skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think calling it a wealth gap really misses the point - it's a stability gap. Most upper-middle individuals pass on socio-economic stability to the next generation. Most middle and lower class pass on instability. Wealth is a small part of it.
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I was hoping this is some new OOP technique... "ambiguous objects". The term awaits a consultant to make it shiny and attractive.
I was implying that the left does what the originally linked "offender" does all the time without scrutiny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_Uni...

^ Case in point, the first three paragraphs on illegal immigration to America contain no American conservative figures and/or counter points.

Now you can argue that the top 3 paragraphs are factual, and potentially the absolute truth of the matter. But I feel like that might be a little bit unfair if you catch my drift.
To me it sounds like the name was mocking the Americans, by renaming what the Americans considered "bitch" to United States, implying the US was the bitch.
> It can't because the demand is relatively inelastic. Heroin addicts gonna buy heroin. You make it less convenient, the price goes up, the drug cartels make more money and use the money to bribe whoever they need to or buy submarines etc.

That kind of addict is already spending 100% of their available money on heroin. Worst case the price going up means they take less, which seems like a somewhat positive outcome.

> And all the AML rules can ever do is make it more inconvenient to launder their money. Can't ever actually win that way.

You could say the same about every law. All you can do is make it more expensive; murder still happens despite all our efforts to prevent it. But you can make it rarer, make it a less profitable business. Eventually it becomes non-worthwhile for most of the people currently involved in it.
Why would you believe that adobe spent meaningful sums of money in preparation to service a license to run software on the users own hardware?
AML prevents very little money laundering but imposes a huge cost on everyone.

Before 9/11 it was possible for a foreigner to open a bank account in the US. It's now been 20 years since it is required to physically travel to the us to open a bank account.

Do you think that increases crypto demand or decreases it?
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Only about 1% of the flats in Berlin are empty. Rents have tripled in recent years.
(Among developed countries I'm familiar with) it's only the USA that has the excessively loud train horns at level crossings, and a lot of crossings. In Europe, lights, bells (or a beeper thing) and automatic barriers are used instead, sometimes with automatic or manual infrared/visible cameras to confirm the crossing is clear of road vehicles.
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If I'm an "artist", and I draw a horizontal line, and a "buyer" pays 7 figures for my "art", and I sort of know into exactly which account to deposit the payment: is that money laundering?

Or just a modern art?
Is AI colorization providing an accurate image of the past?
Weinstein works for Thiel btw.
Yes, that was it - I switched to Lightroom Annual before cancelling. Moved to outright buying Capture One, not for speed but image quality, colour rendering and controls are first rate, and Photo Mechanic for ingest.

Raster graphics - Affinity and an older Mac with Photoshop CS something :D
He has only chess content on channel. He reviews chess games. One of the biggest chess youtuber outside of the grand masters.
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

Baez should update this list to include: 20 points for publishing your theory only on YouTube.
I suppose your comment should also be removed algorithmically. It contains a word deemed offensive in modern vernacular...

Maybe we need less automatic moderation and more humans in the loop. Or just accept that sometimes content is just visible.
> the 6th-century pandemic was still responsible for destroying at least one-third of the eastern Roman Empire population, leading to its collapse.

Say what? What possible connection could there be between the plague of Justinian and the collapse of the Roman Empire several hundred years later?
Sorry if my comment came across as insensitive, especially since it's your own family history, but you should be aware that people might read your comment that way: "father was into gamling and drinking [...] So I don't think it's something you can solve with money alone". And yeah, the "working poor" I mentioned is a "first world issue" (even though, for the people involved, it's still not a good situation), other countries have worse problems (civil wars, rampant corruption etc.).
I think from Facebook's perspective, they will get more public anger and nasty articles written about them for hosting racist content than for taking down some chess video.
Gotta love blog posts piggy backing PG's thesis and recycling it.
In Turkey, in the last 10 years, the major money laundering ops revealed were done on gold, oil, water and food.
A) you have no idea about my genetics, but you assumed for some reason that I was limited by it

B) not sure what your sarcasm means in this case, that chances of me becoming next Tyson are non-existent? I acknowledge that, and found passion in something else. And you don't see me complaining everywhere that it is Tyson's problem that I didn't become world champion in boxing. Like it is a zero sum game somehow.
You could at least say we have made material progress, but as one of the millennial generation.
I have already seen like 3 major economic crashes, the west devolving into neo feudalism with how much house prices and rent has skyrocketed.
We are now living through what would have been a plague like situation, if it wasn't for the technological progress we made.

Imaging not knowing what we know today yeah people would have said God has forsaken us,
what sins have we done to receive the wrath of God.
I have a better idea, let's just ban English itself. After that we can ban any language that gets English level of popularity.
If it's clear he has the backing of Jimmy Wales (as evidenced by wikipedia's weirdly explosive reaction on twitter to people questioning this), what would be the point?
Yeah, as soon as I saw a mention of an app I stopped reading.

Why can't these things just use a key like most other powered vehicles!
It creates a massive market force to drive down sales taxes. You could imagine that most companies would want to be established with lowest sales tax so as to increase their profit margins or to beat the competitive price of goods and services.

So, now, you have a new problem. Top counties with lowest sales tax in the US will massively attract more businesses forcing the rest of the counties to reduce their sales tax too.

The entire problem boils down to federal vs. local control. US is structured with a balance between local, state and federal powers.
The text of the false advertisment is in the article... And the article claims it was false and misleading... But I don't see any claims in that advert that are clearly false, and it also doesn't seem particularly misleading.

What exactly was wrong it it./?
> I would expect a lot of the "but the gov will ban it" arguments to be significantly weaker...

Cryptocurrency supporters should be lobbying for government bans, not against them.

The most direct way to demonstrate that cryptocurrencies are truly decentralized and resilient to censorship is to subject them to unrelenting attack, most naturally in the form of legal crackdowns.
> Luck is, IMHO, a subjective feeling per se.

It is. But in the context of the discussion, the question is mostly around access to opportunities. And this access increases with the money you have.

> This depends on your career a lot, not just on net income. Some well-paid careers are notorious for being time-intensive and competitive to the threshold of burning out.

Once again, it means that you may not have enough money to afford having a vacation at any time.

> Where I live, the Holocaust and the Communist coup were two notable exceptions.

Ah, yes. Because these events are so common that Harvard graduates are uniquely unprepared for them. Unlike, you know, common folk.

If my memory serves me right, most rich folks successfully escaped both the Holocaust and the Communist coup. Unlike those who couldn't afford it.
I agree, but I’d add that hard working talented people can still do great things without money and despite difficulties. It’s just that the reach or scale is amplified by the money. Money and opportunity are amplifiers.

You can be the “Elon musk” of your world, that is you can hit the ceiling of what you were offered. Don’t compare yourself to Elon musk, compare yourself to what was possible for you.

Maybe that’s depressing for some people but I see it as liberating.
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Many will be, since you have to factor that it is not only the raw produce of food that needs to be calculated in the equation, but also all inputs needed in producing that food, e.g. fuel, fertilizers, equipment, energy.

Take Finland as an example (where I live.) In pure food output terms, we produce 80% of our consumption within the country, and import 20%. However, the means of production are very much dependent on importing - for example, energy from Russia. As a comparison, the import to export ratio for pure food output is only 50% in Sweden.

It is quite more complex than just looking at the output, and it wouldn't be uncommon to be caught with your pants down in a crisis situation. We had a minor scandal over here during COVID where the government National Emergency Supply Agency claimed to be 'all good' with the highly increased need for medical equipment - except turns out a lot of the protective equipments such as masks had been rotting in the various warehouses to the point they were unusable.
Every time I think about the climate and events like these, I'm reminded of when it rained for two million years - "About 232 million years ago, during a span known as the Carnian age, it rained almost everywhere. After millions of years of dry climates, Earth entered a wet period lasting one million to two million years." (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03699-7)
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So did Cloud 66
Whatever this piece is, it lost all credibility in my opinion when it started citing RT and Sputnik.
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There are all sorts of different schemes and they change with time. One I kind of knew about was a lot of drugs in the EU are traded for cash in Amsterdam. The cash was then put into the boot of a car and driven to Marbella where it was used to buy property. It affected me because I have a property there and one day they arrested half the lawyers in the area for facilitating that. I assume they are doing something a little different now.
Please note that it is actually unclear why his video was taken down. It's extremely common for chess videos to Feature the words "white", "black", "weak" and "strong".
Right or wrong, I found the initial subscription confusing and not clear the commitment was minimum 12months. I stopped using Adobe because of this.
If there is a cartel it is the government.

Pretty much every landlord (also developers) is out there to stab the other landlords in the back if they have the option, which they don't have. The price increase is purely driven by the availability of people who are willing to pay for the price increase and the landlords are not allowed to solve the problem.
A similar event happened in 1783 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki
Life expectancy is dropping like a rock, and that's a number with a little more rigor behind it than PG's moronic hand waving. The guy has no idea what he's talking about and comes across as incredibly desperate to justify obscene hoarding of wealth. He'll draw a line between any two data points you can dig up, no matter how distant and spuriously correlated, if it will allow him to fellate a few billionaires.

We get it, these people pay you. Just say it: "I can see nothing wrong with the current distribution of wealth because the lenses in my eyeglasses are actually solid gold, a gift bequeathed to me by the Duchess of Facebook." The guy needs meritocracy to not be a myth, because he's styled himself as some kind of kingmaker who can selectively pluck only the most deserving young founders from a bubbling vat of Stanford alumni DNA. It's been a good run, but it's just getting gross now.
Thanks for the response! Great to know it's on the way
Ah yes, the infamous canal milfoil problem.
So imagine a nuclear plant that saves costs by reducing safety margins. You have less redundancy in equipment and staff, less containment, or whatever. How do you accurately predict the risk? And what error would that risk have? Every single factor you are modifying can come together in weird combinations and has an error bar of its own. What happens when there is suicidal engineer + metal fatigue + unusual weather conditions? Ultimately this seems like a fools errand. The belt-and-braces approach is the only way humans have found to safely design complex inherently risky machines. And deviating from that creates Shuttle shaped clouds in the sky and Boeing shaped holes in the ground.
I think it increases the chance not of legitimisation but of a govt bailout when either (a) Bitcoin threatens to melt the planet or (b) bitcoin’s value collapses, because there isn’t a (c) I can see.
Ouch. So 30% per subscriber, not 30% per artist which is what we would usually mean by a cut. A classic instance of "two for you two, and two for me, too!".
You can't name it alphabets, It offends the 'reading challenged'
That one turned out to be a hoax: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-34918491
Not having much to add, but just wanted to say I'm also annoyed by not being able to track the 0 -> 1 increase in Prometheus (by functions like "rate")... Does anyone has a workaround for that?
Sounds like a great place to work. I wonder about the "young people with extraordinary ability" however. Surely they would have also succeeded with "older people with extraordinary ability"? (ok they probably would cost them more..)
He mentioned some current event keywords which might be the cause. Also, he has more subscribers than any grandmaster's channel as far as I'm aware.
in EU, governments are removing the "bank secrecy" so they will have access to everyone's bank account pretty soon. don't worry, it's for your own good.
I can recommend CapRover as a Heroku alternative: https://caprover.com
> Like it or not, ideally, there ought to be a slight bias in favor of the status quo in terms of revolutionary knowledge claims.

Slight bias should not entail preventing you defending your PhD thesis or throwing you out of the department.

> I feel connecting his theory to this general attitude serves to marginally discredit the latter in net. Which is why a group like Vice would pounce on a story like this.

I wonder how you would react if your life's work resulted you in being outcast from your community and not even given a chance to defend yourself. It is so easy to have no compassion from people you do not know personally. Maybe you should look in the mirror to find some more instances of horrible attitude.
Whilst the right certainly disliked Corbyn, his downfall was mainly due to his colleagues in his party, Labour.

So it was (also) left vs left.
Americans interested in inveighing against the rich don’t want to hear or think about people in other countries. Because if they do, then that means they are the rich and it muddies all their narratives about good guys and bad guys.

This is the same reason you see people talking about the .1% and then billionaires. Because they or people they care about fall into the 1% or the .1% so they have to push the boogeyman further out.
By now, the same should be true of CNN and NYT. Yet...
I moved from one of the shittiest Eastern countries to the "relatively wealthy Western Europe". And it was 2018 where I "just jumped on airplane".

How am I detached from reality when live in it?
> But if you follow some basic rules (finish high school, don't have kids before marriage, don't do drugs or smoke, minimise alcohol, eat healthy and exercise, don't buy things to impress others), you have a very good chance of being successful in life.

The discontent in millenials nowadays is exactly because they are peddled that fairy-tale myth.

"Get a degree and get a job, you can will be able to afford a house and a family with children."

It might have worked for the older generation but it sure as heck doesn't work now. Why do you think "hustle" culture is so pushed right now? Our parents didn't need to "hustle" to afford these basic things.
> grandmains

Gave me a good laugh
> 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.

A lot of the history of Mexican cartels was the government renting territory to all the cartels and actively supporting them as long as they played ball, because because that maximizes the ability to extract revenue from them and play them against them against each other when they get out of line.
The protocols and tech might be resistant to government crackdowns, but the user's being sent to prison for "illegal use of cryptocurrency" would certainly hamper use...
Not agreeing, but it is interesting viewpoint. Personally I have been involved a lot in the crypto space, and seen lots of bank account freezes and similar problems happening to crypto traders. Maybe sometimes there is something nefarious going on, maybe it was false positive, who knows. However, personally seeing this has affected me in a way where I don't really trust banks much. That has put me in a position where I have increasingly large position in cryptocurrencies.
I think you're being disingenuous. It's not on the manufacturer to make sure the product has the right price tag on it, but on the seller or shop. European shops put price labels on the shelves and their own tags on discounted or specialty goods.

The online retail problem is also trivially solved. If I got to the US version of any online shop as a EU resident I'm usually first greeted by a "which version do you want to browse" popup asking me if I really want the US version and not a different country. This affects the default language, currency and locale as well as pricing. There's no reason they couldn't ask for your zip code if they already have to do these calculations at checkout anyway.

The problem is that there's no reason US companies should do this because there's no competitive advantage in having transparent pricing. This would require legislation (probably at the federal level) but once there's regulations, you'd see these solutions pop up everywhere overnight.

It's funny to hear Americans lament about how it's hard to do business in the EU because of the many differences between countries and then turn around and use state or county differences as an excuse why it's "just too hard" to do what companies are doing in the EU. At this point I wonder if Californians are seeing the same "sorry, we can't figure out how to show you this website without harvesting your data" error pages on US news sites given how strict their new privacy laws are.
> Please stop repeating this anti-psychiatric talking point.

That's rich. Here's a prominent psychiatrist's view (who btw, supports and does prescribe amphetamine adhd medication):

"There's a lot of confusion around the difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine. On the one hand you have anti-psychiatry activists who will say that using Adderall for ADHD is exactly like giving kids crystal meth; on the other you'll have people who say that obviously normal amphetamine is okay, but meth-amphetamine is a demonic substance that will hijack your brain and destroy your life. The truth is more complicated.

Methamphetamine crosses the blood-brain barrier more effectively than unsubstituted amphetamine, but I'm not sure how much that matters since people take different doses of both, and a high dose of unsubstituted will end up with more reaching the brain than a low dose of meth. It seems to inhibit the dopamine transporter more effectively, which might matter, but I'm not enough of a pharmacologist to know how much. Meth takes effect more quickly, which seems to increase addictiveness in a sort of behaviorist sense where the sooner a stimulus gets reinforced, the more rewarding it will feel.

I think there's been a little bit more research since then, but the general takeaway - that the science doesn't support the vast gulf between these two drugs in the popular imagination - still seems true."[0]

[0]https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines
We've had multiple exploit chains so far thanks to wasm in v8. IIRC someone developed a full exploit chain to get persistent root on chromebooks with a bug in v8's wasm implementation as the starting point, got a big bug bounty out of that one. That particular exploit also involved some holes in the chrome extensions security model (I believe they addressed them)
Obviously then there should be an appeal process possible, but I'd rather have my content removed than some really bad stuff hanging around.
If you elide a store followed by a load, you can effectively treat memory as registers and include them in your renaming scheme.

I know Itanium didn’t work - but that’s because here the compiler is supposed to do all the reordering work. That’s different from allowing the compiler to explicitly define that instructions are independent by having more registers.
How has the "hollowing out" of the middle class been well observed when the data required to observe it is unreliable and shallow?
GP asked for evidence.

"Australia has done better than other countries" is correlation. Is it causation?
“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”
And yet the whataboutism (an old and tired rhetorical tactic) actually attempts to equate the situation for freedom of the press, civil rights, human rights and a functioning democratic/republic form of government in the USA and Russia. They are in no way equal to each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Russia
non-paywalled version -> https://outline.com/naVB6H
You understand semi-correctly. Here's my analysis on this from another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26659709

The suppliers didn't mothball the facilities (which are not at all antiquated, and are massively in use for other things), they just sold that capacity to less capricious customers.
We could call it the "Tower of Babel policy".
Obviously you would like to see all artists get paid a living wage in theory but the mechanism for "getting artists paid" that you actually support is one that excels mostly at getting Taylor Swift and her record labels paid, not the average musician.

So no, I don't think it is such of a straw man.

It's not the average musician who is affected by pirates. Spotify will send them $90 / month instead of $100 / month, maybe.
Geothermal is not uncommon here in Sweden, I think that some goes deep instead of wide maybe because we have a lot of rocky ground which is easier to drill into.

But like your article says the installation is too expensive for the expected savings. There is another problem you didn't bring up and is scalability, geothermal works fine for detached houses but not so great in a city where most of the energy goes to.

District heating is a great solution for denser population areas, here we burn trash and solve two problems, and in theory it can be combined with Geothermal heating