skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it net pay? If not then the gap is even higher as workers pay more tax than CEOs (if your salary is beyond certain threshold, you can use various "tricks" to make your tax bill go away, whereas workers have to typically pay something in the area of 40% or more). It's a scandal. Each party tells us that they will tax the rich, but what they really mean is taxing your specialists, developers, doctors, lawyers. People who worked hard all their life to get a great job and some to also lift themselves and their family out of poverty.
FSF could disappear today and FSFE, Conservancy, EFF and many other (saner) organizations would thrive.
if you replace 3 with 0, 6 with 1 and 9 with 2:

1 1 1 2 0 2 2 2 1 0 1 0

0 0 2 1 2 0 2 0 0 2 2 1

1 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 1 0 0

2 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 2 1 1

1 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 1

0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 0

1 0 2 1 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 1

1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 0 1 0

it seems more like a qbit quantum computer "binary" number.
It seems weird to me to say that arm cores can't compete with apple silicon given that apple doesn't own fabs. They are using arm cores on TSMC silicon (exactly the same as this).
It seems tasty.

Can you get that in the US?
I mean I don't want to put words in somebody else's mouth, but my interpretation as a non-practicing Christian knowing just a bit about Christian theology would be that death originates from humans being cast out of the garden of Eden, which was due to the original sin of eating from the Tree of Knowledge.

I think the parent edited their original comment as there was some stuff in there directly referencing God as the original cause before and that seems to be gone now.
Damnit, after the mistake of calling the study of computation
'computer science', I had thought we'd avoided the issue with
'quantum computing'. But no, even this term seems to get
muddied by things that aren't computation.

There is no reproducibility crisis in quantum computing, there
is in experimental quantum physics with quantum *computer*
applications.

To give a classical analogy, you could claim there would be a crisis
in computer science because electrical engineers struggle with
making a specific kind of transistor.
Microsoft has has software development centers in Kenya and Nigeria for a couple years now. [1] I'm glad to see other western tech companies moving into sub-Saharan Africa. Hope it's a trend - at MSFT we had some success there!

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/features/furthering-our-inv...
Note that the definition of "supplement" varies a bit internationally vs. the US in terms of regulatory landscape and safety [1].

For instance Canada is quite rigorous in their definition and licensing application process for supplements - which they call "Natural Health Products" [2]. The EU is rigorous as well, from my limited understanding.

The US is a bit more like the wild west: You pretty much just can't make false claims, or adulterate your product with unsafe compounds - however enforcement on the last point is almost always a reactive process [e.g. 3].

1- https://www.fda.gov/food/dietary-supplements

2- https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health...

3- https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...
You can execute a bash script as your Build Command, e.g. "./pages-build.sh" which would need to be included in your repo. Within this script, you can install dependencies for an Ubuntu-based system.

Here's a great example someone wrote up for Blazor (wasm) on Pages specifically: https://swimburger.net/blog/dotnet/how-to-deploy-blazor-weba...
I'm curious what you mean. Could you expound upon this?
HN has a system where submissions get flagged and possibly downranked if the number of comments exceeds its score as it is indicative of a flame war.

It is the opposite of what social media that optimize for "engagement" do.

The HN community also has a habit of downranking controversial topics. For example, subjects like women in tech and racism tend to get buried quickly. It is not that these are not worth talking about, but I think keeping these out help a great deal at preventing bad behavior to emerge. For me, it is a win, and it is not like places where you can talk politics are lacking on the net.
I hate to break it to you but that's largely the way the world works.

But, we haven't had any issues with using localStorage. Probably mainly because we are not a huge target. Nobody is going to write a chrome extension to try to hack one of our tiny little sites.
Tangentially related. Cryptocurrency is just a side effect of blockchain. Once blockchain technology matures and if one day we see blockchain to store files and blockchain to run cloud services, then will the US government censor it as well? If they will, how? It is practically impossible. You can upload anything there, including child porn, instructions on making bombs, videos that contain brainwashing propaganda for terrorist groups. You can run your server there, including servers for recruiting terrorists, etc.
This were exactly my points when I considered using it a few months ago. Much less mature than the alternatives yet offering no selling point that would make it up for me for using alpha-quality software. If they announced it 10 years ago, I would have used it for toy projects just for fun, but these days I just want to build stuff that works, and if it has bugs, I prefer them to be mine.
That's true for spotify but not for video streaming. The libraries are too siloed so you could end up shelling out quite a lot buying up accounts for these parallel services.
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> Note: stock options are not stocks. You're not given a share in the company, you're given the opportunity to invest in the company. You have to put money in to _potentially_ get money back.

While pedantically true, in reality this is generally not the case. As long as you are still employed by the company that granted you the options, you do not have to exercise them ('invest') until you wish to sell them. What this means in practice is that nary a single dollar ever comes out of your pocket.
> We plan to rename our existing Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service.
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> Every time I read one of PG's posts, it seems like he's working from a narrative that he's trying to conform facts to.

Because that's precisely what he's doing.
it's not ironic if you really understand socialism.
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> dart is given up by google engineers long time ago

2013 called. It wants it's opinion back.
I'm not sure what marxism has to do with this (I don't think Marx wrote about charity) and although I'm not a native speaker I'm pretty good at syntax/semantics:

>the solution to guilt is more speech instead of praxis

vs

>the solution to guilt is more speech instead of practice

Second one is vague and unclear.
If you're the type to chill out when you've hit a certain amount you're unlikely to climb to $100m - as you've already chilled out long before. Bill Waterson vs Jim Davis.
Speaking as someone who shares this trait with you, you should know if you don't already: this is a characteristic of autistic brains. (Not to say that either you or I are definitely autistic.) The other people's brains put a higher weight on what you might call "agreeableness" (from the Big 5 personality traits) than on strict factual correctness.

> I stopped trying to correct this as it seems most people aren’t very receptive, to say the least.

Same; I have found it best to "keep my powder dry" so to speak, and have slowly, slowly learned to weigh my own sense of importance against various social values. I find it makes me more effective when it is indeed important.
> Note: stock options are not stocks. You're not given a share in the company, you're given the opportunity to invest in the company. You have to put money in to _potentially_ get money back.

Stock options and shares are pretty much equivalent. If the stock price goes up the option goes up (by a ratio). You don’t have to put your own money in, i.e you get 100 options every quarter, you sell 50 of them to get the money to exercise the other 50.
hahaha good one! :)
Are workers getting worse? CEOs getting better? Both?
> Swift is talking about "music" as an original work. Patel responds with an irrelevant point about digital copies of music.

No one wants Swift's music as an original work; that doesn't even make sense, because it's not possible to retroactively make someone else the creator of given song. They want digital copies of Swift's music, the thing that is not scarce.
> 3. GUI/WebUI CMS for contributing to a shared versioned repository.

Did you have some specific tool in mind? Because I completely agree that this is a great way of working with content. We have been doing that for a couple of months with our own tool. It uses Git and stores content in a pretty-printed JSON file. Techies can update that directly and push it manually. Content editors can use our tool to edit and commit to Git with a simple Web UI. Would that go into a direction you were thinking of?
It is a currency. I've bought stuff with it. There's literally a BTC ATM in my local liquor store. There's a famous strip club(!) in Portland that accepts BTC. There many, many more examples: https://coinsutra.com/who-accepts-bitcoins/

>Currencies aren't useful simply because they _can_ be traded, they're useful because they _can_ be trusted.

If people trade them, it's because they already trust them.

That's why I said 'sole criterion'. Say you think fiat currencies, and the USD is a terrible and untrustworthy currency. The market doesn't care. It's viable because it's accepted. Acceptance in trade is all that matters.

Another example: Baby food is as good as cash to drug dealers. The implications of that are disquieting, but don't change the fact that it's true one bit.

When it comes to a currency, acceptance in trade trumps all. Nobody's feelings or long held beliefs matter in the slightest. The growing acceptance of crypto is why it's become seen as an investment, not the other way around.
40% in taxes? Where are you getting this from?

I know that California has very high sales tax and very high state-level income tax and those can add to federal income tax; but, federal income taxes aren't anywhere near 40% for people that make an average income.
Also, repeatability does not necessarily correlate with quality. John Cages works or an AAA movie are surely of high quality, but it's fine experiencing them once. Compare that to quite a few (even cheap) songs, which I've listened to hundreds of times
Elastic gives you a lot of the fancy stuff that SQL kinda needs extras and hard work for... but it's just a document store with fancy weighting features.
Late to this but: I still use Chromium (and Iridium, a derivative that hopefully doesn't send info to Google), specifically on OpenBSD, for reasons summarized here (lower chance of privilege escalation, limiting bad behavior, easier to configure and quickly change javascript/images/cookies behavior generally and per-site):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566041
(...and discussed further in the parents of the above link, like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559122 or the full recent related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21557309 ).

Given which, I might have switched to Firefox for some uses after a recent OpenBSD release where I think it got the pledlge/unveil support (preventing it from accessing the computer beyond config-specified limits), except for the JS/cookies/images config stuff (and that I got the impression the pledge/unveil stuff might be less useful in a less-well-organized code base...?).

One thing I wish I knew about firefox is a way, without extensions/add-ons, to limit which sites can use javascript/images/etc., and/or to open multiple config tabs at once to quickly turn those on by exception for occasional specific sites, as I do with chrome. Exception lists, even better. This was discussed a little bit at those above links.

[When I said those things before, someone replied helpfully, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21724710 ].
Out of interest, what tricks are these (genuine question)? Stock grants are often taxed less (but not 0). In the UK at least I don't know any real 'tricks' to get rid of £10m salary for a CEO. You will be paying around 47% marginal tax on that.
> The Assistant craze seems more justified when you consider that companies like Google and Amazon are using it as a way to build datasets.

Basically every new goddamn trend that is allowed to occur is about how datasets can be compiled from such marketed options.

That's why we don't have first-class convergence devices yet. It'd likely blend our home and mobile usage profiles too much.
I think his very good point is that a global business is comparatively easy to build and that has led to wealth concentration
While pg has extensive foot notes for this essay, there is a vast amount of research with orders of magnitude more citations contradicting him on the gini coefficient.

There is no argument about his footnotes. Quite likely the very richest might not be inheriting it. This has no bearing on the gini coefficient. And his essay on wealth tax is downright stupid. Are his essays as meticulously researched as Pikketys? Why does pg fail to refer to the most famous recent book on the subject in his footnotes? What could be the reason?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_...
- Native File System support coming to the browser: https://web.dev/file-system-access/

- jamstack.wtf

- federation-based networks

- CRDTs: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/

- data-oriented programming paradigm (https://rugpullindex.com/ shameless plug)

- web components: https://docs.ficusjs.org/index.html
> Makes me wonder what these are for (copyright transfer) and why they decided it’s not needed. It also makes me wonder if this sort of thing has ever been taken/tested in court or if it’s paranoid friction with little value add.

Some companies/projects might use them purely to avoid possible future legal headaches (I think GNU does this), and I'm not sure to what degree that has actually been tested, but they can also allow re-licensing under a different license which is more clear cut and I think that's more the issue here

Amazon is trying to say that they'll never relicense the code, so they have no need to take ownership over contributions.
Skype’s eventual acquisition by Microsoft is an interesting one.

Can anyone contextualize the horse trading that led to that?

>September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion.

In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay.

Microsoft bought Skype in May 2011 for $8.5 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
Alternative hypothesis: old wealth has become more adept at maintaining discretion via trusts and fictitious persons such as LLC's and off-shore investment vehicles.

CEO's of new companies can't be discreet. Their job requires the opposite.

Lack of discretion always distinguishes new money from old.

With the collapse of well funded investigative reporting, it is well nigh impossible to track down wealth that seeks not the spotlight.

Forbes has 54 full time employees. https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.forb...
> have his work and life "cancelled"

Nobody is erasing history. Nobody is deleting the wikipedia page on RMS.

Nobody is preventing RMS to write blogs, emails, show up to conferences and give speeches.

The letter is merely ASKING not to give him a position as public speaker after his countless blunders.
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I specifically talked about state and storage.

You're conflating the difficulty of migrating a complex system to anywhere with "vendor lock-in". It would be harder to migrate an Aurora RDS Postgresql instance to an Aurora RDS MySQL instance than it would be to migrate from Aurora RDS (postgres) to a hosted postgres anywhere else.

That to me screams "not vendor lock-in".
This is the most important point, IMO. Amazon's value add is not the software itself, it's the operation of the software. That includes a LOT of stuff, not just making sure it's running. It's security modeling and patching, compliance, DDOS protection, etc. Amazon's product is an army of ops engineers working 24/7 to keep your stuff secure and online.

With that in mind, their behavior here makes a lot more sense, and comparing it with companies who have dramatically different products, like Facebook and Google, takes a lot of effort to understand the differences and what impact they have.
I know it's pessimistic but that's what I thought as well. This post isn't about the Twitter service becoming available I know, but still, starting a presence there will probably increase usage which in turn will probably add a couple of countries to the "divided by social media" list.
ElasticSearch seems to have more mindshare. It can be easier to find resources online to help solve your problems.. though ES moves through versions fast (and they do break backwards compatibility on major version bumps) so sometimes this can still be an issue.

Other benefit is that you don't have to rely on Zookeeper if you're horizontally scaling.

I don't have a ton of experience with Solr but they seem pretty comparable.
Potassium chloride water softening salt is more expensive, but unless you use way more water than we do, I don't find it to be an unreasonable expense.
BTW, here is SSH proxy which uses pool of steady connections: https://github.com/Snawoot/rsp#performance
In the face of mutation and dynamic typing, yes, an iterator providing mutable references to the focused piece of the subject would give you something basically like a traversal (a generalization of a lens over list-like things). However, consider the case of a struct with five fields, each of a different type -- you can't just for-each over those. And you don't quite have the black-box composability benefits of lenses, since you need a value to iterate over.

A lens is a (1) functional (2) bi-directional (3) first-class and (4) composable generalization of (5) struct field names in most traditional languages.

1) "Functional" meaning we eschew mutation and implicit context. Mutation is a very powerful feature of a language, and much can be encoded using it. When we remove mutation as an option, many of the things we would have just used mutation for separate into distinct and rich solution spaces.

2) "Bi-directional" meaning we can use the same widget for both accessing a sub-part of a whole, and for replacing that sub-part within a whole. I personally call these operations "extract" and "replace", since "get" and "set" feel like they raise the specter of mutability.

3) "First-class" means that the lenses themselves are manipulable constructs within the language. In a language like C or Java, I can have "obj.a.b.c", but I cannot have ".a.b.c" itself on its own. Even if you consider method references (like "Obj::a" in Java), you've only obtained the ability to extract the "a" field from an Obj -- any particular method or function is only going to go in one direction.

4) "Composable" means that you can take two lenses and fit them together to get a new lens. Conceptually, I think this is understood -- we intuitively understand how to navigate an object graph when writing down an expression like "obj.a.b.c" -- but having a composable first-class abstraction lets us do the same thing programmatically. (It need not even be at "runtime" -- imagine a compile-time macro system that programmatically generates nested accesses from some base rules you define. I think you've got the rudiments of a dependency injection system here.)

5) "Struct field" means that for the given type, the field is always accessible. "List element" (or "tree leaf", ...) would give you traversals instead of lenses, and "tagged union variant" / "subclass" would give you prisms.

As for potential applications of the approach, there's the approach dependency injection graphs outlined above. I've also used ideas from lenses/prisms in serialization/deserialization and web service middleware. (Middleware compose really well as functional optics!)

With profunctor optics, you can even construct self-describing operations. For instance, imagine a JSON parser that can be directly interrogated to obtain the schema it accepts, or a middleware stack that can be interrogated to determine which headers it looks at, and which routes it accepts. Personally, this is the area I'm most excited about with functional optics.
What would you say they lock you into? What is AWS doing specifically that makes it harder to move between providers than if they were not doing that thing?
Yes. My wife uses Dragon for her writing her clinical notes. It's apparently pretty popular.
> The solution then would be to find a way to charge not for the copies, but for the time effort that the artist put into the production of the music.

That's literally what charging for the copies does, though. People just want something for nothing.

Claiming you want to "take the copy for free but pay separately for the time" when you aren't willing to pay for the copy so that there is some reimbursment for the time is an exercise in wankery.

(You aren't just paying for the time, anyway. You're paying for talent, etc. A genius who creates something better in 5 minutes than someone else does in a year is still someone you'd rather compensate...)
>Your DDT is not hazardous to mammals is not born out by science, even in your source.

<rolls eyes>

Come on. He didn't say it was safe for widespread indiscriminate use. He said it's not that hazardous to mammals.

Based on the sources and TFA that seems like a pretty fair conclusion. If it were seriously hazardous, like arsenic or mercury levels of hazardous, it wouldn't need to accumulate at the top of the food chain to cause health problems in the animals that are exposed.

That said, he was a fool to not expect that, HN being HN, someone would come along to score some cheap virtue points with a more encompassing definition of "that hazardous".
> Nobody becomes a billionaire from starting a landscaping service or an auto body shop.

If that's your terminal investment, correct. But if you take that $100k you earned from your landscaping service, or in Buffet's case, selling newspapers and detailing cars, you can continue to apply business acumen and perhaps one day reach $1 Billion. Wealth begets more wealth.
Why does everything on the internet have to be a debate? =]
"without violating the license a small startup put in place to stop them?"

Elasticsearch was first released over a decade ago. ElasticSearch, now just Elastic, the company was founded over 9 years ago and now is public. Are they still a "small startup"? If so when does a company graduate from that status?
stock based compensation exists for C-level employees because it allows them to reduce their tax burden by taking their income via long term capital gains. It's still income!
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And that includes plain water as well.