skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buy backs are increasingly being done with debt[1] and corporate debt-to-gdp ratios are way out of whack [2].

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/29/buybacks-companies-increasin...

2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayrarodriguezvalladares/2019/0...
AQR published a paper on share buybacks last year [0] with the opening sentence "People seem to forget some of the very basic lessons of financial economics when it comes to share repurchases".

One of the big things missed by all the articles covering share repurchases, is that they are increasing at a rate similar to company market cap. That shouldn't be too surprising. The real story is why is R&D not keeping up?

It's worth a read for a more nuanced view.

[0] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dcc3/e0d7288395c2891f1fee19...
Not disagreeing with you but is the relative inequality better or worse than other periods in history? I would argue the world is more fair today for more people than it ever has been before. Of course there is inequality, there always has been, but its getting better.
Wrong Twitter co-founder. Evan Williams started Medium, not Jack Dorsey.
I'll happily agree that there was a huge economic crisis in 2008 that caused a peak in unemployment.

My point though, is that automation, just like the last 250 years since Industrialization started, has not caused unemployment on an aggregate level. Instead an increase in production and living standard happens, decade after decade.
The problem I have with a wealth tax is that most implementations only target the middle class.

The most recent proposal for the Netherlands is a 1.75% tax on your invested net worth on January 1st of the year. Even when the market went -10% in the year before. But even at the market average of 5% per year that is a big hit. If your average Joe puts €200 a month in index funds for 40 years, the end sum is €304,000 without wealth tax or €198,000 with wealth tax. That is a big difference on the type of additional pension a person can build. We have tax deferred accounts but those have very low limits for the average earner.

But the upper class don't care about it. They have the means to put their money in a shelter or company and let it grow against a much lower tax rate.

* €200 a month, 5% market average and 1.75% wealth tax
I understanding how screwing with the voltage can cause execution errors. If a random flop somewhere in the design flips state (or fails to when it should) the resulting behavior could be anything, including hanging the chip.

How does such a random event get turned into an exploit?
On that note, corn appears to be a ~$10B export and blood a ~$1B export making the article completely wrong, unless these sources or my interpretation completely incorrect.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2019/01/14/corn-is-o...

[2] http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-blood-exporters-by-count...
Spouting "fake news" for shit you disagree with is just beyond lame.

It's fine to argue that "MintPress News" is not a reputable source, but that MintPress News article is loaded with verifiable sources that you can easily look up yourself:

https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/usa/all/...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/plasma-...

https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/usa/show...

But instead of arguing about the interpretation of the data, or pointing to other data sources, you choose to parrot "fake news" because that's apparently what passes for logical discourse in this day and age.
probably talking about plasma "donations".
Tiny part? Your immediate preceding sentence observes that the large pool of kernel contributors live on salaries provided to them by Fortune 500 companies.

Is that a roundabout way of admitting that you're wrong and open source can be sustainable?
Can you cite? What companies are using debt to finance repurchases? Also the person you responded to probably meant that they profit in a technical bookkeeping sense not. You can still have profit while having debt and profit will be taxed in a certain way.
data needed to back that information up.

US exports total 2.5 trillion ... basically this source claims that the US sells 25 billion dollars worth of blood plasma.

Ok even if we were to entertain that idea as being true, if that amount of plasma is indeed needed, how would you get it in any other way than paying people?
Ah, I'm quite old fashioned when it comes to debugging, so I'll attach a debugger and maybe even read through the generated assembly if need be. I've also been trying to make more use of static asserts where possible. If I can ensure both me and the compiler have the same understanding of the code then there's hopefully less space for errors at runtime. But of course this is never going to eliminate the need for debugging, even if (and this is a big IF) the compiler knows my exact intent (i.e. my reasoning might be wrong somewhere, perhaps very subtly so). And static asserts are still quite hacky.

All that said, I totally agree that there are times when faster compiles are really useful.
It doesn't sound like he's ruling it out explicitly; presumably, it will be something for the team to evaluate.

Of course, plenty of reasons to be sceptical about them either going with ActivityPub, or not.
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way?
Show HN: A new web GUI for Duplicacy – lock-free deduplication backup tool
If you don't like videos, you can also look up his papers from STEPS circa 2010.

I think the 3 body problem is indicative of what Kay says. One simple rule produces very rich behavior. Why not have something like that for your network stack?
I m surprised every time i see people here asking for the evil that is censorship.

Dorsey wants a decentralized system exactly because he won't be held liable for not censoring people. It makes sense business-wise and it's a win-win for humanity.

Twitter has become a trigger-happy-people-fest because each group knows they can weaponize censorship against each other. With systems that are uncensored , nobody complaints, e.g. people don't make a fuss that email is not censorious enough
Same here. I moved into Agile/DevOps coaching, where it's expected you learn in order to help your teams grow and improve their practices and products. Haven't looked back. I now spend a lot of time advocating on behalf of my teams to get them in-sprint time to learn and mature what they're interested in.
I hate AP as a protocol, but also I'd still rather use it than try to invent a new one that wouldn't get a lot of traction (though I guess if you're a big corp, there will always be traction).
In the Loop – December 11, 2019
It's difficult to get a man to reduce his carbon emissions when his air conditioning, daily Big Mac, bitcoin miner rig, long solo commute in a Cadillac Escalade and weekly jet-setting depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair also said this ;)
And then of course in this huge wild planet of ours there's people who get a kick out of doing that for fun.
This is good video[0] explaining how it works. Chosen resonating waves may destroy bridges, not to mention some cell membrane. The problem is there is no money in that for big pharma & co.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w0_kazbb_U
A programmable programming language (2018) [pdf]
Modern conservationism in the United States is, by definition, anti-union. [1] This sort of political view aligns more with libertarian socialism, specifically in ideas like syndicalism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_Sta...
I've watched somewhere that these buybacks is to keep the stock prices afloat lest their employee stock options get hammered and they lose employees. Tech workers are operating on fumes.
New laser technique images quantum world in a trillionth of a second
Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_San_Franci...
I do not object to facial recognition as long as a rigorous screen on use is in place. Known paroled felons who are going about their business legally in conformance with their parole might allow us to parole far more people that an excess of punitive zeal keeps locked up. Each one of these would require a warrant and be limited to end of their parole. Once done, they are out of the net.
They need to improve the competence of these types of camera on various racial subtypes to make sure the error rate is the same as the whiter groups to avoid selective over reach on these groups.
Like all things with sharp edges, they can be used badly - as we see in China versus the Uighers as well as Tibetans. Sadly, we lack the power to meddle except via trade restrictions - which misses the crooked rulers and harms the Chinese people - for whom I have great respect.
Exactly this. I'm fine with people posting their own stuff but I want to know.
Not using herbicides destroys the land which is where this discussion started.
Unfortunate approach.

My company not only encourage transitions, we actually "pay" for them. That means we will assign a senior developer that will have responsibility for growth of the new mentee and we purchase any educational materials the person requires.

We have quite decent amount of transitions within last few years and all were successful. They do require commitment and investment from both sides.

I do believe we are stronger for it as people appreciate the opportunity for growth and support we provide. We, on the other hand, re-gain skilled colleague that is not looking elsewhere.
> Genimous Technology Co Ltd, a public company traded on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the symbol 000676, is the 12 billion CNY ($1.7 billion USD) company that is behind these extensions [1]. Their ownership is concealed through shell companies setup in offshore jurisdictions like Polarity Technologies Ltd in Cyprus and EightPoint Technologies Ltd in the Cayman Islands, but can be traced through analysis of the browser extensions terms of service and contact information [2, 3]. Based on public filings, in the first 6 months of 2019, Genimous made 900,296,410.76 CNY ($125 million USD) from its overseas division, which generates its revenues from ads on search results pages [4, 5 (page 15 of the PDF)] for a $250 million yearly run rate.
Wait till someone finds out that accidentally coughing toward the monitor violates the warranty.
Buybacks are happening without profit. Companies are borrowing money to conduct buybacks.
Uhhhh just remembered hearing of such things. I have not been able to unsee certain things, but that one is one I am glad I have never looked at.
From your oec.world source, "Human or Animal Blood is also known as vaccines, toxins.

Human or Animal Blood is a 4 digit HS92 product."

What does that even mean? I think they're looping in vaccines and more in their human or animal blood category.

https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/3002/

Edit: among other things, they seem to be including all of the following as "human and animal blood", among others:

* 300220 Vaccines; for human medicine

* 300230 Vaccines; for veterinary medicine

* 300290 Toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products

https://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?code=3002
i like the character limit. Twitter is a telegraph office, not a magazine. he kinda has to use these threads himself, because it's his company. Hopefully his new system will suppport dual "excerpt/full text" publishing, because i 'd hate my feed to be full of 3 page articles instead of TL-DRs
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Also https://github.com/gtanner/qrcode-terminal (nodejs)
Generates code with ascii block characters. Can be use as a library or a a terminal command
You read an article about the dystopian situation with blood donations in the US and your immediate thought is "why don't we do that"?

Canada collects more than enough transfusion blood through volunteers -- there isn't some underclass that is bled as if that's their value. This accounts for the bulk of normal blood products. Canada imports plasma products because a) the US generates lots of it, b) it's a specialty product.

"Somehow domestic dairy production is a national asset that must be protected, but it’s totally okay to depend on foreign nations for blood products"

Dairy is protected because if you let a foreign power destroy your source through uneven capitalism (e.g. the US dumping their excess, subsidized production) the number of farms/cows/chickens would collapse, so when they suddenly decide they don't like you or want to keep it all for themselves, there would be a period of starvation while the industry tried to recover. Hence, it's strategically important to keep the industry healthy as a matter of sovereign principal.

Blood products don't work that way. We don't have children, or cull the herd, based upon the needs of blood products. Heck, contrary to that the supply and demand is automatically balanced. Ergo, if someone cut us off we have 37 million possible donors and could ramp up every bit of need overnight.

It's a pretty specious comparison to try to contrast those.
My job gives us about 5K a year for individual training in addition to hosting meetups after work etc etc.

The 5K can be used for training, conference and travel tickets etc etc.

This is in Norway so everything is mostly nice all the time, but to be honest it is the first time I've had anything like this. Feels awesome.
There is also very much accidental complexity in software. Mainly the plethora of OSes, programming languages, build systems, package managers and what not. For maximum simplicity there should exist only one of the things I mentioned in the previous sentence. Whenever one runs into one of these things and one happens to not be very familiar with it, one is in big trouble, and not the kind of trouble that, at least I, enjoy. Also, for simplicity there should not be the difference between software that runs on local machines and software that runs on the web.

The reason this plethora exists may well the be crusade that you mention. Instead of solving the problems with the current programming language, let us just invent a new one instead. The former thing is much harder to pull of, of course but should limit the amount of complexity in the long run.
There's two ways to look at everything. Buybacks can be seen as companies giving money back to the shareholders. Or if you decouple the company from it's stock, you'll see that buybacks are an investment in the company's own future, since they believe that their own stock is at a discount now, and they'll make more selling it later.
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Maybe I would be more on board if I felt the government could properly manage the additional funds this would generate. It's not like they have a great track record with what they already have.

DC has something like half of the 10 wealthiest counties in the whole country. Why is that?
Thank you for the your feedback! It's very important for a tool like this to be clear and transparent about what it's doing. The docs definitely need to be improved. It's already a lot for some info to be lost and not enough, at the same time, in other areas.

By the way, if you don't feel comfortable with the minification functionality you can still use docker-slim as a Docker image inspection and profiling tool (take a look at the report files it generates). Additional package level reporting is on the todo list. Image and Dockerfile linting functionality is coming soon too.
"Computer with 8 gigabytes of RAM is expensive!!!" is the actual story with the current mac pro.
Apple Sues Former iPhone Chip Designer for Breach of Contract
I'm not sure how that works, legally. If I understand you, you're suggesting that you can GPL your work to create leverage in a future negotiation with a potential user who wants to modify it privately and/or integrate it into proprietary software.

Can you un-GPL your work for a single entity? Doesn't that mean that you yourself are violating the GPL? I'm legitimately asking, not being rhetorical.
I second this - The messages look just the same as a regular email for people that don't use the Spike app.
Thank you for sharing this.

There's a great thread on Twitter about share buybacks criticisms particularly by Cliff Asness who is the founder of AQR.

https://twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/118827733385941811...
And that’s why you tax their shares of the company as well ?
Sounds like a plot from Silicon Valley :)

Twitter PiperNet?
30%!

If a bank had a 30% default rate on mortgages they’d immediately cease to be a bank.
This specific man in the middle attack is risky in that it requires very close range, face to face interaction with your target, a fairly unreliable chance of success, and may only work on one of the four validation mechanisms. If effective the money is unlikely to propagate much further as the next user will fail to validate.
Idk if they would knock you out or just give you anesthetic but keep you semi-aware. "Knocking people out" is generally avoided, but this obviously depends on the specific situation.

Are there any medically experienced people that know if this could be more likely to be a full "knock them out" kind of procedure?
Pretty sure he is based on Mark Cuban.
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My friend that is how the world works...everyone helps and works for the rich. Why are you complaining about US, complain about your government who put you in need for others.
The problem is the revenue model. Zombie viewing is more profitable than surprising new content.

If you were asked to hack on YouTube's algorithm, any modifications you'd produce, no matter their merit, would be tested against the status quo for their ability to generate revenue.
I did my Masters' thesis with the group that invented and developed this in Toronto. I know some of the co-authors on the paper personally since we worked together.

AMA.
Gemini: Open-Source Automated Random Testing Suite for Scylla and Cassandra
Like I said, net neutrality analogies are hard.
You're assuming anyone cleaning an office can read English, so you'd probably have to have that message in multiple languages and trust that Google Translate did a good job.

Besides, who actually uses screen savers these days? Don't most people turn off their monitors or put them in energy saving mode at the end of the day?
> A lot of comedians do things that are in one way or another demeaning to themselves or showing a lack of self-respect, but they do it because they actually incredibly confident in themselves that they can stand up and make those jokes.

Many struggle with anxiety and depression, and are self deprecating as a defense mechanism because the criticism of others is less harsh when you've already done it to yourself.
> Why not have something like that for your network stack?

In a way, it is like that already. After all, all computation can be described as a repeated application of, say, the very simple reduction rules of the lambda calculus. How does that help? Does the fact we know what the gravity equation help us predict the system's behavior (e.g. to ensure that some bad state is never reached)?
I wonder if infrared LEDs (not seen by human eyes - but which desense camera sensisivity etc etc) flashed on/off at a high and rotatingly variable rate mich redcuce how effective these cams work? Of course, IR filters on cameras would occur soon enough?
There has been a trend towards more inequality in developed countries over the last decades. So we have to be careful not to regress.
Oh sorry my bad, I just dislike the guy's ventures in general I guess
Can and have seen agile teams just create user stories for this. With estimates and acceptance criteria (yes having your people pass a quiz can be acceptance criteria). They even did an end of sprint demo where they had to present (without a deck) on the concepts of what they learned and answer questions.
> Emoji are hard to type on non-mobile platforms

On macOS, emojis are actually easier: Control+Command+Space in any text field, then type a word to filter/search the emoji list [0], or expand the popup to a full-blown Unicode browser [1].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ZpAcIe3.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/uN9fxmH.png
I wasn’t talking about the private sector.

I was talking about government work contracts, like the state work the parent comment was referring to.

My family members work in politics. These kinds of things are considered when making all decisions because they don’t want to attract any negative press or give potential narratives to future opponents. That’s how politics works from the inside, at least for Democrats in America.

Everyone on here so prickly lately
There's no hard and fast rules. No, a company will never retroactively pay for you learning, but yes a number of companies will reimburse you if you attend graduate programs while employed with them.

It's a balancing act. If a company wants employees to keep learning, they need to invest in that. If I, as a salaried employee, am expected to be available outside of the explicit working hours for emergencies, then it's also fair that I be allowed to do things that are directed at my own career during work, bonus if it proves useful to the company.
Thanks for the kind words!

What kind of licensing would be interesting?

Any particular expense software you'd love to see me build integration for?

In general I'd love to build this so that it works as smoothly as possible with your current workflow, and that probably means integration on some level - or at least interoperability.
Imagine being the director of the movie, and knowing that subtitles are spreading your work to those who otherwise wouldn't ever care to watch it due to the language barrier
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762780
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>There are jobs related to art (say, visual design or writing copy) that can be done on full or even limited part time basis.

This is the part I don't get. You're totally right. The skills taught in liberal arts programs are actually useful. I think university liberal arts departments could do a much better job of pointing students toward areas where they could use their skills. I flinch when someone says their poli sci or history degree is useless. Those are extremely useful for journalism and all subfields/areas where your vocabulary pays your rent. If done right, those degrees make you a better writer and generalist /specialist researcher than like, I don't know, at least 60% of the general population. I got an English degree just because I like reading books and writing. I wanted to be a journalist, which where I'm from is generally another year of specialised training after a three-year undergraduate degree. Then I went and lived overseas a couple of times and didn't want to be a journalist anymore. Used my skills for other things. It worked out fine. The liberal arts are more useful in the workforce than many people think.
Isn't sand made of silicon, which is one of the most common elements on Earth? I don't quite understand why it's scarce enough that stealing it's viable.
For two of the biggest uses of Twitter, privately-scoped posts and private messages, Twitter implementing ActivityPub would effectively make that information public. Not a good thing, and one that Twitter would get a lawsuit for. AP is broken for any use other than publicly-scoped posts, and given that Twitter is already a huge target, I think adding fuel to the fire would really be bad here.
As long as they dry polishing cloth from Apple support doesn't cost $10. Don't get near my screen or sneeze on it! Screen protectors, anyone?
Absolutely. You could even add fake citations to online newspapers – the odds of someone checking are very low, and I continually stumble upon either blatant fabrications or misunderstandings that have stood there "sourced" for years on high-traffic articles.
> I don't understand why people are so upset about this

Because in an office all it takes is one cleaner or coworker to not know to leave that display alone and they could damage your expensive display.