skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to flooding offshore it mostly goes into rent extraction schemes. That in turn raises the cost of living for everyone else, generally to no benefit. I've heard it called the "slumlord economy."

A small percentage of it does get re-invested in actual production, but productive investments tend to be higher risk than rent extracting "investments." Conservative holders of wealth are not going to dump it into private space programs or <5nm microchips. They're going to buy up vast amounts of housing and collect rent.

Edit:

In my opinion entrepreneurs and investors in actual productive work should be against "trickle down" economics as it makes it much harder to build substantial new ventures. You can't build new products and services if there are no customers. Productive capitalism (as opposed to a rentier economy) requires a fully capitalized consumer base.

Personally if I were a VC I would be in favor of dropping money on the poor and middle class from helicopters, especially if my portfolio had many consumer or small business focused companies in it.

"Trickle down" economics primarily benefits the non-productive rich, the rentier class. It even hurts the productive rich.

I'm a huge fan of Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

TL;DR: zero income tax, zero sales tax, zero capital gains tax on productive investments, high taxes on the "ownership" of land and other things human beings do not produce. A modern take would also include pollution taxes such as a fossil carbon fuel tax.
Sun protection factor 7 is quite a lot; it means only one seventh of the UV rays reach the skin, which is less than 15 percent.
Feel like this correlates more with how much exercise you get
You are already adapted to the climate of Sweden, meaning you have a lighter skin and your body uses sunlight more efficiently, because it's scarce. This is epigenetics in action. This could be problematic for people who originate from a more sunnier climate and have moved closer to the poles in the hemisphere, or to people who don't go outside. Their body expects more sunlight, however they get less, which could trigger more fat storage.
Can someone please explain which billionaire has been “given” $20b, and how it was “given”?
To clarify then, the two groups made accusations against different people:

- A core team member made an accusation against Amazon

- The mods had concerns with the lack of oversight of the core team
Your information on video games is about a decade out of date, there were no video games put on List A or B for the past 2 years at least, and I haven't checked further. The last high profile ban was Wolfenstein, and that was for it's use of the Swastika.

https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=Indizierungen&...
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no one in that scenario would not do things manually like in the article.

but if doing it, then at minimum you should use an custom install media with latest packages bundled and all the configuration already backed so you hit the ground with sane defaults and cover the first 5 minutes from this articles during install time.

also in any install i would always do a netinstall to get any updates between media generation and install time, so you should always have the latest and greats at install time.
>Why should a digital message expire when memories don’t?

I'm curious if you understand that your memories don't expire, but that almost all other people's do? I'd be interested to know if you think the platforms should conform to how your brain works, or if you think most brains work like yours. Just so you know, most people can't remember 99% of conversations verbatim that are years old.
I thought SLIDE was optimized for classification with mind-boggingly sparse data. I.e. "choose the best label for this image out of those 1 mio choices".
By doing business in China they have access to the largest nation in the world. This would give them a leg up on Google and other brands that are unwilling to play the China game.
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In my experience the search on the Amazon site is terrible. If I want something, I search there and can browse 100 pages of low quality unrelated items. But I do a Google search and I see results from Amazon that are exactly what I need.
I've been using Terraform, my setup is basically three projects:

dev
prod
builds

Getting things playing nicely between those three in Terraform/Teragrunt has been no mean feet!
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Isn't wealth distributed in basically a normal distribution with destitute-poor in the middle and omega-rich on the edges?

If it is, they'd be right.
Only for the record, not really vertical.

Usually retaining walls (higher than 2-3 meters) have an outer slope (something like 5%) otherwise they would seem (optical effect) to be falling in.
The value of time spent by the people is called productivity.

We should be more concerned with the productivity. This is especially true with developing countries where people are mostly employed in backbreaking manual labor. Sometimes it is due to lack of skills and many a times due to lack of industry or ecosystem.

Inequality is a great talking point for socialist but isn't an important metric. Inequality is inevitable in a highly competitive and fast growing economy. Just productivity improvement is a great measure of how well the economy is doing.

For developed countries productivity improvements is difficult because it only comes about from innovation. For developing countries it can be had from just adoption of existing technologies.
There's so much manipulation on Amazon (both of Amazon's own doing and gaming on part of sellers) that I've more or less given up on buying from there completely. Mix in all off-brand Chinese crap polluting the store, and it's just a miserable experience.

These days, Amazon is most useful to me just as a price ceiling. I go to brick-and-mortar stores and have them price-match Amazon if the online listing is cheaper.
This is an answer to a question I saw on HN a while back: what is the easiest way to put HTML on the web.

The way it works is that you can go to any URL on the domain, be presented with an empty editable HTML page that you can modify as you want. There are some small conveniences made to formatting and has support for drag and dropping images.

It is based on the functionality provided by htlm.org with a couple of improvements (besides no intrusive Javascript). The main one is the fact that a page can be protected by a password forbidding others from editing it. Another one is that you can create namespaces for your notes, by allowing a / terminated URL to function as an index for the pages that exist under it. (You can see an example at https://original.littr.me/~marius/).
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Google Translate for the page:

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Gericht-Deutsche-We...
Those investments only benefit very few people though, who already have well paying jobs.

Private investors prefer to take long bets in technology corporations (like FAANG, etc). That benefits to a small extent the few people working there because the high stock price convinces the CEO that he can afford another position here or there. It does nothing for the people in the lower income percentiles, because the additional money earned by the people in the higher percentile is not spent on consumables. It's mostly just spent on financial assets (that is housing, equity and bonds). Unsurprisingly the people in the lower percentiles have very few financial assets and mainly live off of their labor. Of course it won't benefit them.

Instead the government needs to invest in projects that create jobs for everyone. But since the biggest voting base consists of older people with lots of savings they don't want the government to spend more, which could cause inflation and increase their tax rate. QE by the Fed on the other hand increases their portfolio value. So it's ultimately a political decision.
> When we get to the point money is easily converted in political power

If only we demanded mechanisms which might disincentivise this. Alas, we are but plebes.
Where they forced to use a specific insurance company? We had something similar but the insurance provider my company had picked where constantly in the news for basically being a con (they only did just enough to not get the authorities after them, but compared to all others they where awful).

Also, when HR asks you what your current salary is, for your next gig, you can anchor with a higher salary which is insanely important (I wish it wasnt).
> Microsoft dog foods tons of its own software and all internal cloud services I know of run on azure

so it's even more embarrassing how terrible the software is.

trolling aside - if this is true, the state of e.g: MS Teams is a travesty. Implementation of replies to messages implemented in 2021!? So many bugs, etc. it seriously damages productivity. And don't get me started on sharepoint.
The lie is almost 40 years old.

It's done a lot of damage in that time.

It's time to stop wasting time pretending the other side are open to discussion, compromise or persuasion.

Even pointing out the falsehoods in these lies actually makes people more likely to believe them. You saw this with the "350m pounds a week for the nhs" lie in the Brexit campaign. Even after it was revealed and admitted to be untrue, the more it was mentioned the more people believed it.

So stop acting shocked and talk about how we need a trickle up program.
Even though I’m always in evil mode when in eMacs, I still want that Vim Hater logo.
That line doesn't mean anything - should we make any type of computation that contributes to a pyramid scheme illegal? How do you even define a pyramid scheme in a way that doesn't also cover traditional financial institutions and academia?
History rhymes, therefore, one can predict the future. To quote myself:

Greed is the elephant in the room. Whether it's cash, gold, or an NFT of Elon Musk's flatulence, no matter the currency, as long as humans can't evolve beyond their greedy nature nothing will change. All bitcoin has done is strengthen this vice and make yet another group of rich people, who, as usual, will do anything to preserve and increase their wealth. For example Max Keiser ripping a ten dollar bill saying he will just buy politicians [21]. Or the next quote by some bitcoin millionaire on an online forum I used to frequent:

“I've always used Bitcoin as an insurance against corrupted governments by private companies. The tip is to move to a country where the government is corrupted by crypto holders! ... and you don't have to move to small island to do that. There is plenty of rich country doing so.” —Name-I-won't-mention, living in France, 2021.

That doesn't spell confidence nor competence for the next “elite”, does it. Neither did I for that matter. As soon as I felt being rich was within my grasp I began to think selfishly: “No way I'm giving any of this to governments.” Which is fine in truly oppressed countries. But if one inhabits a developed country, chances are that being able to afford crypto“currencies” to begin with is the result of the fortunate circumstances that you or your parents enjoyed because of, among other things, good governance. Whether your ego likes it or not, most success is due to luck [22][23]. In the end, governments aren't inherently bad, but the people in it can be. And if they can be corrupted by bitcoin then we are merely running uphill on the Titanic.

“Strong currencies are not the solution to poor governance. Good governance and democracy makes a country and its currency strong. Not vice versa.” —halukakin, HackerNews, 2021.
—https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
Are the client and the protocol no longer open?
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Good quote. Many business slides look like this: boxes with words connected with arrows; no edge labels.
Their authors revel in magical thinking, enjoying simplicity of unlabeled axes. But everybody interested in content must struggle to figure out which arrows even have the same meaning, and what that meaning is.
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Pico8 is working with 128x128 pixels, so their choices are limited...

Edit: Working with 128x128 on purpose, for nostalgia purposes. It's a sort of contrived historical machine they are pretending existed. A slick IDE wouldn't fit with the project's purpose. Though you can edit the programs with any external editor you want.
Compiling is something that happens locally and is static - it either compiles now or it doesn't and once you have the final executable you can distribute to your users the syntactical errors or whatever of your source code doesn't matter after that.

HTML is different because it is parsed by the browser the end user is using when it is using it. If a site completely broke like, f.e. how Mozilla treated bad XHTML sites (instead of showing the site itself you'd get some yellow page with the error) when you got a tiny syntax error then anything with user generated content (forums, blogs, etc) or even just generated could be a potential minefield. Especially as websites started adding code from external sources (be it for ads or for things like youtube embeds or whatever).
These are very cool p2p projects with nice NAT traversals.

https://syncthing.net/
https://github.com/hyperswarm/hyperswarm
(whole family hypercore, hyperdrive, hyperswarm, ...)
I'm curious as to what you even mean by "money goes offshore" and how does that cause it to appreciate?

And of course investing is good - how could you even argue against that? Businesses need funding. And yes, governments in fact do invest in both companies and private housing, I don't understand why you think this is some gotcha. It's just that on average governments tend to do worse at investing, so it's generally restricted to areas where the private market fails to provide.
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The thing about trickle down is that even the water analogy is backwards!

It's combining many small streams that make up the big rivers... as in: give money to the lower classes, they will consume stuff and so the money will end up in the pockets of whoever produced the goods (usually large companies -> the sea?), and there the money will flow back up as income (clouds/rain?) and that will feed the small streams over again.

In that analogy, the wealthy act like a dam, not as a source, cause the wealthy can only consume so much...
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Anyone who knows with any sophistication how economics works isn’t telling: they’re pocketing the difference working at RenTec or Jump or whatever. A child knows that privatizing profits and socializing losses is only good for rich people, but a Nobel laureate can’t prove it.

So what we get is a bunch of “those who can’t, teach” social science economics. Greenspan in front of Congress talking about “flaws in conceptual frameworks” rather than “me and Summers shouldn’t have squished Brooksley Born like a fucking bug when she tried to institute some sanity in derivatives markets”. California and electricity. Repeal of Glass-Steagall. Top work guys.

Sometimes I think that HN will literally be the last place where temporarily embarrassed billionaires are pseudo-intellectualizing about pseudo-science economics when the tent-camp people under the 101 interchange finally head over to South Park and rig up a guillotine on that grassy bit.
May I offer a solution to your problem? Just buy some bitcoin to hedge your feelings. You win if it goes up. You win if it goes down.
Yes, cooking takes a few hours out of my week that I could be using to do something else. But it's absolutely worth it and has saved me a lot of money and helped me lose weight in the past.

There is quite literally no free lunch. Fast food might be convenient in the short term but it has all kinds of hidden costs that people don't often consider. Sadly, a lot of people will turn their nose up at anything that doesn't give them instant gratification, instead of engaging in meaningful cost-benefit analysis. It can be very hard to reason with the "I want it and I want it now" mentality.
Even more fun, there's some evidence that one of the ingredients in the frankincense that was burned in the Jewish temple (at least the second temple anyway) was Marijuana
MongoDB is an even more terrible name in my country. I know they named it that because it’s humongous but in my country, “mongo” is a derogatory term that is equally offensive as calling someone a retard and is derived from the word “mongolid”.

I remember when I grew up we used to call each other mongo as a joke and not meaning anything bad about it, but then on one occasion a teacher overheard us and told us that she was sad to hear people use the word that way because she had a grandchild with Down’s syndrome. I think this was one of the first times I learned that words said to one person can be hurtful to someone else even if they were not the person you said it to. And after that I’ve tried to be more conscious about which words I use in public.
Google's results are filled with just as much spam, fake listing sites that just link to Amazon, and junk products
As time goes on the distinction becomes less and less clear.
Neither offer any vitamin D benefit in most geographies though.
Yeah, using Linux full screen in VMware Workstation is generally pretty good, and hard to tell there's a windows layer underneath most of the time.
How to analyze millions of conversations using AI?
They do, but as we have seen in the past 30 years they often still fail to do that.
Some of your work was unethical and harmful, work that was later on found to be illegal in the European Union. All of this is part of the public record.

It's never too late to reflect on that, and work on making things better at your company, instead of acting surprised that something illegal was called illegal on HN.
My favourite example of this:

> UK retailer Shoe Zone has named Terry Boot as its next finance boss after predecessor Peter Foot walked away from the role.
Why would you compare the two?

Starting a company that skyrockets in value (Musk, Bezos, etc) will never have a wealth trajectory like an unskilled labourer.

There is no reason to expect wealth to grow at similar rates between people who do very different things, and have very different amounts of money to invest or skills to leverage for a high wage.
Right - ‘mongo’ or ‘mong’ is both ableist and racist at the same time!
I've heard a rumor the main reason for Nvidia's reluctance to open source their driver is that they use it to enable/disable features. So the same board can be GeForce or Quadro, depending on what the driver tells it to be. Is this true?
The one font I keep coming back to. Forever.
> For all the naysayers and the evangelists, at this point it is clear that cryptocurrencies have staying power and the broader market (not going to pick out bitcoin specifically) seems likely outlive the US dollar. Decentralised protocols are more reliable than the US government.

By what logic do you expect a ~10 year old technology reliant on massive amounts of power in a global warming world, that only started seeing adoption ~5 years ago, will beat the US dollar's ~200 year old lifetime?

Not to mention, USD and the US are such a central part of all finance and technology worldwide that it's absurd to imagine Bitcoin would survive a collapse of the US government.
It's probably not the only cause, but more wealth for the poor people means people more apt to contribute to the society.

Compare one billionaire buying a mega yacht and 10,000 people buying their first car, in both cases you've created say $200M in direct GDP, but in the later case you have 10,000 people more mobile to get a job or consume other goods or services.
> Give a billionaire $20M, see the money go into the fintech machine and pour out into offshore accounts, as the billionaire holds on to whatever financial product they bought forever as long as it appreciates faster than inflation.

I know someone who was given a couple hundred million in a GRAT, which grew well beyond $1B, in the exact manner you reference. They aren’t on any of the lists, but I can confirm this exact scenario does, in fact exist.

> Oh, and they'll spend $200 on a fancy dinner.

You forgot about the drugs!
I think he is arguing the exact opposite.
The term "trickle-down" was a pejorative from the start, so if you ever have the intent to convince somebody, then you're going to have to start by not using pejoratives as if that's what the opposing side is advocating for. It's like you started calling people f*ktards with a f*ktard-theory and have done so for so long that you've forgotten, that's not how they see themselves. Now you're confused that nobody on the side you call f*ktards is listening to you or taking your arguments seriously.
Looks like the account possibly tried to implicate an Intel agency several hours earlier?

https://twitter.com/HardensBetter/status/1468304975998578689

I would be interested in seeing the missing tweet if anyone has any ideas how to view a cached version.
If I could in any way afford it I'd buy one of these just for doing (hobby) n-body simulations and fractal rendering. I bought a Radeon VII specifically for this and it died a month or so after I got it, with no replacement possible because they were EOL :( So badly want a replacement, but with GPU prices as they are now, there's just no way to justify buying a 2nd hand one.

Right now I think the best you can do for FP64/$ is AVX-512 CPUs and Radeon GPUs.
Isn't it great how, once the idiocy of trickle-down has become widely known, one can continue pushing the same ideas by merely calling it something else?

Such a neat trick!

We are not talking about which phrase the Right uses today. The idea of trickle-down is what our current taxes are based on. There's no need to call it anything; obstructionism suffices
It's a great analogy actually. See here for example: https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/01/12/89319/the-puzzli...

Firearms took over bows in Europe around 16th century. But they have been around for far longer, as early as 13th century, possibly much earlier too. Even when firearms took over, they were in many ways inferior to bows. The crucial difference was that they required less skill to operate, so much easier from a general logistical point of view. Training longbowmen in medieval England was a whole massive social project.

So even being the long-term solution doesn't make something the right solution right now, the time gap until it takes over can be very long, and even once it is the right solution, it might not be due to actual technical superiority (at least not initially) but rather wider strategic considerations.

And just to stem the thought, this wasn't because people in the past were stoopid, humans have always devoted a huge amount of skill, cunning and attention to warmongering. Technological progress in military technology was always rapid (if likely slower than today), we just don't see it that way, since one bow kinda looks the same as another to us - but could be an enormous advantage.
Europe's middle class is doing better than America's over past 2 decades