skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usufruct makes this a difficult & poor measure, also.

Even well-off (but far from wealthy) people - think contractors on say USD$200-500k / year - can architect their financial arrangements via a Pty Ltd / LLC to minimise on-paper income as well as expenditure.

Enjoying full use of an asset to which you, personally, have no ownership and no cost of maintenance, confounds assessments of this demographic all the way through to the private-jet crowd.
I think the comparison to 1928, and 2021 may be incorrect.

If we were to assume they're both very similar, there would have been a bailout of banks around 1916 leading to QE and the rise in tide after. There was even a pandemic + war around 1918, so a crash should have occurred around then.
And the "fundamental" drivers seemed to have been people buying stocks on credit (now margin) and the easy availability of credit. I don't really see the easy availability of credit now, except for the stimulus checks, and they're a write-off, not a liability for the gov.

If anything, we're in for another roaring 20's. But we must all buy raincoats in these 20's as we know what came after.

I'm not a historian, nor am I right about many things, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
You can tell Ansible that a package should be removed. You just have to remember to do it. If there was ever a statement in your playbook that a package should be added then you can’t assume it will disappear automatically - you have to tell Ansible to remove it.
I never really understood why Matrix invented their own thing instead of building on an already existing IETF Internet Protocol. Surely an "eventually consistent database" can be built on top of XMPP? It's just message passing.

When evaluating WhatsApp alternatives, this somewhat made me choose XMPP over Matrix. I recently uninstalled WhatsApp, Telegram and LINE (felt pretty good) and now use Conversations with most of my friends and family who were kind enough to try it out. Apparently Quicksy is free in the Google Play Store which is good news because nobody was willing to pay 2.50 EUR for Conversations and installing F-Droid just to install another app was quite a hurdle.
I wonder how much of those shares can BlackRock/etc actually sell. BlackRock has many index funds GME part of so they must hold on to those shares
The new investors magnified the scope of the crisis, they didn't cause it. Even then, restrictions on margin would have stopped a lot of that.
> But what would happen if Signal would ever stop being benevolent?

You fork it.
> extremely abusive content

This phrasing suggests it was probably not even illegal to publish.

What if this content had been something that Google finds politically or commercially disfavorable to its interests, rather than something we would all think is intolerable? What if it _is_ like that?
Yes! Scaling was a nightmare for me on X11 since I have a high resolution laptop screen and then a lower resolution external monitor.
I switched to Sway and scaling, switching monitors etc. was so much simpler and just worked.
Unwelcome on Facebook, Twitter, QAnon Followers Flock to Fringe Sites
I'm somewhat of an oddball in terms of content preferences. Sure, I have Netflix and use it, but during the past 20 years, over 50% of the tv/film content I watch is foreign (I'm American). I keep lists from my favorite countries and ask foreigners what I should be watching. What would surprise me is finding Netflix-like services that curate the best [insert genre].

So far, I've come across MhZ Choice (for EU shows, with subtitles), FlixOlé (for Spanishf films, no subtitles), Wlext (foreign tv shows...pirated). Also, I recommend using a VPN for Netflix to access different shows and films, depending on the country you choose. The other day I found myself watching a Chinese action film that only had Italian subtitles (luckily my Italian is up to scratch).

With music, my tastes are boarderless and timeless. At any moment, I'll put on 13th century Iberian cantigas, Latin motets, folkloric Sardinian, 90's French indie, 1970s Congolese rumba, modern Ivory Coast reggae, South African Xhosa pop, Indian mantras, Peruvian ethno-techno, and the list goes on.

But yes, the plethora of options is, at the same time, wonderful and dreadful. I tried to sit down and start reading a semi-dense physical book the other day and it's like my mind was too fried to focus due to having just got off the internet.
One of the responsibilities of the UK’s Government Digital Service is to review any IT spending by other departments, and are staffed so that in many cases they can implement and support products themselves rather than outsourcing them. My understanding is that other departments are making headway in being allowed to bypass that process, but at their peak GDS were fantastic at shutting down bad projects before they’d sucked up millions of pounds.
> Creative work is currently having its sources of income decimated, from all sides. We should get used to reminiscing.

This is just anecdotal but I see a lot of very niche creative people making money that they wouldn't have made before through YouTube, Discord, Patreon, Gumroad etc.

I think the opposite is true, while in the past it was maybe PayPal there's a lot of ways to make money online that's very approachable for everyone.
Domain expertise is important, but I really struggle to see the 10s of millions of domain expertise at play here.
Vuzix’s new microLED smart glasses look like eyewear you’d want to wear
Option key while choosing the "size" desired in Screen settings. Gives you more options and there's a solution for everyone. I think my resolution is 2640x something on my 4k. Crisp and large enough, although some would find it too small.
Apparent CIA Officer Charged with Sex Crimes Evidently Beat the Polygraph
Because a white woman could not possibly do that job. Facepalm at reverse discrimination.
Indeed, that guy really gets it.

One of my previous employers had a very good software and it sold such software to various other companies around the world. Such software was highly complex and really the top money could buy in the field. A yearly seat for a single user could cost up to around 5-7 k$.

Yet for years the company made most of its money from "installation projects" and "professional services", that is working with the client to understand its needs and implement customisation to the software to make it work well in the customer environment.
WSB just picked up on games that hedge funds have been more or less exclusively been making bank on at the expense of everyone else.
The idea that this debate isn't near constantly happening somewhere in a given university is a bit odd. The problem now is really in the department's that are only tangentially related to the subject of the debate - e.g. the economics departments are usually, even amongst the increasingly rare Marxists, educated well enough to argue for either side but the social sciences and humanities are often definitely overrun with leftists. As you would expect, really, but still.

I do believe that all university students should be required to take part in a debate like this - the side could arguably he random, although practically I'd let the choose. Being able to debate properly is a very useful skill - some people I've met really don't like being debated, so I don't bother, but sometimes you have to. And on top of that it has a nearly capitalistic approach to challenging your beliefs - the argument formed by (say) 50 students vs. another 50 will catch many more people on different hooks than one lecturer.
https://SafeNetwork.tech is thoroughly p2p and doesn't reveal IP addresses because it's designed from the ground up to be decentralised, anonymous and censorship resistant.
Having lots of money = financial independence = no longer being forced to slave away for 40 hours a week.

Money ~= fun.
I suppose you mean "crypto currencies" by "crypto". Usually "crypto" for "cryptography" is the exact opposite of total transparency by being the craft of secret keeping.

But moving past talking semantics .. let's just see what happens when a bunch of crypto currency bubbles burst. Then re-evaluate your statement that people are bot losing their money there. (To be fair, it will happen in the open, and not because of intransparency, which was likely your point.)
If you check their profile you can see they created their account 4 months ago, so they are likely to be new here. No need to be disagreeable to make your point.
The software is free...?
Technology is rarely usurped entirely. I definitely agree that rock throwing in fights still exists, and people will do it when necessary. It's not, however, a primary method of warfare or 1-on-1 conflict... outside of specific circumstances like defending walls. Maybe a situation where one side has armour and swords and the other has numbers. Even then, long term, I'd wager on the the former.

Hunting methods tend to perpetuate. I'm not saying that no one ever hunts birds with rocks. I'm sure many people do. I'm equally sure that very few ever fill the pot this way.

For rock throwing to have shaped our arms from Habilis to Erectus,

A just want to say that I'm not arguing against any core parts of the theory. Hand/thumb articulation. Shoulder biomechanics. Explosive/elastic ability. There's plenty of evidence for that. There are also plenty of alternative ways to theorize how this was useful.

I think rock throwing is the popular explanation because it assumes the least behavioural complexity. It could have been more complex behaviour, like spear throwing. We only have evidence of stone tools because composition. But, I think it's safe to assume that this represents a very small part of the Erectus (even habilis) tool repertoire.

If I had to accept rock throwing, my theory would be "alpha scavenger" behaviour, like brown bears. Rock throwing is be pretty useful for chasing large predators off their kill. This is an extant "hunting" method, stealing from lions. Cultures that still do this (now for cultural, more than nutritional reasons) use nothing but bravery. They walk in, projecting confidence. Lions retreat, at least temporarily. The people cut off a haunch and walk away. A crude stone knife/axe (the one tool we know was widely used) is an essential tool for this. You need to butcher super fast, before the lions regroup and try to recover the kill.

That'd be an evolutionary advantage. Lions & bears do this, but it takes a lot of body mass. If a band of 50kg animals can chase off a pride of 150kg animals or a single 250kg animal... this is very efficient. Usually being alpha scavenger requires a tradeoff: large, calories consumptive body size in exchange for access to calories.

Hard way to make a living, but at least plausible.
FWIW I really liked the name and think it’s creative yet terse and easy to search.
> Most of that support for Meng evaporates when you get attacked by a foreign government for following the rule of law.

This was the message that was pretty relentlessly propagated in the media in Canada, but the reality is that the extradition of Meng Wanzhou has little to do with the rule of law. It's being done because the political and economic relationship with the US is too important to risk. The Chinese government is trying to show the Canadian government that there's a cost to going along with the US when the US tries to take Chinese executives hostage for its trade negotiations with China. From the Chinese perspective, if this extradition goes through without any retaliation, then Chinese executives abroad will be increasingly targeted by the US in order to put pressure on China.

China's attempts to put pressure on Canada have backfired politically. But equally, the Trudeau government was incredibly unwise to allow Meng Wanzhou to be arrested in the first place. They could have done any number of things to avoid being placed in this situation, such as "failing" to arrest her or letting the existence of the warrant leak beforehand. When the US requested that Hong Kong extradite Snowden, Hong Kong rejected the initial request due to supposed minor technical defects, giving Snowden enough time to get on a plane. But now Canada will have to very publicly go against either the US or China.
I think what the author means is that quantum mechanics is:

1. a source of serious debates about what it "really" means for us, with the Schroedinger's cat being the most famous argument (it was appeal to intuition used against the Copenhagen interpretation).

2. Abused as a pseudoargument by proponents of claims like "you can heal other people with the power of your mind". As in: "how can you tell it's impossible? What about quantum mechanics?".
Yes, these are the native code compilers for Java, able to target Apple mobile platforms.

https://www.codenameone.com/

https://gluonhq.com/products/mobile/

https://github.com/MobiVM/robovm
I'm not concerned if other people have more dollars than I do. They are not accumulating wealth at my expense - they are creating wealth. As a byproduct of the wealth they produce, I have nice things like computers and the internet and can work at home and watch an incredible smorgasbord of stuff on TV and push a button and whatever I want gets dropped on my doorstep the next day. I can take MIT courses for free on youtube. Oh, and I get to talk with people all over the world on HN, for free.

Most of the boom is coming from the tech sector, as tech is revolutionizing productivity in all sorts of endeavors. They didn't steal the money from you or I.

I can even buy shares in those tech companies for $0 commission and get a cut of the wealth they create.

We're living in a golden age in the US. Even poor people have a computer in their pocket with instant access to the world's information. How cool is that?
With the internet is is easy to get many people do something for fun - this is the essence of flashmob. It works only as long as there arn't too many serious consequences - because serious consequences throw people off the mood. So it is kind of self-limiting - but there are workarounds - like Quannon and I am afraid the most obvious one is to mislead people about the consequences: https://zby.medium.com/gamestop-capitol-hill-riots-flashmobs...
NumPy 1.20
Ask HN: What to do when ghosted after interviews?
I started a recruitment process with a big company (not FAANG but you'd recognize the name) and all the feedback I received was good.

Then the recruiter ghosted me, I waited 10 days and sent them an email.

It has been a week since, and still nothing.

I have invested a lot of time and energy preparing for these interviews, my only remaining contact would be a direct phone call. But at this point, I'm asking myself if it is even worth it.
Go seems to reliably trigger language wars every time it's mentioned.

It's a surprisingly divisive language. Go users seem to mostly be happy cranking stuff out but a lot of people hate it.

No generics, a culture of "if err != nil", type system not powerful enough, libraries not pure enough, too verbose, etc.
Sounds like poland and hungary today :)
that leaves the problem of p2p being an overlay network and as such not being a solved problem for network operators (especially in wireless networks). http://www.spice-center.org/files/publications/90-305-1-PB.p...
Nominet faces showdown with British internet industry
Thanks a lot! I’ll check these out!

Interesting comment about the math. For my physics degree, a lot of times it was easier to think about things once I understood more of the math. I’ll see how it goes here.
It's not so much that you run out of property, but that you run out of ability to expand your customer base fast enough to see fast growth, and the slower growth capitalists can get from external factors, such as new markets, the more incentives they have to look to internal factors to maintain their competitive advantage.

Ultimately that means addressing labour costs. For an individual capitalist it makes sense to drive labour costs towards zero. But if everyone does it, then their markets shrink unless there are external factors (e.g. UBI or similar) that counters the market-wide effects of their reduction in labor costs.

This is also why UBI is a "liberal" (in the classical, not US sense) policy, and not something the socialist left is very interested in - from a socialist point of view UBI is bread and circus to keep capitalism from imploding.
Are they justifying or explaining?
It is already there,

http://teavm.org/

https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html

Have fun running the Swing and JavaFX demos.

As mentioned on my other comment, it is a matter to care to learn about the tools.
> Digital signal processing is computationally intensive, so you’ll probably need a dual core processor so GRC runs smoothly.

Can someone explain to a radio layperson how come there are plenty of cheap, tiny radios if DSP is computationally intensive.
> generic & enthusiastic evangelism

I'm sorry my post has come across that way. I simply wanted to point out that framing the argument as "Matrix vs $PROPRIETARY_SERVICE" is unhelpful at best.

As an actual user of XMPP who has managed to get (some) of my contacts to join me in this brave old world of federation, I get frustrated when the conversation turns to "Matrix vs $CENTRALIZED_SERVICE_OF_THE_DAY" -- it's a false dichotomy that ignores that fact that 20 years later XMPP is still here and still hasn't died. IRC and SMTP are the only other standards for messaging that can claim that kind of longevity.

Of course XMPP is not perfect. But it's what we have to work with, and throwing our hands up in defeat and crawling back to the centralized platforms that keep letting us down is not the way forward.
I normally don't really care about this, but the controversy over the variation hypothesis is really odd to me - Sexual Dimorphism obviously exists in humans, so why not our brains.

On top of that, the idea that it's somehow anti-feminist is weird, because surely it would mean that for a lot of jobs you'd be better off hiring the woman. A lot of those controversies seem like guttural NIH-syndrome (If it were proposed by a woman I don't think there's be a fuss)
This was indeed what I was getting at! Good to have a Stochastic book recommendation anyway, might also be i teresting. :)
If I asked our procurement team to get me a distributed version-control software to use I'd be given a site-wide license of Perforce before being given git.

So enevitably requirements are tailored to what I want. It seems someone wanted Deloitte, why (and how expensive was the dinner) is another question.
Interesting that you mention that. I grew up with colour TV so I associate black and white with faux retro.
Still not a $44mm problem.
> But the details of how Google screwed up here

They didn't "screw up". Or rather, that's not the main problem. The problem is that Google has the power to block the main channel of distribution of a piece of software.

Now, it's true that you can "just" get Element elsewhere, but the effective user lock-in into a single-corporation-controlled download hub ("app store") - that's the problem. And Google has gotten that quite right... for itself.
If I was to guess the CDC wrote poor specs. Probably never talked at length to a variety of different county health departments to understand their needs. Never had a persona written so they didn't understand the need for IE or that people might be using it on a mobile phone.

Deloitte just coded the spec, cashed their check and walked away. Deloitte probably outsourced development overseas.

I know some smaller government contractors in the D.C area who would have done it for a third as much and done some of the CDC's work for them when they saw that it wasn't done.
Remove specific folders from the results. I stopped using Github Code Search because when i do it get dozens of pages for a match in unit tests and i don‘t find the single results in the real codebase.
Thanks, that is very informative. Could you give a link to the source, or even the grey level range used here? I am trying to reproduce the results, but I an not having any luck unless I change my brightness/contrast to unacceptable levels.
Presumably if you had $10M it wouldn't sit under your mattress but at a minimum would be in a bank generating interest. So you would in fact have income.
I don't think you should fight bad behaviour with a different kind of bad behaviour.

This just increases the overall badness in the world.

Unfortunately I do not know the solution; their product is simply good, and the alternatives are all lacking in some ways.
Building a personal data warehouse in Snowflake for fun and no profit
There is attractiveness inequality, should we post graphs about that too?

It's not the inequality that's problematic and it'll always be there, it's what people do with it.

I'd say we have global stupidity and short sightedness with exceptions here and there and I'm not sure there was ever a time when this wasn't the case.

The obliviousness of the stupid people inhabiting this planet, gravely concerned with getting their bling on asap, no matter the cost to everyone and everything else, is what I'd most like to see gently exposed, comprehended and compensated for. This'll solve most problems for most people, including the stupid ones.
Demand side stimulus.
So I'm a student in medical school that cost $50k per year, so I take out $80k in student loans to pay tuition and living expenses.

Is my $80k in consumption really a good measure of my wealth?
Please don't, it's way to nice to be bound to a single hosting provider.
https://simplabs.com/blog/2020/06/10/the-state-of-pwa-suppor...

Firefox is just making its existence harder by not supporting PWAs.
> Credit Suisse defines “wealth” as the value of a household’s financial assets plus real assets (principally housing), minus their debts.

This definition excludes a whole category of people: Those whose wealth is 0 (or even negative) but they are rich or at least living like rich people. If you own $10m in assets and have $10m in debt, your wealth is 0 but I'm pretty sure you are not poor. What's the percentage of such people in society? This should make inequality even worse.

Then you have a category of people who are not rich on paper but they have access to privileges (ie: government bureaucrats). As bad as inequality on these stats is, I think it's severely under-reported.