skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article was weird. I started about ChromeOS and I was expecting a deep dive or interesting viewpoint on the OS market. Then it veered into "alternatives to Google" land, with a side promotion of HEY (of all things). It left me wanting, for an article about Google's OS strategy.
You don't hear about it, but Perl has had many millions thrown at it too.
These things aren't mutually exclusive. You could spend extravagantly on your child's education and give them a genuine leg-up on the competition.
>As an European myself, I really hope we will not succumb to tyrannical movements so easily.

Europe has seen a surge in anti-EU, anti-globalist sentiment since 2015. We've seen Britain leave with the support of a Conservative landslide in the last election. The V4 group emerge with its own agenda. Other countries postulating about whether being in the EU is the right direction for themselves, and more.

European leaders should be very careful, and I believe they will be, about letting Marxist sentiment like we're seeing in the US go unchecked there.

Now is a great time for Europeans to take a close look at US "society" and "culture" and decide for themselves how much more of it they're willing to tolerate being imported.
Customer service that also rate limits users and will explain why if you ask, quite possibly without prompt as well, I beat dang to the first email and he said he was about to reply in the comments.

This interaction only solidified my trust in the community and the people behind it.
We use AWS for now and are available in 5 regions. It makes more sense for a small team like us :)
Aren’t preconceptions not random by definition?
I'm entirely comfortable with noting there's a special category of super-rich, mega-wealthy, upper-upper class, top 0.1%, whatever you want to call it.

Calling someone with $23M net worth "upper middle" class remains absurd.
I've been writing (Modern) Perl for about 3.5 years and I disagree that Perl necessarily tends to unreadable code. I really don't think that's true at all.

To quote myself from a recent discussion:

I think some languages do make it easy to write convoluted code, but through judicious use of coding standards (including a helping of common sense [don't be clever where you can at all avoid it, which IME is ~~almost~~ all the time], code linters, and so on) I think how you use a language plays a huge part in code maintainability.

For instance, I've heard PHP get shit on pretty badly all around the web, but I've worked at PHP shops that had nice, clean codebases, and my current Perl codebase is, in many ways, nicely structured. That's not to say there aren't some hairy codepaths that could use refactoring, but I really think that kind of thing, again, can happen in almost any language.
But the higher percentile people. For example the 1 in 1000 are at $43 million dollars in wealth.

Net Worth Percentile Net Worth
10.0% -$962.66
20.0% $4,798.06
30.0% $18,753.84
40.0% $49,132.21
50.0% $97,225.55
60.0% $169,550.64
70.0% $279,594.27
80.0% $499,263.50
90.0% $1,182,390.36
95.0% $2,377,985.22
99.0% $10,374,030.10
99.5% $16,115,373.00
99.9% $43,090,281.00

Source: https://dqydj.com/net-worth-brackets-wealth-brackets-one-per...
I don't know. Plenty of politicians have lost because of their behavior years past turned from normal to unacceptable.

I probably won't run for anything, but just in case.
Taxes occur on business transactions (eg: groceries, clothing) which have a high tax (say 8%) since the transactions are smaller and monetary value of the tax is low.

Taxes on assets (real estate, stock capital gains) tend to be lower percentage value bc the asset price is high, thus the monetary value of the tax is high.

Inheritance tax seems to be a high tax on large assets, when no transaction occurs - just a transfer of ownership. If we did use that transfer to parallel a real estate transfer - then the value of tax should be a small percentage.
Feel free to actually read what I linked, and then respond with reasons why their conclusions are invalid.

When we're talking about safety trials, there's all sorts of interesting ways to invalidate the results. Like, do the efficacy trials (trials showing the antibody response of a given vaccine) utilize the same batch, randomly selected, with the safety trials? What if adjuvants are 10 times higher or lower in one trial than the next? Are there maximum safe doses established for these ingredients? Are doses beyond the safe dose linked to any autoimmune conditions? What percentage of the maximum safe dose is typically present in a given vaccine? Were the adjuvants sourced or created via the same process in the same facility to the same specification in each of the trials? Are those same production facilities being utilized today? Is there any industry oversight into the conformity of vaccines matching their stated ingredients and no other contaminants?

These are all really hard questions. I don't believe the regulatory agencies are doing most of that. I believe it's an FAA/Boeing self-certify situation. You probably didn't hear about how HHS hasn't been performing the safety studies mandated by law.

We also know that previous vaccines that are no longer in use have been known to cause autoimmune disorders. It's not scientific fantasy.

Edit (Since I can't reply to child):

Nobody's talking about LD50. We're talking about how much of an ingredient is safe in a vaccine.

It's no stretch to conclude that if X amount of some substance causes an increase in an immune response, to say that Y amount would be harmful, up to and including inducing an autoimmune problem. Since we also know there is a causative relationship between vaccines and autoimmune disorders, then it's fair to investigate why.

Unfortunately, we're left here to speculate on the internet. No amount of criticism can be levied towards any vaccine or component of a vaccine, because the authorities haven't taken the initiate to actually study any of this information. Most people assume, naively that they have, but unfortunately, they haven't. When called out, like child comment, it's washed away with "Can't prove a negative." Right.
Terrible wording by Apple, beyond FUD, as they claim certainty it’ll damage the computer. But it’s a beta, let’s hope they change it.
> asked a report

What does this mean exactly? Other than that, which I can’t really judge because I don’t understand it, it’s just people talking and having fun… No sexism, no discrimination, no abuse. I realize any expression of being a sexual being is frowned upon in Americas puritanical workplaces, but it’s hardly scandalous. Neither is expressly aiming at the market of heterosexual male adolescents. There is a lot of talk of working environments being “unfriendly” towards female coworkers, and it’s a legitimate problem, but it still falls very short of a “MeToo reckoning”.

TFA isn’t much better. The Avellone guy apparently got a women drunk and groped her. That’s a #MeToo worthy offense and it should be enough to prosecute and “cancel” him. The rest is him sending DMs and a weird drive-by cancel-attempt on one Omeed Dariani, who made an “unwelcome sexual overture”. The proposed party presumably said no and nothing more happened, or the article would mention it. I really don’t know what’s going on in the article. Avellone abused a woman. Dispense justice accordingly and stop trying to elevate any and all sexual behavior to the same level.
Need a comprehensive, up-to-date, yet brief, status of what happened to Perl 6 and where it stands in today's s/w tech.
Sure, and that was one of the parties I listed as being at fault:

> purchasing officer at the police department

However, if the criminal justice system decides that this is an acceptable use of software, then the criminal justice system itself also bears responsibility.

The developer of the software also bears the responsibility for developing, marketing, and selling the software for the police department.

I agree that the PD bears the majority of the culpability here, but I disagree that it bears every ounce of fault that could exist in this scenario.
This universe. The upper class has become effectively hidden by the language we use to describe power dynamics in this country. And this is a problem because if they are hidden, then they can't be held accountable.

Yes, you can live passively on $23MM, but you can't influence national or global politics with your wealth, which is my point. Hence you do not wield the most power, hence you do not hold the most accountability. And sure, not all billionaires are created equal, but that doesn't disprove my point.
According to my gf, a rabid Inbox fan, many important feature didn’t make he transition. She said a lot of her colleagues were pissed off about it too...and she was working at google at the time (not on Inbox/Gmail of course).

Scuttlebutt I heard (not via her) was it was the usual Google story: internal political fight unrelated to features or technical issues.
I see no world were this doesn't end poorly. You either see mass emigration of the wealthy at old age or an incentivisation of illicit off the books banking (both domestically & offshore). I can't think of anyone who'd be willing to hand over the majority of their wealth to the government upon death. It would become common practice to attempt to circumvent this.

If everything above 10 million is taken as a death tax you can be sure no estates are going to be worth over 10 million publicly.
iOS 7, 11, and 13 are definitely slower than their respective immediate predecessors. iOS 9 and 12 are definitely the opposite.

But while it's hard to prove definitively—largely because highly-out-of-date iOS devices are so rare in the wild—I would posit that even though 12 was faster than 11, 9 and 10 were both faster than 12. That's definitely what I saw in a brief iOS 9 experience I mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

It's the old frog-in-boiling-water analogy. If it happens slowly, you don't notice.
It's not meant to be a joke. The US administration has stated that there is an acceptable body count for a given level of economic activity. The natural response would be to find the minimum number of deaths that result in the same amount of economic activity.
I've recently been bothered because I hate all my email clients (except Outlook, weirdly enough, but I don't want to use Outlook with my Gmail accounts, because tag support isn't awesome...) and realized, of course, half my problem is I'm trying to manage too many emails I have no interest in reading.

There are a lot of newsletters I like, though.. for things related to fitness and outdooring, that are wholly in the "sign up for this virtual version of the event you were interested in!" and I've simply resigned myself to unsubscribing from all of them. I'll figure all this out later, but so much email feels like the parts of the web and RSS I work hard to avoid.

So, unsubscribe it is...

(That said, I've been trying HEY, and I don't like it [Such. Big. Fonts.] but I do like their "bundle" feature, and I wish I could set tags in Gmail to auto-delete after //n// days... that would make some things nicer to live with.)
Lower middle class people are not going to become extraordinarily well off by investing small sums over long periods. $1K set aside every month at 6% annually will reach about $1M after doing it for 30 years. $1M in savings is very, very nice but not "extraordinarily well off" as described by the article.
I've only ever worked with screws that small on older macbooks that had user-replaceable hard drives and RAM and never had any problems, but I don't doubt it could be an issue. The factories that assemble this stuff surely have screwdrivers with torque-limiting clutches though.
Google updated the original Pixel to Android 10, which was nice because that was beyond stated major updates period. That was followed by a single security update before it was abandoned.

I don't understand why they wouldn't keep issuing security updates when they already did the hard part of the major update.
Honestly, why should a customer care? If half of microsoft is sane and the other half retarded, the result will be retarded. The customer should be able to say microsoft as an entity is retarded. They have plenty of management to figure the details out themselves
Which brings up the topic of treating code like cattle, not like art.

Code should be treated as expendable and transient, your clever implementation might be considered deprecated in a month due to changes in requirements/design.

Unfortunately it's not easy to convey this idea as a team lead. People get "attached" to their code and the idea of refactoring is viewed as mostly unnecessary and dangerous (I wrote the code, I'm not gonna rewrite it)
How patient is the recipient? Either they are willing to wait, for possibly longer than their life, or they have to leave the US to access that money and not return to the US with that money.

If those are unacceptable and they have no wealth, because it’s locked up overseas, they could bring it all back for taxation minus 10 million.
The Android update model is very different from the iOS model since many Android vendors only support their devices for a short time, often no more than 2-3 years where Apple provides updates for a much longer period. This is offset by the fact that the core of Android is free software, on top of which you can - but do not have to - install Google-proprietary parts. I choose not to install those parts since I prefer to keep my data (mostly) to myself.

When Apple says "that's all, folks" they mean it - the device will no longer get updates. When Samsung says "that's all folks" the user can install one of the alternative distributions and continue to use the device.

I'm using a Galaxy SIII - using it right now in fact - with Android 9 more or less because I have not updated it to v10 (the current version of Android) yet. I might upgrade it, then again I might not, the thing works fine on v9. For reference, this phone was launched in 2012 (3 years before the iPhone 6s) with Android 4.0 and got official updates to 4.4. It then got updates through Cyanogenmod, later through LineageOS. It is still updated OTA (as in 'over the air', like when it was new). Once Android 11 comes around it'll probably be ported to the SIII, the limiting factor tends to be driver support.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/developers-android-10-samsung...
The author here has a good premise, although glosses over many things. Yes, "vertical farming" is over-hyped. That said, the author didn't mention weather or pesticides/fertilizers at all. Statements such as "Current agriculture doesn’t need an artificial energy source" are plain wrong. Producing fertilizers takes quite a bit of artificial energy and the bulk of the corn and soybean farmers the author is pointing to are the ones heavily using them. And to completely ignore weather and climate is to ignore the single most important variable factor in farming.

It's also a very US-centric view. There is a ton of innovation happening in other world markets, especially with smallholder farmers. Especially around financing.

The author completely ignores financing (even saying there is no VC money in agriculture which is false), which with larger farmers is actually one of the biggest issues for farmers today. Given that farm equipment is getting bigger and more costlier, a lot of thought goes into financing that equipment. Insurance is also a huge deal, and there's certainly a lot of room for streamlining the process of insuring crops and obtaining payouts.
I have made a habit of mining HN's Algolia search engine. You can uncover some real gems if you just put in the effort to narrow down your search to the particular topic you're interested in. Also: to avoid bias I wrote a script that opens random stories from the HN main page in my browser tabs, and am often surprised and refreshed by what I read (As most stories that gain popularity on the main page have vague titles)
Not strictly relevant to the article, but I'm not excited by the efficiencies as much by the idea that it might offer a space-efficient option for me to have my food grown locally.

Food production at the moment is very much out-of-sight, out-of-mind. I don't have a feel for what monoculture are developing in the food industry, I don't have a feel for what the supply chain risks are. If food ever stopped flowing in from wherever it comes from to my city, I'd be in trouble.

It isn't totally rational, but I dream of being able to invest in food grown a few blocks away from me. If it only cost double existing prices that'd be a solid win.
That makes a ton of sense. Thanks! Does that mean you'll make it possible to access other AWS services?
The original Web browser was named WorldWideWeb; that's where the name for the web (and our WWW prefix) come from.
Regular expressions as a first class language feature.
With a few lines of CSS in the head section you can have a blazing fast page that looks elegant as well. This site is one, although I think it is a touch too narrow. Also, headers/footers with a different background color are pleasing.
huh. I spent a couple years writing perl professionally, I guess that was around 2006, and I couldn't agree less. Its object system is so bizarre compared to any other language - it's like it doesn't really have an object system, it has parts of a system that you can try to assemble, but no matter what you do you end up with something weird.

And on top of that, the sigils, refs, and `wantarray` systems means that figuring out what syntax you need to invoke something correctly is confusing mental overhead that you have to keep in mind for every function call

Basically the things I learned in perl were the least transferrable concepts of any programming language I've ever worked with. You learn Haskell, or Forth, or Lisp and you learn insights and patterns that you can use in any language. You learn perl, and you've learned nothing but Larry Wall.
There's only so much that can be grown and mechanically harvested, and the US surely excels at producing maize, wheat, or soybean, but vertical farms don't try to compete with those. The production of other crops does not happen in the US that much, but it also operates at a rather spectacular scale - instead relying on poorly paid laborers abroad.
This seems to be a common experience - people say it felt powerful and modern in the 90s, because it was. For those who started programming in the 00s and 10s it looks clunky and weird compared to the other options.
You're right, the anecdote does not give enough guidance on how to create a successful startup that provides a solution for the users. Even though people face certain problems and challenges on a daily basis, they often don't fully understand these problems and have not been able to envision a solution.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -Henry Ford
This serves as a good reminder how lucky we are that email worked out that we can use any number of clients with any number of services and still freely communicate any other email address in the world. Compare this to instant messaging which is full of incompatible walled gardens: Slack, Microsoft Teams, iMessage, Hangouts, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc. etc. etc.
> Then can focus on other part that makes is unique and makes it valuable.

You need to know what this is before you start. Why should I consider your product when Slack or Microsoft Teams is free for a small group and has every imaginable feature already? You need some value add, whether it's a feature, a unique capability, or even something philosophical (like being totally open source or whatever).

> Again it isn't a signal or telegram replacement. Group chat is core to the product but not the value-add. It isn't a slack replacement, no web or desktop. Just iOS & Android. The nature of the product it does have to be on both, can't start with only one.

If you can't explain it to me, then how will you explain it to an investor? I get it if you're concerned about giving away your idea, but you'll need to be very confident that you've discovered some unique value proposition that one of the hundred other players in this market has somehow missed out on.

Who is your target audience? Individuals or businesses?
> Their focus on monetizing everybody with advertising hurt their products in the long run.

Absolutely. Just look at Google Maps these days. Google Maps used to be the only map app I'd use for everything. Now it is so littered with ads once you zoom in that I find it useless for anything other than directions.

This is not a new trend for Google, the advertising company that occasionally builds things.
Given what you wrote, to me it sounds like the asker suspected React was the wrong tool for the job. Not every front-end required an all-out framework with its own weighty cd/ci pipeline. It’s possible the scope of the project was just some static HTML backed with a snippet of JS. If you are dead set on using React then you need to be ready defend the technical tool _choice_, not React itself.
One that is definitely still using Perl in a very big way is https://www.ariba.com/

Ariba isn't a household name, but it has deep and widespread connections to thousands of the largest companies in the world.
I think it's great for small teams and small organizations who will likely naturally come to a standardized way of doing things. I think it also can be great for larger organizations as long as that organization has a decent way to encourage (and ideally enforce) a standard way of organizing file shares. It's definitely a challenge once you start losing that structure, though.
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If you're interested in visual tracking and reading, you might like the color gradient-based reading tool called BeeLine Reader.[1] It seeks to remediate the same problems as boustrophedon, but does so with color instead of reversed writing.

A study done by CNET and covered in The Atlantic showed that people reading with this color-based technique ended up reading significantly more text than people reading plain black text.[2]

note: I am the founder, and we got our start via a surprisingly successful Show HN post!

1: http://www.beelinereader.com

2: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/a-bett...
dude, at least use "links" or, better, "elinks"
I like your original post not because I agree with it but I think it outlines an important point. Allowing families to work uninhibited without fear of government coming and taking everything allows these families (cultures) to get ahead.
Whether their money is given directly to their children or given to the state does not itself determine whether that money has been invested "long-term for their children".

What matters is how that money is used.

If it all goes to decade-long revitalization projects in a distant town to which their children eventually move for a happy retirement, is that an effective long-term investment?
Anybody with a $200 Chromebook can now write things that are read more than ever before. People have a voice that was unthinkable even 50 years ago.

CEOs can't go to space quite yet. However, it appears that space is about to get far more accessible. Not only that, cheap space launches are enabling things like Starlink, which may provide worldwide internet and get around national firewalls and make the world that much more transparent.

The average person has many incredibly cheap amenities available that were unthinkable not that long ago. What does a CEO have that is that much better? A bigger boat than other people? They get to fly in an airplane that has less people in it? A more expensive car? A slightly bigger TV? There are rapidly diminishing returns for being rich.
The truth is that if they are without a job, then they aren’t highly qualified. A degree does not make someone highly qualified. Tech companies have always had trouble finding enough talent. If they can’t find the talent in the US, then they will be forced to hire outside the US.
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