skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much, much worse. We passed the legendary inequality of the gilded age about 15 years ago, and the rate at which the divide has been growing has been increasing ever since. We created the richest people who have ever lived by a wide margin, and all trends point to the margin increasing.
Get an Amstrad CPC6128, rig it out with an SD card, and experience the joy of 2019's releases for what is, arguably, one of the greater Z80 systems of the era.
One should NOT accept any extreme view that sounds outrageous without data sources. The whole point of fake news is to appeal to emotion.

If it is that easy to make a point as you claim, if all it takes is a link, then the journalist should put that source into their piece. It should not be the readers that are sent on a wild chase.

Do your links really prove the point? Is the category labeled as "Human or Animal Blood" the same thing as donated plasma supposedly extracted from poor people?
>How is decentralized twitter supposed to solve misinformation?

How is this not a laughable expectation? You may as well expect them to "solve evil".
Docker image that contains a set of tools for compressing and optimize images
I've seen it be a concern at a couple companies where the person takes 30+ minute "coffee breaks" and has to leave the office to go to Starbucks. Not surprisingly they were generally lower output team members as well. (He says, on HN, in the middle of the workday.)
Why is it a great reply? It does not explain the fact that US would handover two nuclear reactors to North Korea sounds such a bold step, diplomatically speaking. Would US do that today with North Korea or even other countries.
Would I say what is a more balanced take on what matter? The two quotes you pulled appear to be takes on different matters.
fluxuate?
How are they not paying taxes? The people selling their stock to the company in the buyback have to pay taxes on any gains and the people holding onto the stock long term will eventually have to pay taxes on any gains when they finally do sell (they're not going to hold onto a stock until the heat death of the universe so they are going to realize their gains and pay taxes on them at some point).
Does the VSCode integration support this?

Though for webassembly I need the generated wasm to exist and be loaded before I can really see what's happening :\
The MAX’s safety record when it was grounded, after two years in service, roughly amounted to two catastrophic accidents for every one million flights, according to estimates by industry officials relying on unofficial data. By contrast, the model of 737 that came before the MAX has suffered one fatal crash for every 10 million flights, according to data from Boeing.

Put another way, the 737 Max has a statistic of 1 catastrophe per 500k flights, whilst the 737 was 1 per 10 million, basically 20 times as much.

This is criminal behaviour, and people need to go to jail. The MAX should never be allowed to fly again.
Maybe at Foxconn or something
Prostate cancer is rarely lethal since it develops so slowly, and is often left untreated.

That said, many cases are life threatening.
GuitarPro is a $70/year subscription. I would hope I wouldn't need to pay that in order to get some sheet music for this app...
Being a Jew in the Soviet Union meant having “Jewish” stamped in your passport
So what about the server team lead? What did they say? Seems to me it doesn't matter what your existing frontend guy has to say about it.
> Tie it to deliverables

That's a great idea in theory because tackling a real world problem tends to motivate towards a real world solution.

However, learning invariably encompasses failure which rarely measures up well with typical (if arguably useful/useless) performance metrics that developers contend with.
Do you mind sharing a bit of information about your container images? What's the app language for both? What kind of application is it? How do you init your apps in the containers? docker-slim is definitely not perfect and there's lots of room for improvement. Can you ping me offline (on github/gitter, twitter or email, my email is kcq.public@gmail.com)?
The user is intending to search with Google but the query never touches Google or shows any Google results. That's why it's different.

Thanks for the DDG link, though. I had no idea.
In theory, there's no reason why a screenreader can't. In practice, this depends on the combinations of applications you're using and whether or not your emoji dictionary is up-to-date. I suspect iOS/Android readers will handle them fine, I suspect older versions of JAWS will either have incomplete dictionaries or not handle them at all.

Blind HN readers, or just readers who have more experience than me are welcome to comment here.

The problem with emoji that isn't present for glyphs in other languages is that we get new emoji every year, which means that the standard just moves a lot faster than, say, the German alphabet.

Arguably a year is more than enough time to update a screenreader, but to be fair, how long did it take for applications to get to the point where they would pretty much all gracefully handle curly quotes across the board? Even some E-Readers used to have problems where if you searched a straight-quote, it wouldn't match curly quotes in the text. And, like, their only job is to make text work correctly.
I understand the concern but it's a $5K professional display. It should only be handled by professionals who know what they are doing.
rust-analyzer includes a VS: Code plugin.
The article's thesis seems to be that concentrated ultra-wealth is largely the "product of law" on the one hand, so lacking corresponding laws on the other end is unbalanced.

Up to a certain point, one can try to make a case that one's accumulated wealth is the product of their own work. This is a simplification, and usually wrong, but let's go with it. Let's say that your first ten million is because you work hard. Let's say your next ten million is because you were in the right place at the right time. Let's say your next ten million is do to good choices you made before you realized how important the choices would be. Now let's say your next ten million is due to... uh... more hard work. And the next ten million too!

At some point, one has to admit there's more going on here than hard work or a good idea. The article lays out that above a certain point--call it the fifty million I laid out above, or go twenty times that and call it a billion--a large part of your accumulated wealth is the direct result of laws and legal protections, and that set of laws is currently unbalanced.
If anyone else is [curious](https://blockonomi.com/channel-factories-bitcoin-lightning-n...)
The terminology I've most commonly seen used is this:

Centralized = One central system runs everything (i.e. Twitter, Facebook)

Decentralized = Multiple central systems run everything, but they talk to each other and you can build your own (i.e. email, Mastodon/ActivityPub)

Distributed = No central system at all (i.e. Bitcoin)
I guess this GPS integration is needed to keep the year 2030 launch date.

Galileo needed a lot of testing and in 10 years timeframe you simply cannot have a fully tested system - incompatible with anything elsel
> Are Net Neutrality advocates arguing that it should be illegal for network operators to perform any kind of traffic shaping, even that which would prioritize the traffic for latency sensitive applications?

At least some of us NN advocates believe it should be illegal for ISPs to perform the kinds to traffic shaping that explicitly identify and prioritize certain ports or protocols over others. Because that kind of traffic shaping is not really necessary to offer good QoS, and thus there's no reason to continue allowing it.
Do you not like the "sound" of that? :D
I the company I've been working at in Austin and we've been increasingly choosing Kotlin for our backend services as well. We started with Scala and found the ramp up to be tough. I came from a company that used mostly Ruby before and had no JVM experience at all and I found kotlin really easy to get productive with in a short amount of time. I actually prefer it in many ways not to everything else I had done before (I think I just really like static typing).
Using the word "still" there is uncalibrated. 4 hours per month is barely anything.

Imagine yourself trying to learn a real skill in that allocation of time.

If anything, you may even be reducing your tech employees' "professional development" with that metric, because I bet the average tech employee already spends greater than 4 hours per month on active learning with or without management actively allowing them.
Good, then people will be more inclined towards independent critical thinking
If you want net neutrality you should be excited by companies building private networks because it means there's a competitive market that no one ISP or government can control.
I love this. I can't get the newline breaks to work in my QR scanner, but I got excited about the idea of generating recursive QR codes. i.e. QR codes that embed another unicode QR code inside of them.
I extremely doubt that. For a long time Twitter couldn't handle the load of Twitter...
And you can use 100s of microfiber cloths from various places. Apple just can’t make any guarantees about their efficacy.
This is the reaction of much of HN to virtually every article that isn't their wheelhouse. Yet a one second search confirms the situation regarding blood product exports...

Look at the mental gymnastics, misdirections and pearl-clutching a few are engaged in, and where there is any possible variance, in their opinion, surely it must be in favor of their argument. It is simply bizarre.

A few days ago there was a post about the oceans warming and what that meant to sea life (a report from a massive scientific org). The top post -- what HN's collective genius felt was the take-away -- was an absolutely ignorant bit of "why this is all wrong according to me, some random guy who read something on reddit". It is absolutely the Stupidification of Western society, and is idiocracy writ large.
I have been looking for an excuse to use capsule networks. I can't investigate it as a possible solution at work because even if good results are achieved the performance problems[0] would prevent real world use. Definitely might look into that as a side project though. I have also been looking for an excuse to do something beyond like SENet in Julia.

Maybe a new benchmark like this is what we need to get out of the rut.

[0]: delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3330000/3321441/p177-Barham.pdf
Is there any chance that these techniques could be equally effective for other cancers? For example Liver, Kidney, Lung cancers?
How to Survive the Streets
If I asked you for $10 and you offered me 10 CHF, I'd probably turn you down, as despite 10 CHF being worth more than $10, it's still effectively worth less to me, as my buying power from 10 CHF is significantly lower than it is with $10. I can't pay my taxes with it, I can't buy dinner with it, I can't pay my rent with it. I can't even store it in my bank, I have to pay to convert it first.

I suspect most people (especially in the USA, given how relatively few people even leave the country compared to other western countries) don't consider foreign currency to be real.

Heck, try spending Scottish Pounds in London (UK) and see what responses you get.
It's not unheard of for contractors in non-NA & non-EU locales.
Mods: blogspam, real link is here:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor...
It's not a big story, but it's not quite insignificant.

Do you read the manual when you buy a monitor?

They're all pretty much the same and work out of the box, especially an Apple monitor. I can see a lot of people just setting up the monitor and tossing the manual. When they see the cloth, all they think is "cool, free cloth".

Also, you have to educate anyone who would think to clean or touch the monitor screen in your absence, like cleaning staff, significant others, your kids, visiting relatives, or whatnot.
Apple uses alcohol to clean the screens in their stores.
This is correct. Stock buybacks are just a way of doing dividends that is more tax advantaged.

The right answer isn't to introduce new forms of buyback taxes with unknown second-order effects (who would you tax? if the shareholder is avoiding dividend taxation, taxing the corporation isn't a great solution). The solution is to just improve the way we tax dividends and capital gains.
A nano ceramic coating on your car sounds interesting. Is there a specific reason you got it? I am assuming it is on the inside of your windshield.
And no one even writes the manual anymore. Software project documentation is a disaster.
I've generally seen decentralized as a synonym for federated, not distributed.
Be assured that the Amateur Radio community is quite active; especially regarding emergency communication and disaster preparedness.

Personally, I am active with the Connecticut Amateur Radio Emergency Services(CT-ARES), which is a local organization part of the larger national ARES organization(http://www.arrl.org/ares). Both of these offer training and procedures for facilitating communication during emergencies. CT-ARES works with the state of CT, in particular the Red Cross and many local town governments.

My activities include participating in regular 'nets' (http://www.ctares.org/networks.php) which are station tests which serve to prove that my radios work in various failure scenarios. Other members are even more active and practice their communication skills by offering supplemental communication for various events like marathons, fairs, etc.

It comes down to this; you don't know something works unless you regularly use it.

de K2CHA

PS: One should also test their backups by actually restoring from them...
Except it does not.

Human or Animal blood is not donated plasma. As a matter of fact the sources that are cited state that the biggest exporter is Ireland:

> Ireland: US$3.2 billion (37.8% of total blood exports)

Are you arguing that Ireland has more blood plasma donations then the US?
Only some sands are suitable for construction.

Dubai import most of their sand despite being in a desert.
>Not disagreeing with you but is the relative inequality better or worse than other periods in history?

Is the available wealth and technological means to eradicate inequality "better or worse than other periods in history"?

That's the important question, not whether a 2019 country that sends people to the moon and has access to nuclear power, communications, computing, etc, is better off than a 1500 A.D. feudal kingdom or a 10.000 B.C. cave...
The middle ground here is that I'd try to grasp the basics on my own time, then ask the switch.

I can understand your boss though: would you swap a competent employee for an incompetent one, paying the same amount? Probably not. Yes, you retain your knowledge about the front-end, but you wouldn't be using that.

My advice would be to work out the basics on your time and then ask somebody in the backend team to be involved, baby steps.

If you actually become useful for the backend team, they will advocate themselves for your switch, and bring you up to speed once there.
Like, isopropyl alcohol?
Most of the time, the sand is used to create new land. It's not scarce but it's not everywhere either.
Not sure why you're getting downvotes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-prostate-cancer/untreated...

> Even without treatment, only a small minority of men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer die from the disease, Swedish researchers reported Friday. Drawing from a national cancer register, they estimated that after 10 years prostate cancer would have killed less than three percent of these men.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> Prostate cancer often has an indolent natural history, and patients are more likely to die with than to die from the disease. There is reliable evidence that PSA testing results in considerable overdiagnosis and overtreatment of men with prostate cancer, while associated potential harms include pain, fever, bleeding, infection, and transient urinary difficulties resulting from prostate biopsy, as well as erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, and bowel dysfunction.

> On May 22, after reviewing the evidence on both benefits and harms of PSA testing, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded that the reduction in prostate cancer mortality after PSA testing was very small and that the benefits did not outweigh the harms. Their recommendations are against PSA-based screening for the general US population of men at any age.
> Constraining the user to simple tools encourages creativity and allows the system to be more quickly understood. This supports the removal of complicated features.

Oh god, no. This horrible idea escalated so far that there is now a billion dollar industry (RPA) automating braindead tasks just because software can not be arsed any more to include API, code/CLI based access or, to steal the wording, complex tools at all.

IMO this is another round of weirdly religious adherence to "UX" schemes which ends in massive damage, like the unconditional love for whitespace everywhere.

Please stop using "simplicity" as a cop out to prevent having to build software that, for example, has basic things like stack deletion. The result will just suck.
In a buyback, a shareholder must sell shares back to the company. When they do, the shareholder's gains are taxed with capital-gains tax.

Furthermore, whenever shareholders sell shares after the buyback, their shares are generally worth more, so they pay increased capital gains, too.

I don't know which yields more tax revenue in the long run, but buybacks definitely generate some tax income.

The only time I could see a "buyback" influencing share price without taxation is if the buyback has a price cap, and every shareholder believes that the company is worth more, so they don't sell any shares back. This is exceedingly unlikely unless the company is very thinly traded.

From my perspective, the key difference with a buyback is the winnowing of shareholders to those who believe more-strongly in the company's future. With a dividend, every shareholder gets a small amount of cash. With a buyback, some shareholders get cash for their shares, and every other shareholder gets a bigger slice of a company that is worth less (total) money.

If the market is efficient (and it isn't, but it can be) then following a buyback, one would expect the market capitalization of the company to be smaller, as the company has paid out money. After 6 months, if the market cap of the company, plus the funds expended in the buyback, is greater than the inflation-adjusted pre-buyout market-cap, then the company has created shareholder value through some other mechanism (even if the mechanism is pure psychology).
Are you kidding? That source is including human and animal vaccines in the category, like I included in my other comment. That is a massively larger industry. I am going to contact the oec.world author about it.
Perhaps I'm being simple, but I don't really understand the problem here. Companies are sitting on too much cash that they don't know what to do with. There is only so much that can productively be spent on R&D. If they don't do something with their cash, investors will start demanding a dividend. Once you start giving dividends it becomes hard to stop giving them. To prevent perpetual dividends, companies perform a buy back which also helps out investors but is a one time thing which doesn't need to be repeated.
Toxic individualism. Me above all. Consequences are for chumps. And it's all so cynical. We see this in politics as well. One last dash pillaging the world for money and power, burning it down to the ground in the process.
You wrote: The point is simply that our debt levels aren’t that unmanageable,...

The cost of living is important as this and income level determines the affordability of debt. Just comparing income level and debt level between the two countries is not a deep enough analysis in order to determine if your proposed fix would work.

You are also ignoring the fact that a large number of people who go to college never graduate. These people are completely absent from your analysis of the problem. You are focusing only on the set of college graduates of both countries. I suspect that the rate of college completion for those who enroll at least one semester is much higher in Sweden than in the U.S.

According to your post 1/3 of U.S. college graduates don't have employer subsidized healthcare. This is a huge percentage and you are ignoring them in your analysis of relative debt burden.

Taxes are higher as a percent in Sweden than in the U.S. but in the U.S. at a moment's notice you can get screwed financially really bad in ways that you can't in Sweden. An ambulance ride in the U.S. costs much more than in Sweden and yearly out of pocket expenses for healthcare is much higher. The necessity of a car causes most people in the U.S. to have auto loans and unplanned maintenance costs can send people over the financial precipice.

I suggest that merely looking at the numbers you have does not give a clear picture of the relative situation in both countries.
I don't think $10 is egregious for a replacement cloth, given the price of the monitor.
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Different application runtimes have interesting hidden behaviors. With Python, for example, the runtime will generate cache files from your .py files and then it'll use it instead of those .py file. However, it still checks if the original source code is still there. If it's not there the runtime will refuse to use the cache files.
LinkedIn started great but they shit the bed. The path they chose wasn’t aligned with users interests, it was to serve themselves.

Fraudulent LinkedIn profiles are a big problem, too.
I do hope we still get to see her failures. I watch a lot of hobby/project channels and I like to know about the hurdles they faced. When a project becomes a complete failure and no product whatsoever is created I like to watch the postmortems.
Hey now, the notarisation priority bit has only been set for a little while, if you wanna release early/often, you can't wait around for Apple to approve your submission...
$1T would be enough seed money to get an international effort moving to solve climate change using emissions targets, ferrous phytoplankton seeding like IRONEX I and/or kelp blooming/capture/sequestration. Much cheaper than the inflated numbers thrown around as arguments for doing nothing / delaying longer that ignore the $200+ trillion destroyed by doing nothing.

Deny -> extinction

Complain about costs -> extinction

Do nothing -> extinction

Do too little -> mass deaths, world war

Act decisively -> enough of us would likely survive
You're correct that I haven't lived in every small town in America, thus having no direct experience, but I routinely enjoy the small towns more than cities. It rubs me the wrong way to see a comment about them only existing because of teen pregnancy.
For those unfamiliar with this situation: Pleroma is an ActivityPub server and frontend written in Elixir and designed for low resource consumption, somewhat of an alterative to Mastodon. One or two of the most prominent early Pleroma instances had very sparse moderation policies, leading some to associate Pleroma with trolls and far-right users. Today, most Pleroma instances prohibit hate speech, harassment, and so on. Of course, anyone is free to make their own Pleroma or Mastodon instance with whatever rules and federation policies they like, and the most "chud-filled" instance in the entire fediverse (Gab) is running a Mastodon fork, not Pleroma.