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The drought has some pretty obvious effects if you live out here in California. A small lake near me that I usually go hiking to with my little kids, Jewel Lake, dried up entirely this summer. That hasn't happened in years. (Well, I've never seen it dry up before, I don't know when the last time was.)

When I was a kid in the Midwest we had snow days sometimes and missed school. We don't have those here because it doesn't snow. But we have had smoke days in the past few years, where the air was too smoky for kids to go to school.

The California drought might seem like some exaggerated mainstream media junk to people on the east coast. But out here in California, drought vs non-drought is just a mundane, practical part of life. We root for it to start raining in the fall because that means fire season is over. We chat about the drought weather with people in town to make small talk the way I chatted about the Red Sox when I lived in Boston. I think you have just categorized this issue wrong - this is the sort of news that is actually relevant to normal peoples' lives.
"The living standard and quality of life for poor americans is marginally better than for poor people in third-world countries"

I have no experience of third world countries, but if I am destined to be poor, I would rather live in ex-soviet block countries like Czech Republic. They gave half-decent public services, healthcare, etc.
How is it that the article says 100% of _all_ the U.S. stocks are owned by Americans? Aren’t foreigners able to own U.S. stocks? Investopedia says they can.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/foreignownership...
Fair enough.

My point is the 10th percentile household (~$200k income) has more in common with the median (~$70k) income household than they do with the top 1% household (~$530k). Or even the top 0.1%...

https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/never...
Comparing Apache Spark on Kubernetes to Kubeflow
I've heard this trope before, but it doesn't seem true to me. The federal government's day-to-day services include universities (through student loans and grant funding), travel (domestic and international), the quality of food we eat, healthcare regulation, and nearly everything to do with employment.

The local governments seem to focus mostly on K-12 schools, and police/fire; plus some one-off errands like the DMV and liquor laws.

The amount of federal taxes I pay is a life-changing amount if I were to get it back in a single check every year, whereas the state/city taxes of sales+property+stateincome is maybe a quarter as much.
I'm not sure I understand the thing about the models not being live previews. Is OpenSCAD effectively being run on the server and the code needs to be sent to it every time you modify code or change the camera?
Owning stocks is one of the ways to avoid paying taxes?
Yup, it's a really really bad bug that Vimeo ran into frequently in 2019-early 2020.

Migrating to K8s-based deployments was the effective workaround, but before that it was not fun to have that sort of unreliability.
Reminds me of Chips Challenge from back in the day.
It's propaganda. People who have lived experience of the VA system may have complaints, but they're mosquito bites compared to the lived experience of even people with reasonably good insurance who have gotten sick.
Really? Most discussions on inequality I witnessed focused on the ultra-rich: Bezos, Musk and so on. I actually think it would make sense to include the upper middle class as well.
Given the context, this list aged like milk.

"Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision." So predetermine a decision is "good", then ignore facts to the contrary? Is this what we saw on display at the UN?

Ignoring "adverse facts" seems to me to be one step away from simply adopting "alternative facts". Turns out it wasn't just one step away - it was a mere one administration away!
What makes you think this statistic would be at all correlated to the leadup to a depression?
I find it difficult to understand the point this article is really making. The early "confusion" about mask wearing (based on making sure that front-line workers could get N95 masks) is now long over. All the peer-review evidence I have seen shows that masks, as part of an overall strategy, are very effective at reducing the risk of Covid spread. Not eliminate, but reduce.
I don’t think that map is either evidence in favour or against your position: HVDC has minimal impact, yes, but partly because you can bury the cables more easily, and buried cables are still more expensive.

HVDC is (I think) the only thing that can be used for underwater connections, so it’s used where the price makes sense. If the question is regulation we should also see all proposed and recent AC lines in Europe.

(Edited for clarity)
It's been said the typical founder of a successful startup is on their 7th attempt. It would seem the secret to success then is to be the founder of 6 duds!
Traditionally unionized employers may still offer pensions (teachers, law enforcement, steelworkers, etc).
For others, lisper is replying to the original version of the GP comment which stated that federal income and payroll taxes were one and the same for the 61% number.
A decent chunk of adult Americans are effectively on the margins .. not contributing much at all to the economy. It's sad but a reality
The people who opt out get a smart card. The pitch will be something like smart cards can be lost or stolen, faces can't.
Okay, I'll say it; good. Democracy is fine as a method to run a government, but democracy is a terrible way to run an economy. Not nearly everyone should have a say in what happens in the economy.

Democracy ought not be a meritocracy, but the economy should be, which means some people will and should be left out of decisions.

I would love it if the government could grow the number of people who, on their merits, help guide the economy, and there are groups of people who are unfairly barred from access to the economy and that is bad, but the idea that everyone should get a say in what happens in the economy is very much against the capitalistic principles upon which the US economy is built upon.
Do you pay sales tax on purchases? SALT deductions also reduced those paying federal taxes paid when they were still around. Agreed that people misunderstand it quite easily.
> That essentially means it's literally 10x cheaper to take a two-way ticket to France, have a doctor prescribe it there, buy 3 months worth of treatment and come back to the US. I wonder how Americans can tolerate this situation.

I believe that this may be what pushes the American system to change.

I know of several not-rich people, sometimes who have decent or good insurance, who have chosen to go abroad for medical care. The care they get abroad is typically cheaper as well as better.

Given the amount of money the US spends on healthcare, this should rarely be true.

The insurance companies have set up a good gig for themselves, but I think that they may be feeding at the trough a bit too aggressively. When the economy has a big downturn, I think some hard questions will be asked.
I think typically people signup for third-party services to email them when someone replies to them. I personally use hnreplies.com.
The language still has plenty of footguns but most serious development is done through well-organized application frameworks and CMS starters. Performance is fine and can be parallelized as well as any application server language. There is a lot of documentation and community support for good proxy and server config, and plenty of hardened images or container configs, so the days of relying on pokey Apache on shared hosting are over for anyone who cares.
At this rate, that's worth more than the Tether.
How terrible!

FWIW, I think Brother's lawyers are really bad if they think they can do this with impunity. I'm not a lawyer, and of course I don't know your family's situation or if your grieving sibling had/has energy to fight them, but this sounds to me like something that the next-of-kin/a heir can call them on if they choose to. In particular, if this was in the US I think it's illegal to terminate the position and health coverage without offering COBRA, regardless of the reason. There would be very clear damages, and this additionally makes one view "the position no longer existed" skeptically. I was a potential juror in a civil wrongful termination case this month. (I got excused on the third day of jury selection.) This case went to court nine years after the event, so four years is not too late. My understanding is that in a civil case, your sibling would just have to convince a jury it's more likely than not your sister-in-law was terminated improperly. I wouldn't rule out a criminal case also.
Try is article is from 2016, and also basically incoherent.
It is only a simile of the thought of Wang Huning and the rest of the Politburo.

If you take Hunings' "America against America", you will see that the diagnosis for what he calls "Cultural Nihilism" (see also the CCP notion of "historical nihilism") is ultimately rooted in not much more than the orthodox concept of alienation from the economic dimension.

Hence his opposition to liberalization, moreso in the economic than social sense.

He doesn't impune the younger westerners from turning away from Religion or said broadly Tradition, but from the intellectual tradition of Europe, that is to be said, the broad current of the Enlightenment and what followed from it.

Indeed you should read Huning's impunement of liberalism as a political economy as broadly similar to Marx, with the exception that instead of Marx's general reliance on the European tradition for ethics, even appropriating the criticism of the Sophists on the basis of character, Huning would rather blend them with the Chinese tradition.
But do the wealthiest 10% pay 90% of the taxes? Answer: nope. Eventually there's a reckoning for this discrepancy, but that's why we have corporate media to delay that as long as possible.

https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income...
Note the jump from 2019 to 2020. 25% in 2019 to that 43% figure you note here.

That’s fairly important context. 43% is not a typical number, and as you can see in the report, it is expected to return to baseline quickly.
You are out of reality.

My country has public health insurance, but gov also works hard to keep costs down. If we paid for drugs like this, the public system would bankrupt.
That's because, in a democracy, the incentives aren't to fix problems, but to create more so that you can continue to 'solve' them forever. This is exasperated by the obvious bribes that get flung around in the form of speech fees, employment after political career, and so on which give politicians, even ones ostensibly out to 'fix' your problem, perverse incentives to do the opposite in favor of a massive corporation.

I have heard that European Healthcare, especially in places like Denmark, is top notch and somehow free of this evil: I would love to know how they achieved this.
What is the mode wage in America though?
Well that isn't universal. I've made do with 8gb and get on fine with 16gb while never having heard of that ZRAM driver.
Is this a competitor to physX?
> 1% of US-based companies are publicly traded.

Well, let's broaden the scope a bit then. Beyond simply issuing new shares, you can found a new company. This happens a lot, outside the bay, you just don't hear or think about it unless it's a VC backed firm hoping to make it huge. When it's a sole proprietorship, crickets. Perhaps this is fine, but there are different modes of ownership across the country.
Yea. It took way too long to get here:

> Bob’s rant about function colour is actually a rant about proactor vs reactor programming. His argument is that it is better to write code that blocks on I/O than code that expects its I/O to be done for it elsewhere in the code.

Yes, threading is hard. And he’s right that lots of async can be unnecessarily hard too.

However…

> But you don’t need to do [async]. With care, there is no reason for more than about 10% of your codebase to be async functions. Almost all the rest of your code can just transform in-memory data representations from one form to another.

Ok… not sure how he got there. I have a gateway program right now that is definitely not just 10% IO. It’s like 95% IO. It seems a weird generalization to assume my programs will be similar to his.
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Good point and I do use it, but it's not a good match for these purposes and especially for the general public:

It's limited to scholarly papers and those have limited domains (in topics and in currency of information - limited current events, for example). Also, GS omits much that is high quality, even the news sections of Nature and Science (and other journals, I expect), the NY Times news, the BBC news (not the opinion sections), Consumer Reports, online exhibitions from credible institutions (e.g., Smithsonian), research from credible think tanks, etc. Finally, availability, accessibility and quality are poor: GS requires much more effort than standard search engines to obtain applicable search results and then to obtain the papers, many scholarly papers can be difficult to read for general audiences, and without expertise it is difficult for people to distinguish fringe papers from one person from consensus from laws of nature.

In my vision, scholarly papers would be listed in a separate box in the UI, for people who want to read them and to remind everyone else that they are available. I'm afraid if the general public got search results that had some papers at the top, it would turn them off.
>which emperor is able to control the world? Emperor Gaozu ...
-_-
See the link to the explanation just above it: https://learn.cadhub.xyz/docs/general-cadhub/openscad-previe...
How to Protect Your Privacy And Personal Data from Hackers?: https://www.hackerslist.co/how-to-protect-your-privacy-and-p...
Alder Lake May Break Some Games Due to DRM Tripwire
It's absurd how much more readable that is than the twitter thread itself. If you had told me it was a blog post I 100% would have believed you up until I hit the bottom and saw it was on threadreader.
I tend to be more than a little skeptical of organizations like DeepMind and (especially) OpenAI lately, when it comes to their pledges to democratize their advances in AI/ML/robotics. This, however, is 100% a great move by DeepMind in the support of the community as a whole. Kudos to the team, and a big thanks as well.
Yes, Citi did. They couldn't revert the transaction because they accidentally paid off the full value of a debt when making an interest rate payment on behalf of a client, and the law says that repayment of a debt does not need to be returned in case of error.
Here in Canada, we have a half dozen competing generic drug manufacturers. They're not subsidized. My province has a public drug insurer that covers the elderly and very poor. It negotiates a common price as a large insurer tends to do. It's public information. It represents roughly the market cost in bulk to purchase these drugs from for-profit companies in Canada.

https://www.formulary.health.gov.on.ca/formulary/results.xht...

Indomethacin can be bought from four different companies at $C0.12 per tablet.
Also worth noting that this process is not easy, and having an objective helper who will help you hold yourself accountable, in the form of a "therapist" of some stripe, is super helpful.

That person can help directly with several of these steps: noticing and characterizing the problem; exploring the unspoken assumptions; and formulating alternatives and plans.
Don't worry, they only take all your money if you have any. If you don't have any money, they're happy to give it to you for free.
One example: Chinese stocks oftentimes can't be owned by foreigners. The workaround is to start an offshore company that pegs its share price to the price of the onshore asset. Many Chinese stocks on Robinhood use this model, like Alibaba.
+1 - plus, it's an immediate barrier for attracting new people to the field.
You edited before I got the chance to make a snarky reply :-) For the record, the following snippet will not compile because the deleted constructor will be matched during overload resolution.

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> There is still so much nuance as to, in my opinion, make this fact practically useless.

Agreed, and so is the title of the thread we are discussing.

> The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks
Mentioned here: https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1449443643404607492
Quoting Wikipedia:

> Powell's chief role was to garner international support for a multi-national coalition to mount the invasion. To this end, Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations Security Council on February 5, 2003, to argue in favor of military action. Citing numerous anonymous Iraqi defectors, Powell asserted that "there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more." Powell also stated that there was "no doubt in my mind" that Saddam was working to obtain key components to produce nuclear weapons.[61]

It's hard to deny he worked hard to justify an illegal war of aggression, which, as we've established is a war crime.
EasyData (easy CRUD for ASP.NET Core) version 1.3.5 is out
Daily reminder that stock market is not the economy.

During the pandemic, stock market has sky rocketed while production, productivity, life expectancy and quality of life all fell off a cliff. Every measurable metric.
That's not what your link says. The final rows are "don't pay either" (20% of tax units). The one you quoted is from the 2020 data for "Zero or Negative Sum of Income and Payroll Taxes".

Your total tax liability can become zero, even post the 7-ish% Social Security and such, due to the EITC and so on. For example, if you make $20,000 / yr but have two children (made up numbers), you probably end up with a sum of zero.
Apple Store goes offline ahead of 'Unleashed' event
Can confirm. I'm not American but most my stock holdings are.
In Larry Niven’s Ringworld, there were maps of various planets in the ocean, including one of Earth. I always wondered what projection they were in.
Yep, I was 100% wrong, and felt I should bow out of the conversation as a result. I left in the research that made me discover how incorrect I was, to help guide others.
This is a well-written article. It contains no fear mongering. It defines what critically low means (below the level of the rim) as well as the impacts both on Tahoe and communities downstream that use the level above the rim as a reservoir. It provides historical context and discusses that it is not uncommon for Tahoe to reach this level, mentions the Dust Bowl, etc.

HN is apparently going to have a separate meta-discussion about climate. (Which is fine, but it’s worth a click-through to read the article. I’m glad I did!)
Where is lying to the UN in that definition?
Is it including children and the elderly?
If you've ever been on the scheduling side of these things, you'll see that a lot of these waits come down to inefficient scheduling. If you've waited a month for your appointment, there's a good chance there were multiple cancellations before that you didn't hear about.
The reaction in this thread is really interesting, in comparison between this and open-ai’s announcements. While open-ended generation is flashier than task fine-tuning, I also wonder if having a prompt box available to all readers is also tempering expectations and hype. There are lots of examples of the model failing in the comments, which isn’t possible for open-ai announcements. Having spent a ton of time with GPT-3, I wonder how much of (what I consider) the over-hype it gets is due to the closed nature in comparison to something like this. The reaction to this one seems decidedly more realistic.
>Not nearly everyone should have a say in what happens in the economy.

I mean sure, democracy isn't optimal for selecting the best people, but do you think those 10% that do own most of that stock were selected by their skills and abilities?
They must mean of stocks owned by Americans. I'm guessing they are only talking stocks owned directly and not the ones held by your pension fund?
Some scientists even suggest out planet is stuck inside a Black Hole

That would explain the "filament-like" magnetic tunnel

There are a lot more we can't explain, we stuck looking at the light or some "waves"

The answser is something we can't see
Then the market can remain irrational for at least that long. The shit will hit the fan, and it will be because of shit like this.
> Not nearly everyone should have a say in what happens in the economy.

Alternative take: everyone already does have a say in what happens, as they participate. Nobody gets to dictate their own terms, though, but neither does anyone in politics.
On the topic of GPT-3, I asked your creation:

"Who is better, you or GPT-3?"

> GPT-3
I have pretty good insurance, and that's not really my experience. The shortest wait I've ever had (for a non-emergency) was 4 weeks for a therapist as a new patient. My optometrist is booked up for the next 6 months (which I found out when I had to reschedule back in June and ended up with an appointment in November). Physician: 3 months. Dermatologist: 2 months. One of my friends has been on a waiting list for an elective surgery for almost 6 months (because she can't afford to go out of network).

The idea of a same-week appointment, especially as a new patient, seems like fantasy to me.
No, they're both very short term wins for companies, which means they might happen anyway. Cloudflare has demonstrated ethical behaviour so far, but that's not enough to trust a single part with the internet.

Short of the new age web3 stuff, though, not sure what else is a suitable alternative. Competitors to Cloudflare aren't as common because of their gigantic moat — imagine building an org that builds out to hundreds of cities around the world and partners with thousands of network companies.
Or someone good at math just made some calculations and found out that if people at the top have a villa and a tesla and people at the bottom can't get to the end of the month without a side job, some wealth stealing is happening somewhere, it's not like "Oh they were saying the same things so they are not true and we should not do anything about it"

But we should stop thinking about the past and think about the current situation and how to fix it

I've read a bit and I think the problem with russia was not the communism, it is cultural, it sucked even before when the tsars were burning books and limiting the expression possibilities, including the fact that Russia and the eastern europe has never been through the renovation process of western europe and the liberal movements never took place there, I would hardly use russia as an example for anything, so please stop using russia as a background to don't add anything useful to principle exposed, we fought fascism which was on-par with the totalitarianism of tsarism and communism, and created a fair society that lasted for few decades, which now needs help in order to get better, if you guys decided to suppress a totalitarian government with a worse one, it's not the fault of ideas, it's just your culture and/or approach that is wrong

I'm sorry to come off as harsh but it's been all day that you wanted to use Russia as an example ignoring that you have had the same issues of lack of freedom, redistribution and fairness even before communism was even an idea
“Employees are paid in stock”

This is not true for the vast majority of employees and is a bit out of touch.