skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that the natural state of the corporation is to go extinct. Governments have so much inertia that it often takes a literal revolution to replace them.

Bad externalities are the downside to dictatorships. The externalities of a corporation are much more limited, and there is more pressure to reduce them (from governments, other corporations, and their customers).

Continuing the dictatorship metaphor, this pushes corporations to be more “benevolent”.
Maybe look at who’s buying those vehicles before you make sweeping generalizations about who the buyers are.
If they own articles then they may own patents. I view some current contradictions in what ai owns or not.
Why are you assuming it's boomers? SUVs and pickup trucks are popular across the entire age spectrum for a variety of reasons (perceived safety, cargo capacity, space and features to haul kids and their stuff around, better road visibility, etc.).
While true it's important to point out that salaries are rising and most for the lowest income.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-wage-growth-for-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/02/minimum-w...
> However, many state that one problem with UBI is that it comes at the expense of personal gratification and economic productivity.

Personal gratification in the form of extremely boring, demeaning, repetitive work which barely gives you enough money to live in poverty?

> However, these jobs are not meant to create wealth. They're meant to provide subsistance.

Minimum wage jobs are not meant to provide subsistence. They're meant to extract maximum profit from financially vulnerable people.

> Rather than pushing up wages for low wage work, dis-incentivization of low wage will push employers towards automation.

That's already the case regardless of UBI.

> As such, low wage is a support of employment generally.

Not really, I doubt Google's software engineer hiring gets harder or doctors go out of work if less people are willing to work minimum wage at Walmart.
It's worth discussing subgroups. An unemployment rate of 5% is probably fine if it is uniformly distributed; but we know it's not.

Some subgroups, like minorities and young adults, have been plagued by much higher numbers which are a problem. Someone who can't get a foothold in the job market will likely have lifelong challenges.

A rate of 3.5% almost certainly mean improvement for these subgroups.
Actually California is no longer in drought and has plenty of water (for now)
It's delusional you think you are the best person in the area at something you haven't put any effort into. Especially when the area is the whole world economy.
Imagine if all improvements over the course of history would be kept in secret for gains of owners of capital. Who own rights to the invention of an axe? Probably the first one who put a stone on a piece of wood. Should he has all rights for it forever? I couldn't really agree.
The market is not some emergent natural phenomenon. It is a construct to facilitate human interaction. We already heavily circumscribe the “free market” and I don’t understand reactions to market failures that amount to “Well we can’t do anything about that”. Of course we can, it exists for us, not the other way around.
Thank you for all the thoughtful feedback.

You bring up some great points regarding categorization–choosing a sensible taxonomy has been by far the hardest part of this project so far. I'd love some help in this area if you or anyone else is interested.

> Should GE be on the list?

I've been asking myself this same question for weeks and haven't come to a conclusion yet. What do you think? How about O&G companies with big green tech budgets?

> Also, what about governments? ... Shouldn't they be included on the list?

I think this would be a very interesting data point to track indeed, though I suspect someone else is already tracking this.

> Finally, a search or full list to Ctrl+F

Agreed, added this to our backlog.
Could you tell me what you think the “surprise” is, exactly? I don’t quite get it, I need you to explicitly say what you mean.
Anecdotally, my parents had a son while under the financial support of both sets of my grandparents. Then 4 daughters while only supported by a single not quite middle class income. Then a 10 year gap and under the support of two middle class incomes had their second son.
I haven’t had too many issues ordering from Amazon, but I go through much effort making sure seller is reputable every time and listing was not swapped.

Both Adorama and B&H sell on Amazon too, but for photo/video gear I would go to B&H direct.
Yet the official unemployment rate is really closer to the job seeker rate and largely meaningless when compared between countries, what really matters economically is the employment rate where Canada has been 1+% ahead for most of 2019.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/employment-rate, https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate
Not all of Paris is like what?
note: this is an "old man yelling at clouds" post. I hope readers can consume it in a way that they find valuable to their current perspectives.

I have experiences with many jobs that were not enjoyable. By "not enjoyable", I don't only mean they were dull office jobs. I had a lot of jobs in my early twenties, often through temp agencies but not always: working in warehouses, working as a manual laborer in large institutional buildings (moving furniture etc), two different jobs working on factory assembly lines, working in old office buildings to pull network cable through ceilings and floors, working on receiving docks, etc. Well over ten or fifteen jobs, as they tended to last for a summer, or a few months or weeks. As someone with computer skills and ultimately a pretty promising career ahead of me, I always had the sense in these temp jobs that they were just that, "temporary". However, most everyone I worked with in these roles were not there as temps, they were the people for whom life had worked out such that these kinds of jobs were close to the best they were going to get. There is no amount of "hard work" that someone in these roles can apply to move to a new station in life, there are too many strikes against them: educational, cognitive/developmental, health-wise, criminal backgrounds, etc. that make it extremely unlikely they would ever have much better of a station in life. And like me, all of these people were entirely aware of this element of who they were; they were the "lifers".

One of the worst jobs I had which I could only handle for about two weeks was working in a factory that manufactured rolls of ink ribbon for line printers and typewriters. My job was to be handed a large metal bar called the "spindle" onto which I would pull out 30 or so rolls, stick all the rolls onto the spindle with spacers in between them, then hand them off to this other woman who had whatever minor skill was required to put this spindle into the machine that would roll the ink ribbon onto them. You do this in a dark and smelly factory for 8 hours a day. This job was for me, a valuable experience, as I can look back on it with all the perspective offered by doing that kind of job. But for all the other folks working in that place including the woman who I handed the spindle off towards, that was it for them. They were all at most high school grad or less, they were people for whom there were no opportunities. The job paid minimum wage. They were "lifers". These people are counted as part of "the employed". But they live paycheck to paycheck with minimal benefits or health care, in a dangerous and unhealthy environment, low life expectancy, poor nutrition, all of it. I don't consider low employment numbers to be very interesting when one notes how miserable life is for so many of the "employed".
I suspect that received wisdom is highly culturally dependent. The received wisdom in my social circle (western US) is that girls are far more trouble than boys.
> Probably be better to just do freelance/consulting on the side and make an extra $100/hr in a day.

Creating a technical book about a specific subject is a great way to advertise yourself as a freelancer/consultant as well.
I don't think there's a very complicated question to answer - SUVs are sooo much more comfortable to get into and drive than regular cars that it's not a surprise they have become the default vehicle type for many people. I'm only 29 and having developed some joint problems I'm now buying an SUV for myself, purely because getting into a regular sedan/estate is a bit of a struggle, but getting into an SUV isn't. The same applies to the driving position - even in the uber-luxury saloon like the Mercedes E class the fact that you're sitting much lower puts a lot of strain on my legs, but sitting with my back higher up in something like the LR Discovery makes driving much easier.

I'm trying to offset the emissions aspect by buying a plug-in hybrid SUV - so at least my plan is to do 100% work commute on electric power alone.
To transition into something resembling a government would not be very on brand for Apple. If anything they seem likely to blast off into space and colonize Mars with all the cash they've mined and stockpiled here.
This isn't just his shitty opinion from personal difficulty. Look at mating patterns in other social creatures, especially primates. Why do you think human attraction can't be similar?

Look at primate troops which are naturally dominated by one reproducing male. Now throw in higher level emotions and self awareness and a range of cultures, some of which have norms which encourage early monogamy, others which emphasize social status such that dating distributions start to resemble those of primates.

Point is these sweeping generalizations do become accurate depending on which statistics you consider. Dating is asymmetric, and women hold all of the power over the vast majority of men.

Don't take my word for it. Find a basically pretty women to go to a bar with and pay attention to the kind of attention she gets, just being passive. Now imagine a male dating successfully by being totally passive - incidentally this very much related to innate behavioral pressure which leads to gender roles.
Are you sure about that? I don't have Lyft where I live. But, about a year back, I was given a Lyft code for an interview. When I got the code, the instructions made it clear that I needed to register a credit card for liability. I had my account created with my personal credit card and redeemed the code. I thought I was good to go. When I got to the destination city and tried to order a ride at the airport, it said I needed to enter a SECOND credit card for verification. Unfortunately I traveled light and didn't a second card on me.
Alas, we killed Flash. It's undeniable that that technology enabled a Cambrian explosion of creativity.
That's mostly the work that you want to do. The work you must do when being forced by economic factors, especially the extra job one might take in order to make ends meet, gives a sense of dread to a person's life. We can talk about a sense of purpose when people are more-or-less financially stable (at least nothing threatening their first level in Maslow's pyramid) and they get to pick whatever they get to work on. But when you're one step away from homelessness, the sense of purpose and the value derived from that takes the backseat.
Why does it make sense to force private industry to provide a UBI? A minimum wage job puts a floor on what can be paid and this fundementally distorts the labor market. If a job does not provide enough value to the employer to meet minimum wage it will not exist for very long. This rules out many types of work where the value is hard to capture and pushes all of that work into the domain of either being funded by government or non-profits. This also potentially prevents labor participation by certain categories of handicapped individuals who have the potential to provide value to society and experience satisfaction in their work but can't compete in a marketplace distorted by a minimum wage.

If anything, a UBI enables low-wage work, especially when that work provides satisfaction to the employed. It also can increase economic productivity because the labor market will be able to distribute labor more efficiently.
Ask HN: Do we need regulations for electronic OEMs in developing countries?
In India, a 46000 INR (~$650) laptop [1] still uses a 5400rpm HDD. It's a known fact that kind of memory is the bottleneck when coupled with modern processors. The pricing of SSDs has become affordable as well. But still OEMs choose not to include it in their mid tier forcing a majority of the population to feel the necessity to upgrade earlier than they should.

Meanwhile semiconductor manufacturing industry makes chips that can tolerate aging and other variations for a decade at least.

I understand planned obsolescence as a part of businesses but this is a trend that hasn't changed in a decade.

Would a consortium/regulations help in the betterment of the industry? I'm not sure of the intricacies of market share and targeted demographics involved but would companies benefit from such a thing?

[1](https://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-ideapad-330-core-i5-8th-gen-8-gb-1-tb-hdd-windows-10-home-2-gb-graphics-330-15ikb-laptop/p/itma11ec9a826c14/specifications?pid=COMFJM3TCS6GFGBT&marketplace=FLIPKART)
OP here, the number I gave is after fees. The website is static, hosted (for free) on Netlify.

It’s not just about the money as I said in the tweet! It’s about being (a little bit) paid for doing something I like (writing)
Health insurance is a benefit offered by some employers to some employees. And the data clearly shows that the drop in employment has not resulted in a corresponding rise in health insurance coverage, which just adds further evidence to the argument that our current low unemployment rate really just means that we’ve traded high unemployment for high underemployment.
I've read The Republic. There wasn't anything in there that inspired me to read more of his work.

I think Plato and a lot of other early writers should be studied as historical figures, but we should also recognize that they were products of their time. Plato got it wrong more often than he got it right, not because he was stupid (he wasn't), but because he didn't have the benefits of thousands of years of previous thinkers to refine his ideas against. But we do have that benefit, and we should use it. We have the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of 21st century giants, and we miss that opportunity if we choose to stand on the shoulders of philosophers in the infancy of philosophy.

Even where ancient philosophers got things right in their theories of the mind, it was mostly just lucky guesses, without the benefit of modern neuroscience to validate those guesses. And neuroscience itself is in its infancy: our theory of the mind should be expanding every day as new discoveries are made.
Life is not that simple.

What if:

- He actually needs to do it for regular job or pure interest, so the time is already lost. This way, you kill 2 flies with single shot

- Hosting and other stuff can be done for $0 nowdays

What I learnt here (not really, just improved current understanding) is that people suck at deduction and resort to simplistic observations that have no roots in reality.
But my understanding is that Kittyhawk etc are (at least in part) creating a new market of single-person "quick hops" within cities or metropolitan areas, displacing ground transport. Not only would this increase energy use per mile for existing trips, it could lead to a lot of new ones (e.g. making it viable to commute from far flung locations). This ramp in energy use for personal convenience seems problematic.
I understand your point but you’re also attempting to portray that low income folks have no chance at obtaining health insurance. Thankfully Medicare and Medicaid coverage gives health insurance to millions of people. 63 million to be exact were enrolled through some form of Medicaid in October 2019 (Center for Medicare, 2019)[1]. Another 10 million or so people are eligible for Medicare (prior to age 65) due to a disability.

[1] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica...
I've contracted for some medical orgs and I can tell you there is plenty of blame to go around, and most of it belongs on the heads of administration (C-levels), who let doctors get away with things they shouldn't while at the same time underfund and generally shit on their IT departments. IT directors without the backbone or knowledge to speak boardroom and convince the C-levels to have their back are failing, doctors are failing, and administrations are failing when it comes to IT, add all that to a complex regulatory scheme in which some vendors are basically immune to being dropped, overworked doctors and nurses because congress keeps them artificially scarce, and it's a recipe for disaster.

To those making excuses for doctors, you should be ashamed of yourselves. There is enough blame for everyone in this case.
Or fix the SSL. One of those must occur before this works.
When you could house, feed and clothe a family of four (or more!) on a single unskilled labor job, unemployment numbers meant something. Today they mean nothing.

A measure of how many households live above the poverty line would be a step in the right direction, but also frankly the poverty line in America is set too low. People 10% above it are still too poor to live comfortably on their income.
> No, you and the driver are supposed to exchange a keyword to make sure you got into the right car.

I've never heard of this. Where did you learn this? I'm not saying you're wrong either, as it makes sense. I've just never heard of it.
I’ve avoided accidents due to sitting higher in a SUV or truck by seeing what is in front of the driver ahead of me.
Your comment seems unnecessarily dismissive and misses the point.

The parent argues that Americans disproportionately boast about their unemployment figures compared to Canadians despite US unemployment carrying an exponentially greater risk of causing financial ruin due to medical expenses.

You dismissed his comment outright by citing that self-reported stress levels of unemployed Canadians and Americans are about the same, although this is at best tangentially related.
>Shouldn't the copyright therefore belong to the robot? The company is therefore not party to the ip infringement case.

A series of if/else blocks is not a "robot", or a legal person in any sense, any more than a paintbrush or a saxophone is.
> The sequence of events in the brain are what make up the mind. But, if you replace the brain while keeping the sequence of events continuous, you have a new brain and the same mind.

Okay, but as far as I know, we've never replaced a brain while keeping the sequence of events continuous--I'm not even sure what actions one would take to do that.
While it's fun to think of AI as humanoid, it's not. It's just a new kind of software.

A robot duck that can sit on a nest, make duck sounds and get food for the babies is still a robot, not a duck. Even punting in the whole consciousness debate, I think this example is easier because we generally think of ducks as simply living to reproduce and if a robot isn't organically reproducing and passing genetic material onto it's offspring, it's missing a huge part of what it is to be a duck.
"so I can take my toys elsewhere"

You are immune in the sense that G can only kill the services and hosting, and your access to G's copy of any content.

But the domain is still yours and your email is not @gmail even if it's hosted on gmail servers. So when G kills your account, it's only the hosting. You can switch your domain to any other hosting povider including self hosting, and all your old urls and email addresses resume working.

It would still be up to you to maintain your own off-G backups of any content. Saved emails, website, gdrive, docs, photos. When the account dies you may lose access to G's copy of everything, so ensure all they ever have is a copy.

Also probably don't use G for domain registrar. Even using them for dns host is ok, just not actual registrar.

Might make for a crappy day if you have to do all that switching, but you can, and that is enough to provide the safety net against the small chance that you will ever need to.

But if your email is actually @gmail, and that is say the "prove you own this account at life-savings-robo-advisor" email, then you are truly boned, and small risk is infinitely too-large risk.
I thought Verily was the shell under which Google did it's Life Science research... I wonder why the need for another.
I was trying to find a word that covered "illness" and "injury", but you're right. I've edited my post with the fix.
Why are you so focused on online dating? 80%+ of couples don't meet on the internet: https://flowingdata.com/2019/03/15/shifts-in-how-couples-mee...

If online dating expectations are really the issue, why aren't incels pursuing the many other options people use to find a partner? And if they can't/won't, what does that say about their viability as a partner?
Podnami improves the discovery of great technology podcast episodes. There's an abundance of podcasts out there - but it's hard to figure out which conversations are worth tuning in to.

The best episodes get voted to the top and is your "daily digest" of technology to listen to.

Happy to answer questions about its tech stack or future plans!
No one will care when an Explorer gets 20-25 mpg and gas is still under $2.50/gallon. The comfort and utility advantages more than outweigh any possible long-term externalities in the ordinary calculus.
We don't have to convice everyone to stop flying. We can start with to convincing everyone to fly less. Decarbonise in the meantime, if you can, of course.
These kids are the spawn of a terminally deranged postmodern technocapitalist society. You can see it's contradictory historical cultural dementia in incel ideology. They have no idea where they are in history. I want a wife and a family like a postwar company man! I want a life of automated techno luxury full of endless porn and gaming! I want to own a woman like in fuedal times!

Somehow I doubt adding more soulless machinery to the mix is the correct solution to capitalist alienation.

But whatever, try it. Why not.
I'm surprised you'd be in favor of welfare for anybody, actually. Why should we protect and support those with a disabled body or feeble mind? Let them freeze, let them starve. Individuals rise and fall. Natural selection is all-powerful. It's dumb to interfere. It's natural, it's evolution.

I'm glad not everyone shares your particular morality.
> Buy a real brand: people have there own opinions on this, but to me this means Sandisk, Samsung or Verbatim. Had a bad experience with Lexar once but as always ymmv.

I've had always bad luck with Sandisk, both CF and SD/microSD cards.
Some IRC clients would change the nick of the user if the user toggles that they are AFK.
That's interesting. I wonder if that's the same reason indie developers will write books or make assets rather than games that may or may not be a hit.
Totally fair, thanks for clarifying.
This is an overly simplistic view of power. The man in the blue uniform with the gun is at the end of a very long chain of people.

What happens, historically, when one group wields superior technology to another group? Who has the power?

Do you think we have the power, with our 1 in 300 millionth votes every 4 years for 1 of 2 people?

Sure, let's pretend there'll never be any "senator, I'm afraid if you take that stance on that bill, our algorithm won't be able to help you..." behaviour.

Absolute power corrup... I mean "muh private company -- nothing to see here".
You can wish all you want, it doesn't change reality.
Does apple have the keys or does iMessage just resend as a regular text if you deregister? End to end means only the two parties involved have the keys period.
Talking quantity yes, that's the case, taking quality or genetic diversity of almonds, or even almonds in the tradition of locals, nope. It depends.