skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But dirt is not pollution. In the USA, there are plenty of super funds sites that don't agree with you.

What's happening elsewhere? God only knows. The dirty little secret is the USA outsources manufacturing not only because of labour costs, but because other countries have much less repect for Mother Nature. The USA brags it cleaned up, but it simply exposed it. That unhealthy smog in China? The USA and others own much of it.
Anyone else notice autocorrect being more aggressive?

Like switching or => of and like not => now. I've noticed loads of these kinds of typos afflicting my Android typing too. Like it's like an auto-un-correct
My main skepticism is that these opportunities are marketed as a collaboration for middle-class investors, but they are being organized by a company with information advantages. I’m afraid that they are capturing a bunch of the gains as management overhead and selling off liabilities to the investors with some hidden costs and somehow diluted potential for returns.

I have looked closely into some other crowdfunded real estate platforms in the past and I felt that they were using some misleading marketing to hide fees and liabilities. But I haven’t done a deep dive into Pacaso and I don’t want to call any of these out by name because I’m not a lawyer.

The main collaborative investments are the equities markets. If you want real estate, there’s REITs. These markets are highly regulated, and the system is built over hundreds of years to protect the interests of billionaire shareholders. As a regular middle-class investor in these markets you benefit from the same protections.

On the other hand, equity valuations are inflated so I understand the desire to find another asset class. I’m just skeptical that bundling your investments with a vacation timeshare is necessarily a good idea. A lot of people got screwed doing that in the past. Maybe you are better off investing your money elsewhere and using the returns to rent a vacation home one day at a time.
I've considering vending, too. Could you tell something about IoT for solving above-mentioned issues?
You're free to do what you want, but working for free doesn't just hurt you. It hurts your coworkers and the industry as a whole.
And they'd all be wrong. The Allies won the war. None of them did it on their own. Nor could they had they tried. The UK was going to fall. The USSR was going to fall. It took all of us to destroy the Axis.
As Scrutiny of Cryptocurrency Grows, the Industry Turns to K Street
I think it's less about underestimating and more about finding the right abstractions and trade-offs. As far as I understand all the real debate is surrounded by "more taxes" vs "less taxes". No major debate is really trying to think of fundamentally different trade offs.

Some people may interpret it as a naive point of view. I don't think that's the case.

The "layers" of regulation I think could possibly be likened to a legacy code-base that has accumulated patches on top of patches on top of patches. But in reality the problem isn't that that was necessary. In reality maybe the original code kinda sucked or had a few malicious patches injected over the years (ie. case law, supreme court decisions, etc)
the fed wuld alsmot never allow it to invert if they can prevent it.
Perhaps, but how much of a difference can that make? It's hard to imagine many people spending $100+ on new SaaS/digital goods because of the pandemic.
California has legislation that goes beyond national legislation.
This is basic accepted business principles as far as this dropout can see.

First, reduce labor costs. One way to lower wages is to get salaried people to work as many hours for their check as you can convince them to do. This is one place where sociopaths shine.

Second, the ideal labor cost is $0, aka the ideal state of capitalism. When humans are involved, this means slavery. "Ideal" means the same as above: reduce labor costs wherever possible.

Convincing people to overwork is a sales job, and bending everybody around you to your preferred activities is practice for when you're going for funding or acquisition. Is there any MBA who wants to help build a company that doesn't get acquired? Gonna need those persuasion skills.

Working 80hrs a week? Congratulations, you've cut your own salary in half.
Yeah, this looks way more compliant than any package I've ever received from China. Most of those don't even have the appropriate HS tariff numbers on at all...
> The marginal cost for a new subscriber is practically zero, so there should be no price increase caused by a shortage.

Digital goods aren’t priced at marginal cost. By your logic not only an increase in money supply would have no effect on the price of digital goods, but the price of digital goods should be 0 before and after the increase.
I’m surprised the approach of https://github.com/sconover/wrong never caught on where you just write assert { x == y } and it inspects the values you’re comparing and the methods you’re using to generate the appropriate error messages and, say, a diff of where two arrays diverge.
Except due to globalization this process has moved out to cheaper countries. Where the wealth is created and then parked in more politically stable West. And we keep wondering why our Average Joe can't afford a house anymore.
I think the title does not do the article justice, as is usually the case. The article walks through two people who make the same amount from their jobs, but invest it differently and with different outcomes.
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You have to be a special kind of person to play the lottery in the first place. Definitely not good a proxy for the population at large.
I feel like the easiest way to accomplish this is just investing into stable dividend stocks. I don't know the first thing about running a vending machine, or upkeeping a condo. But I know people who do - dividend-paying companies. I get ~$20 a month on a $6600 position. Could earn way more if i shifted other investments but it's not the best tax-wise (neither is running a vending machine, compared to buying an index fund).
This is like saying Troy Daniels won NBA Championship last year.

He was on Lakers roster and has the ring but you know… :)
Things can always change. I know people who fled Amsterdam because it was a junkie ridden slum. Houses in that area now go for 1.5 million euro.
What is net neutrality 'fraud'? A new crime invented because libs didn't like the net neutrality repeal? Is it also racist? Homophobic? Deplorable?
While I'm not fond of Apple's schizophrenic application of its own contracts, your statements miss some considerations in those Supreme cases

1.physical presence

2.access to private infrastructure for the common person

In both cases, protesting from a company-town owned (and therefore private) sidewalk or within a mall (only in California) is allowed due to the fact a person had to be there to enjoy the right to free expression and the access to private infrastructure granted to the average person under normal circumstances must be granted to a common protester. Neither the web nor the App Store would qualify as a public square any more than privately owned networks on cable TV. There is no physical presence (self-explanatory) and access to private infrastructure for the common person is the same for the common protestor (Apple's way or the highway in both cases).

In other words, it doesn't change Apple's position. In fact there would be plenty of Supreme court issues against such a decision. One such argument is that, given code=speech, Apple carrying an application against its will would be compelled speech. As I've previously said, I don't agree with the idea that Apple or the App Store must be subject to anti-trust provisions (e.g public square, common carrier, etc).Apple shouldn't have to bear a fiduciary relationship with developers or consumers. Apple should just follow a consistent contract and not reinterpret it willy nilly.
Wealth, power, fame == "somebody"

Tbh, I'm not interested in being that kind of somebody. I'd rather be a good friend, good at my job, and doing the work my God has set out for me to do.

If I can nail those I think I'm doing pretty well. Dare I say I might even be satisfied.
It's not about the monetary cost, it's about the model of society: this model is about consuming always more, making "bigger" machines with "bigger" components, because it is possible. But it doesn't question the environmental cost, it doesn't ask why we actually need bigger machines to mostly do similar things as what we did some time ago.

A burger with beef will cost roughly the same as a vegetarian burger. Even if nothing can replace beef, one should question whether there is a need for beef and if it could be replaced, because the alternative emits less CO2. Same goes for RAM.
> Of course, being HN, we start counting at zero by default anyway.

Yes, but do we call something "the zeroth"? I think not; AFAICS it ends up in "We call the first generation 'Generation Zero'."
Indeed, I'd firstly people in NZ seem to be waaay more reasonable and understanding. Sure there were few brave ones, but everyone generally stuck to the rules and understood what public health means.

Being an island somewhat helps, but it's not like other countries don't have borders that they can protect.
Bureaucracy is pretty low in NZ so we've been able to throw together solutions of screening, etc within matter of a week. Impacted workers got wage subsidy within like 5 days of lockdown started. Heck even Apple took something like 10x longer to release their contact tracing API...
A well off friend of mine bought a vending machine business it turned out to be a major mistake. Major time suck, slim to negative profits.
"I dont want Flutter on Linux desktop because it will not integrate well. Flutter apps are almost certainly not going to use DBus, or other Freedesktop standards to fit in well, in the vast majority of cases. "

On the plus side -removing the Linux-centric dependencies could potentially level the playing field for the BSDs. This would be a good thing because it would prevent Linux from becoming a Windows-style monoculture.

Meaning if Linux continues to go off into the weeds, then the BSD having a viable desktop that doesn't depend on the freedesktop foundation infrastructure will insure that desktop users aren't all left hanging (relying on windows or macos).
A substantial fraction of the population believes that a person's sex is an immutable characteristic that cannot be changed. I suspect that GLAAD wants such views to be suppressed in the name of "safety".
> How does SOA make this worse?

I’m not saying SOA inherently makes it worse. I’m saying SOA still comes with its own costs.

> It sounds like it's working really well to expose an organizational failure.

Exactly. But there’s a belief that having individual services leads to efficiencies because everyone is decoupled and works across established contracts.

The reality of the game is far more complex. While it is an organizational problem, at scale the organizational issue is also hard to resolve because of competing goals and priorities.

But to analyze SOA, we have to consider this reality. Looking at SOA as a silver bullet in a vacuum is near sighted - that’s all I’m trying to say.

> Whoever owns the business priorities will have to make the call on what happens here.

In large, distributed organizations, there often isn’t a single person, or the common owner is much higher in the org tree that people don’t want to go to them. We can call that a management failure, but that’s not the point. In reality, this inefficiency burns out engineers and leads to a lot of churn. And this is a ground reality in at least two of the companies whose products you most likely use every day.
Do you truly believe that printing unprecedented amounts of money will have zero effect on the real value of that money?
Unpaid overtime is never OK if you ask me. That said I favour flexible time arrangements instead of what I gather is mostly understood by 'overtime'. Thus averaging out to 8h (preferably 7h) per day.

They definitely work more and things like parental are also not really a thing.

Source: a friend of mine works there now.
The idea that workers were lording it over the rich from the 1930s through to the 1970s is preposterous. Unless the words political and control have been twisted to mean their polar opposites.
With ACA that’s only really a problem for those just over the income cliff. Health insurance costs after subsidy for most retired folks pulling, say, 50k-60k or so per year from retirement accounts and social security are pretty low.
But thanks to plausible deniability only the marketing companies were fined, not the big ISPs that hired them to do it.
Slightly related but will walking in a small town (medieval period) I ran into the vice-mayor who couldn't stop shilling his place.. aging and exodus made his town fade away and he was very eager to find new citizen.

I could see a lot of people moving there with a few incentives.. quality of life is immense there, cheap, calm, free roads, nature everywhere, feel of ancient stone houses.
>Between the mass pollution tainting our world, impending global warming and increased civil unrest, I figure the odds that my animal reaches 70 are not very high.

You are living in approximately the safest time ever. The Internet has just made civil unrest visible when it would just be page 3 in a newspaper before that you wouldn't care about.

People living in the 80s in the US were in a war-zone by today's standard. Lead was in the paint and the gas not long before that.
Many of the newer reactors don’t need the level of radioactive material as compared to the older ones. AFAIK, some newer ones could even run on spent rods.

As to the feasibility of storage of old material, assume that Germany literally had no excess land to place it on, what about other countries? You couldn’t imagine a country with excess worthless land willing to lease it? Wouldn’t that be a net positive for Germany, for the poor country, and less emissions globally?

Lastly on the failsafes, there are improvements and so called “passive” implementations, but outside of the failed communist state and the tsunami incidents, what critical failures are there? Not talking about 3 mile island etc that were more fear porn than anything.
I think genetics is a better indicator.

In my line, male smokers/heavy drinkers die 20+ years earlier. My dad and brother died in poor health at 58 and 59 respectively. The men who didn't serially abuse themselves lived into their 70s to late 80s - generally on their own.
The kind I've iterated on for years to maximize my body.

I wish I had a good answer, but it's similar to exercise. The best food for you is the one that works for you.

I also highly recommend no-food (don't try to twist this). Fasting for various periods is undeniably beneficial for men and women past menopause (younger women should carefully research preventing doing any harm).

Rather than tell you exactly what I eat, I'll tell you that I aim to minimize blood sugar, most of the time(exercise, and simply trying to live a little can change this). And that I also give myself permission to eat outside my boundaries occasionally, though doing so often keeps me on track in the future because of the obvious negative outcomes (which are a lot easier to recognize when you have absolute control over what your ingesting).

The science of nutrition is complex, but I'm sure a lot of programmers would be intrigued by chemistry and equations involved in metabolism. It also changes the way you think about eating. I was fortunate enough to land myself in a tough nutrition class in college, which can look more like organic chemistry.

Edit: to satisfy the downvoters: I'm mostly keto, always low carb unless it's some occasion where I'd otherwise regret not participating. Organic, and well-treated animals are also a staple (and yes, a luxury not available to all).

There are really so many little things that if you or your partner aren't significantly interested in learning about it as a hobby then you're undoubtedly going to miss a lot.

Note: to anyone asking what exactly I eat, why? You don't even know anything about me. What if I'm an athlete? Then what I eat would make a sedentary person obese. Not to mention, VARIETY IS ESSENTIAL. Ideally I would eat every single good thing that's available to maximize my exposure to good things.

Good luck to you!
But slave labor is essential to the existence of well off, wealthy and super wealthy people.

You can see that in ~about~ mid 20th century, when very high marginal tax rates of very high earnings reduced the incentive for owners and executives diverting profits from wages and into their own pockets, bonuses and spaceships.

Difference between a CEO's pay and his lowest or median employees wasn't times thousands. Now it is, thanks to free market slavery.

In those days, what we now euphemistically call "essential" jobs could actually support a family, a mortgage and sometimes college for the kids.

Now an essential job provides essential support to everyone except the wage slave. Me included, as I enjoy my free and same-day delivery book with my cheap WalMart oatmeal and cheese.
What did the founder(s) of Little Caesar's Pizza create?
My advisor is saying the fed is try to staving off deflation still.
This is the craziest idea I've ever heard when it comes to economics . Isn't that basically the libertarian "everyone should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want to do" approach?

As in....do you not recognize that society might want to value having functional industries and employment above absolute freedom for businesses? And as someone else already pointed out - there are whole bunch of externalities that we all pay for by allowing this unfettered and unlimited trade. With your approach if it was cheaper to ship fresh salad 20k miles than buy local, it should be allowed because after all, why should you interfere with local businesses? Sometimes it is a matter of national security too, where one country knowingly attempts to destroy another's industry by dumping their product at cost prices - great for consumers I imagine you'd say. But again, you are being very short sighted.
New book - Press Reset - investigates the high human cost of game development
The Protestant/Calvinist work-ethic is definitely a factor especially, IMHO, in technology work. It stretches over to Asian non-Christian cultures too, but I suspect that's because it's an export which they've accepted as their own because it happens to jive with the strict authoritarian hierarchies which are common in Asian countries.

You can see it in Stackoverflow as well. The gamification encourages people to prove they are "worthy" of even deigning to ask a question by showing they've done "the work". Those who haven't are subject to humiliation and dismissal, regardless of need or authenticity.
Possibly the earliest video game – from 1917
I guess this would be similar to the way a lot of sports arenas are built. The public foots the bill to build it, and the team gets a cheap 20-year lease to use it. And the public the gets a sports team.
How private is your Gmail, and should you switch?
That's fine but why do it for free? Flexible time arrangements are great. But log your 2-3am coding session and do an hour less on Friday afternoon. Early beer with like minded friends.
If your company was “good about work life balance”, it wouldn’t support weekend and 2 am logins/commits/code reviews. The optics and what is communicated to the team are the opposite of what you’re stating. Very similar to “unlimited PTO” where everyone competes to take the least amount possible (explicitly or implicitly).

Culture matters.

https://www.good.is/money/france-lets-you-disconnect

> In France, if you’re a company of 50 employees or more, you cannot email an employee after typical work hours. The labor law amendment has come about because studies show that in the digital age, it’s increasingly difficult for people to distance themselves from the workplace during their off hours. This new provision allows people to get the full advantage of their time off.

> “All the studies show there is far more work-related stress today than there used to be, and that the stress is constant,” Benoit Hamon of the French National Assembly told the BBC. “Employees physically leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash — like a dog. The texts, the messages, the emails — they colonize the life of the individual to the point where he or she eventually breaks down.”
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> I have huge problems believing

The universe is indifferent to your persuasions. The double slit experiment has been successfully performed on large molecules of 810 atoms. Quantum mechanics is fundamentally about knowledge and information after interactions. You seem to be a physics guy but something tells me you aren't aware that every single interaction causes entanglement. Entanglement is simply a constraint on interaction products, given the input particles. It is just easier to see its effects on small objects since they are less likely to be perturbed.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8343
Under a consequentialist point of view, yes. But, in my honest opinion, consequentialism is a completely flawed and unfair way to judge actions.
Also he assumes that Mark will end up hating his job. I don’t know anyone who loves their job100% of the time, but lots of people love their careers and at that level, it isn’t that hard to switch.
That's because it takes time to transition from seeing a pile of cash in terms of all the stuff you can buy with it, to seeing the safe withdrawal that money can generate when well invested.

The average person who wins $1 million in the lottery sees a new house, car, vacations, maybe a boat. A wealthy person would see it as an extra $30-40k a year in passive income. Of course, people with this mindset generally don't play the lottery, because they do the math.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/safe-withdrawal-rate-sw...

There's no reason why a lottery winner necessarily can't make this transition, but as soon as they win the lottery, it's probably too late to teach them. They're going to quit their job, tell all their friends and family, and eventually the money runs out leaving them with an appetite for consumption they can no longer afford with their meager income potential. That's why it destroys people's lives.

On the other hand, if you gradually earn $1 million, or even make risky but calculated long term investments that pay off, you don't wake up one morning to suddenly find yourself with a massive amount of money. You watch your net worth creep up slowly over years or decades. Even if a person like this started by fantasizing about all the stuff they can buy with that much cash, the longer accumulation period gives them time to learn and reflect on what they really want, and therefore are more likely to use this wealth more intelligently.

It's the sudden, unexpected windfalls of cash beyond what a person is prepared to handle that are dangerous, not the absolute amount or the person handling it.
Which of my facts are made up? Real wages have fallen for the past 50 years. The fact that they may have made up some ground recently doesn't change the fact that wage growth is falling behind asset price growth and the problem is only getting worse.

Also, you are measuring wage growth vs consumer price infation so ~2%. The article talks about asset price inflation which depending on how you measure it is closer to 15%.
I didn’t say I advocated for A sedimentary lifestyle. There’s a big difference between being active and intense exercise.

And it’s not just quantity of life, but quality of life. I know a bunch of long distance runners and I can’t tell you how many of them had knee surgery and/or, back problems.
Yessss, the "rebalancing" of collections... :)