skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not hard, it just takes a long time, which costs $$$. That's why it's very very unlikely to be sponsored, because no CPG company is going to spend 100k to commission a writer to spend several months working on an art piece. Except maybe Red Bull, but this isn't about Red Bull.
This is why I like the idea of plan 9 and file servers which provide a standard system wide interface to a thing such as a chat protocol. There is/was (cat and mouse) a discord file server which allows you to use any text handling interface such as a shell window or text editor as a chat client. There is also an IRC file server which does the same and acts as a bouncer giving you a persistent connection. So you can have a single acme window open writing code, chatting on irc and discord while checking email and composing an email. It's all text so treat is as such. Wild stuff.
Beam is a register based VM that's probably used more than LUA.
> A first indication of this is seen in Figure 1a which shows a kernel density estimate of the distribution of productive assets pooling all wealth classes. The distribution is bimodal, with a mass of households around 0.25 and 6.5, and hardly anyone in between.

This is an important result in understanding how to get people out of poverty in undeveloped countries, but I suspect it won't translate well to industrialized countries like many in the comments are suggesting. The key result seems to be dependent on the bimodal wealth distribution. (Giving a cow to someone in the lower bucket was enough to push her into the next bucket.) Income distributions from industrialized countries look like the cleanest log normal distributions you've ever seen, so there just isn't evidence of a great repulser in higher income countries that you could push poor people over like they do in this study.

Caveat: They imply that income and consumption are bimodal, but never plot them, only wealth. Wealth is notoriously hard to measure, and I can only find good histograms of income for the USA. Income and wealth should track each other, at least over a log scale, but I am not comparing exactly the same thing.
I normally agree with this kind of skepticism but doesn't it obviously reduce the number of metal particles by exactly the amount of material that you converted to be made of wood?
I'm exactly the same! I wrote a script [0] to convert the firefox json to a markdown file which I filter and put on my website [1]

[0]: https://github.com/Uzay-G/garret
[1]: https://www.uzpg.me/attic.html
I'm located in NoVA and I've noticed this as well. It seems like instead of having the option "Avoid Tolls" it needs to be "Avoid Tolls when I have to Pay".
Not a dumb question at all!

To keep the site as lightweight as possible, I only use CSS to enable dakr mode. This is done by using prefers-color-scheme.[1] So you can only enable dark mode by enabling it either on your computer/phone on in your browser.

Please let me know if you've any more questions! :)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
So there is 3,600 piles of precious metals floating around up there. How long before someone builds a space drone to snare that bounty?
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/24/health/covid-nurses-big-m...

https://work.chron.com/salaries-changed-nurses-23316.html

I don't understand your skepticism.

edit: corrected wrong second link
It is a bit telling those were the best reasons they could think of for lack of adoption. Just "ignorance".

Not we thought that maybe specifying a DSL rather than a library would leave our users and clients in a state of having to banadage over the constraints of a DSL that doesn't handle future use cases, like say dealing with control flow in a half-assed YAML based language, I'm looking at you Ansible.

I don't want MAKE, or whatever DSL, I want to be able to drop into a real programming language when necessary. So libraries. Not frameworks, Not DSLs, libraries.

And thankfully, it seems the world agrees with me.
Warren Buffet likes trains for oil transportation:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvamxw/warren-buffett-really...
You're welcome! :-) Thanks for the kind words!
In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility - as well as introduces a middleman (the redistributors that steal/war/lie/oppress), corruption, politics, and extreme inefficiencies. You keep harping on the US, but it is one of - if not the most - upwardly mobile societies in history. One of my favorite anecdotes is how the 'unclassy american tourist' is a product of us being the first society to afford sending our middle/lower-class abroad for fun. And I'm proud of that.
So do what smart cities do and make the livable space larger with efficient public transit.
Thanks for the kind words, everyone! They mean a lot!
It's difficult for me to believe this observation is being trashed so hard.

No, meritocracy likely is not the best system. It just happens to be better than the others we've tried at scale so far-- including attempting to give everyone the same opportunities regardless of ability. What else is being described there, if not communism? What am I missing?

The real underlying problem is that we are strongly predisposed to naturally arrange into hierarchies. That's not something you're going to take out of people. When you try, they spontaneously form their own. In a system where you say you're giving everyone equal opportunity, people will still pursue acquiring power over others, and will try to hold on to it when they get it. We aren't likely to stop this behavior, and if we do, at that point I'd argue we would essentially be a different species.
A year ago I would have agreed, but I am now more optimistic. They recently launched a huge update for Canada that has made it competitive with Google Maps, and their "Look Around" is a lot more impressive than Street View in my experience with it.

Like the article states, the pace of their updates is increasing. While it may still be a while until they support the rest of the world, the fact that somebody there seems to finally understand people use iPhones in places other than the Bay Area is promising.
Move to Afghanistan. It is a libertarian's paradise.
Well, nobody knew which new features would work out. I think looking back the bet on features that would pay off in saner network architectures are still quite defensible and some will likely pay off in the future when we move on from the dual stack norm.
I'm always around! :D Thanks for the kind words! Much appreciated!
Ant Considers Holding Company with Regulation Similar to Bank, Sources Say
Very useful, nice work.

I find your HackerDaily comment section much more difficult to read compared to standard HN. I think it's because Hacker News indentation is larger (with upvote/downvote arrows), and standard HN uses almost the entire width of my 4K display (which makes almost every comment only 1 or 2 lines long), compared to your website which has a narrow column so wraps each comment into many paragraphs (which makes it harder to view the comment tree in a compact way).

I'm sure other users prefer the narrow column view, so take my feedback with a grain of salt.
That is coming soon!
The conclusion of this study is that people above a certain wealth threshold are able to accumulate wealth while those below a certain wealth threshold cannot.

The authors argue that sufficiently large, time-limited assistance to these people can bump them over the threshold to where they can start accumulating wealth.

Note that this study was about rural villagers in Bangladesh and other such extremely impoverished populations, so stretching the conclusions to middle class people in the US is an extreme abuse of the study conclusions. However, it’s not hard to imagine that giving similar time-limited boosts to people such as funding free public college opportunities could help more people achieve the middle-class stability noted above.

However, it’s clearly not entirely a matter of external intervention. Some of the life choices require active participation of the people involved, such as choosing to delay having children (in conjunction with good access to birth control and reproductive education) and choosing to engage in the educational opportunities available to them.
Suppose that I create a valuation measure by taking the yield on my bond, and “correcting it by for interest rates” by subtracting out bond yields. Now, that seems ridiculous, but it’s very close to what’s going on when people try to “adjust” stock market valuations for the level of interest rates and use phrases like “fairly valued” and “attractive.” When both assets are at extreme valuations, this comparison, at best, says only that the dismal expected return on one asset is expected to exceed the really dismal expected return on the other asset.

https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc201220/
>In Russian and Ukrainian vogzal means "train station" because there was a famous train station in Vauxhal

You can't be serious. Post proof.
"It is the hereditary nature of wealth which is the largest contributor to long-term inequality."

This is not true, because when you don't have hereditary nature of wealth, there is no wealth. Why would you be motivated to accumulate wealth?

Economically you want people to save money and invest, when there is no target to have wealth, people will over spend.

Spending means economically staying at same level as population, not improving.
It's not just about "rewarding", or giving out high paying position to who we want to.

There are real and difficult things to do in the world that some other people need. They (employers, clients, customers) decide that this work is so important to them that they exchange money for it.

Then the person can use that earned money to improve their life.

For example if a top surgeon flies to a different country to do a difficult operation, I'd want them to be able to enjoy a relaxing VIP lounge, bigger legroom and direct taxi. Rather than flying low cost and standing in the bus for 3 times longer than the taxi ride.

We want to allocate resources to people who accomplish important things for us. Not just as reward or motivation, but in our own interest, we invest in the most capable and competent to have more of our stuff taken care of.

Jobs aren't just about sitting in a chair and taking cash and we just pick who gets to sit in which chair to enjoy that cash. It's doing things. And we want those things to be done well.

This is the idea behind meritocracy. Not that we praise people for their genetics.

I'm not saying this is how it works currently, just that this is what we mean by meritocracy that we should move toward.
There are failed collectibles of crypto world.

Desire to own any collectible thing decreases with the value of given collectible. At least in most collectors.
Their parents likely spent effort (in assortive mating, proper nutrition, early stimulative interactions, etc.)

You could call placing 99 green balls and 1 red ball into a bin and picking out 2 green balls a “lottery”, I suppose.
Resistance to fraud you say? Almost as if that’s a feature! ( of the crazy internet money ledgers)
How is this different from https://news.ycombinator.com/front ?
Money is an instrument for transferring wealth. The reason you need it at all is because the barter system is incredibly inefficient. If buying things off of Amazon with bitcoin is quicker, cheaper, safer than using my Amex, I'm happy to link my bitcoin wallet to my Amazon account and use that instead.

But that isn't what people are talking about, they are talking about investments. The only reason to move investments over to bitcoin is if you think that you are getting in at the beginning of a pump and dump scheme.
I'm not suggesting we should have absolute equality but is system we have in place really merit-based?

Last I checked, about a fourth of millionaires inherited their wealth and the vast majority had the opportunity to become wealthy due to factors completely out of their control (where they were born, to whom they were born and natural cognitive abilities).
I am exactly in the same boat with you, even if I don't have children yet.
Excellent hiking routes in Estonia:
https://www.loodusegakoos.ee/where-to-go/hiking-route
A type can't implement its own 'and' and 'or' operators. (Probably because it is non-obvious how to handle their short-circuiting behaviour.)
This is an insanely good article, thank you for sharing. Must've take a ton of time for the author to put this together.
Pierre Cardin has died
Basic r/K selection. We're a K-selection species: we have a few offspring and we invest our resources in them quite heavily, like most mammals, and the higher the mammal, the bigger the investiture.

As such, your suggestion is quite literally against human nature. We're not insects. This is the usual trap for people with Big Ideologies: they assume that we're all these tabula rasa entities onto which anything might be written (and should be).
Instead of ‘supremacy’ use ‘quantum advantage’
This is a lot of odd, complex moral statements used to denounce a comparatively simple and separate idea, that wealth should be distributed somewhat more fairly. Inequality is going to persist in other areas and probably even in financial areas, but that doesn't make taxes robbery.
> I don't think anyone thought that was impossible from a technical standpoint, just from a decentralization standpoint.

That's the same thing and it makes zero sense. Most people never sync with the chain and those that want to only need bandwidth far less than watching a low res youtube video. Validating blocks is at least 600x faster than real time on a computer from last decade. I would love to hear how you can rationalize a statement like that. I watched people repeat this for years and when asked for explanations never saw anyone come close to something coherent.

> source?

Here he is denying evolution and claiming the sun revolves around the earth:

https://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?p=203752&sid=...

Here he is claiming that slavery is only "discouraged".

https://np.reddit.com/r/DebateAChristian/comments/4q2cej/why...
Why limit Elon Musk - who is arguably ensuring the long-term survivability of our species - for some arbitrary target like absolute equality? Why is a powerful bureaucrat with no money more desirable to you than a rich entrepreneur that had to prove his value before attaining reward? What is wrong with the youth have little-to-no savings and the elderly/about-to-retire having significant wealth and assets?
Well, if you want a redistributive tax policy then the biggest change would be to make sure dividend taxes are lower than capital gains taxes.

The problem with capital gains is that they can be driven by bubbles. During bubbles investors buy a stock because the stock went up instead of looking at how the company is performing. It's a self reinforcing feedback loop because foolish investors attract even more foolish investors. A lot of those foolish investors are retail investors who are often behind when it comes to information and they often just follow the news. Think of shoeshine boys giving stock tips. They are not only late to buy but also late to sell so they buy during the peak and sell after the crash.

The easy fix is to increase capital gains taxes because it significantly decreases the gains from bubbles. At the same time dividend taxes should be decreased because you cannot "fake" dividend payments. Paying out a dividend reduces the market cap of the stock by the total dividend payments because it is merely distributing its income to investors. Even if the company borrows money to pay dividends its balance sheet will show X million debt and thereby reduce the value of the company by the value of the total dividend payment. This is equivalent to not borrowing money in the first place.

It also encourages companies to actually invest into improving their income rather than playing stock market games with short sighted policies to boost their value. This is something central banks are currently struggling with because they hand out money like crazy but don't see anyone do anything with the money.
Nice, I was only familiar with the twitter version https://twitter.com/php_ceo
My friends run this company. It’s real, and it works pretty well.

You can use it for medical imaging which is pretty useful when looking at eg a tumour in the brain.
Why immediately jump to such a conclusion?

The paper being discussed talks about there being a threshold under which someone might be in a poverty trap. Would simple subsidies and programs to support children's economic future suffice, such as some of the policies advocated for by American progressives?

(Of course, this would require taxes or some other source of funding, but doesn't require confiscation of all inherited wealth)
If you don't care, as you claim, then just use the new word. It isn't hard. You wouldn't be fired for using the word blacklist. At most, someone would consider gently suggesting using "blocklist" or something like that. If you continued to use blacklist, apparently to demonstrate some sort of thesis, you would eventually be asked to articulate this thesis. After being unable to do so without sounding like a petulant child, your coworkers might think less of you and maybe you would not be promoted or moved to a different team or something.
Neat little resource! My personal favorite is https://myhikes.org which is an independent hiking site similar to this, but focuses mostly on northeast public lands in the US.
Wegmans is a no-go where I live, thanks to an old 'handshake agreement' between the Wegman and Golub families, in that there would be no overlap between Wegmans and Price Chopper territory. :(

I'll have to check Hannaford and Shoprite instead.
so you did not care about the content of the DNC campaign mails? And you are asserting an order of events that hasn't be established... is that what ran in your mind?
Those “born on first base” — in upper-class families, with inheritances up to $1 million — make up 22 percent of the 400.[1]

I wouldn’t call 22% of the richest 400 people in the world having inherited more than $1M to be evidence inheritance dominates the causes of inequity.

I mean, another way to put it is “80% of the richest people in the world DID NOT inherit their wealth.”

[1] https://ips-dc.org/the_self-made_hallucination_of_americas_r...
Show HN: Every day a piece of Classic Art in your email
Looks interesting. Along with the other software mentioned here I hope it is ok to plug Easy Data Transform[1], which is also written in C++/Qt. It can read and display CSV, fixed width, JSON, XML and Excel data files. But it also has extensive capabilities for visually transforming data (join, filter, sort, interpolate etc) without programming[2]. It is commercial software for Windows and Mac[3] with a free trial.

[1] https://www.easydatatransform.com

[2] With the option to use Javascript or regex, if you need it.

[3] Not enough demand for a Linux version, so far.
It was definitely inconvenient as a portable. It was sheer fantastic novelty.

> Gunstar Heroes

I was so close to listing that game as a bullet point in its own right.
I had the same reaction - Silicon Valley is not Bangladesh. I am moving my comment below to you.

Hans Rosling (RIP) did a great job of defining poverty and visualizing the changing nature of poverty. His area of focus was on child mortality - so it tended to focus on the mothers since they have the greatest impact on this statistic. Later he focused on other areas. Sanitation, water, transportation etc.

https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/?countries=bd

At the Bangladesh level of poverty, a productive asset is a goat that produces milk. The Heifer Project is doing useful work in giving low income families productive assets. https://www.heifer.org/

Finally there is the whole world of micro loans. I have not looked into this as much.
If I catch myself talking too much I sometimes make a joke or something and make a point out of muting myself until someone asks me something directly.

Still I think there's room for more: I'm not that interesting, it just seems that many people want someone to say something.
I guess it depends a lot on how you learn. I've learnt almost everything I can do reasonably well by "sitting down and doing it".
The same goes for making music, sitting down, hitting keys, and bit by bit, some simpleton version of Für Elise comes out, then looking at the sheet music, seeing a link between the sounds I'm making and the symbols.. Seeing that there are symbols that don't fit with what I'm playing, trying to hit more notes, find out that those in between is why my version sounds simple, learning to hear those new notes, and just iterate endlessly.
Are you suggesting you'd kill someone if they tried to tax you slightly more highly? Or if they took some of your child's inheritance according to a means tested solution? That is very weird.
There are already denoising and upscaling neural nets being used to reduce the cost of ray tracing.

Lighting in games is also benefiting from sparse voxel based global illumination.

GPUs are very efficient at pushing triangles and the tooling and skill to build meshes is well established. Games like Teardown are showing alternative ways but when development time and budgets are so tight most games will use what’s there rather than risk new technologies.
just contribute to jupyter
There's competing theories but all come from Vauxhall. Either train station or gardens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall#In_the_Russian_langua...
This looks like a cool project. Here's a bit of feedback / thoughts I'm having related to a similar project, Archivy [0].

The problem I have with these type of solutions is basically the time it takes to just quickly bookmark. Browsers bookmarks are built-in, and do this pretty well - it's just one button next to the search bar.

Solutions like these are a bit more limited as they aren't embedded into your browser UI, so you have to open a new website and paste the link in. This mere effort adds a layer of complexity which can kind of turn the user off to bookmarking.

I wonder how this issue can be solved, in my project and yours... Maybe browser extensions can provide a more native experience with less "content to bookmark" time spent.

Sync is another way to kind of counteract this -> people use normal browser bookmarks or whatever they prefer - and then there are options to sync them to your software for better organization / whatever your functionality is.

However, hand-coding all of these integrations is difficult and that's why building a framework of plugins [1] so users can work and distribute these integrations themselves, is in my opinion, essential.

[0]: https://archivy.github.io
[1]: https://archivy.github.io/plugins
Sure, but do the challengers have real time traffic prediction? [0]

[0] https://deepmind.com/blog/article/traffic-prediction-with-ad...
Adult education is shit for poor people and many people had enough of education when getting out of school/university.

We need to show people that life long learning can be fun and we have to make it affordable.

Even in Germany, were studying is essentially free, poor people have to stay in bad jobs because they couldn't afford to pay their rent when getting a degree.
Probably a long time. Anyway, language changes! Sorry to inform you that the dictionary which existed the year you were born was only a descriptive record, not a prescriptive tome crystalizing the language forevermore. What a burden this must be for you!
Writing Web Server in Python: Sockets
At that level of realism there are much more efficient attacks

https://i.imgur.com/lkUV5Mf.jpg
Famous chlorine train incident:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graniteville_train_crash
Does this mean that poverty, in the first world at least, is a solved problem and being poor is a choice for those remaining in poverty?
To be honest, I don't remember the ghosting. I do remember the ghosting on the Game Gear, so if it was even marginally better on the Nomad I probably overlooked it.