skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other question is what does labor get when there are temporarily low or negative profits?

I used to work at a company which gave 10% of its profits to the workers each month as a bonus. But I was only there during some money-losing months so I got zero bonus. Imagine if that had been my entire pay!
Cool beans, I love the simple and straightforward lightweight client based approach.

Shameless plug - I built the screening workflow / Imbox bit of Hey for IMAP servers about a month ago https://www.feval.ca/posts/screenr/. We're just missing a couple more features and we'll have their full feature set for any mailbox :)
I dont think this would really happen. You aren't likely running directly on bare metal, you're probably still encapsulated within a VM. The host system will also have it's own set of layer2, and layer3 firewall rules in additional to ARP locks, etc.
One arguing that sn established0 pattern of behavior will continue into the future is not a slippery-slope fallacy. There is nothing fallacious about arguing that Apple will continue to make the OS more restrictive in the future, based on a profit motive.

"The core of the slippery slope argument is that a specific decision under debate is likely to result in unintended consequences." [1]

I don't see any claim of unintended consequences here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
There's decently large amounts of money to be had with SBIRs, but they are a moving target--you end up stitching together many different smaller projects to slowly ping pong your way to the end goal. Of course they're also very slow to apply, decide, reapply, etc
Not a tinkerer: The painful, hardly instructive story how I became an engineer
I literally get cars from junkyards with no paperwork. Example: a wrecked, rare 76 Jaguar xj6C coupe with no paperwork, plates, keys. You have to trailer it to the police station for verification, show bill of sale etc etc, then go through months of DMV forms and fees which typically require a professional who does this bureaucracy, otherwise you will spend tens of hours waiting to go to a DMV window to be given the next hurdles to jump over.
Transferring titles from purchased out of state cars is painful too.
The smog issues are relatively straight forward in comparison.
This story has a bit more detail: https://businessden.com/2020/07/19/former-chairman-donor-sue...

His personal basis for standing is unclear even from the more detailed article, but part of it is claims for class action standing by a group of recent students on behalf of all students of the last decade years.
This isn't even labor theory of value...
That requires either labor itself to own the capital (e.g. a co-op), or the state to have a monopoly on capital (e.g. communism)
There are plenty of comparisons online showing for the same price as a Mac you can get a PC that will edit your photos, compress your videos, render your 3D architecture 3x to 4x as fast as the fastest Mac you can buy. If you're a professional might be throwing money down the toilet waiting for your mac depending on your use case.

Note: I'm not a mac hater. I have 2, one I use every day and love it. I also have a PC I use every day. I still found the comparison videos enlightening.
Happiness = log(Wealth)
Yes, dang is a (the?) moderator.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
Are there any FOSS alternatives for the operating systems on current smart tvs?

I haven't heard of any, but it's certainly something I'd be interested in.
Welp, I need more of yous than two pizzas would feed.
> free market sociopathy

> Nazi-related stuff

I think today's Economist does not correspond to your caricature.

FWIW, they've endorsed the Democrat candidate in 5 of the last 7 US presidential elections, and I'm confident that soon it'll be 6 out of 8.
It's also worth noting that there is confusion between "asymptomatic" and "pre-symptomatic". In the health industry apparently "asymptomatic" means you never present symptoms, however you can be "pre-symptomatic"(meaning you will present symptoms) and spread the disease as well. The media had been using "asymptomatic" to mean both, but then a study came out saying it was rare and blah blah blah.

Should I be surprised how many people on HN have resorted to conspiracy theories, accusations of malice, and discreditation over changing and mixed information? We live in a world of changing requirements but somehow changing recommendations based on new and changing information is all the evidence we need to indulge ourselves in confirmation bias?
If they gave 100% of their profits to the workers as the only pay, then long term workers could presumably self-insure.
Some people are also more attractive and they are able to capitalize on it easily, they are treated better etc..

You are just targeting one thing it's called inheritance, what about other things like "social network and connections which are passed to the new heirs in the family", beauty/atheletic abilities and other talent?
Man I hope when I retire I find better things to do than whine about stuff like this.
Why Plastic Waste Is an Ideal Building Material
Thanks.

My understanding is that uranium supplies remain constrained --- fewer than two decades if supplying 100% of total global generation, say. Price doesn't tell you much about total resource stock.[1] That's based on terrestrial sources. Seawater U separation in theory would extend resources considerably, but remains unproven at scale.

Thorium, other disadvantages notwithstanding, is at least more plentiful.

I'll note I'm not generally a fan of nuclear, though don't rule out any contributory role.

________________________________

Notes:

1. I'd argue generally that nonrenewable natural resource pricing theory, dating to Ricardo, but especially Hotelling, is entirely flawed. Much of it under suspicious circumstances.
> All of these comments make me think HN has never interacted with a 5 year old.

Everyone knows how fussy 5 year olds are, these readers aren't that stupid.

The thing people usually get wrong is how fussy 6-16 year olds are. That 16 year olds actually don't have that much emotional maturity or know that much practical stuff either, even with 10 more years of life and school.

The biggest crisis isn't parents with young children. It's people realizing how little their teenage kids know and how poorly those teenagers are adjusting.
You can't really respond to an article that says "Here's the conventional wisdom, and here's all the evidence and advanced work that shows why the conventional wisdom is wrong" with "Here's the conventional wisdom."
>Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios.

I've been hearing that for the past decade. With the exception of some reasonably deprecated technologies (32-bit support, etc...), to this day I'm able to run essentially all of the software on my Mac that I did back in 2010.

If and when Apple does prohibit the running of third party apps, I'll switch to another platform. Until then, this is all just FUD.
Honest question: how do people feel about physical keyboards on phones these days? I'm not going to knock this until I know more about it, but I would be a little surprised if there are a lot of folks who, after having gotten used to a standard onscreen keyboard, still prefer punching physical buttons.

I have a BlackBerry, albeit an ancient one—8830 World Edition—and I actually turned it on the other day. Typing on it really was weird—it felt like it required a lot of physical effort to use. (And I remember thinking that BlackBerries had excellent keyboards, as opposed to the Treo; I had one of those, too, and it felt like typing on pencil erasers.)

I'm not trying to sound condescending, but a physical keyboard on a phone feels sort of like training wheels to me; something that an old-school phone person might assume is more usable than the tiny buttons of an onscreen keyboard. But then you realize how accurate the key-sensing on screen keyboards actually is, and how much less energy it takes to tap than press.

I have no idea, but I do know that when I used my old BlackBerry the other day, it felt uncomfortably like using a mechanical typewriter. I'll be curious to see how this goes.
Show HN: BuyAChaiForMe, a creator platform with UPI integration
Harvey Mudd? 300M at a small college is actually a quite large endowment, and HMC is tiny even by small college standards.

The institution I work with has less than 100M and is on the larger side of small. If we had 300M and a faculty/facilities layout built for ~700 instead of ~3000 then life would be completely different.

I agree with you in general -- both that the active management is dumb and also the most probable reason small colleges pursue this strategy. But HMC can probably afford investment strategies that most others cannot.
They care so much because they want to be able to track your location and listen to your microphone for who-knows-what level of frightening analytics and ad targeting.
Just thought I'd point out this is bad for Unity and Unreal. Tons of student devs making small games putting their apps on itch.io to share, no longer allowed unless they pony up $99 to Apple.
> If you really want to reduce the unsafe keyword from being seen in most regular code, you create and interface that maps the C++ function and exposes it as a rust function, and you've hidden away your unsafe usage to one spot per function.

Isn't that what they did? Through the use of https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx

Agreed the article expressed the concern in a rather clumsy manner, but they seem to have a point for their particular use case, and they addressed it appropriately.
You must’ve been learning the Belgian version, because French numbers in France are kind of a mess.

Like English there are special words for some of the “teens” numbers, which is the least of the troubles. Compare deux (two) and douze (twelve) to huit (eight) and dix-huit (ten-eight, or eighteen). Mildly annoying, but we have special cases for “eleven” and “twelve” in English too, no big deal.

Then some of the tens are weird too. While quatre (four) and quarante (forty) are clear, six (six) and soixante (sixty) are a bit tricky, while deux (two) and vingt (twenty) don’t seem to be related. These are then combined in uneven ways, with twenty one being “vingt et un” (twenty and one), while other numbers using the hyphenated form of vingt-cinq (twenty-five). Again, annoying, but manageable.

And then there are the extra special case numbers like seventy, which in France is apparently soixante-dix, or literally “sixty ten”. In some countries this is a much more reasonable “septante”, but not in France. The French actually count their seventies like “soixante-dix-sept”, which translates into “sixty seventeen”, or seventy seven in English.

And then there’s eighty. Holy crap, the number eighty. In French eighty is apparently “quatre-vingts”, or “four twenties”. Whoever came up with that was a brilliant sadist. Requiring some basic multiplication just to count to eighty is downright evil stuff, especially for young kids. Ditto for whoever made ninety “quatre-vingts-dix” (four twenties ten).

Note: I am not a native French speaker; I’m just learning.
Basic data access should be a public utility, like streets and highways.
Water-Holding Tesla Model Y Owner Tell Us How Bad Ownership Has Been
Fatah-Hamas conflict is deserves the blame for that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict
protests = outdoors. gyms=indoors.

calling a protest a riot doesn't put it indoors. gyms, shopping, etc are much more dangerous than being outside at a protest.
Alternatively, you can go on teamblind to chat with one AND get berated for having a lower TC!
If we wanted to go into more detail, we could consider production as a function of the cost of labour and the rental cost of capital, rather than restricting our attention to labour and assuming capital is fixed. In this case, the law of diminishing returns typically disappears, since in theory we can rent more capital and scale all operations proportionally. Therefore, due to the link between profit and the law of diminishing returns that you've explained, there should be no profit if all capital is rented. The reason profit still exists in this model is that capital is often owned rather than rented. So in this sense profit derives ultimately from the ownership of capital. That is not Marxist theory, that is mainstream economics (e.g. Mankiw & Scarth).
I highly recommend you show your lead/management these two articles, then ask if they want to proceed:

https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally...

https://code972.com/blog/2017/12/why-you-shouldnt-use-aws-el...
Interesting. I went to kindergarten in 1986 or so, and it was all day (US, New Jersey).
Minimum wage creates distortions. For example industries that are labour heavy are impacted disproportionately to others that are more automated.
re: the downvotes: Honestly I believe that HN is being brigaded by libertarians and /thedonald types. It's become really vehemently political and awful lately. Something's going on. Every comment that mentions this is removed, so there's that. The mods don't seem to care, or have an agenda from Thiel.
Investors are squeezed all the time. Just look at how much stock prices drop whenever there's some bad news.

What do you mean by top-of-band comp? In a competitive industry workers are paid according to their marginal productivity.

https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/2019/10/california-wants-... has some background to what I was talking about.

Do keep in mind that industries can be (un-) competitive in different ways. Eg there's a good argument to be made that banks don't compete in competitive markets for many of their products, but they sure compete for labour.
That's a great point! But isn't a blurb the antithesis of tldr?

"too long; don't read"
This all assumes the tax payer isn't generating any additional income, which I think is a big omission.
you have to prep carefully for the visual...
Sync gang rise
Well... there happens to be a way to disable that part of gatekeeper functionality if you want to. It’s just not a checkbox in settings, if I recall correctly it’s a terminal command that requires sudo. https://www.imore.com/how-open-apps-anywhere-macos-catalina-... But really, really only do this if you know what you’re doing. You can leave gatekeeper running but in a mode where it is much less restrictive. It may still prompt you if you just downloaded an app from Safari, that sort of thing.
TSMC & Foxconn approached for possible Arm sale
A university is requiring students to install an app that tracks them 24/7
Wow a heart attack at 37?! How did the coronavirus contribute to it? Never heard a link between the two. Glad you are stable now, any idea how the heck you got it? I'm beyond paranoid of contracting it...
Tried this on a few photos of my dog - one of her half asleep, lying on her back and clearly very relaxed.

It said she was angry.

To be fair, it mis-identified her, and she is also a mixed-breed Asian dog so I'm not entirely surprised.

But it brings up questions for the future - what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?
>I feel the biggest problem with economics is that it's very infused with ideology, which makes it even harder to say what's true or not. There's a lot of what I would call "arm-chair economics" – entire government policies are based on nothing more than conjectures, guesses, and ideological preferences of so-called "economists".

Is it any better in fields other than math and the natural sciences? For medicine and nutrition we're constantly backtracking on our previous discoveries. First it was fat that's bad, then it was sugar.
I can't imagine user-hostile features like silently allowing websites to spam you would drive browser share in a wanted direction. That's like expecting people to use your website because you sell their information.
You probably won't see prices dropping, as many businesses are selling much less and they need to keep prices to cover the costs.
I think OP was being sarcastic...
Replace 'single researcher' with 'a fixed size research group' in my comment.

Your argument about a minimum size research group for productivity is interesting. I am not quite sure whether that means we should normalise by population size, though.
Wait... Oregon real estate (and real estate in general) appreciated significantly
between 2008 and 2017. So why did Joey Harrington sell this beachfront property at a nearly 20% loss?
I’m very curious to see whether this is still true once Apple starts shipping Pro machines with Apple Silicon processors. What if it’s not? How would that change the balance?
That was the goal with Servo, but Mozilla axed them
https://twitter.com/directhex/status/1293352458308198401
The original PG post deserved to a rebuttal but I think this falls short.
All of these people saying: switch to Windows, its better than mac!

Have you really done that? REALLY? Because I work on Mac, Win10 and Linux every day. And Win10 doesn't even come close to the other two in terms of reliability, stability, and lack of unnecessary bullshit.

I just don't understand who can make this claim that Win is better than Macos with a straight face. Maybe for gaming. Maybe. The cost/fps is clearly better for Windows machines, but Apple puts so much more thought into their OS than windows. Hell, Windows still pops a Win95 dialog for drivers. Come on, man. Seriously? MacOs doesn't have built in ads on the home screen. MacOS has no REAL viruses, and clicking on malware is even harder now than Windows.

Downvote me all you want, but I think a lot of people on this thread have never even used a mac for more than five minutes, let alone developed on one. HN monoculture is real.
Curly : Do you know what the secret of life is?

[holds up one finger]

Curly : This.

Mitch : Your finger?

Curly : One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don't mean shit.

Mitch : But, what is the "one thing?"

Curly : [smiles] That's what you have to find out.

1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101587/characters/nm0001588
The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
Isn't sharpe invariant to leverage? If I lever up a position 2x my return doubles as does the volatility (StdDev) of the position. Metrics like alpha are better able to tease out if a portfolio is simply levered to a market factor.
Odd. I see mentions of that literally every time someone brings up the large differences in mortality by age.

It's possible that we mostly exist in different filter bubbles though.
I have been planting and tending to trees in a forest that I purchased a few years ago. On top of that I have been actively building organic soil in my fields by top dressing with compost and organic cover crops.

That being said, recently I have been feeling that all my efforts are for not, sure I might be making the world a better place in my own small way but for what purpose?

Every day I watch as the people around me exploit the environment to enrich themselves while I get left behind. So lately the little voice in my head has been whispering "You own this land, why not clear cut the trees, make a couple hundred grand off the raw logs, buy a tractor to disc the land that's left and grow out a few years of annual grains then sell off the spent pesticide laiden land and live the rest of my life in a condo with a big bank account."

I know this sound selfish but why should I just scrape by working my fingers to the bone, whilst the rest of my community sells out? I feel like someone shit in the pool and I'm going to be the last one to get out.

I guess my point is every inch of soil I build and every tree I protect is like money in the bank, I can cash in at any time I want. The truth is every day I get more tired and feel the pull to cash it all in for my own selfish gains.
Not just driving habits, but timing and locations visited, hence people met, by interpolation. The black box is by all means a bug. Also being all of them closed source, there's no guarantee they don't contain circuitry to listen to conversations or hidden cameras.
Paranoia? Yes, totally. Today's world fully justify that.
Well my fleet has grown to three: a 2000 VW B5 Passat (230K miles), a 2010 VW CC, and a 2003 Cadillac CTS I inherited from my parents and which is a good car for kids to learn to drive on.

I'm a bit invested in VW tools... (but no "vagcom" yet). One amazing thing is that the VW service books are cheaper than the GM one for the CTS...

Actually the CTS probably needs a steering rack. It's the only car I've ever owned that has play/backlash in the steering and it doesn't appear to be the linkage. I haven't quite worked up the nerve to do it yet, but I think about it every time I drive the thing. I'm tempted to sell it, but the value is not much, its mileage is low and my kids do need a car..
If there's some empty lot on your street and you really strongly value the emptiness of it, what you should do is buy it.
LA settles Weather Channel lawsuit, allows selling location data to advertisers
It's an interesting idea. Though to be pedantic: this wouldn't double the rate of expansion for long, as soon as our light cones intersect once, their overlap will increase more and more in the future.
this was really awesome
I understand your overall point, but when it comes to

> S3 storage pricing, for most users is just a rounding error compared to e.g egress or compute cost. And it has proven to be tremendously reliable, both in durability and access.

It's not like you can separate S3 storage costs from egress costs, though. I wish I could use S3 for storage but pay for my own bandwidth.

Even if you'll to go all the way to their network and plug a network cable in, well... They charge $7.40 a day for a gigabit port, and $54 a day for 10gig. That's on par with what many companies charge for transit to the actual internet, but fair enough. Oh, wait, I neglected the per-byte cost on top. The per byte cost that, for a mostly saturated port, is $210 or $2100 per day respectively.

And that's the cheap option.
US total excess mortality for 2020 is at or above a quarter million, year to date.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/12/us/covid-deat...

How many more quarter millions of souls is a sufficient amount to sacrifice on behalf of gym fetishists?

(I was planning a return to the gym following an involuntary multi-year lapse this past January. On advising my doctor I was delaying plans, their first response was to dismiss my concerns as germophobic. They've since apologised.)
Thank you! From what I've read the Palestinians are nominally at least descended from the Philistines of biblical history.

The Philistines were an Indo European people originally from Crete.

(of course there is much mixing after such a time, so "Arab" might not be completely off base).
Life Reboot: Young Rural Merchants with Disabilities Hustle Support Themselves
i mean, it's ridiculous that an article on gyms is on the front page of a hacker news site. it's so far from the original vision. it used to be you'd come to HN to hear about the latest tech news and discuss software, startups and gadgets. now it's just bloviated non-tech related articles like this that just stoke up comment flame wars. what a fall from grace.
True scientists use natural units anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units ;)
Sugar is sugar. If you are subject to metabolic syndrome it's really bad for you, even from fruit, if eaten in large amounts.
I’d agree. The main risk might be wider access within the customers VPC (so lateral move risk). But it’s hard to know without understanding the wider environment.
I also hope when you retire no one decides to turn the neighboring residential lot into an industrial drill site
Might be a nice business idea!

If you want to go overboard, you can probably use some machine learning to decide on the curves for an arbitrary input image.