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"The media" is generally a series of for-profit corporations that wish to maintain an audience by any means possible, and also have major business interests in front of Congress.

When the OP says "politicians prefer it when objective media goes away and gets replaced with advocates" and you say (paraphrasing) that "the objective media has responded to financial incentives and become advocates [so they can gain viewers and credibility with Congress]" you aren't saying anything different. You're just describing a situation in which societal and political incentives were changed to disincentivize the financial benefit of responsible reporting, and both media companies and politicians are responding to those incentives.

To then say "gosh I'm really mad at the media because they're bad" is like being mad at raindrops because they're wet. If you don't like the situation, propose an actual political or policy change that will improve the situation. I see too many people saying "I hate the media, and [my preferred politicians] rail against the media, ergo I will vote for [my preferred politicians]" failing to recognize that this dynamic simply reinforces the feedback loop rather than changing anything.
Huh. I didnt know you could do anonymous lichess games. I've always gotten very anxious playing chess as despite being very very bad, I've wanted to cling to every point of ELO i had.
Nothing lasts 'forever'.
The fact checking websites are the media.
> he's not gaining wealth to the tune of more than $13,000,000 dollars per hour while his employees are making $18 an hour because he's creating about a million times more value

He gains that wealth because he took the risk and invested his money into a company that provides a huge amount of value to a massive amount of people. A large amount of people now increasingly value his company highly, believing that it has good future prospects.

He is extracting practically nothing from the company itself or the workers. His wealth increases only because people in the market value the company highly, and he owns a large portion of the company.
I peaked at 1800 USCF. People above that level could press home an opening advantage that I wasn't prepared for. Below that I could win enough games on a sharp, open game, even if I were technically a bit behind a pawn or fraction from the opening.

It felt like up to 1800, everyone is just better at the same game. Above that level there starts to be more coherence to everyone's game. Above 2000 there seems to be a sophistication to the game that can appreciate when I see it, but can build it myself.
I liked this comment from the article:

Focusing on the redistribution of income and goods is natural for today’s progressives, who tend to emphasize the virtue of equality. One lesson of the Everything Shortage is: You cannot redistribute what isn’t created in the first place. The best equality agenda begins with an abundance agenda.
Yeah this is just as valid. I needed something to sink my teeth into, so I’ve been more interested in the improvement and learning side. The bonus is that games get more fun the better you get, until very recently I just found my own play frustrating, hanging pieces and falling for simple tactics.
I assume at that point once you're inside, someone could just call and ask you to prop the door open?
I'd be happy with just an optimized strict subset of python that uses type annotations to compile performance critical functions like cython. Mypyc sounds like an attempt at that but doesn't seem to be constraining the language enough to allow it to shed the dynamic nature of the language. Another similar effort was EPython, but it doesn't look like anyone is working on it.

I guess Numba would be the closest thing to this at the moment.
That is a part of it. Some organizations were better than others, but for certain publications/channels, it felt like their sole purpose was to coax the american public into endorsing another war, using whatever rationalizations necessary.
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Because Twitter isn't as wide as Facebook (in number of products), and because its primary features aren't as algorithmically tweaked?
Louder with Crowder? Really?

Well he certainly is familiar with bias. I'll give you that.
Chromium seems consistently faster than Firefox to me, and I'm pretty sure that many other people have noticed this, too.

The Chromium development team intentionally optimizes for speed (at the expense of higher memory usage) more than the Firefox team does - and, if you want, you know, long battery life, this seems ideal.
> If you get rid of the GIL you have to replace one big lock with a bunch of very small locks, which actually hurts performance for programs which only need 1 core, which is most programs.

Python could do what most other languages do and allow programmers to explicitly add locks to the code that needs to be locked, rather than locking everything, all the time.
I get most of your point, except the one about "being against burning plastic for energy" - looks to me that simply burying it somewhere would be best for the environment.
Correct, but this is the same legal exposure of uploading any copyrighted material (eg songs, movies).
Thanks for the high value response!

I was less trying to make a bumpersticker point and more fishing for interesting perspectives like these to broaden my understanding of complex political/economic issues.
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This entirely fails to explain how 1) this a loophole 2) how this has disparate impact, and the sad punchline of your statement is “pay your fucking fair share” which you say to people who have saved and invested successfully, without regard to those who would hope to do so in the future.

How exactly do you hope to create better opportunities for the low and middle income class? Here’s one idea: open up opportunities for them to invest in qualified accounts, like IRAs, silly.
can you boot pi400 this way? one within keyboard case ..
That's indeed the original reasoning for building in on-the-fly renumbering to IPv6, but it was supposed to still be a rare event.

But consider: (1) that for ages the route table growth has been slow due to v4 shortage, and router memory has kept getting cheaper on the normal memory cost curve for this plateau phase in history, and (2) Consumer ISPs have been abusing this and making prefixes jump around even on CPE reboots, instead of having them stable for months and years like is the design, and (3) mechanisms to smooth out renumbering haven't been deployed because ISPs have gotten away with doing [2] without any mitigations.

The 'net infra could probably afford to start giving many more people portable blocks, and it would be only fair that ISPs would have to pay a bit for their sins regarding [2], and to this would add incentives to do [3].
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I'd argue that this works only because there is a hard stop. A newspaper can not track you even if it wanted to.

On the web, contextual ads is where everyone begins as they "don't want to be evil". But ad monetized business models can make more money only in two ways - more users or more ads per user.

Once you exhaust the first option for growth, the businesses inevitably pursue the second option because the web as a platform allows them to do that easily with additional tracking and data monetization, unlike with newspapers or radio.

That makes this a 'soft' stop and the temptation has been proven too hard to resist for many, analogue to putting a jar of cookies in front of a child and asking them not to touch it.

It would be much 'healthier' if a business model itself was not designed in a way that puts it potentially onto a trajectory to collide with user's privacy at some point in time.
The current gridlock in Congress is a blessing.

If they actually manage to pass either stimulus things are going to get really bad. There's not enough supply or labor for the bipartisan "bridges and roads" bill. There's not anywhere near enough labor for the partisan social bill.

If they actually pass it, given the way government runs, they'll overpay for everything to get supply, which costs extra, but worse it's going to take supply (both material and labor) away from regular businesses and people.
When people hear "school shooting", they're generally envisioning something like Columbine - an event with a large number of casualties, targeting students as a group, and lasting until the shooter(s) is killed.

They are not thinking "drive-by gang shooting at 9pm that happens to be on or near school property". They're not even generally thinking "student kills another student after argument."

Labeling all of these categories (and more) with the same label leads to emotionally-driven political opinions and policies, which are often inappropriate and not proportional to the actual problem.
Diablo Canyon essentially sits atop multiple faults. PG&E think it's safe, but after Fukushima, why risk it?

I get your argument, and broadly think we need nuclear especially as we drive away from fossil fuels for travel and heating, but there's a time and a place.
I think @pixelgeek means that politicians will always bandwagon a story that has momentum in order to maximize its utility.

It sounds like they are challenging Greenwald's narrative that Democrats are doing this explicitly to silence opponents, but that they have good faith issues with the willful amplification of disinformation on FB.
Really I think this is only true for the data science ecosystem. In most other cases, modern static language ecosystems are at least as advanced as Python.
Ask HN: Are we going to see significant action against FB soon?
I have a feeling that they're tipping over some invisible line and might actually face some action now. Does anyone else share this sentiment? Why / Why not?
I’d love to see if Philips of Zoll integrated any Easter eggs into their AEDs or monitoring equipment.

Perhaps get an extra 50 joules of defib by putting in the Konami code on the directional keys.
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What are "hunter-gatherer-style installs?"
I have an oddly personal question with a bit of oversharing thrown in for good measure :-) What make/model of Bidet? Been looking to install one. I've been thinking of one that heats the water, like I used in Japan. But maybe that's not needed.
It's like real-life Factorio: one conveyor jams and every downstream machine on the pipeline needs to be manually un-fucked!

Seriously though, I'm glad I don't need a car, computer, or home repair. Friends in tech are telling me 50-100 week lead times on parts. (Like the Intel NIC article on HN last week.)

Anecdotally, since the early 2000's I have had trouble finding contractors to do small home improvement jobs (under 50k). For at least two decades, only big jobs get bid, the rest require handymen. Not that I have a problem with handymen, just that they often shouldn't handle jobs that really require a team. So it feels like the comment about construction has never really been alleviated in my experience. It's like airlines and baggage fees: they told it is was due to 9/11 and fuel costs, and were only temporary, yet they persist.
Here's an upside. I've been waiting for 2 3/8 inch x 8 foot structural pipe for 3 months from a ranch store I shop at. Before prices went crazy I paid $26. They FINALLY got some in yesterday and the price was $22 per pipe!!!!

I have no idea why and I didn't question it. They said they ordered 200 and they got 14 of them. I only needed 6.
Marco Rubio just proposed a bill to stop corporations from being too "woke"[1]. There are also numerous instances of Republican politicians complaining or proposing bills about things like athletes kneeling during the anthem, burning of the flag, or other forms of expressions they deem "un-American". That's not even mentioning the Republican obsession with controlling "obscenity" on TV and other public media.

[1] https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/9/new-rub...
> A pension is just an annuity, the corporate equivalent of employer-provided health insurance vs open market health insurance. Annuities, like life insurance, are considered some of the most reliable investments possible, precisely because of relatively strict, century-old reform legislation.

Exactly, but DB pension funds are not regulated by insurance commissioners the way insurance companies that sell annuities are. I wonder why every taxpayer funded pension and private company pension before PPA 2006 would value an annuity at a lower price than an insurance company would…

Since they are the same as annuity, then the employer should just go out and buy people an annuity. Or better yet, give the employer cash and let the employee decide if they want to buy an annuity or not. Insurance companies make single digit profit margins, it is not like having every employer roll their own insurance company was saving anyone any money.

> the corporate equivalent of employer-provided health insurance vs open market health insurance.

It is not quite equivalent since the company is not the one deciding how to do the actuarial calculations, at least not in a way that can be tilted like having their own people on a pension board of trustees would. Most of the health insurance aspects are taken care of by managed care organizations (aka health insurance companies). It would be equivalent if employers offering DB pensions were hiring insurance companies to calculate the cost of their annuities.

But they never would, because annuities are simply very expensive. At the end of the day, compensation for most people in the US was falling or stagnant in real terms for the past few decades (and people were living longer), so offering them properly priced annuities would have made any business untenable, hence businesses jettisoning them in favor of DC plans.
> They seem to invest a lot in JavaScript which is not what I’d call a performant language

JavaScript (V8 at least) is extremely performant, near native code performance. Considering how dynamic it is, it's not an easy feat but Google, Apple and Mozilla work a lot on it.

Here's a benchmark where JS is 50x faster than Python: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

Note that PyPy does much better.
Likewise. I cut my teeth on Python 20 years ago and I loved it back then - even getting my hands dirty in the guts of the interpreter.

But now in hindsight, I'm shocked that Python 3.0 wasn't seized as an opportunity to lose more of its baggage - the under-optimized interpreter, the poor parallelization story, the excessive surface area of the interpreter exposed to Python itself, making it impractical to re-implement in other interpreters, better typing, etc.

They broke backwards compatibility and all we got for it was Unicode?
Another apporach would be to focus on correspondence matches, where people make fewer blunders. May be some of the habits learned there will transfer over to shorter time controls.
Now let's talk about SIMD...
At this point, would anybody be surprised if the outage was plann(t)ed by FB leadership?
That is an interesting topic. Does their lack of competition mean that they can push more rhetoric to get engagement or would a more reasonable competitor cause them to calm down or turn it to 11?

Ultimately can you drive engagement with reasonable articles?

Lots to think about there
I think a big problem with this is that you need to be on the same page as your boss. You might think 4 weeks is fine, they might think 2. But since some CXO announced unlimited PTO they're not going to tell you that they think you're taking too much, they're just going to channel that into your performance reviews and general feedback.

In order for unlimited PTO to work you need an incredibly high trust environment which is very hard to create.
Yeah, I think this shortage will be a good lesson to a lot us used to overabundance of Everything. I also hope companies who are forced to reshore some of their business learn that the wages they have been paying are just too low.
I meant to imply within retirement accounts. But the intention of retirement accounts is to get you to save for retirement through investments. Private companies are arguably the most effective way to grow wealth. Congress is saying they don't want you doing this they only want you to have access to stocks and bonds because private investments do to well.
> hat I'd love is a language that can be compiled (and be highly optimized) and interpreted without changing it's behavior.

This has been a great feature of many lisps for 4+ decades now. Not unique to them of course.
This isn't really surprising to me, as this is what happens when you have lockdowns worldwide travel bans in place. The supply chain gets affected. It throws the market out of whack, imbalance in the prices, and most importantly people lives out of order. Years of work thrown down the tube by bunch of central planners. The economy consists of everyone working to support themselves and their families, not just the rich.
Everything gets a public address as well as a ULA one.
Python has always had strong, inferred typing. It’s just that you can rebind variables.
> “The NYT still does world-class journalism…”

that’s ambiguously overstated. perhaps 1% of nyt journalism is “world-class”, meaning well-researched, investigative, and impactful. 99% is of the “moralistic crusade” kind of journalism, trying to influence the popular sentiment, rather than reporting on it.

and while 2016 was an inflection point, it’s certainly been on a longer slide, observable during the 2008 financial crisis and somewhat before that.
https://deadline.com/2021/08/rachel-maddow-msnbc-beat-oan-la...

"No reasonable viewer could conclude that Maddow implied an assertion of objective fact,” the opinion penned by Judge Milan D. Smith added (read it here) of the suit OAN filed in the fall of 2020 with great flurry."

"For her to exaggerate the facts and call OAN Russian propaganda was consistent with her tone up to that point, and the Court finds a reasonable viewer would not take the statement as factual given this context,” Bashant said in a reflection of the ever spirally and tawdry state of American political discourse. “The context of Maddow’s statement shows reasonable viewers would consider the contested statement to be her opinion."

Fox does the same thing, presents opinion shows (23:30 of their 24 hour cycle) as news.
I’m glad it’s working for you, but there are a couple of additional things to keep in mind outside of your specific situation:
1) not everyone has the same comfort level asking for PTO. And that distribution is not random, so your company better be taking this stuff. Ex. How many days are under represented minorities taking off compared to the average?
2) Managers will not apply this policy equally. By making the line for what is a reasonable amount of PTO fuzzy, you give managers more power that bad managers can abuse.
I assume another component of the problem is: why would you have the phone number of any of your co-workers? Facebook runs on messenger!
The doing my job part is not psychopathic. It is getting excited about the disaster and thinking how much money I can make from the disaster and how many people will see my article on the disaster that is psychopathic.

In the article the people were not talking about how it was a tragedy but how excited they were, that this was a career highlight, and how it was good for the newspaper. That is psychopathic.
They were just a couple of examples. If they were the only challenges, it wouldn't be a problem but I bet there are 1000s more (different in each country too.) and that target is constantly moving.

When I said simplification, I meant that if governments would ever accept that tax breaks and special cases are massively expensive to the companies who have to keep track of the changes and then pass on those costs to their customers, then we wouldn't need complex tax software and could use a SS. I can't see that ever happening but I would like governments to be on the hook for the decisions that cost business so much in admin/legals.
The traditional IRA and 401k were introduced in 1974, the Roth IRA in 1997. They were never intended for rich or poor people to speculate in risky one-off investments. How does this rule set the US back 250 years?
Improvement may also matter a bit more. With ELO you always lose half the time because when you improve you get a higher ELO and get to your half-lose rate again. With anonymous, I assume the pool is stable so with getting better you win more. Though your enemies may outclass you sometimes, especially when your prior ELO is too low.
Welcome to issues large swathes of the world have been obliged to deal with all along. We’ll live.

> One possibility is that Americans adopt a sustainable, ascetic, and homespun lifestyle that reduces our dependency on goods that activate the global supply chain. If you can seriously envision such a world, I envy your gift of imagination.

> The best solution to the Everything Shortage is to have a policy to make more of just about everything.

Well, is it? The pandemic will pass but the various environmental crises created by the “more of everything” policy probably will oblige reduced consumption in some form.
I was once interviewed about my thoughts on a candidate during a presidential primary. Without giving away too much detail, I mentioned that I was unenthusiastic about the candidate and didn't understand his sudden surge in popularity. I threw in a sentence about wanting to vote for someone I actually felt was authentic and trustworthy.

The reporter used my "I want someone trustworthy" quote (without the context) and in such a way to imply I saw something in the candidate, when in reality, I was explaining that I didn't trust him as far as I could throw him. She just tossed my line in the article right after mentioning good things about the candidate. Totally and utterly misleading.

Pretty direct and eye opening to me. That reporter went out with a story in mind and used my words however she saw fit.
It’s quite simple really, journalists use Twitter.
Oddly enough I prefer primary sources over mainstream TV stations.

http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Final-Root-Cause-Analysis-Mid...

The characterization that anyone "lost power for 2 days" is totally wrong. The longest period of load shedding in August 2020 was 150 minutes affecting 300k customers. 500MW of load was disconnected, that's ~1% of the CAISO demand.
We tried to convince Twitch for years that their filters were garbage and they should use CleanSpeak. They kept insisting their engineering team had written the best filter in the world.

Sometimes it’s just not worth the effort to try and help people solve these problems.
A deeply reported investigative journalism piece by a preeminent media outlet for financial journalism, touching on a core tech issue, is... flagged?
That’s also incorrect. If he could have done this in a 401k he would have Exactly the Same amount of money.
No - burn it for energy, and then you don't need to pump (and burn) additional oil. It's a one-for-one tradeoff, with the benefit of less trash. It's a 100% win with zero drawbacks (so of course environmentalists are against it).

Sure at some point we won't burn oil, and then we can do something different (recycle the plastic), but we are decades away from that, so doing that now is harmful.
There is a real problem in today's society which is the today's so called progressives worldview and divisive mentality.
Did cotton get more expensive after slavery was abolished? I feel like there might just be a small number of evil people extracting all the benefit and not passing those savings on to me.
Is Java not a "modern static language"?
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