skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The average employee doesn't get to benefit from the very real contributions they've made to the company, while the CEO does benefit. Why didn't employee profit-sharing increase at the same rate as non-salary compensation did for CEOs? That's still relevant.

This is correct, but the post you're replying to has the answer: CEOs successfully claimed more of the portion of surplus value which was going to stockholders, employees claimed less.

It's key to analyze these things if the goal is to see employees better rewarded, as they should be, but it must start from the correct analysis.

The details of how to do this are way over my head, and I won't embarrass myself by trying to make suggestions here.
It's the same in LHC there are two experiments that run independently, ATLAS and CMS. For exactly this reason.

The Higgs was discovered by both independently with higher than 5 sigma each. The combined sigma of the 2 experiments was 7-ish if my memory serves correct.

EDIT: My memory serves correct because sqrt(5^2 + 5^2) ~ 7
Impact of this particular ban is very limited. Connecting flights are not affected, neither are some important routes (Paris-Marseille) where the TGV takes too long to travel.
Just as a fun hypothetical to think about... an effective way to crack down on cryptocurrencies would be to do it under the table. Don't make any official policy about crypto other than recommending that US citizens don't invest in it. Attack the crypto ecosystem the way they attacked Iranian centrifuges. The damage is done by the CIA and NSA, not the SEC and FBI.

The goal is not to make it impossible to use crypto but to make it so untrustworthy that nobody wants to touch it. Host mirrors of popular software wallets with hidden malware. Add backdoors to some hardware wallets at the factory. Create trojans that sit quietly and harmlessly until you try to deposit your coins at an exchange, at which point, unbeknownst to you, your compromised browser is displaying the CIA's bitcoin address instead of the exchange's as the place to send your coins. Make smart contracts with increasingly clever obfuscated time bomb backdoors. And it all comes with easy plausible deniability, since any of these tricks could just as well be regular old crypto thieves, highly motivated by the massive "bug bounty" on any exploit, including social engineering, that lets them steal coins.

Of course, the backlash if this was ever found out would be immense. It would basically be the US government operating a cybercrime organization. Many of the victims would likely be US citizens speculating in crypto. It wouldn't be worth it unless the powers that be decided crypto is THAT dangerous to the status quo.
Temporal Stores/Databases like Datomic (https://www.datomic.com/) and Crux (https://opencrux.com/). I can't stress enough how much pain they can lift from organizations building teams to "scale" in domains that by nature are tied to requirements about past knowledge like finance, healthcare, governance, audit systems, etc.
Ghana is a former British colony (Gold Coast) that gained independence in 1957, it is already highly westernized, certainly in Accra (where I have to assume Twitter GH is going to be based - maybe Kumasi?). I'm firmly anti colonialist but I don't think this is that at all.
A quick google says that spotify pays at least $0.003 per stream to an artist. So your $10 pays for 3333 streams per month, or just over 100 a day. I probably don't average 100 streams per day, but I definitely average over 10. I'm not sure its as bad a deal for the artist as you may think. It's not two orders of magnitude bad, at least.
> lack of coverage of certain drugs for orphan diseases

This is literally the case in the US too. It's not "right" in Europe, when it happens, nor is it in the US.

US pharma companies have, repeatedly, discontinued cheaper, and in some cases, the only effective, medications when they've deemed them not profitable enough.
This is the main point the article is making:

> The only thing you’re clearing is a connection Facebook made between its data and the data it gets from third parties, not the data itself.

However this is not the main privacy issue with Facebook in my opinion. Even if Facebook users could legitimately clear their third party data entirely, they still can't easily clear their own first party data (posts, photos, searches, likes, Instagram activity, etc). Right now, you have to go click "delete" in your activity log one-by-one on individual posts. This is so time consuming and manual that most users will never do it - which is of course by design.

There is a plugin that helped users delete their Facebook content (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...), by letting you select the time period and type of content you want to delete. However, Facebook repeatedly breaks it by changing the page design for seemingly no real reason. The cat and mouse updates worked for a while but this extension has not been updated since 2019. Some creative people then built a second extension that switches Facebook to an older layout (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/switch-to-classic-...) and this allowed the above history clearing extension to work. But then Facebook made an even more drastic redesign of the Activity Log, which broke this approach of using a second extension in conjunction with the first.

Can any enterprising HN code ninja help solve this problem? I think we need a suite of tools to help users easily clear their history from all social media platform, whether it is Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever. Ideally we'd have a law requiring such controls be provided to users but I'm not holding my breath.
You won't see "corrections" along the top bar of "news" on the webpages either. It will always be hidden away somewhere obscure unless their misreporting causes public outrage, and then sometimes they'll actually do a proper retraction.
FWIW, this phenomenon is not new under the sun. I observe that we are experiencing a McLuhan Tetrad retrieval of it via our modern ~ Internet media artifact.

For example, I experienced (preferentially) buying, in the 1970s, LotR paperbacks with Tolkien's picture on the back cover with his authorial economic plea -- see his statement, below, in this citation ...

from "Tolkien: Lord of the Royalties" at
https://ansible.uk/sfx/tolkien.html
>
Eventually the authorized edition appeared with Tolkien's stern message: "Those who approve of courtesy (at least) to living authors will purchase it and no other."

This was bad publicity for Ace, who eventually caved in, paid Tolkien royalties, and promised not to reprint.
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also referring to this circumstance is a Library of Congress blog post:
J.R.R. Tolkien – Paperbacks and Copyright
November 24, 2014 by Margaret Wood
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2014/11/j-r-r-tolkien-paperbacks-a...
My preference for this is to use an assertion function, eg in nodejs:

assert(isDefined(user),”User must be defined”) // throws if Falsy
The Covid-19 vaccine and menstrual irregularities
With Ethereum? That seems like one of the least interesting possible use cases.

* For one, Bitcoin can do this too (though not in many places)

* For two, you can’t do it in many places

* For three, you already can buy online with paypal, prepaid debit/credit, and other checkout solutions, for less fees. You can buy a prepaid credit card useable online in any convenience store for a low fee....

I don’t think this is what OP meant.
> which is why

Extrapolating any competence from policy makers on this is a bit too fantastic of a conclusion at this point in time. Cryptocurrency just does not have an adversarial relationship with the US government, and the musings of some policy makers that create existential threats just are not the opinion of an amorphous entity (which also doesn't exist). The longer the rest of us are familiar with the technology, the more likely the gradient shifts to a less and less probability of adversarial relationship with the US government.
> "That said, regarding Facebook, I genuinely never used it really (I have a placeholder account), never used Instagram, never used Messenger"

Then you have a very limited understanding of the extreme issues with viral social media misinformation filter bubbles.
> have all manner of projects and hobbies they would simply spend their time on if they suddenly didn't have to work, no change of mind required.

The risk is that previously those things were "special" because you could only spend a little bit of time on them. If you spend all your time then the enjoyment can become 'commoditized' and routine. They may become as fun as brushing your teeth.
I would be not surprised if they will rise the train ticket price on those routes.
Quite true, it is their business model. There are so many talented engineers using their great talent on ways to gather advertising data. I wonder what will happen when their business model is no longer viable? Do they then begin the pivot of selling our data to anyone?
Brave browser chiefs slam Google's new experimental ad-targeting tech
speculation drives innovation.
When Paul Graham says "get rich" it goes without saying that he means "billionaire rich" by virtue of being a founder of a unicorn that goes IPO. That's nice for those that can do it but it's such a tiny number of people, it's irrelevant and non-actionable advice for practically everyone. Right off the bat, he's talking about the "100 Richest".

What about people that run a business and make a good living and some profit for themselves and their employees doing innovative stuff? Is that too inconsequential to even mention because VC's aren't interested?
Mea culpa!

I read right over the words you wrote because I'm so used to the phrase interstate commerce and not at all used to seeing intrastate commerce. I wasn't trying to use Article I to argue that the federal government had any right to regulate INTRAstate commerce. Sorry about the mixup.

So, now your original point makes much more sense, and I completely agree with you. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
The investigations into incidents like these has always seemed dubious and morally gray to me.

- Guy posts online "Amazon data centers should be blown up"

- Undercover FBI contacts guy "you are totally right. You should do it. Here's a bomb."

- If guy is backing out, he gets coaxed into it further. There is often mental illness involved.

- Guy attempts to use "bomb", gets arrested.

- Charge that should have been making an online threat is now terrorism.

Not saying that he is innocent, of course, but what are the chances that he would never have followed up without the government's involvement? Why not just charge him for making a threat to begin with?
If that worker has a pension or 401k, then it does matter. The fleecing isn't directly from him, but aggregate it by "managerial class" and "middle class" and you see the high $ managerial cash flows are directly at the expense of the middle class and retirement of the middle class. Thru in some tax policy, and you can see it is also taking money away from education of young middle class folks, and investment in communal things like roads and public health and so on.
For Low Motivation Days
There's TMTP, "a sane network protocol for email, to end attacks and promote productivity."

https://mnmnotmail.org/

https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
Here in the UK it's incredible how little immunotherapy is prescribed despite the fact that it's been available for ages and known to work. Anecdotally I have heard one problem is that allergy medicine is just not something that GPs are kept well informed about. My GP told me that it was 'unwise to mess with the immune system like this'. Uhh...vaccines?

(source: I have had immunotherapy)
Read and discuss interpretations of the poem 'Assurance' by William Stafford
sure but putting a license on the internet isn't that innovative. Our driers licenses are pretty good and pretty cheap, and we've proven land-ownership over generations pretty well. This is not world-changing stuff.

If you want radical innovation build some robots that make house construction 90% cheaper, whether the license for my house is printed on paper or a blockchain doesn't matter to anyone.

NFTs and virtually any crypto tool have no impact on the material world, and we very much still live in the world of atoms.
That's called a bounty and it's one of the open source software business models.

It has a freeloader problem, though.

An alternative is to drop price over time but give refunds/royalties to earlier buyers, so they always lay a little less than later buyers.
Yup. Its so shocking when something "new" or at least that feels new is actually created. I don't care about the countless companies that will make it slightly easier for me to get something from point a to point b.

I care a lot about companies that actually make something new or popularize something that already existed but didnt have widespread appeal.
I am really disappointed in how Microsoft has managed Windows 10. It started with forced windows updates. Then it went to searches in the start menu triggering Bing web searches (which seems like a massive privacy/security issue). And now this. Windows occupies a space where it is more geared for power users than MacOS but easier to use than Linux. Instead of capitalizing on that identity, it is turning into something more like ad-supported spamware.

I really want to give Linux a shot for daily driver use on a laptop and desktop, and have avoided it thus far because it seems intimidating and potentially tricky to get right (for example I worry about getting security right). Are there any trustworthy guides that introduce newer users to using Linux as a daily driver?
It's a viral open source license, it literally requires open sourcing code, there's nothing proprietary about it except that we allow a council of elitist snots to decide what is and isn't Open Source(TM), and they have decided Google and Amazon support is more important than viable businesses which are building open source businesses.
If government agencies can hack into and disable secured nuclear facilities (this happened... yesterday), I dont see why it would be "impossible" to attack random Bitcoin mining facilities. When state level intelligence agencies are your adversary, I wouldn't assume you can "just patch it" either.
Quite a few companies have proprietary products but have learned to make money selling services. One of them even has a 200B market cap and is called Oracle.

Nobody needs to feel sorry for anyone.
My first IT gig, 25 (sigh) years ago, I tried to set up <ourdomain> as an alias for www.<ourdomain>. Seemed to work ok, but somehow I noticed that I had broken email delivery through our firewall, so I reverted the change. Couldn't figure out exactly what was going on, and set it aside.

A few months after I left, I sent an email to a friend who still worked there, and it bounced exactly the same way. Called up my friend in a hurry, and sure enough, they had just finished deploying the same change.
> we're always looking to lower the barrier of entry to get into PowerShell, as it can be quite jarring to someone who's used Bash their whole life (myself included).

apt search powershell returns no meaningful result on Debian unstable. I think that's a big barrier to entry, at least for me and people who deploy using docker images based on Debian and Ubuntu.
Do people assume that a company as large as AWS would automatically have a lot to contribute to the OSS? Maybe most of Amazon teams have not much to open source yet. Contributing to OSS is a bottom-up effort. An engineer needs to be motivated to generalize her project, to peel the code from Amazon's vast internal infrastructure, and to go through an approval process to open source her project. Given that many teams have razor-sharp focus on delivering features, for good or for bad, I was wondering how many engineers are really motivated enough to open source something internal.
The American preference for white bread continues to astound me. Pimentos, cheese, and mayonnaise would be better on literally any other bread.
Multi-cursor editing is the fastest way to accurately modify large amounts of text, especially repetitive text. It's well worth learning for your respective editor. Most other editing methods don't come close, especially in terms of speed.
For very big and expensive projects that have an infrastructure part and a science part, like the LHC’s tunnel vs detectors, we try to avoid this by having multiple, separately-designed detectors at different intersection points. Hence the CMS and ATLAS detectors. Even though they share a beam, the rest of their systematics should be independent. They even unblinded their Higgs results together, to ensure neither used the other’s result as prior knowledge.
Indeed. The amount of "new tech" around auth leaves me head scratching. So many of the problems these start-up types are trying to solve have been solved by something like a well maintained Active Directory 10+ years ago.

Group permission, PAM, SSO, etc. It's like these developers have never been exposed to Active Directory ever in their life...
Show HN: Transpilation Free Starter Kit
Starter project with jsx-like syntax and type checking without transpilation.
Yes, but RMS seems to be at the root of it all.

For example, Linux depends on gcc and binutils and other GNU software, and many other software does.
^ And of course a comment mentioning the correct way of doing things got downvoted.
As I explained in another commented AWS wants to disincentivize dumb bandwidth usage. They want you to use your bandwidth for traffic that needs it to EC2, and you get much better rates for static data from CDNs, S3, etc.
I’ve read hedge fund managers also tend to sit on such boards or otherwise actively “invest”. This can have interesting effects if they’re actively involved in multiple such groups.
And a replica of Sputnik (the first satellite) and Laika (the first space dog, † 3 November 1957 (aged 3), on board Sputnik 2, in Low Earth orbit).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
That's extremely frustrating
I know what you're saying — feels like entrapment. But then I remember there is no way in hell I would meet a guy delivering me C4.
Some people have night rates for electricity so you could set your dryer to start at 3am and save yourself money.

You could get an estimated time for when the clothes are going to be dried. Often I have to switch on the dryer a second time as the clothes aren’t completely dry.

If the water collection tank is full in my dryer it essentially stops drying the clothes so if I could get an alert that the tank was full I could empty it or maybe alert someone in the house that it needs to be emptied.

Often if I’m washing clothes at night I don’t turn on the drier as some people have gone to bed, I normally leave the clothes in the drier. So if I could get an alert based on the weather the next morning if it makes sense to hang out the clothes before I go to work or is it going to rain and the drier will switch it on and be finished before I come home from work.
I'm not sure what it is about the Perl community in particular that seems to trigger such vicious fights. Larry Wall is a really nice guy (and living proof that Christians can be perfectly decent and tolerant people, too), but even back in the 1990s, perl5-porters was not a really nice environment.

In 2000, there was an attempt to settle some of the worst fighting among the porters, and there are suspicions that the launch of Perl 6 aka Raku at the same conference was not unrelated.

I stopped following the community so closely soon after that, but it looked like the fighting mostly moved over to the Raku side after that, but continued unabated in vehemence.

Maybe it's all those %^&% punctuation marks that Perl programmers are already habituated to cursing?
The first canine cosmonaut was Laika (Sputnik-2, 1957, one month after Sputnik-1). It was a one-way trip though.
You don't even need to do that! 6 years ago, I was exploring cross-platform mobile options (RN wasn't available for Android yet, also it was brand new and not to be trusted. It turned out OK in the end though.) and Native Script was one of the options I looked at. A couple things instantly made me reject it.

1) The official demo apps were slow and janky. (hmm, reminds me of Flutter. I don't think these guys will be much happier with Flutter, honestly)

2) It was made by Telerik, the company known for bloated and slow ASP.NET controls. Also, surprise surprise, poor documentation.

Eventually, I decided to make 2 separate iOS and Android apps.
YMMV very vastly, and it's only my experience, but here is my opinion on this food (I'm french).

Having tried a lot of french tacos in Paris, Lille & Lyon (approximately one per week), famous brands and local ones, I can definitely tell you that: I found that most taste like sht. By most, I mean 95%.
Most taste like bricks of "food", without any distinctive taste, are very dry (the different sauces are sucked by french fries) BUT you will feel completely full. Not fast-food full, I used the word brick and it's the most appropriate IMHO.
I tried a lot of restaurants, a lot of combinations, and I just gave up of this kind of food.
And if you really like this kind of food, please try the best burrito of Lyon from Taco Taco. Das good sht.

I hope you'll prove me wrong and you'll point me to good french tacos. I'm fed up trying to find a good one :)
Coinbase's IPO isn't until Wednesday.
Still adds an hour.
They are in the same repository.

For example with Maven if you run any task from the sub-project which depends on adjacent sub-project, maven will look for it in ~/.m2/repository. So you have to mvn install every time you're doing any change in any sub-project which is PITA when you're changing many sub-projects simultaneously (and if you did not mvn install, you'll have old version in repository and new sources in IDE and things go wrong way in a completely non-obvious manner). But if you're running maven commands from root pom, sub-projects will properly reference each other. So the proper way is to run all commands from root repository and specify -pl. But then you'll run into other issues, as not all plugins will work correctly this way (for example mvn exec:java).

With gradle it just works. You're running command for any sub-project and gradle will properly find any dependant sub-projects, build them, put them into classpath, etc.
VS Code now has a "Remote SSH" plugin which installs the editor and all of its plugins on a remote server with one command, giving you an editor and file browser on that server almost instantly
The first iteration of the NHS app included a central location history repository. (That version failed for reasons unrelated to this, though.)

Apple and Google then proved that effective contact tracing was possible without building a centralized location repository and offered a toolkit based on that approach. The next iteration - ground-up rewrite, really - of the NHS app then used that toolkit, and functioned just fine.

Data minimisation / parsimony of collection is one of the principles enshrined in UK data protection law. It's common sense, too. One cannot leak or misuse data one doesn't collect. Since the NHS app worked just fine without uploading location history to a central repository, it follows that the reason for wanting to do this anyway was unrelated to the app's ostensible purpose.

Plenty of venues and shops make it a condition of entry now to scan their QR code into the NHS app. Not scanning the code, or not having the app installed means no entry to shops and (takeaway) restaurants. The thing is becoming compulsory by the back door. A choice not to install or use it no longer exists. This is worrying in its own right, but it is also a very good reason to insist that its data collection and use are limited to what is strictly necessary for the app to function.