skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you're right that deflation would decrease the value of assets, it will also have other impacts that will negatively effect the poor (as well as the wealthy). Liquid assets, such as cash, become more valuable, so investment in creating new assets will decrease, such as starting a business, investing in stocks, business loans, etc. will decrease. This will likely stifle growth, which would likely disproportionately impact those already at the bottom in lower wages and fewer jobs. If companies are playing someone $10 an hour today, and the value of a dollar drops by 50%, business will start lowering salaries to $5. The very wealthy, on the other hand, have access to international markets/investments and would be able to flee the deflationary effect. Such as Eric Schmidt becoming a citizen of Cyprus to avoid taxes.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-g...

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title should have read as “ … disadvantaged minorities …”.

There are some minorities that are doing above GINI index.
"Second, we build a dataset that matches the financial information of publicly traded software firms with (1) R&D expenditures and patent, copyright, and trademark counts, and
(2) a unique dataset of pirated software."

That's fine, but they're measuring what can be measured easily and calling it "innovation" (at least in the headline), rather than anything meaningful. Having more patent filings doesn't mean you're "innovating" more. Nor does spending more on "R&D" which is mostly just an accounting convention.

At two companies, I worked on getting more patent filings, because that was seen by management as The Thing To Do. In both cases, we would ask the engineers "what have you done lately?" and then decide if any of that might be patentable. Usually this involved paying a bounty to the "inventor" if a patent application was filed, and another if the patent actually issued (4-8 years later).

In one case for awhile (Google Maps), they were actually paying people a bounty for submitting an idea for a patent, even if no application was filed! I was on the committee that decided if the idea was (1) great, file for sure, (2) pretty good, maybe file, (3) OK but don't file, or (4) so bad you don't even get the idea bounty.

(*Full disclosure: I'm pretty sure this system isn't in effect anymore.*)

I've written elsewhere [1] about the dubiousness of software patents, so I don't need to explain how they have nothing to do with "innovation."

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580
I had a friend ask for their cap sheet after they were cagey with responses from similar questions. He figured they would had some massive expenses and An IPO was impossible or ridiculously far off. They eventually went under after three terrible years.
For the record, I got vaccinated for a very selfish reason: I didn’t want to kill someone by giving them covid and figure out how to live with that for the rest of my life. It was an extremely personal reason. And I got vaccinated in February as part of an early essential personnel group.

I am really struggling to figure out how you don’t think it’s a personal decision. Surely you don’t think people are anything but utterly selfish and self-centered.

I don’t think it was framed as a personal decision, I think it was an organic bubbling up of how people actually feel. If you’re suggesting we should be trying to manipulate how people feel, we’re on such different pages that this conversation will no longer be sustainable.
I wouldn't include that in initial estimate but maybe explain that they may want to budget 0-30% for enhancements.

You might also want to explain no project is guaranteed to work. All you can do is minimize the risks and costs. by making as many mistakes on paper and mockup first and realize that ultimately it's the end users decide whether it's a good product or not. And anyone that says any different is promising rainbows and unicorns.
From fifth-to-last paragraph of the article:

Even if you accept the premise that an internet encyclopedia should be written from a neutral point of view, it is clear that some knowledge is contested within cultures, such as whether the population of Israel should include occupied and contested territories, or whether Catalonia is better described as a Spanish autonomous community or its own country. If more language editions relied on Abstract Wikipedia as the central source of truth, then this dominant point of view could replace alternative perspectives. But Vrandečić countered that each volunteer community could decide for itself whether Abstract Wikipedia should be used as a baseline. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, will not mandate that different language versions be forced to use the machine-readable, abstract version. That means that, for example, Hebrew Wikipedia and Arabic Wikipedia could each continue to present very different articles for the topic of Jerusalem.
PC-86-DOS
To be fair, I think the same thing is true of individuals, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. Often times the grass is greener on the other side. Granted, it's industry dependent, but if you are in tech then there are countless green pastures to pick from. From a company's perspective, they know they don't want to pay someone significantly more for the same position, so they figure they won't lose much by waiting for employees to leave and hire a fresh new employees for roughly the same wages as the preview ones. It also means any potential baggage created due to office politics and or bad attitudes work themselves out to some respect.

Unless one is an outright wizard at what they do, which is rare, what should make anyone think a company needs to keep them around? We are all replaceable. Companies should only hire internally if it makes sense. The fact is that 99% of us are just adequate in the eyes of our employers, and if they play their cards right, they have more to gain by hiring new team members than ones they know they aren't that enamored with.
But that's only within Revolut, which is a very small fintech compared to the aggregate of commercial US banks. Why would I use Revolut when I can use a US bank that supports Zelle today, or any US bank that will support Instant Payments in 18 months?

Also, Wise today supports cross border P2P payments and are a more reputable firm than Revolut. I would recommend Wise over Revolut if someone was looking for such a feature.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...

So there are at least 3 studies performed by different teams in this article that indicates you're incorrect in your assertions as applied in practice.
A lot of the "beginner friendly" distros will install a GUI frontend in the default install and label it "software center" or "app store" or similar.
It helps them conflate the feature as “for the children” and not as a privacy violation, a general confusion about the coupling of these features is desirable for their marketing.
Eh, my point was that being able to use and understand idioms does not require knowledge of the original cultural context because their meaning has become uncoupled from their literal meaning. The saying could just as well be "it’s not my xyzzy of wargbl" and, if it became popular enough, would be perfectly understandable even though "xyzzy" and "wargbl" have zero meaning in English in and of themselves.
In particular, there are plenty of examples of companies putting out bounties to rogue employees who provide evidence that a business is using unlicensed software, so it's dangerous even if you can't prove through the output of the software alone that it is unlicensed.
Interesting. Looks like Forth. :-)
I think it depends on the coder if it makes more sense to them to write out the scale by element size or not. For me, the `+` is just pointer arithmetic and of course an addition in number of elements (so I don't think of the scaling at all).

Just saying that "actually it's just array + i" makes more sense - for me(!).
I’m not sure where you’re getting your “1%” from, but corporations are liable for full income tax (21% in the USA), on the (depreciated) increase in the value of their assets.
They share a kernel, shells, package management as an application distribution model, and many disparately developed complex systems. They all run the same software more or less.

Once you've used a few dozen different Linux distros, which I have over the 20 years I've used Linux for things, you find that almost all of them are basically the same. Occasionally there's an outlier like Gobolinux or Rox that everyone ignores but even they still has most software in common.
Eight things Apple could do to prove it cares about App Store users
Oh sure, I don't say to toss the tech on the trash. I'm just saying it won't solve world food current problems.

Although I'm skeptical for mars, bigger plants will deplete their substrate very fast, it could be a limiter.
> I would not say it is "scanning" as the device doesn't know the final result (match or not).

I would argue that 'scanning' is the process of collecting data, not necessarily of interpreting it.
You see, I'd like to write more of my software in Clojure (or any functionally inclined Lisp). If there was a really good interop story with a non-gc:d native lang I could do more of it.

Clojure is a hosted language, so hosting it on C++ (or Rust etc.) would be sweet for me personally. Also, I like compiler projects.
Unless the main purpose of your software is to be a client for an online service, you should always assume that the normal state of the user's network connection is offline, and being online is an exception.
I wish there were more specific numbers than "twice" and "half" and such.

Was this generally a 3% likelihood turning into a 6% one? A 20% turning into a 40%? More?

The takeaways about the process - it's less likely to lead to them leaving if it's early (edit: misread this, looks like later is better) in the process, or if it's in favor of a different internal candidate - are very interesting, nonetheless, but I feel like the headline could be overstated depending on the magnitude of the probabilities.
+1 - specifically, not undermining/cutting corners wherever possible at the expense of the system’s health
Why does it have to be an either/or? Of course Stallman and a large group of volunteers can't compete with giant corporations. But their contributions are very valuable and needed.

It also turns out that few hundred billion dollars of paid software engineering was greatly subsidized by volunteer open source work. Every Android phone in the world uses an open source kernel as one very obvious example.

I for one am very grateful for Stallman and everyone else. I use Linux for everything. Works great, meets all of my needs with zero complaints. If it wasn't for them, I'd have no choice but to use Windows or MacOS.
I don't think it's an argument that "piracy is good", but instead piracy serves as a sort of test case to explore the extent to which current boundaries of intellectual property law is "promot[ing] the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
It's possible if a company has raised a large amount of funding and/or the investors have aggressive terms. Liquidation preferences[1] mean preferred shareholders get paid out before common stock holders receive any sale proceeds.

[1] https://medium.com/@CharlesYu/the-ultimate-guide-to-liquidat...
Sort of? I've been building PCs for about 20 years, and when doing it for others, I'd have them buy a license. For myself, the only time I can recall buying a Windows license was for Windows Home Server and WHS 2011. I got a free Windows 7 Ultimate license, which I have now upgraded through 8/8.1 to 10 Pro.

But yes, a mainstream Windows user pays for a Windows license, either through a direct license purchase, or through the baked in price of a machine.

Most users did not pay to upgrade machines from 7/8/8.1 to 10, but that was a bargain with the devil, as it made it easier on the decision-makers at Microsoft to find other ways to make money off of Windows 10 users.
That's CY7C1049, "512Kx8 Static RAM". It's an old enough part that it no longer appears on Cypress's web site.
>If you force something to use more ingredients/nutrients/whatever at a faster pace, you will deplete something else in the ecosystem faster than previously.

This is exactly what he is saying. His claim is that carbon is the resource that is depleted faster and that depletion of nutrients in the soil will remain constant.
One can not be too anal about security.
Seems to me that disadvantaged majorities would be impacted just the same by this analysis, too.
He said he chased the guy out of principle, but if that were true, it follows that he'd do the same thing if the guy stole a pack of gum, which is even more insane. Even the police won't chase someone down for stealing such small amounts. He's not the police, he's not the owner of the store, he (presumably) don't even work there. He has no skin in that game whatsoever.

The store has already accounted for shoplifting and shrinkage in their budget, and any steps they might take to combat it will be systemic via policy and by working with law enforcement to bust major groups (the subject of the actual article) and not one-off foot-chases.

You might argue that a store will charge higher prices in an environment with shoplifting than without, but how much does that really boil down to in terms of the customer's final bill? Bread becomes £0.02 more expensive in a store that has accounted for shoplifting? Does anyone care?

Finally, there is almost no secondary market for food, so, in OP's case, the guy was likely stealing in order to eat, and not to just fence the goods for money.
Options are a pretty big gamble. I do and do not regret skipping them on my last gig. The primary issue I had was the company could simply deny exercising the options. I had always assumed the stock would grow, but at the time I didn’t know if I would stay the long term. Even then would they let me exercise them. Hard to say if they would have let me get away with millions in the end.
I think the biggest reason is that the company already knows the person is good at their current job, and already have the experience and knowledge to do the job well with no more training.

If you move the internal person and hire someone to backfill, you have two people who need to be trained and who might not be a good fit at for the particular job.
Or the changes to the new version of Safari in response to user feedback.
I've been thinking about this more and more. Is it worth it?
The >=50% he was wrong about (I phrased it carefully, it could even be 99/1, as he has been Quite Seriously Wrong about many other things (how to lead FSF, how to communicate with the public, how to behave at conferences)) is likely of vastly greater importance than the few minor technical aspects he was right about.

I'm on Team Free Software but I'm also on Team Productivity and it turns out that software engineering matters a lot to the latter and the quality and quantity of engineering effort put into free software is a tiny, tiny fraction of that put in to nonfree software.

I doubt the right way to change this is by yelling at/chastising users and developers. If it were, Stallman would have been successful. As it appears, he's been mostly a failure.
Surprising-ness is a not a good metric to measure social/psychological science research by.
Often a statement and its opposite can be intuitive.

If the opposite result was stated here one could have easily come up with many "intuitive" explanations.
Home ownership is a good measure in the US. It's how most families create generational wealth and the effects of decades of redlining mean that minorities don't have much value in their homes. It's not that nicer neighborhoods are much less available to minorities, it's that minority neighborhoods have historically been not nice.
That's almost enough to pay for two weeks of the war in Afghanistan!
The main issue is that the system is basically a bit of snitching spyware dolled up with cryptographic magic to make it only work with really bad stuff, honest.

As recently posted on HN [1] one should be very wary of backdoors, no matter how much one believes only the right guys could ever use them. Once they're there, they're there: it's arrogant beyond believe to think that opponents of yours won't exploit them.

I won't use an apple product with this feature. I've been using apple's ecosystem since about 1994.

[1] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14334701097425182... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28404219
I had a weird issue the other day (two days ago?) too where trying to load Microsoft Store/check for updates would just completely freeze the program. And also my start menu would not execute apps - I could search for them and hit enter to run them - but nothing would happen.

I'm wondering if it was related to some of this. You're absolutely right that an OS should never "soft-lock" on cloud/networking issues. It's insane to me that we still deal with this as programmers in the year 2021. Write asynchronous code. Expect network slowness or weirdness.
I found gabapentin was mild. Phenibut was like a sledgehammer and has a nasty rep for habit formation.

pregablin made me stupid. literally interfered with my cognition
Tracking a kid at an amusement park, presumably a quite young one, is entirely fine IMO. I remember when I was 4 or so, I waited until my parents weren't looking to sneak off and go play with a toy in the gift shop my parents didn't let me see earlier in the day. I just about gave them a heart attack.
There have been loads of reports about how crops have fewer nutrients already.

And, for example, there are many trace elements which are not replenished with standard fertilizer.

Selenium is an example here, I think it is the Danish?, which have a law now, forcing it to be added to fertilizer.

Bacteria don't make elements.... although I suppose they could free them from rocks...
It's not Apple scanning your device. It's your device scanning itself, and you sharing the results of those scans to Apple with iCloud if you decide to use it. Don't want Apple to see your data ? Just don't send it to them, it's that simple.
Its a little hyperbolic of them, but the root issue is still that a buggy advertisement in the operating system, as part of a non-vital cloud service, caused the operating system to break. This doesn't feel like an "it happens", right?
I've applied for 6 various higher level roles after being with the company I'm at for 5 years and getting numerous high level ratings each year - I got non responses and even one "oh we've only posted this one for someone else" on all of them so far. Started looking externally because of that.
In what ways do you think those human steps can fail?

The method only returns positive on a hash-match with a known piece of CSAM from NCMEC.

The human process is looking at a picture somebody has already been convicted of child abuse for having, and comparing it with yours to see if they're the same.
I suspect the nonsensical user-hostile decisions are not being made by the devs themselves. And if I was in their position (of implementing nonsensical user-hostile decisions) I would probably not give two shits whether it was done well or not.
What OS's RMS suggest are irrelevant to the gp's comment that RMS saw this slippery slope in computing coming long before most.

> No real way to build a skyscraper or produce a state of the art feature film on free software.

Yes, CAD software is a known issue in FOSS land, but you can still run them in wine on linux when you have to. It is getting better though, lots of consistent updates to some of the foss-cads.

Blender on the other hand, is now often the backbone of the feature film industry. As a matter of fact a large portion of the industry is moving more and more towards at least OSS. (https://www.aswf.io/projects/)

> The whole world moved on to devices where not only is the software nonfree

This is a blanket statement and not true. What about the fact that foss generally runs the vast majority of the internet that allows those non-free devices to function? You've basically got a bunch of linux boxes at the edge of every residential network. Reminds of that time I got into an argument with the Guardians senior technical editor who tried to tell me linux was irrelevant... The supercomputing top 500 certainly doesn't reflect such claims, since you mentioned "state-of-the-art".

> there is not even an option of choosing free software, and, even if there were, there is no comparable free software to choose.

In the vast majority of the cases, there are plenty of FOSS alternatives to choose.

> Why? Because they work better and allow you to get more things done in less time.

Why? Because the school system got locked into to proprietary software when it shouldn't have and thats all they train people on for the most part. Not because of inherent issues in the software interface.
I respectfully disagree. In my mind, the fact that Apple employees do first level filtering is a minor problem.

The main problem is the precedent this sets: on device scanning is now possible.

Before this, if a government asked Apple to scan all the phones for something, Apple could say "we're sorry but we don't have the capability " and they could not be compelled by legal means.

Now, a large part of that argument has been eroded. Apple may have added in a few hurdles, but the first crucial step of on-device surveillance capability has been installed and is on path to being normalized.

It doesn't matter that they don't do this yet. We are undeniably closer to direct phone surveillance than we have been before.
For real. How difficult would it be to have the computer tell us what the error code means instead of a single sentence.

I get codes back in the day when storage for a whole book was costly, but that isn't the case anymore. Just tell us the error, show us the pointers, and then tell us what typical fixes are instead of expecting us to go to the internet for a solution.
I was thinking back to my earlier days when I'd post questions with code in the freenode python channel and get quibbles about choosing to index an array or not use a list comprehension or which way to format strings. I only ever really write python for quick scripts for myself these days anyway so I guess it's a moot point. Maybe I'll look into what black formatting looks like though.
Visual Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
write-up from a couple days back:

https://github.com/httpvoid/writeups/blob/main/Confluence-RC...
> Telling an employee they have no opportunity for vertical growth in an org typically results in negative consequences.

This is totally it, putting a team member through rejection without giving them a growth plan and telling them you want them to succeed or grow basically gives them a map to the door
>And yet, they’ve made it much more difficult to pirate their suite now…

Nobody said you get the innovation you want. :(
And if people’s expectations of what links look like (blue, underlined) are so distracting it massively impacts the readers ease to read the actual content?
Who Can Get Your Book?
I get it, but we're not going to do it to make them sad. We'll be doing it because their product sucks.
How about the baseband? How about the tools used to design the CPU? How about the firmware in the handheld scanner that the delivery person used to bring it to you?
As painful as it will be, pay attention. When you are not looking the organizers will file with your county and say an HOA was voted in. If no one challenges, and the county files the paperwork it will be very expensive to prove they faked a vote.
Expand the hash database to include Bitcoin? What? I really don't think you understand how this works.
Psychologically, I think I understand. Selecting a peer over you means they were slightly more qualified than you, it could happen to anybody. Selecting an outsider means you weren't even remotely considered. And if they aren't seeing you and your contributions maybe another organization might.