skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can afford to hold this position, because they already live in safe, often gated communities. And they can afford to hire private security.

Evaluating income alone is a very poor indicator of relative wealth. $100k in even a small city ain't exactly upper class living, and it certainly ain't usually enough for most people to "live in safe, often gated communities" or "hire private security". The failure to breakdown by income v. cost of living is a glaring issue with this analysis, as is not including further thresholds (say, $500k).

Another analytical failure here is the ignorance of the urban v. suburban v. town v. rural differences exhibited in the table the author included. Support for police defunding drops dramatically in rural areas, and those areas just so happen to be the ones with the least exposure to police brutality (v. urban and suburban populations experiencing it regularly).

There's also the low sample size, but that's relatively minor of an issue compared to the above.

> They found that individuals with higher income or a higher social status were the most likely to say that success results from luck and connections rather than hard work, while low-income individuals were more likely to say success comes from hard work and individual effort.

Considering that (according to the article) the ones who believe that success comes from hard work and individual effort haven't found that success, while the ones who believe it results from luck and connections have found that success, that would rather strongly suggest that the latter assessment is correct. Duping the working class into believing they'll find success if they toil harder for their bosses is exactly how the ownership class maintains its control over the working class.

> When I was growing up in foster homes, or making minimum wage as a dishwasher, or serving in the military, I never heard words like “cultural appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative.”

Neither had rich people, because these terms didn't enter the public discourse (outside of academic circles and other niches) until recently. Nowadays, these terms are not so confined. Per the author's argument, these are no longer status symbols; they were 10 or 20 years ago, but today you can find plenty of wage workers who have at least a vague idea of what these terms mean and use them. You no longer need to be an academic to know that some people have genders and sexes that don't match up or that sometimes cultural traditions end up adopted in caricaturized forms.
The logistical inefficiencies mentioned in this article are mind boggling when compared to what we've come to expect in different industries. We all know healthcare is always a little behind the curve, but with clinical trials, we're talking decades.

For example: most clinical studies have no way to track samples going from sites to labs beyond a hope, prayer, and constellation of unconnected spreadsheets. The status quo is to write a 50 page lab manual and include a wall of text and bullets outlining a list of multiple stakeholders that need to be emailed a tracking number each time a sample is shipped. Not to mention there are days you really shouldn't ship samples. Labs have no idea when samples are going to show up. Seriously, samples just show up, they open the box expecting a piece of paper to identify the samples.

An incredible amount of perfectly good, usable samples get LOST or DESTROYED due to the fact that there's no way to track any of these samples or coordinate stakeholders. We're talking critical samples, like blood from kids with cancer. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Compare this sob story to the fact that I know in realtime where all the dumb shit I bought on Amazon is. The cognitive dissonance here is beyond comparison!

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About 8 years ago my brother and I were given a window into this problem. Being Amazon FBA sellers ourselves, we thought, "hey now that can't be too hard to fix" and thus began the wild journey of Slope [0]. What we learned working on this problem is that clinical research sites literally get crapped on left and right with ridiculous contracts & protocols written by people who don't understand the clinical setting or logistics in general. With each research site running 30-50 clinical studies and each of those studies having its own catalog of kits, shippers, and other inventory, it's no wonder why clinical research is so expensive! And this is just supply chain folks.

Slope started by making an inventory and sample management software to address the needs of sites and have worked backwards into selling this platform to Sponsors and CROs. While I have your attention, we're hiring a head of engineering now and will have a JD up for a product manager next week [1]. Thanks for reading!

[0] https://www.slope.io/
[1] https://www.slope.io/jobs/head-of-engineering
It does not have to be Grammarly. LanguageTool has been around for more than 15 years and it works offline.
Ray Dalio has been calling for a massive unwinding for a long time. It has gotten really tiresome.
Assuming it's true that they receive a similar proportion of cash tips from cash purchases as digital tips from digital transactions, I wonder if the variability is substantially greater for cash tips. It seems reasonable to assume pre-selected tip amounts on Square would decrease variability, while cash purchases probably opt for (no tip, resulting coins from change, or bigger bills). The five or ten bill tips mentioned in the article seem awfully high for a coffee purchase... perhaps older, wealthier customers tend to pay cash and tip in bigger bills.
"What's that they're flinging at us!?"

"Oh, dear Lord, all over the Dean!"
I seem to use asyncio a lot, so maybe it's just good for internet plumbing. Things I've used it for:

* A Postfix TCP table.

* A milter.

* DNS request forwarding.

* Reading data from a Unix domain socket and firing off dynamic DNS updates.

* A DNS proxy for Redis.

* A netflow agent.

* A stream feeder for Redis.

https://github.com/search?q=user%3Am3047+asyncio&type=Reposi...

By the way you can't use it for disk I/O, but you can try to use it for e.g. STDOUT: https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo/blob/5a04f1df265d84e69f10...

class UniversalWriter(object):
"""Plastering over the differences between file descriptors and network sockets."""
All the attested uses of the word virus in Latin are only in the singular number.

Nevertheless, the correct plural would have been "virora", like tempus => tempora (time => times) or corpus => corpora (body => bodies), or perhaps "virera", like pondus => pondera (weight => weights) or genus => genera (kind => kinds), depending on the original quality of the final vowel in the stem.

(Originally it would have been visos => visosa, but the final vowel in virus has become closed, while the intervocalic s has become r due to rhotacism.)

You have been thinking at the masculine words whose stem ends in -u, like fructu (fruit), where the singular is fructus and the plural is fructuus. There -s is not part of the stem but it is a marker of the singular masculine nominative case.

In virus and the other neuter nouns that end in -s, the -s is a part of the stem of the word, not a case marker. There are also masculine word where the stem ends in -s, like muus (mouse), in which the -s must also not be confused with the marker of the nominative case that is applied to some of the words with other kinds of stems.
Let me word it a different way. VCs invest in their asset ownership of the corporation, not in the business of that corporation. In this regard, I refer not to the legal structure of the corporation nor that VCs obviously invest in legally structured businesses incorporated preferably as Delaware C corporations, but rather I focus on the intent of the corporation (which is indeed a legal business as you've stated above). As an owner of Amazon stock, I'm an investor in my share of their corporation. I earn no part in their actual business, the business of Amazon. In this way, I don't care about dividends or shares of their revenue. Instead, I am looking at the asset value increase in my ownership of a share of their corporation. Perhaps we're saying the same things. The reason why this distinction matters is because most entrepreneurs pitch their startups to VCs as a business, focusing on the business aspects of their corporation, rather than on the value of the asset, which has little relation to the business-side concerns of the corporation. Whereas the VCs primarily are valuing the asset ownership side of the corporation and whether or not the corporation generates business value is not relevant as long as it generates asset value. That's the intent of what I write to shift the emphasis on realizing what VCs truly are interested in.

And to the point on Ferrari collectors. They know that their asset is not a car, it's a Ferrari. They could potentially drive it around, but they don't. So to that example, they're actually not investing in cars, they're investing in Ferraris. You could make the same argument and say, well Ferraris are cars. And I'd say yes of course, but that's not the point. Ferraris could be boats or paintings, and it would be just as relevant. It's the asset value not the functionality they're investing in. That's why I say VCs invest in corporations not businesses, in the same way that Ferrari collectors invest in Ferraris, not cars.
Specifically distributed would be helped (multiple nodes).

Right now the typical paradigm is this really clunky lock-step across nodes waiting for each other (everything is blocking). If your hardware is non-homogenous (both interconnects and accelerators) or your program needs to be run in a pipelined way, you're fighting an extremely uphill battle.

Go, JavaScript etc are the usual languages of choice for this type of stuff because it's easy to express non-blocking code.
Counter-anecdote. I've never worn a mask, not once. I live in London - noteworthy population size and density. Still waiting to experience something resembling covid - I'll settle for a cold.
"Users' margin" is now apparently code for "how fictional are the assets we're selling users". Could we say that "We don't invest client assets (even in Treasuries)" was technically true on the basis that there weren't any assets to invest? :P

I guess "internal labeling of bank-related accounts" is one of those "dumb" activities that they were counting on amphetamines to take care of for them: https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/13790363463003054...
Markdown allows you to just write HTML in it. That makes it a superset of HTML.

HTML is not difficult to write, it's difficult to edit.

A S-expression-based dialect of HTML (with macros!) would be fun.
Or you can choose not to use the inflectional morphology of another language on a loanword. Especially in a case like octopus where it (arguably) isn't a loanword
Ya ya ya. I am lorde. Ya ya ya. (I think they missed a trick not using Randy Marsh[0] for their marketing)

All jokes aside, I will throw serious money at the first streaming service that implements an 'autotuned' tag, and lets me filter anything tagged with it out of my stream. Like, $100 a month. Maybe more.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMJ5GSC37g
You are being too kind. There is absolutely no truth in the poster's statements, weirdly anecdotal and it is strongly racist. Yes, surely owing to a majority poor population an average indian is undernourished compared to their western counterparts (averages) which reflects in physical measures such as height, it is a long stretch to say they are _weak_. Poster is giving examples of moving to foreign lands as if the rest of world does it regularly, and mind you there is far more mobility in India because job market is much more concentrated to a select bunch of big cities to where all people from their small towns and cities flock to.
You are speaking realistically.

I know several people trying to take care of elderly parents in different ways and it absolutely does take time just for the logistics.

Taking care of an elderly parent is a massive undertaking to do in your own home and is still an effort if you hand them over to the state in a nursing home.
I get the feeling that is the goal for some establishments.
B-b-but its non-ionizing!!

"Cigarette smoke doesn't get hot enough to burn you and is therefore safe" -tobacco companies
Wonder why the Internet Archive never tried to build a web search engine - their crawls of the entire web could be more comprehensive than Google (assuming Google doesn't archive old copies of websites)
In California, minimum wage for tipped workers is the same as minimum wage for any other employee. Tips are in addition to the state minimum wage.

I have noticed that several checkout systems compute tips after tax instead of pretax, so I always end up computing tip myself anyway.
These things last 10+ years in the cloud so you'd need to be willing to buy something truly obsolete that's already been stripped for spare parts. Also, I imagine you'd have to be willing to cart off an entire rack, which won't be a standard rack but a weird shape, and then you'll need somewhere to plug it in, which won't be a plug as such but a point to which you'd need to wire 600VAC, or whatever that cloud operator was using. Finally, you're going to need some way to connect its weird network to your plain old network.

Oh, and all the management features of the rack won't work because I am sure they would wipe their proprietary software before resale. Basically you're buying raw materials in an inconvenient package.
I think it will be very hard if not impossible for any entity to have a widespread effect on the larger fediverse, simply because we can defederate problematic servers.

The moment a Google instance comes online, a lot of servers will block it on principle. Then every time they do something new and scummy, more servers will block them. Eventually, enough of the network will have defederated from them that they just don't have any reach outside of their own server.

Not to mention that based on google's history, a mastodon server would last for maybe a year before Google gets bored and kills it.

Sure, google could set up a server with a billion people, but how can that have an effect when nobody outside of that server sees any of it?

If you wanted to force change on the fediverse, it'd probably have to be a massive undercover grassroots campaign. I'm talking spinning up hundreds of instances with a few thousand users each, and don't let anyone know that those instances are owned by Google. Then you play the long game where your users slowly influence other instances.

I just don't see that happening.

Every server in the fediverse is independent, and has its own culture. Thinking Google could cause change to all of those individual cultures is like saying if you put a few billion people in a new country it would change the global culture. Technically, yes, that could work on paper, but it doesn't really work in practice. Not on the sort of timescale any corporation is willing to invest in.
> using a flat, ugly logo to signal “changing times,” let alone inclusivity? That iconic beauty and excellence was the province of rich white dudes—and can only be expanded by lowering our standards.

Should have been the thesis statement.
But ACH isn't an ungoverned system where parties get to just behave in their own best interest. It, and the timing/behaviour, are governed by the NACHA Operating Rules.

If you are being a bad party and failing to submit transactions on time so that you can collect a bit of extra interest, you are going to get a very large hammer brought down on you.
Not trying to invalidate your experience, but I think it is interesting and disagree.

I suspect there are some people with different philosophies that that sit better with this sorta thing.

It seems like you feel guilt not only for the harm you cause, but the harm you fail to prevent. Do you apply this logic to other parts of your life?

How do you feel about the trolley problem, were you have to kill some to save others?

How do you feel about the moral imperative of doctors to do no harm versus a utilitarian approach of maximize lives saved?
MoM inflation is still unfortunately 0.4% which is about 5% annualized. I think it's unfortunate that reporting focuses around yearly inflation which isn't really useful for talking about inflation in the moment.
you named 4 different languages that are specialized for certain areas or you can just find a team of java devs that accomplish all of that in one language.

>Java was a mediocre language made primarily to be optimized for midsized companies and aimed to be learnable by mid level engineers

This is exactly what a startup should be optimizing for. cheap labor that can use a single language that can move fast enough to push product. When they all leave another group can step right in and continue the work
Hypergamy in women is driven at the sociological level by the gender differences themselves. That is, the more of an economic advantage men have over women, the more women tend to want to marry up. As the playing field levels, more empowered women are more willing to date lower class men. Which... makes sense. People take the easiest route available to them to improve their lives.

Complaining about the current state of things is largely complaining that men are slowly losing their long standing advantage and privileged position.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797612441004

> No matter what you tell yourself, men and women compliment each other for a functional society, and we have disrupted that.

> The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Society is different therefore society is a disaster. Got it.
Well I guess the next logical question is what % would not make an HTML page, but would make a Markdown page.

I feel like the Venn diagram is nearly a circle, but I don’t have anything to back that up.

To most people, symbols and words being “special” in some text = coding, I’m still not convinced that the cognitive load of:

# my title

Is different than

<h1>my title</h1>
It's also a good example of how copying a design without fully unerstanding it is a bad thing.

A common complaint from the French is that games have messed up movement. Why? The French keyboard looks like this:

A Z E R T
Q S D F
W X C

Obviously, you can't use WSAD on that. As a designer, you have to understand that you're after the placement, not the labels.

Even if you rely on scan codes, you're only guessing the button placement. They can be arbitrary, as long as user's key map matches.

Now you're down to arrows. They have an embedded meaning: directions! You can rely on them being placed in a way that makes sense to the user, even if it's not necessarily the standard WASD positions.
Stanford keeps ending up with that sort of thing. That's what the Stanford Auxiliary Library holds. They now have SAL1 and SAL2 on campus, and SAL3 is a warehouse in Livermore. It's not just data. Stanford ended up with the Museum of Magnetic Recording from AMPEX in 2001. Somewhere in there is the first video tape recorder.
If we all started using debuggers instead of print statements half of the problems will be solved
> Real estate is inflated. Stocks are too, but seems less so than property, at least in Australia.

But are they? To me many stocks look comparatively flat over 30 years given the fact that they should point upwards just to correct for inflation in the currency they are denominated in and even more upwards when taking into account productivity gains.
A default service charge is pretty common in the UK for sit-down food service at this point in my experience.

In the US, it's a very path dependent thing. High-end restaurants have tried experiments to eliminate it but front-of-house staff in particular didn't like it because in many cases they made less money.
How do you know this? In other countries the front of the house staff do just fine without tipping. And how much of your tip goes to the food preparation staff? You're supposed to be sharing your tips with them: how much do you tip them?

Tipping needs to be burned with fire.

Tipping and its history is dripping in classism, racisim, corruption, and the perpetuation of poverty. It grotesquely unevenly distributes wealth among the front-and and back-end staff in a restaurant. It turns many common experiences: dining, cab-riding, having your house cleaned, even renting a hotel room, into exercises in guilt-tripping, price manipulation and misleading advertising, and mental calculation.

It's also a slippery slope. The rate used to be 10%. Then it rose to 15%. Now it's 20%. Why? Because employers are taking advantage of tipping to justify refusing to pay their employees a living wage.

If there's one simple thing that would improve the situation for many service workers, it'd be making tipping illegal.
I'm concerned that the author pulled himself up by his bootstraps from foster homes to military to Yale, but came to a conclusion which reinforces the socioeconomic circumstances of the very status quo that he overcame.

This idea that egalitarian beliefs are elite because working people don't have time to dabble in them is maybe one of the most damaging remnants of colonialism in America.

I lived that for several years at various labor jobs. Keep your head down and do your job or you'll get singled out. Somebody's gotta do it. Blame the elites spending our tax dollars (used to liberals, before that it was hippies, and commies before that).

Hopefully we get past this self-limiting style of thinking.

The truth is what sets us free. For example: working people thinking that hard work will lead to success is a tool that the wealthy use to keep people doing labor which isn't lucrative. People in crime-ridden neighborhoods know that the police won't come when they call them, that's why they want to defund the police and shift those funds to education and training to reduce the motivation for crime in the first place. Famous people endorsing ideas like Black Lives Matter isn't the same as a grassroots movement to root out systemic racism, although it helps.

I hesitate to even comment here because it creates a divisive atmosphere. But I can't sit idly by when these quippy and truthy opinion pieces are put forth as some kind of insightful revelation. But see, that was the point. The piece itself stirs feelings of division and gaslights the lower classes he's talking about which don't believe what he's writing.

How do we get to a higher understanding without constant vigilance? I honestly don't know. The US is working through some messy stuff right now. I think it begins with each person attempting to understand another's point of view. I would say empathy, but see, that word has been weaponized. We're losing the very vocabulary and civic engagement needed to heal the country.