skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory that the highest priority most people with wealth (very reasonably) have is "never be financially insecure again" (propagated to their descendants), and that the more wealth somebody has beyond "sustain a comfortable lifestyle indefinitely off of dividends", the more of their money and mindspace they invest into protecting themselves against the long tail of circumstances that could affect that. Applied on a broad scale, with different value systems and mindsets, this explains both preppers ("Society might collapse, so I should do everything I can to ensure that my needs are met in that circumstance" with a little bit of "here's hoping it happens so I have an excuse to shoot someone" mixed in) and philanthropists ("Society might collapse, or even just fall apart to an extent that degrades my control over the means of production, so I should do as much as possible to keep that from happening").

At the extreme of wealth, an appropriately diversified portfolio takes both options into account. If you have $1 Billion and think there's a .1% chance that society will collapse soon and make your money worthless, you're perfectly justified in spending up to $1million to protect against that contingency.
People on this thread rightly point out that this isn't a great deal b/c the costs to actually get it to livable condition, along with conservation constraints might be quite significant.

I think an interesting point of comparison is Japan's policies around abandoned houses, and efforts to try to prop up vanishing rural communities, where aside from repair/renovation and administration costs, the owner can also be obligated to actively farm agricultural land associated with the property.

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/buy-abandoned-house-in-japan/
Actually your example of newspaper and TV stations exactly examplifies why billionaires have such a vast political power which is unhealthy for society. No single TV station, newspaper by itself would ever yield so much power as to be able to shape public opinion in one direction. However take the media empire of the Murdochs which yields a disproportionate amount of power in several countries, very directly pushing the ideology of it's owners.
Yeah, look at the disaster that has happened in federal governance in the US. We used to have a government of enumerated powers, now there is very little that the government can't do.

The problem with a strong federal government is that you can't escape bad governance by moving to a neighboring state, you have to change countries. People are generally far happier with local governance than federal governance.
Does it prohibit the new Edge then?
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What if your router needs some manual configuration through the web interface?

I'm not convinced there is much to gain from letting Edge be uninstalled through normal means as long as it's not consuming resources other than some disk space when you're not using it.
He still got more votes and media attention than any private citizen of average wealth possibly could expect.
Valve, HTC and HP.
There were a number of fairly sophisticated hypertext systems around then (like the basis of viola). I was an early WWW user when it was mainly a question of using the line-mode browser for the CERN documentation, and it seemed incredibly primitive to someone who'd being developing with high-resolution networked hypermedia. The significance of the protocol and naming escaped me, unfortunately.
That's untrue. See here https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-did-life-begi....

An "Earthlike" planet is required. Mars may have qualified at one point, but doesn't now.
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... and that's why we have families who are on the verge of welfare not selling their expensive (additional) properties, waiting them to appreciate even more in value, dreaming of selling them somewhere in future and making their children set for life, while working class people have to pay 50% of their already heavily taxed wages for rent...
Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won't fix it
if you're concerned about legal proof, then again, relying on a third party service with questionable financials is a terrible idea.

This is plaintext markdown files. You can easily integrate git with it which will provide a timestamp and cryptographic proof that the contents are unchanged.
No, it would stand up to any abuse, because you'd only be renting it. (Arguments about whether you really own an iPhone may now commence.)
Contrary to urban myth, NASA did use the metric system for Apollo Moon landings
I'm in the same position as you, and from what I can tell we should be fine, though we may have to put up with some nagging from the damned Oculus store.

> [Re: 20203] If you choose not to merge your accounts at that time, you can continue using your device, but full functionality will require a Facebook account.

Which I read as "you won't be able to use the store anymore or receive driver/software updates for Oculus". I'm ok with that. By 2025 I'll either not be doing any VR or will want a new rig anyway.
"If you are an existing user and choose not to merge your accounts, you can continue using your Oculus account for two years."

Phew
Economic mobility is more or less the lowest in the US of all OECD countries. This means that it is extremely likely that whatever quartile/quintile/percentile you are born into in the US, you will also die in the same economic bracket.

Yes, you can cite whatever exceptions you like - the statistics are clear.

Most billionaires are born to other billionaires (or at least extraordinarily wealthy people compared to median wealth). As such, they represent an ancestral inheritance just nearly as much as the aristocracy.

There is almost no evidence of de novo great wealth being correlated to great talent. It may (or may not) be a necessary component, but it certainly is not necessary, even if it was possible to quantify precisely what is meant by "great talent".

In a capitalist-ish society, there are always going to be great winners in the competitive economy. Pointing them out as if they are special is absurd: the system is designed to generate such cases.
>In the Filecoin case, I would still think that it should be possible to guarantee that a particular object is not being actively served by a node on the network at any particular point in time and penalizing nodes (loss of Filecoin) that do not pass this check.

But all that would do would be to push people to do it off-network instead.
Also, I don't think there's a secondary market option for SARs or similar.
> Even Bartosz said that Adjoints aren't that interesting in Haskell because every functor is an endofunctor.

Every functor (in the standard library) is an endofunctor, but is also a functor to a specific flavor of full subcategory in Hask. It might be useful to support other flavors of subcategory, and I think there's some ongoing work on this in the SubHask module.
If you take GP at face value he didn't intentionally pull the wool over people's eyes. He was just rather naive.
If we intend to upload ourselves into anything, it will need to be an organism unto itself, however artificial. A machine will not suffice. The challenge is akin to creating life de novo.

It seems easier to just quit destroying so much of the kind we already have.
>See how many commercial Qt engagements were stuck with Qt 4 because Qt 5 initially forced to use Qt's local rendering and only pushing the final pixmap to the server. Multi-million CAD machines slowing down to a halt because the clients were suddenly sending megabits through the pipes

Is there a bug report for this in the Qt bug tracker that you can share?

>It's mostly a several megapixel black bitmap with a couple million white lines rendered on it. Relatively easy for a "drawing primitives over the wire" solution, insane for anything that tries to encode it as realtime video.

I think your math is off. In the X11 protocol, each line segment is transmitted as 8 bytes. Transmitting two million white lines uncompressed is going to take up 16 megabytes. Do that 60 times a second and now you have a bitrate of 960MB/s. Compare this to youtube's recommendations which suggest a maximum bitrate of around 10MB/s for 4K HDR 60FPS video: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171

To me, the compressed video solution is the clear winner.
I can't believe that we are seriously discussing that using some online retailer is somewhat a voting process equivalent to democratic elections. This really shakes my faith in humanity and the HN community.
In Java I don't notice many differences in the autocomplete in VsCode (eclipse) vs IntelliJ.
Perhaps this is just to drive up the price lest a competitor get a profitable, cash generating business for cheap.
There was a post on HN awhile back that was a blog post by a lady that was involved. She got into it thinking it would be good to make some money but she ended up with so much crap that she couldn't give it away (or sell it).

EDIT Here is the article

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/her-amazon...

And the corresponding HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21593480
if they ever went "rouge"

so good
so? I don't understand why this is a meaningful statement.

Lots of us use Pinboard.in or similar "bookmark" services. They aren't "Browser bookmarks" they're just forms in some separate app too. We find them more useful than browser bookmarks. The pasting can easily be worked around with a simple bookmarklet.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
If the employee offered to service the computer while the customer was in the Apple Store, the customer could have misunderstood the offer or assumed it was sanctioned by Apple. I'm not sure the customer would win the case but Apple has deep pockets and a good lawyer will extract a sizable sum just to make the case go away.
> Founders literally sign away their right to make these promises.

Well, they don't have to. He could have insisted on writing this condition into the acquisition contract. But he obviously didn't. The most charitable reading of this is that he was just naive and didn't know that this was an option or that it would be necessary in order to enforce such a promise, but that seems unlikely. Acquiring this knowledge is no harder than posing the question to his M&A attorney. Hence...

> I absolutely do not t respect yet alone absolve him of not doing so originally. Why would one?

I think you made the right call here.
Mao is a popular leader, his decisions overrides other memebrs of the party, that's the natural prize the population awards to those who won wars for their rights, the same way Washington has that kind of power, only that Mao used that reward without due consideration and in attempt to achieve socialism starved million. It shouldn't be written as if he is a dictator slaughtering people for his own pleasure, because ultimately Mao's problem is his disconnection of reality and lack of understanding of the popular mind which leads to the creation of disastrous policies with aims too high not his disregard of human lives.
Don't what to transform this to Whataboutism but it really annoys me that I can't uninstall the apps on OSX which are clearly optional: TV, Podcasts, Music, Garageband, Safari etc etc. Was actually excited about iTunes splitting into multiple apps because I was expecting to be able to split up the app size into optionals that I could remove - nope
I've owned the first Rift kit for a couple of years. I'll either stop using it by the time 2023 rolls around or be looking for new offerings.

One of the things that pleased me about it is that it hasn't already been rendered obsolete. Well I guess FB has set a date on that now for no good reason on the user end.

I'm curious to see what might be coming around hardware-wise in that time.
OK, but it may well turn out that future versions of "modern society" depend on the revenue from wealth taxation, not just for those with wealth above $50 million, but with wealth above, say, $50 thousand.

Remember what the argument in the local thread is. nemo44x stated that "these things" (things like the wealth tax) always expand to cover more people than they did at the beginning. rurp said that the income tax cuts a couple of years ago disproved that. I said that the expanding scope of income tax over the last 107 years supported nemo44x, not rurp.

Your arguing that that's OK, because we want the society that results. That may be. But that's a different claim than "this won't expand to hit everybody".
That... was not the point GP was making, at least not how I see it. And it is doubtful if dictators use / have used different personas, or they simply behaved differently towards close ones (for some time at least).
If you read what I posted you would understand that I know what compounding growth is instead of making ad-hominem attacks at me without reading anything I posted.

I was refering to the linear growth of the the 1% controlling more of the TOTAL wealth of the USA. Which is, yes, most likely a result of compound growth of assets. Which is wealth management 101.

Stop assuming I don't (or other people) know something that basic.
Last time I bought a power supply from Amazon I got an email from the seller saying that they'd give me a $20 Steam Credit if I left a 5 star review. It made me consider returning the Power Supply.
> Facebook had pretty significantly different reputation in 2014

Dumb fucks.
Not to mention no delayed deletion.

Ideally, a "delete" should mark images as unavailable and queue them for deletion at a later date (e.g. in 30 days). This provides protection against accidental deletion by users, accidental account deletions/deactivations, paid accounts terminated due to lack of payment, automated software mistakes (such as this), and so on.

The last company I worked at, 80% of our database was inactive, useless, or redundant data, all kept to protect against all kinds of issues (such as reused usernames, subpoenas, annual reporting, etc). We could always zero out PII from an account, but we never removed a record we didn't have to. It led to a lot more RAID migrations than I would have liked to have done, but it certainly made the application easier to manage. Plus, we never worried about fragmentation or holes in our data files, cascading deletes, etc.
The native datepicker has no pop up widget on Safari either, in 2020. That is really crazy to me.
> MITM TLS (which Google technically does with Chrome)

Do you have a source?
Even in pre-civilised societies you couldn't simply exist. You didn't pay taxes, yet you also had to work hard to protect the land from intruders, or, heck, even had to bust your ass off to provide regular access to basic things such as water and food.
One can demand such promises from the acquirer in the form of a contract that states, in effect, this:

a) If acquirer does X, the seller, Y, has the option to repurchase the company for $1.
b) Any future acquirer must agree to the same contract. If it does not, Y must be extended the option to repurchase the company for $1 before the sale.

I don't think anything less could constitute a true promise that the acquirer would avoid X.
I don't get what people over here expected when Facebook acquired Oculus, and also don't get why it is so hard to create a throwaway facebook account. No condescension. Just not sure what I am missing in the extreme positions here
Check if Paddle or Gumroad is available in your country.
They work as Merchant of Record, so THEY ARE selling your product for you and you get only one invoice (minus the commission) for every month.
Your post sounds like you strongly disagree with me, but it looks like we do agree on the facts. The paper measured a correlation but whether that implies causation is anyone's guess. The paper argued one direction, I argued the other direction, but both explanations fit the data which just shows that we don't know yet if there is causation.
Nice. Now we'll never be sure if buried wall decorations are aliens or future us.
For interactive cli use (that is: a person sitting at a computer), SSO is directly supported. `aws sso login ` pops up the web browser, starts the sso login flow and temporary credentials are issued for the cli. Has been working pretty neat for us.
More like one day you turn on windows and it takes over your boot process, has a splash screen, walks you through "your newest browser", adds things to your desktop, changes associations to things.

Sounds good, right?
I have a razer deathadder chroma with a kvm switch on mac/windows/linux systems. I do not have razer app installed on any of the three systems and the mouse works fine (including the forward/back side buttons and pressable scroll (so 5 buttons total)).
You clench you butt cheeks when they do the calibration when you want something to register as a lie. So you tell a truth and then clench your butt cheeks for calibrating a lie. Thus they get a strong response on a truth/lie and a less strong response on a lie. The other trick is to recall a traumatic event.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/how-cheat-lie-detec...
You don't need hardware raid controllers. (Unless your really need them for some reason) Software RAID is perfectly fine for most use cases.
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That requirement ended in 2014. Now everything comes with a web browser, and most are even less changeable than in Windows.

The world is a different place than in 2014.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/196170-microsoft-is-fi...
Predictions on GPT-3 vs. 4th graders in adversarial general intelligence test
I have worked for Apple doing Technical Support.

The author conviently and entirely skips over which steps he took to 'help his friend'.

Apple employees are allowed to help friends, obviously. What you are not allowed to do, is to use Apple's special software tools that is intented only for helping customers during work time. These are sensible rules that protect the privacy or Apple users. I suspect the author had stepped out of line, and neglected those rules.
This post completely ignores that even safe investments are going to earn a return over 1% on wealth. So even a founder who liquidated all her stock and parked it in a prime money market fund would have earned 1.3% over the past year — and that’s at a time of near record low interest rates.

A founder with any sizable wealth and a long time horizon (>15yrs) would earn much better than 1%. Even conservative retirement calculators given such a horizon will steer you toward a real return of 3%, or 5-6% after inflation. That’s an estimated return in stock heavy index funds. Someone with most of their net worth in a successful startup — precisely the person Paul frets about — will do much much better than that for at least several years earning startup returns. (Those not so successful won’t have much wealth to tax.)

Basically I think it’s a little silly to wring hands over the compound impact of a wealth tax and at the same time give no acknowledgment to the compound returns available to the average long term investor to say nothing of the very wealthy. A wealth tax has a real impact but it’s more about dragging down returns on wealth than eroding wealth per se.

Inflation has a very similar compound impact on any given sum.

Further, Paul does not acknowledge the benefits to a person AND a tech company of being based in the US over other countries, or past crucial investments by our people in basic research enabling many if not all YC and other Valley startups.
As someone who has recently built a front-end framework [0] that supports Internet Explorer, I say good riddance!

[0] https://www.gethalfmoon.com
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FWIW I wonder if they're still run as something of a separate group, but given that the article says the HGST brand was removed in 2018, who knows what speed the long term merge might occur upon.

Explains why HGST brand drives are harder to come by I think.
Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672
> Palmer Luckey does not strike me as an absolute beginner here

Which is why smart founders can still get away with making these statements during the acquisitions so they can continue to grow their company post close (which means their post close bonus also stays in tact) and then leave after their golden handcuffs are done (usually 2-5 years).

> For me the heuristic is simple: I won't believe a word a CEO that is selling his company says about what will happen post deal. They are no longer in control and should know better.

For me, its on the other side of the coin. If I'm a founder and someone gives me billions of dollars for both acquiring my company and an additional bonus to pump the company I'm 100% incentivized to do everything possible to ensure that...even making forward statements that I don't genuinely believe are going to happen.

For everyone else - don't trust anyting an acquirer says - follow what they do.
I can't imagine too many people that actually care about something like this are using Windows.
Are the devices any good?
> The reason wealth taxes have such dramatic effects is that they're applied over and over to the same money. Income tax happens every year, but only to that year's income. Whereas if you live for 60 years after acquiring some asset, a wealth tax will tax that same asset 60 times. A wealth tax compounds.

But so does wealth. Being wealthy gives you lots of advantages; one is that it makes it easier to gain more wealth.
I just bought a bluetooth headset from Amazon, brand is Mpow which sells a ton of electronics. In the box there is a card that says "You've been chosen as a lucky customer to get an Amazon Gift Card". It instructs me to write a review "in 1 to 5 stars" then take a picture and send to their gmail address. It also says "For your Amazon account security, do not attach this card picture on your review when you leave a review."

I suspect they get around certain TOS violations by saying "1 to 5 stars on Amazon."
This has zero to do with the 1st amendment. That is between you and the government. You have not such 1st amendment rights when dealing with a private company. All you can do with facebook is either do as they tell you, or drop them. There's not much middle ground.
The issue is the US is so big and has so many different parts. I live in a metropolitan area and I see zero complaints about masks or vaccines. If I read certain kinds of news stories that come across as very absurd to me, I definitely start thinking about maybe moving someday. But if I look at the people around me and who I associate with, I have no reason to want to get away from any of them. This just happens to be a time where the (in)action of some can affect others on a national scale.

I'm not saying I would want this, but in 100 years from now I wonder if the US is still going to contain all of the states it has now. I feel like the division we're feeling now may not ever go away and may ultimately end up in some (very hopefully peaceful) agreement where there are now two countries instead of one. I really don't know if this would be good or bad, but just practically speaking, it seems plausible.
With AWS SSO, you can federate with IDPs like Okta, which offers native CLI support.

More info here:
https://www.okta.com/blog/2020/05/how-okta-aws-sso-simplifie...
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The whole company was built off semi legally stolen valve tech due to valve naivete when the employees who advocated sharing the tech with oculus for free all got hired by oculus/Facebook.

Bad egg from the start from how they acquired tech and employees, to their exclusive policy on launch and their artificial compatibility issues with other headsets today, getting worse when selling out to Facebook is no surprise.
Up until the 1950's pharmaceutical development was entirely a government enterprise: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.slu.edu/law/academi...