skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's[1] a more recent article from the St. Louis Fed. In no uncertain terms the current generation is behind in wealth accumulation. The best case scenario is since the delta has been reduced since the last time this study was done, hopefully the trend continues. Covid threw a wrench in everything, but as it stands, current generation is worse off (even without taking covid into account).

The above study looks at it on a per capita basis adjusted for inflation. The conclusion is pretty straightforward and clear.

> Yes certain “the rich” may live longer but I was referring to the correlation between health care expenditure and life expectancy - which is weakly correlated and only to a point. I may have don’t a poor job framing that [1]. Given you linked AARP I suspect that has more to do with unequal access to care earlier in life when poor, amortized to the limit, a uniquely American problem among developed nations.

Of course, but there's also plenty of other countries, in fact most of the world, where there's no healthcare safety net and being wealthy could literally mean decades if difference in life span. If the year being being born influences that, it's an incredibly unfair advantage. Yes the bar is being raised, but you can't simply isolate it as a uniquely American problem. Most of the developing world has this problem too. As a quick example look at the cancer survival rates by country [2]. Being rich lets you live longer in most countries. Its not the case only in a few select countries.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2021/march/millenn...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cancer-su...
As an ex Apple person, i'd say it means there's way too much hierarchy at Google? not sure i'm reading it right though
I like your Ockham razor reasoning, but given the history of this company, it would be very difficult to defend this claim. Soldering the SSD and memory made the device unupgradeable (in contrast to pre-2013 models where I have currently have 2x2TB!).
I don't imagine it's the same team
So, in other words, it is actually possible to brick an Apple Silicon Mac computer.

Cool!!
When the solar system formed it began as a cloud of gas and dust. As the sun condensed out of the cloud the remaining gas and dust was drawn into orbit around it, forming a disk. Over time, larger rocks and pebbles in the disk accumulated the material around them during their orbit of the forming sun, like rolling snowballs getting larger and larger.

At some point during the formation of the sun, enough pressure builds up inside to allow ignition of its fusion fuel (mostly hydrogen). As the sun heats up it begins emitting radiation and the ejection of particles (solar wind). It’s this combination of stuff (light and particles) that pushes lighter gases out of the near orbital region (where the rocky planets formed). Those gases make their way out beyond the asteroid belt and get picked up by the forming gas giants. At the same time, the heavier dust and rocks don’t get pushed very far by the sun and instead get accumulated in the rocky inner planets.

This pattern is more or less consistent around all stars we see out there. Of course, it varies in strength based on the amount of radiation and particles emitted by the star and that is a complex topic all by itself. But I hope the basic picture I’ve given here is informative.
Thanks for mentioning "History of the Akkadian Language". I was not aware of it.
He’s talked about this quite extensively in the past. Here’s a link to the Asahi project docs: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-vs.-PC-Boot

> iBoot is the main bootloader on M1 machines. It is small. It cannot understand external storage. It does not support USB. It does not have a UI. All it can do is boot from internal storage, and show an Apple logo, a progress bar, and a few error messages.

IIRC he’s said before that iBoot doesn’t even have keyboard support; it can tell if you’re holding down the power button to enter recovery mode, but that’s it. There is no workaround for this; it is not possible to boot over USB if the bootloader does not speak USB.
Can't the Fed still be responsible for interest rates not compensating you for inflation? I wouldn't care nearly as much if not for that part.
Python was kind of a cult-popular language in the 2000s. I did as much work as I could get away with in it; mostly system-level nuts and bolts kind of things, but also web apps.

Django 1.2 was the killer app that made it so much easier to sell to teams. But by then, I think RoR was more fashionable.
You need to ask the other question: Do they like it when HB tags them in yours and everyone else's photos?
The blog entry you're referencing is old. Please follow the link I had provided - https://shirtpocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.htm... - note the recent version number and its respective description.
I'm using a MacBook Air 2015 and it's basically still a fast, perfectly usable machine. Quad core i7, 8GB RAM, SSD. However, I wish I could replace the battery, I wish the SSD was more easily upgradeable, and it would be nice to double the RAM.
Waiting room for websites with Cloudflare Workers
Macports made my life hard three times I upgraded OSes from having to migrate Macports versions, just leaving broken files in /usr/local/*. The worst instance was Mavericks, when it suddenly said i had no ports, after 10 years on the same image. It did something similar during the Monterey update. I'm now 100% brew but still have broken artefacts from MacPorts littering my system. I'm also still using the same image from 2012, moved to new machines with TimeMachine, so that could be it, but I'm damned stubborn.
How could I forget about LOTR! Admittedly Ive not seen any of the Harry Potter movies.
Note that AS Macs still support external boot, just not when the internal drive is dead, since booting relies on the iBoot volume stored on the internal drive.
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> The article mentions the systemd drama.

Solution: switch to antiX, MX Linux or Devuan.
Just like any other complex, tightly-integrated system, systemd had its share of bugs, quirks, and new ways of doing things that forced people to change. It's not hard to imagine why it faced some resistance.

Eh, it's been a while now, though, and I guess most of that has gotten worked out.
Not-an-American here. Seems to me there's arguably an important difference between (a) being conservative/right leaning and (b) being Republican.

People can, of course, legitimately be found in all sorts of positions on the liberal/left leaning <—> conservative/right leaning spectrum (Jonathan Haidt has some interesting things to say on this [1]).

But from this side of the Atlantic it looks rather as if Trump's Republican party strongly prioritises getting and keeping power over basic democratic principles [2]. I find that very worrying, and I also find I can only really give two explanations for people supporting it: either "they're bad people" or "they're misinformed". I prefer to think that in most cases it's the latter.

[1] e.g. https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_...

[2] e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/06/republ...
..after the Horse has bolted!
My dilemma is balancing inflation risks through all this increased government spending, with short-term market timing. I think that these risks are more likely than ever, and imminent.

On the inflation risks. I really wish the Democrats would cancel all their ideas about child care and what not, and just shift the tax burden from the working class that punch a clock, to the investment class that live off of IRS-defined unearned income. So much easier, simpler, doesn't engage in designing society, rewards working, helps the economy more than anything else you could do through increased spending, and would be far more popular. But that's an aside.
Why are you discussing issues which need deep thinking with them?

What are you trying to accomplish? If there are tactical needs, discuss the particulars and use simple explanations. Don't provide an explanation without being asked for it as the details can easily overwhelm people, which can sometimes make them angry.
They hit the wall that most people are hitting. There are just not enough people out there to meet the demand right now for residential construction and remodeling. More people want work done, and fewer people are getting into the industry, so the calendars are booked and costs are going up.
Back in the dot com days, we had all of our stack running on Solaris. (nothing clever, just Weblogic/Oracle) Our president (?) got a beast of a tadpole to do live demos in the field. The first major demo, he set up to present/pitch, got a cord wrapped up, and managed to spill a glass of water on it. (He then proceeded get the funding anyhow, but we were all looking forward to having that laptop)
The point is that the current worldwide energy consumption is 4.3 % nuclear, 6.9 % hydro, and all the rest is hydrocarbons.

To stop consuming hydrocarbons, we'd have to multiply the nuclear plants by 21.

There's a difference between the energy supply and the final energy consumption because of loses in conversion and transport, but let's assume that 100% nuclear energy reduces them and we need 150000 TWh total, so we need 95% of that in new nuclear power plants: 142500 TWh. 1 nuclear power plant produces about 1 GW and there are about 8000 hours a year. that's 8 TWh per nuclear power plant. So we need to build 17812 nuclear power plants. (And it takes between 5 and 10 years to build a nuclear power plant).

Now have fun: compute how many nuclear engineers, architects, and technicians do we need to build those nuclear power plants, and then to use and maintain them, build new ones when needs increase, and then to renew them; and the compute how much time you need to raise and educate these engineers, and cry on how much time is spent on "women's studies, gender studies, anti white male patriarchy studies" and bullshit like this.

Now take the problem the other way: how many people would 5% nuclear power plant support? Well, 5% of the population. ie. 400 million. Then you understand why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones, or you understand why no more than 5% of our energy is nuclear power?

But is CO2 so much of a problem? More CO2 means more green plants, means more food, means more animals and humans will be able to live on Earth!
Before the coming ice age, anyways.
Does this release actually enable Fission (process separation) by default? [1] I see it's still turned off in about:config

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-si...
> Having landlords is fine as long as those landlords themselves are residents of the same city.

I suspect this would simply lead to property owners having a nominal “registered agent” in the city as the “owner” but all control and profit flows to the real owners.

Moreover, think about blighted cities. If a company is willing to come in to such a city and build some really nice affordable apartments that would improve the city for everyone, it seems like an undue burden to force them to live in that city as well. Your proposal could lead to shitty places to live staying shitty for a long time.
Compound interest means that you will be paying a lot more money for the same house if you buy over 30 rather than 15 years.

However, for someone disciplined, taking a 30 year mortgage and paying it off like a 15 year mortgage with significant over payments is a good strategy. It means if you need to tighten your belt you can always drop down to the normal payment for a spell without so much as having to speak to the bank.

The worst option is to take the 30 year mortgage and then buy the larger house that the longer period allows you to afford.
Unsteady on your feet? Why sleep deprivation is ruining your walk
installer still doesn't support root on zfs, i guess. there's a "guide" on openzfs wiki but it only provides a suggested partition schema

ubuntu at least had a gui tool available in their last LTS, though it only worked for the gnome frontend.

nvme fronting a raid is really nice but btrfs and lvm/mdadm options just fall short with write holes and other unacceptable failure modes.

kind of a shame because dnf is so much better than apt, and i'd like to play with silverblue.
>> Except for marginal cases, it's not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.

> I think this is dangerous ground to thread.

He is not speaking to those choosing who to hire, he is speaking to those being interviewed. He's not saying to hire those you like, he is saying you will only be hired if you are liked.

It does suck, but it's been true for me. Making the interviewers like me is at least as important as convincing them of my skills.
Any guidance on getting started in gardening and hydroponics?
The larger issue is that there is no "supply shortage." Supply, whether we define it as quantity of goods or quantity of goods imported, has never been higher. Oil production has never been higher. Multiple countries set oil production records. Increasing supply means setting more world records.

Supply will always be short if you compare it to something that expands infinitely, which is phantom demand generated by monetary printing press chicanery. Meeting the 'demand' of infinite money would require infinite truck drivers, infinite ports, etc.: it's an absurdity.
There is often a penalty for balloon payments. Please do check that out.
Have you considered you might be a narcissistic person?

If you are truly more intelligent, consider having empathy on those poor unfortunate souls who are not on your level and use vocabulary appropriate to the audience. Consider how they may relate and be polite without patronizing.
Stablecoins Might Have to Be Banks
Dell allows you to disable it (but it’s not really repairable) system76 and librem I think has it removed (but they’re not worth it for the specs).
> 4) Rates going up to counter inflation. I want this one since I have cash and don't care if rates are 2% or 20%.

You're likely making a bad bet by holding on to cash. The inflation and low rates are doing their job for the most part by driving investment and spending, and you're swimming against the current by doing exactly what you're not supposed to be doing: hoarding cash.

> 5) Vaccine mandate job losses. Supply.

We're already back to full employment. These threats of en masse departures haven't really materialized, the few who haven't caved are just helping newer employment market entrants by offering up some nice safe jobs.
I think you're too quick to discredit the claim, perhaps its not quite as strong as people make it seem but... This article written in 1981 from the NY times titled "Will Cable TV Be Invaded By Commercials" would somewhat disagree with you. I think makes the situation as clear to understand as possible:

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...

People were assuming because they were paying for Television there would be no (or at least less) ads. The article then states that there was $45 million in cable advertising vs $11 billion in traditional. I think those numbers alone make it pretty clear advertising was not at the top of the (at the time) nascent industry's mind. And, while this is only a guess its probably safe to assume the bulk of that $45 million went to at most a handful of "innovative" (vomits in mouth) cable companies.
Risk of Potential Adverse Effects on Radio Altimeters [pdf]
Can you ELI5 how the development of, say, C, reflects the needs of corporations?

Does every linux install mean less corporate power when, e.g. AWS runs on linux?

Can you explain what the rust code of conduct (which AFAICT can be summarized as "please be nice") has to do with competition and individualism? Can't I still be a competitive individual without being rude?
> companies have insufficient cash flow from rents to pay the new debt service.

If they are pouring their own capital into purchases, why would there be any debt? Are the entities (companies) in scenario B actually borrowing money?
I worked as international sales for a while. I had to make a lot of phone calls and take a lot of phone calls often from all over the world with less than ideal sound quality and drastically different accents.

When an angry customer called me to complain about shipment, product or what not, due to aforementioned difficulties associated with intl calls, I had to first make sure I understand what they were saying. I try my best to put together what the situation was and repeat back to them in my own words for them to confirm. I kid you not, angry customers always get much less angry once they realized that I understand their situation.

The emotional change resulted from being merely understood was so amazing and the interaction was always precious to me like I made a new friend.
The editor showed the behavior that we all intended. The compiler was the one that behaved differently from how we all expected. And we all used the same compiler. I was not "blaming someone else's editor," I was describing the situation. If someone created a file in emacs, and then someone else edited it in MSVS6, then apparently you could end up with some mixed CR, CR/LF, LF, LF/CR state, enough to confuse the compiler.

PS - We all benefit when we give each other the benefit of the doubt, and hold off on the snark. And calling my co-workers "malicious" based on your limited understanding of the situation is not appreciated.
I thought the same about Dune. It's one of my favorite books, but there's a lot of detail in there that didn't make it to the movie.
> The "they trust me. dumb fucks" company

To be fair that was a world ago in the companies history.
You still need internet and some device to use crypto. Many don't have that.
> The change affects more than a third of Facebook’s daily users who had facial recognition turned on for their accounts, according to the company.

I'm surprise the number is that low. Wasn't enabling this a default?

> That meant they received alerts when new photos or videos of them were uploaded to the social network. The feature had also been used to flag accounts that might be impersonating someone else...

That's actually a pretty valuable and legitimate use case for such a system, even from a very pro-privacy perspective.

> Although Facebook plans to delete more than one billion facial recognition templates, which are digital scans of facial features, by December, it will not eliminate the software that powers the system, which is an advanced algorithm called DeepFace. The company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition technology into future products, Mr. Grosse said.

It's also almost certainly not going to delete the face-specific image tagging either, which means they could re-derive everything they're "deleting" relatively easily.
Again, bootable backups work fine on Apple Silicon, but not when the internal drive has failed, since booting requires an iBoot volume stored on the internal drive. I believe there's a misunderstanding, and SuperDuper hasn't found any workaround for this.
> setting out to shorten the Dark Ages after the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is great.

If you haven’t already, I recommend reading “A Canticle for Leibowitz”
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> To do this the US would have to reset its entire diplomatic and trade posture with China

No we wouldn't. Literally we are commenting in an article, about what I am suggesting is happening.

So the stuff that the article says is already happening, is what I suggested.

Could it go faster? Maybe. But like I said, we are literally commenting on an article, about how US telecoms are being required to replace certain equipment.
What conflict did any of the characters in the Ramayana face? Hanuman for example, decides to do Rama’s bidding and then does it. The only major dilemma he faces is whether he should bring the cure for Lakshmana or the entire mountain containing the cure. He goes with the latter. Same with Lakshmana. Only conflict I can recall is when he is told to abandon Sita in the woods. He is torn, but decides to anyway.

Compare these two to Bheeshma and Karna, who spend their entire lives torn by conflicting loyalties.

I don’t much care for Krishna as a character. Since he’s a god, a lot of what he does makes no sense and doesn’t need to either. He is supposed to be inscrutable. Such a character isn’t that interesting IMO.
The idea behind Mosh is almost perfect. Unfortunately, it's just a proof-of-concept project that has not been maintained for years. Although it has met my daily needs, I'm still looking for a better alternative because of some known bugs.

I had hoped on draft-bider-ssh-quic [1], but unfortunately it was marked as "no longer active".

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bider-ssh-quic/
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They have open sourced a development toolkit for making expansion card modules but the motherboard itself is not open source. You can, however get schematics if you are a "repair shop", under NDA, however they define that.
That contradicts absolutely nothing I said. I'm not sure who you're arguing against here.

There's no false dichotomy being presented at all.
>Most people see potholes on their street and publicly complain that the government is terrible and works too slowly, instead of helping their local government become less terrible by working with them.

The story here is that a CEO with 80k followers on social media tweeted about a problem, got it echoed by other prominent people with large followings and the government called him to talk about how to fix it.

I'm a normal guy with an average job and wage w/ no real social media following. There is essentially nothing I can do to get local government to repair the potholes on my street - so I complain.
So the wrecking ball thing is just a turn-of-phrase that means "someone who knocks it down" - ie: the person getting it done. It's not necessarily meant as a negative nor derogatory term, it's the person who shows up on-time to work and is nose-down and very effective. Or at least culturally, that's how I meant it and what it meant growing up.

To scratch at it, yeah I'm painting myself here a bit because I'm very annoyed at having to socialize in an office vs. just being able to show up and work. 100% I would rather work through my afternoons than go do team building activities - those things have been more about weird in-group "culture fit" crap vs. growing closer to my coworkers. Going from being a professional in Iowa where this didn't happen as much to California where "tech-bro" is a thing... well let's just say way more weird socializing happens out here.

> If you do this and it’s not drinking beer in the office that’s holding you back, I’d seriously look for alternative employment. The good news is you’ll be infinitely more employable as a result.

Exactly - and that's exactly what I did in the anecdotal situation I outlined above. I promise you though, many places are like this and you will ostracize yourself if you make the same mistakes I did. Keeping your nose down while everyone else is making their buddies is a very bad idea. Apparently, I'm paid to drink, go play minigolf, and race gokarts - sure this sounds like it's awesome to a lot of folks but for this middle aged engineer I just want to finish the work and go home. I have a damn family.