skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is down right now, but looking at the comments, the framing of this issue is weird. 10% pay 80% because 10% BUY 80%.

That might be hard to believe.

But I remember looking at data on liquor consumption and curious about what the 80/20 rule was on it, and I was horrified to find that the something like over 50% (correction, 90%) of all liquor is consumed by people who drink and AVERAGE of 750ml for themselves per week.

Alcohol sales primarily go to alcoholics. It's a truth we don't want to see.

EDIT: when I say "liquor" I mean vodka, whiskey, etc - stuff that is at least 80 proof/40% ABV. Not wine.
yeah I can understand that-- mRNA vaccines are really cool, and my inclination at the moment is to think that they're safer than traditional vaccines, but they are new. I can respect not wanting to use a new therapy-- but it seems to me that that's no reason to remain unvaccinated: vaccine therapies for covid-19 that rely on tried-and-true technology are available. Seems worthwhile to make use of them, same way we make use of the flu shot, shingles vaccine, chicken pox shot, tetanus, pertussis, polio.. did you know that most people who get polio don't get particularly sick? It only paralyzes a small fraction of those infected. Folks went ahead and got vaccinated though.
sorry to hear that. i don't contract grow. it's what i hear from others about how morning star is run re: systems.
I found some of the settings but not all of them, but here’s the ones I found, and changed now:

- Global C-state Control: Auto -> Disabled

- AMD Cool’n’Quiet: Auto -> Disabled

- CPU NB/SoC Voltage: Auto -> Offset Mode; CPU NB/SoC Offset Mode Mark: +; CPU NB/SoC Offset Voltage: Auto

(The offset value can only be auto with my machine, not a custom value it seems.)

Only ones I couldn’t find were Gear Down Mode and Power Down Mode.

Clicked save and exit in the UEFI.

Then I powered down the machine and even flipped the on-off button of the PSU to off and let it stay off for ~20 seconds for good measure. Then turned the PSU back on and then powered the machine back on.

Currently reading the bug report thread and will try some of those things as well.
Good op-ed in The Information about this exact topic: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-end-of-venture-c...
They mentioned "weighing in at 504mb", so clarification seemed warranted
This isn’t so shocking as history alone makes it clear society operates on aristocrats legalizing externalizing effort.

They own everything and role play as if making investment choices is work but… they own everything so the monopoly outcomes are guaranteed.

Figuratively the class warfare was fought and won, and effort to fight for the public was deflected back as selfishness.

Class aristocrat:

def todolist:
While breathing:
leverage wealth to buy more useful property to extract wealth selling disposable property

Source: me, an aristocrat with a patent who earns a few cents for every gadget sold in the US due to some math I wrote down to receive a masters degree. My work did not give rise to the physical phenomenon, nor does it really have anything to do with designing or selling gadgets. It just states an objective mathematical truth. Thanks to everyone’s political belief for enabling my retiring before 40.
Based on personal experience, I don't think it's a symmetric deficit. Just as an example: at lots (most?) colleges, you must take (or test out of) a foreign language to graduate, but it's fine to not take calculus.

And in any case, a journalist covering a technical subject should have a basic understanding of units. It's really elementary stuff.
> why would you trust ANY 3rd party with your so sensitive data instead of running your own service?

Because end to end encryption means you don't have to trust a third party? The channel goes out of the equation, at least with reference to the content of your messages. Metadata is definitely handled differently by different services but that's a question of threat model.
Zk proofs have nothing to do with Snowden’s criticism. They’re collecting and storing iris hashes regardless of whether they’re using Zk proofs downstream in their tech stack.
Maybe? Depends on your net worth and your income. If the rules aren’t getting the desired results, you change the rules. Clearly (imho) the existence of billionaires demonstrates a deficiency in public policy and tax statute.
The difference between a nationalised industry and a publically-offered industry is that the nationalised industry has a chance of properly dealing with externalities, treating workers properly, ensuring safe long-term functionality, and, y'know, prioritizing the service they're there to provide.

This situation is covered by the first, though I bet the things that are killing the insects are hurting us, too.
I believe I know what you're referring to but can't find the link anymore now.

The main takeaway for me was that by busting a major drug ring, you are only helping the other major players b removing competition. They will fight each other (brutally!) to take over what was left behind by the now defunct ring, and instead of two or more large drug rings, you now have one massive monopolistic drug ring, and everyone is worse off.

I'm not sure what a solution here is. The more you fight organised crime, the more they fight back, and the situation escalates and becomes more violent to everyone involved. Perhaps decriminalisation along with better support infrastructure for victims and addicts could help?
I think because the answer here is using Next.js with hosted backend solutions like Firebase, Supabase, Pusher, etc.
Vercel brings new dynamic features to its Next.js framework
That was a lot of setup for 1-2 paragraphs of why it’s not a good idea.

I’m not sure the preceding text really illuminated why billionaires wouldn’t be paying much from the proposed changes, which was mentioned in the conclusion.

The idea of “you’re next” with respect to taxing unrealized capital gains is speculative but not unreasonable
>I think they should consider how much nicer things are now that so many fewer people smoke. I can still remember people smoking on planes, in restaurants, etc. It was terrible. I'm in favor of anything that keeps that from happening again.

I'm not sure that those outcomes are really related anymore.

Smoking indoors is verboten pretty much everywhere, and has been for quite some time. IMHO, raising or lowering taxes on cigarettes won't change that, nor will it change if more people start smoking.

What makes you think that adjusting cigarette taxes would have an impact on such laws/regulations? I'm not being snarky, I just don't see the connection here.

Anecdotally, as a cigarette smoker myself, I'm glad that smoking indoors (including on transport vehicles like planes, trains and buses) isn't allowed.
We're working on making it easier for developers to write Rust plugins to handle their own transformations.
A New Use for Leftover Eggs: Preserving Produce
College doesn’t do those things.
That's a claim unsupported by research[1].

> Results

>From 2001 through 2015, increases in state-level excise taxes were associated with declines in prevalence of cigarette smoking. The effect was strongest in young adults (age 18–24) and weakest in low-income individuals (<$25,000).

So yes, taxes actually do at least affect smoking rates in the most vulnerable population. If you don't start smoking in your teens, you're much less likely to become a lifelong smoker.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6147505/
I'm a k8s practitioner and I don't think they were wrong. There are some limitations around maximum number of nodes in a cluster, multi-region clusters, and multi-tenancy that make it difficult for a platform provider intending to serve a global user base that can potentially get very, very big. The simplest solution is to deploy many clusters, but if the solution they went with made it possible to deploy a single control plane, that is a simpler setup and I can't see any good reason not to go with that. At least one advantage of Kubernetes is it already exists, so you don't need to implement a whole bunch of orchestration and separation logic from scratch, but if you're a platform provider, you should have all the expertise to roll your own if pre-existing solutions don't meet your needs. I'd rather do that than tailor my product to the limitations of a toolchain I didn't create myself.
The production quality for both this and Jamstack Conf a couple weeks ago are very high. I really dig the retro graphics and music!
Also exactly how it works in UK - no smoking anywhere indoors.
So 200W for mobile processor? Are you sure? I'd say 65W tops

M1 lovefest won't end just like MacBook lovefest haven't ended all this years when Apple made stuff everyone criticizes now.
Given the financial burden it now poses, you'd have to be insane to attend college without picking a major which will help you to pay off your student loans. I don't know whether you know anyone with $80,000 in student loans and a $25,000/year income... It's not pretty.
The problem is colleges and universities have increased their prices so much over the last 20 years they're forcing people to make this kind of analysis on ROI. In the old days a young person could pay for a local university with a part time job and spend 4 years getting a major with a poor ROI just because it was interesting or so they can participate in campus life, but those days are gone. Now that a 4 year degree could result in a lifetime of debt people should do some careful analysis before making that kind of decision, and that’s purely on these institutions of higher learning for pricing themselves out of the market.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
Taxes aren't the reason so few people smoke. It might have been somewhat contributory, but the main reasons so few people smoke are social pressure and the fact that it is so much more inconvenient to smoke because there are so few places you can't smoke.

Travel around the country and you'll see more smoking in places where there's no lack of places you can smoke and where no one will side eye you for smoking.
> and that you need the help of a higher being

For that to work, you have to suspend your critical faculties. There are no telepathic aliens. Angels don't exist.
Propane is still more cost effective than electric resistive heating 99% of the time.
I don't think it's either of those: the article mentions Mark Wagner and Liqun Luo, who aren't authors.

I think I found it above, via the 2nd link in the article; it goes to a PR piece which ultimately links to the paper.
> I wonder why they don't replace these simple packages like `is-string` with Lodash...

As someone who maintains a few dozen packages (public and otherwise), lodash has wasted more of my time than any other - due to its frequent security issues. It was almost always lodash, and I would have to update a dozen packages everytime.

Things may have improved; I no longer use lodash anywhere.
He thought a few thousand randos with (very generously) a hundred guns and no apparent willingness to use them or kill anybody would be able to overthrow the US Government. And now his plan is to spearhead an actual coup at in 2028, when he's 83. Which is he supposed to be, a totalitarian mastermind or a total buffoon? Dumb enough to attempt a coup with a piddling army, smart enough to avoid any charges for 9 months with the intended victim and his party in power?

And what was his plan if they did violently take over DC? The largest army in the world would just take it back. Don't tell me they would follow his orders, they didn't like him before he started killing US civilians, politicians, and cops.

I guess we'll see what the committee discovers. Apparently, it's your belief that they'll discover nothing of significance in the next three years, but maybe we'll see after.
Increasing the price definitely prevents new people from picking up the degusting habit.

I just checked and a pack of my old smokes are over £12 a pack ($16 in Monopoly money)!

The only problem i see if that it hasn't already broke £20 a pack.
We may investigate this more in the future, but nothing planned currently.
> is it the comfort or familiarity or is it minimalism?

Depends on the person I'd assume.

For older people, it's almost certainly familiarity.

For younger people, likely a combo of minimalism and hipsterism. It comes up when someone talks about listening to something on vinyl or using typewriters instead of laptops.
Do you actually have anything to back that up? I'm not being antagonistic, but the impression I've gotten is that education was largely done for the sake of itself, like if you read Les Miserables the collegiate cast was largely poor - with the exception being those of high birth. Which I mean, take that for how you will, it is a fictional work. But then in Ancient China we see stuff like the Imperial Exam, which does sort of direct the education->wealth, but you still see the pattern of high birth being the ultimate determinant of success in most cases. Which to me says there is a paternal drive to have your kids educated, but for the sake of education itself, since ostensibly the family unit is already well established.

But I'm actually really interested in reading a historical perspective of education, so if you've got some sources I'd appreciate your sharing them.
not OP but I guess because they hit the poorer segment of the population and it's an income that comes from exploiting an addiction.

There is no sin tax for very wealthy people with very bad habits, like traveling with their private jets.

On the other hand as a smoker I am 100% in favour of the ban on smokes in public places.

Maybe more bans and less sin taxes could be a better option, I'm not sure myself, but I can see why someone could consider them borderline immoral.
No need to speculate, it's the second one and they even describe it on their web site:

Orbs will be remotely monitored and compared to other Orbs. Such monitoring is based on non-biometric metadata from the Orb, including battery level, temperature, and network strength. Anomalies will be flagged and lead to Orbs being deactivated. This anomaly detection happens in the cloud and therefore comes with higher security guarantees than device-level spoof and tamper detection.

What you're mistaken about is that the "currency" is not the same as this biometric airdrop (initial distribution). The airdrop is not open at all. The currency itself, once distributed, is just a token on Ethereum (with optimistic rollups). It's essentially as open as any other Ethereum token.
In my experience it displaced Mumble and Teamspeak only for casual gaming. If your group is strict enough about muting/kicking people who refuse to fix their mic settings, Mumble or Teamspeak is generally better -- better quality, local volume adjustments, less resource hungry, open mic not being the default, etc. Think tryhard esport players, or just people with old hardware (probably 90% of CSGO players )).
I think what they're saying is more or less true, though they're obviously putting a spin on it. This is them trying to catch up to what professional teams already expect, and what "prosumers" are increasingly expecting. Teams that collaborate on art and design, or who have to deliver assets to other people, moved to the web a few years ago. It's so much nicer.

I also believe them when they say performance was an issue that kept them from doing this until now: the fact that the Photopea guy can do a large subset of Photoshop's functionality in the browser is astonishing, but power users expect a lot more, and wouldn't pay Adobe's organizational licensing fees for anything less.

Yes, this will allow them to enforce their subscription model more tightly, and likely push all kinds of new monetization at users. You're right about that part, I just don't think it's the only reason.
OS/2 and NT weren’t really seen on home systems.

I’m sure Pascal was much more widespread than your post suggests though. I’m sure I read somewhere that early Windows (as well as Lisa) was written in Pascal. And I do remember Pascal compilers for the Atari ST too. I’d be amazed if there wasn’t one for the Amiga.

But even just going back to DOS, Turbo Pascal was a real game changer for me.
Kinda like how they control the narrative and release / orchestrate propaganda at the same time...

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1420050776785883136/photo...

???
For better or worse, there are different prescribed legal procedures with their own protections for whistleblowing that involves classified information. You're supposed to leak that to Congressional oversight committees with security clearances, not the press. There is an obvious weakness here if you don't trust Congress itself, but that is still the law.

As for Clinton, the issue there as I understand it isn't so much "intended harm." There are simply different consequences for intentional versus unintentional data spills.
I met one of the individuals responsible for introducing the heavy tax on cigarettes in the province of Alberta. He said it was fairly simple, The province needed more money and from the data they found that cigarette prices were inelastic. I.e. people will continue smoking even if prices went up. From an economics perspective those are the items you want to tax because taxing elastic items leads to what's known as dead weight, a type of economic inefficiency.

He also said that the province typically brought in more money from cigarettes, liquor, and gambling them from oil and gas revenues, which was pretty shocking considering what a staple that is for government revenue in that province.

The other argument in its favor he brought up was that these people are increasing the overall cost to the Healthcare system, and the sin taxes are a way I'm dealing with that.
https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=This+statement+is+wrong

>This statement is wrong
- No, it is not wrong.
Don't go to college in the US. Go to college in other countries which are cheaper - Canada, certain European countries, Asia.
The money goes a long way, and you get a multitude of rich and diverse cultural experiences.
This might not work for everyone, but if the individual is independent, mature and extroverted, might be a great choice.
To play devil's advocate to your devil, I don't really see Apple wanting to be in the market of making Candy Crush and all of its clones or any other of the various apps in the ecosystem. Much easier for them to just keep taking their cut.

However, seeing someone abusing something you thought might be a good idea that can only be stopped by lifting off and nuking it from orbit is a viable thing.
Sometimes I get the sense that people would rather put their head in the sand than discuss the realities around human impacts on the Earth.

This has nothing to do with "hating that we exist", however, at a minimum we probably have a responsibility to study, discuss and understand our impacts on the Earth, and not just for what it means for other species, but for what it means for us.
Historically, the capitalist countries have been much less-polluted ('cleaner') and more environmentally friendly in general than the communist countries. With respect to 'socialist' countries, the correlations depend on exactly how you define socialism, and which countries you include/exclude.
We've banned the other account, but you broke the site guidelines badly yourself in this thread, by feeding the flamewar and generally ignoring the rules. It's not ok to do that, regardless of how badly anyone else is behaving. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future. Note this one:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

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I already appreciate bats for how awesome they are! They're the fastest (and only flying) mammals. Surely that should be enough. If I were a bat, would it be rational to harbour animosity about any of the myriad diseases spread by humans?
Somehow mosquitos, stink bugs, and asian lady beetles persist in my area.

It is amazing to see every other type of animal come back stronger with the waning of industry.
UBI style "got a pulse get a check" programs sure. Current means tested programs are full of waste.
When I see a hardware company shifting toward subscription revenue, it makes me wonder if they see decreasing revenue opportunities for their hardware business. Apple has shifted toward subscriptions, undoubtedly in part because they could see that iPhones are no longer changing significantly from year to year.

Could this be one of the reasons Remarkable is launching this service? Or are they just trying to get more revenue (and higher profit margins) out of their existing business?
I think it's simply because we are very enthusiastic about the language.

It used to be a lot of posts about Ruby 15 years ago, today it's Rust.
I have a BOOX Max Lumi, it has all those features, for free. Plus is a fully functioning android tablet.
Researchers use AI – and folklore – to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories
Thing is, you don't matter.

If I have access to the data of 95% of people in a society, I have enough to model and predict behavior, and maybe even the hooks to inject information and influence future behavior.

The long tail of paranoid weirdos who spend all their time and energy fighting to maintain their privacy are irrelevant to the goal of societal domination.
"In places that have free healthcare like Canada the sin taxes actually start to make a lot more sense. Heavy smokers and alcoholics are likely to use more healthcare resources compared to somebody who doesn't engage in those activities. So in my mind it seems "fair" for those things to be taxed higher."

I'd recommend doing some digging here, I've seen many claims that such folks actually end up being responsible for lower lifetime healthcare expenditure due to earlier death and I'm sure myriad other factors
No, many bars still allow smoking.
We've been testing SWC for months now, both with early community members on canary releases and with Vercel customers. Lots of the rushing at the end was for minification, which is opt-in because of this. But compilation with Rust (replacing Babel) is stable (which is why it's on by default).
In the linked first post, they show a letter they received about this patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9729658

Can't even fathom what the patent is saying. Sounds like they have tried patenting the web.
Eric Schmidt on AI and His New Book, the Age of AI: and Our Human Future
There is a good anti-growth counter argument/observation in Homo Deus. Population growth necessitates economic growth otherwise you end up with unemployment which destabilizes society and can lead to war.

If you don't have population growth you still need economic growth to provide upward mobility to people at the bottom. Without growth you have a zero-sum game which again can lead to war.

Ideally improvements in efficiency or a shift values/culture can create a world where we can have economic growth without increasing the burden on the planet.