skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Systems in which your skin color is the most important attribute have little space for meritocracy and movement among classes, and create an explosive reservoir of resentment.

Lol. Maybe we are seeing an explosive reservoir of resentment because of exactly that?
What is the "actual argument" then? Gun deaths are... pretty bad. Lumping them in with burglaries on a 1:1 basis seems like poor moral calculus, no?

The point is that perspective matters. You want to treat "crime" as a single thing because it seems like "the actual argument" to you, and when I see that same argument it looks like senseless spin because it's trying to dilute the US's outrageous homicide rate in an analysis by comparing it to burglaries in Amsterdam or whatever.
The solution is so simple, our population growth rate is too high relative to housing production, so the quickest, most immediate and obvious solution is to reduce immigration significantly. Within a couple years you will see housing demand fall and with it, prices! This isn't rocket science. And our economy must be able to sustain itself on a steady state population or we have a serious structural problem. You can still have immigration, but it must not be detrimental to the people living here.
One of the better articles on this subject came from Arstechnica several years back.
As a self-confessed "indie dev" and have perfected the art of giving away value for free so I love to see stories like this. In a short period of time you've tried out a "crazy" idea that might catch on and you've earned some money already. I hope you can get 10x that income before long.

With regards to VAT - when you sell to B2C customers in Europe (which I'm sure you do), you need to charge them VAT in the state they reside in. The easiest way to do this is with something like Paddle [0]. After that, probably registering in Ireland for VAT MOSS [1].

It alarms me how many people start taking payments from Stripe for their new platform without spending any time to get sales/VAT tax compliance in place.

Remember when this [2] blew up on the front page of Hacker News about GitHub Sponsors delivering a B2C service, without any VAT applied? That's the same reason that just taking payments with Stripe isn't enough.

[0] https://paddle.com/support/how-does-paddle-handle-vat-on-my-...
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vat-moss-vat-on-sa...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293050
Awe inspiring. 10 months of work and 250 changed files! Respect!
There is a good chance that this isn't true. For example I don't think most Android phones have any Minix and many could servers are running more than one instance of Linux vs the 1 instance of Linux.
I asked for analysis and source assessment, none of which is part of a formal mathematical proof.
Why is a library any better? Not even disagreeing; I can't see why to prefer either approach.
> different attitudes to falsifiability

Wait a second there. There are different attitudes about falsifiability? Isn't there a unanimous consensus that something not falisifiable is not science?
I like an article I read about on Arstechnica several years back.
Pretty sure illiquidity is not caused by wealth hoarding. It’s caused by taking out more debt than one can service, and people becoming scared to lend to others, because they’re worried they won’t be paid back. When everyone gets scared at once, things grind to a halt. And there’s a natural tendency while times are good to take out more and more debt, because you can use it to enhance your productivity.

EDIT: (so things naturally trend toward the overlevered state and a crunch)
Most of these homes have been one storm away from being wiped off the map since they were built. The ocean was always there. The storms always come. Every year a few houses are lost.

If they didn't kit them out with high end wood floors, TV, marble countertops and stainless fridges the insurance costs wouldn't go up like this.
This is like building next to a train track, then complaining about the noise.
Rust is honest, https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

I am not moving goal posts, rather talking about issues that many apparently lack the knowledge to understand how many variants of data races exist in an application.

Quite understanable given the majority of developers that keep writing single threaded applications.
The vast majority of salmon is farmed, so sustainable in the sense that it isn't going to diminish wild stocks. There are arguments against open-pen aquaculture too of course, but it's all relative. And a lot of money is being spent on solving those issues, such as deep sea aquaculture (where the effluent isn't a big problem, compared to static coastal pens), closed-containment (where all waste can be collected and used to make fertilizer), and land-based aquaculture (personally, I really don't like this).
If money is just sitting around, and inflation is high, then it is losing value. The 'idle rich' are penalized.

Further, lower-income people often have debts, which is reduced (relatively) by inflation.

Ideally money wouldn't be just sitting around, and if proverbial piles of it are, perhaps we need to redistribute it more so that it's used more productively. This is why wealth (and not just income) taxes are being talked about more nowadays.
Blockchain provides a mechanism to trade the token in a standardized way with existing marketplace tools, and without central authority/consent.
France's fast breeders have been failures, and they recently cancelled their next iteration trying to make them work. China doesn't have any fast breeders beyond research work, as far as I know.

It may be that sodium cooled fast breeders had a fundamental materials flaw that was not recognized soon enough.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11665-010-9763-5
So let me try another explanation for why I think the comparison with the drug trade is not valid. We have many examples of European countries where guns are effectively illegal to own in the sense of being hard to legally obtain. These same countries have well developed illegal drug operations. These same countries have much lower use of guns in crime. These countries are counterexamples to the argument:

Making guns illegal won’t be effective because making drugs illegal hasn’t been effective.

As such this argument is not valid. A person who wants to intelligently argue why banning gun ownership in the U.S. won’t work must use a different argument.

All criminal laws have as their aim to make prohibitions of certain behaviors. All fail at 100% efficiency but most do well in terms of regulating acceptable behavior over time. The prohibition on slavery was quite effective in the U.S. If you want to argue that banning guns in the U.S. won’t work go ahead and argue that. Just don’t use the foolish argument that since banning drugs didn’t work in the U.S. then banning guns won’t work. It is sloppy thinking.

I can think of a lot of reasons why banning guns in the U.S. won’t work. You alluded to one of the reasons why I think this. None of my arguments on why this won’t be effective in the U.S. have anything to do with the ineffectiveness of the war on drugs.
It's more that the amount of gold and silver cannot be manipulated as easily as paper/fiat money.

Proponents of the gold standard, at heart, simply does not trust the authorities to set fiat policies. Sometimes, that's a correct assessment (ala, Venezuela). But in the US, and other developed countries, the central banks are fairly transparent, and at least tries to keep to their mandates.
> If I had to pirate an ebook with zero insider connections I would just use a script, maybe something like autoit, to page through the ebook

Some of the more abusive text book publishers would only allow you to read their books via a very poorly done web application. In college I wrote scripts to do this and build pdfs from the screenshots because it was way too painful to read that way.
Yes, I was just speaking to reflections of law changes in the US. There are a couple of reasons why the data could point differently for the US compared to other locations, such as the commonality of firearms regardless of legal status and culture.
IP is generally not transferred with an NFT. There's some NFT markets that offer that as an option, but I'm not sure how it would hold up legally. It should be noted that IP is not generally transferred with any physical art purchase.

Very few current NFTs exist on-chain. A handful do, and there's the interesting case of generative art where the code that makes the art lives on-chain.

There's a push to get things on Arweave, a solution that purports to be a perpetual storage solution. In the long run, I think all art NFTs will have to go in that direction to remain credible.
> It used to be that the recommendation for swap was 2x ram.

It always boiled down to never allocate more swap than you're willing to wait, and memory capacity multiplied over the years far faster than real world drive thruput.

So I was willing to slow everything down to use 8 megs of swap in 1994 in order to have enough virtual memory to compile a kernel, and in 2021 I'm still willing to slow everything down to use 8 megs of swap, in fact drive thruput has maybe quintupled since then, maybe, so I'd be willing to slow my system down into using 32 megs of swap in 2021.

The problem is 8 megs of swap in 1994 dramatically increased my horizons and I could use it to compile the kernel and stuff like that. In 2021, 32 megs of swap just makes my web browser OOM kill about 100 milliseconds later so why bother?
>Unless it's illegal.

If it's illegal that's not inflation's problem. You probably have dictatorship/controlled market problem. In any case, if there's a problem with the legal free market you use street vendors. That's how it's been done everywhere since ever.

You take a leap of faith that you will have this income for the foreseeable feature, why wouldn't you take a leap of faith that it going to be adjusted to fair market value?

If the economy is alright, you simply get paid you fair market compensation. When there's an inflation, you get adjustment.

Don't forget that inflation is not only for the chocolates and candies in the shop but also for the resources that businesses use and one of this resource is human resource, which means salaries are going up.

You don't think that at 20% of inflation businesses will end up with practically slave labour in few years, don't you? Salaries are always adjusted to meet the inflation. That's not because the businesses feel altruistic, it's because in a free market unadjusted prices create an arbitrage. If your salary is not adjusted, you go work somewhere else. Your unadjusted salary is some businessmen's opportunity to have you at no extra real terms cost(normally they would have offered you more of what you ear currently, now they can transfer you by simply giving you a fair market salary).
I thought it would be Indie Bands not a VC.
Watch the Company Man Give Away His Life
Underpromise. Overdeliver. You didn't have to do a crunch and the people waiting got something ahead of the deadline. That's my practice whenever possible as well :-)

As to your related point, I probably wouldn't use the term "scared." But, yes, there are a lot of incentives to meet/exceed goals and strong disincentives to fail by not meeting a somewhat arbitrary lifetime of a probe. Of course, some probes have clear primary objectives and you want to hit those but you may not want to "promise" you can hit a bunch of less important secondary objectives as well even if you think you probably can.
You are a voice of sanity there.

The run on the dollar will be an epic calamity. Epic.

You can already see American rich voting with their wallets. Some believe it is better red, than broke, and taxed to death.

https://www.afr.com/world/asia/forget-politics-foreign-inves...
> No, that defeats the fucking point of open source.

The "fucking point of open source" was, in part, that "free software" didn't send the right message and that we needed a new term that didn't imply "free as in beer".

Open collaboration and the freedoms to fix/modify/distribute the software you own doesn't conflict with the idea that maybe megacorps benefiting from it should chip in a little towards the maintenance of the thing they're making megabucks off.
This. You even have people who do the final merges other than Linus - in the form of LTS (security/bugfix) updates.
Greenshot is fantastic, I would have loved it if it existed for Linux.
Isn’t the point that gold is finite?
What about an LB sitting between the VPC and the internet?
The other forks you are mentioning are a completely different problem because there were inherent philosophical differences among developers.

X11 just needs "a release" so that package maintainers and distros can push updates. If you fork it you only make things worse.
Good catch! Thank you:

https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/230
> Cryptocurrencies won’t change how things need to work to avoid economic collapse

cryptos won't be able to be loaned as easily, since it's hard to create more cryptos on demand. So if there's a surge in demand for loans, the price of loans (aka, interest rate) will surge. Under a fiat system, the state/central banking authorities can simply make more credit available to satisfy those loans, and thus keeping interest rate stable in the face of huge demand.
It's a limitation because this only works for the back and the front layer. You can not reliably connect to layers in between like this and you can not do 'blind' vias (vias between two or more layers not being back or front).
only problem is that you can’t get the process ID for inbound packets like FreeBSD can, for that still remains Linux’s weakest feature.

— The said feature is critical to proper DEFAULT-DENY firewall configuration/modeling.
I think some people will always enjoy witch hunts as long as they're not suspected of witchcraft.
> Lumping them in with burglaries on a 1:1 basis seems like poor moral calculus, no

Yes, and I'm not advocating for that.

My only point is that "less gun deaths in countries without legal guns" isn't addressing the original claim that other crimes have decreased as a consequence of legal guns. I'm not taking a position on whether that claim is true, or what exactly they mean by that, which are both questions I also would like to be answered.
"This is clearly a purposefully confusing/punny name"...

the measurement of trademark infringement is not how much money a competitor makes, but how much the owner loses. Is Clubhouse losing any money or users due to the confusing/punny name they themselves clearly chose for their product in the Japanese market? I bet not a single person who wants Clubhouse is deterred or confused by this obvious lighthearted satirical farce. This squabble probably brings more attention to their product, Streisand effect.

(and yes, this was an Apple move, not a Clubhouse move as far as we know, but the point stands)
Countries Tried to Curb Trade in Plastic Waste. The U.S. Is Shipping More
It would be nice to see an overview comparison of existing software approaches
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Regression_and_curv...
Any blog post that gives examples accessing shared variables and never goes beyond anything else, leaving to the reader that it works the same way regardless of what resources are being accessed.

https://blog.knoldus.com/how-we-can-do-fearless-concurrency-...

Now rewrite the same blog post using SQL queries to update the same counter variable on a table row.

The Rustonomicon is quite clear that it wouldn't work,

> However Rust does not prevent general race conditions.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
I can understand being critical of this particular page, but more generally:

> How can you "understand" anything from a page which provides no analysis and presents numbers with no caveats?

Presumably because one is able to do one's own analysis and think for themselves. Everything starts out as raw numbers.

> How can I trust that these charts aren't cherry picked?

Can you ever?
Obviously it represents the point where productivity increased but real wages remained stagnant. I think you’re purposely pretending not to understand it though.
But to just open an account, average Joe (and his grandma) has to grasp the concept of an "instance", which is confusing because it's so different to his habit of just digit the letter y on his browser or tap the Youtube icon on his smartphone.

Also, he doesn't need to use the search box at all most of the time, because his feed is powered by algos that are programmed on the same lines of those found in slot machines. So he just keep scrolling, like a gambler keeps pulling the slot bar at a casino.

So, like I said, the fediverse is a fascinating concept, but, at least at this time, is for people who explicitly want a different kind of experience, because its UX can't compete with mainstream social media. And perhaps, this may be also a good thing.
> Would the GFC count?

how would you know that the GFC wouldn't have been worse had the Feds not printed back then?
> However Rust does not prevent general race conditions.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
My parents grew up during the Cultural Revolution. I'm slightly modifying some terminology so the parallels become more clear (original terminology was in Mandarin anyways, so...):

It started off as pro-equality and for the people. Then, any evidence that you are outperforming others in a "capitalist" way became evidence that you are anti-equality and therefore against the people. This quickly devolved into merit not being determined by a willingness to pay (the cornerstone of economics) to merit being determined by virtue-signaling and connections (the cornerstone of politics). As many other posters have mentioned, this is a poor way to judge merit and soon beliefs come up against reality. When this happens reality always wins and things that become dependent on higher-productivity (in modern society, this is almost all things) collapse.

I see a lot of parallels. For the left, the structures of capitalism and racism are intertwined. In this article, the author gives examples of how being a white male and doing well is itself evidence of soft-racism. These parents are noticing that in corporate boards, medical schools, law schools, elite colleges across the country, merit is determined not by accomplishments but by virtue-signaling (note: this is not the same as Affirmative Action; one is boosting entrance rates for Blacks, American Indians, and Latinos/Latinas, the other is saying "only this type of White person who has acknowledged that racism/capitalism is inherent to their accomplishments is allowed").

Assuming these beliefs come to dominate American power structures in the next 20 years (more than in the past 20), I am quite worried. Some structural anti-racism might be a net good. Heck, America has a lot of room to move to the left and a bit more equality may also be a net good -- McCarthyism was much more extreme in the other direction, after all. But historically, this cult-like faith-based groupthink where dissension and alternate beliefs are seen as evil has not turned out well; reality always wins over beliefs.
I’m aware of 3D printing. At this time it is not ubiquitous or cheap enough for mass consumption. When it becomes so then the comparison to the drug trade will become more apt.

There are lots of examples of countries with effective illegal drug operations and effective gun control. Therefore the belief that banning guns will necessarily be as effective as banning drugs is provably false. As such it’s a poor argument. There are lots of valid reasons to believe that banning guns in the U.S. won’t work.
Huskies and malamutes are suited to pulling sleds because at night you don't need to out them in tents. I imagine a great Dane would get pretty cold pretty fast once they stop pulling.
I did not mean to imply it was anything wrong with being raw vegan. It is just not my preference. I live in a cold climate and so I enjoy having hot meals.

That brain fog issue sounds like you were missing something, did you test yourself? I am sure if you miss your old diet you can still do it with some additions. As mentioned in the article B12 is important.
If you’re progressing from “just out of college” to the level one above that of “basically competent engineer” (which in some companies is a different level and in others not), you have a case to make that you’re getting jerked around or there’s miscommunication at some link in the chain.

That’s a promotion where the company goals and your goals are perfectly aligned and you only have to show increasing technical competence and no crippling deficits elsewhere.

In many ways, it’s like getting from promoted from grade 3 to grade 4 in school. Do all the grade N work and you’ll progress to grade N+1.

If you’re making the case to go from a mid-level IC to a senior level, promotion is rarely about “nine_zeros hit all goals at a lower level” or “nine_zeros shipped at-level quality code on time at the direction of eleven_zeros who is at the higher level that nine wants to become”. That’s what full performance at your current level looks like. Performance at the higher level job is more about leading the project (or a big part of it), taking business strategy and turning it into your team’s technical goals and promotion into that level is supported by initial glimmers of evidence of doing that work, not (only) by strong performance at your current level.
No, it really isn’t. From your link:

“If someone were to rent you home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly[...]”

That’s a very poor proxy for housing cost.

First of all it’s a guess. A guess from whom? What do these oracles know about how much their home can rent for if they haven’t put it up?

Second, the homes available in the rental market are vastly inferior from (for example) my home. I cannot find a home remotely as nice as my home (bought in 2017 for 320k, currently valued for 400k - pretty average middle class home in my city) but I can’t rent mine for what I’d want to rent it for [1] - so the supply and demand price don’t overlap for my type of home in my city. Without overlap of price, the question, as it pertains to my home is meaningless.

On the other hand, there is an easy way to include housing price for owners. Add price of homes to the CPI. In fact, investments generally should be included, since they are goods whose price raise with the increase in monetary mass

[1] is the accelerated deterioration of my home, and the headache of being a landlord worth the $1400/month renting it to a family? No.
Can I rent it for $1800 by splitting it into rooms, say, for students? $1800/month is not worth having destructive students live here.
The argument that more common access to firearms more frequently results in more gun deaths is misleading when considering many of those deaths are self inflicted injuries, such as suicide attempts. Obama correctly addressed this when he pushed for gun reform near the end of his tenure. In other words if disqualifying access to firearms on the basis of mental health concerns you simultaneously increase lawful access to firearms and reduce gun deaths related to those new purchases.
Where I live I'm pretty sure all the electrical power comes from natural gas turbines. So EVs pollute just like regular cars.

There's actual transit and the local government has their act together though so I don't drive at all.
That would make sense in the streets of Ferguson, but it does not explain why well-off, mostly white coastal elites bought the idea hook-and-sinker.

John McWhorter argues that wokeness is simply an ersatz religion, filling up empty spiritual space left by previous creeds. And freshly minted religions tend to be strident and punishing.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neorac...
You need to transfer the funds from your Coinbase account to Coinbase wallet. You’ll never have access to the private keys on Coinbase.

At that point, Coinbase wallet is the equivalent of Metamask et al