skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest reason we have mass inequality in America is low interst rates (leading to an asset bubble), the Covid wealth transfer to the rich (including free government subsidies and handouts), and mass immigration of low skilled people which increases competition and diminishes the earnings at the bottom end (although it benefits the rich who hire maids and employers like restaurants).

For other developed countries there multi-generational rich like the Wallenbergs and Ikea of Sweden. My guess is they are much wealthier as percent of GDP than America than American oligarchs. However the total 1% in the US is slightly more:

https://www.economist.com/business/2016/03/10/a-nordic-pyram...

“Credit Suisse, in its annual report on global wealth in October, pointed to findings that the richest 1% of Swedish households control 24% of the population’s total wealth, making it only a bit less unequal than India (25.7%). In contrast, Spain’s 1% control 16.5% of the wealth, and Japan’s only 4.3%.”
emule is also having releases on github under https://github.com/irwir/eMule
Cases when experts propose something and then elites disagree with the experts are not surprising. It is the default state of affairs everywhere in the world. That's a "dog bites man" situation---essentially a non-story.

What is really surprising (and revealing) is when elites do propose something and then experts follow along even though it runs against their previous opinion from just a week ago. For a vivid example: most experts before the pandemic agreed that masks help limit spread of respiratory diseases, yet nevertheless in the very first few weeks of the pandemic most of them followed along with the completely unscientific claim that masks do not help and that everyone should simply wash their hands instead. Likewise, we had expert voices making sophisticated arguments that shutting down international travel would do nothing to limit spread of the virus---a claim that a middle-schooler would call out as largely bullshit.
Although the big media outlets of the time (CBS, NBC, etc) have "lost" their footage, I specifically remember a reporter asking a question of a NYC Fire Chief (some borough), after the second aircraft hit.

Reporter: "what about the new that there will be a controlled demolition of WTC 7 because of fear of collapse?"

Fire Chief: "What? What are you talking about?"

Reporter: "There's a rumor that building 7 needs to be brought down due to damage..."

Fire Chief: "Listen miss, I don't know what you've heard, but there is no damage to building 7 and there's no reason to bring it down. If you suggest such a thing to someone else, I'll have you arrested for inciting a panic. We have a high amount of coordination and there is limited information available to the public."

There was more to it, but that was memorable because, as a kid, I realized something. In a real disaster situation, people would be getting conflicting information. During 9/11, it was a real disaster. Nobody seemed to know wtf was really going on or going to happen and the reporters were, notably, just in the way of the real work. Later, when building 7 fell, I thought...well...that's quite a coincidence. I don't feel it was a coincidence anymore.
It's no excuse for Gnome's designers to say "you're not my target audience."

Linux's default desktop UI should be good for all users. It's possible, and something to strive for.
Perhaps it puts them ahead, but they are coasting. BART and Muni ridership has for years been stagnant or declining, while the budgets explode and system speed and on-time performance fall apart.

Maybe Caltrain did marginally better? They added express services not that long ago.
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Planarity – Can you find the planar embedding?
Or as Bill Burr said [0]:

> (imitating a woman defending ridiculous divorce settlements): "That's what the law says!"

> (himself): "A hundred years ago I could beat you with a mop handle, that's what the law said! Doesn't make it right!"

[0]: https://youtu.be/x0gaYyNk7QA?t=603
Bad news CMB shifts into infrared, visible, uv, xray and then hard gamma.
> That link doesn't contain anything that justifies adding prolonged delays to applications.

It does in the context of usability:

> What I remember learning was that any latency of more than 1/10th of a second (100ms) for the appearance of letters after typing them begins to negatively impact productivity (you instinctively slow down, less sure you have typed correctly, for example), but that below that level of latency productivity is essentially flat ...

> That's for visual feedback that a specific input has been received. Then there'd be a standard of responsiveness in a requested operation. If you click on a form button, getting visual feedback of that click (eg. the button displays a "depressed" look) within 100ms is still ideal, but after that you expect something else to happen. If nothing happens within a second or two, as others have said, you really wonder if it took the click or ignored it, thus the standard of displaying some sort of "working..." indicator when an operation might take more than a second before showing a clear effect (eg. waiting for a new window to pop up).

> but this delay is tens of seconds.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that - in that case it's ofcourse unjustified and definitely a "dark pattern".
huh well thats fascinating.
Which Chinese country do you guys think pollutes the most?
Building Through Uncertainty
Miniblog on Generics
How would life-years be affected by economic and political changes needed to affect WHO standards and within what time frame?

See? It’s a hard problem. Humans are inherently chaotic.
> despite the rhetoric you'll find on Twitter, practically everyone who got the COVID vaccine did so because they didn't want to get seriously ill from COVID

slightly off topic, but I'll tell you that my main drive to get a vaccine was because if I got covid it would mean be stuck home in quarantine and avoid contacts.

Of course I would have done it anyways because I believe in vaccines and all that, but incentives are an angle that should be explored by rule makers.

GDO is a big polluter, let's tackle that issue before flooding the city centers with electric scooters that solve nothing and will be abandoned when they are not a novelty anymore and the cold season will knock on the door.

p.s. I live in Europe, Italy, and trains are quite good for long distances, unless you live south of Naples, and I've stopped flying from Rone to Milan 10 years ago.
Unfortunately high speed trains are not exactly cheap, but not more expensive than flying.
Safari exploits are also used to gain access to your device - so you'll have to stop browsing the web too ...
Leaves kill the grass. You want the grass to get light through the fall.
You also get adverts before you watch trailers (but trailers are ads!) and you can't watch the trailers full screen because if you rotate your phone it keeps the video small and puts lots of distracting text next to it.
>For someone who is anti-CCP,

You now get why it is pointless to argue with the Chinese. And Hong Kong wasn't returned to China. It was Handed over. You can also tell most of their assumption about China were taught when they were young. It is always hard to break those assumptions.

Most part of Hong Kong doesn't belong to China for close to 150 years. And you can read why they want Taiwan with so called unification. Taiwan wasn't even part of so called China for most of human history.

They also claims to be Anti-CCP. But have done absolutely nothing against CCP. But because their love of China they must save China first ( helping CCP ) before they somehow get rid of CCP. Oh the irony.
What you describe is matter of selection bias:

in fields as crowded as public health and medicine, experts voice all sorts of advice, citing all kinds of research, and often contradicting each other. At the end of the day, we regular citizens usually hear from those experts that got their voices amplified by operators of platforms (journalism, political institutions, etc.). In Robin's terms, the elites choose from the crowd of experts those that they like the advice the best.
My Jag is second hand classic. I use it mainly in the summer for short trips. My daily is hybrid.
But this is not the point. The point is that we have to find a way to optimize ideas and legislation towards reality, not towards some dream world. Legislation or not, to have electrical infrastructure and accessibility in place, combined with synthetic fuel will solve the problem.
So what? If it drives a few 10s of miles without burning gas, if everyone used them, that would eliminate probably 90%+ of emission pollution in cities.

I feel that the obsession with pure electric has crippled the fight against pollution and CO2 emissions. Every car with 20 miles of battery range is probably a lot more impactful in the fight against climate change than 10% of cars with 200 miles of battery range, and has fewer major tradeoffs (cheaper, limited range/recharging is not an issue, much less need to build an entirely new charging infrastructure).
Sounds just fine. The vaccine is doing its job. Time to let the virus rip through the unvaccinated and let them face the consequences
Nobody has ever succeeded in having a rich economy without inequality, though many countries have tried it.

For just one example, SpaceX would not exist without inequality. Nor that supercomputer in your pocket.
I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but the Delta variant is so contagious that your immunocompromised mother-in-law is likely to be exposed eventually no matter how many people are vaccinated. There will be no significant herd immunity effect.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

The Delta variant causes more younger people to be hospitalized just because there are more infections total. There is no reliable evidence that Delta causes more severe symptoms.
1. For one, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br... -- the jury still seems out as to by how much exactly the spread is prevented, it seems to depend on the vaccine and social demographics of the population studied. But at least for vaccines approved for use in the US and EU, the reduction seems significant.

2. I mean, this whole discussion is rather about the merits of vaccinations no?

> ... I just took that argument to its logical conclusion ...

This is just dishonest and misleading chain of reasoning:

- Law enforcement and public health are both public resources, yes, but of different nature and not comparable. I thought that's rather self-evident. Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that law enforcement is indeed stretched thin, aiding law enforcement takes on an entirely different form than aiding the public health sector.

- Encryption is not analogous to vaccination passports at all. It's not even an apples to oranges comparison, more like, apples to cars.

Please, do learn how metaphors work.
> Eh. I have seen conflicting data on this. For example, some studies attributed only 1% of COVID spread to indoor dining (sorry in advance, I don't have a citation)

This is pretty useless without details on the study conditions. If the study includes a population for which indoor dining is allowed 10% (on a per capita per day basis) but masks are mandated in other venues at a 0% rate, then the proportional amount of spread drom indoor dining should much lower that if the data is collected where indoor dining is allowed 100% and mask mandate coverage is 100%.

Similarly, if you don't bother to wear a mask in other indoor settings, indoor dining won't be as high among your risks. If you work from home, always mask everywhere and are very careful with social distancing, and have a similarly cautious bubble, indoor dining will probably be among your highest risk.

I mean "should" as in "if managing your covid risks is something you care about, this is a low impact way to reduce those risks when your local situation makes that important." Since I am not advocating any externally imposed restrictions, I think you are reading things into my comment that aren't there.
Okay in hindsight, my words were a bit harsh.

I do wish the article would cover some of the nefarious aspects of small business sectors in the USA.
Non-citizens do not have the right of citizens, you might have known already, but one can be denied the green card and/or not allowed into the country for having a communicable disease like AIDS or TB. If I follow your logic, it's okay to have AIDS, TB, leprosy, etc. passports too?
"Fetishizing" RCTs (i.e. realizing their importance) is a source of no harm, because it is the best design we have to determine whether some intervention actually helps people live longer or better. Effects from other kinds of studies should of course be weighed accordingly. Fetishizing observational/non-random studies is the source of harm. Taking the Tdap is very unlikely to hurt you, but calling this single study "astonishing" and implying that it indeed shows a 40% reduction in risk (it doesn't) is hyperbolic.
The problem with these indicators is that, although they may indicate over- or undervaluation, they tell you nothing about when a mean reversion will happen.

As Keynes famously said: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

An indicator that does a pretty good job of signaling the "when" of a recession, and by extension the likely "when" of large market corrections, is yield curve inversion. It predicted the recession of early 2020 quite well, even with the external shock of the pandemic.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leonlabrecque/2020/02/26/anothe...

From the perspective that somehow a reset of the business cycle has happened through government transfers (not exactly a sound assumption), watch interest rates, and in particular the relationship between the 2 and 10 year.

Should we start to see a rise in short-term rates, without a similar rise in long rates, watch out. You'll no doubt see a multitude of articles explaining how "this time is different." It won't be. And on top of all of that, we'll head into it with the most overvalued market in history.
I probably couldn't have saved Mozilla given all their constraints and baggage. But on market share, I am confident I did something right since Mozilla. Brave is heading toward 38M MAU this month while Firefox has lost 50M users since 2018. Brave was small in 2018, and we've shown consistent monthly, steady low-exponential growth since, so much of our growth may have come from Firefox (but we aim to pull from Chrome).

I hope you can get over your anger at me and comment on market share. Excusing Mozilla's woes with "no CEO could have done better" hypotheticals is weak. Such CEO performance should in any event not be rewarded with >$3M/year.
That's awesome!

But be aware (i.e. "beware") that Apple can pull the rug out of unpublished APIs, without warning.

I have been caught out, by this, myself.
>> Americans die more from car accidents, not because our fatality rate per mile driven is unusually high but because we simply drive so much more than people in other countries.

This is ridiculous. I've lived over a decade on both continents and it's not the number of miles/kilometers driven that matters, it's how terrible American drivers are. In the USA I see things every 15 minutes on the interstate that in Europe I would have called the police on.

American culture seems to have this endless desire to grow, improve, escalate, promote, hustle. It permeates every single aspect of life, from home buying to what is put on the dinner table.

Live fast, die young, I guess.
They start to decompose and get slippery pretty quickly. It’s a safety concern.
For reasonable functions f:R->R, yes, the gradient of the graph of the function is the value of the derivative at that point.

But "Gradient" is a term that's used in wider contexts, so the real answer is "it depends". But I've had a look at this page:

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

And that really does say that the "Gradient" is basically the derivative, suitably generalised for larger dimensions.
For me qbittorrent offers more bang for the buck and is just as stable and fast as transmission. The killer feature for me has always been the ability to bind it to a network interface that placed it a big step above transmission. I have used both quite a bit in the past.
This is nonsense. The word terrorism dates back to the French Revolution and Britain dealt with many bombings from the IRA before 1996 (as well as earlier Irish republicans, militant suffragettes, etc.)

Child exploitation has been a known problem for a long time too. I think it is easy to brush off as a problem that doesn’t really exist if it is very distant from your experience of the world (eg how many paedophiles do you know?) but my understanding is that tech companies with user-generated-content deal with an absolutely horrific amount of CSEM. I don’t think it is reasonable to simple talk about liberty and brush the problem away when it comes up.

Internet-based communication and encryption change the possibilities for communication and it seems hard for laws to be particularly helpful in achieving a state that is good for liberty and good for society.

Personally, I think it is a good thing that, end-to-end encrypted group chats are somewhat limited in size, 256 for WhatsApp and 1000 for signal. I think 1000 is too many. In liberal democracies, I think at some group size, free speech ought to be semi-public speech too (though I guess it can be with informants within the group)
At this point the Delta variant has effectively out completed everything. The chance of exposure to any other variant is low.
Agreed. The latest Debian upgrade installed pipewire for me, and I didn't even notice, everything just worked fine! And that after years and years of fiddling with alsa and pulseaudio configs, uninstalling pulseaudio, hacks upon hacks to get stuff working with either, etc.
The bbc is garbage. Stop sharing it. Also the Met commissioner is an idiot and no one should listen to her
I read it. It estimates $10k of operating expenses right after $11.4k gross margin on fuel. Why would you think I hadn’t factored that whole paragraph into my $1500/mo?

To your point in the other thread, you’re right that some of typical operating expenses happen because of the convenience store. It’s possible to run pumps with no store partially unmanned and make money (you see this at some rest stop gas stations on interstates, for example, or some grocery store lots.) However, those are blessed due to unusual location and not attainable for most owners, so they need to run a more complex and attractive operation.
It’d be quite nice to help them. The SF budget certainly tries, though $50,000 for a tent is a little on the steep side.

“Free rein to abuse the subway system and its riders” is however a policy with very limited utility when it comes to helping people, and the costs are very high. Transit systems should keep them out insofar as they are not engaging in transit.
My neighbor has one, but I think he often uses more time working on it than with it. I've considered one, but honestly, it's just my driveway and I'm (still) relatively young so I can shovel for now.
You're right, but I also think that lets the ad networks off the hook too easily for something they really could do more to combat if they felt like it.

Maybe there's a useful analogue in tort law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine

You've got a thing, and your thing is fine, but negligently allowing others to harm themselves (or in this case, third parties) with said thing can be a problem.

For instance, an ad network could decide to serve only static content and not accept any third-party js, greatly reducing the odds of someone coming along and using the network as a vector for malware. But the network has no incentive to do this because they make more money the other way. If they're made to cover some of the externalities of their product, they gain an incentive to not serve malware.

Running an ad network that accepts and distributes dynamic content is like leaving loaded firearms scattered around your property (in a jurisdiction without special safe-storage laws, I guess - the analogy isn't perfect).
It's always the means of production, the means just change with the era.
What is implicit & unsaid here is that this meaningful non-ego-driven work is necessarily for-profit.

Because, for instance, Pfizer is not going to spend money doing this science without an innovation that pays off by being licensable or profitable in some other protected way.
The commercial web devoured the concept of the internet as a place where information was freely shared between any and all minds. I exported my bookmarks frequently all the way back to the 90s, and practically none of the dozens and dozens of communities that I was a part of as late as the 00s are still around.

I remember the year when the ad people started bullying the fan sites off the web because they were "stealing from creators"... by driving clicks away from traffic whoring aggregators that were worse, less curated, depersonalized, less focused in every way than what they cannibalized.

The modern web feels so empty and full of darkness in comparison. Nothing in it seems like it matters unless it enriches someone else's mission of accumulating wealth, and everything else is villainized that doesn't signal loudly for the sake of the dragons how much it costs to keep the lights on.

And I just realized the irony of saying this on HN.
Those two experiences you want to avoid in the future, and which define you behaviour (modelled on the impact of the bullets you may get, not on the non-impact of the bullets you may miss).
Debian 11 doesn't make pipewire replace pulseaudio, alsa or jack.
What about all the cheaper labor in other countries with more lax environmental and labor laws, not to mention being cheaper simply due to being further back on the development timeline? And automation obviating roles quicker than people can or are willing to be retrained to more in demand roles?
qbittorrent-nox also exists if you like qbittorrent
> The biggest reason we have mass inequality in America is low interst rates (leading to an asset bubble), the Covid wealth transfer to the rich (including free government subsidies and handouts), and mass immigration of low skilled people which increases competition and diminishes the earnings at the bottom end (although it benefits the rich who hire maids and employers like restaurants).

Mass inequality predates all of these things by a significant amount of time. Covid is like 2 years old, and low interest rates like 15. Mass immigration of low-skilled people is something that's happened throughout the entire lifespan of the US, although I don't know that you're specifically talking about the US. There's no time of a lack of low-skilled immigration to compare to. If you're American, and not a native or the descendant of a slave, you are 98% likely the result of low-skilled immigration.
FWIW, my reading of the tea leaves is that fat alone is fine, sugar alone is bad, and sugar+fat maybe worse.

The basic logic of the anti-sugar sentiment is this:

Excess of blood sugar is toxic and so it triggers a shot of insulin, intended to drain sugar from the blood and hide it in various places: the muscle tissue, the liver, and last resort - the fat cells. Normally it works just fine, but sometimes the system gets overwhelmed with a big sugar rush and starts producing too much insulin, draining too much sugar, overshooting the target, causing hunger, craving for more sugar, and eating more sugar. The human then goes into the infinite loop of sugar binging accumulating fat on the go.

Now if you add dietary fat into the mixture it's possible that the fat cells will suck it up too. That I don't know for sure.
It's strange that your other peers didn't pick up the missing pieces.
Sorry it doesn't take hours for transmission or qbittorrent or their cli versions to compile. It takes minutes even on old hardware.