skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From "Wall Street" (1987) [a work of fiction which I have no reason to take at face value regarding precise statistics, but nevertheless]:

"The richest one percent of this country owns half the country's wealth: 5 trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds of it comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulation to widows and idiot sons and what I do -- stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. Ninety percent of the American people have little or no net worth. I create nothing; I own. We make the rules, Buddy, the news, war, peace, famine, upheaval; the cost of a paper clip. (picking one up) We pull the rabbit out of the hat while everybody else sits around their whole life wondering how we did it..."
The article is obviously old and out of date (i.e. MAX_PATH, given you don't mention Office...) and at times incorrect (i.e. NT kernel performance where async I/O has historically been better than the various Linux implementations -- io_uring excluded as I haven't seen any comparisons).

I'll give my highly subjective experience. I used Fedora 3x on a X1 Carbon gen 7 and it was not awesome. While I had a highly customizable UI via KDE Plasma, the font always felt off. I had issues directly attributed to Wayland (screen sharing in apps), though I could have gone back to X11.

Eventually I switched to Gnome and the UI was just frustrating from a UX standpoint. The UI lacked so many options to make it more flexible, though some frustrations were taken care of by extensions.

For either DE, if I didn't want to use Firefox, many types of media were unavailable, including certain videos in YouTube due to lack of included libraries. Some of those libraries were available in 3rd party builds, but given the security sensitive nature of browsers, that felt risky.

Performance was fine and the apps I needed were available.

Overall, application in each DE felt more crash-prone. This was true of the updater for the Gnome app store, too.

More than a couple of times I would have odd graphical issues occur in both KDE Plasma and Gnome. A couple examples were font-related issues (incorrect font despite being set correctly in settings) and window-color issues. The Gnome app store window was in dark mode while the rest of the DE wasn't. Oh and lack of DE-wide mouse scrolling on windows was a bit frustrating. I had to get a plugin for Chromium but never found a DE-wide solution.

I was tired of Windows on a laptop, so I did end up buying a MBP, which was my first Mac since my PowerBook G4. MBP does everything I need for personal use and as a development playground, plus generally stable apps. I still use Win 10 on a P1 for work and of course have a desktop for gaming, primarily.

What I'd like to see from a DE is to be highly integrated into the system. We've seen successful implementations via Windows and Mac (classic and OS X/11), and perhaps the not-so-commercial success, BeOS. Many of the Linux DEs "feel" tacked-on.

With that said, I run unbound and haproxy on a handful of Linux VMs where they work wonders and I've had zero issues with stability, etc.

All-in-all my Fedora 3x experience was just OK. It felt rough around many, though not all edges. App crash was more than I'd see using the same apps on Windows (and now macOS).

There were other things that irritated me; lack of fingerprint reader support and lack of a Bitlocker-style solution (no password on boot) available.

Again, my experiences, my impressions. They could all be wrong.
It's possible the Chromium/Electron thing is this bug[1], which affects new proprietary nvidia drivers on recent Chromium versions. I also experienced that bug, though I don't think it affected Firefox for me.

It resolved itself for me recently in all apps except Slack. I have no idea why. I'm fairly sure I didn't update anything.

While it was still reproducing, I tested a purported fix in the upcoming Chromium 87 (or 88?) and it was resolved. So just wait a bit or try Canary. More specific info in the bug thread of course.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=111304...
"if the public found out a Gypsy was working in the kitchen, most people would never dine at that restaurant" - I don't dig that, it's a lie.

I live just two hundred miles north in Romania and we have our own communities here - bigger even. The reason they don't get hired is because it is always a gamble doing that. They either steal or avoid work whenever possible. Most criminal gangs are by gypsies and most stealing, prostitution or begging in Europe is done by gypsies that left our country or from Bulgaria. Sadly, the entire Europe thinks of Romanians as thief's or beggars due to these people. Don't believe me? Here's a list with some videos them at (work):

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a03ln9aSSk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqZYCVOgZI
- https://youtu.be/jgv2DPUItTY?t=660
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivpxPKzGm4
- https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1229612137060364
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bji47dgDLe4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhfuaGQhGr8
- ...hundreds more but you get the point

I know you can find videos about thief's on almost any nation out there but, you have to live in one of these countries to be able to talk on the subject. Here's a diva getting booed on the stage for trying to suggest we're discriminating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PymLiIBgQ9g

We are not racist towards them. Most of the educated and working gypsies have no problems in our country and I would never have issues hiring one - I've hired many designers or programmers but I never had one gypsy come for an interview.

I have some very good friends among them but, the vast majority, it is being raised without education or with the general idea that money should be made by whatever means necessary and the "BEST" examples in their communities are always the worst by any other standards other than their own.

As a conclusion, stop trying to point fingers at us for not doing what we can to integrate them because they DON'T want to be integrated. Period! They just don't.

Our countries do not have to climb. We can't drag them. When they left for France a few years ago you all captured them and sent them back with buses. Each Gypsy received 100 euro for going back to Romania - that's how you climb?
Deng shepherded economic reforms critical to China's success after it was left in dire straits by Mao.

What Xi is doing now, such as halting major IPOs because of perceived criticism from successful CEOs, is more akin to Mao's sensitive nature than Deng's economic leadership.
> The authors repeatedly note the widespread inadequacies of the current research landscape.

This is standard language in academic research papers. It is there to sell the importance of the research to the reader, in particular to journal editors or peers who review the article. It is mere puffery.
I understand that I am some random guy on the internet, but I've also spent a lot of time in Afghanistan (weird coincidence here, believe me or don't believe me) implementing two way satellite systems, and still work professionally in expensive two way satellite systems. I also happen to be a person who's been doing network engineering for ISPs since 1996-1997 or thereabouts, and currently has business cards that read "Senior Network Engineer" on them. I'm not willing to give up anonymity here, but ask a specific two way satellite technology question and I'll be more than happy to answer.

As a note there were lots of people buying and installing cheap COTS 1.2-1.8 meter size ku band vsat terminals at all sorts of military sites in Afghanistan for MWR purposes, it's not rocket science or really hard to do at all. This stuff was, and is, all kept air gapped and separated from anything that is a real DoD or ISAF/RS network. These were networks for peoples' own personal recreational internet and entertainment in their rest time. You absolutely would see weird latency, jitter, packet loss behavior on those.
Lived in one, now a resident in the other, Austin's downtown doesn't even compare to the downtown of the other major cities in its own state, if you even only talked about public transit. Going east to west is a nightmare of transfers, going north to south (in non-COVID times) is a nightmare of sitting on either Guadalupe for an hour to go two miles or sitting on Lamar for an hour to go two miles. And that's IF your CapMetro bus is running on time that day.

You'll do marginally better driving your own car if you catch that section of Guadalupe going south right at the perfect time when the lights slowly cascade to green as you approach Riverside.

(Course the tradeoff here in Chicago is looping the block endlessly looking for a parking spot, but in non pandemic times, I'd trade the CTA for CapMetro in a heartbeat)
I'm being downvoted, but I don't understand why. I said it CAN be treated as a bug in the documentation, not that it SHOULD or MUST be.

Edit: more downvotes, on this comment asking for feedback, rather than providing feedback. O_o
In the absence of US leadership in the region it was only a matter of time before some other treaty came into being.
1. There is no clear evidence as to which side initiated that conflict.

2. There were casualties on both sides. “Chinese soldiers kill our people“ You made it sound like Chinese soldiers killed civilians. Do you have any credible sources to back up your claim?
"And what if you have things you don't know?" I usually find stuff out in the middle of work - a question comes up I don't have an answer for, and many times, no one else does either. In effect, no one can estimate it, but we didn't even know that up front. And... I've often hit things where the time to give an 'accurate' estimate takes more time than the actual work effort. Is that common in your "limit everything to 3 weeks" world?
Wow. Even NHS won’t cover off-label that works?
I am from NZ. We know nothing about this. Done in secret.
Like the plans to encrypt iCloud backups.
Unfortunately half of this article is factually incorrect. It’s also not new in Big Sur.
Important to note: this isn't from early 2020 where the death toll in the US was still in the thousands, this is from 2 days ago.

I don't know where my line is for supporting de-platforming but it's somewhere before actively spreading dangerous disinformation.
I'm sure all these countries would do trade deals with the US if the US had a deal-maker leader who ascribed to the philosophy of win-win.
I have same problem. It’s 100% with Slack (and I suspected because Electron) but only occasional with Zoom and rarely with Firefox.
One thing that jumps out is that the whole Palantir triumvirate has decided to bail out of CA at the same time. I've seen this type of thing happen very often: company makes it big, there's a huge pot of money, founder has made plans about a year in advance and has already established domicile in a tax-free or low-tax jurisdiction, such as FL (very popular because of the lifestyle that is possible there) and TX. In this case, Joe Lonsdale is in TX, whereas his cofounders are also out of SV, with one in New Hampshire (Alex Karp) and another in LA (Peter Thiel, who also has citizenship in NZ). I wonder if the other founders of this company have also bailed.

Even if most of what's written in the article is true, I feel that the motivations of this set are pretty clear: save tax money on what is clearly a huge payday.
> the rate of petty crime rivals that of the most dangerous cities in america

Correction: SF has nation-leading levels of property crime, a leaderboard dominated by west coast cities. The US cities with highest violent crime rates have comparably low property crime. Which makes sense: Property crime is riskier in those places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZYSapFCg4A
There's a difference between a difference in ideology and spreading actual and dangerous misinformation.

Whether or not spreading misinformation on the internet is justification for removing someone might be up for debate, but let's not pretend it was just because they disagreed with the "big tech" company that is wordpress.com
Misinformation is dangerous to trust. If your opinion is that there should be no arbiter of "wrongthink" you're saying that misinformation is OK, even if it says things like "ebola is made up by white folks" (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/fighting-ebola-hard-...) or "vaccines are fake and cause autism" and people die because of your stupidity.

I miss the days where "common sense" or "simple logic" wasn't labeled as some ideological "wrongthink." We _literally_ can't do business with each other being locked down because people in the US are being stupid about managing COVID-19. Don't blame "business culture."
Bit of a catch 22. We can’t understand it if we arent allowed to play with it but we can’t play with it without understanding it?

The potential good that can come out of this drastically out weighs the bad.

Unless you’re a pacifist vegan, I find such thinking deeply hypocritical.
My doctor insisted on CoQ10 - Ubiquinol, not Ubiquinon if possible.
Yeah, you got all the tech ready to go and become China's social credit system. People are already using it as it is mandatory. What is stopping the Government actually from doing it more "evil", perhaps in the name of counter-terrorism, saving the children, or something like that.

I do not know, it reeks of anti-privacy and it is dystopian to me. There are many ways of convincing people to wear a mask.

Regardless, my entire family tested positive. No symptoms.
Something an individual doesn't know doesn't mean it's done in secret.
Packet loss on an oversubscribed tdma, contended, shared access cheap VSAT system is a result of too much traffic and not enough pipe. For an analogy think of a big office sharing a 5Mbps DSL line. A properly implemented dedicated geostationary link doesn't have packet loss except under sun transit events, extreme rain fade (for ku and higher bands), and when too many people try to stuff too much traffic through too narrow of a link without appropriate QoS.

From the point of view of an end user on a LAN at a site dependent on two way satellite it may not be possible for them to determine exact why they're seeing packet loss.
Trying to convince someone to use an OS seems so pointless. People who care about it already have strong opinions on the topic and everybody else just uses whatever comes with the machine they decided to buy.
> CTH is one place which never puts out any info without hard evidence to the documents which prove their case.

They have whole posts like https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/13/steve-cortes.... Of course, this just isn't a thing![1] But people seem to believe it is because it is presented as fact.

I guess they (or you) will argue they just pass along false rumours and that isn't their fault. But if they claim to be something that deserves any kind of protection against deplatforming then surely they can't just be a spam mill?

People spreading falsehoods deserve limited protection IMHO.

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-there-were-not-9500...
Here's an argument:

Each social media site imposes its own filter bubble.

If you combine together a bunch of social media sites for consumption, you hit more different bubbles, and thus get more variety in the speach.

Adding new sites with different rulesets then makes freer speach on the whole, even though each platform is not very free on its own
A lot of speculation over Ant IPO but I doubt that it is personal rather than a systemic risk posed by Ant group. Besides not long after Chinese government announced anti trust initiative against tech companies. Not only Ant group is affected.
> Do you think Facebook would be a useful product if predatory posts or rampant advertising were allowed?

...do you think it's not allowed?
> Sometimes it's also people not bothering to read the documentation.

Yes, sometimes it is.

> As a maintainer it's also your right to develop a tool just for yourself, and share it for the world. In which case, documentation is not necessarily the priority. And it's fine.

Absolutely fine. Although I'll point out that it is usually a lot easier to get documentation PRs contributed than code PRs.
You'll find lots of racists, homophobes, and idiots at actual country clubs. Not sure what you're trying to argue here, class can't be purchased.
IIRC this is also exactly what happened with IBM and original PowerPC Macs way back in 2005 that prompted the switch to Intel and x86.

Funny how 15 years out it's the exact opposite now.
Freedom of association is a right covered by the 1st Amendment as interpreted by the US Supreme Court.

You have a right to go to the Town Square and voice your views if people want to listen, you don't have a right to do the same in a Wendy's.
I believe deplatforming is sometimes worth it (e.g. child porn, presidential candidates incorrectly claiming they won an election on election night). I personally wouldn't feel the need to deplatform this site, but I guess it's wordpress's call/right.

Fortunately for them, it should be fairly easy to migrate to a self-hosted wordpress intallation.
That's wrong. In this case, as with the iPod, the tech enables a dramatically better user experience. Compared to existing satellite ISPs you get dramatically better latency and dramatically faster/easier setup (no professional installation required, plug and play in 5 minutes). It's also likely to be far cheaper if you actually transfer a decent amount of data, and early tests seem to show better reliability in poor weather as well.

It's even better than DSL and some wireless ISPs or 4G hotspots with marginal connections, which are probably the main competition for Starlink.
and here I always thought the answer was Adderall
Video itself: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tYLZL4GZVbA&t=13m40s

Alito's comments begin at 15:40
It doesn't use HttpClient under the hood. So, it can't make use of DelegatingHandlers. Polly is build on DelegatingHandlers. They're incredibly useful.

RestSharp is old. It's from a bygone era when making Http requests in .NET looked very different.

You'll find Refit or Flurl are also easy to use but are a significant upgrade due to being able to use HttpClient.
This is not a diagnosis, but you should evaluated by a professional for PTSD.
I used figures from a hobby turboprop which gives mechanical power output in kilowatts (or horsepower, if you prefer) and it’s basically independent of velocity.
> That does happen, but many including the biggest tech companies found a clever way around it. Via a combination of ultra-low interest bearing bond sales and share repurchases. It does the same thing but avoids those taxes. So there's no incentive for profit retention on net.

The loans allow the money to be transferred back into the domestic entity, but there are then restrictions on issuing more in dividends or buybacks than you have in profits, and borrowing isn't considered profit. So they can get the money back into the US and use it for wasteful empire building but they can't give it to the shareholders -- it makes the problem worse.

And buybacks have more advantageous tax treatment than dividends but they're still taxed as capital gains on the difference between the price you bought the shares and the price you tender them for, which doesn't happen if the money stays inside the corporation.

> Part of going into business is accepting risk, including systemic risk. That's why the corporate veil exists and it's generally positive for the overall economy when weak businesses fail. A strong business would have an operating model that can withstand such risk.

You're using two incompatible definitions of weak. In the first case you want weak businesses to fail because they're inefficient, i.e. they're consuming more resources than they produce and go bankrupt. In the second case the business fails because there is a situation resulting in a temporary loss of revenue (shutdowns) but the business still has operating expenses (e.g. rent) and is too efficient to have enough slack to bridge the gap. The inefficiency wasn't caused by the business occupying space it couldn't use, because at the time nobody could use that space -- the loss was a sunk cost to society at large.

If you let them fail then when the temporary situation ends there is greater market concentration because the leanest companies failed, which allows the remaining ones to charge higher margins due to the reduced competition to the detriment of their customers or suppliers.

> I'm surprised that opportunity costs of capital allocation are ignored when defending bailouts. They introduce market inefficiency and reward complacency.

This is why "bailouts" should be distributed uniformly without regard to risk of failure, e.g. through lower interest rates or fixed sum payments to everyone. Then you're not rewarding the most precarious companies because they get no more than anyone else, but you still prevent them from failing. Meanwhile those in a stronger position can use the money they received to increase investment or consumption, which is what you want in a down economy anyway.

> In principle, yes. In reality, most markets are not competitive to that degree.

It still works like that in practice much of the time. Blockbuster's product wasn't as good as Netflix and now they're gone. GM's product wasn't as good as competing ones and it led them into bankruptcy. Blackberry, Sears, RadioShack, Circuit City, AOL.

It could happen more than it does, but it still does.
Italian police use Lamborghini to transport donor kidney 300 miles in two hours
I'm not sure I'll ever need this but this is really useful for the times I get stuck in a situation. Thanks for writing this.

I bet we couldn't find this information consolidated in a single place anywhere on the internet.

This would also be useful as a blog post (if you have one and have the time).

Thanks again!
I feel like at this point you have to be actively ignoring the facts.
I developed painful gout at 40. Now 10 years later, I hardly ever have any pain at all.

Lots of research link gout to different makeups of gut bacteria:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20602

And I certainly changed my diet over the past 10 years, and my gut bacteria has become more diverse and presumably more healthy as a result. I've verified this through various stool tests and 3rd party microbiome trackers over the years (uBiome, Thryve)

I don't want to get into pseudoscience or offer anyone advice, but I can tell you that my experience with increasing specific bacteria that increase butyric acid within the gut has seemed to work for me. In theory, one could do this by eating butyrate promoting foods such as almonds, apples, barley, kiwifruit, and more, or take a bifidobacteria-enhancing fiber such as GOS.
I recommend reading that Norris Number article. It is very interesting in terms of describing walls you hit at various code sizes, and it matches my experience. I've been thinking in similar ways, although in "complexity" rather than lines of code.

I think the whole "10×" programmer debate makes more sense when considered in context of Norris Numbers. If the task is on one side of the complexity wall, both programmers perform roughly the same. But if the task is on the other side, one programmer will flounder around while the other will succeed, resulting in the fabled 10× performance.
> To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks

Apple has a really strong brand. If this was from Google or Facebook, there’d be angry mob about how dear they logged IP in the first place.