skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's crazy, IMO. This view supposes that the workers simply extract wealth from the company, rather than exchanging wealth for their time, which also has innate value to the worker.

Per this view, if a worker worked 100% of their time, they would have achieved their optimum goal of extracting the most wealth possible. But nearly all people who have made that trade would tell you they are depressed, feel run down, and probably think about blowing their brains out on a regular basis.

At some point, the plumber wants to go home, too. Now, maybe it's true that they'll take 1 hour to complete a job at a comfortable rate rather than the fastest-possible rate of 45 minutes, and maybe 4 jobs get completed that day instead of 5 as a result. But it is also true that the 4 jobs may be done with a greater attention to detail. Ever have a maintenance worker track filth into your residence with reckless abandon? What is the value of a more rested, present, and thoughtful worker?

You may argue that for a plumber, there is no value added in that. But I would argue that the value is there, even though the business owner can't extract it as revenue. It is there in the quality of the work, the happiness of the worker, and the happiness of the customer. It makes for a better world, and if you value your employees and customers as people, you'll see that interests are aligned.

All of that said, the economy is a thing. If your business is in a highly competitive market, it's easy to wind up with thin margins in a race to the bottom. But if that's the case, is it not the responsibility of the business management/ownership to either find a way to be competitive short of exploiting workers, or otherwise exit the market and pursue another venture?

At the lowest level, workers will be trained for and work the jobs that are available to them, and the jobs available will be dictated as a function of the the local demand for that service or product. If a small, poorly run, exploitative plumbing company can't find the margins to operate because they are competing with better services, they should cease to exist. The demand will remain the same, and their exit from the market place will result in growth for their competitors, and the jobs will be recreated.

If you are a plumber by trade and run your own plumbing company and can't find a way to exist without exploiting your workers, you should exit the market as a business owner and work for another company. Otherwise, your business isn't plumbing, but exploitation itself.
That seems like a confused way of saying that those who are at least millionaires have 80% of the wealth.

It's much easier for a billionaire to hire lobbyists to protect his latest exploitative venture than it is for some dentist to do so. That's why the 1% held 30% of the total thirty years ago and they hold 40% now. That is a dark trend.
Nah, comments are important and should be in the main field of view. :)
I'm intentionally trying to separate the moral and the mechanical for the purpose of understanding--both understanding the structure of the way the world works and how we can make it better as well as understanding the arguments of those for whom it's ideological.

(See also the sibling comment to your by pdonis.)
>Maybe the government has enough money, maybe it doesn't.

This is exactly the problem I have with this "taxing the wealthy will fix it" arguments.

What happens if it is the latter? What happens if taxing the rich doesn't fix it and actually makes things worse?

>His wealth also gives him disproportionate power to shape the incentives of the government, the economy, and the media narrative.

Disproportionate to what?

>Taxation is the proper remedy for breaking this power.

Why?

>We won't know what's possible until we stop letting barons write the laws.

Again, what if "what's possible" is worse?

Its not some "what if" either, its literally happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_...

Same exact line of thinking too. They figured if they taxed "the rich" they would get more money.
To this day they have probably lost untold amounts because it essentially killed their markets. You would have to do some modeling but all else holding true, they've missed out on decades capital gains taxes that just don't exist anymore because of that FTT.
So we can all assume they will be out of business in 20-30 years? Great. Doesn't sound like a real loss.
>Most have moved them to the corner of the lot in protest b/c people just charge and leave.

What were they expecting...? lol
That would be a more correct view.

In much debate and discussion I see "market value" substituted for "value". Often the implication is a vague one, as withmuch equivocation. pg's argumentventures there.

Keep in mind that Smith, Ricardo, and Marx each commit this error, including in the Smith passage I quoted. So do the Marginalists, or at leaast most of them.

Mariana Mazzucato may be an exception. (I've just discovered her, still going through her work.)

https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_what_is_economic...
> equal representation, of sorts - the things that are being represented are the states, so it is fair, of sorts.

Equal representation of things that aren't the individual citizens is not democracy, and is in fact opposed to democracy; and "fair, of sorts" is orthogonal to democracy.

Yes, democracy is a more convenient term and concept than many of those that might be accurately applied to the Senate, but its not even remotely accurate when applied to the Senate, which is deliberately not merely non-democratic, but actively anti-democratic.

If you want to argue that the design of the Senate is useful or good or fair in some way, go ahead and do that, but don't expect to use "democracy" for that purpose without argument just because its a warm fuzzy word that is more convenient than any word with equally positive general reception that accurately applies to the Senate.
I'd agree with this if Reddit didn't ban literally every single subreddit their vocal minority didn't like. Reddit used to be a fun hybrid of Fark and Slashdot. It was far better than both of those and had a niche audience just a little larger than the HN community. It was great. Now it just feels like a perpetual tumblr ready to silence the reason why their users are even on their platform.
Sometimes snarky dismissals are appropriate. Trying to hold everything to some academic standard of discourse is implausible when we have deliberate bad actors pushing disingenuous arguments that - by this standard - must be repetitively exhaustively deconstructed time and time again.

Expecting that is how you convince a large subset of folks to never bother with said deconstruction, and ultimately let bad ideas roam free and otherwise get adopted by impressionable / gullible minds.

Snark is there to suggest the reader go do their own research.
The car dealerships in a lot of the country are actually convenient to the highway or major state routes - especially as you get into less urban areas.
What about people that record themselves and upload to pornhub? They are not distributors, performers or members of the government... What should they do in your scheme?
It was literally called Dollar a Pound and it's where I got all my clothes as a teenager.
They're coming for the billionaires, and also for the bald.
I had the same experience with the astronomy subreddits.
The Garment District is the part upstairs that has cute vintage / upcycled ... Dollar a Pound is below.
Reddit is an ad/astroturf and politics infested cesspool. I would say it needs to die, but it's already pretty dead in terms of its utility to most people I know.
So just outsource to some company that doesn’t have to follow the executive order! /s
TypeScript makes almost all of those asterisks go away.
Any hints to the mechanism of action for your case? How old are you btw, if you don't mind sharing?
It's not engine oil, they want you to come in for a battery oil change.
Where do you figure these denizen will end up? Discord? It's harder to maintain a discord server than it is a subreddit.
Because they want to get rid of dealerships. ;)
Yep, I've actually had to turn off the new site. Not sure what they are doing, but whenever I use the new skin my browser slows to a crawl and freezes after a few hours of leaving it up.
Not sure why you are being voted down but you are correct about GM doesn’t know how to market Cadillac.

LIt is an iconic name, every US President for the last 70+ years has been driven around in one, yet their ads are so mediocre and their designs are inconsistent.
Only brand GM mangers worse is Buick, which stand for what? The people making the ads have no idea.
But too often the headline is contrary to the article, like this.

The headline suggests some animosity towards electric cars where no such animosity is in evidence.
Academic papers are not hit pieces.
> My naive theory is that clothes are designed to break faster and faster and some older clothes have a quality you can’t find anymore, hence vintage has an aura of good quality old stuff.

Two things going on here. First just the general race to lower prices means you have less material used in most brand's items and it's designed to be manufactured cheaply not to last. Which is different than designing it to break fast. Breaking faster is a side effect of saving money during manufacturing, not the goal.

Second is survivorship bias. There were plenty of junk products in the past but those are already at dumps. The vintage items you see in stores were either high quality in their day or were not used before sitting on a shelf for a very long time.
I really do not enjoy reading man pages though. tldr or —help is much more likely to contain the info I want on the first screen.
I'd like to see the ratio as a percentage of domestic Cadillac sales
What do you think is wordy? It's detailed, but as an occasional editor, I'm not seeing much wordiness. It also makes good use of headers and bolding so readers can skim and skip if they want.

There's definitely imagery, history, and definitions that technically could be cut, but the guidelines would be poorer for it—especially for people with less familiarity with the commandline. I do think they should consider releasing a cheat sheet alongside the full document with just the bolded guidelines.
I understand your sentiment, but in my experience ultimatums are a common negotiation tactic and are rarely "true" ultimatums.

"X is the lowest price I can sell for, take it or leave it" "How about X-10?" "Done"

"I want to read 5 books!" "You can either read one book before bedtime or go to bed now" "How about 2 books?" "Okay, but then straight to bed!"
You have to understand most writing is aimed towards the layman, so they use market price as a proxy.

I hate the term wealth creator as well. But it certainly is possible to create to wealth. If you take things that people don't value that much, use them in a way to provide something that people do value. You have created wealth.
> Thankfully there are some browser extensions to redirect automatically, provided you're comfortable using them:

And if you're not, greasemonkey scripts that do that aren't hard to write. If you know how to code in any language and have a little knowledge of HTML, you can probably bash one together in an hour, even if you don't know Javascript.
You can control for that... "[ ] show ads on reddit third-party apps" and you can also allow advertisers to blacklist or whitelist third-party apps. You can even push a link through to a 5 second ad first if it's a video for example. There's plenty of ways to monetize.
Coinbase ran mongodb for financial math .
> In general, leveraging technology capabilities seems less exploitive than leveraging human/environmental resources.

I see what you're getting at here, but I don't know that I completely buy it. Case in point: privacy. I guess it depends on how one defines exploitive.
Apple and Build quality should not go anywhere in the same sentence.

Take a watch at any of the Louis Rossman's "Think Different" Series to see Apple Build Quality....
> Any other suggestion for lightweight rich JS components that do not require one to buy into Vue, React or other "full-stack" JS libraries?

Depending on your needs, you can sort of use Alpine + server-side templating to achieve this. While Alpine itself has no concept of components, you can define a template fragment that consists solely of the “component” for basically the same effect. Because the x-data directive is freshly evaluated each time it appears, you can include a fragment multiple times and get isolated “instances”.

YMMV though, I eventually found that because templating is much more simplistic than a real tree of components as you would get with Vue or React, things started getting hard to follow, especially when my “components” were nested, or involved approximating slots.

Ultimately I converted to Inertia.js, which is a very small glue library that lets me write the whole front end in Vue (or React, or Svelte) while keeping a more traditional Laravel (or Rails) backend.
>> the average tax rate of the employees in his office was 32.9%

In 2007, 33% didn't kick in until around $200K (married filing jointly) so not bad pay for Omaha.

>> But in reality he's just deflecting from other potential sources of taxes, such as taxing people on wealth vs on income (which someone in his wealth bracket can easily live without).

Given that he has pledged to give away 99% of his wealth either while he is still alive or when he dies, why do you think he is doing that?
Here in Michigan, we have lots of "dealership rows" where I can imagine these being installed. They're technically shopping areas, but they're very car-centric, with 5- or 7-lane 45mph roads with tons of curb cuts and huge parking lots all around. You'll have the dealerships grouped by big franchises, each building doing it's best at giving the impression of separate businesses for imports, one for each of the big 3, a used lot, and a carwash and probably a gas station. The other side of the pedestrian-impassable road may have a mall, a big box store, fast food, or small retailers, and there's probably more a half mile down the road, but there's no sidewalk or safe way to walk there from the dealership.

Some malls making an effort to be more relevant than they were in the 80s have charging spots in their parking lots, that would be a lot more attractive.
> Most have moved them to the corner of the lot in protest

Not much of a protest. Sounds better for both the dealership and the customers.
So, does Cadillac’s pivot to electric (boy they have had quite a few pivots over the past 20 years…) have much to do at all with North America, or is it for China, which is their largest market for Cadillac?
I assume you haven't dealt with Tesla's purchase and service model.
Article also misses the additional aspect is that being a billionaire isn't just about the digits representing your fiat energy. It gives very small groups of individuals large swaths of control in entire verticals of society. A small group of unelected kings directing the energy, housing, food supplies, distribution, town square (etc.), needs of the rest.

It's a poor way of organizing a functioning and well integrated society. One that is only maintained by the continued purchasing of political power. It's an anti-democratic system where the primary distribution of power is determined by birth lottery.

We're in an era of our species and collective intelligence where we can imagine much better ways than this, but for many with that power their primary objective is keeping it.
Should have! Kept refreshing the video feeds.
> I didn't like the way Utah was moving though

Can you elaborate on this if you can spare the time? Genuinely curious...
This worked for me on Chrome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305835
He saw 12 doctors but had double vision until the end...
Yeah, like the material reality where people need to work. Talk about ironic.
OK, I'll step up and say it:

I have no idea what "leverage" means in this text. From context I can tell it's something bad.

I understand "leverage" in mechanics. I also understand that in "corporate-talk" it's just a synonym to "use".
Headlight fluid too I'm sure.

Clearly people missed the joke.
How would DeepMind get any revenue? I thought it was solely for research.
I can't square this with the actual competition results. There are tons of targets where AlphaFold2 didn't score over 70%. It was typically only 10% ahead of the next best program. The metric everyone is looking at, GDT_TS, gives marks for atoms that are within eight angstroms of where they should be - by experimental standards, eight angstroms is a huge miss! There are targets where on some important metrics, like C-alpha RMSD, AlphaFold2 did worse than another program!
FWIW about eight years ago I was involved with a local group that was drawing focus to the young people in our small rural/suburban community that were addicted to heroin. Through the course of a year we had eight of these young adults come and essentially give their addiction testimony.

To a person the story was this:

- high school sports injury

- prescription for oxycodone

- oxycodone dependency develops

- physician cuts off supply

- kids start buying pills in school

- one of their sources introduces them to heroin

Every single one of them. The exact same story. It was unbelievable.

I only say that to say that placing some controls around how you approach the oxy isn't a bad idea. Good luck and I hope you get feeling better soon.
> They required every dealership to install chargers. Most have moved them to the corner of the lot in protest b/c people just charge and leave.

So...its in the most convenient location for the charger users (since they don't fight other dealership traffic) and for other dealership operations (since they don't fight charger users) ... how is this a protest or, for that matter, anything different that what Nissan corporate would most want them to do?
Because then the work wouldn't get done.

Some work still needs to get done. Society won't work if everyone sits on their bum for a year, pandemic or not. Among the jobs which need to be done, however, there are no restaurant workers.
That's quite interesting.

I think people will probably hear that and think poorly of today's more permissive JS, but it's worth mentioning that there wasn't much of a browser security model at that time. Browsers/pages weren't sandboxed, and there was no concept of "Allow site to do X?" like we have now.

This lead to some iffy things with even early JS, such as allowing sites to set the user's homepage just by clicking a link.
>...Typically private enterprise has been against segregation

Unclear why you were downvoted. Another example of this was Plessy v. Ferguson where the railroad worked with a civil rights group to bring the case:

>...On June 7, 1892, Plessy bought a first-class ticket at the Press Street Depot and boarded a "Whites Only" car of the East Louisiana Railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana, bound for Covington, Louisiana.[11] The railroad company, which had opposed the law on the grounds that it would require the purchase of more railcars, had been previously informed of Plessy's racial lineage, and the intent to challenge the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
Our hero!

After reading the headline, I was like "Is it in Australia? He's buying Glen Helen Amphitheater? A RaspberryPi competitor? An AR version of Circuit Cellar?" ..then I started reading and went into full marketing buzzword defense mode until I got to the part about how/why the energy credits and my jaw dropped. So friggin' awesome (yeah yeah, I know we're not supposed to use cuss words like awesome --it's "amazing" here in 2021 rofl)
Still, you managed to add valuable knowledge on your reply I wasn't aware of, regarding the overall topic. thank you for that :)
Hmm... makes one curious. Google either has an AI to rate employees or screen interview candidates.
Some bad PR is worth getting rid of toxic folks that stand in the way of progress.
Vision loss + tinnitus: something that makes getting up in the morning hard to do!

The thrill of being able to restore these two things alone would be indescribable.
> Taxation is the proper remedy for breaking this power.

No, it's one possible remedy, and historically it doesn't appear to have worked very well. The fundamental problem with taxation is that governments are even worse than individual billionaires like Jeff Bezos at choosing what to do with large amounts of money.

Another possible remedy is to reduce the power of governments, so there is less value to be captured by influencing them. IIRC pg recommended this fix in one of his (fairly early) essays.

> We won't know what's possible until we stop letting barons write the laws.

If you think taxation stops this from happening, I have some sad news for you.
Do we keep getting this wrong because of perverse incentives, malice, or just plain stupidity? Was it not expected that clamping down on legal opioids would cause an illegal market to flourish? We've been doing this sort of thing for decades now. We know what's going to happen. No need to do research. There's a mountain of empirical data.

What alternatives were considered? There has to be a better approach.
For dealerships spending $200k on upgrades to support EVs has to be a bitter pill to swallow. Fundamentally EVs are lower maintenance, so that big Capex is going to end up with questionable returns.

Taking the payout would have been an easy choice for many, particularly if they could maintain the rest of their Chevy branding.
> But those are exactly the kind of changes that someone just browsing would be indifferent to, or even appreciate. The images/videos they're scrolling through are now big, front, and center. Many probably don't ever venture into the comments to begin with, of if they do, they're just seeing if the top comment is a good joke or not.

It really depends on the type of consumer. I don't post to reddit anymore, but I'm not looking to consume memes and videos. When I go there I'm almost always looking to consume a comment thread about something (say some weird feature of some motherboard), and the new UI is atrocious for that. I either switch to old or I don't bother with it.
According to Jeff Dean's account of events, yes. According to nearly everyone else's, this process was unusual in that it even involved reviewing for content and not just IP, and Gebru herself says that the website about the process says to submit at least 1 week before publication, not two.
Most likely.

It's not the drug that feels good; it's the respite from pain, and that only by contrast. Lacking that contrast, the drug induces only a profound, if temporary, physical and emotional numbness. It's not pleasurable, because it's not anything; it's as close as anyone alive can get to being dead. Unless that's something you want, you need have little fear of prescription opiates - just as much as is consistent with a healthy respect for, and avoidance of, the risks that come with their benefits.
I'm using a generalization of the mechanics definition of "leverage" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever). A mechanism by which a small input can result in a larger output.
How can someone be expected to know how to code something if they don't understand the basic concept related to the question? The only time I've ever seen an equation like that was in Trig or Discreet math. Both of which were college level courses. None of which were in basic loops or arithmetic I've learned in actual introductory classes. I cannot calculate the area of a circle without a Unit Circle. I'm sorry but that's just incredibly unfair to assume people just remember all the Trig they did like it was yesterday. Trig's easy, but who uses it on a daily basis? Machinists and Architects probably use it far more than we'll ever use it.
There’s no legal requirement to pay severance. That’s just a courtesy most companies do in exchange for a non-disparagement agreement or during layoffs to save face a little.
What is economic value, and who creates it? (2019)