skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, it's highly problematic defining mobility as "moving from bottom quintile to top quintile".

- Moving from bottom quintile to 2nd highest is significant mobility and completely ignored in this analysis.

- The analysis ignores the fact that the highest quintile in the US is higher in absolute terms than other countries. So moving from bottom to 4th may give more income than bottom to 5th in other countries.

- This analysis also ignores the changes of income within quintiles. The 3rd quintile in 1980 isn't the same income in 2020. 3rd quintile could see significant income improvements.

- This analysis also ignores government transfers.

- Countries that have a lower income spread, but overall less income would do better.
A few lessons for social mobility I learned while joining the SF techie class, coming here from a relatively poor country in Europe.

1. If Americans can’t read your emotes they put you in a “Uh this feels weird, that person is an emotionless robot” camp. You have to practice

2. It is not okay to ask “What’s that?” when someone proudly mentions which college they went to (because as a European you only recognize 4 or 5)

3. Talking about money with upper middle class people is impolite. They have never had money problems and do not understand why anyone would ever talk about money

4. You should instead talk about your investments

5. Saying “Charity? That’s what taxes is for” is considered trolling

6. Rent and real estate are the only times it’s socially acceptable to say “Damn, life is expensive”

7. You have to talk about helping the less fortunate

8. It is not okay to directly help the less fortunate on your street, wouldn’t want to make them feel like it’s okay to be there

9. You can only say positive things about your boss (because you aim to become them)

10. It is okay to say negative things about your boss’s boss’s boss

11. Every acquaintance is “a friend”

12. Real friends are “best/close friend”

13. Everyone hires cleaners and similar help, this is not considered a luxury

14. Everything is always awesome

15. You don’t fail, you are given an opportunity to grow
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> Social mobility is very different than economic mobility. It's not hugely difficult to earn six figures in the US if you're committed, work hard, and pick a good field. Heck, I did it without any college.

And yet, many people assert that it is indeed hard for them.

The easiest way to compare this between countries is to look at actual economic/social mobility, in the form of poor people becoming affluent, affluent people becoming poor, etc. Rather than theorycrafting or going off anecdotes, see what’s actually happening.

And the data says that the US doesn’t do so well here, IIRC.
This article reminded me of a story I heard second hand. In the Karoo of South Africa, sheep farmers provided lambs with feed containing the ground up stomaches of older sheep who lived in the area. If this was not done, then the lambs would fail to thrive when grazing. Presumably the ingested intestines transmit bacteria conferring the ability to digest otherwise indigestible material.
I think his definition of working class is perhaps different to the definition in your study.

It's one of those terms that are loosely defined (at least in certain societies) and mean very different things to different people.

Is an electrician earning US$80k/year middle class because he's well compensated for his work, or working class because he's doing manual labour?
I can see what you mean. But at the same time, if I wasn't aware this was fake, I could watch a whole video like this without being tipped off that it's entirely rendered.
Looks good. We’re publishing ours soon.

You should ditch nvm for Volta. It’s insanely better
The word no one wants to say, but I'll say it: honor. It's sort of like what that SCOTUS judge said about pornography: you know it when you see it.

It seems pretty clear that the BuzzFeed execs are not honorable people, and they hired some financial people who are also not honorable.

An honorable executive would think,

"I have these employees' fortunes in my hands. They're depending on me. I need to do everything I can to live up to my responsibility to them.

Do they really understand Class A and Class B shares? I have to make sure they do.

If somehow I let them down anyway, I must humbly apologize."

.. and be grateful that in the US you usually don't have to commit suicide.
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California has one of the lowest divorce rates in the entire country
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/states-with...
Could be a scheduler change. I think the default scheduler doesn't try too hard to be power efficient on the assumption servers/desktops generally aren't optimizing for a single watt or less

On Android, the scheduler can have a decent impact battery life
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Curious to know what your favorite book you read in 2021 was?

I enjoyed reading the Almanac of Naval. It was great as a summary of ideas to think about. The reading list in the back had some interesting suggestions.
That was not a race. It was a mugging. Hamilton had his championship stolen by Michael Masi.

The winner of the race and the championship was solely decided by Masi's choice!
I'm a big fan of Hammerspoon.

At least a few years ago, OS X's window management when plugging/unplugging external monitors was pretty bad.

Thanks to Hammerspoon, I don't have to think about it at all - I plug in monitors when I want to and all my windows resize and move themselves based on rules I defined.

It means stepping away from my desk or coming back to it is a no-brainer.

Maybe it's not needed these days, but it sure was a lifesaver back when I first adopted it.

My config, if people are interested:

https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/src/.hammers...
I believe this is the implementation I based mine on: https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-hammerspoon/blob/master/init...
Poor, middle, and upper class are economic distinctions in America. Not social ones. I think OP misstated his alignment to the "working class". He refers to Yuppies in the subsequent sentence which gives a hint that this is a rural/urban divide argument.

But that's just my reading of it.
If the safety car stayed out until the end then he would lose the race so he could not do it.
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And a nice salary along the way. And many times the company will provide additional insurance/benefits just in case.
That's not necessarily true. The vast majority of individual people that file chapter 7 don't give up a penny. US bankruptcy law is surprisingly progressive for the little guy -- even compared to other progressive countries.
> Not convinced. Serious illness can happen to anyone at any time, especially under the stress of running a business, and America has one of the weakest safety nets for a developed country.

US is at the top of the rung amongst OECD health index. The middle class is not too badly positioned. For the poor, there is Medicare:
https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/health/

> The First Amendment is a great thing, but it can't maintain a culture of free speech on its own. The US's at-will firing (particularly combined with employer-dependent healthcare) means many Americans find it harder to express their views openly than people in other countries.

US is on par with UK and most OECD nations with regards to civil rights and liberties:

> The jurisdictions that took the top 10 places, in order, were New Zealand, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Estonia, and Germany and Sweden (tied in 9th place). Selected countries rank as follows: Japan (11), the United Kingdom and the United States (tied in 17th place), Taiwan (19), South Korea (26), Chile (30), France (33), South Africa (68), Argentina (70), Mexico (86), Brazil (88), Kenya (93), India (111), Russia (115), Turkey (119), China (129), Saudi Arabia (151), Egypt (157), Iran (158), Venezuela (160), and Syria (162).

https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/2020
Why the distinction between solar vs other renewable energy sources?
Awesome. Again, thanks!
" - [blah blah ignorance] ignored in this analysis"

Q1-Q4 mobility is not ignored, it's right there in Table 2 of the paper. For your information the U.S. is also worst among the five studied nations for Q1-Q4 mobility. Furthermore the U.S. is also worst for Q1-Q3.

HTH.
What are some reasons to switch from nvm to Volta?
Languages are hard enough without that!

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make a "nightmare" language that is as hard to learn as possible.

Thinking like.. 13 tones, pops, clicks, whistles, every possible grammatical structure from other languages at once... etc
Price for game is different story.
> “What I’ve seen contradicts measured statistics across the country” is not a convincing argument.

You are not understanding the other possibilities here.

The other possibility is that yes, it is true that it is not that hard to make it to this level of success, but the stats are still true, and it is simply that people don't do this, for other reasons.

There are a multitude of reasons, as for why someone might not join lucrative fields, even if it isn't that hard to do so.

For example, maybe they simply aren't aware of it, or they incorrectly think it would be difficult. Or maybe there a social reasons why people don't do it.

Or maybe, in order to achieve that level of success they would have to move, and I know that lots of people don't want to do move.
Do you feel it is bad you gave them that number?
That cause we not only own .com we even own ICANN at it’s true root. We have nuclear powered carrier groups with real projection of power. Europe has nothing in real terms to compare. A simple example is two formerly grand colonial European powers both invaded and attacked Libya. They literally ran out of mumitions and ordnance. Obama had to come and save the day to destroy Libya. Another example is we left Afghanistan and Britain protested. They still could not stay there alone. And NATO only exists to serve us and help us sell more arms to client states. Europe is not an empire or close to it by any means. The 20th century was Pax Americana. The 21st started as us being sole game in town.now after multiple lost treasure after multiple wars we are slightly injured. But we are still much more powerful.

As for freedom of speech we don’t really have it when it is against the national security state and imperial ambitions. We jailed Eugene Debs the politician for advocating against entering the first world war. We imprisoned the director of Spirit of ‘76 for making a movie on Yankee Doodle which was supposedly anti-British. We now have multiple tech censorship platforms instructed by politicians and the media to censor and deplatform even more.

We have the dollar as the global reserve currency and we can export our inflation. If a country threatens the dollar as a reserve currency by trying to sell their petrol in different currencies we bomb them to hell.

We have a great medical care system for the rich. The lower and middle class need not apply.

We have more flags on display than anywhere I have traveled to in Europe (maybe I missed their national holidays). Just come to Fleet Week in San Francisco to see the flags and uniforms on full display.
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I think if you make one individual accountable for every mistake a company makes, then you change the nature of business. In this case, you want the CEO and board to go to prison because some low-level employee made a mistake on some paperwork. That could be avoided; simply don't report car thefts to the police. Charge people $20,000 up front to rent a $20,000 car, and say "if you return it and we feel like it, we'll give you $19,000" back. If the car gets stolen, not their problem anymore. If they mis-file some paperwork and don't give you $19,000 when you return it, well the contract you signed said "if we feel like it" and they didn't feel like it, so I guess keep the car if you want to. But, this business model would never work, so there simply wouldn't be car rental companies anymore.

There has to be some abstraction layer between a company and its officers, or companies can't take the risk of delegating anything to employees. The reality of society is that sometimes something is going to get fucked up, and the dispute resolution process is expensive and messy. That's the legal system, and it exists for a reason. Ideally, most people don't have to use it very often, and the 0.001% of the time when something fails catastrophically, the pain of that one individual that it didn't work for makes society less painful for everyone else longer term. This person lost their real estate license, so that thousands of other people can drive someone else's car while they're on vacation without having to buy the car with cash outright. Net win? Probably.

To some extent, you can always reduce the risk of anything to as low as you want. It's just that at some point, the cost of that makes the entire endeavor not worthwhile financially. Risk aversion is a tax on innovation, so you don't want to become too risk averse. I think society has found a decent balance here.
Thanks for posting this,

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Death is here for a good reason.

There's the general fear of death that drives a significant portion of human morality. If we can't die, we don't fear risking doing things that would result in our own deaths, or the deaths of others. Suddenly we can inflict a lot more harm and give a lot less of a shit what people think, because what are they gonna do, put me in jail for 1,000 years? I'm just going to live for infinity after that...

Aging is a significant source of perspective. As people age, the way they think about their lives change, the way they approach risk changes. Those changes in both thought process and lifestyle are probably one of the biggest contributors to how human societies work. We have probably never had a human society without aging people, so we don't know what a society without their influence would look like.

If people continue to be born, we would eventually run out of space. At that point you reach a new form of political crisis: do you kill people to make space? Do you shuffle them off the planet in rudimentary space stations? Do wars over resource contention increase? Certainly different "seniority" would lead to new social classes.

Death is a necessary part of evolution. If we eliminate death, we have to alter living people's genomes to respond to biological threats, mix up the gene pool, adapt to new problems and somehow try to predict unexpected ones. All of that is currently science fiction; we have no idea if we would get it right, and could end up basically destroying the species from hubris and ignorance. Nature has a pretty good handle on it.

Cultures should change over time, and people need to change with those cultural changes, but it's basically impossible for individual humans to completely change their entire cultural makeup. Can you imagine if people today lived alongside people from 3,000 years ago? We would end up separated not just by nations, but by epochs. It would just further segregate people and cause tension. The world would be so much more complicated than it is today.

Death is part of a process of cultural natural selection. It creates and changes and influences more than it destroys. Entire peoples are wiped out and new ones emerge, languages die and are born, knowledge is lost and created, practices are abandoned and instantiated. Shakespeare was dramatically influenced by death; it's a major plot point in basically all of his writings. Imagine if death simply didn't exist in his world.
The paper isn't linked in the article (I think the parent was referring to the article). I think you're referring to the paper here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantcheva/files/alesina_s...

Looking at it myself now, it doesn't seem like the US is all that different from the other countries examined, e.g. US 12.7% Q1->Q4 vs. 12.9% for UK vs. 12.8% for France. For Q1->Q3 it's somewhat higher (18.7% vs. 19.9% for UK for example) but for Q1->Q2 the US is also higher than the others (e.g., 27.7% US vs. 25.1% UK).
Economic mobility is considered a type of social mobility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility
It's also not possible for everyone to succeed since it's a zero sum game. Therefore, you should be thanking the people who's life circumstances prevent them from learning to succeed and doubly you should thank your parents for raising you in a way that you were able to surpass them.
I don't think it's too difficult to pick apart your points (You're ranked 20th in the world for economic freedom, for example), but you're not wrong when you point out that the US cops way more flak than it deserves.

The US is at worst mediocre amongst the developed countries, but people can't shut up about how terrible it is.

Every country has their issues, yet no other developed democracy cops it like the US.
There’s plenty of chess tournaments with much shorter speeds. Some people only play rapid chess variants.

I don’t see why removing slower chess tournaments on top of that is necessary.
American exceptionalism (different in meaning to exceptional) as a concept and usage predates over a century. It was in fact a American communist construct:

The earliest documented use of the specific term "American exceptionalism" is by American communists in intra-communist disputes in the late 1920s.

…..

However, the specific term "American exceptionalism" seems to have originated with American communists in the late 1920s. The earliest documented usage cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is from the Daily Worker, 29 January 1929: "This American 'exceptionalism' applies to the whole tactical line of the C.I. as applied to America."[8] In turn, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (who was likely aware of this earlier use) condemned the "heresy of American exceptionalism" in a tense discussion with Jay Lovestone of the Communist Party USA, after Lovestone echoed the arguments of other American communists that the U.S. is independent of the Marxist laws of history "thanks to its natural resources, industrial capacity, and absence of rigid class distinctions."[8][10] The term later moved into general use by intellectuals.[10][11] "American exceptionalism" was rarely used after the 1930s until U.S. newspapers popularized it in the 1980s to describe America's cultural and political uniqueness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
After re-reviewing the thread, some of the reddit threads and another support forum, it doesn’t seem appropriate to do that. Interested in prevalence data to the contrary, of course.
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Thank you, I learned a lot from your comment.

It also occurred to me that since only about half of a parent's genes are passed on, a person can have had Neanderthal ancestry and for whatever reason the Neanderthal genes were not passed on.
That's a limitation. Temporal supersampling, both DLSS v2+ and others, work by sparsely sampling the scene and combining jittered offsets over multiple frames, but in fast moving stuff with big foreground/parallax elements there are large sections of the screen that have only been disoccluded for a single frame, so you only have lower resolution data to work with there, and it is heavily undersampled so needs blur to cover up what otherwise would show extreme aliasing.
This is valuable, but there's a giant caveat, in that if you were to do the study on the EU level, it would be much the same.

Sweden is 10 million people, arguably more egalitarian, but moving from <25% to >75% in Sweden is not nearly the same thing as going from the <25% of EU (say, most of the population of Romania) to >75% of EU.

Swedes at the 25% mark are probably in the 75% percentile for Romania already.

Obviously there is more to it, but it's a tricky comparison.
The spinning fans use energy to move air, a (slightly) viscous fluid, which eventually encounters turbulence and friction and turns its kinetic energy into heat. Similar to discs that use energy to overcome friction in bearings and generate noise, which is a kinetic energy in the form of vibrations that also eventually dissipates into heat.
Ask HN: Why last-minute cancellation Airbnbs not booked ("held ransom") by bots?
Airbnb offers amazing cancellation. I just booked a place for late June of 2022, with cancellation up to 48h before check-in. I've even seen places with cancellation up to 24h before check-in.

Why, then, do bots not go book these places systematically and attempt to re-sell them? Or just book to troll Airbnb (and maybe profit some other way—maybe if you are a host you can "book" all the places near you creating artificial demand).

Since this happens all the time (Xboxes, PS5, graphics cards for mining), why is this not more widespread with Airbnb?

Even with the 1/2 payment due at time of booking, the returns on such a nefarious scheme should easily justify the cost of capital.
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> But the relationship between population growth and technological growth seems fairly clear.

Not at all. Many of the most densly populated regions in the world are far from the most technologically developed. Many of the most innovative countries (e.g. Sweden) are also quite sparsely populated.

> Sure. And that would be a choice. I see no issue with this scenario.

I do. While not extinction in the traditional sense, the world were the last human was already born. I cannot imagine being part of it.
Two decades of work on CSS features, frameworks, best practices, preprocessors, etc, ....and the net value add can most generously be described as "below zero". Most content is perfectly fine as plain black text on a plain white background; the rare content that actually isn't is either a media file or requires proper graphics rendering tech like canvas or WebGL, and everything in between is just a turd-polishing trash tornado void
Trump Trump Trump. Come on.
And the low birth rates found in countries not in the west?
Really enjoyed Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Kind of regret reading it so fast but it was hard to put down
Political rhetoric aside, reading NYTimes or WSJ, I seldom come across any sort of American Exceptionalism especially amongst the tech/SV diaspora. It is quite the opposite - we make fun of American Exceptionalism.

On the otherhand, I hardly ever hear a negative story in the media with regards to EU here in US-media.
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This property is called Dennard scaling. It mostly does not apply to the latest few generations due to increasing static power (leakage current).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
Not all languages allow for an interface to have a default implementation though. Delphi for example does not.

This leads the programmer towards composition and delegation.

To aid with this, Delphi even has some sugar for delegation[1].

[1]: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Usin...
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Thank you. The article is using statistics to lie.
In California, people aren't volunteering enough, they have to resort to prisoners. As far as teachers at least, there are open positions, that require training of course, hence the need for a higher salary.
Eh, that is not the exactly the nature of the SPAC universe at all. I've seen newly formed startups become the target companies of SPACs, it has nothing to do with IPO and everything to do with collecting capital. Honestly the publicly traded aspect is a mere byproduct of a SPAC. The existence of employee-shareholders along for the ride is mere happenstance.