skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So say the doctor fronts someone money so they can invest in a business, say buying more garbage trucks for their garbage truck fleet or something. Surely the return on that is earned income?

Throwing the money at your preferred wall street instrument of choice is the same thing but with half a million layers of abstraction and redirection all of which involve middle men who either take cuts or otherwise get paid for sorting and bundling, matchmaking, providing liquidity, etc, etc.
Science by definition cannot discover the truth. The essential property of a scientific theory is falsifiability. I.e. it should be possible to carry out experiment that can disprove the theory or it is not a scientific theory.

Religion on the other hand can have true statements because they are deduced from a priory axioms that a matter of beliefs. For example, given some axioms about God, one can deduce that the world is such because God is made it so. This will be similar to Banach–Tarski theorem [1] which is true as long as one believes in the Axiom of Choice. But such statements are not a scientific theories precisely because it is not possible to design an experiment that will disproof them.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
Supply side is a valid economic theory. Give people more money and they spend it.

You disagree?

“Trickle down” was a Democratic ploy to disparage the policy of reducing tax rates. Apparently we are still talking about it despite the economic expansion of the 1980’s in contrast to the “malaise” of the 70’s.
Should he/she beg you to do so? They've already asked you once. And no, it's not obvious to me what your counterargument is.
Isn’t it Bayesian? If you experience a few trips here and there, the sum amount of time spent in that version of reality is dwarfed by that of sober experience. So while those experiences do contribute to your understanding of reality, it’s unlikely to be dominated by it.
What type of light do people recommend one purchase to counteract this?
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I'm not into politics but does anyone else immediately think of the movie "The Platform"[0] (on Netflix) whenever they think about human nature combined with the idea of "trickle-down"?

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/
Yes. An explanation for fat bellies.
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As a redhead, this seems like a very big difference. I'm genetically way more likely to get cancer from sunlight than a non-redhead but also produce more vitamin d with less sunlight.
> It is amazingly clueless for you to offer the Nazis as an example of why Israel should be around, when in fact they are an example of exactly why Israel should not be around.

You sound borderline anti semitic saying stuff like that. You have no idea how obtuse that is.
> People who earn $1m+ salaries do not work long hours or make sacrifices

Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Especially the sacrifices part -- this seems like an awfully bold assertion, especially if you consider that most people earning millions have spent their entire careers to get there.
The article is also hyperbole.

They use 2020 as a key data point, despite it obviously being an outlier due to covid.

Moreover, the only people talking about trickle down are people on the left. No one on the right has mentioned trickle down since Reagan was president.

It's a complete strawman.
Free markets elevate people from poverty and create wealth. Statism creates concentration camps and mass murder.

And now we're supposed to trust governments that climate change totally happens and unless we give up our freedoms we will all die.
The brain does have the resources to do so, actually. This is variously called dreaming, psychosis, or similar.
>Long before we get to something like a 90% tax bracket, we could have the very wealthy pay the same rates as regular folks.

Flat tax for all!

>Anyway, I don't see why a billionaire shouldn't have a 90% bracket.

Lets ignore the economics and how going off the gold standard removed the government's ability to tax and taxation will trend toward 0% for everyone until we figure out a new standard.

However, let me tell you about 3 brothers. They all live on the same culdesac, they all have the same education, same type of job. The only difference is hours worked. The first brother works 20 hours, middle brother works 40 hours, and final brother works 60 hour/weeks. They come together and agree they want to contract a landscaping/flower place to put flowers on their culdesac. The flat cost is $10,000/each but the brother who only works 20 hours cant afford that. He wants his brothers to pay for it. They protest that he should pay his cut. The middle brother however devises a plan.

The poor brother will pay very little if not nothing. The middle brother pays less than $10,000. The final brother has to pay for most of it. They vote and 2 to 1 they win.

What happens? The brother working 60 hour weeks is now incentivized to reduce his hours so he gets less penalized.
sunscreen protects your skin, it doesn’t block vitamin D production
>because some ambitious motherfucker decided to make a cheap commodity like insulin a monopolized product

You're talking about the legislators and the bureaucrats, right? Sure, the lobbyists asked them too but you'd think professionals would be a little more responsible than to just do what the lobbyists ask (yes I know they only did so incrementally over a decades long time period but my point stands).

This stuff is only a monopoly because we've made it so slow and money consuming to break into these industries that there is not a steady enough flow of new entrants who undercut incumbents and drive costs down to actually keep the costs down.
Your point is still wrong, because "productivity investments" are more likely to destroy jobs - certainly stable, well-paid jobs - than to create them.

In a very obvious and mundane way, how often do people find that when someone leaves a job they're suddenly doing their own work and the work of the person who left? But without a pay rise?

That's a productivity increase. It is very much not a "generated job."

Add automation to this and it's even more obvious.

The only time jobs are generated is when new markets are opened and this allows new kinds of activity which weren't possible before.

The textbook example is government seed funding of computing in the 50s, which created completely new kinds of business activity. But only after the initial research was paid for by the public. And at the cost of many traditional jobs. (Secretaries, clerks of all kinds, etc.)

Traditional economic theory has almost nothing of value to say about processes like these. There's plenty of mythology, but nothing that will accurately quantify wider social costs/benefits in a strategically useful way.

In reality technologies have downsides as well as upsides, not just in terms of direct externalities but in terms of job losses - and sometimes in terms of productive value losses.

It's exactly this feature of "economic progress" which conventional economics fails to analyse, quantify, or - often - even notice.
A manager is a laborer like any other. A CEO being paid a wage is not bad. They are doing labor too. The problem is when people are obtaining a large amount of their wealth through means other than labor.
Look cool knowing where the word GREP comes from?
"Images is a single product that stores, resizes, optimizes and serves images"

Because it's not just a CDN but does many more things. With this product description (taken from CF blog post) I'd expect it to behave like a storage bucket containing the files (including the raw file), with an image resizer and CDN attached.
> Trickle down economics is the same kind of error.

Is it really an error if what is observed is what was expected is what was desired?
Is it a thing in the US (I assume) to use sunscreen every days or did I misunderstood ?
It's by no means perfect but it is possible to ship the runtime with the program. Most programs don't but it is possible.

The inverse of this is the problem that I often run into in niche areas with C/C++ programs where they require pretty specific versions of dependencies. The most obvious one I know is within the GIS space where getting a toolchain to to run often involves hunting down specific versions of many C/C++ dependencies or just giving up and running someones docker image (which I'd rather not do).

I have not run into this with go or rust (although I don't run that many rust programs that I know of).
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The Vulkan GLSL Ray Tracing Emulator is an online application that aims to simulate the ray tracing shader pipeline from the Vulkan GL EXT ray tracing specification.

To this end, a pre-compiler is provided that translates the ray tracing shader code into a classic WebGL GLSL fragment shader, which generates a direct preview of the shader's output image in the browser.

Most importantly, the emulator also allows exporting the ray tracing shader code as a C++ Vulkan project that can fully exploit the dedicated ray tracing acceleration hardware available in recent graphics cards (such as Nvidia Geforce RTX GPUs or the AMD RX 6000 series).

The web-based emulator is intended for computer graphics education or rapid prototyping of GLSL ray tracing shaders. It does not require a high-end GPU with special ray tracing hardware. Only if you want to run the exported C++ Vulkan stand-alone application, a GPU with ray tracing accelerator hardware is necessary.

A tutorial is available here: https://www.gsn-lib.org/docs/nodes/raytracing.php

This is a short demonstration of the project on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMyqDNGkr0g
I'd be so happy if everything I said was obvious, because in that case, trickle-down wouldn't have been the de-facto economic direction of the US since Reagan.

But it seems like the obviousness of the stupidity of the idea of trickle-down has been lost on us; hence the study.

Do quote though — maybe it'll help the obvious point trickle down to the rest of the population.
Bug report stories are the best. Anyone have any good ones to share?
Point being?
There are problematic quotes from some Zionist leaders. There are actual Nazi quotes from Palestinian leaders. The Palestinian Mufti was a known Nazi supporter and had close relations with the Nazi leadership (including visits to concentration camps etc). Even the current PA leader Abbas, who is considered a moderate, wrote a PHD which basically denies or mitigates the holocaust.

While some aspects of Zionism were indeed troubling in today's standards, when push came to shove the Zionist leadership accepted partition to two states (in 1947).

How does quoting Jabotinsky from a century ago help us in solving this conflict? Unless your only point is that current Israel should be dismanteld.
Yes, it has increased quite a bit in recent years. I think still 5 years ago there was basically no traffic.
Article link https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356757012_Detecting...

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This isn’t a recent feature. It’s been around for years.
Thanks for bringing these links to light.

Corruption like this can go on a long time in the dark, without good citizens like you.

The best disinfectant truly is sunlight.
It does have the option to use a neural network (nnue) in its evaluation, but it is very different from what AlphaZero/Lc0 do. You can choose not to use it, so you still could have a "traditional" evaluation (which would still blow Stockfish 8 out of the water). Also, Stockfish 8 isn't the last version before they merged nnue ...
I would also like to know. Did a little searching around a few weeks ago and couldn’t penetrate the marketing fluff to get to a trustworthy recommendation.

(Basically looking for a sunlight spectrum bulb)
I heard somewhere that a movie is made three times: once in the writing, once in the filming, and once in the editing.
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With hearing aids part of the (very expensive) all-inclusive packet is - besides the hearing aids themselves and the endless sessions to fine-tune them - an actual mold of your ears.

At least last time i saw the procedure the "take the mold" part could well be a DIY job, you have two small bags of (silicon/resin/whatever) A+B, you mix them together in your fingers into a small putty-like ball and then insert/press the ball in your ear, that's it.

This latter procedure only takes a few minutes (time for the silicon or resin or whatever it is to harden) then a counter-mold is made and finally a final piece is produced out of the counter-mold, then it is like 10 minutes of testing and removing (if needed) the excess with a small Dremel like mini-tool.

I am pretty sure that the cost of the whole operation, including materials and workmanship is below 40-50 dollars/euros and probably a lot of people would be willing to pay double that to have their earpieces (be them airpods or conventional wired ones) confortable to wear and "safe" (in the sense of not falling down at every movement) to wear when jogging or exercising.

Taking the mold as DIY, then send it to a laboratory and getting back your custom made earpiece adapter could be doable, but also a complete DIY kit could be used by many, it is not anything too difficult.
> This is one thing I'm surprised the open source community hasn't developed a popular alternative for: Teamviewer.

That's because it's not only a matter of software but also a matter of service (STUN is not enough, TURN is required in many situations. And someone has to pay for the servers and bandwidth...). If IPv6 had succeded instead of IPv4+NAT, maybe the situation would be different.

In terms of software, the open-source x2go (based on nomachine NX libraries and protocol, see https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php) has been very efficient in my cases when bandwidth was limited and when I had no big NAT issues.
> Makes sense. From the sounds of things, we went in very different directions because I cannot tolerate mouse use in my workflow

I half agree and half disagree. I also really hate having the mouse involved in my workflow.

> From the sounds of things you're used to discovery by context clicking and menu items, and emacs' lack of such things does hurt discovery.

That's part of it, but not all of it. I don't use context menus much and am also a keyboard-centric user. I rarely use menus for any common tasks.

That said, things that I do once a week, but do need to do, are often easier to do using a mouse (or rather, it's good that a better discovery mechanism exists for them).

> Lastly I'm not sure the distinction "modern IDE" is helpful. Neo/vim and emacs are both under very active development.

That's true, but that's not what most people mean. I think the 'modern' comes in in terms of UX, or at least that's at the root of things - because almost everything can be done with vim/emacs, except for fundamentally changing how they look (different fonts/colors/etc). Or changing the under-the-hood stuff (like running parallel processes).

> For example I'll take my beautiful full screen spacemacs with the bells and whistles turned on over the looks of my colleagues' VSCode any day.

I mean, obviously this is subjective. But GUIs that allow a full range of colors/sizes/etc, and are not limited to only being text buffers, do objectively allow you to do more things. And it's no coincidence that almost all IDEs/editors don't use a single font size everywhere, etc.

> "Willingness to put the time in" of course exists in a continuum. I know fantastic programmers who gave up on the effort of emacs, and others who tell me that I'm selling myself short by stooping to spacemacs instead of rolling my own. So everyone's MMV.

I mean, I used vim for about 8 years, including writing (personal use) plugins and having a very large .vimrc. I then switched to spacemacs, had a bunch of configurations there as well.

So I feel like I've definitely put in a decent amount of time getting "good" at vim (and to a much smaller extent, spacemacs).

Still, putting aside the pure text-manipulation aspects of vim productivity, just launching VSCode and opening a folder gets you way more of the way to productive coding than everything I managed to roll out using a vimrc (and does't break every time I change language/computer).
Intuition of data in artificial neural networks
fail2ban basically just cleans log files for you - and gives someone else control over your iptables. And in the days of botnet attacks, it doesn’t do as much as someone might think.

Moving the ssh port (even without port knocking) does a lot more to cut out log messages.

Or make ssh IPv6 only.
"Failing over to another AWS region is actually pretty difficult for stateful services."

I don't care, and neither should you.
I think insulin is yet another great example of why trickle down theories are bunk.

Our economic policy for decades has been mostly centered around pumping capital into markets to prop them up or grow them. The problem is there’s too much money pursuing too little novel work. Ironically, making billions of “surplus” dollars available to big companies drives lots of little command economies, not healthy markets. It makes more sense to corner the market on insulin or some foot fungus cream and rip people off than to create a new or improved product. There is very low R&D at improving anything associated with insulin because of rent seeking behaviors.

Profits don’t motivate research. Market activity does. I hope we learn from the successful aspects of COVID and pump money at people to make economic decisions for themselves.
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I think it comes from Cloudflare selling a "CDN" but instead of a "dumb" set of servers you can distribute content globally for a certain price you're actually getting a "smart" network with all kinds of services and features.

But it works fine for 95% of customers :)

If you're moving volumes of course you should look into detail and consider the most adequate option.
It seems a bit misleading to focus on just this SALT cap aspect when that is part of a broader tax policy change. It’s at least being pitched as a sort of political compromise to get the rest of the build back better plan through. Thoughts?

NYT is paywalled, but I found https://www.vox.com/2021/11/6/22766735/salt-deduction-cap-de... interesting
Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers
I actually think this is a great comment, with more substance than your typical HN nit. They are introducing the concept of marginal propensity to consume(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consu...), an economic idea that has everything to do with why trickle down is bogus.

AND, it's funny. So extra points for that.
what you're missing here is that discussions of higher marginal income taxes also often come with discussions about higher capital gains tax and higher estate tax which are the two main ways wealth is hoarded.
No it doesn't, the case for such a scheme depends on two kinds of arguments: (1) intrinsic arguments that people have a right to a portion of collective wealth, to the means of life, or to the means of being able to freely spend their time as they see fit; (2) and instrumental arguments that it would rebalance the power of capital over labour, lead to various positive social outcomes, and tame the plutocracy that is ruining Western democracies.

If your standard is 'responsible spending', the counterfactual baseline is keeping this money in the hands of the wealthy. For obvious reasons - diminishing marginal utility, the breakdown of the social compact, the corruption of politics - I don't think they would spend a dollar on the margin any more 'responsibly'.

What about shared infrastructure projects? I'm not suggesting this ought to replace the state, simply that global wealth can be equalised without reallocating that wealth to the state to spend.
Meanwhile, half the world start-ups base their entire tech stack on the goodwill of amazon and google, not to pull the rug from under them in hundreds of legal ways.
> All the business relations between people are inherently meritocratic.

That is why there are precisely zero complaints about broken hiring processes and promotion schemes.
The cost difference is unlikely to be relevant for a Mach 4, air to air missile. But, if this is small and cheap enough it might get added to a lot of currently unguided weapons like bombs and RPG’s etc.

Militaries constantly make cost vs effectiveness trade offs, and new technology can very easily change the equation.
Funny you should ask that... about 6 years ago, Mozilla released an event-handling library written in go named Heka. It made use of go's built-in goroutines and channels and what made it really cool was that it had an embedded lua interpreter so people could update lua scripts in their event processing systems to alter the behavior (such as reformatting dates, etc) without needing to re-compile the solution. It got pretty popular and you can still find YouTube tutorials on using it to this day.

Unfortunately, according to one of the lead developers, the system couldn't keep up with Mozilla's throughput and reliability requirements due to limitations of go's built-in features.[0] They announced they would re-write a new solution in c ("Hindsight") and they basically left an entire community of users high and dry due to not being able to salvage the go-based project, since it relied so heavily on the built-in features.

[0] https://heka.mozilla.narkive.com/9heQ11hz/state-and-future-o...
Does this provide evidence for "red light therapy"?
The animation has been removed, thanks both for you input. :)
I checked the paper. The 2nd order method actually achieves 10 times worse minimum (it's much worse at minimisation), and the reason the results are better is because the network overfits less (Figure 3). The reviewers should have caught this!
Me too. I expend so little time on the sun that it seems pointless. It might make more sense for me to use a protective lotion to protect from screen burns.

But I'm cycling frequently lately and I do have a pretty clear contrast between my torso and arms colors. So...
Amazon has essentially unlimited resources and manpower to tackle this problem. These excuses you give are pathetic.
Yeah, it's on my radar now. Maybe after my December bills have all cleared.