skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's supposed to pay tax on income not on wealth.

Yes. That’s the trap most of these arguments for taxing the rich fall into under the current system. Having money and making money are taxed differently.

If you own a house and all of your neighbors sell theirs at a 30% markup, should you pay taxes on making $300,000 (for a 1mil house) this year? Maybe … seems kinda unfair though. You didn’t participate in those transactions and made no money to pay the new taxes with.

Should wealth be capped? Dunno, maybe. It would solve a lot of problems and yet feels a bit draconian.

Should wealth be repatriated by the state? Eh no let’s not go there. Large swathes of Europe tried that in the past and it’s still causing problems.

Should “rich people” be taxed? Yeah definitely. The hard part is defining what exactly gets taxed and how. Making people sell their assets to pay taxes on those assets seems kinda weird to me.
They aren't really talking about science. They are talking about "trust the science", group-think, and trust in societal institutions.

You're right that insulin price has nothing to do with science, but rather economics and societal institutions/policies. The trust in the institution presenting the science is important. The purpose if science is to answer questions in fact objectively through reproducible observations. Telling people not to ask reasonable questions and just "trust the science" is appearently antithetical to people who understand the process.
I don't know where this idea is going.

If we're talking about people who think of medical prices as part of "science" but apparently also are worried if they can trust a given researcher who happened to be working on COVID?

I don't think any of this is how people actually think / what motivates them.
Farming jobs provide poverty like lifestyles, building jobs provide relatively middle class lifestyles. You need both to keep a modern society going.
The word "general" does indeed not appear in this sense in the paper.
You’re pretty smug about “velocity of money” there. Also you appear to not understand that economics isn’t a hard science where there is some rigid consensus.

Some (many? Most?) economists think that this “modern monetary theory” stuff is suicidal. It looks to me like they’re being proven right.
China isn't the AI juggernaut the West fears
We need both people who trust experts above their instincts and instincts above the experts. And since we need both you need to consider both behaviours just as valid.

The problem with experts is that often they became experts by just trusting other experts, and going back the chain a bit all of that was just based on a single persons opinion a century ago.
I have no problem with Canada joining EU.
If YAMA is disabled, you can use it to migrate laterally into processes owned by the same user. See [1].

It only really crosses a security boundary if, for some reason, dd is configured to run as root (e.g. via setuid bit, or sudo config). At that point, you could use it to patch the filesystem directly anyway, but keeping things in-memory is much stealthier (and less risk of bricking hardware, if your working with an embedded device or similar).

For a description of using dd to gain file-less native code execution, see [2].

As a concise (golfed) example (x86-64 /bin/sh shellcode):

cd /*/$$;read a<*l;exec 3>mem;base64 -d<<<McBIu9GdlpHQjJf/SPfbU1RfmVJXVF6wOw8F|dd bs=1 seek=$[`cut -d\ -f9<<<$a`]>&3

Source: [3]

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/Yama.txt

[2] https://blog.sektor7.net/#!res/2018/pure-in-memory-linux.md

[3] https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1386678449604108289
It isn't that much more complicated than that — politics-wise, sure, but all you really need is housing and money to solve homelessness.
Thank you. The phrase "disingenuous skepticism" is difficult to imagine. If someone believes masks don't work, or that a vaccine could have risks, they are skeptical; they haven't seen evidence that convinces them otherwise.

It's interesting how much time and effort is spent trying to win people over to another way of thinking or opinion.
I would do the same, but Windows is technically superior in one regard: it actually enables and does proper GPU scheduling (Linux only does CPU and I/O). Super important if you want to do anything on your machine while some neural network is training.
> Everything is ideological

Pizza isn't ideological. Birds aren't ideological. Things that are explicitly in the domain of ideology are, yes, ideological.

There's no such thing as 'no accent' just because you have the dominant accent, and no such thing as 'no ideology' just because you follow the dominant ideology. Your rationale is a bit like people who consider climate change protests to be 'political', but themselves, and their desire to ignore them and go to work, to be ... well, just, normal. Or something like that.

> Do keep in mind not everyone's first language is English

This is fair enough. I wasn't intending to mock your English, I just thought it was a funny accidental property of your message. I've absolutely made the same mistakes myself in the past!
I think you're correct in the vacuous sense that money is fungible. Investors who purchased US treasures ("the debt") don't care whether they're getting taxpayer dollars or dollars that on paper exist because we minted a trillion dollar coin. They got dollars either way, and what they care about is how valuable those dollars are ("inflation")

But in this MMT world, tracking US debt is still valuable (think of it as a measure of how much money was printed, which correlates through some unknown economic function to inflation).

Either way, all the bad things that happen with printing money can be reframed as "bad because inflation" if you want them to. E.g. we print infinite money to pay off debts denominated in foreign currencies, which blows out the exchange rate and results in hyperinflation; yep, that's an inflation problem, check!
Criticizing "trust the science" isn't the same thing as criticizing science. "trust the science" is a euphemism for "trust the system" i.e., the media, special interest groups (e.g., pharma), government, etc. "Trust the system's portrait of 'the science' irrespective of whether or not it accurately represents the views of a quorum of scientists". In other words, "trust the system" is about institutions broadly, not science in particular. That said, "trust the science" rhetoric works precisely because science is so complicated for individuals to tease out--we depend on someone (our epistemological institutions) to synthesize it for us.
Inflation theory has been around since the 70s.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)>
The outcome of trusting that the scientific method has worked and works is relevant.
It’s been awesome in general. Fueled the greatest expansion of economic output, standard of living, health, population increase, personal freedoms, etc. since we first rolled a wheel.

But I tire of having to praise capitalism. Capitalism does not need my defending. Let’s see proof of another working system that hasn’t resulted in famines, gulags, brutal repression, and people trying to escape to - wait for it - a capitalist society.
You mean all that p-hacked, mostly unreproducible pile of dreck that gets published these days? Yeah, trust isn't complicated it is the wrong thing to do. But mistrusting the science doesn't mean turning to the snake oil salesmen.
I already listen to techno when I'm working. The problem is that when I'm not intrinsically/emotionally interested in a task I struggle to force myself to focus on it. It seems like focus is not something I can control, I always would rather distract myself with low effort dopamine fodder (youtube, twitter, reddit, hacker news, tiktok, looking for new music to put on, etc.)

I've been trying for years. I was introduced to technology very young, and have been using the internet since I was about 8 to 10 years old. I'm 27 now, I've been seriously trying to improve my focus since I was about 22, but nothing stuck. If intensive meditation cannot help me, I'm not sure if anything can, except maybe some kind of drugs.
The "Money Supply Equals Inflation" crowd have been wrong as they could possibly be for the last 15 years, but are a glutton for punishment.
I'm paraphrasing, but a scientist on a podcast said something like, "Science is not about so-called 'facts' as much as it is about reducing the uncertainty of a hypothesis enough that you have a working model."

^This takes work, complicated work. And then humans, being human, can muck up the interpretation. And so on...
The people running our society have more to lose from getting replaced by some kind of taliban-equivalent than they have to lose from inoculating the population against propaganda at the expense of limiting their own power in some cases. This is a plan where they can keep their money and their authority, and they'd only have to sacrifice a small amount of the effectiveness of the big papers, which are not effective anymore anyway.
Which is not generally true if you have good (i.e. more expensive) futons.
Effect of Melatonin on Thrombosis, Sepsis and Mortality in Covid-19 Patients
> It may sound counter-intuitive, but the whole issue here is that Apple is using their store for anti-competitive things (e.g. blocking/slowing competitors, requiring the use of Apple's payment infrastructure, Apple's ads, etc).

To solve those?
It’s so convenient that the everybody was confused about economics, and actually the really good economics is that politicians can and SHOULD spend money on whatever they want!
Yeah but how do you then know the "independent scientists" actually reproduced the results and didn't just make it up? In the end it comes down to trust in the process and the community.
Can you go one level deeper- why would raising interest rates trigger a recession?
sadly its not easy to digest every fact, testings, measurements and data. And many experiments takes either too much time, money or resource and at the end it might just be easy to accept other theories?
The question was (paraphrased) "what value does blockchain add over SQL database table with a unique index?" - not whether NFT issuers are more trustworthy than trusted organizations or if NFTs are a valid asset class.
What do you call the period from 1971-2019 when the government printed lots of money with no intention of paying it back, but only handed it out to the upper class? From my fiscally conservative Austrian perspective, MMT is actually an improvement - by creating direct price inflation (as opposed to just asset inflation that nobody dares to call real inflation), it forces the Fed to put the brakes on the printing press.
When president trump suggested people inject some undefined disinfectant or shine UV lights up into their guts, then. That's more accurate, less of a ring to it of course.
Because simple supply and demand rules apply. If there is a demand for corrupted scientific studies there will be a supply.
The reason why it is "controversial" is because people believe we did the same thing in 2010, and no inflation occurred.

Very broadly this is true, M2 peaked at 10% in 2008 and was 6% for most of the decade but the actual transmission of this into the real economy was impaired. So you have to actually understand how monetary policy is being transmitted.

But what has just happened is evidence that this lesson wasn't learned because the view seemed to be that inflation is impossible...not that we need to look at transmission more carefully. M2 growth YoY is running at 25%, federal spending is clearly leaking into the money supply, on top of supply issues...it is going to be tricky to resolve fast (even if you don't consider the political pressure the Fed is clearly under, the willingness to trade inflation for lower unemployment...that is what this comes down to, can your politicians take the pain? It is very clear there is no capacity for pain in the US).
Dopamine is commonly used in patients in ICUs in ways that are totally unrelated to the addictive reward mechanism.

It can function as a vasopressor in hypertensive patients, but needs very close monitoring (which is why it is usually administered in the ICU only)
Are there any cases where this has happened with Android? I use side-loading extensively and consider it essential, but have never had it imposed.
How much of this is due to supply chain issues? Your linked graph already went down a bit. My butcher and managers at my grocery store blame their suppliers staffing issues due to Covid. Pork went way up early on due to Covid. What happens once more companies enforce vaccination policies?
This is just another piece written by someone who does not understand how income tax works and is unable to appreciate that this problem is actually complicated.

If Jeff Bezos net worth increases by 1 billion over a year, he hasn't realized any of the actual gains and that profit it purely on paper. If he chose to live on 1M$/year then he only has to pay 370k$ in taxes that's how it works for you and me and that's how it works for him.

Does it make sense that he paid 0$ in taxes and bought a 300M$ yacht? Absolutely not and we should find ways to close that loophole. Does it mean that we should tax wealth? Absolutely not.
"Trust the Science" is pretty much just a dog whistle to call for censorship through "fact checkers", which deliver checked facts such as "Covid-19 did not leak from a laboratory" in early 2020.

That even people with Ph.D.s fall for this just shows that we, as humans, really like a simpler world, a world with known facts and truths, where you don't have to check things because someone else already did it for you. However, this is not the world we live in. The world we live in is complex, messy, almost entirely made out of shades and very little black and white. Most things are not known and won't be known. People telling and selling you things as fact are invariably acting on agendas. Scientific consensus is not a fixed thing, and concerning many questions it is not a thing at all. The closest thing you can do is "trusting the scientific method", but that is very, very different from what "Trust the Science" means.
Same punishment for me back in high school when I "guessed" the admin password. They all knew I didn't guess it and was given the job/community service. They kept the same password.
I don't experience your problems. It returns new stuff for me.
> anti-vax/anti-mask/anti-science

I'd like to define what these terms mean. Right now, I think the mainstream technique is anyone who questions vax/mask/science gets the anti- prefix.
I disagree. I think that makes sense as a hindsight view, but at the time, the good version of Windows generally started good, and the bad versions were generally bad out of the gate too.

By "good" I don't mean perfect. But Windows 95 was good, 98 was good, XP was amazing compared to what there was at the time, 7 was good, and 10 was good. Vista was immediately a bomb from the moment I first saw its desktop that looked like a not even particularly good Linux desktop theme [1]. ME was a buggy mess from start to finish. 8 wasn't as much of a disaster but the whole attempt to merge tablet UI and desktop UI was just fundamentally flawed.

Windows being Windows I'm sure tons of people can pop up with stories about how their first install of XP ate their entire hard drive and also killed their dog, but generally I think it's pretty obvious pretty quickly which way a version of Windows is going to go.

One of the major markers of a bad version of Windows is that it's made for Microsoft's needs and not the users. If another comment in this discussion is accurate and Windows 11 is primarily so they can dump a lot of hardware, dump old booting code for non-UEFI boots, etc., then that suggests to me they don't have a strong through-line on what the value for the user is, which is going to lead to sadness. Even though those goals are good and ultimately even necessary in the long haul, that's not going to be a set of requirements that leads to a good Windows.

[1]: This one floors me to this day. Like, I don't really have a lot of visual taste and I've run some pretty awful Linux desktop themes back in my younger years for a period of time. My current desktop is a tiling WM and so utilitarian it burns to look at for most people. And that Vista desktop... yeowzers! It was like they pulled a random theme off of a desktop theming site and they got babbies first uploaded theme.
This could backfire on amazon though since many of these products are very low quality and this reflects on them rather than the third party seller.

I used to specifically buy AmazonBasics thinking there would be a higher quality threshold. Now I know this not the case why bother?
I've been meaning to start collecting data on stuff that I actually buy on a regular basis in order to try to put together a kind of personal CPI. Maybe a good time to start doing it now.
Right. Anything to avoid getting a vaccine. Any excuse imaginable. Got it.

> Nobody experienced any symptoms after contacting me.

Sure except you know people can transmit diseases without showing signs of symptoms. It's called being asymptomatic.

> Ok. Would you be so kind to tell me how is a vaccine supposed to be better than contacting all the mutations of the actual live virus besides the fact the latter gives you less chances to survive unharmed and enjoy the immunity?

You're familiar with the concept of a straw man right?

Nobody is arguing this point. What we are arguing is your misunderstanding of "whatever is in a vaccine" from your original post.

Here's what you said:

> I trust my immune system more than I trust whatever the vaccine does

It's clear from the start that you don't even know what a vaccine does. The vaccine does the exact same thing as obtaining the virus "naturally". It's a living virus, put into you, to train your immune system. It's the same thing. Trying to separate that out into a "natural" immunity versus an "artificial" immunity is not only incorrect scientifically but pretty comparable to believing the earth is flat or something.

Here's another thing you said:

> I never ever resisted any vaccine before and was always willing to get vaccinated against everything.

So again, why is COVID-19 different? Explain the exact scientific and logical reasoning for resisting this vaccine and not others.

> Why is it supposed to protect the people around me better than the antibodies I already have?

So your plan is to just get COVID-19 + variants every year instead of getting a vaccine? Why? Why get yourself sick when a vaccine will do the exact same job? Doesn't seem very logical to me. Do you not get flu shots either? Do you realize that even if you didn't get extremely sick from your first interaction with COVID that it doesn't mean the next time you get a variant you won't be in a coffin? I don't understand at all the point of taking an unnecessary risk here.
> You are running space tourism for the rich. If you gave a shit about human kind you would pay your workers a living wage and do something about the environment.

Are you this upset over 500k cars? Purses that cost 20k? Watches that cost 200k? Designer t-shirts that cost 2k? Luxury goods exist. Some people purchase homes that cost over 100 million dollars. Imagine that wealth going to the things you approve of instead. The world would be fixed but alas.

You must have been apoplectic over the original Tesla Roadster considering the business model is shared with the same lofty goals—the wealthy fund the initial product, mass production eventually. There for EVs, here for human transportation and habitation in space.
Software Sweatshop – Inside Billionaire Joe Liemandt's Empire
I remember loving the book, especially the humour. For example: "There are three kinds of mathematicians, those who can count and those who can't." But the movie was (for me anyway), dour, preachy and depressing. A lot of hand wringing about the morality of working on the H-Bomb built into the dialog. No doubt some (or maybe many) of the scientists working on the Manhattan project were morally conflicted, but I doubt that they spent a lot of time while working discussing this as shown in the movie. I wish the movie had addressed this issue but had given more focus on Ulam's humour.
As Wittgenstein notes in On Certainty ‘A doubt without an end is not even a doubt.’ Bad faith scepticism is of this order, no amount of evidence will convince such sceptics. Science doesn't become 'harder' in the face of the this kind of scepticism, it becomes irrelevant.
I wonder what kind of incentive it would create if we just started giving homeless people houses
Science is only one piece of the puzzle. Ultimately it's a political game, so science is only part of the equation. Masks are to signal that I care about you, and to make you feel safe. Bullshit of course, but it's way to hard to make people understand that they are overestimating the risk of death and hospitalization by factors of 10x and 20x. Much easier to not correct the record and pretend masks reduce the risk 10-20x.

Back to basics: The government doesn't care about you. Any interventions are likely to sacrifice long term success for short term success.
Everyone is compelled to do many things they don't want to do every day.
Most Businesses Don't Know Where Their Money Is Being Spent
Macros don't appear in your code example, so they cannot solve anything.
I am curious what your objections are to btrfs and ZFS? I know of some common ones, but I want to hear yours.
How would you do the DECSTBM without hardocindg it? Honest question.
Everyone knows about "regulatory capture", the mechanism via which regulators who are supposed to work for the people become captured by the elite few who control the organizations they ostensibly regulate. But what I think most people fail to see is that the ruling class have effectively captured every major institution in the west, possibly the globe. From the academy, to the science industry, the press, government, the courts, everything, all the way down, is completely and utterly captured by a tiny elite.

That anyone, after the past couple years, could think that the elite are in any way well-meaning is absurd--I think the most charitably you could interpret the data is that they are so incompetent they shouldn't be trusted to judge a high school gymnastics competition.

When it comes to the scientific institutions, I think Horton, current editor of The Lancet, sums it up well: "The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness."
The major complication is the politics though, the fact that building housing is so hard isn't for lack of money, it's all politics and Bezos' $20B won't be able to solve that.
Do you even know what capitalism is?
It's both. Propaganda can't tell you why you're poor if you're not poor.

Lots of things play into the situation. I don't think historic racism is the only factor, it's certainly not a useful point of intervention, but it is a factor. It's important we remember that when we're presented with options for intervention so we can approach them with a degree of empathy we otherwise would not afford them.
Yup. Trying to solve security and control with the same hammer is going to get them in trouble. If I make a calculator app, it’s fine to review it and make sure it’s secure, but to tell me that there’s too many calculator apps (or worse reject for a bullshit reason and make their own) is going to get them in trouble.

Security checks are fine, choosing who gets to enter is not.
Maybe PhDs or PostDocs are not elites but professors they work for, definitely are elites. If you need work visa you are not in elite category. It is like asking how to apply visa to be senator, governor, member of congress or millionaire entrepreneur and so on.