skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The folks that have a lot of money don't spend it. Out of all of Buffett's, Gates', and Bezos' fortunes how much is being spent 'productively' and how much is just sitting around collecting interest on interest. The velocity of money hasn't been doing much in recent decades

You seem to indicate they have lots of money, but most of their wealth is assets, much of which is ownership of their own companies. If they "spent" that it would mean selling pieces of the company to someone else, and they would lose power to make the sorts of decisions that made the company successful in the first place. Letting a lot of middle class people's retirement savings managers make all the board decisions for Microsoft is not going to provide the same level of innovation as letting Gates have a large vote. The only reason those stocks have any value at all is because of the size and market position of the company. There is no benefit in letting this form of wealth have "money velocity".

Maybe you left Musk off the list on purpose, but what he's "doing with his wealth" is trying to make humans a multi-planet race, and he literally doesn't even care what his company shares are worth to other people. Is it really "money" if he doesn't intend to sell it? His recent sale of lots of Tesla was only because he had options to buy more of the company and immediately sell it. (and now he'll pay a few billion in tax, on that, since it was actually income) Until he did that, all his "wealth" was a mental fiction invented by him and the hard working people in his company. The real money just moved into his account for the first time in a long while, as he drained your retirement account in exchange for the idea that they now have a tiny piece of control over Tesla.
They also suspended Nancy Tracker [0], a twitter account tracking Nancy Pelosi's stock trades.

Something else I noticed that I think has changed is the follower counts on suspended accounts, which is only available on the app. It may have always been hidden on the web.

I get it, they're a private platform. But if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can we say that's not suppression on speech? The white house has admitted that they're in direct contact with social media platforms even going so far as tagging posts for "misinformation" [1]. In theory the state can't restrict the speech on social media. But in practice they don't even need to.

[0] https://twitter.com/NancyTracker

[1] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-would-government-ce...
> My point is, gov't handouts are better off being invested into productivity producing investments

So fund companies doing useful work directly.

If you don't like the government deciding, and want to say spend $350b to stimulate the economy and be useful, give everyone a $1000 "investment voucher" that can be invested in exchange for a share, into companies with a net worth of say between $1m and $50m, to be spent on R&D.
A major difference now is the majority of those with vast wealth earned it themselves through creating new enterprises. The aristocrats of old received it through birth or politicking. The rich today are far more effective and organizationally superior considering it was those exact skills that made them their wealth.
They probably won’t for publicity reasons.
I would go for the type of bulb you use in aquariums or terrariums.
Penguins shoot 'poop bombs' more than 4 feet, important study finds
> I can't remember why I moved from Firefox to Brave.

You moved from Firefox to Brave because of the cosmetic change that made tabs look like buttons, detached from the content it's associated with. There were many other straws (random freezing, memory bloat etc.) but that was the last straw that broke the camel's back. You tried Brave, and found that it offers pretty much anything you'd expect from a web browser.
The full title of the article is below but HN says it’s too long so I cut it down..

....
Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers, new complaint to FTC claims....
Why are you simping for management?
TriStar's lawyers have deemed your comment to be an unauthorised reproduction of the Total Recall plot line. Please step into the room opening on your left.
I think it’s a pragmatic, tactical approach that eases human suffering, but rewards the villain with billions of taxpayer and insurance ratepayer dollars.

The reality is that the GOP would vote against the sun coming up in the morning if Biden suggested it were a good idea. Such is politics.
> 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

this is exactly my point - "food" (computing) wasn't available, and the gov't "handed out" lots of money to "the rich" (aka, seed funding) to perform this sort of research and development. The end result is that new "food" (computing) became available where none was before.
Yeah but non state actors don't. Just imagine dropping of robots with a gun from a car or send them via package. A 360 camera and a gun is a scary combination and as long as you use them in a suicide manner it doesn't even need to recognize friendly combatants or spare children. Just shoot everything that's bigger than rat and moves until the magazine is empty while moving patrolling the streets.
What an amazing headline.

"The rich are taking most of the gains for themselves"

No, stock in certain valuable companies rose a lot when their inherent value did (especially in relative terms), and stockholders thus hold a lot more wealth on paper.
Adoption rate at this point is about 0.5%. I guess things will start to change here on HN at 10% global adoption rate (5 more years)
> There aren’t 100k Googlers developing on top off GCP services to get their job done on a daily basis.

Doing something on top of GCP rather than the normal way at Google was a huge pain. Borg tutorials and documentation were just far superior, I could get a thing running on borg in an hour from not knowing anything about borg, I spent a week trying to get something running internally on GCP but still couldn't get it right (our team wanted to see if we could run things on GCP so I was tasked with testing it, I couldn't find anyone who knew how to do it so we just gave up after I didn't make any real progress). That was the worst documented thing I've ever worked with. And even worse the internal GCP pages were probably running in california and probably weren't tested from Europe, so the page took like 2 seconds between mouse click and it responded to anything.

That was years ago though and I no longer work there, but at least back then the work to make using GCP internally seamless wasn't done. Maybe it is simpler if you run everything in it and don't need it play well with borg, but there is a reason why it isn't popular internally. And likely you wont find many engineers who left Google who recommend you will use it, since they probably didn't test it and if they did it probably was a bad experience (unless they worked on GCP).
I've looked on Google Books' preview and it reads quite smoothly.

I was surprised that Google's price is so much lower than Amazon's though? Less than a half? (Might be locale-dependent, I'm in Poland). It has been long since I bought anything on Google, but I assume it can still be converted to a DRM-free epub like described here?: https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/3menci/i_prefer_my_...

Where's the catch?
All he needs now is the ability to access them.
International Contacts – Renaissance
My question: where are they finding these replacement workers in this current labor market?
and your's is better, isn't it
You can use https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine which uses the same protocol as Nvidia GameStream, and you can access it with https://moonlight-stream.org/
In theory, sure.

But Ukraine is right on the border of Poland. And what we saw in Ukraine is by the time Paris, London and Berlin notice something is amiss, Russia has already achieved their goals. And the fear-of-triggering-WW3 goes both ways.

I can believe Poland would want to be well equipped, so they can hold out for a few days so their allies have time to mobilise.
So cool to see libraries like yours coming out! (am in love with Y.js)
I would not be surprised if this became reality one day. Copyright is an atrocity.
> It’s fun to find the various species, but I don’t find that the flavor of morels is anything special or that I’m limited in the kitchen by not having them available.

They can be life changingly good, or not especially special. You need salt and dairy to bring out the flavor, but even then it's hit and miss. But yeah, in general they can be as flavorful as truffles, or as bland as button mushrooms.
I don't use telegram, but I know it can be added as a bridge in Matrix - so if someone has that setup, surely this is pointless? Would the image not just be saved on the Matrix server? In fact with any sort of bot?
So Piketty is now vindicated or what? How peculiar.
Absolutely. Piketty showed that wealth inequality peaked right before WWI and was very low in the 60/70s. The amount of wealth between these two periods does not even compare.
That’s a specious argument.

If the problem is that people are frequently running a red light, the root cause isn’t the fact that a traffic light exists.
I agree. Other than the template part(handlebars) Ember is pretty sweet. It's a shame it got to the state it's in but it is what it is.
We had to put our dog to sleep a few weeks ago. We've barely left the house since. I definitely want to get out more, but without canine motivation it's been very difficult to remember (Adult executive dysfunction disorder, aka ADHD)

We've been lightly hibernating, it seems.
> as the billionaire holds on to whatever financial product they bought forever as long as it appreciates faster than inflation.

Another word for that is investment.

Where do you think that money goes? You don’t earn returns on money that isn’t doing anything.
So many issues with this.

If the doctor et al - the investing public - don’t own the dividend-paying companies, who will? If you say “a broader base of people” I agree. If you say “the state”, I’d urge you to read some history books.

Ownership is an economic concept that is fundamentally misunderstood. It’s a skill you can be good at, and a good owner has a massive positive impact on society. It’s not a golden ticket to sit on your ass and switch off your brain like some others imply.

When you own something, you have to look out for everything that can go wrong with your property and have strategies in place to deal with it. You have to consider every possible use of it and decide on the one that adds the most value. You have to consider the long-term flow of resources needed for various projects and invest either your own or borrow someone else’s. You have to hire good managers and then manage them.

Owning something is a LOT of work if you do it right because you own the entire outcome, no matter what it is or who’s fault it is.
FYI notepad++ has a setting to open a separate instance for each file. It drives me crazy when I install on a new machine and it defaults to the behavior you’ve described.
Contributing factor perhaps
> A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun.

I'm going to guess no. Blue light therapy maybe, if that's a thing.
Like with most things moderation is key. Your body doesn't need excessive amounts of sunlight, just enough to fuel it's biological requirements.

I don't have anything against sunscreen, but as someone who lives in the UK I find even on the hottest days of summer I rarely need it. However, this last year I was out in the sun during a heat wave and figured I should probably apply some sun screen on this particular occasion just to be safe. The only place I didn't apply sun screen was my ears and that was a mistake I won't be making again. My ears were extremely sore and peeling for weeks after that. Your doctor is giving good advice imo. Ears are surprisingly delicate and tend to be constantly exposed to direct sunlight from above.

I agree with you that it's good to get some sun exposure every day though. I'm aware in some skin care communities they take sun avoidance to the extreme and won't even leave the house on an over cast day without applying sunscreen. Some won't even go near windows. Again, it's all about moderation.
It's closer to Banished than Cities Skylines, the multiplayer is fun, the map is huge and it works flawlessly on my potato computer. I've spent many hours on this game and enjoyed every second.
sunlight. It has the best price / benefit ratio (0) and an extremely long operational lifetime (billions of years).
You only need to look at Instagram sensation Liver King to know that this is true https://liverking.com/
Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Evolution Revealing Vaccine-Resistant Mutations
Is contour a valid Norweigan word?
Copyright 2002. Predates a lot of understanding in molecular genetics. Just sayin'
That was a good name, but too close to MongoDB. FerretDB does seem to follow the rule that databases need to have terrible names.
Orson Welles on Friendship and Art
I remember this blog post from ~3 years ago when I had to write my MPhil thesis :) thanks for this, it really helped me understand it!
As I said in my other comment:

—2017 was an outlier due to Solar eclipse. You need to justify what issue you have with 2020 as it pertains to the conclusion of the study.

—Just because the Republicans don't call "trickle down" by its name doesn't mean they aren't pushing for it.

In particular, we already are doing "trickle-down" — have been, since Reagan. To not do it would mean to increase taxes, by a lot. Obstructionism is trickle-down.

Of course the right wouldn't mention "trickle down" after implementing it.

It sounds like you're reasoning in bad faith; consider shaping your thoughts differently.
Yes: for the worse.
Google for cytochrome c oxidase.
> I love how you can move a function definition from a class to outside of a class or even into an object “literal” without breaking syntax.

Actually more important is, that you can move them into a class of object literal. And way more languages should be designed with that in mind.

> And same with variables, you can restructure it from a global into a class property or as a property of an object literal.

This allows you to just start to write code as a script, and then effortlessly partition it into functions, classes and files as need arises.

Another thing I'd like to see more in languages is keeping consistent interface across various data structures.
You should be able to swap out array for a set, hash table, or even something weird without rewriting half of your code that touches it.
Those often are missing a chunk of the spectrum algae use… that may not be necessary for humans, but I’d rather get the full spectrum if I can.
NFT ALERT
Random fact: A normal white t-shirt has a UPF of around 7[1].

[1] https://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-prevention/sun-protec...
It is talked about by its opponents. No one on the right uses the phrase except in response.

Try and find some examples
Did you just equivocate a public transit service with McDonald's?
If by TLS you mean the whole encryption and signing of http content etc, then I would argue it's the same. The purpose is to have an immutable and untamperable pipeline of data straight from the "server" to your "eyeballs". The cat definitely came out of the bag with tech enabling so much that was difficult in the real-world, and now they're busy scrambling to put it back, and I would argue, using "privacy" and "safety" as a Trojan horse.

Edit. Side note seeing as I don't think I 100% addressed your point. If we allow data to be viewed, and relayed with the potential for altering, then they no longer have 100% control over the content being changed/recorded. So viewing and sharing (with potential edits) is akin to tampering with the pipeline. Sharing is not at issue, it's you being able to intercept and have control over the data on your device.

Now I'll go scurry off and take my tin-foil hat off for the day.
> It doesn't really matter where the money starts, the market will deal with allocation efficiently.

Interesting take. I haven't ever heard trickle down proponents suggest we give the money to the working class. It's like they don't really believe that.
Makes me remember all those blogs disabling text selection to prevent people from "stealing" their work. Which is just terrible UX for people using it for reading, I generally just exit the website immediately.

Please, never do that.
>Where exactly is the advantage in editing source code or interacting with deployment chains, systems etc. in an animated neon colored fantasy experienced through a headset compared to doing so on a plain-old laptop?

In that it finally validates the "hacking" scenes in tacky 90s movies...
Yeeeah, idk how significant this is…

I live in the north of Sweden where we don’t get a lot of sunlight. Not many fat people here compared to other parts of the world where people get a lot more sun exposure.
Seems like they should check if people in Canada/New York are more obese than those in Florida/California.
Pope blasts ‘Nazi dictatorship’ EU
I recently learned this has a name: nominative determinism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Is trickle-down strictly about money or about value in general?

Because during the last 20 years, just (for example) the access to computing power and information did in fact "trickle-down" to almost everybody on earth in the form of smartphones and Internet. This value was worth a king's ransom in the past.

But indeed, the number of TSLA stock in one's pocket did not trickle down from Elon Musk to the rest of us. Not sure why that matters though.

In fact, looking in the article, they talk define trickle-down as "cutting taxes on the rich [...] eventually benefiting everyone" then complain about "very high level of income inequality and an extreme level of wealth inequality". You can have both true at the same time.
Ghost robotics design is a joke. You lose a really a lot of fire power by not being able to turn turn the gun.
>The most common would be to screen _record_ prior to opening, that usually isn't detected — or alternatively, for us rooted users just use a screenshot app which ignores those soft-blocks.

According to other comments in this thread, this just freezes when switching apps, and fails. I'm not too surprised, given that the feature (at least on Android) is meant as a security measure (i.e. most of the banking and 2FA apps use it to some extent).
Show HN: The original littr.me, an easy way to put HTML on the web
I’d be in line to purchase some HengCoin. It’s an interesting idea but you also raise a good point that alignment is probabilistic.

It is the step that most benefits from cpu parallelization so would be cool to explore at least
sadly true. It’s a lot easier to think like an individual than as a member of a community.
There's no usable sunlight (on skin) for 4 ~ 8 months a year in big chunks of the populated world.
Not across the entire population, but there are some who claim to use constantly
20G is very little. Versatel and Vodafone each have connections summing up to around 1,200G in Frankfurt alone.

I was a Telekom customer for a few years and YouTube was just unbearable after 7pm. Maybe they fixed it now or bullied content providers long enough.

You may want to read this Hetzner press release where they address DTAG's peering policy: https://www.hetzner.com/news/03-20-dtag/
I think there is a Fedora install available on the Microsoft store, but it is paid for and I’m not sure the proceeds will go to the Fedora maintainers.

I don’t like WSL much. It feels like a second class environment, where the Linux filesystem is accessible via a network share.

In any case, it works. Windows Terminal is good enough, but I find Windows a hopelessly confusing OS with lots of places where it seems unfinished.

Considered all its pain points, I’d go with a VM under VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation. You’ll get a desktop-like experience if you go full screen and you still can get to the filesystem via the VM’s host drive plumbing. And nothing prevents you from running Windows Terminal and ssh’ing into the proper VM.
The checklist before offering and accepting a job especially for IT Industry
Solar panels are nothing but green virtue signalling. Nuclear can produce enough energy for both securing decentralized money and all customer needs.
Mistakes happen, and a culture that insists too hard that "mistakes shouldn't happen, and so we can't be seen making mistakes" is harmful toward engineering.

How should their performance be evaluated, if not by the rote number of mistakes that can be pinned onto the person, and their combined impact? (Was that the question?)
Sounds like we need the SpaceX version of military hardware. If Elon Musk was even remotely interested in killing people I'm sure we could have it in 5 years.
Why are there still 4 drones?
Year Well
Xposed modules (can even be targetted at specific apps in a root-less way using Taichi), patching system libraries with smalipatcher to disable the "secure flag" system wide or root screen capture tools like scrcpy.
There are two definitions of the word mundane. You are interpreting the name with the wrong definition of the two. It's perfectly good choice of a name, that covers the purpose well.
Olaf Scholz Germany's new chancellor, replacing Angela Merkel after 16 years
>This shit could not have happened so fast (few tens or hundreds of million years?)

It didn't happen that fast.
The earliest direct evidence, (as in: fossils) for life on earth are 3.465 BILLION years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms

>Also anyone who’s worked in a lab trying to keep some Lb plates sterile would immediately see how difficult it would be to keep an earth sized Lb plate sterile if the galaxy has a ton of life harboring planets.

The earths diameter is 12742 km.

A petri-dish is usually about 12 cm in diameter.

The closest star system (Alpha Centaury) is 9461000000000 km away (4.35 LY).

So the closest place in the galaxy where there is even sufficient mass for conditions to form life, is ~2970020405 earth-diameters from here.

Two petri dishes on opposite sides of the planet are ~106183333 petri-dish-diameters away from each other.

So purely from a perspective of distance, the chance that two petri-dishes on opposite sides of the planet transmit life between them, is an order of magnitude HIGHER than life coming to earth from outer space.
some of possible reasons to use goto:

1. escape nested loops easily

for ()
...
for()
...
if (something)
goto get_me_out
...

get_me_out:

2. error handling; since c does it in somehow messy way, you can end up with multiple variations of:

if (error)
close
return

if (error)
deallocate;
close;
return

where by using goto you can put those handlers as in a footnote of a function like

if (error)
goto error1

if (error)
goto error2

error2:
deallocate
error1
close

as it looks a bit neater

some languages like Zig for example have keyword defer, this to my understanding implements an alternative to this approach