skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your logic is flawed in the part where you consider "added value".

Obviously, managers never actually "add" value. All they do is organize, so that value can be generated in the first place. And obviously they are the ones who gain the most profit if succeed and loose the most if not.

Anyone can verify it by founding a startup, but surprisingly people prefer comfy jobs.

Try organizing something and it will be immediately evident how hard it is to actually make people work effectively towards the same goal. I have actually left a position of a team lead in favor of a linear software development job -- it's just SOOOOOO much simpler and less nervous than any kind of organizational stuff.
> "Question Authority" became "Trust the Science or Else"

You forgot “according to fact-checkers”. Seriously one of, if not the worst creation of the news media complex from the past few years. I don’t know how they think that fools anyone.
Morels are very costly and I've never seen them offered in common dishes. Usually they are battered and fried and eaten alone, and because they are more rare they do not just freely put them into random dishes.
Slice fresh morels into rings (they're hollow tubes), dust them with flour and a little salt and pepper, and fry them in a little oil until crisp on the outside.
And even better non-excel spreadsheets have to know the bug and imitate it when opening excel docs.
There was a time when the impact of Novels (fiction books) on young women's health was a topic of hot debate. When this "Internet addiction" label got pasted onto the same old "be scared of the new fad" it coincided with Nancy's "Just Say No" campaign and sought tailwind from the term "addiction"; oddly just as "addiction by prescription" began its meteoric rise.

Nor should we forget all the Internet Sex Predators; small town sheriffs all over the country getting their rocks of role playing then busting their playmates when they need a news story. That movement drew some of the worst elements of our society into just exactly the positions of power we didn't need them to be. Many are still there, i think.
Yep, an employee here you can ask me anything
> Should we trust the government to spend the money more wisely than the folks who earned it?

Yes.

> Or said another way, how do you combat the almost inevitable corruption you see with large government spending?

Transparent auditing of taxpayer funds. Presumably this exists to some degree in your country.

> 2. What will incentivize people to work at insane rates if the vast majority of their income and wealth is taxed?

This is a loaded question, as it implies that incentives beyond survival/comfort exist under the incumbent model of operation.

> Would I be willing to put in the long hours and sacrifices usually required to work up to a $1m+ salary if it’s taxed at a 90% rate?

To what end? The proposal is an alternative model of living which lifts the baseline quality of life, thus reducing this incorrect perceived need for an extreme financial safety net.
You are missing having IT set up a UNIX server instance, with Apache or NGINX on it, configure firewall, public IP DNS entry, and then having the rights to ftp/scp into it before being able to call vi into hello.sh.

So if you want that approach then, IT would set an "static HTML web app" instance for "~/public_html" version, which you can then ssh into.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure...

or have a VSCode like experience editing directly your site files,

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...
God this article is bad on so many levels I don't know where to start.

First, income inequality doesn't measure income mobility. Places like the US that have a huge number of unskilled illegal and legal immigrants constantly entering at the bottom level will always have high income inequality. The question is, what happens to each individual over the course of their lives?

83% of Americans will earn more than their parents.
73% of Americans will spend at least 1 year in the top 20% of income earners in their lifetime.

https://fee.org/articles/income-mobility-data-show-america-s...

Also, there is no such thing as "trickle down economics", that is an insult leveled by critics of the idea you should let people spend and invest their own money rather than the government. The results speak for themselves and are astounding. The poorest person alive in a first world country today lives better than the richest 100 years ago. This was all because of investment. Clearly investment, or "trickling down" (as its critics like to call it) isn't just effective, it is the only thing that works to make people's lives better.
Methods like this require a good degree of design sense.

For people without that (me), analog mind mapping quickly falls apart and I’m left with a mess and feeling bewildered. (pepesilva.jpg). The focus then becomes redoing the shit I have on the page.

Could argue that this is a form of progressive summerization, but I’m often just wondering why I didn’t use something like Smart Notes with Roam.

Any folks who are shit at drawing get methods like this to work?
> you’re comment is just hyperbole/rhetoric and no substance.

So what is unsubstantiated in your view? The fact that super rich use offshore accounts? That super rich make more money with moving assets than they could make with labor? That poor people will likely spend given money quickly?
What do you mean? That 'Trickle Down' was a satirical term coined to disparagingly talk about supply-side economics? Sure, I know.

That doesn't mean that there aren't more than enough people still clinging to supply-side economic theories as if their undeserved wealth depended on it. Because it does.
The Metaverse Will Change the Way We Live, Think and Work
Classes manage something stateful.

One anti-pattern/code smell I often see is finding classes in a service which should just be a functionally pure pipeline (eg. no internal state is managed)
Hi HN!

With CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) becoming more mature and getting more attention lately, I decided to dive in and use it as the basis for a new project. I love the technology, and how it enables me to create Google Docs style collaborative apps, that seamlessly sync data across users / devices but also work offline.

However, I also found that it's not yet trivial to build! This is why I started building a library that makes developing multiplayer apps super-simple, with a very minimum API surface. (basically, you can just modify plain javascript objects and changes are shared across users).

I'm now excited to share SyncedStore - and looking forward to your feedback :)

It's designed specifically for React, Vue, Svelte but also works with plain JS. By using Javascript Proxies, the data store looks like plain javascript objects, except that they'll now sync automatically across devices / users!
There is still an up front cost associated with the creation of software or works that get distributed in a digital format. Even in the best case scenario where the hardware was free, the OS was free, and the software tools were free, the creator still has to spend his or her time on making the copyrighted work. They deserve to have options that allow them to be compensated for that labor. I reject the false dichotomy that states copyright law should continue to be abused or be done away with entirely.

The example you provided regarding the printing press resonates with me as an author. I have not included any form of DRM with the digital copies of my book and I won't go after individuals who pirate it. But, I will enforce my copyright on the work if a large company like Amazon tries to start selling it without my permission. When you say there should be no copyright, you're saying a giant corporation I want nothing to do with is entitled to profit off of three years of my labor, for free, without my consent.

There needs to be a more nuanced approach where laws are written and interpreted in a way that benefits regular everyday people. Abolishing copyright would do the opposite.
Why would the Netherlands have power outages?

Being dutch you won't have CH4 shortages this winter (unlike what the EU might face). You'll supply your own industry, power stations and homes first and then your gas clients. You also only have one real natural disaster to optimize for, flooding. Europe has incredibly mild weather compared to the rest of the world.

Add to that that your infrastructure is newer than N. Americas - it all got rebuilt after WW2. The supply cables into my old house were 100 years old.

Finally, there is heating. Most homes need some form of an electrical motor for their heat (either as a blower for the furnace or a pump for their radiators). Consider how lucky Europe is climatically: the Netherlands is 52N. By comparison, Toronto is at the same latitude as Nice - this is due to the Gulf currents. Pipes in the Netherlands will not freeze if you spend a few days without heat. The pipes in the homes in the upper half of continental US will burst after a few days without heat.

Finally, generators are not particularly bad for CO2 emissions or other pollution compared to the grid. Not when you consider their low usage. We can afford them, they address real problems, they're fairly benign, so why not?

EDIT: clarity
Where Are All the Gig Workers and What Are They Doing?
Come to Western Washington. It is generally harder to find mushrooms in a desert climate.
I once read a Twitter thread about the idea of an explicitly flaky AWS region.

It honestly sounds like it would be a really interesting itch to scratch - VMs with explicitly bad network, bad disk, etc. You could specify the severity and randomness of failures, or what days you want things to crash. You could even go nuts and corrupt memory, or randomly trigger GPFs or fault random instructions.

The best part is that the corruption could be cooperative, such that the initial handshakes of TLS connections always succeed, and things like database connections always establish correctly, and PID 1 never faults. So you always end up crashing somewhere obscure, infuriatingly annoying, and very interesting.

I understand that both NFS and rsync-without-SSH don't carry any form of authenticity checksum (IIUC NFS encryption does provide this if you set up Kerberos). Would be fun to corrupt random packets so they get the same TCP+IP checksum, eh...? ;)

And you could even go absolutely ballistic and borrow techniques from fuzzers like AFL to observe and trace long-running executions, and compute ways to trip a program up to get maximally divergent results. I wonder if you could build an inference model for that...

Yeah, this sounds unreasonably fun.
> A sovereign wealth fund could raise funds from wealth taxes and assign a share to every citizen in the country. It could then use its interest-bearing assets to pay out a dividend to all shareholders every year

This assumes responsible spending, which is not the case IRL.
And what about shared infrastructure projects?
> In any case, the "wealth disparity" discussion is almost always badly anchored. The first thing to understand about wealth disparity is that it maps pretty much to wealth. More wealth, more wealth disparity... almost universally. Many or most people have no wealth, depending on your semantics of "wealth." Therefore, if the value/quantity of wealth rises, wealth disparity rises.

I agree with you but it remains a problematic point. The issue is the power imbalance it creates and outlines.

Because in and of itself, wealth is of little interest. Economy is first and foremost the study of exchanges. If the wealthy stayed amongst themselves with their wealth parked peacefully and little interaction with the rest of the system, you could pretend they didn’t exist and from the point of view of the economy experienced by the majority of the people that would mostly be true. That’s mostly what’s happening actually which is why people don’t riot.

It is both a blessing and a curse because as usual throughout history when an aristocracy arise, their main fear is that the general population realise they are not actually providing that much value and could be dispensed with. That’s why they use the power they own - the ability to put the system out of balance - to lobby in their favour, keep control of the political system and information apparatus in order to keep being able to extract value from the system.

From my point of view, we are in situation which has a lot to do with the Old Regime. Aristocrats used to explain that they could not be dispensed with because they had superior value and were needed to administer and guide while exploiting the collective labours of the population. Modern large shareholders and executives explain that they can’t be dispensed with due to their superior ability to manage and impart a strategy while exploiting the collective labour of their employees tolling for meager wages.
Of course, drones are not a drop-in replacement for fighter jets with pilots but IMHO drones are inherently superior on most aspects and the shortcomings are solvable problems.

A bit like, Archers having some advantages over rifles but overall rifles being vay superior making archers irrelevant.
Wealth is not just money in someone’s pocket / taxes paid it’s the actual capital of humanity.

Suppose I found a way to make synthetic oil for 1$ per barrel from atmospheric CO2 and published it. Now I can’t capture that wealth and Exxon’s and many other companies stock tanks so it looks like global wealth decreased. However, soon everyone across the globe can now buy more with their money. Lowered transportation costs for potatoes means potatoes cost less in a very real way.

This is why patents expire, everyone gets richer when they do.
postgres + postgres_setup + farretDB = something like MongoDB ?

Could you add more details on "Why someone need to choose this over other DBs"from a product PoV or even the DX pov?
Yes, I can clearly see that point of view.
It seems to be German: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
One thing I see people do quite a lot is to write error messages for, or assume error messages are intended for, users of the client application that calls the API.

I feel this is a mistake because in the backend you have absolutely no context about why the call was made, not to mention you aren't going to i18n the errors.

I'd suggest to return an error message designed for the developers using your API, and an error code (as RFC-7807 does) that is machine parsable to identify the type of error, so client applications can react to it and/or display a user friendly error message.
Machines that see the world more like humans do
A Chisel project. RISC-V offers a great chance for people to create leading CPUs instead of amateur toys, since the performance is not going to be compared with those produced by Intel/AMD by default. This new track populates many projects like this. Chisel also benefits from this trend.
> The first thing to understand about wealth disparity is that it maps pretty much to wealth. More wealth, more wealth disparity... almost universally.

This is obviously wrong. Take India vs Switzerland as an example. Also, in the post-war era, the Western European countries saw a diminution of wealth disparity at the same time as a great wealth increase.

Actually the history of the western world in the 20th century looks more like “the less wealth disparity, the more wealth growth” (I'm not implying causality, but at least the correlation goes this way).
> Yet, we are one of the richest countries in Europe.

We have strong social security, but Germans have few assets and those aren't really equally distributed. I don't think financial problems are standing in the way of kids though.
I have experimented with that, too, but in my case it also multiplies the number of potential actions. If I have 7 actions per timestep, grouping them into 3-timestep blocks means I now have 777 = 343 possibilities to choose from.

From what I understand, the OpenAI Dota 2 AI has a long-term strategy module which was mostly trained by imitating 60,000+ replays played by human professional teams. My problem with doing that for the Borderland competition is that I don't have any data source for replays of someone playing the game really well. You control 3 units simultaneously and it's 2 teams against each other, so I'd need 6 dedicated volunteers playing the game for many hours to create a reasonably-sized corpus of human replays. And who says that those people are good at it?
Hunch is that the fashionable advice to cover yourself in sunscreen every day regardless of how long you'll be in the sun or how sunny it is will be looked back on as insane in a few years. It's amazing how many SPF products are now included in people's daily moisturisers regardless of time of year, proximity to the equator or life-style.
I've had The Nature of the Firm sitting on my bookshelf for 3-4 years. Maybe I should get around to reading it...
In both examples the second sentence is exaggerated for comic effect: Nobody really believes Russia would have invaded the USA if not for the F-35. And nobody thinks the F-35 is a forward-thinking design; it's the greatest plane of the Cold War, delivered 30 years late.
i have the same question but americans don't have a good answer or at least no one has given a good answer yet. Why do americans have a fixation for "leaving the nest" and a disdain for "living with mom"?
in india, anyone who emigrates anywhere. be it the other side of the city or neighboring city or a different part of country or even abroad, the idea is if things don't work out, they just return "home". we saw that in 2020 when there was mass migration back to villages from cities and expats returned en masse. most have stayed back because their jobs aren't back.

i fail to understand if american cities, big ones are made up of people from smaller towns, why don't they return back if they loose a job or something? sure there are cases like mortgage and all but what about being on the street?

i'm pointing out economics of what you wrote. why does a newly homeless couple have to stay on the streets when they could potentially back a bus back to their parents homes?

do parents not tolerate their kids? "you've flown the nest so don't ever come back again"?

its very weird for me
And yet there is utility in using ubuntu because it's a shared platform that many tools are developed on. It is mostly debian, but it is not exactly debian. Since ubuntu LTS latest is the de facto linux default its shortcomings fall away for swiss-army development.
If you cannot pay, you will be evicted within 1-3 months.
What's the problem with the income inequality? Isn't it normal that people who do different things and have different skills to win different amounts of money?
I think most consoles that cloud providers offer are attached via virtual serial consoles (ttys) and not via SSH. So you can disable passwords for SSH but still use them via the cloud provider remote console.

At least for KVM based virtual servers that I have this is the case.
Docker Hub Down?
The Grimes song is a reference to the book too. She also has Marain subtitles in her video for "Idoru", which is the language used in The Culture. Weird mix of two author's (Idoru being William Gibson) works to be sure.
Switching to WSL2 with Fedora over plain Fedora install for development?
Hi, I've finally gotten a software developer job! I've changed careers from being a chemist, which was really draining me.

Anyways, I've been doing pretty much all my coding on Linux (Ubuntu -> Pop_OS! -> Fedora), but I run Windows 10 on another SSD as I game as well, and Linux is just no where near a quality user experience for gaming, at least the kind of games I play. Note I also have an NVIDIA GPU lol...

I'd like to not have to constantly switch OSes, so I was thinking to use WSL2 to install Fedora w/ no GUI, and just do all my dev stuff through the command line, which I've gotten more familiar with lately. I do my editing using Neovim already, so that should be fine.

Has anyone on HN done something similar, and what has been your experience? Once I get a laptop in a few months to a year (hopefully a Framework laptop!), I'll use Fedora on there as well.

There's also a part of me that very much dislikes contributing to Microsoft's push to pull Linux users over, but at the end of the day I just need to get shit done :|
yeah but still because of it[1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/27/20985260/ai-go-alphago-l...
Sunlight or vitamin D?
I was not aware of these, either it was added since I kicked the tires on Zig or I just wasn't aware of it, but yes it looks pretty good!

The one drawback I see is that it seems a bit verbose: i.e. the tag set itself has to be declared as a separate enum, and then the tags need to be repeated inside the union.

So it looks to be slightly bolted-on and unergonomic (similar to TypeScript's implementation) but I haven't worked with it so maybe I am missing something.
Currencies need to be backed by an asset or an entity.

Bitcoin is meaningful only as long as it is a temporary token for transaction like an IOU note. The day it became a "store of value" or asset to be speculated on it is meaningless.
Citation needed for "make others live". You're just saying "trickle down akShUaLLy works", you do realize that, right?

The effect of investing in financial instruments is effectively the same as burying gold (as the study shows). My citation is TFA.

Bonus: tell me again who gets to "live" from someone shorting Tesla stock on the dip.

Side note: your houses argument is cute. In this case, we should just buy that house and cut the middle (billionaire) man out.

The only thing the billionaire can do with the house is either rent (taking money out of the economy) or sell (and we're back where we started, minus whatever profit they made).

So clearly, a better move is to pay someone to give up their house (retirement money), and let someone else live there rent-free.

While we're at that, instead of having the rich person buy stock (and pay for seller's retirement), we should buy that stock ourselves, since it's the same effect.

Congratulations! We now have socialized housing and nationalized corporations. Welcome to the Socialist States of America!

TL;DR: if trickle-down works, The Man should own everything. Strangely, Reagan wasn't a fan. Huh.
"direct terminal" access, even via VNC, ipmi, whatnot would still allow one to login locally as root, "PasswordAuthentication No" only affects sshd, not pam.
Dr. Peter Light promotes research saying light can reduce fat.

Sounds a little fishy to me.
> Should we trust the government to spend the money more wisely than the folks who earned it?

When the aristocracy watched as the new-born communist Russia brutally executed its royal family, in their hearts they knew their narrative of birthright and nobility would no longer be accepted. They needed a new reasoning to justify their positions of power, to convince the peasantry that their lords were just and inevitable. Thus was the narrative of 'meritocracy' born in a world where there is obviously no possibility of such a thing.
I hope you understand that the SALT deduction that Dems want that he is referring to is a tax cut for the wealthy only. It exclusively applies to people wealthy enough to break the cap.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/us/politics/salt-cap-tax-...
It is not clear, why the second group is supposed to be "hungry"

In my experience all of the highly payed specialists are exactly those who have the passion for what they are doing.

IMO, it is often easier to monetize your passions as you often end up being able to do things that others can't.
SAAB Gripen aerodynamics and structure is from the eighties though, at least looks like that from the outside.

But the new Red Hawk trainer looks great.
Microsoft Releases Preview of Native OneDrive Client for Apple Silicon Macs