skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poor are not getting poorer and the middle class is becoming rich. In the US anyway. Fundamentally the problem is that people think that someone having more money than then is some kind of ethical issue. Not to mention something like 100% of these analyses are univariate and that makes no sense at all since it's perfectly rational that a 20 year old has much less wealth and income than a 60 year old with an advanced degree and 40 years of work experience.

We could just as easily be outraged that some people have more life expectancy than other people. Seems unfair that a person who is 60 and has 15-20 years of life left has to work 40 hours per week to maintain their lifestyle which is exactly the same amount of hours a 20 year-old who has 55-70 years remaining expects to work in a week.
I think it's also key to distinguish between wanting to "combat income equality" and "allow[ing] the non-wealthy to prosper." There's that old Thatcher parliament quote responding to concerns about rising inequality, where she characterizes the left as being pleased if the poor become poorer so long as the rich fall further.

I think taxes (if we plug various holes) can decrease income inequality, but the challenge is efficiently spending the proceeds in a way that lifts up everyone ... and not creating firehoses of public spending that primarily benefit the same small pool of companies.
> My guess is it’s a self driving car company, but who knows.

As always, https://xkcd.com/1897
How so? There seems to be some third party client/implementation. Is there anything wrong or lacking with it?

Asking as a Nextcloud (file only) user considering making a switch.
I argue both of those points, and that's why I specifically choose loaded words. I am spreading my own version of propaganda, because I want people to hold a certain set of political beliefs.

You could say "Fox News is a conglomerate of acting/direction/production teams managed by a central financial-focused corporate structure who release carefully curated entertainment segments in order to maximize views from certain demographics", and then describe its effects by saying "People who unironically consume and believe what is said by Fox News representatives typically end up believing verifiably false information".

That would be a very emotionless and more strictly accurate phrase to say than "Fox News is one of the propaganda arms of the broadcast media cartel", which is how I would say it.

Unfortunately, saying it your way allows people to believe they understand it and are protected from its effects. This is not true, in the same way that people are not protected from the propaganda-like effects of advertising just because they can see an ad and not immediately want to go buy the target product.

Fox News is not benign entertainment; do not underestimate its handlers so.
This is a really interesting breakdown of web3 (or as he calls it later on web2x2). I haven't dove into the world of web3 yet but it does seem incredibly ironic that there's already seemingly a large amount of consolidation around platforms to make web3 more accessible to people. This is good for early adopters and artists who are generating wealth during the gold rush but I don't think it's good for "web3 the idea" as a distributed protocol.
Are there alternatives to this service CF provides?
Princeton GDRP and CCPA Privacy Study Data Collection Issues
Had a blast reading through this and your CGZ work. Nice job!

Can you post the schematics? I'm really curious on how you changed things
(LCD bias, debounce circuit, etc.)

Also, can you post a pic of the back with components populated, outside of the case?

Thanks!!
This

> After a few days, without warning or explanation, the NFT I made was removed from OpenSea (an NFT marketplace)

Then

> What I found most interesting, though, is that after OpenSea removed my NFT, it also no longer appeared in any crypto wallet on my device. This is web3, though, how is that possible?

How indeed:

> You don’t own “web3.”

> The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It’s ultimately a centralized entity with a different label.

> Know what you’re getting into…

> https://twitter.com/jack/status/1473139010197508098
Oddly enough, the USA already publicly funds about 40-50% of all healthcare already via medicare, health insurance for federal employees (and military), the VA, etc... So they aren't going from 0 to 100%.

But I agree in general: healthcare reform should do something about costs, and healthcare is so much apart of our economy that any attempted cost reduction will be painful.
Python finally ended up following Perl's TMTOWTDI motto!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...
Data point: I just switched from FTE to unemployed (likely transitioning to retirement) and am leveraging COBRA to pay in full to retain my former employer's High Deductible Anthem PPO plan (plus dental plan and VSP) for a family of 4.

The COBRA monthly pricetag is $2093.

While employed (at this Fortune 300 company's San Jose, CA office), I was paying $425 per month out of pocket for the same set of plans.
In these cases you could use Boyd's OODA loop. It can be positioned as more able to deal with less certainty, epecially those that need to understand external context. I see echoes of it in Agile.
Reminds a bit of Magicka. Probably an inspiration for you?
I had a video game store when Hackers came out, and one of my regulars, a kid, came in and said he wanted to get a modem so he could start hacking just like in the movie.

I don't know that anyone walking out of Hamilton wants to be Hamilton.
> However my perception was shook a bit in my most recent trip back to the states over this past holidays. Cream cheese was unavailable as an ingredient for the Christmas meal due to supply chain issues. People complained about inflation and high gas prices. Flights were totally unreliable, and COVID tests were almost impossible to come by.

This is what worries you? That we're having some supply chain problems with cream cheese, largely as a result of a once-in-a-century pandemic?

The price of gas is far too cheap anyway given it's environmental cost, Americans should consider buying smaller freaking cars. While it is hard to find COVID tests, it's very easy to find vaccines (and has been for eight months), and between the two I'd say we prioritized the right thing. Flights are clearly a result of employees catching Omicron.

I'm much more worried about the insurrection, and voter suppression, and the large percentage of Americans who think Biden won illegitimately. Or, if you want to focus on material issues, I'm worried that we're the only advanced country without universal healthcare, income inequality has been skyrocketing for decades, and we can't seem to build major new infrastructure projects. (The recent infrastructure bill is encouraging, but e.g. Amtrak says it will mostly be used for maintenance on existing lines, WTF?!)

Oh, and I'm worried about climate change, but at least most of those problems are in the future. You know, after it's too late to do anything about it.
Is VC Racist?
Black rules. I love it that I don't need to have a discussion about style with anyone when Black is used on the project.
This is the second - non mainstream media - thing I've consumed this week that theorizes that it's not a pandemic of the unvaxinated, or even the unboosted. It there any chance this is going to be acknowledged by leadership?
How much would the stock drop if he were to leave Apple today?
Really great article, it's so nice to read a nuanced article on such a flame war topic.
I'll be interested to know if "SB9 eligible" becomes a popular detail to include in NMLS property descriptions. If so, I bet it's not long before SB9 eligibility gets priced into properties, causing even more price hikes (at least in the short term).

Would you pay 20% more up front for an SB9 eligible lot if you're guaranteed 20% overall profit from living in the residence for 3 years while doing a lot split and sale of the second property?
Seems the board of directors disagrees with you.
Is a software engineer really that valuable than a hourly retail wager? You know the answer to that question because of your craft. Similar skill and perspective gaps exists between c-suite and associate employees.
Why you think so? As a highly paid tech worker, if this were to pass (I doubt, insurance companies have too much political influence, but let's dream) it would make me stay in CA forever.
Just looking at ICU doesn't tell the whole picture. Not all covid patients - confirmed or awaiting a test - are place in ICU. ICU beds are a fraction of the total. ICU and vent patients are obviously more likely to die but all those other covid positive patients are still in our hospitals.
My hospital now has more positive patients, and patients overall than we ever have in the entire pandemic - or any other time for that matter.
We just don't have the staff to maintain these sorts of levels long term, regardless of the beds we have.
We aren't necessarily crumbling but it's definitely getting harder and harder.
Okay, not defending his pay here, but 1,400 median employee salaries is not that crazy. First, think about the valuation of Apple since Tim took over. Yes, it's not all attributed to him, but he has definitely made some very good decisions along the way, despite being set up with a money printer. Secondly, for every successful CEO package, there are hundreds of others that you don't hear about because they failed to meet goals laid out in their compensation package. Finally, these compensation packages are set up a few years before with targets that the company needs to meet.
Gas Gauge: A Security Tool for Smart Contract Out-of-Gas Vulnerabilities
Please don't degenerate into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It also seems like a bit of wishful thinking. When you ask most people, they want to live in a single family home. And that's what these guys are building. They're building to capitalize on the market, not to the overall benefit of society necessarily. But the latter makes great marketing so it gets woven into all the messaging, whether it's really maximizing social benefit as opposed to maximizing developer profit.
I really like what the Hololens2 portends for the metaverse. The experience is a "magic leap" forward.

We might even start looking up again
> after headline whiplash

The headline is no accident, The Tax Foundation is a center-right, fiscally conservative organization, generally critical of tax increases.
I don't think there's necessarily any contradiction. This is a critique of the Web3 paradigm (crypto all the things) and not cryptocurrency itself for say, payments.
Entangled microwave photons may give 500x boost to radar
Why is there an assumption I have a voice activated assistant in my pocket or on my wrist? And certainly, those options come with a "push to talk" feature.
I took the plunge and got Fork, a Git UI, a few weeks ago. It's actually starting to make sense now. Sort of.
That explains why real estate prices are falling and properties languish for sale for months if not years.
The first article on Web3 that I've read that drills into the details and was written by someone who's not only kicked the tires but taken the thing for a spin. And the conclusion: It's mostly the bad stuff of Web2 combined with the bad stuff of Crypto.
I would hope so. These patents are ridiculous. Not that I'm a fan of putting a surveillance device into my house.
Vaccines are brilliant but I don't like the idea that a company manipulates data and put people's lives at risk for profit. It's clearly criminal activity.
>using released technical documents to support their ideas

Yikes, not good!
> Still doesn't change the fact that it's all a house of cards based on waste

That ain't a fact; again, proof-of-stake exists and is used for no less than 3 of the top 10 cryptocurrencies.

> and still exhibits a ponzi scheme [...] with no value

Just because you refuse to see the value in something doesn't mean it's "a ponzi scheme with no value".

> Proof of Stake is still bad

Care to quantify how?

> I can't think of any other usecases out there other than scams, ransomware, money laundering and illicit trade on darknet markets.

Really? You're incapable of thinking how it might be used for licit trade? Or for decentralized finance applications? Or for arbitrary computing, in the case of e.g. Ethereum and Cardano? The technology has already been used for these things.

> What does crypto do better that the current system can't do?

Sending and receiving money electronically with minimum fees, maximum speed, and no limitations on how much or how little of your money you can send or receive. No, I ain't talking about Bitcoin; I'm talking about the countless other cryptocurrencies that have made transaction costs and speeds an actual priority - you know, almost as if blockchains are a new technology and not done evolving.

Hell, even if we do talk about Bitcoin in that context, its "slow" transaction settlement time is still considerably faster than those of credit card networks; I'm sure you've noticed that when a credit card transaction is "accepted" it still takes a day or more to actually move out of "pending" status and fully reflect on your card statement, whereas with Bitcoin the same level of assurance (if not more) happens within 10 minutes on average.

> It is possible for this to go to ALL cryptocurrencies.

It doesn't need to; not every single cryptocurrency needs to succeed at its goals for the concept of cryptocurrency to be useful or beneficial to society.
Hey all,

I'm one of the (two) developers on Adventurer's Codex! We're super excited about this release. We've had DM tools for years and these new tools are a major improvement. We've made them easier to use and more usable on mobile devices.

As for the party tools, we used to have most of the functionality we're re-announcing today, but we removed them about a year ago because they were pretty unreliable. Today, they're rock-solid and ready for prime time.

We've been building Adventurer's Codex for over 5 years now and it's been a wild ride. It was one of our first web projects as developers. We've made so many mistakes over the years, but building AC has always been a great learning experience and we've garnered quite a following.

I'm free to answer any questions (technical or not).
once tensorflow pointed to keras-team this happened

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/issues/15854

resulting in

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/15876
How is that a flamewar? Literally talking about the content of the article.
If executive pay packages are based on their value to the company, why do they keep increasing so much faster than wages? How have CEOs continuously become more and more valuable relative to workers over the previous 50 years?

"In 2020, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 351-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 307-to-1 in 2019 and a big increase from 21-to-1 in 1965 and 61-to-1 in 1989."[0]

[0]: https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
I’d add to the list: requests submitted under various “right to be forgotten” legislation. Particularly EU.
I liked the approach in one of Neal Stephenson's books [1], where instead of trying to remove negative stuff said about a person, they flooded the internet with the most vile stuff they could come up with, to the extent that people stopped taking it seriously and moved on.

Kind of like letting a fire consume all the oxygen out of a room instead of trying to put it out.

1: https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html
I’d rather a compile time error over an exception (or both), which in many cases can occur. I know mypy does this, maybe I should alias python=“mypy&&python”
Last year I went to Mayo Clinic. I have ACA insurance, but it is HMO-only (all ACA insurance in Indiana is HMO, not PPO), and Mayo is not in network. I actually considered getting married just so I could get PPO insurance (life change event) and be covered at Mayo.

Since the insurance companies now have to cover pre-existing conditions, and don't want to do that, they came up with another plan: don't answer the phones except during open enrollment. I tried calling several insurance companies (major carriers) just to get quotes for health insurance, and none returned my call. Some had phone trees that went in a circle so you could not get to a person. I did get one broker to talk to me, and he said pre-existing conditions weren't covered for 24 months. First, that's a lie, and 2nd, it's illegal (ACA outlawed this practice).

By only accepting applications during open enrollment, the insurance companies have effectively done an end-run around the law against pre-existing conditions.

Note: this is for an individual to get insurance. I'm sure companies can get insurance for their employees any time they want it.

Follow-up: it turns out that if I did have PPO insurance and was covered at Mayo, then with the same bill from Mayo it would have cost me $8000 more with coverage than it did without insurance, paying cash. That's truly f'd up!
Concise, well thought out analysis by a cryptographer on Web3. If you believe in Web3, then you shouldn't dismiss this out of hand as a hater. He truly tried to understand how it works by actually building dApps. And the holes seem glaringly obvious.

What you should do if you believe in Web3, is take this as constructive criticism and improve so that they holes are no longer there.
Researchers design antibodies that destroy old cells, slowing down aging
By that logic, the members of the Fed should be on every tech company's payroll.
How do you know that scanning an array looking for a number in a sorted array vs. searching for it is slower? Just kind of intuitively? Do you have your own terms for it? I too sometimes get dinged because I use the non academic terms for things...
(to clarify a little further in the context of that small FOSS project: at the moment the paperwork overhead alone related to accepting funds would likely not be worth it, on balance, from a quality of life / bureaucracy perspective; so not only would I not request funding in that setting at the moment, I'd have to decide not to accept it, regardless of absence of any strings/suggestions for project direction attached => so perhaps donating the funds to an established, capable charity that is proving valuable to the wellbeing of others could be a good idea)
You started from the article and headed straight for a highly repetitive flamewar trope. That's just what we're trying to avoid.

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of this site more to heart? You unfortunately have a history of violating it, and we're trying for at least a slightly better quality of discussion here.
Citigroup will terminate unvaccinated workers by Jan. 31
I don't understand this sentiment.

If your net take-home pay goes up (or even stays the same), why would you care if the line item called "CA tax" goes up while the line item called "health insurance payment" goes to zero?
http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy

sorting forks by stars would be a great feature to have built-in
Try https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-ident... - they solve this kind of thing all the time.
Try it with google assistant.

"Hey google - My voice is my passport"

>> "Hello, Martin Bishop..."
If you read why indeed, it is because metamask calls the OpenSea API.

All one has to do is call a different API for the same information. It's not like it was actually gone
If you put Tim Cook on the assembly line or on the cash register at an Apple store, do you think he would even keep up?

If you took someone off the assembly line and make them CEO, would Apple's output crater to 1/1400th of what they produce today?
> Nah a lot of Delta cases where reinfections,

That is an amazing fact if true and you should alert the CDC immediately with your evidence.
It would probably drop 10% or so (out of investor uncertainty) and in 1 to 2 months be back to where it was, regardless of successor.
I have come to believe in reincarnation just through argument by existence and limits; namely clearly we exist in this incarnation after however long, finite time that took, and therefore after death given enough time this will happen again and it doesn't matter how long that is since we're not conscious through it anyway. The bummer is that the state is not preserved.
Yeah the current spike is well over 100 more cases per day for my hospitals than either of the previous spikes. It's pretty nuts. That's a ton of additional inpatients.
Ahh, yes, those famous "titushkis" allegly paid by Russians, but for some reason also killing journalists critising the new government and also attacking anyone who doesn't understand or can't answer in Ukrainian.
This is a really well-thought-out, nuanced take. I really appreciate mixture of "but there are still servers", not being able to stop a gold rush, and (refreshingly) the technical take on the implementation details.

It stands in such stark contrast to other content. For example, a web3 chat app announcement I saw yesterday [1]. I even joined the Discord to learn more and just found...hype.

I found this parenthetical to be amusing:

> (visualizing this financial structure would resemble something similar to a pyramid shape)

Pyramid-shaped financial setups indeed :).

[1] https://twitter.com/MessagePartyApp/status/14791510011813765...
Pedestrian crossings here. I'd also not heard the term "crosswalk" until reCaptcha. Yet another bullshit Americanisation infecting the worlds culture.
What is AAR?
It's asinine to think you have a right to see every document the government has including PII and trade secrets, even worse to base an anti-vaxx effort on such ideas.
Heh, I used to have so many opinions on how to run software companies. Ideal team sizes, methodologies, remote vs office.

Now I'm seasoned with enough experience to know that no matter what the "best practice", some companies out there will screw it up.

Whatever past successes I experienced in teams I was a part of, I was wrongly attributing to these various rules of thumb (such as team size).
a crumpy commercial!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU

;)
If you’re gonna call him Mr., then you call him Mr. Tibbs.
A Stronger Dollar Could Be Bad for the Stock Market
This article seems like it neatly encapsulates and explains why I've subconsciously held off from jumping into the Web3 space.

It might be confirmation bias speaking, but I don't think I've seen anyone lampoon Web3 so thoroughly, and it's nice to have some well-reasoned explanations for why I feel the way I do.

EDIT: A further thought: this article is the first I've read on Web3 that feels like it's actually important and I'm looking forward to the discussion. Are there any real counterpoints to be made against his reasoning?
Agreed. Very unfortunately, this is why these solutions can't work at the state level. It needs to be country-wide for it to work.

Same with e.g. homelessness solutions.
I suppose if I put the rule out there, it's bound to be broken hah.

I have no plans to sell or open-source these two projects. They were passion projects of mine and while I understand everyone and their mothers who've come across them would like to try building them, I made this for myself. The Reddit posts and Github repos are just for me to share my achievements and enjoy the 15 minutes of fame I get among the retro modding community, and hopefully they inspire someone else to make something of their own.

I've already had a few run-ins recently with people who can't respect these wishes and feel entitled to get a slice of the pie.