skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afaik his finding are disputed. And even if not, why should it even be desirable to encourage labor? If capital is so great, people should seek owning capital, not seek to work more. As they say, savings plans start at 50$/month.

It seems rather great that this opportunity exists (assuming it is true). The alternative is that you have to work and work until you die.
Thought exercise: if the Wikimedia Foundation collapsed today and we had to build a new version of Wikipedia without their assistance, how much would it cost?

Data dumps of Wikipedia's databases, and the MediaWiki software itself are all Freely and publicly available[1], so none of that would have to be rebuilt; we'd only have to create a new organizational and operational infrastructure.

[1]: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
As someone who loves bitter and sour flavors (I enjoy raw onion, garlic, lime/lemon, horseradish, and yes: straight gin) a G&T was a delight from the very first sip I ever had. Not comparing it to those examples, but I love the bitter flavors of it.
Cool. Feel free to ping me by replying to this when you do.
Apparently whatever ended up in npm was shockingly horrible.

[The Error of Our Ways • Kevlin Henney]
https://youtu.be/IiGXq3yY70o?t=1368

[slides, page 32]
https://gotocon.com/dl/goto-berlin-2016/slides/KevlinHenney_...
Inflation IS a tax on wealth. When done intentionally (by printing money), it’s called seigniorage.
I sold some stuff on CL, but it was really really painful. The worst thing is that once you post, the first 4-8 people contacting you will be scammers (trying to redirect your phone through Google Voice, or trick you into other scams).

It's like putting your hand into a pool full of alligators.
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How to build and market IPv6-only services
If Google did not use every iota of information to help target ads, then somebody at Google is slacking. It's their core business. As a corporation, each employee is obliged to do their best to advance Google's goals. The employees are very smart, by and large.

This all adds up to, every way conceivable to use information to target ads, is used that way. I'm not trying to be kind or unkind, cynical or mean. Its just the logic of the situation.
> It seems to me that income is in effect an abstraction of a person's social class.

That's not how class works. There are multimillionaires running their own blue-collar businesses and farms whom a bankrupt real estate developer would look down on.
Years ago i used to go bowling with a few friends, i would get like 80 or 90 points and they would get around 225ish. Several months later i was up to getting around 200 points per game. Granted it was all for fun, but just playing with them made me a better bowler (i have not been bowling in a decade now so i would probably be getting around 100 points again).

So yeah i lost, but it made me better. As long as you are aware of your skill set vs. someone else's and you wont let it consume you i don't see it as a bad thing (assuming the other player is not a complete jerk).
Good point. We will address it.
This is an awesome reference. I had read the original SA article and skipped this discussion (my focus at the time was more on student techniques). You've linked to an excellent thread.
I worked on CRM and Marketing automation software for quite a long time, and we always maintained lists by doing staged cleanings. We would place people in segments based on their interaction until we hit that point where we would move them to an inactive segment completely (but they may have gone through 10 segments first). We would occasionally target the inactive list with special offers but in general we didn't do it with regularity. The lifecycle and journey of the email through different segments was really quite specific to the client type and the journey type.

So to answer your question more directly, it is a critical part of what people need to do to have proper response rates and to minimize issues with third party filtering systems. There is an absolute need for this type of stuff, I am just not sure if there is a large market opportunity here. Enterprises should be doing this already so you target would probably be SMB's and other similar businesses, which means lots of work for low dollar sales most likely. Maybe I am wrong there, but that's my initial thought.
I'm not sure I'd call France a free-market capitalism. They're dead last in Europe in many rankings regarding taxation, ease of doing business etc.

It can be argued that the protesters are actually protesting about the shortcomings of the system that France has - a highly rigid and bureaucratic welfare state with uber-taxation levels, which over long periods of time causes prosperity to dwindle for everyone. Of course, there are some fat cats that are profiting and doing extremely well - but every system, even the best functioning ones, has these people, which suggests that they are actually not the problem.
I would think the ideal to aim for would be an "easy to learn, hard to master" type game. Chess fits this model well, especially with the ELO system matching you with players of similar skill levels so you can improve incrementally. CS:GO, which I used to play, had a similar thing (though it was plagued with other issues).

TF2 doesn't seem to have this option and thus new players don't get much of a chance to learn because they're immediately thrown in with people with 1700 hours of gameplay and don't get a chance to learn the necessary skillset incrementally by climbing a ladder.
Bitmaps are easy enough, but I wouldn't bet on UTF-8.

And any modern compression is probably right out without technological continuity.
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That's very interesting RE prominent voices. I guess getting into an ego-war with whoever likes to crit your ideas probably happens from time to time.

But I do remember reading about a physicist who wasn't allowed to edit the Wiki on their theory! (sorry can't remember who / when)
Augmented Reality in Travel App
See Windows Vista for reference.
Then you're actually just not that much of a huge car/gear nerd, after all, are you?
"Why doesn't everyone just get rich?"
>This means the overnight lending rate, U.S. bond rate, etc.

The overnight lending rate is set by the Fed, yes.

Treasuries are sold in the market. Although an initial auction price is set, the rates will fluctuate based on demand for the bonds.

I don't deny the Fed are a major influence on rates, as it's a major component of their mandate now. However, the market can "agree" or "disagree" with those rates and set corresponding rates however they choose.
> (for unknown system things)

There's a lot of weird, potentially bad stuff that could fit into this description, though. I believe Apple has had problems with "accidentally" logging location data from their phones before.

I think it would be good for us iPhone users to know what the system is doing with our location.
> Cannonball drivers, including Toman and Tabbutt, claim to be hyper-focused and safe while driving two to three times the posted speed limit

It's hard not to become overconfident and over-reliant on technology and subsequently assume your driving skills are close to perfection, without even realizing that even the perfect driver cannot avoid all the other drivers' mistakes.

This is an achievement but it's performed under different conditions than any other driver attempting it will encounter. Getting the record because the police just felt more laid back that night for example is like beating up an old Muhammad Ali and saying you must be the best boxer.
Well it's been 100 years and no one's gotten hurt.

I wouldn't (couldn't?) do it, but there are people who are amazing drivers. The difference between most drivers and someone who just cares about driving as a skill is huge. These guys are the cream of the crop.

Plus they had taken precautions that are insane to avoid collisions. Heat detecting cameras to avoid deer? Do you know how hard it is to stop in time after spotting a deer?

These guys are far less likely to crash then someone on their cellphones.
I would bet good money that this is how their new device tracking off-line feature works. If they provided users the option to turn it off, everyone would turn it off, and no one would get the benefits of the offline device tracking. I don’t think it’s OK, and I think users should have the choice, but I’m pretty sure that’s what’s happening here.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-al... is a step in the right direction.
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Have not read his latest "People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent", but I think Stiglitz has basically been saying the same as the gist of this article: equality is essential to sustainable capitalism.
Not just Google and MS, many smaller services too. Linode and Digital Ocean's object storage both use an S3-compatible API and a number of open source, self-hosted services do as well from what I have seen. The S3 API is the defacto standard at this point.
Yubikey owner. You have to physically insert the USB key and then interact with it (touch it) to do signing/auth/etc. If you hijacked the signing touch step, you'd notice that your signature wasn't generated by the touch and would know you're compromised. The key isn't plugged into the computer except when you're using it, and if you're in Qubes you have VM isolation for the USB ports. It narrows down the attack surface a lot, and makes anyone not using one a more attractive target.
The linux tarball comes with the CF-RSL, an EULA and and an ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md file that contains 3 licenses and copyrights, including the zig original.
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With all the domain buying out and weirdness, it is my fervent hope people seriously begin reconsidering what it means to have a domain name and to implement other structures to serve out names as opposed to the now, obviously bought and sold, DNS.
funny but just in case anyone takes it literally, "yeah, right" requires some contextual indication of sarcasm to be negative. The same words could be uttered as an expression of impatient agreement rather than disagreement, and most positives can be turned negative with additional context.

This is different from the English double negative which is an application of context-free logic to a statement.
Getting money from a state govt without some kind of grant program sounds hard (I work for a company that does a lot of state govt software contracts). Have you ruled out private funding for your project? I can tell you that's where most software products/services that state governments buy come from.
>Should we do pretend mining, like Bitcoin?

Real mining seemed to work okay in past. American GDP grew faster in the 1800s under the gold standard (avg. 4%+) than any time after the creation of the federal reserve.
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> If you’ve ever seen the WOW episode of South Park he was the elite guy they were trying to stop.

The only thing that guy was missing was an ergonomic keyboard and trackball mouse.
And thank you for the link.

edit: sorry, was being a bit rude.
It is an Insignia from Best Buy, so it is a budget brand.
Inflation comes in different flavors. If all you do is print and hand out 1bn to each citizen, they'll just be able to outspend other dollar holders in the world. Prices will adjust, but the amount of real goods in the world per capita is unchanged. You're just reallocating who gets what amongst monetary savers. If your wealth is in the actual stuff people end up buying, this is very much a side concern for you. Bezos is in that camp.
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> This Economist article points out some of the many small academic works that quibble over details with Piketty and Saez [...] that capital is a positive feedback loop in a way that labor is not

Well the article mentions that:

> Matthew Rognlie, now of Northwestern University, argued that the rise in America’s capital share was accounted for by growing returns to housing, not by the shares and bonds which are held disproportionately by the top 1% of American households.

So it seems that housing is really the positive feedback circuit.
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Only if a person is looking at it.

If the only thing looking at it is a machine, then you can keep iterating until the machine doesn't notice anything.
> Mind you for some reason my recollection of how I acquired a near-constant craving for G&T is somewhat blurry.

I believe this is a strong indication that you were doing it right. ;o)
This was fascinating from a logistics, tech, information warfare, planning, etc. perspective.

It’s too bad the comments here are almost all the same pearl clutching, even if someone else has already said it, and the article starts and ends with discussions of whether it is dangerous or condoned that is more in depth already anyway.
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You’re welcome! :)
Interesting concept. I can't wait to try it.
As the sibling comment says, the post's advice is really about making your code refactoring-friendly with regard to type checking.

You generally would not want to call '.get()' without an 'isPresent()' check because it will throw a NoSuchElementException if the Optional is empty. This is a foreseeable case, so most would like to handle it somewhat explicitly.

Today, it is idiomatic to use '.map' to transform it:

Optional<String> foo = optionalCountry.map(Country::getName);

You can also throw a domain-specific exception from that point:

Optional<String> foo = optionalCountry
.map(Country::getName)
.orElseThrow(...);
What's with all of these unethical antivirus companies infringing privacy for a profit? Surely they're becoming exactly what they're trying to combat..
The Cantillion effect describes a phenomena of relative inflation due to the uneven distribution of new money and access to credit.

This doesn't really translate to "a flow of wealth from working classes and savers to the bankers and the managerial class". Rather, the impact on inequality is that it reduces the purchasing power of those not benefiting from the increased supply of money and credit. As these tend to be the poorest individuals in society, inequality is made worse.
> The working class in America are debtors and have no savings.

There are plenty of working class people that avoid debt and save money. Why should those people, who are acting responsibly, lose out on savings interest? We should be encouraging people to save, not make it cheaper to go into more debt.
This is a great set of advice, and matches my experience as a remote manager. It seems that remote work seems to attract two types of people (to grossly oversimplify):

1. Professional hard-working people that are really focused on getting stuff done and free thinkers that don't tolerate a lot of waste. So a commute and other ceremonies seem dumb, and they love remote work, love being trusted, and get a lot done if you help them.

2. People that want to figure out how to work 2 jobs, or get away with not doing a lot in 1. Or who are really good at getting jobs, and are hoping that the overall immaturity of your company, you as a manager, or remote work itself, will allow them to work 4 hours a day and do the absolute minimum.

Remote work if managed well exposes #2 pretty quickly, but it is more of a challenge than the general population in my experience. You have to put a great focus on hiring and testing people.
> it forces you to sit still, disconnect and entertain yourself for a substantial period.

This observation is biased by your own opinion. Even without Wi-fi, it is already typical to have inflight digital entertainment... and for most people, long haul flights without distraction can amount to quite the ordeal. And of course, what about the professional, and what about families with kids that are more likely would cause a nuisance without being distracted?
It's probably doable, but likely not sensible.

If you instead use the wood as lumber for durable items (such as houses and furniture), you will drastically slow the decay rate, reduce usage of other carbon-emitting processes, and make room for new trees to grow (which is extremely carbon negative). It won't solve the problem on its own, but it would certainly help.
Finding the right mix of sync and async
There's more nuance in the article than the headline would suggest, but this is still pretty bad IMO, particularly in the context of Apple's privacy-first marketing.

> Someone who wants Location Services switched on for Maps but off for everything else cannot achieve this, despite both Apple’s privacy policy and the Settings app implying that they can.
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If my wealth is in anything beyond cash -- say I own a huge hotel chain, or the largest retail company in the country -- how is inflation a tax on my wealth? My businesses will still be generating the same proportion of the economy as they were before.
Is there any aggregate data on how the money printed by the U.S. government has been distributed historically? Inflation only helps the average person if they get a slice of the money printed, and I have a feeling the vast majority of it hasn't been going directly to John and Jane Doe.
What the hell use is capital without labor?
Isn't this one of the thesis of Marx's Capital? That there's a loop in the flow of commodities, money, and labor that generally results in capital extracting more capital from the economy. (Typically from wage labor.)

It seems to me that without someone applying the brakes to that loop and changing the way distribution or production is done, we're just going to keep riding this positive feedback loop.
The engine issues were result of the low octane fuel. Performance engines require high octane fuel to avoid "knocking" (or pre-detonation of fuel). The 92/93 octane recommended for stock performance engines is not available everywhere, let alone Ethanol blends and 95+ octane required for tuned engines.

> Almost guaranteed this thing had a hacked up EFI modification done by some tuner... those guys never really know what they're doing, AMG/Mercedes almost certainly won't share how that computer works since modifying it on a street car almost certainly is illegal and will cause the car to fail inspection.

You sure as hell don't know what you're talking about either, because most of the tunes don't touch the software as much as they change "maps" or the data tables that the ECU uses for fueling/AFR, ignition timing, cam profile (VANOS/VVT/VVL etc.).

The tunes themselves don't result in a failed inspection (I own a tuned BMW N54 motor myself, that passes inspection without any hacks) but if you're generating enough boost, it may be necessary to remove the catalytic converters in the downpipes after turbos for a smoother flow which results in a failed inspection. Most modern inspections rely on the ECU to report a failed/missing catalytic converter so getting around the inspection is an easy task for someone inclined to remove downpipe cats.
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it seems odd to dismiss papers that challenges Piketty's and Saez's conclusions as nitpicky. in complex systems the devil is most often in the details. and not only that, but the sort of project that Piketty took on has many potential methodological pitfalls. so, small details could actually mean a given premise or conclusion is invalid. how would you suggest someone go about assessing whether a paper is nitpicky vs something that should be taken seriously?

note that i'm not taking a position on the conclusions of Piketty and Saez, just pointing out that re-stating their claims does not say anything about the papers that argue against them and calling such papers nitpicky seems like a particularly weak critique in this instance.
That is what #ifdef, or #if 0, is for.
Maybe in Eastern Canada. In BC Craigslist is the only viable platform and Kijiji is a ghost town.
American's won't understand you. I mean, even I can't fathom regular people doing 120 mph on freeways and I realize how silly our speed limits are.

You want to cut road mortalities? Get all the cops off the interstate and issuing tickets to texters and ppl speeding inside the cities.
What a curious, confusing response in relation to the second point.
I would guess most salaried employees have little of their wealth directly in anything but stocks and bonds due to 401k. Also house equity possibly.
Only if the wealth is held in cash. Equities and real estate are a hedge against inflation.
Maybe it's my Irish roots, but I find it funny that this is being billed as a "french-fry shortage" and not a potato shortage.
Because a good chunk of people suck at delayed gratification so are incapable of saving money. Even on an average income it's not unfeasible to retire a millionaire if saving a significant percent (and indeed there are people who do this, small businesspeople and tradespeople, the "millionaires next door").
Military / covert state ops reliant on customized phone apps probably. I guess the solution is to smash the phone after like on TV.
Yes, there are some 370 or so users [1] with an IP block exemption, but my request was denied. Just using a VPN habitually is not a good reason, it appears [2]:

> An editor with a credible editing record who would be affected by this measure may be exempted from the block at administrative discretion, allowing them to edit uninterrupted through the IP address range block.
The conditions for granting this are that:
the editor's normal (non-proxy) IP address will be disrupted by an IP address block placed on a range they usually edit on, through no fault of theirs.

My highlights. At any rate, I'm not going to invest more time and work into being allowed to contribute to Wikipedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/ipblock-exem...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption

EDIT to add: Discussion of that (IMHO silly) policy here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:IP_block_exempt...
I am not familiar with Meltano, sorry.