skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poor get poorer not because tech startups get richer.

If we remove tech startups, the poor wood get poorer just as fast.

The difference would be that there would be less tech-rich people to calculate the Gini coefficient.

The real question is: "why poor are getting poorer?"

It is a very complicated question involving taxes, capitalism and hundreds of broken policies and institutions, like mass incarceration that is guaranteed to make people poor.

Complex questions never ever have simple answers.
It's never been easier to start a company in the US. All you need is a computer. You can create a product on it and reach a worldwide audience, all for free.

As for Jobs, he started Apple for a few hundred bucks. It's a pretty low bar.
Unless you discover time crystals in old sense of the word, everything we know about time is related to momentum, esp. thermal equilibrium and symmetry breaking.

This means it is subject to Planck scale and uncertainty principle.
One hypothesis involves intelligence agencies being unaware that it is possible to edit from other Wikipedia accounts and having opinions almost as strong on jazz as geopolitics.

The other relies on there being a person with a lot of time on his hands who generally believes what he reads in the Times and responds to provocation on Twitter, and George Galloway not jumping to the correct conclusion.
I think a big part of the problem is that probably 12x of those have to re-implement because they want to change something unrelated like styling, or want to add more components, but can't extend existing libs without using the same styling, so they end up re-doing everything.

So we end up with 20x libs all doing roughly the same thing, sometimes badly.

This one doesn't seem like the typical Munroe +1, because it's not trying to rule them all, just put a visually unopinionated base in place with the tricky, boring stuff handled. It kinda feels like other libs are doing too much in any case.
They're just racist horses anyway.
> "[...]murder still happens despite all our efforts to prevent it"

I beg to differ. I definitely think we could do a whole lot more to stop serious crimes like murder, assault and rape. Hell, we're not even solving domestic violence properly when we could be doing so much more. Instead, the cheap and I guess politically-easy steps are taken, whilst the more drastic options are ignored.
It really depends on the person. I am in my late 30s and experience has taught me that there is a good chance the way I am working today will be obsolete tomorrow. As a manager I embrace this and encourage the people in my team to bring new ways of thinking and working. The kind of culture this creates encourages constant experimentation which ultimately leads to better results.
> incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s.

This is core to their argument, but it's false. Looking at the mean income of the lowest quintile in the US, historical and adjusting for inflation:

1980 $4,310 $13,757
1990 $7,166 $14,420
2000 $10,190 $15,563
2010 $10,994 $13,260
2018 $13,995 $14,658

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/household-income-...

(And, of course, internationally income has improved dramatically)
My frustration is for the stupid people in the GCC mailing list who think that those individuals are bigger than the ideological cause.

They even started contemplating that GCC should fork away from FSF.
> when they fail, they fall all the way to bottom.

Thank you for this. I love when HN provides a view outside a typical Western middle-class cohort.

At a larger scale, I think the same thing could be said to an entire society. In a poor society, your small mistake might lead to loss of healthcare, loss of voting rights, arrest by secret police, mob lynching, public shaming, or other forms of social bullying. There are many rich people who live in such a society, but they're always in a somewhat precarious position. I don't envy that.
I use the NVD feed directly:

https://nvd.nist.gov/feeds/xml/cve/misc/nvd-rss-analyzed.xml

then filter out stuff I am not interested in using the filtering features of my RSS feed reader, but the feed is so comprehensive with all sorts of reports on obscure commercial packages I've never even heard about, and with relatively poor metadata about the packages (so you can't just filter out "anything having to do with Windows since I don't use Windows").
Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman
Almost no one is buying these systems outright and based on my experience last year buying a house the ones with solar leases were unattractive to buyers since they had been on the market for months compared to the single digit days for houses we were looking at.
Ask HN: EC2 Imagemagick in containers blasts the CPU
Has anyone else encountered an issue where a container running imagemagick on ec2 will blow the CPU sky high and hang the whole instance? (to the point where rebooting it becomes quite hard). Finding this a real issue, experienced it in several contexts (custom Go application, WordPress running image optimisation on upload etc.).
That sounds like non-big tech, so normal tech jobs? Sure, but the section with the dichotomy (which admittedly is a simplification, true) was specifically about big tech. It's a counter argument to the idea that if you're a good developer then working for google or a hot startup is the best possible job for you.
Why is this only 8th on HN, when it got > 700 points in 6 hours?
> it is required to physically travel to the us to open a bank account

One, why does a non-American non-resident need an American bank account? Foreign banks can hold dollars. And two, plenty of American banks open accounts for overseas non-Americans.

> Do you think that increases crypto demand or decreases it?

Why is this a bad thing? An edge case is being addressed through a novel product. Win win.
In the US you could start with the carried interest rule and the capital gains rate
This is a common argument but would seem wrong to a lot of people. It's just unintuitive. Most people of our parents generation would find this argument slightly absurd, and our grandparents would find it entirely absurd.

It sounds weird because it assumes that every tech business has either insurmountable lock-in or insurmountable first mover advantage, without explicitly stating that. To fill in that assumption requires a lot of cultural knowledge of tech - the vast majority of businesses don't have either.

The problem is these assumptions are very likely incorrect for most modern "tech" businesses. It looks like over-generalisation. For example:

1. Slack has relatively little lock-in. The last company I worked for was in the process of migrating to Teams when I left. The justification was cost savings. Slack is trying to build network effects and lock-in with shared inter-firm channels, but most employees don't need to interact with other firms at least in today's business world, so even if Slack becomes the Bloomberg Terminal for the rest of us, it won't be the foundation of a huge business: only the people who need to communicate with other Slack-using firms will have Slack accounts and they charge by account.

2. Snapchat is a social network, and the iron law of social networks seems to be that they're at the top for only a relatively short period. Facebook is by far the longest lasting but even so, they've had to shore up that position by buying Instagram and WhatsApp. Snapchat's value won't last forever, so burning cash to get to the top in the hope of monetising it over the long run seem a bit optimistic.

3. Uber is basically a taxi firm. There is no moat there. Me using Uber doesn't really make it more useful for you, except in the sense that it attracts drivers. But drivers are capable of using multiple apps at once and switching between them. If Uber's prices were to increase really significantly, their market share would probably go into free-fall yet the hallmark of a company with lock-in is that they can charge very high prices for decades without facing competition.

4. Amazon was never able to convert high market share in retail to high profits. Its profits come mostly from AWS: a pure tech supply chain business.

It's also worth noting that Google and Facebook became profitable quite quickly relative to the sorts of companies people are criticising these days. It took Google less than 6 years to reach mega-profits. There are now firms that are doing Series G (!) raises, which aren't profitable after 15 years.
I think its more than just that. I think less people are interested in actually owning their housing.

For me housing is the least thing i want to worry about, so i gladly rent and simply can fix any problems by calling my landlord who is by law obliged to keep the house in a liveable condition.

Also flexibility, i can move whenever i want without worrying about the value of my house (which in reality likely only looses value)
I see the downside as well, but all the same, I'd be happy if I can own the rewards and the risk. If I go broke because of experimenting with this stuff, I'll be okay with it - it's my money, my mistakes.

Lots of people went broke in 2008 because of their bankers' mistakes.

It strikes at the heart of ownership and responsibility and I can't understand why HN isn't bullish about it. Everyone here loves the idea of owning their data and their hardware and their software but somehow, their money should be owned by...bankers? So they can invest it in junk and crash the market?

Doesn't make sense to me.
I agree that AML is an onerous exercise in security theatre. But a large part of it involves tracking and tracing, not preventing.
Same way it is here in india too
also the non-hug-of-death cache
Food... or fresh/unpolluted water. For food, I think it's a little easier but societies that have a hard time producing would have to adjust what they eat and how they eat it. Also, less meat, less red wine, more beer and more potatoes. The latter are much more sustainable.

E.g., In Canada, we'll have to accept we can't have bananas, pineapple, kiwis, mangos any time. We'll have to stick to locally grown apples, way fewer (but higher quality) blueberries and probably eat all the things Icelanders eat like smoked fish.

There's a course on Coursera called The Nordic Diet which is about Scandinavia as a whole adjusting its national diet to eat more local produce. Talk about foresight! That's just one of the principles at least. It's a Danish-run program. E.g., They eat more lingonberries since they grow all over the place?
Legally (at least in a lot of countries), you were incapable of consent. This is a trade off between rights and protecting people, and a reasonable one.

The adult you had sex with broke the law, and endangered people. Just because you actually consented doesn't change the fact that minors are easy to abuse and predators can do so easily, and proving that can be very hard.

Because of that, we have laws that place the responsibility on adults to not have sex with minors. If they break that, they face the same punishment as an abuser. That's the law, and not following it places minors at risk by giving abusers cover.

The person you are talking about was guilty of statutory rape, yes, and they did harm even if it wasn't directly to you.
It is to you. Just imagine someone having a mental handicap or just tired and not paying enough attention.

Terms should be easy to read and understand, that is one part of accessibility.
Congrats on recognising your addiction and acting on it! That ain't easy.

You can just uninstall it, or use Screen Time to limit usage (see https://setapp.com/how-to/block-websites-on-mac), but realistically: you can always reinstall, or disable it.

Just to mention: Maybe consider getting help, getting rid of an addiction isn't easy and there are many professionals who can help you with that.

Lots of respect for taking it on, and good luck in overcoming it!
Website reveals if Google is SPYING on you with new hi-tech 'ad tracker'
There is another town called Bitsch [0] in Switzerland. I am sure you can find any offensive english word, and find some villages / cities in the world that have this particular offensive name.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsch,_Switzerland
Jurisdictions in China have started taxing investment properties on a sliding scale that ramps up a lot the more properties you own.

They have also put heavy restrictions on bank lending.

Basically they are desperately trying to slow/reverse responsibly an out of control housing bubble.

That said they have unique cultural and geographical issues in terms of the sheer scale of their urbanisation
Honest question: why do you think working for startup would be better for them then working for google? Why do you think a doctor would be better off or happy working for startup? Why do you assume having seeking connection to startup world is a think they miss in their lives?

On hn, there is sort of bubble of people who think that working for startup is best thing ever and everyone else is selling the soul. What if it is not true and some people really wanted to be doctors/nurses or find their job at google happy place?
Sounds like Adobe hired some executives from the cable TV or satellite TV industry, where the fine print on some packages locks you into 24 or 36 month contract terms. They know exactly how to do it with the minimum legal amount of notice to the customer when signing up, and how to write the terms of service for acceptance to make it ironclad. Same with 2-3 year terms on cellular carriers with a "free $0!" new samsung phone.

For a long time the local telephone company in British Columbia (Telus) was giving away "free" xboxes or 46 inch flat screen TVs if you locked yourself into a triple play service contract. Of course the buy-out price to end the contract early far exceeded the value of the product given out.
Yes, I use it exactly like that.
It would be interesting to observe the effect myself but bringing the cellphone with a picture to the mirror... Not possible?
> cheap credit only affects how much the most desperate buyer is able to pay

I disagree with this statement, cheap credit allows banks to offer longer term mortgages and buyers able to afford a larger principal with the same per-month cost, pushing the prices upwards due to keeping payments low on a per-month basis, due to low interests and longer term plans.

This definitely pushes the price of all market upwards. It's a similar effect to tuition costs in the US, cheap credit, bankruptcy laws make them pretty safe for banks to take risk, flooding the market and allowing universities to hike prices.

Building is fundamental, but cheap credit has an upwards pressure in price, magnifying the effect.

All in all, I completely agree with your take on the solution. Build fucking more, population and specially cities have grown quite a lot on the past 3-4 decades, we still live with most dwellings built then than now.
Interesting to think of, let's say, one of our society's upper class given the opportunity to be a 'regular' person X years from now. Rejuvenation, instant cure for any illness, pain or wound, immersion into world spanning super intelligence, gratification of any physical or emotional desire, personal host of robotic servants, etc. The price is that they would be regular, that is, devoid of superior wealth or power. Would they take it?
You can usually infer quite a lot from income data anyway given that wealth and income tend to be quite closely related. Obviously, there are exceptions but in general there is a strong correlation.

Furthermore, Piketty and other researchers have gone to great lengths to get reliable wealth data despite the difficulties.

The difficulty of performing these investigations rigorously is why I would prefer to trust studies from professional economists rather than a hot-take from a blog.
File Ops:A VSC Extension to easily tag/alias files and quick switch between them
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/file-ops
Amos on the Amiga was pretty great. I was able to get sprites moving around, respond to mouse clicks, even some simple 3D with an extension. Admittedly never actually made a playable game, as my programming chops weren't good enough yet. There was a small community making games with it, and they would be distributed among other shareware.
Perhaps this is a country/regional thing, but I definitely do not expect to be on the hook for the whole year. In Australia it's quite common to have phone/power/gas/insurance plans that are 1/2 year contracts, but to cancel it you pay a small fee.

If fact, when I think about things I currently pay for, none of them work like Adobe's contract.

- I have a 1 year contract with my energy provider, the cancel fee is ~$45 and I must give them 20 days notice

- My phone has a 24 month plan, to cancel I pay any remaining phone/accessory payments and nothing for the plan, that's it

- My car insurance is paid annually in advance. If I cancel 6 months in they charge a $40 fee and refund me the pro-rata amount for the remaining six months

My point is Adobe could be upfront and clearer with the overall pricing, terms, renewals, and cancel fees — I don't think they are at all.

Edit: fixed some formatting issues
>The story has now also been picked up by RT and the Sunday Herald.

Seriously quoting RT (or Sputnik) in a serious article is giving them legitimacy they don't deserve.

As for the substance of the article. Based on the edits they show it seems the guy really is manipulating the entries. Hiding genuine info and adding stuff that may be/is unsubstantiated.

However this bit is going a bit too far:
>The operation runs like clockwork, seven days a week, every waking hour, without significant variation. If Philip Cross genuinely is an individual, there is no denying he is morbidly obsessed. I am no psychiatrist, but to my entirely inexpert eyes this looks like the behaviour of a deranged psychotic with no regular social activities outside the home, no job (or an incredibly tolerant boss), living his life through a screen.

A "deranged psychotic" ? Maybe he is a pensioner with nothing better to do with his time? Judge him by the malice of his edits, not by the time he spends making them.
> Add your email address to our waitlist to get the latest version of Eric's Geometric Unity manuscript.

Way to go. Do they really want to disseminate new ideas?
I'm fascinated by the amount of need to undermine human suffering by more human suffering.
Hey, a good tip for you: it's all bad.
> Cryptocurrency supporters should be lobbying for government bans, not against them.

Just like a banned dr. Suess book, this would further inflate prices
A pixel for over 1,111,000$
Coinbase could buyback Bitcoin to inflate their commissions and increase the retail rush
Yet, there are many examples of those who made big from rags to riches. Am not talking about movie stars but business tycoons. Carol Bartz, Dhirubai Ambani, Naval Ravikant, Chamath to name a few.

Bartz for instance
"Bartz was born in Winona, Minnesota. After losing her mother at a young age, she moved with her brother to her grandparent's farm in Alma, Wisconsin. She took a job at a bank at age 15 to help support her family. Good grades in high school earned her a scholarship to William Woods, a prestigious all-girls college in Missouri. She transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked her way through college as a waitress. In 1971, she earned her degree in computer science."

Being poor can work as the single most powerful force for people to get out of poverty and pursue their dreams.

Not to be rude, but for those who want to find excuses will find excuses. Those who want to break out and go get things done, will find no excuses.
Within the EU?

That's an exception due to the freedom of movement rules which don't really exist anywhere else.
I would argue you really just need one step:

1. All economic transactions between parties are given to government and linked to a government-issued identifier. With this data, you can throw a bunch of smart people and algorithms to detect fraud, laundering and tax evasion.

But of course, "privacy". Such a convenient excuse to prevent us from stopping alot of crime and fraud.
Anyone know why there is no longer a way to turn off all the suggestions on Alexa anymore?

I've used Alexa since it came out and they've added annoying random suggestions over the years that you were able to turn off in various settings menus.

But in the past year or Alexa has been upselling me stuff or randomly telling me about features I don't want to hear about when I'm just trying to turn on a light. And it seems like there's now actually no way to turn this stuff off.

Does anyone know if you can turn off Alexa upselling or is it going to just be a part of having a smart home forever?
MobileStyleGan 3.5X less parameters, 9.5X less FLOPs
The operations are somewhat different though. Store-to-load forwarding is more complicated and doesn't completely eliminate the operation, it just significantly reduces the cycle count when successful.

Although apparently Zen 2 changed this and can pull off zero latency. (https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41)

Some general background: (https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/06/11/speed-limits.h...)
NYSE: There's only one First Trade
Did you report it to the Dutch agency in charge of enforcing it ? Eg in France it's the DGCCRF (we love our acronyms).
Getting the Power Grid Ready for the Green Future
non-jswalled version: https://archive.is/LnKBC
I remember ants from my youth. They ran around outside, if you lifted a tile 100's would scatter, and sometimes one would bite you.

However, due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_nitrogen_c... (and agricultural monoculture) the amount of ants I now see in "the wild" (garden, forest) has dropped very significantly...
PostgreSQL Explain Analyze for Web Developers Part 1 – Indexes
This a false equivalence.

Adults in countries with statutory rape laws have a responsibility placed upon them by the law not to have sex with minors, if they do so, they are breaking the law and—at least—endangering minors by giving cover to abusers.

Having sex with a child is not equivalent to protected political speech. It is an action we have specifically placed restrictions on because of the potential harm involved.

Your response might as well be applied to driving licenses, or basically anything else, to equate all restrictions or responsibilities in the law to censorship. It's absurd.
Yes, "learning" the tailwind syntax was really quite easy.

In addition, most editors and IDE's now have plugins for autocompletion

And as an incentive to learning – once you're familiar with Tailwind's syntax, you get to use that learning on all your future Tailwind projects.
Marketing companies would be my opinion. Fake meat has been around for years, but has become trendy again in the last couple of years. (Maybe it's better now, but that is subjective).
Accidentally or not you seem to be following the Kremlin line almost to the letter:

https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/02/20/the-kremlins-cri...
I’ve never been in a lease where it would cost a whole year worth of rent to quit early. It just cost the deposit, which is usually 1 or 2 months worth of rent.

And this is understandable for renting an apartment. The landlord might not be able to find a suitable replacement immediately. The same logic doesn’t apply to Adobe.
> That kind of addict is already spending 100% of their available money on heroin. Worst case the price going up means they take less, which seems like a somewhat positive outcome.

No, worst case they get violently sick, resort to crime, lose their house, try risky new suppliers...
Ah yeah, re-reading it it's clear you were talking about Big Tech, I missed that on the first go.

Though I kinda resent the industry's focus on Big Tech, like all we can talk about is these few mammoth dysfunctional nightmares that take up all the room. There's lots of good tech work out there too!