning as well.

Re your Kelvin goalposting; you don't have an example of technological pessimism from 1969, do you? You've been a reasonably honest interlocutor thus far; don't goalpoast me, bro. "So what makes 1959-2009 "not progress"?" was bad enough.

>Propose a mechanism of action, ask why is this happening?

I have my suspicions, which is why I consider writing a book on it. First, though, I'd like to get you, who agrees with me on one line, then disagrees on another (you assure me this is not routine bay area tone policing, and I'll just assume so for the sake of argument), to admit it is actually happening. What evidence besides your subjective feelings on the matter would you accept? What evidence do you, who claims to agree with me, yet disagrees on every detail, have?

I think naming a series of bonkers technological revolutions that happened in one time period with not even one comparable example in a later time period is a reasonable and strong argument. If you disagree with the time span in question, I invite you to suggest a better time span, or one going back another 50 years. 1869 to 1919 was super amazing, and nobody thought technology was over in that time period, even if Kelvin thought physics was done (which was a reasonable thing to think back then; oddly people no longer think this, despite the parallel lack of experimental results which contradict theory). Same with the 50 years prior to 1869; technological progress was vast then. Any of those 50 year periods had more important breakthroughs than today. It's the recent era which has slowed down. You'll get the same result breaking it down by decade, by 20 years or 40 as I did in the original takimag article.
Beware of Cranks: Misguided attempts to solve impossible mathematical problems
Because those fans were causing a disruption, not because of their message.
They will fire the CEO.
NIST/Sematech E-Handbook of Statistical Methods
Maybe you're right, but everyone loves to feel all good and fuzzy inside when they make PC character design (see Overwatch) to cater to the reddit crowd. So if people are allowed to celebrate their obvious co-opting of identity politics, maybe we can be angry when they do something politically idiotic.
How is something a "status symbol" when Apple has close to half of the market share in the US and anyone can afford one via monthly payments offered by Apple and the carriers?
> Its nice to see this reality (of how extrapolating is bad because things change)

...but when they do that same thing on earth temperature everyone loses his mind
I am not sure if it is kosher to say this, but my main use for Windows Server is as a desktop OS for when I need Windows. You can set up py-kms (https://github.com/SystemRage/py-kms) to activate it. The Server OS is extremely clean and devoid of all of the bloatware in normal Windows. I think the telemetry is still enabled and hard to disable, but it is slightly easier to do.

In my case this is probably above board, I inherited some servers with valid Windows Server licenses.
Copy pasting the same comment over and over does not help make your point.
Honestly they are rich and while they might be a disaster as a government they are firmly in our pocket.

The House of Saud figured out years ago that their position makes them very useful.
> any low level employee can generate a huge PR disaster by just not being smart enough to see the bigger picture

The military of many countries recognise this, recognising the concept of the 'strategic corporals' [0] [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Block_War

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2012/03/the-strategic-corporals-evil...
You should ask Tim on Twitter.
wxWidgets is worth looking at. I use it and really enjoy using it. Used it for a largish cross-platform job a few years ago which is why I think all the modern garbage like Slack and Electron-based apps is sheer laziness.

The forum can be a bit quiet sometimes but you'll likely get a response. Bug reports and stackoverflow questions also might get some help.

Much preferrable to me than the MFC stuff I had to use at work for years. wxWidgets is actually nice to use and can have bind/connect instead of macros for event handling, as well as CallAfter(...) for easy firing of events from background threads etc.

Great toolkit.
Most don't vote now, which is one of the primary reasons why Trump was elected.

Sure, they swamp social media with their anger, demonstrate, disrupt conservative speaking engagements, burn and vandalize private property and call for violence in the streets and revolution but have never really voted in huge numbers:

In a number of other key battleground states, such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, it looks like millennials didn't show up at the polls in the same levels they did for President Obama, and that was a problem for Democrats.

The millennial coalition Obama created just didn't translate to Clinton, despite the Beyonce and Katy Perry concerts.

In many of these states, Clinton still won the young vote, but her margin of victory was substantially smaller. In Florida, it was 16 percentage points less than President Obama's; Wisconsin, 20 percentage points smaller; and Pennsylvania, 19 percentage points less.

And I believe most younger voters once they have to pay taxes, raise a family, and start building their retirement and saving for their kids college, become more Conservative and less "progressive" or Liberal.
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Even though you answer your own questions, those answers are wrong. Yes, you see that type of hate and violence everyday (well maybe you don't), and its not killing because you have an Apple Watch and someone doesn't like Apple (but yes that happens too), more often its killing to take the Apple watch you have that the other guy doesn't.

There are more mass shootings in the US this year than there are days. Last year there were were significantly more workplace murders than days in the year...and the number continue increasing.

>You see most people that work getting enough food to eat and housing. etc. etc.

Thats very nice for those people who "have" work. There are an estimated 5 million men in the US between age 18-35 who aren't even considered part of the work force and never will because the opportunities don't exist (sure you can argue they do, and even point to unemployment rates just like Trump). How do you think this tribe of 5 million men in the prime of their life feel about everyone else?

There are tens of millions who are uninsured and don't have access to health care, how do you think these people feel about the politicians who have the best healthcare in the world for them and their entire family paid by the taxpayes in addition to their $200,000+ salary? There are millions upon million who are indebted and will never find their way out in their entire lifetime. There are a million students defaulting on their student loans every year. Suicide and mass shootings are at all time highs, and personal finances are a significant percentage of both (i.e. haves and have nots)
> The whole idea that shareholders are the only ones that matter is both recent and poisonous to the long-term health of the economy.

They are not the only ones who matter, just the ones who matter the most. My point was more about corporate kleptocracy and whimsical managers running wild. I did not claim shareholder value trumps everything else.

In fact, the agency costs of appointing managers to run a business affects not only shareholders but every other stakeholder.

But for the record, Unocal v. Mesa Petroleum Co., 493 A.2d 946 (Del. 1985) established that takeover offers ought to be evaluated in the context of all stakeholders – "shareholders, creditors, customers, employees, and the community"¹ – with Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc., 506 A.2d 173 (Del. 1986)² later modifying this test to put shareholder value above all other stakeholders in certain circumstances ("Revlon duties").

Whether that is "poisonous to the long-term health of the economy" is most certainly not a foregone conclusion and a bold claim to make, particularly given that we're currently in the longest period of prosperity³ and LBOs are everywhere to be found

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corp._v._Mesa_Petroleum...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revlon,_Inc._v._MacAndrews_%26....

3. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/this-is-now-the-longest-us-e...