skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds about right.
Anyone who has lived in coastal cities and been exposed to the trust fund class would understand. :-)
America, and especially expensive coastal cities have entire industries available to consume the wealth of failsons quite quickly.

I lived next to the youngest kid of a guy who had made his bucks in early Silicon Valley days & died worth $10Ms~100Ms.

Unsurprisingly, the father had come from 2 generations of fairly successful local industrialists, so had both the freedom to pursue many years of education and the capital to invest in his ideas. He married 3-4 times, so first there was distributions to each of the wives. Then there were ~10 kids/stepkids, ~5 grandkids. He was well known enough to have a Wikipedia entry & NYTimes obituary.

Anyway, the kid didn't graduate from college, bought a few million of NYC real estate in cash, some of which he paid to renovate and try to flip, all of which he eventually sold for less than his purchase price (plus transaction cost and renovation losses).. in a bull market. Finally last I checked he was "investing" in film productions. For a while before he sold his place next to me, he had a "personal assistant" and various C-list artists squatting in his apartment while he lived elsewhere.

Mostly his social media posts were filled with him flying on private jets, partying in famous exclusive resorts/hotels, and hanging out with familiar sounding failsons of 90s-00s actors.
That makes the UK seem pretty corrupt. Do you have any sources for this?

You would need to get a record of who was wealthy 300 years ago, track down their descendents, and see who among those descendants is "wealthy" by some measure today.

You might also need to take into account things like inheritance and birthrights. I imagine first born sons of first born sons might preserve more of the wealth.

Also, what proportion of the rich today are "new rich", and how newly rich are they?
A lot of your response assumes I was talking about local manufacturing - but I was specifically talking about poverty and its relation to the globalised economy. Local manufacturing solves some things, not all things. But poverty is a result of innumerable things, of which manufacturing is only a small portion.

There is an inherent arbitrage performed by developed economies through outsourcing, and Axie Infinity demonstrates that wonderfully. Obviously the story would never be “GameFi solves poverty in the USA” because it pays well below minimum wage in developed economies.

Aside: There is no basis in humanity that foreign currencies are significantly lower in value than western currencies. It’s purely a result of historical economical forces resulting from colonisation.
In Italy at least, this just isn't true

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

The rich stay rich over hundreds of years, for the most part. I would guess that squandered fortunes are the exception: money makes more money for itself, and while new money might be even more spectacular than old, the Carnegies aren't middle class a century later because the Walton family is richer than they could have dreamed
I get the same numbers, but the length is more than enough for me. With only 10%, I'd still find the time to get bored and kill time!

More interesting is the quality of life, not how long you have =)
Yes: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bussard_collector
Right now in certain seasons there's huge amounts of curtailed renewable power. For example in 2020 California threw away 1.5TWh of solar power that was in excess of what the grid needed.

As renewables go to higher and higher percentages of generation, this amount of curtailment will increase dramatically. Battery farms won't solve this entirely, because regardless of the mix of batteries, we are going to be building a system that serves a seasonal minimum of energy production.

During the seasonal maximum of energy production, probably in California alone, we will have dozens of TWh per year that can not be consumed on the grid, and may not even be able to be transmitted on the grid.

There's even a good amount of slack in most current solar farm designs. Due to the cost balance between inverters and panels, it's quite common to have more DC power from panels than the inverters can convert to AC for the grid. As batteries get cheaper, batteries are taking some of that DC power right now. But there's still the seasonal effects of generation.
I feel the same way about HN. I feel like I’ve learned a lot about technology, software, entrepreneurship from this site. But it would far more valuable to have spent the majority of those hours reading books, learning new skills, networking, or even just being more focused at work. It’s tough to find balance.
Ammonia is in fact used directly as fertilizer.

> Ammonia (NH₃) is the foundation for the nitrogen (N) fertilizer industry. It can be directly applied to soil as a plant nutrient or converted into a variety of common N fertilizers

> Ammonia has the highest N content of any commercial fertilizer, making it a popular source of N despite the potential hazard it poses and the safety practices required to use it. For example, when NH₃ fertilizer is applied directly to soil, it’s in a pressurized liquid that will immediately become vapor if exposed to air after leaving the tank. To prevent such releases into the atmosphere, growers use various tractor-drawn knives and shanks to place it at least 10 to 20 cm (4 to 8 inches) below the soil surface. Ammonia will then rapidly react with soil water to form ammonium (NH₄⁺), which is retained on the soil cation exchange sites.

https://www.cropnutrition.com/resource-library/ammonia
There has always been a tiny skip button as well.
Mainz police investigated illegally with data from the Luca app
I guarantee you that almost nobody with a net worth of $11MM lives on the income produced from 10% of it and lets the rest sit as if it doesn't exist. They can--and do--live on much more than that (at least $300k/year, for ultraconservative draw on the capital) and still watch it grow substantially.
> Money will never have to leave the platform

I wonder if they even need the blockchain.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

― Anais Nin
>The 70% is said to be an estimate.

The commenter one up is correct, the number is complete BS which is why no one is ever able to explain how it was estimated or where it came from.
I don’t see tor on iOS. What am I missing?
I love how we’re making a class war out of MMS and a variant of MMS that doesn’t require mobile networks to operate.

Just send your fucking messages on your mobile devices and be done with it.
It's winter now, so social life is quieter. shrug
Hm, I think it should at least ask for gender since it's quite an important variable with regard to average lifespan.
What Is the Story of C++ Programming History?
This conflates life expectancy at birth with your current life expectancy. Those are wildly different.

They were even more different in the past when life expectancy at birth was below 30, and most healthy adults lived past 70.

But they're still very different.
On the flip side, remaining lifetime is now much less relevant issue to you.
Yes. Another interesting dynamic is the interplay between national elites, usually focused in NY, DC, other urban cores, and local elites - the owners of the local bank, etc. etc.

Not all or even most, necessarily, but a lot of the political divide in this country can be attributed to tensions between these two elite groups.
(Self reply)

I’ve sort of changed my mind about this, from the discussion here. It’s not wrong. But I still would not write it this way myself.
The writing is hard to follow but I think the point is you can find a lot of old-style websites by searching for “Prof. Dr.”

Or at least you could in 2010
That's actually one of the songs that's mentioned, as well as Oops I Did It Again by Britney and Hit Me Baby One More Time

Even more recently, Shake it Off by Taylor Swift.

Somewhat along the same lines, I was watching the Get Back documentary on the Beatles and the number of songs they write by effectively scatting and then filling in the words that were their big hits is amazing.

Again they're writing to fit the tune, then in filling the words based on a general theme. It's very different than the songs they write where you can tell someone's sat down and written the words first.
UK military chief warns of Russian threat to vital undersea cables
I used to be anti nuclear, then I was pro, but by now I‘m back to anti. Main reason being that it‘s too slow to move the needle by now. Any new nuclear project by now - even if we’d change public sentiment and regulations today - is so time, planning and capital intensive that by the decade it goes online, it‘ll be outcompeted by overprovisioned solar roofs + battery storage even in the worst locations except maybe the arctic circle.

Without proliferation risks and however you get rid of the radiated mess.
> widespread anarchy and destruction coincident with the BLM protests.

How many cities saw protests and what percent saw violence. And I see now that Now it’s become “coincident” so not necessarily anything to do with the actual BLM movement.

After all this still no support for the broad generalization and this is such a broad claim it requires extensive support. And because you’re not calling all cops bad, it’s rather apparent that the standards of support and focus are very divergent.

Note, Fox News or Breitbart is not a credible source on this matter due to long demonstrated bias and mischaracterization about race. Although not even those were provided.

On the other hand my claim was narrow, that something existed to consider, not the extent of it.

Anyway, FIY between 93% and 96% of George Floyd murder protests saw no property damage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/16/this-summ...

What percent of the 4 to 7 % where it did occur was due opportunistic looters, white nationalists causing trouble etc is not known, but I can’t stop anyone from intentionally ignoring those aspects.
Cherries and Grapes – Counterintuitive Math
I bought the original.

It's a good read but yea the guy wrote in depth into false claims , and only changed what he wrote based on pushback in a new book.

I chalk it up to more than just errors.

His new book "new science..."
This "science" was available at time of his original publishing of first version
Forty percent by what? Mass, volume, or dollar value? Most likely (gosh, the article is so long form, I can't find out) it's dollar value, other types of comparison are nonsensical.

But then this is dependent on the oil price. Right now it's about $80/barrel, but the median price for the last 5 years was about $50/barrel. For liquefied natural gas (LNG) the current price is about $10/thousand cubic feet, but the median over the last 5 years was about $5.
> Ultra-reliable nuclear power, like in France where a couple of reactors had to be shut down due to safety issues detected?

Two reactors out of 56 needed an inspection once in a while? Do you think a gas plant never stops for repairs?

Why do you resort to anecdata when we have statistics on reliability going back decades?
This is 2022. Authenticator apps, sms, magic links. Why I need to call them, or even ask for an appointment.

It's inconvenient, but life is inconvenient. Such is the way of the world.

While it's true that this sort of thing shouldn't happen, your comments here seem to indicate that your big blocking point is that you don't want to talk to a human being. You want 2FA or magic links or some tech-focused hands-off method of resolving your problem.

Real life isn't like that. Sometimes you actually HAVE to go down to the DMV, or the post office, or the county clerk, or the returns counter at the store. The world is not the ideal tech utopia that the SV bubble has sold us. It's still run by wetware. Sometimes you have to just go through the motions instead of having a hissy fit on social media.
> Maybe try and see if javascript is enabled.

I have a lot of questions. Number 1: how dare you?

/s
As an American, I think it unwise to label an entire country and people on the basis of how theocratic their government is, their military ambitions, or the personal views of former presidents. Please.
So many people are saving up their happiness for a day when they feel like they can finally be allowed to truly be happy. Sometimes, the day never comes, and the happiness has expired.
I read somewhere on Win 11 you have to Alt+F4 out to get local account
I can't put my finger on it but I always find this modern(Americanized?) peddling of stoicism too pretentious and vapid as to be not only useless but actively off-putting to me. The fact that life is short is already central to most adults and I don't see what purpose any of these reminders serve except to seem high-minded (and annoying). The faux precision of this "clock" also bothers me but that's a different story.
Good, great! Now do copyright!
Was that comment directed at you?
I've installed (on a secondary phone) WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Discord, Instagram, Telegram just to be reachable for every friend. Germany is really scattered in regards of messengers.

10 years ago you could at least only have one client (trillian for me) for your different messenger services and google and facebook used xmpp so you didn't even need a facebook account to talk to your friends but alas here we are I guess.

It's a novel and technical not great idea but I always liked https://delta.chat/en/ in their approach to use a decentralized but common service like email for chat but there are just too many difficulties for a normal person to set it up.
Sure, its useful, but that's temporary. There is no actual fundamental difference between sending crypto and sending fiat to Lebanon, Turkey or Venezuela, it's just a temporary workaround.
To answer the question

- unbiased Salary data, making union negotiations and expectations of new grads grounded in reality, unlike the reporting bias of levels, Glassdoor etc. This is why management hates people sharing salary info
- making it easier for new founders to budget their talent costs
- directly answering something you said, Making it easier to push back against recruiters (market average is this, I'm at least average, fuck you pay me)
- easier time spotting tax evasion (which some might see as a downside)
- exposing inequality in society in undeniable fashion, giving teeth to any arguements about them. Similarly for arguements about which data shouldn't be collected, which incentives are working or not...

The bandits/corruption thing I can't argue with, but that's a deeper and different problem than public taxes in Norway or Germany. Same for gold diggers and money bags
Had a look around, this looks really polished. I would have one remark - please consider making tables a first-class feature.

In my experience with Confluence, the easiest and most comprehensive way to organize information is with tables. Having a quick way to merge, delete, color cells would be great. Right now, coloring and merging are hidden away in some menus, and deleting cells will shift the bottom toolbar with the table upwards, so you can't do it quickly.
I don't know how the situation is now but when I looked into it a few years ago the rapidly increasing hash rate of the mining hardware meant that running them only half the time didn't meant that it just takes twice the time to recoup your investment but that you might not make back at all.
One of my favourite simple plots: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...
Well sure, but equally 99% of hanging out with the opposite sex doesn't result in new humans being created.
We have that here in the UK, the thing that’s different with this plan it to take the cars back to a factory (potentially alongside new cars being built) to be worked on.

It is much more like how Apple, for example, sell refurbished devices that have been put back down a production line for remanufacturing.

I think the intention is for the remanufactured cars to be almost indistinguishable from a brand new car (as an Apple refurbished device is).
“Retard” is often used as a pejorative. I’ve never heard “retardation” used as a pejorative, when people use that word they seem to be using it correctly in a non offensive context.
I can easily imagine huge floating batteries being very valuable in one place or another.

But we will probably move in the direction of more local production. When the energy is already there, transporting it there, as cheap as it may be is pure cost, for no gain.
> land use requirements

Supplying the US with enough solar power for 100% of requirements would require 16,000 square miles, plus one more for batteries.

That's a lot, but in a country with 3.6 million of them, not a big deal. That's about how much we use for cemetaries. We use a lot more for parking lots.

Land use is a problem for some countries, Singapore can't go 100% solar. But most countries are fine.
> What was the hardest technical

That's a tricky one to answer! The authentication systems most likely, just because of the different standards and configuration that different people demand. I've had to learn LDAP, SAML2 and OIDC protocols to a level that allows me to confidently add & maintain these systems.

> non technical

Probably issue handling & management, from a mental point of view. Dealing with such a range of ideas and requests with an ever-growing list of features/issues/support-request has been tricky. I've had to learn to change my perspective and goals when dealing with GitHub issues.

In general the social side has been a massive point of learning and challenge to me. I've recently written about many of these more extensively here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/qrksgh/bookstac...
If the country has a wealth tax it will also show how much you have, regarding your edit.
Space seems like a long way to go versus just mining within the existing gravity well. What elements (other than hydrogen) do we lack?
This is one of the things I love the most about Software Engineering: It is really possible to learn everything relevant, and more importantly apply that knowledge and experiment with it by self-study. This is pretty unique in STEM fields other than Math...and the difference there is, that it's much much much easier to get a job as a SE sans degree than as a mathematician.

Sure, one could read tons of books about Biochemistry...but applying that knowledge? No chance, you need a lab. One can self-study mechanical engineering, but good luck building a workshop. Its not impossible, but the cost is just too prohibitive.

What do I need to start learning how to write software? An old laptop for a couple hundred bucks and internet access. That's it.
I love this! It fits perfectly with the stoic approach to life. Memento Mori..
I'm about to turn 40, and I feel like perceptually life gets faster and faster, which seems to be a common experience.

So in that sense you may not do all the living you've done all over again and then some.

For example, I'd say my 30s felt half as a long as my 20s, which themselves seemed to pass much faster than than 10-20, which felt very long indeed. And childhood, 0-10, seemed like an eternity!

This is true even at a micro level. E.g. a 3 hour car ride now does not feel like a big deal to me, but it seemed almost unbearably long to me as a child.

Another way in which you won't do as much living as you've already done is that in your early years you went through profound development -- both physically and mentally. That doesn't happen again; we mature, we refine, and (sadly, hopefully not too much), we decline, but it's nothing near as profound as we get to experience early in life.
AFAICR, they've removed the skip button in newer versions of the installer. You have to avoid being connected to the internet to create a local account now.
Excellent idea. If they tied it to a fitness calculator it would show your life extending when you exercise and shrinking when you don't. Spend more time on the couch and watch your life get shorter. Go for a long walk and watch it grow longer. Seems like a pretty good motivator. Don't show me how many steps I've taken. Just show me how much life I have left. I would buy one!
I can't even tell if this is satire or not.
I’d say lower your expectations even further to reach true happiness: always expect to die tomorrow and adjust your lifestyle and the way you treat your loved ones accordingly.

Or in Montaigne’s words: to philosophize is to learn to die http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rvr5407/3140readings/That%20to%2...
Neither do I, as an example i thought the start and finish was fixed, but apparently the Paris-Dakar rally does not have to visit either city.

A landmine sounds plausible, but i guess the knee jerk reaction is to assume terrorism.

Even though it has been rebranded as the Dakar Rally, the current 10-year deal with Saudi Arabia all but guarantees that Dakar won't be a destination anytime soon.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1488041/saudi-arabia

"The Saudi Arabia Rally" would be the proper name for this sad version of the original.
Can be done, from at one time 3 billion to not that much: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Schickedanz
Rails 7 has finally added this to active record: sole and find_sole_by

Both raise an exception unless a single record is found.

Of course this would not make a difference when working with mongoid... I also like the fail fast approach.

https://blog.saeloun.com/2021/03/16/rails-adds-sole-and-find...
I was commenting on the fact that people stuck with the idea that "AVX512 is bad because it downclocks". As for turning off the E-cores, yes, it's a tradeoff that you have to consider if it's worth or not for your use case, and probably for most use cases it won't make sense.

Even then, you're not turning off half the cores:

* Area wise, 4 E-cores use as much die space as 1 P-core.

* Thread wise, turning off the E-cores brings you from 24 threads down to 16 threads.

* I didn't see the PS3 emulator benchmark, but you are telling me that they got a speedup.

* There are some anecdotal accounts ("hardware influencers", YouTube channels, etc) about P-cores being the main driver for gaming performance, hence why these sources mainly recommend the 12400 processor with no E-cores as a price/performance sweet spot.

* Of course, not everything is gaming, and depending on what you do with your computer(s), what will work better.

All in all, I'm more interested in the Celeron/Pentiums which will be Gracemont only (E-cores) and what kind of performance, battery life they get from them. I have an old (2018) sub-notebook that houses an N4000 Celeron (that'd be Goldmont+), and it was surprisingly good for answering emails, web browsing and watching online video. Abysmall performance if you tried to do anything that required math with it (10x to 100x slower than an i5 from the same time) but apparently they've ironed out all those things and those little cores can get in the same ballpark performance, at a much lower power envelope.
>but that whenever there's an opportunity to innovate, those innovations will first appear for centralized services.

This isn't really true, though. Even in the example he gave, NFT royalties, they appeared first in individual NFT contracts before they were on OpenSea.