jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well researched and interesting data from Dalio, as always. However, I think most of his conclusions and recommendations are both vague and overly complex.

Yes, public education is not great in the United States. But it never was -- the world just got more complex.

Whereas a grade school dropout could find intuitive work that contributed to the economy even just 60 years ago, and could grow their wealth intuitively (you know, saving money in a bank or under a mattress), there are a couple of things that changed all that.

1. Automation. I imagine there is an upper limit on how many people can work in the service industry, which is one of the last holdouts of unskilled labor against automation.

2. Inflation. The CPI weights are garbage. When 2 trillion dollars are injected into stocks and bonds, inflating both of the markets (stonks higher and interest rates lower), the person who has no access to credit and no significant amount of their net worth in stocks is the one who is left behind. Obviously (or maybe not, to inflation denialists), this exacerbates wealth inequality. The richer you are, the higher percentage your net worth will grow from this policy, on average.

This has been going on since the end of Bretton Woods, to a less dramatic degree than the COVID stimulus (more often focused on interest rate manipulation). This is also when the income inequality trend takes off. There are countless other correlated data plots, like some of the ones included by Dalio, and surely, there are multiple factors. However, the causality for inflation is the most direct and measurable.

One more thing: taxes.

In 1913, the first federal income tax had about the same maximum tax bracket that we have in 2020: $500,000. That was closer to $15 million back then. There's your problem. Hardly anyone talks about how broken these tax brackets are, and instead clamor for wealth taxes and closing those elusive loopholes by adding even more complexity to the tax code, because that always works. The top 10 wealthiest Americans are almost all self-made who didn't have to do anything fancy on their taxes to get to where they are -- just pay the highest capital gains rate on billions which happens to be significantly less than the rate on someone making 10,000 times less. If your representative is complaining about tax reform and not mentioning the brackets, they either don't want to fix the problem or are too clueless to deserve your vote.
TPM is a server technology recently backported to laptops.
If by "they" you mean Tarkovsky, sure; Stalker doesn't have much to do with the book, and hardly any plot elements survive. However, there is an explanation for it.

Tarkovsky originally shot the film based on a screenplay by the Strugatsky, an adaptation which was, I believe, quite faithful to the novel (this is not inconceivable, considering that Solaris was fairly faithful to Lem's story). But during post-production, the negatives were handled by an inexperienced lab worker who managed to damage the negatives beyond repair.

Tarkovsky fought to find funding to re-shoot the whole film, but at this point he was bored with the material, and essentially improvised the whole shoot based on his own ideas. The Strugatskys were not happy with the final film.
There's the story of the Ibrahim family, too. The mother, Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim, sued over being wrongly put on the No-fly list. Her daughter — a US citizen — was to testify at her trial but was denied boarding her flight because she too had been put on the no fly list.

https://papersplease.org/wp/2013/12/02/witness-in-no-fly-tri...

> Dr. Ibrahim’s oldest daughter Raihan Mustafa Kamal was denied boarding in Kuala Lumpur yesterday when she tried to board a flight to San Francisco to observe and testify at the trial in her mother’s lawsuit.

> Ms. Mustafa Kamal, an attorney licensed to practice law in Malaysia, was born in the U.S. and is a U.S. citizen. Ms. Mustafa Kamal was with her mother when Dr. Ibrahim was denied boarding on a flight from K.L. to San Francisco in 2005 (after having been told that her name had been removed from the “no-fly” list) under what now seem eerily similar circumstances. The DHS had been given notice that Ms. Mustafa Kamal would testify at the trial as an eyewitness to those events she witnessed in 2005.
> If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that.

Now that makes little sense. Why do I care about how a site keeps records of payments? You can create an account on the backend,plenty of sites already allow for guest check outs with no email asked so I don't get what you're on about. Email is a humongous ask for me. I will even pay double to avoid that. No, it is not useful for payment reminders,those are spammy to me. This is why you need to let people opt in! I don't want to give you any email addresses. You will decide some day how valuable your collection of emails and pictures is and you will sale it to the highesr bidder. Even if it is a paid service how can I know you won't get greedy. Also wake up please! Assume email does not exist unless you need to tell users something,and they give consent. You do not need email to host images. I do not wish to use a burner email for your lack of consideration for my consent. I do not wish to receive emails from an image host. If you need email for antifraud you're screwing it up already and I would rather just use AD supported free services because at least they are not tracking me by my email -- a very valuable datapoint for trackers. Once you have my email you can do micro-targeting very easily and basically figure out all there is to know about me. You do not need people's email unless they say they want you to email them. Heck, even if I want your reminders, email is the last way I want to use. Send me login/push notifications. I do not want to expose yet another site to account take over in the event my email is compromised. I seen people lose a lot of moneu because criminals phished their email. If I am paying you with btc, I do not wish to have any billing reminders or anything tracing the transaction to my email! Trust me,please! You do not need email unless you really and specifically with user consent (after a warning dialog) have a reason to use it. Please stop. Not one more decade of ignorance with respect to this subject.

Oh and yeah, I need a free tier but so does OP. That's how you get users. The more you have free tier users, the more users convert to paying and the more sustainable the service becomes.
Back in my day bittorrent was pretty popular.

We'd have doused Zuck's dorm room sever in gasoline if we'd known what was to happen.
or worst case by turning showdead on.

This isn’t true anymore. Accounts get locked, not merely whisked to the shadow realm.
Have you ever seen a person who believes in such things? They think they are being rational and society just shouts them down. Sometimes it is even true (obviously, society can’t debate the same things over and over, it would be ridiculous to have a discussion on whether rape is bad in prime time every week or so). The most obvious modern examples that makes it into news is the amount of racists, neonazis and misogynists who claim that they just want a debate and a public outcry from a big group of people to deplatform them to the point that they have to pay massive amounts of security fees when they make public speeches.

I have addressed your point but it seems you didn’t get, maybe I wasn’t clear enough, I hope in hindsight you will see what I meant.

Or look at moon landing conspiracy, or 9/11 conspiracy, people gather massive amount of evidence to support their claims. Simply applying a bit of empathy and retrospection should make you understand what’s the problem
what you are saying.
A server can issue a JWT and forget about it. Most cookie auth strategies requires the server to persist the token to confirm validity. Also, a JWT can work across a microservice architecture easily for the same reasons.
> Automatic fetching & fast forwarding to keep your branches up to date and prevent merge conflicts

Doesn't that negate the advantages of `push --force-with-lease` over `--force`?
To be clear, today's decision actually is your quoted statement -- there was a $2.1B shortfall, so ERCOT is requiring payments from its transmitters to cover the payments it already made to the producers. Griddy is unable to cover its portion of this payment, so is exiting the business instead. There are other resellers in deficit, but none that I know of in default -- Green Mountain, Reliant, Encor, Vital, NEC and so on will simply pay their portion of the assessed shortfall and continue business as usual.
This is ridiculous. It was killed because it removed stability from a market that shouldn't be unstable in this day and age.

Household electricity use isn't something to be this concerned about i.r.t global warming that you create thousands of dollars of debts for Americans because they didn't watch a ticker for their electricity usage.

It's pretty privileged to be sad that a company that created millions of dollars of debt is going to be shut down.
How do you imagine money in 50, 500, 5000 years?
But I was told the free market solves everything and that anything run by the government is impossibly inept and corrupt!

To be clear, the emergent system that comes from a free-ish market is an amazing thing and works very well in most cases. ... Just not well for critical infrastructure.
A company getting blown up by counter party risk doesn't sound like regulation. That's the free market at work.
May not be Tai Le but by now I am almost sure that it is one of the Brahmic scripts, but the list of languages using these scripts is extensive

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts
>But certainly setting the price this high was immoral, useless, and just a transfer of money from people buying electricity to the people who were already producing as much electricity as they could at 1/10th the price.

Not really, raising the prices also increases supply (eg. hiring workers to work overtime to get it fixed, or renting out expensive equipment to get it fixed faster), as well as discouraging non-essential use (if electricity costs $5/kWh you sure as hell are going to do everything in your power to cut your usage, rather than blasting the space heater to a comfy 75 degrees).

Most economists are also against price-gouging laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging#Opposition_to_la...
Read an interesting theory that this "missing inflation" from all the money printing is already here - it just affects things that people with money buy, so stocks/real estate/collectibles/cryptocurrency basically. Reason being all the printed money went straight to the rich. The CPI is untouched.
tsukae does mean "use" in Japanese -- but it's the blunt command form (命令形) "Use it!!"
Sad to see people misuse downvotes so much. A differing opinion or controversy is not a reason to bury a comment.
Think about it like this. They say it takes 10000 hours of practice to master something. You aren't too old until you don't have 10000 hours left. (That's just 1.7 years of awake time, assuming you sleep 8 hours a day.)
blogspam. Just visit http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-go... instead.

Also this user only posts his site.
> Either way, it's certainly meant as a complement. :)

While we're at it, you should also read this: http://www.google.com/search?q=complement+vs+compliment
> I don't think there are any legal issues here

Just imagine how many patents Microsoft will be compelled to use against this project if it ever becomes a perceived threat.

I am sure all MS's EULAs prohibit you from running Microsoft software on anything other than Windows.
Quibble, but wasn't it the SEC that allowed the investment banks to leverage up 30x?

Not to mention that all of them are now dead, bought out by bank banks or in the process of becoming so (well, that's just the big names, but as I understand it the smaller fish are very small).
It will be called iOS 5
El Bulli is closed after this season. It books up a year in advance. It does indeed lose money, but it's a loss-leader for a larger Adria empire. Long story short, none of us are going to El Bulli.
I am 100% positive everyone had the tour. Dinner took SIX HOURS.

I am less positive about the pricing, but I remember a number that started with a "3", and I remember thinking "I am surprised that this is not the most expensive meal in Chicago". (I meant to communicate, "200 less than 500". Sorry!)

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He could be arguing in his spare time.
I'm from MixRadio and we're actually about 40 engineers, not all doing Clojure. Pretty much all of our new micro-service work is done using Clojure. Not sure how many others in wider Microsoft/Nokia.

Edit: making it clearer.
As a Python newbie that just recently started using things like Flask and Bottle: wow, that was easy.
It wouldn't mean that; the gov't could always just plunk down cash on things like infrastructure development. If the cash on hand isn't available, then run a budget surplus in order to save up money.

But there are arguments to be made that, assuming a healthy economy, it's better to borrow and spend than it is to save and spend for anything that's worth the money.
Is it practical to convert literal billions of dollars between currencies? And even if you did, wouldn't liquidating it so you can actually spend it on things in the real world prove to be almost impossible? Billions of dollars worth of currency is more than I'd expect most privacy coins to deal with over the course of months.
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I do not dismiss it as 'not a real crime'. I dismiss it as sexual assault and I wish to strongly argue for not polluting the meaning of that crime with instances of someone touching you inappropriately.

Right there you deny, and then affirm my point. You don't think there was a crime, just that she was touched inappropriately.

I expect any police officer frisking me to touch my balls. He is putting himself in danger if he doesn't search thoroughly. That isn't considered molestation and if that isn't, then neither is this.

The police officer still requires just cause and must inform me of their intent. They cannot simply by virtue of being a police officer molest anyone they please. They have no right to apprehend someone and molest them. That would be a sexual assault crime as well.

You are using dramatic words to make strong accusations to try and make a point that should be made in an entirely different way. These kinds of overly dramatic arguments are easy to dismiss and unfortunately, the real arguments that argue for the same solution will silently be dismissed along with them.

I'm afraid that they will only be silently dismissed by those who are apologetic to perpetrators.

The problem is not that people are being touched in inappropriate ways. The problem is not that people are being touched in inappropriate ways without them being told about it upfront. The problem is that the legislation to allow this touching was passed in the first place, that the regulations depending on that regulation were put in place and that people actually seems to think this does anything to remove any threat. That is the problem.

The victim will not likely feel any less violated or assaulted because you choose to call it, "inappropriate touching." That is something kids do when they don't know any better. The problem in this case was that this woman was molested. Whether that was because the TSA agent made a mistake, was improperly trained, or was a sexual predator remains a question for the courts to hear and determine. Either way the charge is the same and the victim is no less hurt by what happened.

Calling it anything less is dismissing the crime. I'm not misappropriating the term with hyperbole. You're simply down-playing it. If we do not call it what it is, we choose to ignore it or apologize for it. Either way, it's a sign to me that you do not think there was a victim here and that this woman is not justified to feel the way she does as a victim of a crime.

At least we do agree on one thing: the greater crime here is the policy itself.

I simply hope that cases like this DO go to court so that the justice system can rule the policy unenforceable and compel the TSA to remove it.
Here's where that url actually goes: http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm
The earth?

context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhikers_Guide...
Listing that as a reason would result in multiple people agreeing that it was a typo and nothing more. If it wasn't a typo, it'd have been overlooked.
Higher education should be free! Then the 'return on investment' issue would not be as serious
> And anyway, driverless cars are happening.

By "happening" you mean "not used for any real purpose besides research or demonstration anywhere in the world" presumably.
Considering that they get requests for something like 8 million URLs to be removed every week, your ire seems a bit misdirected.

Safe harbor has enabled the modern web in many ways, but the DMCA takedown process is still heavily, heavily weighted toward the claimants.

It looks more like the URLs not taken down were mostly malformed or duplicates of earlier claims and they took action on the rest. Purposefully not acting on DMCA complaints due to obviously bogus takedown notices doesn't happen very often because you generally have to be really sure of what you're doing. Hard to do that when you have 8 million URLs to sift through to find the problematic ones.
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I think you're referring to the Plagne Aime 2000 main building. It's nowhere near 1km long tough

http://images.dunordausud.fr/HIVER/plagneaime/station/plagne...
They'd realize that some kind of new technique was being used to fabricate complex free-form parts. After close examination of the metal, they'd discover it was a sintering process, because sintered metal has a recognizable structure. They'd quickly figure out it was built up layer by layer by some deposition and heating process, because the layers are visible. Lasers were known in the 1960s. Even kilowatt-sized lasers existed in the 1960s, although they were big and involved chemical reactions. Numerically-controlled milling machines were known, although they were really clunky and usually involved paper tape readers, rather than direct computer control. Scanning electron microscopes were available by 1971, so it was possible to look at the fine structure of a chunk of metal. So the whole process might have been figured out. With enough money, laser sintering might have happened in the 1970s. It was actually invented in 1981, by a grad student looking for a project. (http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2012/0712_sls_history.php) It took a long time before it worked well, but that could have been accelerated with money.

Making a model by laser scanning with structured light was a known process in the early 1970s. It was used by Ford Motor to get from clay models of cars to metal dies used to stamp out body parts. Previous approaches involved plaster casts and mechanical tracing machines.

However, a computer tablet was beyond 1970s technology to even analyze, let alone duplicate.
This has classic Amazon politics written all over it. I'm pretty far removed from anything Kindle/Fire related, but this was my best guess at what happened based off of the Amazon I know:

Jeff said make a phone (probably like 5 years ago). They pulled orgs apart and mashed them into this superorg with several VPs and dozens of Directors, with the software teams in Seattle but the hardware folks in a completely different city, and then told them to work it out. In the course of working it out, the hundreds of cooks elbowing each other in the overcrowded kitchen resulted in delay after delay, with the final feature set being a mashup of 40 different director's flagship bullshit-o-tron that they expect to be promoted for (OMG...everybody is gonna think useless 3D stuff that kills the battery is so coool...I can't wait to be reporting directly to Jeff!!!). Come crunch time, the product managers all schedule their SDEs to show up to a 2 hour meeting so they can discuss the same exact plan to ship on time that they discussed yesterday for 2 hours.

Now that it is a dud, nobody wants to touch it, so all the Directors/VPs migrate laterally to different orgs (or quit) and then rinse and repeat. Meanwhile, the bug list grows bigger by the day, a handful of software engineers go crazypants optimization on a non-bottleneck feature, and all the sane people just hope for a day where we can forget about it all and focus on some other new whizburger.
To be fair, BigQuery is probably their best product since Search so I can see why they try to milk it. It capitalises on what Google's best at, distributed systems engineering, while avoiding what Google's worst at, API design (by instead using SQL, which wasn't invented by Google). I say that as a customer who otherwise has little positive to say about Google.
You just answered your own question. Someone that has had money problems is more susceptible to taking bribes, and once they've taken a bribe, they are now more susceptible to blackmail. As a question along the lines of "have you ever taken a bribe?" is unlikely to get answered honestly, debt problems are used as a proxy.