skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree that it is a 2-way street.

> If a person can’t defend their decisions and explain their actions, how can they be trusted?

I'm not suggesting that the technical person should be somehow exempt from accountability and so on.

However often the problem arises from non-technical people wanting to play the role of an expert on a specialised subject. Then they blame their lack of understanding or frustrations on the communication skills of the expert that has decades of relevant expertise on the subject.
As opposed to their own lack of qualifications to be a participant in such a discussion.

When I go see my mechanic or doctor I expect them to do a good job. I have conversations with them and I can hold them accountable about the quality and outcome of their work.

However I don't expect to be sitting in a room around a round table of doctors discussing medical stuff and to understand everything they say or expect them to explain it to me in a way that I understand or expect to be treated like a peer in that group.
There is an ongoing effort at https://open-ui.org/ to add these basic primatives. I'm throwing my effort behind the <select> replacement and we welcome input from everyone.

If I can avoid writing another autocomplete and solving the Esc corner cases, the effort will have been worthwhile...
That sounds like regulation - except anti-consumer one.
How many scientists disagree? 2? 5? Did they poll every scientist on the planet? Does it matter? Is that how science works?
This is quite a huge spectrum of "rich" and "lucky". From absolutely basic things to expensive college.

I cannot afford a vacation in Macchu Picchu, but it does not detract from my feeling of being lucky/unlucky. Local vacations in Europe or even in my own country are fine. If anything, Covid era was a good teacher in what really matters.

And the college and networking is begging the question (IDK if I use the expression correctly). I do not doubt that Harvard graduates have it easier in general, but they are probably less prepared for a possible black swan event after which their degree won't have the weight it currently has. Shelling out enormous money for getting connections is a conformist (expensive and lazy) way of building career. I do not find much luck in that.
This is a pretty callous and uncharitable dismissal of rms' message. Everybody can better themselves despite what their peers might believe.
Without actual expenses or a plausible storefront, it’ll get flagged pretty quick and shut down - and that type of ‘hands on’ money laundering usually results in significant jail time. Not looking too hard with complex movement of funds with wires is usually more plausibly deniable.
Why is dithering still a thing? Is it just academic interest, or does it still have a practical application?
I have a cluster of cousins in the bay area, what do they do? None of them do startups. Doctors, nurses, and Google.

I wouldn't describe this as risk-averse behaviour. The simple fact is in the modern startup ecosystem, even if the startup has a successful exit, even early stage engineers will see very little wealth having been massively diluted, and would have been much, much better off having worked for an established company over the same time period. An early stage employee takes all the risk but all the reward goes to the founders and the VCs. It's not worth it.
Notably:

> In these interviews, Weinstein laments that the scientific community is dismissive of GU because he has not released a technical paper, but insists that scientists should be able to understand the substantive content of GU from the lecture alone

This is alarm bells territory. There's nothing there.
>You get bigger, more violent cartels.

Are bigger cartels actually more violent?

I thought a lot of the history of the Mexican cartels was the Government almost collaborating with some of them because having one dominant cartel resulted in a lot less violence than multiple smaller ones.
> Well, being paid by the CIA or MI5 is the most likely theory.

"Most likely theory"? What? The most likely theory is that he's convinced of his worldview. There are incredible amounts of people who are true believers of whatever they subscribe to. They're certainly not all paid, or we'd see much larger intelligence budgets everywhere.
You're proposing unnecessary complexity to solve a phantom problem. The wealthiest person in the world just sells a few billion worth of stock each year to fund his lifestyle/other companies. He pays the rate for the top capital gains bracket. It isn't that complicated. More brackets would normalize the wealth distribution.

Some of the wealthy do take out loans against assets, but these loans involve risk. Investments are not guaranteed to beat an interest rate, or banks would just buy the investment, instead of loaning out the money at the interest rate. Especially for the ultra wealthy, those assets are typically heavy in one or two companies (the companies they founded, for example). And even if they can beat the interest rate on average, they still are continually liquidating the asset over the course of the loan, incurring the income tax. They certainly aren't beating the income tax rate + interest rate, if you fix the brackets.

Nowadays, the Fed has almost taken an assured position that it will print enough money to rescue the market no matter what happens/melt your cash, but that's a separate issue. Address the inflationary monetary policy; don't create a huge wealth tax band-aid when a simpler solution exists.
> Income equality tells you nothing about the conditions of the middle or lower class.

There's a graph in TFA showing that, after adjusting for inflation, the per-individual wealth of the middle and lower classes decreased by 20% and 45% respectively between 2001 and 2016. The individual wealth of the upper class increased by 33% in this time period.
Tech doesn't cause the wealth inequality gap. If anything it closes it by making the aggregate cost of goods, like raw commodities, basics,etc, cheaper (e.g. hpc for modeling shale oil drilling strategies).

It's policy, like lowering interest rates, promoting financialization, driving people to invest their savings in the stock market, squeezing out basic saving strategies and causing people to seek higher and higher risk investments (while socializing the risk of the upper class) that's driving a wedge.

100% of this is public policy (often in the guise of helping out main street "saving jobs" e.g.). Capitalism is just responding, but as always with unintended but predictable consequences.
Horrible attitude? I don't see a horrible attitude, nor does one's attitude have any bearing on ones' truth claims. Newton was famously an asshat.
I give it well under 1% odds that he's right, but boy would I like to see him have a conversation about it with a critic that understands what he's talking about.
Interesting CS Lewis quote considering it’s frequent usage against government regulation from busy bodies who “know best” on how the economy should work.
Can‘t speak for the current page but some year (1 actually) I signed up for a monthly plan to extract some InDesign into SVG/PDF.

After I was done, I cancelled the plan and Adobe mailed me something like „sad to see you go here‘s a free month“.

What I didn‘t know and did not see ond the sign-up page was that I actually signed up for a YEARLY plan and I had to pay a huge cancellation fee. There was no indiciation or mentioning of a yearly contract (ok, maybe sonewhere deep down and so small nobody can read it).

IMHO, I was tricked into this yearly plan and had to pay much money to get out. It was the day I swore never to pay for Adobe products again.
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This is what dark patterns rely on, why the hell would you be in support of companies taking advantage of people? Have you never had anything like this happen to you? Maybe you were tired or in a rush and a dark pattern ended up costing you money you didn't intend to spend? It's happened to me, and I'd dare day most people reading this.
No worries, I'm pretty sure I was unclear before. Though I must admit I'm not entirely sure how or why "libertarian wet dream" UBI is so objectionable.

Is it because libertarian UBI might not be so generous? That it's motivated by saving taxpayer money rather than resolving poverty? On that I would agree. That's not the point of UBI.

Is it because libertarian UBI would be an excuse to eliminate more poverty welfare programs than liberal UBI? Because I personally see eliminating welfare programs to be a good thing so long as the UBI isn't intentionally less generous than what it replaces.

Or is it because libertarian UBI would mean Governments no longer forcing welfare dollars to be spent in a "responsible" way? Most of the criticisms I've heard seem to work on the principle that poor people don't know how to look after themselves or spend money wisely. So we need Government to force them to spend X amount on food with programs like SNAP, or spend X amount on shelter with housing subsidies. On this point I'd side VERY strongly with the libertarians. We have far too much paternalism in Government.
You’re saying the poverty line should follow median income, and that’s exactly what I argued against. The poverty line marks poverty, as in having trouble eating properly, losing opportunities; not an inability to pay your car financing.

Germany is one of the top world powers. For the purpose of this discussion the US and Germany are equals. I was thinking more of Ghana, Argentina, South Sudan, Kazakhstan, etc. you know, the other 95% of the word.

This is so out of touch I barely have the will to argue :/
Last time I used Adobe products, it was advertised as 10 euros per month, but it was a complete lie. In actuality it was 120 euros per year, and if you wanted to cancel you would have to pay the rest of that contract.

I don't give any business to companies that simply lie to me. Trust is important. Adobe clearly doesn't care about creating any trust with its users.

There exists very little actual effort to let users know inside this payment funnel that they are not just paying 10 euros, but 120 euros.
I understand that reply to mean that you don't want any rule-enforcement, ever? That's really the only reading that makes sense with that kind of comment to my question of how much, and how long, should be tolerated.
That's what happens when inflation is incredibly low. Wealth taxes are just a hack to introduce artificial inflation for the worst offenders of society.

Wealth beyond a certain point is highly deflationary. At some point you are earning so much you cannot possibly spend it all. Any factor that accelerates the growth rate of your wealth just makes it worse because the spending portion goes down as a percentage of your wealth.

Wealth is just savings which represents deferred consumption. Therefore either you invest your money (keeping money in the stock market isn't the same as actual economic activity, you still have to do something with the money) or someone else has to give up their savings because your lack of spending also caused a lack of employment on the other side.

Yes, savings are zero sum if the savings aren't investment. If one person saves and doesn't invest, then some other person has to lose out. Inflation exists to force investment and to punish those who refuse to invest.

I've seen lots of HN comments about indexing capital gains based on inflation, they just want to flee the obligation to invest their money.
Your definition of clear doesn't match mine and, clearly, doesn't match many other peoples' either. Otherwise this wouldn't be a problem.
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Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.

Those who do read history are doomed to misinterpret it.
People in that situation would also be better off just pirating Photoshop with zero effort.
Amazing! After watching the second video about the cylinders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfFco7K9v8), I still couldn't understand the illusion. Would have loved a demonstration where he rotated them also along the axis parallel to the base of the mirror.
You don’t even need to go to the third world. SV culture is something quite unique where you can get funding for any stupid idea and run with it. In France for example the idea of a “risk capital” is that if you don’t have a solid plan on how to be profitable in 2-3 years you can forget about it. Also the funding itself is orders of magnitude below SV VCs.
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Extremely rich people around rookie who aren’t rich are likely targets, because frankly on a whim that extremely rich person can solve most of the poor persons material problems in an instant. That’s why rich people live in secluded communities so they don’t have to deal with the consequences of obscene wealth.
I think you are half right in the sense that people now know Intel architectures are not what they want/need. Riscv5 chipsets will take a bit longer to mature but can in principle do the same kinds of things that Apple is doing with M1 to keep energy usage low and throughput high. However, the key selling feature with RiscV5 is reduced IP licensing needs (cost).

With Nvidia, buying Arm and producing their own chip sets, that's no small advantage for companies that are not Nvidia (or Apple who have a perpetual license already). If I were Intel, that's what I'd be looking at right now. Same for perhaps AMD. The clock is ticking on their x86 only strategy and it takes time to develop new architectures; even if you do license somebody else's instruction set.

A counter argument to this would be software compatibility. Most of the porting effort to make linux, windows, and mac os run on Arm has already happened years ago. It's a mature software ecosystem. Software is actually the hardest part of shipping new hardware architectures. Without that, hardware has no value.

And a counter argument to that is that Apple is showing instruction set emulation actually works reasonably well: it is able to run x86 software at reasonable performance on the M1. So, running natively matters less these days. If you look at Qemu, they have some interesting work going on around e.g. emulated GPU where the goal is not to emulate some existing GPU but to create a virtual only GPU device called Virgil 3D that can run efficiently on just about anything that supports opengl. Don't expect to set fps records of course. The argument here is that the software ecosystem is increasingly easy to adapt to new chip architectures as a lot of stuff does not require access to bare metal. Google uses this strategy with Android: native compilation happens (mostly) just in time after you ship your app to the app store.
Its legality has no bearing on or correlation with its ethicality
This is similar in vein to what DeliveryHero is doing in South and SE Asia. They closed shop in Europe once the regulations made it difficult to keep rider wages artificially low, and now majority of their operations are in the Developing world. The lax nature of regulations in Asia make it easier to do "naughty" things and move up the ladder.
I agree, and would go further and argue that the lives of most middle class is perfectly fine right now.

I think the lives of the bottom 20% could be improved, and I think that we should ask those at the top 10% to help them out.

I think there are other more specific things we could worry about, like house prices out of control, nobody is paying to clean up the waste they produce, governments baling out rich people etc.

Talking about "inequality" in the abstract is not worthwhile.
What do you mean by "and that's if somehow Android moves to it as a first class citizen."?
> This is life, at some point it is thrust into your face that there are always other people who do what you do, and do it better.

This cannot be "always" true. Somebody has to be at the top of the game so it's a matter of discovering if you're at the top or not.
Last time I used Heroku for a real project, I just put the database somewhere cheaper (if i remember correctly, Azure). With proper encryption+authentication and a bit of strategic caching, it was fine.
The current draft of the paper:
https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric...
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It is already possible: var makes a variable function-scoped,
let/const makes a variable block-scoped.
Or are you referring to something else?
The Netherlands exports 10 times as much food as the UK with 1/10 of the arable land.

In the event of a crisis I am sure the UK would be able to ramp up their production and become more efficient.
> this is approximately the opposite of AML, but everybody keeps demonstrating that AML doesn't work

It's odd to make these claims simultaneously. That one, AML doesn't work. But that two, crypto's value statement is in circumventing AML. Which, per the first claim, doesn't work.

I get that the needle can be threaded by holding that an ineffective AML system can still be annoying. But if it's circumventable, that's just a cost. Which means we're comparing transaction costs versus fundamental aspects of differentiation.

At the end of the day, most people aren't money laundering. Having everyone who is money laundering self identify on a public ledger might be the solution the problem is looking for.
Wait, all mainstream economists put the blame on massive increase of regulation all around the developed world? I really doubt it's happened everywhere, from NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Portland, Seattle to Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, München, Vienna, Brussels, Amsterdam and so on.

Everywhere housing prices went way up, I doubt everywhere had the same issues with regulations since the 70s.

Now let's talk about cheap credit...
> 2) Custom silicon

I know about libresilicon [1], are there any others in this space?

[1]: https://libresilicon.com/
> The official demo apps were slow and janky. (hmm, reminds me of Flutter. I don't think these guys will be much happier with Flutter, honestly

The Flutter web demos are slow and janky on some devices and browsers due to depending on WASM, which isn't universally suppported yet. Mobile Flutter apps are sometimes slow ( e.g. the new Google Pay), but they have no obvious excuse to be ( UI in Flutter is really fast, 60fps all that).
FWIW I didn't read it as mean and hostile. It's just the reality - semantic web is here for 20+ years with very little penetrating mainstream. And huge amounts of efforts spent on the technology, filling the databases and creating tooling. What do you think is needed so that people actually use it and it solves some problems for them?
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100% Agree. Just add another point:

Rich people with supportive networks of course can pursuit their goals easier.

Occasionally people from not very good families can do this as well because they're so screwed by the environment and tried to get rid of everything in (the book 'Masters of DOOM' is an example assuming it doesn't try to be too dramatic).

It's much harder to do the same as middle classes with a lot of life obligations, distractions, and most importantly they are by default need to follow linear career developments - it's much harder to be adventurous to had drastic improvement compared to previous categories.
Lol. Today it seems people who use the phrase "far left" refer to people pointing out racism/sexism.

Seems like there's people even calling The New York Times far left these days.

Whilst 40 years ago it was workers strikes where they threatened to destroy an employer's assets or environmental activists attacking polluters.
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Elasticsearch is not a car manufacturer. They are an after market manufacturer for a car which they got without paying themselves.
Too many people completely ignore that the heart of Elasticsearch is Lucene. Elasticsearch adds things on top of it, but without Lucene it would be useless.
Elasticsearch is the same as Amazon here, but mentioning that doesn't make for such a nice narrative.
> it can't make their business unprofitable

Agree for drugs. Disagree for tax fraud.
> you're not getting use of something before you've paid for it

Except... that you are.

> You're paying for something as you use it, and getting a discount because you agreed you'd use it for a year.

So... you're getting the use of something before you've paid for the full year. That's a loan.
Most American and European cities are significantly less dense than their Asian counterparts. There's a long way to go before they reach any natural limits.
That's simply not true. Economists who try to explain the housing crisis have pointed to increased regulation, cheap credit leading to an asset bubble, speculation, ill-advised tax cuts for homeowners, NIMBYism (not by government but by current residents), irrational buy vs. rent decisions, changing preferences for city vs. suburb, relaxed downpayment requirements, changing lifestyles and demographics with bachelors and asset-rich elderly people taking up a lot of housing stock, population increases, stricter building codes and demands for comfort, the rise of short-term rentals for tourism, reluctance by governments and builders to look too far into the future in case demand collapses, and so on, and so on. If you'd have to pick one factor, I'd have to guess it's easy money leading people to buy more expensive homes than they ought to, which drives up prices, but it probably depends a lot from country to country.
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I will give him the benefit of doubt for now till there is confirmation
Economics aside, let's not forget that personal relationships are inherently unscalable.

Sure we can get "5 personalized minutes" with that superstar doctor or fitness instructor, but maybe we're missing out on more human connections with average locals.
Thinking if it's not a TOE it's a failure is shortsighted. Maybe it's a dead end. Maybe there's some insight that a future physicist will use as part of a better theory. Maybe the shortcomings can be addressed. We'll see.
> IMO it wasn't really a good decision from Ceph to use 100MB XFS partitions as a kind of database

It has been shown, that you are right. But not because of bugs like the one you encountered. The problem could as well have happened with a regular xfs fs holding a maildir.
I agree to a point. Wealth redistribution is a huge problem for individual freedom, but extreme wealth in equality is a big problem too.

My solution would be to let things fail. No more government bail outs. Let people take big risks but make sure it falls on them. Prevent Monopolies and keep everyone honest.
Great presentation!
I created something similar — a step-by-step Git implementation that is designed for teaching Git internals:

https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/
Exactly, I live in relatively wealthy Western Europe and emigrating to the United States would still be a hell of a lot of work.

It's not 1900 where you can just jump on a boat. Comments like the one you quoted just seem completely divorced from reality.