jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I read through all ten parts, and found nothing to refute my post: the author provides no evidence that rich individuals stay rich while poor individuals stay poor. In fact, the only piece that even touches on this subject actually supports my position: in part 7, the author notes that most of the very rich today earn their income through wages, rather than by leveraging inherited wealth.

In general, I am terribly surprised that this article received any upvotes: The author doesn't even bother at the pretense of objectivity, making no attempt to temper (or even hide) his political biases. Furthermore, I found plenty of flaws in his reasoning--here are some highlights:

The author fails to consider the possibility that the U.S. has higher income inequality than Europe because of, rather than in spite of, the lower marginal tax rates on high-income earners in the U.S. He repeatedly mentions the fact that Europe has lower income inequality and that the U.S. has lower top marginal income tax rates, but dismisses the importance of the latter out of hand rather than asking the question.

In part 1, the author conflates wealth disparity with income disparity when discussing Latin America: he mentions very poor people living in squalor outside of walled mansions and cites "grotesque maldistribution of wealth" as an oft-stated reason for societal problems in Latin America. He then attempts to refute this explanation by pointing out that the United States has greater income disparity than many Latin American countries. Wealth distribution != income distribution.

In section 3, the author discusses the impact of immigration on income inequality. He fails to consider the fact that adding large numbers of low-income workers to the economy will reduce the income share of the lower quintiles by skewing average income in those quintiles downwards, regardless of how they impact the labor market for others.

In section 5, the author analyses income growth (and disparity in income growth) as a function of the president's political affiliation. The unspoken assumption seems to be that this serves as a reasonable proxy for how liberal or conservative policies were at the time. A far better choice would have been the party in control of the house: the president can influence tax and fiscal policy greatly, but it is congress that makes policy. Furthermore, presidents tend to be less politically orthodox than representatives: for example, Kennedy set a relatively conservative fiscal and tax policy.

He finishes strong by populating section 10 with a handful of convenient straw men, which he then proceeds to tear down with great sanctimony.

About the only place where I agreed with the author was when he tied income growth to education in section 9, but he applied his same sloppy reasoning and so failed to make a very good argument. If I had disagreed with him on this point, he wouldn't have changed my mind.
It's not totally redundant. The index on last_name alone will be more efficient than (last_name, first_name) because the index will be able to contain more keys per index page. The difference can be significant if you're doing something that does an index scan on this column.
> The few dots in NK could be those few expats or SK/foreign tourists, or NK operatives logging in. NK does have a twitter account.

It's not based on IP, but based on self-stated resident city.
This was the exact same business idea as Color.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/color-looks-to-reinvent-soc...
What happened to the Video On Demand service? Only the keynote is available.
I was particularly taken by this passage near the end: "There is something unsatisfying, almost nihilistic, about this idea. It deprives us of answers". It got me thinking about the big mistake that we often make about evolution: that it has a purpose, a goal. The idea that evolution involves progress is as old as Darwin, as can be seen in the "March of Progress" illustration showing a parade with a chimpanzee, then pre-humans, then caveman hunter, then modern man. We have been reminded many times that the illustration is too suggestive, but the idea refuses to die. It's very hard to accept that evolution is full of accidents, and that as a species there is nothing remarkable or inevitable about us.

Similarly, there is nothing special about many microbes that cause illness, but it's hard to accept the idea. It's surprising that streptococcus pneumoniae isn't trying to kill us at all, but merely trying to outcompete hemophilus influenzae in our noses, and sometimes the mechanism that aids its struggle ends up preventing our immune system from killing it. We walk into a fist-fight between strangers, and end up hurt ourselves.

Hell, the phrase "trying to outcompete" contains teleological assumptions which the author himself can't escape from. Those dueling bacteria aren't "trying" to do anything. They accidentally mutate, and circumstances make them more or less successful at increasing their numbers relative to the other species.

It's hard to avoid seeing purpose in the living world around us, even when we know it doesn't know us or care about us.
The man himself ... The Hacker in Chief

println('I\'m fly, super high');
Up until last November, one solution would be to buy an old Verizon contract with unlimited data on e-Bay (no longer transferable?).

http://www.rvmobileinternet.com/verizon-unlimited-data-plans...
>And that would improve the XMPP adoption and experience by ... ?

Saving battery on mobile devices for one.
> I think Netflix customers should be paying for Netflix data.

They are. They're buying 50/5 or 50/10 internet and then asking their ISP to (horror of horrors!) make good on their claim. If the ISP isn't DRAMATICALLY overselling their capacity, things are totally fine. If they can actually deliver on 10% of what they're "promising" (but have cleverly worded the contract to avoid having to actually make good on those claims, a shady practice also), there are no problems with Netflix whatsoever.

Level3 offered to pay for the direct cost of the upgrades, namely a few grand for the fiber transceivers on Comcast's side of the peering point in the carrier hotel. That would mean it's a "free" upgrade, and no end-users are paying for it. But Comcast didn't bite.

That makes your objection COMPLETELY nonsensical.
Is this different to any other cloud storage provider?
I'm not calling it a coup because it was not a coordinated attempt to overthrow the government. I'm only trying to be as objective as I can.

Maybe you're the one who should look at more videos. Like this one https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/134759627858319769... where you can see how police officers didn't do anything. They opened the doors. All the violence started later. You can also check how 3 German police officers made sure nobody could enter a government building.

Have a good day.
Down to $37k now...
Yet somehow bitcoin (and crypto) seems healthier than the stock market. Weird times
Bitcoin mining has been happening all on custom hardware for a long time now.
At risk of feeding the troll, want to bet? You win if, as of January 21, 2029, the Democratic party has retained continuous control of the Presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives and controls the legislatures of at least 2/3 of the states. I win if not. Loser has to admit they were being histrionic and has to preface every public political comment they make for 5 years after that with "I have a tendency to exaggerate, so feel free not to take me seriously"
Say what?

Dispute - How is this any different than today. The credit card company is the arbitrator. Also, will this new arbitrator process in bitcoin-land cost me less than in credit-card land? Also, where is the improvement on the status-quo in this new scenario??

Secure - I concede that what you say sounds possible. Perhaps with a nice UX, but I don't see anything like you suggested available today. Also, how much will this online service cost? Will it be cheaper than government-backed money (ie. Chase/Bank-of-America/Credit Union/etc).

Again, all the solutions I see to have bitcoin lead to mass adoption are solutions that seem to add costs that will lead it to be no better than using current infrastructure.
They're certainly based on arpeggios, but there is always (to me) a clear note in each section of arpeggio that form the melody, in the sense that if I were to hum the song, I would hum that sequence of individual notes.
1. Banks do not need deposits to lend money to ordinary people. They lend money from FED, which 'prints' them.

2. If interest rates are low then Banks profits should be also low because of small difference between deposits and lending rates. Am I right?

3. Just like casinos in Vegas need capital donors, the ultimate casino also needs capital donors. Don't want to play on Wall Street? No problem, your pension fund (dumb money) is more than enough.
Hmm this could be neat. What's the limit of things you'd deliver?
The magnitude of the difference in punishment is not relevant, nor is whatever may or may not happen in the west. We can say that sending someone to jail for putting Buddha on a flyer is objectively bad, without regard to frame of reference or our own background. Doing so does not carry an implicit hidden second meaning of "... and our culture is by implication better." What our culture (or any other) does is not relevant. (again, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque)

Your position seems to amount to "hey, I personally think it's bad, but I wouldn't impose my views on them; if they think it's so terrible as to jail someone, who am I to say they shouldn't?" This is cultural relativism, which suffers from the problems I outlined in my previous post.
> don't be a dick; also, you don't know what you're talking about.

The GP shouldn't have included that dig, but this comment would also be strictly better without the first sentence.
Black friday, cyber monday, xmas, new year. BTC always going down at the end of the year. People cashing in
A civil society can also find martial design cool as hell.
Charitably, there's (e.g.) accessibility issues that need to be addressed on "new" features like the menus, and they need to be sure they're not going to be reamed for the new feature in the same way they are for this. Also testing. Several weeks is still high but not ridiculous.

My (entirely speculation) suspicion is that the old editor had a lot of tech debt, that the team was excited to delete, and since they're now having to put it back, having to make it compatible with the new editor.
I wonder if this article being on the front page of HN for so long had a direct impact?

To put the scale of the outrage into context, this is one of the most upvoted articles since the MacOS High Sierra "log in as root by typing no password" bug.

That one got a total of 3000 points. At the time of this comment, this is still on the front page with over 2.6k and counting. It's already surpassed the news of Julian Assange's arrest, which fell slightly short of 2.4k.
This is my experience after 7 years of Go as well. Error handling is actually fine. People make too big a deal about the error check (and Rust people make too big a deal about the compiler not forcing you to handle every error). The substantial opportunities to improve error handling involve establishing a standard, typesafe interface for getting at the relevant, structured information in an error so callers can handle things properly; however this probably depends on generics and sum types and will probably look a lot like Rust’s result types (which seems great to me). In practice these are not where your bugs are. On the other hand, sum types would actually go a long way in reducing bugs (including the nil pointer problems you mention).
If you were Feynman you'd even call it "elementary"

https://mavenroundtable.io/originalpath/path-helpers/feynman...
Ha. This is me now. Except I don't always know how to stop them from happening. I'm just less surprised when they happen.
See my comment elsewhere on the story called Stowaway in which someone climbed into a wheel well and survived a trip from Cuba to Madrid.

I just found a long list [0] of people who have done this, sadly only 24% of people who attempt such a thing survive.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wheel-well_stowaway_...
All the suggestions below will make him work harder you did not answer his question at all.
It was the nicest one I've used on any platform. Now I read epubs on Apple books and I come away a little frustrated every time I use it (especially when I copy and paste)
I have a Dell precision laptop from 5 years ago. Every single piece of hardware is supported in Linux, including the smart card reader and the dual Nvidia Quadro and Intel graphics. With Ubuntu 18.04 hibernation, which was enabled, would sometimes cause graphic glitches when resuming. Fixing them required a reboot. From 18.10 onward the issue has been resolved completely. Perhaps this is because of special attention from Dell and Canonical? Linux is listed as full supported by Dell for this laptop. I did ensure I had a swap partition larger than my available RAM.
Oh man, that was some video. Thanks for sharing.
It's unfortunately non-trivial to set up and requires a fairly large swap partition

https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/how-to-set-up-hibernate-on-ubu...
Isn't it kinda crazy how we take for granted how easily it is to find people nowadays via social media or your stored phone book entry on your cell phone? I guess they didn't think to exchange phone numbers or addresses before the scheme was hatched? And then, how would you lookup a phone number in Australia from LA or London in 1963? You'd have to really work at it to find it.
Makes a lot of sense, thanks! Maybe it's also useful since the R is read explicitly as "read". Hence "they should instead be RTFM" sounds grammatically wrong. Breaking off the verb allows for a more natural read. It's funny how an abbreviation can carry more information than whatever it's short for.
My experience with WFH when my teens were much younger, is that a laptop with 100% wifi is required, and toddlers building lego or similar isn't really any more distracting than an open office environment. Probably less distracting in that toddlers are somewhat more predictable than coworkers.

If you work in an open office environment you'll expect WFH will be hyper productive due to lack of distractions and then get very disappointed that you'll lose 50% of those gains by toddler interruption. In practice, note you're still ahead of the open office people talking about sports and Trump derangement syndrome and plans for partying this weekend and sex and relationships and pop culture for hours on end, just not going to be as far ahead of them as you expected/hoped.

You have to get good at short term budgeting of attention. Its rare to have a license plate stamping job of continuous 100% effort required for precisely 8 hours per day or whatever. Work on diagnosing the tricky bug report or new architecture design during nap time after lunch, I had a solid hour or more to concentrate uninterrupted. I can do comparatively mindless "TPS report header changes" for hours in the morning while refereeing toddler arguments about who took my lego piece. I can write a perfectly good status report email during a Thomas the Tank Engine episode, for example. I find the mandatory time discipline is actually useful in that it prevents wasting too much time on things that don't technically require the optimization. Could I spend an extra two hours on that power point that management is going to completely modify anyway? Yeah, I could, and in the office I would, but at home, the kids want me to play catch for ten minutes outside, and it was just busywork anyway.

In the office my doctor advised me a long time ago to stand up and walk around every hour for leg circulation. I've also avoided carpal tunnel that way, or maybe its the weight lifting. At home I probably spent 1/12 to 1/6 of my time supervising the kids. Productivity really didn't change. For your own health you should probably be taking breaks often anyway, so having the kids around isn't that bad. Nobody ever complained about being too healthy and not taking breaks is unhealthy.
Drones will change the equation I think for small state actors. You just need minimally capable drones to win economic exchanges (I lose 1000 $1000 drones to destroy your $25,000,000 plane/tank, I win).

The US will probably develop some countermeasures, but so much of the military complex is invested in impressive looking tanks/aircraft/ships and will have substantial political inertia.

The surface Navy is practically obsolete. They are deploying laser point defense that allegedly doesn't suck, but that won't stop a fleet of 1000 drone subs that just need one or two torpedos to hit, or a barrage of antiship missles.

If the US doesn't sell, other NATO countries and Russia/China will.

Radio jamming won't stop laser mesh network communication. They can lie in wait in bushes and activate right under forces.

At least if modern warfare (conventional) devolves into starcraft-esque massive drone vs drone flotilla conflicts, it might cut down on human troop life loss, and maybe even "collateral damage".

But that never seems to happen.
Thank you, I hadn’t seen a study quote it that high previously.
my takeaway from FIRE is that it's largely about getting your spending under control (easier to reduce spending by $50K than earn $50K post-tax) and then getting enough of a cushion to do something better for you personally or the world that might not pay as much as your old job.

so some people that did nothing but sit on the beach after FIREing may be uneasy, but a lot of people transition into other fields that just aren't necessarily as lucrative.
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I don't mean you put in a form like 'collect my age', 'collect my occupation', etc. I mean there's a form which you can enter your age, occupation, etc. If it's made mandatory you can just lie.
Yup, I feel like we are sacrificing our young to add a few more years to the average old person's life. Sounds a bit heartless, but so does ruining years of development of children and youth so that the old have a longer life.
This is true but not true. From wikipedia:

> The United States Department of Education (ED or DoEd), also referred to as the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979.

> The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) was created on April 11, 1953, when Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 became effective.

From Eisenhower's speech creating HEW:

> The purpose of this plan is to improve the administration of the vital health, education, and social-security functions now being carried on in the Federal Security Agency by giving them departmental rank.

Back to wikipedia:

> The Federal Security Agency (FSA) was an independent agency of the United States government established in 1939 pursuant to the Reorganization Act of 1939. ... The new agency originally consisted of the following major components: (1) Office of the Administrator, (2) Public Health Service (PHS), (3) Office of Education, (4) Civilian Conservation Corps, and (5) Social Security Board.

> Even though the first steps toward public education were taken in 1647 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony and land was set aside for public schools by the Congress of the Confederation in 1785, the idea of universal, free public schools did not become firmly established until the Civil War era. Even then, only half of the States had an efficient public school system.

> In 1867, Congress established the Department of Education to promote the cause of education and collect and disseminate facts and statistics about education. Until it was transferred to the FSA, the Office of Education and its predecessor organization had been part of the Department of the Interior.

So while the DoEd in name wasn't created till 1980, its forebears existed at the Federal level as long as we've had public education in the United States.

Taken from various wikipedia pages, but an overall summary is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Office_of_Education
I'm not Swedish so I don't know much about what it's like to be a Swedish trans person.

One thing I will say is that my general impression from afar is that Europeans are generally a lot more tolerant of the state interfering in personal identity issues than the liberal parts of the US. Iceland used to have a fixed list of approved baby names for example, something unimaginable in the US.

The situation was made better in 2019: https://www.icelandreview.com/news/icelandic-names-will-no-l...
You're not wrong, but I also firmly believe that most if not all dysfunctional companies are extremely process heavy.
You could play a reverse game of every time somebody lost all of their data (or more probably, photos) because they owned everything and _thought_ they had backups too. (e.g.: when the OVH datacenter burned down)
You should check out the "metaclasses proposal."
I personally found it very stressful but maybe not everyone would. Customers can be a PITA. There's always the guy who wants to question you on the finer details of the technology being used because he knows he could do better, and he's a passive aggressive asshole.
> while behind the scenes a decision has been made in favor of mitigation

You probably mean adaptation?
This creates additional problems you are not seeing.

Anyone still left in Venezuela now has the virus or had the virus. The virus is still going around in 6 months. Everyone outside of Venezuela has gotten rid of it. Wouldn't the country be a isolated because no other country could allow travel to avoid another outbreak.

Years down the road it would be still spreading probably morphing to something even more dangerous.

You would only do this if you were counting on a vaccine.
Yes. I don't really have insight into non-fintech environments which may be different.

DR is taken seriously. It is planned and executed several times per year taking down entire data centers, ensuring multiples of capacity for peak load, etc.

It is all documented and reported to central teams who then report to regulators.
“Healthcare personnel (HCP) use of homemade masks:

In settings where facemasks are not available, HCP might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort. However, homemade masks are not considered PPE, since their capability to protect HCP is unknown. Caution should be exercised when considering this option. Homemade masks should ideally be used in combination with a face shield that covers the entire front (that extends to the chin or below) and sides of the face.”
Cut yourself some slack! :)

The brain needs it, and who knows, you might get inspired.

I know what you mean though, but I’ve been working hard to just let my brain rest at times. Games can be useful to turn off or tune down the machinery at times.
> Ultimately, it comes down to individual behavior.

If this were true cars wouldn’t have touchscreens built in.
Same here. GTA VI launch...I'm getting the next gen console.
Take a look at jamboard.google.com? It's very bare bones, so what's missing might give you some feature ideas.
I’m so glad installing ocaml and irssi on my phone is much more effortless than my laptop. Apple did a fantastic job there.

Try reading the comment.