skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You got me curious, so from Wikipedia:

> Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York, on May 14, 1984,[9] the son of psychiatrist Karen (née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg.[10] He and his three sisters (Arielle, businesswoman Randi, and writer Donna) were raised in a Reform Jewish household[11][12] in Dobbs Ferry, New York.[13] His great-grandparents were Austrian, German, and Polish Jews.

Sounds like the typical HN contributor to be honest.

Anyway, I agree with your stated point that children of rich people are "merely" risking a few years of hard work and an opportunity cost of a few hundred thousand dollars when they found companies, and disagree with the possibly unintended insinuations that children of rich people can't work hard because they have a safety net, that facebook was an easy success, etc etc.
Which is why these offensives should be done anonymously, and preferably served via Tor. If it's safe enough to evade law enforcement for years, it should be safe enough from Zuck.
How well does facial recognition work on children, anyway? Kids can grow a lot over the course of a year, and can look wildly different. Do they need to periodically refresh it with new photos more than once a year?
If average family size is 4 and one of the member has stock, even then the stat will be 25% of people hold 100% stock.
This is complicated.

I live in a poor neighborhood in a reasonably large city.

I shop locally (even avoiding the more affluent neighborhoods), exclusively if possible, as a matter of voting with my wallet because the businesses in my neighborhood employ mostly local folks.

At large scale, yeah, you're right. But for a small local business, one or two extra regular customers can be a bigger difference (drop in a bucket vs drop in the ocean). Even something like shopping at a local big-box supports the local proletariat more than shopping at Amazon, where the proletariat isn't guaranteed to be local at all (and to be clear: it's more about supporting the proletariat than the capitalists).
Tether is a stablecoin that is controlled by a company that can freeze it. So yes, it's centralized.
All those CEOs that take $0 or $1 salaries and then do press releases about it, how much do you think they are paying in taxes on that salary?
I would argue that adopting a persona has literally nothing to do with the concepts of "punching up" or "punching down", which refer to cases of e.g. "verbal violence" of aggressive jokes and such; where the "up"/"down" determines the extent of how much "verbal violence" would be considered appropriate in that company.

However, the women I mentioned (like Bronte sisters) were not "punching up", they were not "punching" anyone in any way whatsoever, the choice of persona has no relation to some kind of aggression, they're simply choosing an arbitrary identity and that's it, there's not the slightest moral concern about this act, it's a well-established (and frequently used) writer's right to choose a pen name or persona and there's not the slightest thing wrong about that, no matter which group is adopting which persona - and the same applies for those three writers choosing their pen name. "Punching up" is considered less aggressive than "punching down", but adopting a persona is not even on the same scale, there's zero aggression about that.

On the other hand, attacking writers for their choice of pen name is punching. In this case it is the less-bad version because it is "punching up", but it is a form of bullying; a much more aggressive act than what those three writers have done.
Stock in Enron was also "worth money" until it wasn't.
I think much of the same could have been said for Heroku and its ecosystem. They tried a few critical services and plugins for everything else. It works great for some things, but not the enterprisey ones that are actually the profit cows.

To win this game, surrounding territory is not enough. You have to go for the king.
In a free-market system, merit is defined by your peers. If you can add unique subjective value to them, they will give you money in return for that unique subjective value add.

That's by and large a great thing, because it means that the people getting the richest are largely the same people who are providing the most value to others, and so it aligns incentives with useful production and useful work in a decentralized way.

We can zoom into examples to understand better. Why is George Clooney so rich? Because he added a little bit of value (say, $3 worth) to the lives of millions via his acting skills, and he got a slice of all that value add.

This is not to say it's perfect, and I could go on about why it's not, but the central point is that "merit" (i.e. income/profits) is defined by one's peers opinions about your unique value add to them.
What part of that sentence was inappropriate?

The word "privileged"? That's apt. Most on HN are privileged.

Or is it the way that statement was posed as a question? It's probably not the most diplomatic way opening a post but it's far from being offensive.
Odd, I own this exact laptop, and haven't experienced any suspend/resume issues on either debian 10, nor 11.
It would be wise to stop believing what corporations say. They tend to lie.

Do you really believe that Facebook doesn't know if someone has multiple accounts if they failed to seek out a Facebook setting to link them together? This is the same Facebook that lifts data from people's phones even if they opt out of giving them that data.
The fault in your logic here is that in your metaphor joe ate the same as everyone else at the restaurant.

The benefits of society as a whole are not equally shared. The wealthiest in society benefit the most from a functioning and stable federal bureaucracy.
Great questions/points.

To some extent, "you can lead the horse to water but you can't make him drink." In the case if the terrible architect, your big problem was that he didn't want to change / had his head up his ass / didn't see the problem.

If you are a peer, there's not much you can do in this case. If you're a friend, you can try to persuade him of the negative impact this is having on him: eg "you know how you always struggle to get your ideas implemented? This is because people have a hard time following you, so your good ideas die on the vine. Do you see that and does that bother you?"

If you are his manager, then you can make this more of a performance issue "as an architect, you are expected to clearly communicate solutions and you're not doing that."

At the end of the day there's a meta question. Does your company value people who are introspective and will want to evolve? If the answer is yes, they will screen for that in interviews and have it be part of the company culture (so the terrible architect would either not pass the interview because he didn't come across as self aware or he's be pressured to evolve by the culture where everyone else is trying to do better.) If your company doesn't value these traits then you'll end up with people who don't think their shit thinks and that's hard!
Yes I am.

My out of pocket + premium for my entire family is MUCH MUCH MUCH less than I save in taxes by being an American over European. Pretend health insurance is a "tax" and add it to your total tax rate. Now compare your total tax rate with someone in Germany/Sweden/Norway making similar pay. For most developer type jobs, I think you are going to find that even a $2,000 a month insurance plan a steal.
No, that's not what you said.
1. Explain why it is bad to give up ‘privilege’.

2. Explain why it is good to take ‘privilege’.
Can someone who works in the ad tech space give some context on how seemingly advertisers being less effective drove up prices?

Who are these advertisers that are happy to pay 25% more for less?
How is this not fraud?

Why hasn't Facebook been fined billions of dollars and its executives charged criminally for doing this repeatedly?

I've (begrudgingly) placed Facebook ads trying to claw my way from the bottom. If these are funny numbers, I want my money back!

Give me my money, Mr. Zuckerberg.
Because they don't discuss the methodology used to arrive at these numbers nor do they link to any sort of full report explaining these stats. For all we know, these numbers are complete bunk.

Furthermore, these sorts of wealth-inequality stats are typically used by disingenuous media outlets as a propaganda tool to support the political goals of their ownership. Reading such articles with a large dose of skepticism is a necessity.
> > Okay, I'll say it; good. Democracy is fine as a method to run a government, ...

> [...]

> Honestly? I don't know, and if pressed I'd have a hard time coming up with a usefully specific answer, but I still believe what I do;

Strong words spoken from atop the pile of sand.
I'll nitpick this right back.

Of course, when it comes to human biology, YMMV...a LOT. When my brother-in-law was born, his mom had her first contraction, and he came out 45 minutes later. Her friends envy how damn quick her labor was.
Ex-Facebook executive explains how they make money
The $10k SALT deduction does not apply to the 90% of tax filers who do not itemize since the standard deduction is worth more.
There are also corporate taxes and estate taxes, and payroll taxes of which the employer must pay half.
Definitely the person who "seized" it by working hard to get into that position, as opposed to someone who's job is to be popular.

But even so, "seizing" is not the right word, it implies they somehow stole it or gained that position forcefully but as far as I know the playing field for success is more or less level (for equal beginnings) and you could very well become that next person to "seize" power, which feels much more democratic to me than elected officials.

If you look at the "most powerful" people in the economy today, most of the big names you will think of were nobodies 40 years ago. Who was Jeff Bezos then? Mark who? What's Google?
What was Apple's market share of desktops at the time? And whether you were talking people through a Trumpet WinsSock install or I was doing it in person, it wasn't going to get done that way, just too slow. Sure lots of physical infrastructure (modems etc...) had to be added, no disagreement there. Anyway, it's all a long time ago now. A funny aside, thinking of Apple in those days reminded me of "Cyberdog" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog. I wonder if anybody has done a side-by-side of Cyberdog vs Safari. Things change.
Really? I’d be interested to see your numbers as is pretty well known that the UK spends a lot less than the US to treat its whole population

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42950587
Isn’t this logically equivalent to “The most successful 10% of athletes have won 90% of olympic gold medals”?

We’re using their wealth (which naturally includes a lot of stock because it can be held in tax-deferred retirement accounts and has the greatest growth expectation historically) to identify the top decile, then we find that they, err, own a lot of stock. How surprising.
> But in the crypto-currency world, you make one mistake and you are done. There's no recourse, no getting your money and/or assets back.

What recourse do you suggest? There are already multi-sig, time locked wallets that can get around many of these issues, if users want to opt in to using them.

But making transactions somehow reversible by default would kind of defeat the purpose. Reversible transactions are good for the sender but bad for the receiver. I don't see any way around that, a tradeoff must be made.
It’s a way to goose the numbers to make it look like more people saw an ad than really did. This type of tactic is usually employed when a company is facing a real decline in users/views, so they start coming up with “creative” ways to make numbers look better than they really are.
Pretty sure the percentages are not of "U.S. stocks" per se, but rather of stocks owned by U.S. households (the percentages by income add to 100% and obviously foreigners own some U.S. stocks).
Federal income taxes are the money that funds the federal government. The military, congress, FBI, courts, EPA, etc. Payroll taxes go to entitlement programs, so they are more similar to paying insurance premiums than actually funding the activities of the government.
Worth noting that this product is able to operate on CadQuery and JSCAD in addition to OpenSCAD.
You also seem to miss the fact that people on HN and Reddit are usually far better off than the general population.

Regardless of your delusion, let's not forget the fact that most of those employer-provided policies come with a shitton of asterisks.
Do the taxis still actually come? Then quality is miles ahead of what it used to be.
12 Angry Developers: A Qualitative Study on Developers' Struggles with CSP [pdf]
My Father Was a Great Teacher. He Wouldn’t Last a Week in the Modern Classroom
I've found pretty much every article about wealth inequity useless because they never say anything about what the right level of wealth inequity should be. Without that I have no idea if what the article is reporting is something I should be concerned about, and if it is whether I should be concerned because it is too high or because it is too low.

In any distribution other than one where everyone has equal wealth there must be inequity--that is mathematically unescapable. If there are at least two people who do not have the same wealth, then necessarily the top N% will control M% of the wealth for all M, N with M > N.
I think AWS lambda supports php
There is a lot of people in lower classes who spend money on stuff like netflix thats 100% discretionary. Or buy iphones instead of el cheapo ones. I say this from personally knowing a lot of people who do this. I dont really blame them for it, since its kinda the pervasive expectation, but still a lot of people spend on "wants" instead of longterm assets. Now the funny thing is the income isnt always really discretionary, I known people who bought stuff they didnt really need then got their power cut off cause they couldn't pay the bill. Its a mess.
Taking Tether's PR statements at face value is like doing the same for Bernie Madoff
This "undo record" sounds like (essentially) the same thing as storing the (compressed) diff from the current state to the prior state which you were arguing against. If you have an operation that is changing a lot and isn't reversible, either you are reexecuting from the beginning of time (which particularly for image editing would be ridiculous: even a single operation on the image is often annoyingly slow, much less suddenly doing tons as you rapidly make changes and then undo back through them) or you are storing checkpoints at some frequency in the form of diffs on the full serialized state (which seems to be what you are returning to re-suggest anyway).
Of course, the legal code is simply an artifact in the construction of capital, but by no means sufficient to its existence. I'll go even further and throw in the idea that human tribalism is innate is itself also a construction that can be dismantled.
>How about the right to a decent life?

Everybody has the right to achieve a decent life. What you are actually asking for is the right to have material wealth. Which isn't a right.

>technically you may have a point (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here)

I don't want the benefit of the doubt from you. You advocate robbing people and spread hate against a group you don't like because you don't have enough toys to make you happy. You are just a part of a mob that has repeated the same mistake countless times in history, with your beliefs you are practically not an individual.
It's sort of taking Jython's implementation approach to a much greater extreme, and bypassing bytecode, so it isn't limited by the Java semantics anymore.

It resolves a few big problems Jython had:

- GraalPython is Python 3, not Python 2

- It can use native extensions that plug into the CPython interpreter like NumPy, SciPy etc. The C code is itself virtualized and compiled by the JVM!
Nico Belmonte ported this to WebGL in 2018 for its 10th birthday.

https://twitter.com/philogb/status/968530476259450881
I tried: "When is the first full moon after October the 18th 2021?"
It should have said the 20th of October but it said: "November the 19th 2021".
Big AI models have quite a way to go I think...
Cherry picking examples, UAS will always be best for a construction manager looking at the progress of a highrise, and there's no way an atmospheric vehicle would host a world class space telescope. But things like monitoring deforestation could benefit from a vehicle that can take high-res photos day after day without needing a lot of maintenance and then be packed up and shipped to the arctic to estimate sea ice. A single satellite would have trouble performing both missions.
Netflix streaming killed Netflix by mail.
A small drone surface boat would be more effective for detecting large swells than a submarine. A neutrally buoyant sub won't feel much difference as a swell passes by. With a surface boat you could use the same sensors as an on NOAA buoy.

A sub would also need a floating antenna on the surface to receive GNSS signals for station keeping, and to transmit alerts. Those signals are blocked by water.
They do pay, they just get more back out. In a country without any redistribution of wealth and a perfectly efficient government everyone would be a net zero contributor to the government.

In practice most countries have a few hubs where most of the wealth is created (typically coastal cities), and the taxes collected there fund the rest in the form of redistribution of wealth.
> But funny enough I'm able to put up with these little inconveniences because after all it's a free OS. I find myself to be much more tolerant than when I was using MacOS and my macbook pro. Between the dead keys, apple tax, dongle life and the OS quirks ...

For me, this is not so much a matter of cost but of transparency. When there's an annoyance I know I can easily pinpoint to a configuration issue I just haven't had time to play with, or a specific, known kernel module bug whose progress is being tracked publicly, it feels like my issue, my mess.

Linux problems feel like bits of clutter I've generated in my home and just haven't gotten around to tidying up yet. MacOS (and to a lesser extent, Windows) problems feel like a finicky and absent roommate's messes: I know little about where they came from (and I might as well not ask); I hope they'll go away on their own, but I really have no idea when they'll be resolved; and often it's best to just avoid touching or thinking about them, much as they annoy me.

Problems on non-free operating systems, especially very configuration-limited ones like macOS, are just too opaque and alienating for me to feel like I 'own' them. And that makes them infuriating in a way that Linux problems never are for me.
> The clinic then fucked up billing, overcharged us, and it took another few months for all of this to get sorted out.

> The first part of this story isn't too different from the Canadian system, the second is a pile of unnecessary stress added on top.

IMO the cost in stress and time of the American system is under-appreciated. We pay way more than other advanced states and have to deal with a whole bunch of companies, all of which seem to be either incredibly incompetent or actively trying to screw us, every time we actually need healthcare, which is precisely when we really don't need more stress or to have extra demands on our time. It's awful.
Somehow I suspect you're not being very charitable towards your friends. Would they describe their own thought processes as

> somehow, serving the rich for $12/hr will lead to them becoming "one of them."
Is our cancel culture killing free speech?
The "economy" is not just what is captured in formally taxable income. Large swaths of the economy is composed by absolutely essential reproductive labor that receives no direct monetary compensation. Conversely, the existence monetary income doesn't necessitate that economically meaningful or necessary labor is being performed, just that it is being compensated for in a formal manner.

Then, of course, there's unearned income -- very much so related to the topic of "stock ownership" that started this thread -- which, by definition, is acquired not through any meaningful contribution of labor to the "economy", but instead as a reward for the incidental private claim to profits our economic system happens to allow to people.
Not kind but it is absolutely insurance https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/10-things-to-know-a...

The fact they pay less for some procedures is irrelevant
> self hosted

The article has two points.

1. They are providing a web server.

2. They are providing instructions on sending things to that server using netcat or an optional client/script.

I think your bash example covers point 2 only.
Even without the whistleblowers, there were a bunch of studies of how damaging Instagram is for the teenage girls. He knows this, everybody knows this, and, he's not locked up for selling dope in a twisted modern way! Knowing that he is damaging the society and most vulnerable parts of it - the young people, and continuing to profit from this makes is much more than just a benign quiet sociopath. Not to mention all the hatred he helps organize and selectively censors the type of hatred misaligned with his own. It's about time to break down Facebook into pieces - the way regulators broke down at&t before!
I think this would only be fraud if they counted users in this manner and then lied and said they didn't. Sucks to be buying FB ads right now because they're gonna be worth much less but I don't think it's fraud as long as they're upfront about it.
The market always eventually crashes. The question is whether it will be tomorrow or 20 years from now. Unless your prediction also comes with a specific date it is useless.
Great. Still not betting we will see a "Mr Fusion" garbage disposal in 30 years. "Back to the Future" slipped a digit on us.
Oh the poor is getting poorer in both ways when they for instance get priced out of the housing market. Wealth equality is a premise for long term prosperity of the majority.

And it's a feedback system, next time they choose the red or blue pimp, their ballot will be worth less due to increase in lobbying money held by the 10-1-0.1% - lobbying money used to purchase tax cuts for the same 10-1-0.1%.
If there was anything interesting with the comparison, it would be to look at the difference between total wealth inequality and stock ownership inequality and see if there was anything that is unexpected. We may expect A group owning 90% of wealth to own 90% of stocks. If this isn't the case, is this surprising? (I don't remember the wealth inequality statistics, so I'm just theorizing here).
Good one, makes sense to be another option I think
This was really big news for me, so I really put a lot into documenting this important milestone and why I felt it was important.

Also, it was my first time including an audio version, so feel free to load the page and listen rather than read. Just forgive the "first time-ed-ness" and my awkward mistakes. I did so many retakes and still so many glitches made it into the final audio recording.
GCP proxied by Cloudflare, yes
In my experience, manual work seems to be getting more and more valuable, at least in the US, and it's because you cannot computerize wiring a house or pouring a concrete foundation or plumbing a bathroom.
Do you still think it’s good if you aren’t part of the 10%, nor do you own part of the 11% the 10% don’t own, and when you try to amass wealth policy created by and for the 10% harm your meritorious attempts to improve?
You got me, bud.
Love me some top 0.1% propaganda to pin the lower classes against each other. The top 10% have more in common with the median individual than this article makes out. It’s the top 0.1% that are out of control and need to be reigned in.

https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/never...