skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's fair to say that MacKenzie Scott or the Waltons didn't earn their wealth. I mean I am on conservative side economically but the case of MacKenzie Scott seems like a classic "we form a team, split tasks and try to do as well for ourselves as we can" kind of deal. Exactly the way marriages should be. If a family runs a business and a lot of family members are involved one way or another it's not fair to say the wealth is inherited. Nor is it fair to say a wife who supported her husband in both everyday and business matters didn't earn her wealth.

As to sources: what politically motivated newspaper claims in an opinion piece isn't meaningful. I look at the list of richest Americans and I see the vast majority (90%+) or even all of them were involved in building the fortune.

When googling around for numbers it seems most sources claim that vast majority of world population millionaires are self made and even bigger percentage of billionaires are.

Personally all the people I know who did well for themselves didn't inherit anything. I am sure my perspective is shaped by being born in a very poor communist country but it seems the actual numbers worldwide don't contradict my intuition that fortunes bigger and smaller are mainly built and rarely inherited.
Not to mention that a very large number of homes in Western Washington are at least 80 years old. The house I live in was built in 1919. It's wood construction and has been gutted/remodeled, but it's also been added onto at least once and has no real foundation, but I think it might be a pier and beam type. An earthquake of large size, 7.0+ will probably cause major damage. For reference, I live near Chehalis, WA.
I once got stuck walking on a board walk behind an elderly man in a g-string european type swimwear in Hawaii. Looking at his extremely wrinkled ass, I quickly realized this man was addicted to sun bathing. Coming from a northern part of the world, did not know that was a thing. He looked about 70, formerly a white guy. So perhaps some people can develop some way of dealing with skin damage from the sun. The man needed to be studied by science. His immune system was trained to kill cancer cells daily.
Just the notion that it might be for sale, in the sense of giving up sovereignty is beyond ridiculous. The brazilian constitution doesn't even allow that possibility.

And how much would be the offer anyway?

Just the internal GDP of the North region is circa 100 billion USD with tremendous potential to grow ( ecotourism, gold and diamond mining, high value exports like tonka beans, plus hydropower) , so anything less than 1 trillion USD wouldn't even be a good start.

The brazilian economy doesn't lack capital, it lacks proper institutional levers, which in the long term screw up even petrodollar volumes of investment.

And good luck holding it in place WITHOUT further deforestation .. Since it's a hotpot of illegal activity such as drug trafficking , mining, etc...
They've already banned foreign spectators, there will be no tourism boom.
For me, it was a Kurdish soldier on the ground getting shot in the head with a AK from point blank. There were no bits and fragments flying around, his skull just broke apart and his head flattened uncannily like a squished rubber toy and his eyes popped out.

In another video, a ISIS (?) soldier gets shot in the head, and falls to the ground. We see him struggling to get up while a viscous red liquid pours out the side of his head. Just pours out. No pink mist or giblets. He didn't die instantly.

This broke the preconceptions I had from movies and videogames. I consider it an important milestone.
I get what you are saying. But for some folks even few days per week of avoiding commute hell and general dreariness of office is better than everyday at workplace. I'd be happy if my employer allows that.
My post wasn't really about esports, but I'm happy to chat about it.

Overwatch was built intentionally to be a game that fostered an esports community. Jeff had a big part in the esports aspect of Overwatch in that the game was meant to be their gateway into LoL-esque esports. They wouldn't have made Overwatch at all had they not been interested in getting involved in esports seriously.

> I tried to get into Overwatch League, but found it hard to watch. All the rich colors and scenery of the game drowned out by the ugly monochrome of team colors. All the rich sound effects of the game drowned out by the world's most annoying casters. (Seriously, who hired these people!? Are real sports like this?)

It sounds like you just don't really like sports/esports. The casters are a big part of the experience. The game would be awful/unwatchable without them.

The viewing experience for Overwatch is terrible. There's too much going on, and if you're not actively involved (playing), it's just awful. Colors and lights everywhere, weird sounds, orbs flying all around etc. I think Overwatch is kind of a failure in that regard as well.

> Jeff's a good dude, and I do worry about the future of the game without him

I suspect there will be massive improvements relatively quickly.
Why does it have to be? We have plenty of resources. Everyone can have the bottom levels of Maslow’s hierarchy. Everyone!

Today is today, not “nearly all of human history.” Who cares about “nearly all of human history?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Yeah it's sadly the same with odysee and other alternative sites.
Whatever happened to nanotechnology? I thought by now we'd have robotic nanoprobes that do maintenance, such as zapping cancerous cells or removing atherosclerotic plaques from our bodies. But zip, nada, nil.
> I can name three different ex-colleagues at three different companies all making well over 100k a year and they're all still writing JQuery.

And when they next apply for a job the recruiters will hang up because they don't have x years of $hotNewTech. Sure they'll probably land a job sooner or later anyway or may be able to rely on word of mouth, but it does give you less opportunities. The jobs they're being rejected for are run of the mill ones too, nothing to do with "striving for the top".

Of course this is stupid and anyone with experience should be able to pick up $hotNewtech easily, but it's how things currently work.
Icon (the successor to Snobol) was one of the few languages that enlarged my brain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)
My relative tells everyone that "this whole covid panic" is blown out of proportion - he got covid and it was "meh, no worse than flu" for him
Not really. Though they often did want a method to spread their videos, the West lacked any of the real context behind such videos turning it into outrage fueled Western propaganda. I expect the videos sparked far more Islamaphobia than radicalization.
I think what they meant to say is that our economic setup has an enormous impact on our mental health. We're treated like labor robots ("human resources") with the constant looming threat of unemployment, having every last bit of value squeezed out of us so that shareholders can get a few extra cents out of their Chucky Cheese tokens that entitle them to absentee ownership of some resource they've never lifted a god damned finger to produce. Not to mention there's an enormous apparatus designed solely to convince us to buy useless trash that we don't need in order to support the very system continuously bending us over a barrel.

But hey, here's some fucking happy pills, now get back to work.
The case seems strong. Out of all of China, Covid-19 emerged near a Virology Institute which was conducting gain of function research on this exact type of coronavirus at low biosecurity levels. This is 1500km away from the natural origin of the bats it comes from.
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Can you provide a discussing on why / why not? Not necessarily here, but somewhere? Very interested to hear.
40 hours is an arbitrary number. There is no reason it could not be something less. The 8 hour workday is just a recent convention.
Tone aside, she is not wrong though. At this point, there are only two groups of people who are clearly incentivized for the Olympics to happen: the IOC, which would lose all the revenue; and the athletes who would "age out" for the 2024 games. Why should an entire city, even an entire country, bear the cost for just a few?
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That does sound very painful and agreed it's a bad way to treat a customer.

BUT the one part I'm confused on: for January - April of 2021, were you actually not billed $4k each month?

If you weren't billed for 4 months, wouldn't you have noticed that when you look at your finances each month?

Note: I'm assuming $4k will be one of your larger monthly expenses as a non-VC startup. And even if $4k/mo isn't a huge expense, making sure it's paid is in the critical path of an essential service you have. Now, I'm not saying that a small (small as in # of employees) startup must verify that each vendor is charging them the correct amount each and every month, but if you had previous pain with them, adding a monthly TODO seems like a good idea to protect your business.
Hosting can cost quite a lot, these days usually due to data transfer but storage and compute can certainly pile up.
> “There’s no one trump card, no one criteria really that can tell us this is absolutely, without a doubt melanoma.”

Does this bother anyone else? I really hope that level of uncertainty doesn't extend to too many other types of cancers...
I agree the children entity ID must be already unique without having to use the parent entity id.

It's just that in my experience have the children table primary b-tree sorted on ParentID then childrenID make join much more efficient unless you can use table interleaving like in Google SpannerDB https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-and-data-model#...
Did you mean "monopsony"?
Felt like a complete idiot, I guess I'm not smart enough to use AWS's UI in a safe way. When we start trusting tools, we inevitably become complacent. Some user flows are designed to be gotcha's. A little gotcha machine that generates |cost - refund| revenue. They gotcha, and there's nothing you can do about it but beg them for a (usually partial) refund. The refund is the thing that makes you feel better about it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was recently cancellng my service at https://www.greenlightcard.com/ and it took me 30 min of my life. I was so annoyed about it. But this is an example how such laws could be useless unless they are enforced. I am in California and created my subscription online, yet Greenlight gets away with forcing me to call them to cancel. What do I do? Sue them? I do not have time or money for that.
So the car is detecting the pothole itself? What's the point then? Cars could potentially do this now without any rfid-in-the-road silliness. What problem is this solving?
Erm, compared to GUI interfaces, shells really do have very low discoverability. Someone really new to the shell could stare at their terminal emulator for months before they would even come up with "ls".

Yes, shells can be made more interactive, but that requires setup and prior-experience and know-how. How would someone new know to install zsh and something like ohmyzsh?
I’d say this is perhaps a bit of a violent oversimplification, but still contains some useful perspectives. Work to live, don’t live to work.
Each Bitcoin is 100,000,000 satoshi. So the actual max supply is 2,100,000,000,000,000.

It’s effectively infinite supply.
Not sure it's gotta be so gloomy. You can still work from the mountains very, very comfortably at 50% of a SV salary.

If you aren't working for a major publicly-traded big tech firm, chances are this is not going to be happening to you in the first place. Big tech's motivation for doing this is clearly cost-cutting and avoiding liabilities they cannot yield total control over. If Google can't get you fat & giggly on paternalistic "benefits," hosted on their corporate campus, they're afraid you won't become the subservient non-skeptical workhorse they believe they need. So, they've got to start finding ways to offset the costs they believe will be coming from having employees who aren't being dominated under the total surveillance and control of Google's ever-present watching eyes.
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10+ of my co-workers at Google have left for permanent wfh positions in the last month or so, I suspect that significantly influenced their decision to change their stance.
Before that, their attitude was "people will vote with their feet" and when people started actually voting with their feet, this got announced pretty quickly.
Nice. A road that serves you ads. The future sucks.
Baudrillard himself freely admitted at the time that his work was not meant to be taken as "political analysis," or even poetry. He is quoted as suggesting it be read as a SF novel, even :)

I usually don't read French philosophers, but when I do, I simply take it as an elaborate language game. It's like enjoying any team sport, where when one players says, "we are going to crush them!", it's generally not an actual plan involving physical crushing. In this case, I see Baudrillard simply using the idea of the Gulf War, to make a point about the larger context in which it took place - the media images, the self-stylings of various leaders, how it was commented on, etc. It was the world's first "cable news war," and while Baudrillard was not alone in noticing this at the time, certainly he had anticipated it in his previous writings on simulacra and hyper-reality.
There are differences in the "totally unnecessary technology" treadmill. If some employer says "I want to build this product on Azure. I heard it's hot. Oh and use Mongo DB too, and use Go" when it would be sufficient to just spin up some sqlite-backed simple thing in Python on one low-end colo box, it's still unnecessary technology, but I'd definitely enjoy learning it. Those pieces of tech would also be good resume fodder for future jobs too.

When I have to learn some NIH-based technology that poorly copies something widely used (e.g. the place I currently work at has some custom language to generate "template instantiations in C" and some half-assed hideous clones of protobufs and grpc), I can't bring myself to care or really do my job.

Thank goodness this pandemic has made it easy to spend large portions of my day on leetcode / the CRLS algo book without anyone looking over my shoulder so I can get outta here!
Yes, ProcMon is the Windows equivalent of strace, with some filtering capability built-in. It also shows you the stack involved with a particular event, which can be useful for diagnosing the otherwise black box that is Windows. Eg [1]

[1]: https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/138#issuecomm...
"Pillage" is a little hyperbolic, and while I agree that it's probably not worth it, that giving up like that feels very un-Japanese.
Not a contradiction in any way, but you reminded me of the dark side of academia and offices with a story I heard from my local university.

They had a new building constructed, including a very coveted corner office. A student organization was absolutely delighted when they received that corner office, and thought it was a sign of growing appreciation for their work. Turns out, it was actually a way out of a political quagmire: professors had fought for that office so bitterly that it had gotten to a web of "ok, I will accept that you're not giving it to me, as long as X doesn't get it either". The student organization wasn't really hated by anybody enough to be part of this web, so they got it just as a way to avoid pissing anyone off too much.
https://www.manning.com/books/kubernetes-in-action

One of the very few programming books I recommend to people. It's wonderfully written, easy to follow and for me, was a page turner.
I’ll get crucified for saying this here, but you could run it on an M1 Mac
Discord does something very similar
What's sad here is that loss of face and sheer inertia seem to be the primary (only?) reasons the Olympics are still going ahead. Japan's vaccination rates remain pathetic, since only 2% have had even a first shot, so even without the Olympics there's a real risk of one of the new variants laying waste to Japan's elderly population. Something like 8 Olympic torch bearers have already come down with COVID, and they had scheduled the world's oldest person to take part until she wisely pulled out.
No, that's just the Ise Grand Shrine.
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Section b is relevant though. It lays out some vague terms about how they have to provide service.

Like most laws, this one is poorly written and open to interpretation. The way I wrote it is the way it was conveyed to me by a lawyer who works on this kind of stuff, but of course we will never know for sure until it hits a court case.
That isn't what is happening, and it says right in the article that this is a commodities boom. Those are absolutely cyclical and act as a brake on the economy similar to rising interest rates. They don't runaway.

I swear everyone has turned into a 2003-era Gold Bug blogger and sees Zimbabwe everywhere.

Eventually the average person and the average business gets overleveraged and spending contracts, then the bubble pops and deflation rips through the economy again. What we're seeing here is a lot of pent up demand due to the pandemic being unleashed. This is not runaway hyperinflation.

And eventually bitcoin is going to pop and Millennials that have been using a basketfull of cryptocurrencies as their retirement 401(k) are going to be desperate for cash.
I typed .doc without a TOPIC and poke segfaulted. Oh well.

The hex editor I rely on for multi-GB files is ired.
Google boss emails staff detailing return to office
Excel already has add-ons to pull in data from CRMs such as Salesforce.
Do you also allow remote work from outside the US? I have lots of backend en service mesh experience.
The thing is that it just doesn't have to be this way anymore. We'd all need to work somewhere around 8h a week to produce enough food, housing and energy to survive.

Instead we make up bullshit jobs and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to convince people people they should be unhappy with what they have, while structuring the necessities for life and social function around extractive institutions.
Are augmented humans the future of war?
That's something you probably have to figure out yourself, the answer is different for everyone. Doesn't have to be that drastic. Maybe the one obvious thing I often see a lot of people are reluctant about is quitting their job. If it's not fun just quit. Try a new company, if that isn't working either, quit and try again. At least something is changing, eventually you'll either find something good or figure out something else to do.
It's more economical only if the original buyer is there to reap the benefits of the durability. Because American houses change hands so fast, durability is the next guy's problem.

This is exacerbated by the fact that a huge number of homes are built by developers who want to sell the thing as soon as it's built, and then move on.

In a long-term, societal sense, you're right that it's kind of irrational. It's really unfortunate.
I disagree. Depression appeared in humans for a reason. It is possible that one of the results of it, and the reason it sticks around is because there is value to it, even if it is exceedingly painful. Regardless, having a reason to endure, even if incorrect, has value in and of itself, even if you don't see it.
> Well, again no, as collectively the pool of waiters that cover for sick waiters is the same pool that call in sick -- it is some extra volatility in hours worked,

But if waiters called in sick less would there be less waiters, and some of the waiters would instead be doing something else productive?

> Depression may be just the mental price of brains capable of risk assessment or deep thought

Isn't inability to accurately asses situations objectively and difficulty focusing both symptoms of depression? That seems the opposite of risk assesment/deep thought.
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For me, I carefully structure my life so that I have time for a few ideas.

Not many ideas really. Usually its one or two. Maybe for a few months, years or several years.

And then I build them because I am a programmer.

The other option, for people who have money, is to create an inspiring vision, a mission, and a useful plan for accomplishing it. The use your large wallet to hire the best people you possibly can who really align with your mission. Make sure they stick to the vision and the plan. Re-iterate it if they deviate. Fire them if they really insist on going off in a different direction or if they don't perform. But at the same time, you need to be able to recognize when parts of the plan need to be updated. To avoid having to do that too often, its best to hire extremely talented people to maintain the lower-level plans.
> However I don't think any cloud provider has taken any moral stance on the content they host other than the bare minimum legal requirements

So what happens if a law like FOSTA-SESTA comes along and threatens legal penalties for cloud providers like AWS who knowingly host porn? Wouldn't that change "the bare minimum legal requirements"? And then later, the US, Canada, EU, and other countries sign a treaty to regularize "sex trafficking" laws and Canadian payment processors drop OF and similar?

Yes, of course some of them will go further offshore, into the fringes of the internet, to find hosting, but it will still hurt them, just like the way torrent sites have been hurt by similar moves? https://torrentfreak.com/googles-new-downranking-hits-pirate...