skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much TV does the average person watch? Around 4 hours daily. If you only watch Netflix then it's easy to get 1-2 hours a day. That's only 2 shows a day.
Hey, they may have said nothing, but at least they didn't use a lot of words doing it. In that sense, it's a better mission statement than most politicians have.
I'm 40% in cash, 50% in S&P and 10% in small-cap. The last few months, all of my contributions have been going into cash, so that when the fall happens, I can hopefully scoop up a deal.
It’s trivial to convey that information in plain text
That's not true, for instance Startpage doesn't do that.
Yup, because ... Texas. In the entire country there are 3 roughly independent systems: East, West, and Texas. Maybe they’ll reconsider given these incredibly high prices?
Is this a critique of the article's definition of upper class (which they define as top 10%tile, and you define as non-working class). Or are you saying even given their calculation, their result is wrong?
The definition I have always used is credited here[0] as “Brooksmith’s Law of Class Distinction”, but I don’t know if this is where I heard it first.

“Name on building: upper class. Name on desk: middle class. Name on shirt: working class”

It’s not perfect, but the idea is that class as most people conceptualize it is determined by workplace and lifestyle affordances and isn’t a neat percentile cutoff but flexes and wanes in size.

[0] https://www.just-one-liners.com/name-on-building-upper-class...
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I'd agree except WeWork's emphasis on design is a huge reason they have become this big in the first place.
That's obviously not the same thing and I'm pretty sure you understand that.
I seem to remember that the F-14 had an optic system for the same purpose.
Given that you spend the recommended one third of your net income (€5160) on housing, this means that in 45 years (~roughly a worklife) you can spend €919.512 on a house/flat (ignoring renovations, assuming 0 interest financing). In Munich, this is what a flat like that can look like: https://www.immobilienscout24.de/Suche/S-T/Wohnung-Kauf/Baye...

Also, this is _net_ income. In Germany that means healthcare is covered and you don't have to pay off large student debt.

To reach this net income, both partners have to make about 54.000 a year pre-tax.

Most important point: the data is based on surveys, which means the super-rich don't really show up.
Yes, it's a high income globally.

"Class" in the European sense is not an income based thing. It falls apart a bit at the extremes (what is Jeff Bezos?) but it'd be incorrect to categorise e.g. a CEO as being upper-class despite them being in the 99th percentile by income in their country.

The term really describes nobility, inheritance, large land ownership. Existing in a different 'class'.
Defining wealth in Germany, where even millionaires claim to be middle class
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Sociologist Wolfgang Lauterbach says: “All in all, the German upper classes are characterized by relatively old money.”

https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/finance/who-is-rich-defin...
The world is running out of sand and there’s a violent black market (2018)
The author clearly means to mock other people's perception of the natives as "stupid savages", as implied by directly following this statement with "Except, this is a perfect metaphor for most of what is called “science,” done by people with PhDs". It implies that the people that would say that are the ones getting their science PhDs, who are doing the same thing while being full of themselves as superior.

You seem to recognize this, by referring to it as being used "tongue in cheek."

So, to be clear:

You are offended that the author used an offensive phrase in an ironic manner clearly meant to both vindicate the targeted minority and point out the failings of the people that would use that offensive phrase in earnest?

In short, you're now upset by the form of the communication, rather than any of its actual content or meaning.

Another commenter suggested that you are partaking in some cargo culting of your own. I think they're onto something.
The Amazon list (20 top items binned across hardcovers, paperbacks and audiobooks, which is correct if your goal is to identify a "zeitgeist trend") and the Spiegel lists (for an unknown reason, separate lists for paperback, hardcover and "Taschenbuch", 60 items in 3 lists [1]) have 11 books in common right now.

However if I only look at a single Spiegel list of 20 items, e.g. hardcovers there are only two items left in common.

I think you will agree that a book sales data analysis that has not made a successful effort to include one of the biggest book sellers in Germany for years can still safely be called garbage. It is baffling for me how much reputation the Spiegel lists still have.

Also, the hardcover Spiegel list has entries like the new book by Spiegel journalist Todenhöfer on rank 10 (rank 2129 on Amazon Germany right now).

[1] I ignored the Spiegel audiobooks list because this data is irrelevant without Audible.
Cars are liabilities. Almost invariably they will break down and require repairs, which are generally expensive. The moment you buy a car you are losing money on it. You’re losing it slower than if you had thrown the money off of a bridge, but it’s not an investment. Any money saved by making a good vehicle purchase is more of a discount on a cost you’re paying anyway.
Could it be one of the Voyagers?
I've noticed some combinations of mobile plans and high speeds from the towers are particularly bad. I've seen plans where you could drain your entire month's quota in under a minute of sustained use at the supposed maximum. I imagine that as the high speed becomes more popular the caps will go up, but as it's building out I've seen some silly things. Even full-speed 4G can theoretically drain a full gigabyte in under four minutes (quick Google shows companies promising up to 5MB/s in some cases), so it can theoretically drain a lot of people's full months in under an hour. Though I'm not sure if the network will actually let you do that continuously, if for no other reason than I'm sure they got tired of calls from people complaining about some app using up their full month's quote in five minutes when they didn't even know the app was running, etc.
Sideways music: Differentiating between space and time [pdf]
It's a mix. Some locations they own, some they lease--including some that the CEO owns and they lease from him, which is an interesting arrangement.
Statistically 90-th percentile is more interesting.

Practically calling 90-th percentile the "upper class" is whitewashing the extreme difference between the lifestyle historically associated with the upper class and the middle class.
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> It’s to identify obvious limits to scaling.

In my experience, it's more likely in order to show an enormous number as a way of telling investors, the executives you need to approve your product/project, etc. that your thing has just incredible potential.

It has some value. If the TAM isn't very big and you'd have to achieve 50% of it to ever turn a profit, that may be a red flag. But TAMs that lead to business projections like: "We only need to put our watch on 10% of the left arms in the world to make a huge pile of cash!" are pretty bogus.
Facebook has no other reason to supply them with their zero service other than to get valuable data out of them. Unless FB is the most well disguised charitable organization ever
But no Skazi. :(
That would be $9.00 per kWh, not "$90.00 per kw/h" which is both the wrong amount and the wrong way to write the unit.

And yes, some cosumers may have chosen to be billed at spot prices like this, though probably not very many, and of course since it's spot pricing they were charged it back then, not now when you're writing this and the wholesale price is more normal.
Aristotle also believed that some men were supposed to be slaves and that women held no intellectual value. So he can be wrong about things too.
> in Europe that's well paid

Well paid but not upper class. Give Germany has a bona fide upper class, this is a meaningful point to snuffle about. The couple with €5,160/mo. in net income is still, in all likelihood, beholden to their employer.
Too busy? Distracted by your phone? How to love reading again
Thanks for this really concise answer. Here's a paper we did a while back that lists the launch history and some of the different orbit types of the Dove satellites: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3...
How to Rock Remote Work
No Skazi :(
I’m pretty sure a bag of rice is way more cheaper in the countries where it is produced versus the countries where it’s exported. In some countries it’s more expensive to be poor than in others.
Please start using CSS user-select
Dark-energy mapper will reconstruct 11B years of cosmic history
I’m not denying that using a lot of bandwidth is a valid thing to do. My point is that heavy users must pay more than casual users.
Good God, Ott is by far my favorite artist with not even a distant second. I've been hunting for other artists/tracks for the last few months to fill the void til his new album comes out but have only come up disappointed and empty handed. Nobody else seems to be able to be so varied and inventive with each track yet always deliver a compelling and engaging sound and melody so reliably.

Anyone have more recommendations?
That's true,but the point is PEGs translate directly to recursive descent in a very straight forward way, and it is only when you do that blindly with grammars that are structured in quite pathological ways that packrat parsing buys you much.

Basically any recursive descent created from a PEG with deep lookahead can usually have the lookahead reduced by recognising any shared prefix to any set of choices first, and then the remainder of the choices.

Most of the remaining interesting cases are usually solved by trivial restructuring of the parse tree afterwards.

That may not always be enough, but it is enough for most real use-cases.

Packrat parsing is appealing because it saves people from thinking about how to structure a PEG in a way that minimize the worst case lookahead, but the effort needed to reduce the lookahead is rarely particularly hard, and most real-life examples I've seen where composing parsers is useful have tended to diverge quickly enough to require very little lookahead.
I can't really relate; I barely use 10 GB per month, but then again I don't stream lots of video or play video games.
Is it really worth our time to be debating the semantics and connotation of the word "upper"? That's essentially what this post is.
Pretty sure AAA games can get up to like 50GB.
Hm, yeah it's definitely very unique. It's psytrance in the same way Juno Reactor is psytrance, as in it's the closest concrete label, but explores a space well outside the typical fare.

Texturally, reminds me almost of big beat/ breaks. Reminiscent of the Antigravity album by Zircon.
Position and momentum mapping of vibrations in graphene nanostructures
This is great. Would love to see a guide like this for techno!
The 5.1k is after taxes and insurances, equates to about 100k per year in US terms.
I think the suggestion is more along the lines of you buy a set bandwidth with a certain contention ratio (or ratios) and then the ISP lets you contend for the bandwidth as you like.

Having a bandwidth cap is basically the ISP punishing you for contending too often.

That said, assuming the ISP wants to keep an average speed higher than the minimum their contention ratio would offer, people who download a lot would have a greater impact on that, and could therefore cause the ISP to have to invest in more hardware and back-haul.

The counter is that the ISP isn't upgrading their network anyway, they're just juicing the market by charging some people more.
Some people in the US are investing 400+k in education. Spending that on buying and renting property can also create an income stream, but they both take work.
Agreed.

It strikes me that people like to deny the fact that the upper class is actually a very small group indeed. It's not about just having a slightly bigger house or car or whatever, the entire lifestyle is fundamentally different.
> I disagree that it's misleading, because the reason is not stated.

No, the reason is clearly stated. "Did not like" is a reason. I am sure there have been many books on that list that the people at spiegel didn't like. It's just that "I don not like that" is not the same as "this thing is considered by me and many others to spread antisemitic propaganda and I don want to support that".

The original statement implies that "we don't like it" is sufficient reason for the spiegel to remove a book from the list. That is just incorrect.

> ... they opened a can of worms, so to say.

Now you seem to be arguing that it is fine to spread a lie as long as you are sufficiently convinced that that lie will become truth in the future?
Read it. They're using the wrong expression. 'Oberschicht' might be accurate in some statistical way, but it really means 'upper middle class' in this case. The measure is flawed though because it is based on monthly (presumably earned) income without taking into account net worth. Someone could own millions in property or other investments in Germany and have a relatively low net income, yet have the option of cashing out for a vast amount of money.
Why does low or negative yield bonds mean that you are going to be ok with govt bonds? This is exactly the problem, where bonds are no longer providing interest payments.

I agree that being more conservative is probably necessary, however I think other than specific investments and... burying your cash might be the "conservative" options. Bonds were those, and no longer are now.
A cap of 1 TB seems completely reasonable to me.

edit: After reading some replies, let me modify it and put it this way: the concept of a cap of n TB, where n is such that 99% of users don't ever reach it, seems completely reasonable to me.
It's the same thing, isn't it?
In the article, "Once the bell rings, silent reading time commences. After an hour, the bell rings again. [...] [Participants] chat about anything, before and after the designated reading time."

So presumably the 1 hour of coding in silence would be followed by as much time as you liked for pizza and socialising.
I don't think it's so cut and dry. The Telegraph stupidly exaggerated the results of the poll in order to generate a click-baity headline, which was completely un-necessary. Then you have publications like the New Statesman who then exaggerated the transgression by the Telegraph, calling them "Lies, damned lies", as if 99% of the mainstream media don't exaggerate things in exactly the same way, all whilst injecting a bit of their own unfounded hysteria into the mix ("empty shelves and lorry queues and punch ups outside pharmacies that will inevitably follow").

The media is spiralling out of control. Each trying to out-do the other with ever more outrageous claims and deceitful exaggerations until the whole thing has escalated to tribalistic warfare. Casualty #1: rational debate.
Yet there is no spam in the Yellow Pages. It’s very unlikely that if you call Aaron he’ll clone your credit card or install hidden cameras in your house. Also, it’s very likely that he actually is a locksmith, has the accreditation he claims to, is a legitimate business registered at Companies House, fully insured, all the things you expect of a normal business.
I don't know about Facebook, but I use vk.com to share video files (~100 GiB/month) with a friend who only has access to a mobile plan with 10 GiB data per month and unlimited data to a few social networks.

I put a directory into a multi-volume .7z archive (sliced into 200 MiB chunks, their per-file limit), upload the chunks through their API (solving a simple captcha every 5-10 GiB), and that's it.

I believe I've read about people in Philippines (?) using Facebook for sharing files using a similar process.
I can’t imagine many people use Viasat to watch Netflix when satellite TV exists. Satellite based ISPs are the only ones with a legitimate reason to impose data caps.
It's a self fulfilling prophesy to an extent because all it takes to cause a recession is to convince everyone there's a recession.
Practically yes.
Windows and OS/2 used it. A bunch of Unixes did as well. It was only limited if you wanted to run multiple DOS applications at the same time and switch between them.
I have a brother going through this right now. They want to build pipeline on his property.

He can't really say no because of eminent domain, but he has a lawyer and is fighting for a fair contract (pay for everything they break/destroy etc when building it). Most people are SOL.
Correct.

So getting people who are able to do so to use _less_ of that scarce resource helps ensure it's available to those who need it.

We uses prices for almost everything with a scarcity, saying "well if we price this thing correctly the poor can't afford it" is an argument for addressing income inequality, not just trying to make everything an all you can eat buffet.
As an alternative idealistic view: you have all this awesome knowledge that you have built up over a lifetime that you are now hoarding. No one is perfect and some of your advice might be wrong or otherwise unhelpful; but sharing knowledge and advice allows others to achieve great things that they might have struggled with alone.

What is worse: risking someone thinking you are a dick or allowing someone to needlessly suffer through their problems?
Pretty sure its black because they don't image them as its a waste of bandwidth
Well, that was an interesting article. Flawed, but interesting.

It's not clear how the Earth will end up, since human population reduction looks unlikely barring catastrophe - intentional or otherwise.

However, I think humans will very quickly (< 100 years) spread throughout the solar system, and eventually into the Oort cloud. At some point, sooner or later, humans will also become an interstellar species.

Human artifacts may or may not always be visible on the Earth, but they'll be easily visible on the Moon until it gets eaten by the Sun.

On that note, it's worth mentioning that life on Earth is roughly 4/5 of the way along its timeline. Earth will become unbearably hot in well under a billion years, regardless of human contribution, due to increasing solar luminosity...
Only Swedish households can use them as far as I'm aware.
Totally, but that's exact same for our brain fooling us about the motion itself. And in motions case our brain throws in interpolated middle frames, not so in the face morph.
Note that capex is capitalized and amortized over time (it doesn’t affect profitability when the investment is made).
a cap on speed translates to a data cap per month. could you give an example of say your speed cap?

lets say a month is 30 days, a day 24 hours, an hour 3600 seconds, then a month is 2.592 Ms.

so an "unlimited" plan at say
1Gbps is actually always upper limited at 2592 Tb (bit) per month or 324 TB (byte) per month

I think governments should ban the "unlimited" names and force the ISP's to simply state actual limits or variable limit calculations if dependent on congestion. Here in belgium we have instead some vague "reasonable usage" policy...
That also includes pensioners, some of whom may not be that well off.
> I just wonder where they get the cash in the meantime. >$1B/year burn rate

They're raising up to $6B in a debt offering.
Class isn't about wealth or consumption.

"Upper class" means those who are rentiers, as opposed to those who have to sell their labor or body to others.

Some CEO's are quite rich but still not "upper class", because at the end of the day they're still employers who sell their time to the highest bidder.
My house in Dallas only rose by about one degree per hour during the day when the A/C was off, even on the hottest days. It was pretty well-insulated, and the large trees around it helped.

> humid Texas summer

This is probably the warped idea of "humid" I got from growing up in South Florida, but Dallas was rarely ever humid.
And yet it does not seem reasonable to me.
https://twitter.com/yjjzea/status/1161429962802569216
> It’s not perfect

But it captures the essence of the upper-middle split. The upper class earns income from assets. The middle and lower classes from employment.

This isn’t an economic conversation, but a political one. The upper classes are economically sovereign. The middle and lower classes are beholden to their employers, at least during the savings stage of their careers.

Put another way, a child born to an upper-middle class family gets a leg up in educational opportunities and connections. A child born to an upper-class family may never have to work at all. Their principal challenge is retaining familial relationships. Referring to the upper middle class as “upper class” papers over the exorbitant privilege the latter retains.
Skeptcism can be good, but not in excess. If you decided to respond by saying "In your opinion(s), what led them to close shop?", folks would have responded more kindly.
I think they could learn a lot from Rust, which has a very usable, clearly defined way of listing and making dependencies. You can decide how you want to handle individual dependencies (version number, version range, git commit hash, wildcard, etc). I'm not sure how binary dependencies work (i.e. something from your system's package manager), but I've used projects that use them, so the problem is solvable.

Python has always stood out for me as a particularly odd way of doing it. It feels a bit like more like C, but with a package manager that's not quite as nice as other scripting languages have.
No, the protected mode was introduced with the 286.
I was careful in both my reading of the documents and in the words I chose when commenting. I said "accusing" and not "charging" for good reason.

But make no mistake, the SEC is absolutely accusing him of embezzlement (see paragraph 6 of the complaint), securities fraud (paragraphs 2-3), market manipulation (paragraphs 2, 5 & 7), running a Ponzi scheme (paragraph 9), and an unregistered securities offering, as you mentioned.

You'll notice all of those accusations carry the potential for criminal charges - except one: an unregistered securities offering. The SEC is an administrative regulatory agency, not a law enforcement agency. That means the SEC brings civil actions to enforce securities laws and then works closely with the Department of Justice to recommend criminal charges against those same defendants. The SEC gathers all of the evidence, brings the civil charges, and then hands the file over to the DOJ for criminal enforcement.

I will absolutely, positively, unequivocally guarantee that the DOJ will follow up with criminal charges. And the SEC's charging document is a sneak preview of what those charges will be.

The process is usually more coordinated than this but it sounds like Middleton is a particularly stupid defendant. Typically a defendant's attorney would be made aware of forthcoming charges from the SEC (as happened here) and then negotiate a simultaneous plea deal (with the DOJ) and settlement (with the SEC). Instead, the SEC sought an _emergency_ injunction to prevent him from continuing to move the money because he started moving money around when he learned of the forthcoming charges.

His moving the funds was the impetus for the SEC filing. If the SEC "merely wants registration and fine print disclaimers" an emergency injunction to freeze client funds would be entirely unnecessary.
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it's closer to 110K. German taxes and other fees are on Scandinavian level.
Straws are also recommended by dentists, since it reduces the exposure of your front teeth to sugary drinks. For what it’s worth.