skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced you actually read through either of those sources, especially considering that none of your quotes actually ever appear in them.

First, and foremost, Piketty's findings are based on theoretical models, not empirical observations. The two fatal flaws Piketty makes are 1) he models a zero-sum world where wealth is fixed, and 2) doesn't take into account taxes & transfers.

From the IMF research:

Using a sample of 19 advanced economies
spanning over 30 years, I find no empirical evidence that dynamics move in the way Piketty
suggests. Results are robust to several alternative estimates of r-g.

I find no empirical evidence that the dynamics move in the way Piketty suggests. In fact, for at
least 75% of the countries examined, inequality responds negatively to r − g shocks, which is in line
with previous single-equation estimates by Acemoglu and Robinson (2015). The results also suggest
that changes in the savings rate, which Piketty takes as relatively stable over time, are likely to offset
most of the impact of r − g shocks on the capital share of the national income. Thus, it provides
empirical evidence to the model developed by Krusell and A. Smith (2015), who say Piketty relies
on flawed theory of savings. The conclusions are robust to alternative estimates of r − g and to the
exclusion or inclusion of tax rates in the calculation of the real return on capital.

From Auten & Splinter

Our estimates also differ for the bottom half of the distribution. PSZ estimated that the
bottom 50 percent share of pre-tax and after-tax shares decreased by about 7.5 and 6.2
percentage points since 1979. In contrast, we estimate that pre-tax and after-tax income shares decreased by 5.6 and 2.2 percentage points over this period. Our estimates suggest that taxes and transfers offset most of the recent changes in both bottom and top income shares. In contrast with the PSZ estimate that average real pre-tax incomes of the bottom 50 percent remained virtually unchanged, we estimate that they increased by nearly one-third.

For pre-tax/after-transfer income (which includes Social Security benefits) and after-tax income, we estimate a real increase for the bottom half of the distribution of nearly two-thirds
The S&P 500 is absolutely disconnected from "the economy." Out of the top 5 stocks on the S&P, 4 are tech companies employing fewer than 1 million Americans combined. Expanding that list to the top 10 companies, P&G and Visa are kind of representative of the economy, but they are highly consumer focused.

Leaving Berkshire Hathaway as the sole stock in the top 10 that is representative of the American economy as a whole by virtue of doing business in such a diverse collection of markets and owning many small, private businesses.

Another problem with the S&P500 is that it is capitalization-weighted. So even if it contains a diverse set of companies, technology stocks are over-represented because of how well they scale. Walmart has to do a hell of a lot more work per dollar of profits than Apple does.
> Those countries have terrible governments

Why?
School kids learning remotely are being forced to use Chrome as well. This morning, my child had to switch from Safari to Chrome to use very commonly used site https://web.seesaw.me/
Wanted to comment on this. I see this very differently than the Samsung situation. Spotify provides music for ads, unless you pat the subscription. I am not offended that Spotify would do this for their “free”/ad-supported users.

I pay for Spotify, I get no ads. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Nah, IE on Windows was the best browser around for a while. People wrote stuff that only worked on it cause it had the most stuff to target. Remember the debacle that was Netscape trying to come out with anything newer than Navigator 4?

But if you were on a Mac or Linux system... you had some issues. Mac IE was not the same as Windows IE, and Linux didn't have one.

So Chrome at least is on more platforms.
I use byte in the context of Input/OutputStreams, which operate on bytes. Ideally this will be wrapped in something that determines the encoding -- preferably one maintained by somebody other than me -- but I'm aware that serialization to disk or network ends up being a stream of bytes.

I've occasionally used short in similar contexts. I wrote a JVM library, and the JVM specification uses a bunch of short values -- though ironically, a lot of them are really unsigned values, so a short is inappropriate.

But for the most part, use of short or byte to save memory is very rare for me. I write Java knowing that it's pretty flagrant with machine cycles and memory, and also knowing that computers have lots of memory and users care more about the difference between 10 vs 20 days to write a feature than about the difference between 10 vs 20 msec to reply to a click. I write Java because it lets me work faster, rather than for economy.
It's a WASD v2 TKL, I have two!
Meh...

Sometimes exploding offers are exploitative. Sometimes they are simply “You are plan A, and we are going with plan B if you say no. Plan B is not an evergreen option for us, so we have to put a time limit on our offer to you.”
The cultures here mix too. It’s a preoccupation of a loud minority.
I had a mild case of covid and the loss of smell and taste was unlike anything similar I've ever experienced. It's not like having a stuffed nose or just being less sensitive to smell. For me I could breathe just fine but could not smell or taste anything, literally zero. Even very strong smelling things did nothing for me, and food had zero taste. It's a very unusual experience and I think a dead giveaway that you had the virus (it appears near the end of an infection typically).
Assuming it's similar as in Lithuania - price is one of main points. You get a sweet house with a reasonable lot instead of a tiny flat. Likely better access to nature, more calm environment etc. If you're fine with a run down house and want to fix it up yourself, it's easy to buy a liveable house with a garden and whatnot in bumfucknowhere for really cheap. Cheap as in less than a year's salary of a programmer in a city.

Commute varies a lot depending on specific location. Want to live in a village in a national park? You're looking into at least a good hour off-peak to two hours including city traffic. Random small town? May be an hour, may be two. If you want to stick close to your parents and they happen to live deep in backcountry... You may be looking into 3-4h one way depending on which city the company is located in.
What ‘The Social Dilemma’ Gets Wrong [pdf]
This is taken from the book which the author is here a co-author of: Trade wars are class wars.

See:

https://phenomenalworld.org/reviews/trade-wars

https://phenomenalworld.org/interviews/trade-wars-are-class-...

Phenomenal World is also a fantastic publication, and I highly recommend it in general.
ESR doesn't play that WoW. (Apparently he is fond of World of Warships, which he plays using Steam and Proton.) I think he just wanted to focus on gpsd and ntpsec, rather than maintain Jargon, especially since hacker culture a) ceased to exist as a thing distinct from the broader developer culture; b) started changing too rapidly for a maintainer to keep up.
Contingent to what?
Geez, that's a new one.
This is not the point, even though there was banking, the actual settlements and information flow, flowed slower (gold and gold notes.)
Is a country responsiblebfor debts incurred by an illegitimate govermnet?

Like imagine someone forced you to tale out a loan at gunpoint - that wouldn't fly
There is also MicroBot:
https://microbot.is/push/

I used it for testing smart meters in Norway, so we did not need to run to the lab to trigger events. The best part is that the whole menu is interactive by just one physical button, a great job for a Bluetooth button pusher + Python.

It is also capacitive so it work on the phone screen, and YubiKeys (?)
The large majority of synthetic USD trading is speculation and hedging. It's significantly cheaper to trade synthetic USD than actual BTCUSD, so 100% of traders will prefer that.
There are some legitimate reasons to do this btw. Webspeechapi being one of them.

I've been waiting for so long for FF to support text-to-speech (it does but the quality of voices isn't comparable) and speech-to-text and mdn has some really great documentation about it too but maybe due to lack of GPU or training data they can't add that feature while even Edge has gotten that feature now.
Thanks for your question!

Grapes used for making bulk wine wholesale for about $2000/ton. I am not yet able to produce them at that price point. For now, I am hoping to partner with a vineyard that wants to make the highest quality wine possible, and is willing to pay for grapes that enable them to do so.
This seems all very reasonable. Look forward to the post mortem.

Given their size on both the web in terms of employees this unusual for Wikimedia. They typically fly under the radar. How many times has Wikipedia ever been down?

I recall AWS, Google, Microsoft having more outages -- mind they probably are considerably bigger but still they're doing something right.
Most browsers are based on Chrome/Blink or at the very least WebKit now. Even Microsoft have thrown in the towel for the better as the new Edge is awesome. The only outlier nowadays is really Firefox/Gecko but they do a good job of keeping to standard, it's rare to find a site that doesn't work with it.
I was a dedicated Netscape user so it pains me to say it, but MSIE 6 was great when it launched, and Netscape was bloating up, unstable, and had its own range of proprietary extensions (anyone remember Netscape's DHTML...).

MSIE 6's main problem was the stagnation, but that came later. Well, that, and that ActiveX crap.
"Why have an Applescript call a shell script? I found that when I launched the shell script directly from Karabiner Elements, it opened a new instance of Terminal.app and took focus away from the window that is prompting for the YubiKey. This causes everything to run in the background."

Does anyone know why that is?
> The IRS is no longer receiving enough budget from Congress...

Why do you think that is? Probably because capital controls Congress pretty effectively (the Senate did vote for this past leveraged corporate bail out 96-4 after all). Anyway, I don't disagree with you that the situation could be remedied, I was pointing to it as evidence that capital is very, very powerful right now.

> Nonsense. We already have laws on the books that would allow an enthusiastic regulator to break up the power of capital. What you are describing is a continuation of the liberal surrender to big money, with the hope that some kind of socialism takes form to offset it.

I'm not arguing that capital's effects on the politics of this country cannot be dampened or curtailed to some degree, I'm arguing against the specific point made in the article that we can find meaningful ways to stop the flow of capital around the world.

> Following the beaten path is much more likely to succeed.

What beaten path? If you're referring to the post-War Great Compression[1], I would argue that that is a historical aberration and certainly not a well-beaten path. I don't see either major political party in this country jumping at the chance to organize a political movement around labour right now, so what political coalition is fighting capital in this country right now? None, as far as I can tell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Compression
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvoting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html As they say, it never does any good and makes boring reading. Moreover, users often give corrective upvotes, as they did above, which means that the complaint about downvoting is now factually false, and lingers on like uncollected garbage in a thread.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=corrective%20upvote&dateRange=...

The rest of your comment is just fine.
SLP tokens New ERC 20s?
From a technical point of view, it is certainly cleaner to hide some advanced features (e.g. instead of cluttering up a GUI, perhaps they can only be enabled by lower-level commands). It may even be easier (as expanding a GUI requires more code, more thought for proper placement/layout etc.; and from a testing point of view it is easier to test lower-level commands than GUIs).

On the other hand, you lose the marketing war. Articles are written “comparing” your software to competitors, and they completely miss that you have feature X because it wasn’t staring them in the face as a button or a checkbox. Or your software is considered “simplistic” and maybe not “worth” its price or effort, etc. when in reality it may be a powerhouse under the hood.
60% couldn't afford a $1000 emergency in USA, in 2019. $3k? Probably a lot higher number.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/most-americans-dont-have-the...
My wife and I are looking into living in Mexico, if we sold our home in the US, we could afford a small place in Mazatlan for the winter, and in one of the mountain villages for the summer.
The interesting thing is that rows and columns wasn't the groundbreaking concept that energized Bricklin to implement it, the fundamental novelty is the automatic recalculation feature. The origin story of how visicalc first formed in his mind is varied, but every version the fundamental insight is that you write expressions symbolically and the computer substitutes so when you change the value of the symbols the computer automatically recalculates.

The idea of a grid came to him when he was implementing and had to define the way you reference values symbolically in your expressions, it's not a problem in traditional programming because we have variables and functions and objects and a metric ton load of other named abstractions, but he wanted a GUI. At first he experimented with arrows but the graph very quickly became too unwieldy, then he hit upon the idea of a grid to address and reference values as will as display them. Basically a two dimensional computer memory where the addresses is the (row, col) pair. Simple yet elegant.
Here comes the "I use org mode BTW" comment.

When it comes to my personal websites, I use org mode, because publishing is actually an exception in my day to day life. I use emacs for org mode only, but I use it all day long to keep notes, track todos, document projects, write prose and messages. Sometimes, I think something is worth publishing, so I mark it with the appropriate tags, run the publish command and let syncthing update the websites.

I have used hugo for a dozen significant project and I like it. I have chosen hugo over the alternatives because I prefer go to javascript, ruby and python in almost all possible regards.
I even teach classes to journalism students with hugo and gitlab.

Static site generators are great for "projects" but as a individual willing to share some mildly interesting content as a side effect of his daily activities, I still consider them too much work and maintenance.
I believe the Steam Web Store had a similar issue of people being logged in as the wrong user a couple years back.
Tesla to acquire German battery assembly maker
Alchemy was also about personal transformation, using matter as an esoteric metaphor...
I would personally not wire any amount of current to a USB peripheral connected to my MacBook.
I wonder if the people downvoting you actually remember the Netscape dark ages- IE was a revelation.
That's a false dichotomy. As the GP pointed out, Google started with a symbiotic relationship with the websites. Scraping the content and using it to help people find stuff (and profiting handsomely!) is not the problem.

Problem is all other behavior highlighted by GP - pushing organic results below fold, insta-answers totally stopping traffic to sites actually providing that content, and so on.

Google is now using its dominant position in search engine market to effectively bundle search with these other things that negatively impact publishers into an "all or nothing" deal.

"Don't want us to scrape and show your data? You have nice traffic to your page, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it..."
That was a caching issue if I remember correctly, as opposed to users be "logged in" as a different user.
It's free and runs nearly everywhere, so the consequences don't seem quite the same?
This works too:

% cat /tmp/sh
var=variables
x=$(
cat <<EOT
This string has 'single' and "double" quotes and can interpolate '$var'
EOT
)
echo $x

% bash /tmp/sh
This string has 'single' and "double" quotes and can interpolate 'variables'
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I'm looking for an engineer who has devops experience but loves feature work

We working in the gaming and audio space

https://www.indeed.com/job/senior-software-engineer-ab0cf259...
Just laser burst the smog leaving the factories into clean air!
Only some stuff is cheaper, but the important stuff is the same or more expensive than before (housing, education, stocks).
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to Hacker News? We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The platform is the web, not the browsers themselves. The web is an open platform, while some browser push for proprietary features. This is not like Windows vs Linux where each of those OSes are separate platforms, and supporting both can be difficult.
Isn't that still better than your nephew buying a brand new battery and then throwing it in the trash? Even if he only got a week's worth of use out of the old battery.

Reusing things doesn't change the overall recycling rate. It just reduces the demand for new things (which is why Apple dislikes it). Knowing how to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (in that order!) is much better than some sort of cargo cult destruction of working devices.
That's correct, but also not particularly relevant, as there's no society on the planet where low income salaries experience a higher absolute increase than higher income salaries.

The fundamental point is: there's a narrative that lower income salaries 1) don't increase at all, and 2) increase at a slower rate than higher income salaries, and both are false.

It's also important to remember that the increase in salaries at the lower income levels, do NOT necessarily represent a single earner's pay history. Those numbers show us the snapshot-in-time income numbers for everyone currently at that salary level, but does not account for people actually moving income levels as they progress in their career. The data isn't "here's the life of Joe over the last 5 years", it's "here's the life of people without college degrees that are X years old with Y years of experience with X & Y held constant over 5 years".
“Producing Open Source Software” by Karl Fogel
Love MediaWiki as a platform. I host several of them. Hope the interactive editor in PHP soon get out of beta.
I had that exact experience for 12 days after a fever and a light cough in March. I couldn't even smell Thai fish sauce.

They wouldn't test me because it wasn't on their list of symptoms in Germany, even though South Korea, UK and China were already reporting it as a strong indicator for Corona.
If the derivatives market didn't provide an infinite soak for excess capital, then that money would be forced to go find something "real" to invest in, and the economic theory TFA talks about might work (money should flow from advanced, low growth, economies, to less developed, higher growth opportunity, markets).

As someone who doesn't really understand finance and economics, this is really interesting to me. Doesn't this suggest though that those derivatives markets are really inefficient? ie for them to really appeal to capital that isn't merely hedging, doesn't this mean that they would have to be materially different than their underlying contracts?
Growing them indoors you are never going to have anything near the margins required to make it economical if you're trying to undercut commodity level grapes. If you're going through the effort of growing in a controlled indoor environment like this I would imagine it only makes sense to target the highest quality product possible.
I use a pi hole and it has been blocking my samsung tv ads for the past 6 months.
> Yes, but this should be an option all the time.

I think it is an option almost all the time? It is when I look to buy tickets.

> Not every country has 100 airports.

Sorry I've got absolutely no idea what this has to do with it?

I said 'buy a cheaper ticket', not 'fly from a different airport'.
Well now we need to know, if you're willing to share: what was the strangest experience you've had?
The average price I paid for electricity in Ontario over a couple years vs. the average of a number of sources I found for cost of electricity across Germany. I don't have any links saved, but yeah it was like ~0.05 CAD vs 0.55 CAD per kWh iirc.

You're right that solar has become very price competitive. We're pushing that at Tesla & I do think as the current regulatory environment around nuclear continues to stay roughly the same, solar will be much cheaper in the coming decade.

It should be noted that subsidies, regulatory fees, and economies of scale play a MUCH larger role in the LCOE of energy sources today than the fundamental physics, efficiency, material costs etc do.

Therefore it is wiser to look at the options from a first principles perspective and consider the potential costs of sources after equally large effort is put into scaling and optimization, and ignoring political factors. When you analyze the options in this way, nuclear wins every single time.
Looking at Evolution’s Genealogy from Home
Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications?
Looking for fast, easy to use, and powerful cli applications. Especially interested in programs written in Rust.
Are there pages that run APO that we could checkout?
I mean that's just verifiably untrue: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
It's not clear from the article if it actually sent anyone to the doctor or if they simply brought it up during an normal visit.
Forth, Lisp, Smalltalk would beg to differ.
You're shifting the goalposts. None of those countries have returned to "mostly normal". Maybe people aren't trapped in their houses by police, but that's "normal" only if you have a twisted view of normalcy.

All of them have stopped international travel and closed their borders. Vietnam has a mandatory quarantine -- in government-run centers -- for most people who do enter the country. Singapore is similar. Thailand has a two-week quarantine, and their economy is devastated, as essentially all tourism has stopped.

All of those countries have extensive restrictions in place, and have only recently begun to re-open their own businesses. For example, Vietnam just started re-opening businesses in mid-September:

https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/vietnam-business-opera...

Singapore, while much better than before, still has widespread community transmission:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3103353/sin...

It still has restrictions on group gatherings, people can't to to restaurants in groups larger than 5, and alcohol can't be sold after 10:30. I guess this counts as "mostly normal", right?

So basically, all of those countries are still locked down, or have just barely re-opened, and even then, there's no suppression, just a lower level of community transmission than before. It's far too early to be declaring victory.

You can control the virus for a time when you trap your society inside, deprive them of their livelihood and otherwise accumulate huge social and economic costs. Then you stop, and the virus comes back.
But that wouldn't have a 3D-printed finger
I mean the argument is you're going to lose any sense of Terroir...and that is a huge amount of the cost at the high end of the market. Sure, you pay for taste, but you also pay enormously for origin and provenance.
Same happened to me. No cold, runny nose, or any problems with airways. But my smell was just gone. I literally ground up basil and garlic and stuck it up my nose... nothing.