skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a single example in history where income redistribution worked while it was also easy for foreigners to enter the country and growth persisted for everyone while maintaining said ratios of acceptable inequality?

- If you don't allow foreigners, I'll argue that you haven't solved anything. You've simple picked the winners.

- If the ratio of inequality is disrupted, I'd also argue you haven't done anything other than move the problem (and the losers) to the future.

- If you decide not to redistribute, well that's the current situation for better or worse.

Personally I think a better problem to solve is for humanity in general to decide what the minimum level of prosperity should be, worldwide and slowly try to raise this bar. AFAIK this is basically what we're doing. We could raise the bar faster, though.
I do use crossref for bibtex. It is not useful for getting a download link (as far as I know).
Thanks for illustrating how the censorship reaches its goals. "Reputable" sites won't publish anything that the government disapproves because they have "gentleman's agreement" and you're not going to read sources they say are "right wing rags", because they are full of "conspiracy theories", as "reputable sources" tell you. So nobody needs 100% censorship - you'll censor yourself the rest of the way. Just trust the experts and be happy.
> Every USB charger does support 5v 1A

I thought every USB port supported basic USB charging, but aren't there chargers with permanently attached cables that only support higher voltages? I believe the Nintendo Switch charger is like this?
Piketty always has insightful commentary on the topic and I'll definitely be checking out this book. I think we'll come to recognize that R > G is an important influencer for social stability and long term prosperity.

That said, I do wonder if we're looking at inequality (or more specifically hierarchy) through the wrong lens. It seems like almost all independent societies naturally develop some sort of hierarchy (chief, priest, leader) without any outside influence. To me that points to some underlying natural law or at least a biologically-influenced tendency that higher level social constructs will be ineffective at changing.
That is not the original paint though. It is a reconstruction based on trace amounts of pigment particles found on the marble.
What about the people who can’t afford cars due to the expensive catalytic converters? Are those bad too?
It still doesn't wash. Vacuum tube computers were used in WWII to compute artillery tables. That presumably changed (or ended) lives.

I don't think it's a reasonable comparison at all.
This is my experience of Kiwifarms. If you do not have a thick skin, you should not be reading there. Moreover, most of the internet is probably not suitable for people who do not want to experience offense.

And if I am brutally honest, from the threads I have seen, the people they make posts about are not people I would want to associate myself with or anywhere near young members of my family.

I have seen many more threats against Kiwifarms that I have seen originate from within it. The forum seems to be a melting pot for grossly offensive people to make grossly offensive comments. And considering 4chan is still around (even if it only used to have a problem with CSAM) I'm at a loss at why Kiwifarms is being "deplatformed".

I can only assume it's like the "jailbait" subreddit - something reprehensible but action is only taken when it gets media attention.
That CF would have made a judgment that a larger percentage of their customers would feel uncomfortable using a service that also appears to support sites like KF is hardly surprising though. And as a corporation they're well within their rights to decide on that basis to cut off relationships with clients that they see as bad for business.
Agreed, and I’d go so far to say you don’t want all the torque on anything but a clean racetrack. Rain, oil, gravel, animal carcasses… there’s plenty of road conditions where a lead foot plus extreme torque will carry you violently off the road.
I consider (paper) forms to be documents as well. In my opinion, it's a minor evolution of what is considered a "document" to go from a paper form to a dynamic, interactive form. A media application or video game in a browser is quite different. That doesn't mean it's not now a valid use of browsers, it's just not what the intended use of the web originally was.

Further, to quote Tim Berners-Lee directly on his intention when he created the first version of the WWW (emphasis mine):

"Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system."
— Tim Berners-Lee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee#Career_and_res...

edit: cleaned up formatting and attributed emphasis.
Doubt it. Steam offers this service to game developers for free[1], and some older games have switched over to them successfully after their old servers shut down (Company of Heroes is one example I can think of off the top of my head).

[1]- (paid for probably by the usual cut they take from selling games through their service)
The psychological and political incentives for people to manipulate an unverifiable public database are obvious. Antivaxxers are a well known group of troublemakers.
I had a major epiphany deriving this myself as a teenager, because it was the first time I used algebra to calculate something "real". The equation was trivial, but the principle of mathematical modelling struck me like lightning. In an instant the world felt more comprehensible and tractable, I suddenly felt like Neo seeing the Matrix.
That's quite similar to claiming that quantum computers won't change anything for RSA cryptography, because we never had any proof that integer factorization can't be done in polynomial time on a classical computer.

It's true, in some sense.
Really interesting and disturbing read
You mean worst indicator
The entertainment industry is now about finding your most devout + hardcore fans and extracting what you can from their pocket with bonus editions/features/DLC/power ups.
4G was heavily hyped for IoT as well, and even has specific standards: LTE-M and NB-IoT.

IMO the ongoing push to make IoT happen is less about the technology and more about trying to get the next 10B devices online and paying network access fees, software license fees, etc. As you mention, a lot of the proposed use cases are very low data (maybe a few MB/day on the higher end).
I know, they could have chosen the Dart or stuck with the Challenger. Or, wild idea, go for the Coronet, Plymouth Cuda, Roadrunner or GTX. I guess they're going to go with the joke, anyway.
> backers of the convention idea now hope to harness the power of Republican-controlled state legislatures to petition Congress and force a convention they see as a way to strip away power from Washington and impose new fiscal restraints, at a minimum

I might take this seriously if federal-level Republicans ever made a principled stand for fiscal restraint. Instead, they wholeheartedly endorse the Keynesian low interest rate treadmill and gluttonous corporate welfare, while making a show of opposing any spending that would compensate for the havoc it then wreaks on the middle class. Kicking off the downfall, the gold standard was ended under Nixon, a Republican. And in the present day, our economy is currently being ravaged by the $6B Trumpflation, that Republicans are desperately trying to pin on the current administration who merely showed up after the fuse was lit.

Modern Monetary Theory and the Austrian School are the two ends of the spectrum of honest approaches. The Republican money-printing corporate-giveaway "trickle-down" hypocrisy has destroyed the decentralized economy, and pinned our younger generations under a crushing asset bubble that leaves them little route to starting families of their own. Politically, the lack of a coherent fiscally restrained political option is exactly what is causing younger people to abandon belief in "late stage capitalism" all together, and embrace even more centralized approaches. The first step to creating a workable political alternative is to call out Republican fiscal hypocrisy for what it is.
(This isn’t a post about near-field, Watches, MagSafe, or USB; perhaps this comment was meant for another post?)
And profits at Gazprom hit record highs as Britain continues to buy Russian gas via China.[0]

That'll learn em.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/kremlin-10-billion-state-own...
If you attack who said it instead of what is being said, it means you don't have an argument on substance, only ad hominem.
There are literally zero laws against setting up a competitor to Amazon or Walmart
AFAIK there are no active projects that implement ActionScript 3.0 so most of the interesting Flash content is dead on the web.
They are used by legit businesses and they do a lot in containing spam, so yeah he was wrong.
Georgism just makes more and more sense the more you think about it. The idea that people should be allowed to profit off unimproved land is so clearly immoral, and that’s not to say anything for the efficiency Georgism brings and the amount it would help lower rental costs.
Game Emulation via Neural Network
Hi there! I'm Alfon, the human being behind this service.

getfullanalytics.com is in a pre-beta state, and we plan to release the beta for everybody in the next few days. I just wanted to share it with you all here on HN ;-)
Yes..... and the only way a $444M quarterly revenue company "aren't profitable at all" is if their costs are >$444M / quarter. That's what my comment was getting at. Does GP really think a business like CK costs that much to run?
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The only reason this is a debate is that copyright has changed. It used to be a fairly well defined temporary monopoly that existed to encourage people to create things that would end up in the public domain so that everyone could reuse those things.

The USA has taken on aspects of European ideas about ownership of ideas, and we've let economic rent seekers take that ownership. This framework has inherent problems in that near simultaneous independent invention is well documented. How do we apportion sole ownership in that case?

Letting copyright creep into ownership of something very indeterminate, like "style", is especially problematic given how human culture evolves, by building on pre-existing works.
This happened at Oracle once, it shut down a large number of engineering’s mailboxes for a day since they got full with “please remove me from this thread” reply-alls.
A human walking has a much shorter stopping distance than any vehicle out there.
RePowerEU plan is precisely for addressing this situation.
1. Rule of law / a set of laws that are enforced equally upon all citizens regardless of wealth or social status.

2. Elimination of usury applied to the money supply of the country in question. That is, issuing money without having a central bank charge interest on the issuance.

I am sure there are more.
Is there a free and effective vaccine against obesity that obese people are refusing to take? Are obese people acutely filling up hospitals causing issues for people in road accidents and with heart attacks getting delayed care?
Maybe start with the people protesting the loudest that they have DDoS mitigation?
That's what I remember too - but what's the difference between an app and a game? Usually your score would be sent back to the server too.
Here's a more optimistic take especially with regard to solar.

> There’s really no end in sight yet for improvements in solar and batteries. Cost drops are continuing simply from scaling up, and new materials and technologies are on the horizon that could generate continued price declines per unit of energy.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/answering-the-techno-pessi...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437
Well, you can yell "nullification" in a crowded courtroom, everybody knows that.
So basically life threatening severe problems, nice.
It's not just the compile times that sting you in Unreal, but it's opening your project as well. With fast storage and a small startup level it's not terrible, but the close editor -> compile small change -> reboot project sequence still takes about 15 seconds for me. It's a bit off-putting, particularly after using Unity where you can recompile with the editor open. Hopefully Verse fixes some of those issues.
Just no. It is easier to write a Lisp program that manipulates or processes a Lisp program than it is for example to write a Rust program that manipulates a Rust program, but that has not bearing on Emacs because Emacs never does that.

Source: have been programming in Emacs Lisp for 30 years.
The actual reason for having gears even with EVs in european vehicles, is mostly the "one plattform" approach which carmakers here afraid to go all in on EVs. Hybrids, traditional combustion and EVs are expected to share as many parts as possible - which of course as all engineering compromises go means you become 2nd best in all areas.
And who gets to decide what inequality is and why?
The average US house is multiple times the area of UK house, so that makes a big difference. https://homescopes.com/average-home-size/ Add car sizes, public transport, less manufacturing.

Finland seems high in those numbers though, maybe because its all cold?
We're not deploying new renewables "pretty much as fast as we can". We're not even close to doing that. In actuality, we have ludicrously-rich power centers which are actively subsidizing fossil fuels and warring against renewables. Imagine if all that effort were redirected.
Personally, I find the most realistic use case for self hosted email is service email.

The user is actively seeking the email, spam filters won't matter, and its easier to get out of spam once other email providers recognize its a legit service.

I host email on a Hetzner dedicated server, and it arrives in inbox on gmail, not Outlook though.

But that didn't affect anyone really, its OK.

I use postal, but Maddy looks interesting.
OP might also want to consider the negative impacts of inequality on society as a whole. A society where material security is the exclusive privilege of the innately talented is probably not going to be much of a society worth living in.
Obviously this is true but CK doesn't sell dollar bills for 90 cents.
"A total of 173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That's more than 10,000 times the world's total energy use." [1]

We have a long way to go before humanity's heat output is anywhere rivalling the heat the Sun dumps on us. Most of our power generation (except nuclear) is just repurposing the Sun's energy anyways, delaying its conversion into heat so that we can extract work from the process. The same heat is generated with or without our power plants. (Fossil fuels delay for so long that the energy release occurs at a much faster rate than it was gathered, but still insignificant compared to the regular solar energy incident on the Earth).

[1]: https://news.mit.edu/2011/energy-scale-part3-1026
One can also use a Tor proxy (tor2web), there is a list here: https://gist.github.com/adulau/5caf188bb1f63263bf7ac00c4a19f...

For example, appending ".moe" to the ".onion" in that URL:

https://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificed...

Which also allows it to be archived (as the mainstream archive sites don't recognise Tor hidden services):

https://web.archive.org/web/20220905153904/https://uquusqsaa...
>>"all those who got the vaccine and thereby had much better outcomes when they got the 'VID."

>The vaccine didn't prevent sickness nor transmission

I said what you've quoted because it's literally true. Neither "sickness" nor "transmission" are binary. Getting vax'd doesn't prevent sickness -- but it prevents the very worst of it [0], and presumably can turn a moderate infection into a minor one. It doesn't prevent transmission, but it decreases viral load [1] and concomitantly seems to decrease infectivity.

Frankly, since it seems like we're all going to get COVID again and again anyway, I'd rather decrease its effect on my future health.

[0] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/03/covid-19-vacc...
https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2022-07-18-study-covid-19-...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01816-0
Done. Thank you for the warning.
Now stratify it by age and gender and see where everyone fits. Does it lead to the conclusion that a course of multiple injections reduces the risk of hospitalization for the average individual in each band?

Personally, I only followed the data for my own band, which was generally stratified as “Male 18 - 40.” I did not see any data that convinced me to begin a course of mRNA injections.
It wouldn't necessarily invalidate any research around a link to cancer. What it shows is that any link to cancer we currently have in regards to meat eating cannot be conclusive evidence that it's deleterious to such an extent that it is an unacceptable risk to the individual or the population as a whole. If humans developed to eat meat, that doesn't support the idea that red meat causing cancer (hypothetically speaking) is reason enough to avoid it. When people come from the perspective that humans are actually supposed to eat mostly plants, or that plants are generally good for us, or that meat is empty calories, the conclusion that follows from such studies is commonly "we should eat less meat." That is wrong. The idea that plants are better for humans and that meat is both devoid of nutrition and dangerous is by no means an uncommon viewpoint.

You are absolutely right about the cost-benefit balance in the case of cancer and red meat (or really in the consumption of anything). That's why it's important for people to understand our evolutionary past, even if it might seem peripheral to the cancer link itself. If we go into subjects like this with a flawed mindset, we'll get flawed results. If it was more commonly understood that meat isn't just tasty, non-nutritious, artery clogging filler food that greedy humans only recently started doing because slaughtering animals is fun, jumping to conclusions about red meat and cancer wouldn't be nearly as popular.
Please, for the love of all that is pure, just make Teams a native Windows app instead of this Chromium/Electron crap that feels out of place on any platform, not to mention being dog slow.

And please leave Outlook alone. Don't even think about turning it into a junky cross platform web-ish app.
And it might be a good trade-off to pair a motor with a peaky torque curve with a 2-speed or 3-speed gearbox.

But if your _only_ goal is to limit torque, you could simulate that by re-mapping the pedal.

Say, by hitting "Eco" mode on a Prius.
Who said the barrier to doing that was the law?
If you look at it overall though, AirTags have a huge number of legitimate uses, and honestly I think Apple have done enough to combat stalking (to the point where it makes AirTags potentially significantly less useful for anti-theft purposes than they could be).

If anything, it might end up better in some cases, since they’re quite detectable and linked to the owner’s Apple accounts, it will potentially lead to victims discovering they’re being tracked faster and police tracking down the perpetrator sooner than they might have, had the perpetrator used other easily available tracking methods…
Crop-based corporations and Animal-based corporations tend to NOT be on same side.

This is ancient as the bible (the first murder, when the crop farmer murdered the animal farmer).

For example, one thing we now know, is that Coca-Cola (a crop-based company) bribed scientists to blame the obesity crisis on meat, and deflect it away from its own products.

So no, that person is not joking, animal rights activists are not fighting big-corpo only, they are ALSO helping big-corpo, they are just pawns in a chessboard that is too big for many of them realize they are pawns.
Alan D. Sokal – Transgressing the Boundaries (1995)
That's why I stick with a manual transmission -- far better handling in snow. Have not asked my EV peers how it's working for them.
> I'd like to figure up a way to reset my internet, because I access cameras, and it goes out sometimes. I'm very sure this can be done.

Just get one of those controllable outlets that can be controlled locally, it'll allow you to power cycle your modem/router/wifi AP. Shelly.cloud makes one and it can be controlled through REST [0] with a call like http://192.168.0.40/relay/0?turn=on

[0] https://shelly-api-docs.shelly.cloud/gen2/ComponentsAndServi...
I'm not saying it's hard (I had to, given the automatic rental when visiting the US), but it's not just about learning how to do it, it's also about reflexes, which you don't unlearn in 15 minutes. Sure you can learn to consciously suppress them, but the habit of finding a pedal with your left foot when accelerating/decelerating lures behind it for a lot longer.
> Energy-efficient refrigerators are available at ~1.1 kwH/day. This reduces the needed energy estimate by about half.

There's a number of people experimenting with converting chest freezers to chest fridges using an external thermostat. Apparently, these can be extremely efficient - people are reporting 10-20% of your 1.1kwH/day number.

Of course, the typical downsides of a chest freezer apply to a chest fridge - they're typically much more limited in size compared to their upright counterparts due to ergonomics, and the larger they are, the more difficult they are to fully utilize.

But they're a lot better than no fridge at all.
I wanted to find something more interesting than news of a minor patch release about what is probably the worlds most installed database.

Turns out the developers sell licenses and a few proprietary extensions - I never knew about CEROD or SEE before. https://www.sqlite.org/purchase/license?

I wonder if proceeds from this commercialisation alone are sufficient to keep the OSS effort going or whether the devs also have other paid endeavours.
There’s plenty of money and plenty of ideological conviction to produce negative papers on animal products. It’s not like it’s a hard battle of numbers where the winner takes all in the battle for public opinion.
You really do not need to exercise such caution with SQLite.

Because of the DO-178B status, SQLite is sufficiently reliable to be used with in-flight avionics (on Airbus A350 models, noted so far).

The test suite requires every branch instruction to be exercised at the machine-language level, in both directions if conditional.

The software that we are used to is not held to this exacting standard.

If we were talking about Oracle or SQL Server, .0 version hesitance is valid, and SQLite tests have crashed both of them, repeatedly. Obviously, they cannot be used with applications requiring DO-178B compliance.

This document is part of that testing compliance:

https://www.sqlite.org/qmplan.html
There is plenty of obscene profit generated in the US healthcare industry, but not within the insurance segment. Currently, health insurers are the only segment where profits (and “admin costs”) are directly capped via the ACA's MLR rules. The blame game should aim at the rest of the industry (e.g. hospitals, device manufacturers, pharmaceuticals).