skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My meaning was very plain.

Your meaning was not plain, you wrote a few very broad sentences and in your clarifications it seems you were talking about a single problem - equality. The original post was outlining many problems, inequality being one of them and the systems being proposed potentially address many problems.

But that's fine, such is the nature of dialog over text.

> Studies show that family fortunes in the United States do not form dynasties as they do in other economic systems (like monarchist mercantilism, for example). Most family wealth dissipates by the third or fourth generation

This is likely to be an outdated statistic at best. If you go back three or four genenerations, you will find yourself passing through a time when the US had very high inheritance taxes and a 90% top marginal tax rate. That period of time did likely prevent the formation of dynasties across it. However, those policies have since been repealed and current studies show very low social mobility and a significant increase in dynastic formation. [1, 2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/13/americ...
[2] https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Billionair...

> Some systems produce little inequality, but lots of destitution. Others produce lots of inequality but little destitution.

If you're just measuring destitution and inequality, then you're getting a very narrow picture. You can't leave out things like environmental degradation from your calculation. The environmental degradation - in climate change - threatens to upend what gains there have been made in destitution and the current system is completely failing to respond appropriately to the threat. So the great likelihood is that if we stay with the same system on the same trendline, there's a cliff coming in our near future.

> For me, there's a hierarchy of needs here. First, destitution must end, then we can talk about equality. But ultimately, if the world is extremely unequal, but no one is destitute, then that economic system is good. And we're very close to that by continuing with current trends.

Saying "first destitution" must end before we consider any refactors of the current system makes very little sense. There are other options on the table than state socialism or returning to mercantalism. Systems that have the potential to increase equality, decrease environemntal degredation, and decrease destitution. All at the same time. Systems that haven't been tried in macro yet, but are working just fine in micro - for example the move to universal worker cooperatives funded by credit unions and crowd sourcing that I propose. And that's just one of many proposed possibilities. Those doing the work of proposing alternatives are absolutely including things like destitution in their calculations.

Throwing your hands up and saying "we can't do better than this" frankly runs counter to the very mindset that this website is supposed to represent. We can always do better.
I <3 magit.

I believe I was the first to implement a major feature in it which was rejected upstream! So now I maintain a fork :)

https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/4285

Thankfully, package managers such as straight.el make it very easy to configure using a fork of some repository, without breaking dependencies.
The best way to get legislation is via unions or the threat thereof.
Honestly, it's true. People are creatures of habit. My mother has been an accountant for 20 or so years and will still call me to complain about having to learn a new Excel version (when they moved to the 'stripe' interface? God help me...), or moving to a job where they use any software that's different from what she's used to. God forbid her iPhone changes absolutely anything when it upgrades.

And yes, Windows users have complained mightily about nearly every upgrade (remember the Windows 8 fiasco? Windows 10 was lesser, but people still found fault, now 11...) but still use it. Oh well.

Also, there was a lot of bitching about Ubuntu moving from Gnome 2 to Unity. It led to a DE fork and an entire distro picking up the cause. So Linux users bitch too. But with OSS you can change what you want and the companies can also tell you to piss off...
You can also make it illegal to seek assistance from an out-of-jurisdiction middle-man. Thus, any middle men are going to be subject to the same regulations.
Interesting! I didn’t know that. Thanks for the correction!
My biological grandfather's truck was fire bombed by the Philadelphia Roofers Union. It's sort of a family thing for me personally.
I wish that HN users had to disclose their potential conflict of interest when commenting. If google writes your paycheck or makes up a portion of your portfolio I want to know that when you are defending them online.
Why has TSMC succeeded where Intel has failed?
Personally I would say: “the issue with v2 is its design, not its implementation” or “one of the issues with v2 is its design, not its implementation”.

However your initial phrasing is perfectly intelligible, and probably grammatical (not that that’s so important, if it’s intelligible).
> Yeah. USA has a really strong propaganda system and it's a shame that even on HN, where people should be more critical thinkers, this is not widely recognized.

OTOH, I recommend strongly you consider how strong the anti-US propaganda is online, including on places like Reddit and HN. It's an entire art form now, how to be critical of the US in every possible way. Whether it's cops, health care, or imperial measurements.

The reality in the US is much different than portrayed on here, and you ought to be aware of that.
A solution to slow this that doesn't involve chat splitting is introducing friction to onboarding in an otherwise open community. A Discord server in-which I'm active routinely executes arbitrary kicks on new members (not bans) as a matter of course. A determined new person would reach out to pretty much any active member, request an invite, and be allowed back in. Users are expected to carry server invites on them at all times. Users that seem excessively active are occasionally given temporary bans, and told to "touch grass". Nobody's upset by this, because kick permissions are given to all active members, and revoked from members who use them to pursue vendettas. Moderation privileges rotate pseudorandomly among the active members.

This kind of hazing selects for people of good humor, who are willing to work to participate in the community and aren't emotionally volatile, but who are mature enough not to be too upset if they lost access. It's a good culture without too much homogeneity, but it's understood that you miss a few good people to produce the environment.

This isn't the solution to creating an online community, but it's an example of engineering a culture and onboarding process that selects for certain temperaments so that the community doesn't become diluted as is grows, and members who don't fit self-select themselves out of the population.
> Most trees won’t grow that fast

Most won't but some do grow really very fast. Like the Willow.

I live in an area with lots of Pollarded Willows. We have about 30 of them in our garden. They grow a ridiculous 2-3m each year (6-10ft). Often in just a few months.

We'll cut them around now (autumn) down to 1.50m, and next year august they'll easily be 3-4m high again. Pollarding is rewarding but a lot of work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow#Others
Reducing the growth rate of a subset of a total does reduce the growth rate of that total.
I think your physical strength argument, which bears the mark of having come from the sports debate, applies only to the sports debate and not to anywhere else. Where else is physical strength used competitively (it must be competitive, or else one person's success would not hurt anyone else) to obtain fame and profit?

Also, league divisions are not done on the basis of physical strength. Should men who are classified as having innately low physical strength (through some kind of genetic or hormone test) be allowed to join the Women's leagues?

If this design were taken to its logical conclusion, we would be calculating an innate ability for every athlete based on our best understanding of genetics and biology to subtract from their score or add to their time. Then, the best athlete in the world would be some fat guy from Odessa, who can't run a 10-minute mile but is related to people who can't run a 20-minute mile. I'm not entirely willing to discard this suggestion - obviously he deserves more respect than someone who was born faster than he is but never trains - but it would change everything about the way sports work.
The trap or myth of meritocracy is well-documented, it destroys itself rather fast. Meritocracy is transient in nature, merit always becomes a synonym for wealth and social class, at which point you are back to oligarchy.

Competition is usually not the answer, it ends up hurting everyone, including the winners. Cooperation is the key. Unfortunately we live in a world that treats life as a competitive struggle for survival. We used to mistake evolution for being competition driven as well.
Have you heard of Outer Wilds? It's a different setting, but you piece together a story by exploring. I'd really recommend it.
Field Arguments vs. Directives in GraphQL
The same is true of some of the best work being done on the web, such as the NYTimes interactive infographics.

Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Heck, even Flash projects from 15 years ago still run fine when compiled on Ruffle or some other Flash player.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. It seems like you're saying that SRP is OK as long as you don't use SRP, but rather a modern PAKE, and then call it SRP.

You're certainly not correct that the article is saying SRP is flawed because it "relies on the discrete log problem", as ECDLP-based PAKEs are also vulnerable to QC.
The sub-heading of your link says:

> Carmack says he's transitioning to the role of "consulting CTO" at Oculus.

So he can still be called CTO.
Yes, I know and understand all that. The new information to me was that, after shooting up quickly to its final height, the bamboo basically just grows stronger and harder over the next 4 years without changing its dimensions. Curious if there are any other plants that do something similar, or why bamboo would do this in the first place, evolutionarily speaking.
I did not intend to imply there is anything wrong with unionizing. I just do not find any substance in article after article being solely about Amazon warehouses with no point of reference. It was already known before Amazon that warehouse work sucked, that information is trivial.

It would be interesting to see what difference retail employers are like, especially considering how fungible they are and how similar their profit margins are.
The last time I can find him saying anything about her fraud allegations was in May 2018, saying she's "innocent until proven guilty", which is a simple assertion of a fundamental legal principle, and a way of showing some humanity to a friend without defending or denying any crimes that may later be found to have been committed.

The last time I can find him saying anything publicly about her, he said he wouldn't back her as CEO again - though he would back her as "chief science officer", before quickly changing the subject [2]. Again, he's clearly trying to show her some personal support as a friend and colleague when nobody else in the world will do that, whilst very clearly stopping short of endorsing or denying any criminal behaviour.

What can you find that's more damning than this?

And why is it so important to you that Tim Draper should have publicly trashed her? Is it not enough that basically every other media and investment figure in the world was trashing her? Do you not have anyone for whom you would publicly signal support, if they were at rock bottom and the rest of the world was piling onto them, even if you know they may have done the wrong thing?

[1] https://cheddar.com/media/tim-draper-elizabeth-holmes-is-inn...

[2] https://theoutline.com/post/7157/one-of-theranos-first-inves...
Oh, gee well I thought we were on a developer/techie forum.

McDonald's is also one of the most popular restaurants. I eat there once in a while. I still run Windows boxes to play games too.

And it's more like ~30% for Windows when you measure against all operating systems, not just the desktop ones. [0] Android is the top dog since at least October 2020 when it went to over ~40%.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share
It's also amazing the amount of people who have never dealt with cops who think it's a giant, unthinking, unfeeling blob, and make broad generalizations about how it behaves and what its flaws are.

I've dealt with lots of cops for minor stuff (trespassing, traffic infractions, crashed parties), and have only had a bad experience (turned out fine anyway) once. I have several relatives who have been in and out of the system, and from my point of view, they were probably treated more fairly than they deserved. I get that that is not everyone's experience, but it makes me skeptical that the problem is somehow grand and structural and not just "some people are assholes."
We have a immutable chain structure in TerminusDB which allows for straightforward uncoordinated multi-read access or multi-version concurrency control. This approach also makes branching simple to implement. Any number of new layers can point to the same former parent layer.

You might like this white paper (but for reasons above you will have to overlook some of the OWL information): https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb/blob/dev/docs/white...
Sanitize your inputs? I think not
Where are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influx
Because it makes a show of pointing out that religious views are arbitrary and capricious to a degree that implies that isn't the case with any number of non religious views.

Freedom of conscience is a tricky thing. There are a lot of things that one person might see as falling under that while another might see as affecting the rights of some third party.
You sound pretty bleak to me..
We named our product https://Spike.sh, an incident management product with alerts. Our server "spiked" is commonly used so we thought it made a lot of sense that we will alert every time it does.

It also fits into our target audience better. Allows us to foray into horizontal products too.

There are two types of commonly used names. One is a combination of two words such as Datadog and others are single worded like Spike, Stripe, Slack

Single worded domains are neat and are quite sticky in my opinion. I recommend it. We also live in a world of increasing adoption of rare tlds. Magic.link, reflect.run and plenty more. I believe people are leveraging it pretty well. We share our .sh tld with shell extensions, which is pretty cool.

For single words - stick to 6 or less characters and explore tlds other than .com

For double words - ensure at least one word is super relatable and one of the words is short. Peter Parker (pp) -> Datadog (DD) helps in remembering and using it more.
I'm probably in a minority, but I keep an envelope of $1000 in my safe next to my passport at home. Not quite the petty cash jar, but I have it handy in case.
We are not cutting down forests to make buildings. We get plenty of lumber to do that from sustainable tree farms. We are cutting down forests to get land (mostly to use for non-tree agriculture)
How do you know what the internet will look like in 500 years? Sites from 20 years ago are broken, you can expect that unless you’re using plain text and html that standards will change in 500 years and people will not be able to access your site.

Then there’s issues with domains. You’d have to setup a trust and again assume we will still be using domains in 500 years. If you use something like S3 then you’ll have to ensure they’re around for 500 years.

My perspective, this is entirely unrealistic.
But that was also 2 years ago. I assumed by this time they'd have found a permanent CTO? Maybe not.
I agree with this. It's hard to engage with people like GP saying things like 'the year of the Linux desktop will never happen', as they are using the term to essentially dismiss Linux as a platform, however in order to counter it or to highlight the progress that has been made, you are effectively having to sidestep bad-faith framing of the issue.

I don't think GP was universally dismissing Linux in the way that it is normally used (there are plenty of better examples in this thread, though), but it is similarly an inflammatory comment to make that detracts from proper discussion.
I still want a remake of 1997's 'Knights and Merchants'

Great game. AI went wonky when you reached ±100 serfs.
I am starting to teach at my local University and this was just the thing I needed to read. Thanks a lot Sam.
> TSMC will win.

Absent any geopolitical difficulties... but that's a whole other discussion.
Notable quote:

> In states that cut off the $300 check, the workforce — the number of people who either have a job or are looking for one — has risen no more than it has in the states that maintained the payment. That federal aid, along with two jobless aid programs that served gig workers and the long-term unemployed, ended nationally Sept. 6. Yet America’s overall workforce actually shrank that month.
"executed out of" != "executed outside of" (at least in my English vernacular)
Yeah, I don't feel that way at all about Linux and I daily drive it. Could you imagine our mothers troubleshooting any of the following things that have regularly happened to me on Linux in the last 5 years I've been daily driving it:

* Hm, my sound stopped working.
* Hm, dhcp stopped working.
* X has completely failed to start.
* This website just straight up doesn't load.
* Thia game won't load (pretend it's solitaire).
* This update broke my boot.
* Seemingly doing nothing broke my boot.
* This update broke my browser.
* This application does not work without configuration.
* My monitor layout is broken.

Maybe things are better in Ubuntu land, but I doubt it's as seamless as Windows/Mac.
As a magit user, I would like to know as well.
Not quite 'wall of sound', but there was a lot of echo-y stuff added to early US Beatles albums per Dave Dexter Jr, "for the American market". I suspect there was an attempt to be "wall of sound" like, at least in part, but it was also an easy way to give yourself "production" credits on Beatles' work.
Making Wind Turbines Sustainable Again
Mostly the ability to think in abstractions and imagine what might be technically possible! Certainly not exclusive to programmers but more density there.
Not quite sure how you can ever compare, in any way, Interpol to Joy Division!!!! Interpol were just a rock band. Joy Division are Legends.
I agree that it's easy to say this here, but I still fail to see what example a VC would want to set by doing what Draper has done here. Is this supposed to show that he's standing behind his founders even if they commit fraud? There's a huge difference between being founder friendly and doing what Draper did imo.
I don’t think it’s so strange: these people (the temporarily-embarrassed capital class, one could call them) are against unions they could see themselves managing. Not one of them wants to run a coal mine; that’s something that moustache-twirling aristocrats do, not decent bourgeoisie like themselves.

And government unions aren’t a concern to them either, because this type of person also could never imagine themselves working for the government.

(Few seem to have the inferential capacity to realize that they are nevertheless a shareholder of their government, and a marginal dollar saved in taxes is the same as a marginal dollar gained in dividends. One might in fact call taxes a dividend that’s usually net-negative.)
It's funny I have a logitech cam at the top of my monitor, which effectively covers the exact same space as this new notch. The bezels on monitors have gotten so thin it's tough to include add ons.
A similar take:

Don’t get your updates on X from someone trying to sell you some version of X. Get it from someone who has to explain X before selling you on Y.
Others mentioned the shortcuts, but there's also obvious buttons in the toolbar with a green up-arrow for commit+push (the button for Commit has an option to also Push) and a blue down-arrow for pull.

Maybe you disabled the git toolbar in the menu?
The US healthcare force is short half a million workers
Turn of the Century Fine Arts (solid wood drafting/standing tables)
I'm submitting this product page as I think it's relevant to HN for these reasons:

1) product can be used as a standing desk and is more portable than other types

2) Recent threads on hardened wood and bamboo based products have had a bit of debate over sustainability compared to solid wood products

3) It has a variety of adjustment angles (~16, with 8 adjustments per orientation, can be rotated 180 degrees). From nearly flat to 80-ish degrees.

4) It can support a large monitor and can be leaned on when tired (but would not tap dance on it). I prefer this format as it is deep and not a standard wide desk that takes a lot of room. If you have a monitor on a separate swing arm it could be folded up and take very little room after hours.

I bought this at the Siskiyou Woodcraft Guild Thanksgiving show in Ashland Oregon several years ago. The table collapses and fit in the trunk of a medium sized car. I've not had any issues with it, it's very rugged. It does not have a clear varnish layer, simply treated with Feed-N-Wax whenever I spill a drink on it.

https://siskiyouwoodcraftguild.org/virtual-fine-woodworking-...

As a show piece, I got it for ~$1K at the opening of the show, several others tried to buy it while I was there.
https://conifer.rhizome.org/ can do it
There are three dimensions:

1. UX: most of the time kernel updates don't affect the user experience. However, from time to time there are scheduler updates which can have positive effects.

2. Security: Being able to run the kernel with the latest security updates is evidently very important to have a system that is not vulnerable to newly discovered exploits.

3. Dependencies: As discussed already, some software components like the Android itself requires certain kernel features and therefore certain versions to let you run the latest versions of the software.

Btw. even LTS kernels are just supported for six years or so.

My biggest problem with the situation is, that 99% of the software is open source (Android incl. the Linux kernel) and just a few vendor-specific drivers make it very hard to upgrade the kernel and therefore the system.
> Even if I'd really like to visit the US one day once corona passes, there is absolutely no way I'll consent to essentially a digital striptease search with orifice controls.

Don't take your phone and laptop with you on the plane. Maybe take an older phone (check lte bands and what not) that has been wiped and don't sign into things until you clear customs.

If you need a laptop, options are ship it seperately or wipe before transit and do a recovery later.
Based on my reading of the link you provided I don't believe support for GVT-g has been removed.

You can see the GVT-Linux repository is also still receiving commits:
https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux
> I'm a... at Microsoft

opinion discarded.
Installing the Shelly Dimmer 2 (Integrated with Home Assistant and Tailscale)
Wow, after reading that legendary endorsement, I listened to it for the first time. I don’t normally think of myself as a philistine, but I’m afraid it didn’t speak to me at all. Maybe you had to be there.