skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$4000 more?
> Both trends are likely to contribute to higher inflation, though.

Not if governments don't sleep at the wheel. In the 80s, CEO compensation was a fraction of what it is today [1], and there were only a couple dozen billionaires or billionaire families [2]. Today, we're at at least 735 billionaires in the US, and at least 2668 worldwide [3].

There is nothing preventing governments from seizing all that excessive wealth gain and redistributing it, or to limit corporate hoarding of cash and assets, corporate payouts like dividends or stock buybacks - the latter, most egregious practice, was only legalized in 1982 [4].

FFS - what happened to the Ford-era tradition of paying people enough cash for their work so that they could actually live on these wages and buy all the products?! That was the key for the post-WW2 economic success wave, after all.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/

[2] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/MichelleLee.shtml

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

[4] https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity
> Some, I admit, have merit. (Senile, grey-beard etc.) To me they are common sense.

Speak for yourself.

To me "grey beard" is a word which refers to someone with great authority on a subject, whose experience is certain to exceed anyone else.

If someone were to refer to me as a gray beard, I would consider that a sign of respect.
The core appeal of those 1980s "console-computers" could still be relevant today: Something you can start coding on as soon as you switch it on and run all software* on it without worrying about hardware or OS compatibility.

Does no one else realize that enough to make a modern product like that?

* (made for that platform)
The old Intel Mac Pro is available in rack-friendly form factor. Alternately, people have racked Mac Minis, so I think Mac Studio's would be mostly the same?
Haha. No. Just because you dislike Russia and you think Russia is completely incompetent doesn't remove the fact they don't have problems of people phoning up for a fire department and not getting help.
Only blue tick users to vote in Twitter polls on policy
Kubernetes are to help you scale. They do not fix one's incompetence. They increase complexity of the stack and if anything would make it even worse for the incompetents.
Agreed. This reads as an advertisement for why the middle-class just needs to acquiesce to the wealthy ruling class because they know what's best for us better than we do.
You too might need a gun if the police around you are unable police crime and crime gets out of control. Don't think it can't happen, because it does.

Also, telling people they can "simply move" if they want more rights is sort of like Marie Antoinette's quip about telling them to "eat cake".
Seems the market is already met, then? It is unlikely these alternative grains will ever see mass appeal. While such history is hard to validate, legend has it that wheat tortillas became popular soon after wheat became available in the Americas because a lot of people preferred it. I think there is little question that wheat tortillas are the preferred form in modern times.
The 268 had a segmented memory model which effectively made it possible to only access RAM in 64K pages. The 68000 had a flat memory mode and other differences that would have made a port of AmigaOS to a 286 very difficult because of the downgrade in capabilities (video controller architecture is another huge issue, too). In many ways the 286 should have been awesome, but wasn't. The 386 was more of a 68000 series competitor, and I believe it came out about the same time as the 68030 - so by the time Intel chips could compete with Motorola, four years had passed (and in that era, four years was like two decades).
WiebeTech Programmable Mouse Jiggler MJ-3 (Single Unit) https://a.co/d/7dWe1I0
They did make a huge mistake with Final Cut Pro X. Professionals continued to use Final Cut Pro 7 until just a few years ago.

That said, everyone I hear who uses Final Cut Pro today seems to prefer it over any other editor. You can flawlessly edit multiple 4k color corrected video streams on an $800 fanless MacBook Air with 8GB RAM, and get 10+ hours of battery life while doing it. Nobody else can touch that.
India has 350M online transacting users, set to grow 2X by 2030
Most people don’t have a nest egg these days.
It’s not a strawman. I’m talking about very concrete facts.

1. There is not a single instance in the entire history of the internet of a profitable alt right social media website that anyone actually uses.

2. The price he paid was indeed so overvalued and has only dramatically dropped in value since then that they can already no longer pay their bills after just 7 weeks.
Too bad so few popular and reliable records exist, as I would be really interested in what their leverage ratio was for loans to deposits, what calendar they used to synchronize everywhere in the world (presumably astronomical), whether the Templars picked it up by learning and adapting Islamic Hawala during the crusades, what the Medicis did differently (covered a bit in Fergusson's The Ascent of Money). The necessary conditions for their early portfolio risk management practices would be fascinating, and probably even available in surviving Islamic texts.

The vow of poverty seemed to be the lynchpin of templar banking, where the way to solve the basic principal/agent problem and ensure the alignment of interests to make the templars disinterested in the transactions themselves other than ensuring their integrity. Relating to money with a vow of poverty doesn't mean suffering, it's just a vow to eschew the trappings and symbols of wealth, as the whole system relied on Templars recognizing that they did not need money when instead they had power. They could afford to be humble. This problem of how to find and prove people who can be trusted to uphold higher values that create stability continues to today I'm sure.

If you are ever in Portugal, I recommend seeing the last Templar castle in Tomar. I found its scale and engineering quite spectacular, as well as how well it appears to have been preserved.
That's kind of the message of this video. Make your own decision but be aware of the risks and don't judge people for wearing or not wearing a helmet.
I have experience in working on statically typed Python codebases, it's just obviously inferior.

I'll go further and tell you the most common reason for using static typing is to allow the codebase to be a monolith like it's still the 90s. You shouldn't be trying to build a monolith in a scripting language it's a recipe for disaster.

I'm a polyglot, I'm exactly the sort of person who should be commenting.

Does it surprise you that static typing is often a poor choice?

Static typing is something to be used when the performance of your code is important. I've done 40 Gbits/sec network traffic processing, certainly static typing is used for that.

Your standard business CRUD app? Usually dynamic is the better choice.
The vast majority of people who own a single property (i.e. the vast majority of homeowners) don’t consider their houses as investments, since they can only realize liquid gains under very limited circumstances. Suppose you bought a $500k house and it appreciates to $1M. Unless your house appreciated faster than the overall local market or your are planning on downsizing/moving to a lower CoL area, all you can do is turn around and sell that $1M house to buy another comparable $1M house. That $500k of appreciation is completely illiquid.

While most people don’t particularly care about appreciation, nobody wants their housing value to fall because it could make them underwater on their mortgage, which in turn makes it impossible to move without paying out-of-pocket the delta between their house’s value and the remaining principal on the loan, which in the last housing crash was often hundreds of thousands of dollars.

At least in the US, where mortgage rates are fixed across the entirety of a 30 year loan, people buy houses mainly as a hedge against inflation, since your mortgage payment is constant across the entirety of the loan.
I think downvotes are unnecessary and this is a finely crafted joke.
ServeTheHome reviews lots of small machines like the ones you mention:

- https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...

- https://www.servethehome.com/tag/tinyminimicro/
But that's how this type of ridiculous become standard practice: you include a few unambigous examples, then the rest lean on them for support. Did Stanford really need an official document telling their community that the word "jewed" probably should be avoided? If so, there are lots of worse words and phrases not included here, why not? How did they decide the word "tarball" should be included because it starts with the same three letters as a derogatory term, but "tarsands" (along with being technically inaccurate) is OK?

No one said words can't be hurtful. If you work or attend Stanford you know these words. This document is apparently about harm reduction though, and that harm would be mitigated far more effectively if Stanford admitted more people like the ones these words supposedly trivialize.
This seems a bit contradictory to his “vox populi” mantra. On the other hand, it does align with his conservative political ideology of changing election rules when they don’t go your way.

He may also just be trolling with this post.
> Someone owns the building where you live. Either that person is you, and you are paying off your own debt; or that person is someone else, and you are paying off theirs.

You're forgetting about the public ownership model that exists in countries like Singapore. There, the government something like 90% of the real estate and the vast majority of the population rents from the government.[0] The article I've linked summaries the benefits of this better than I could:

> The state land in Singapore is treated as a use value (public housing and industrial space), as an exchange value (leased for private developers) and as a source of public revenue (land leases and property tax). This triple way of using public land has caused Singapore’s economy to grow and, paradoxically, Singapore’s development companies to prosper.”

0: https://www.landandliberty.net/urban-land-rent-singapore-as-...
Yes correct, also Grafana v9 has it, but this is a different situation, I don't want an alert with the graph, I want a daily report with the full dashboard, even if no alert is triggered.

Anyway I wrote also a post about my Grafana alerts, that are delivered to my as Pushover push notifications: https://giuliomagnifico.blog/tips/2022/12/12/Grafana-Pushove... (without the images, but with the panel ID/URL, so you have only to tap if you want to see the full graph)
I believe the second chapter of the linked report went into considerable detail about how covid had primary and secondary effect in a very small range of industries and otherwise had little long term effect in other industries.

As a primary effect of covid, the public has been scared the public away from the healthcare field, which was collapsing and is now collapsing even faster. Its a good time to get out of healthcare and a bad time to get into healthcare. If they would just hurry up and collapse the system quickly so as to enter the stable rebuilding phase, then they could get workers.

As a secondary effect of covid, massive income instability in hospitality has scared people away from that field. Those jobs are all going to be replaced by apps and service robots or go out of business anyway. Conveniently many ag jobs opened with brexit and that field is doing MUCH better than healthcare or hospitality. Hospitality used to be very low pay, but at least it was extremely reliable. With covid lockdowns that job could go away in a sneeze and they're all being replaced by apps and robots anyway. Hospitality is the new bottom of the barrel job and as such will always have staffing problems going forward until it goes away entirely. A society can function quite well without overpaying someone else to hand you a beer or kebabs to avoid getting it yourself LOL.
Almost certainly an anti-Semitic trope.

But perhaps they are referencing Huguenots: https://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/blog/huguenots-and-the-wo...
You're missing the point that Obama was just an example, to use the most followed person on Twitter.

There are tons of people on Twitter with over 10 million followers who interact with Twitter a ton. They're very "social".

If a social network can't handle people who are popular, then that's a real problem. And remember, people's accounts can start unpopular, and then they gain millions of followers over years. So what do you do, boot them off for the sin of saying things lots of people want to listen to and interact with?
>They can use their international reach to try to sidestep taxes and regulations.
And, since their debts to each other are a very real kind of private money, when the banks are fragile, the entire monetary system of the world also becomes vulnerable.
We are still trying to figure out what to do with these banks.
We cannot live without them, it seems, and yet we are not sure we want to live with them.
Governments have long sought ways to hold them in check.
Sometimes the approach has been laissez-faire, sometimes not.
Few regulators have been quite as ardent as King Philip IV of France.

Very interesting leaps taken to come to the conclusion that Philip IV ("government") was trying to "regulate" the private money sector, back then.

First of all he waged very costly wars (against Aragon, England and Flanders) and found himself - no surprise - with unmanageable debt i.e. not enough silver (also a very important difference between today's "banking") in 1295. By that time even the Templars hadn't enough money to help him out so he began to loan from the much richer Florentine bankers and to devalue his own royal currency (tied to silver) with the high price of social unrest/domestic instability.

The crackdown on Templars preceded a power struggle with the clergy (a common theme in the centuries before and afterwards) represented by the pope Boniface VIII. Long story short: Philip IV won and consequently established the nearly 70 years long so called "Avignon Papacy". The next pope Clement V was basically under his thumb. Only in this greater context could he go on and "restructure" the "Templar Banks", technically the property of the Church.

Of course in this cascade of perpetual debt and wars he utilized all his domestic "regulatory" powers[0]: constantly raising taxes (1289), seizing assets of Lombard merchants (1292), heavily debasing currency (1295), unheard/provocative taxation (50%) of the French clergy (1296), expelling Jews and seizing all their assets (1306).

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_IV_of_France#Finance_...
We are seeing a distinct split in the space. Monolithic applications are trying to adopt as many features as possible to stay relevant and interesting for potential buyers. They are morphing into all-in-one solutions that try to handle every possible need. Clearly this is what you have been seeing. In this model you may see 2-3 pieces of software which may all come from a single company.

On the other side you have composable commerce, a term created by Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3986490), and pioneered by Elastic Path (https://www.elasticpath.com/). In this model, each specific business capability is broken up into separate offerings, most often from different vendors. In this way you can choose the absolute best option for each feature you need. Then the composable commerce engine will help to stitch everything back together with an integration hub. Here you end up with many more software options including ERP, CMS, Search, Front-end, Personalization, etc.

It will be interesting to see what happens in 5-10-15 years. The big monolithic systems can make things easier to get going, but they struggle to scale and have terrible performance. Meanwhile composable commerce continues to become easier to adopt with project times quickly shrinking and comes with huge benefits once launched. But there is a lot of noise in the market, some companies claiming to be composable commerce don't have any integrations and are instead buying the other pieces. In additional monolithic applications are trying to rebrand as composable to capitalize on the trend.

Happy to watch with you as things unfold.
Not sure about anyone else but if I was a billionaire researching it I certainly wouldn’t tell anyone if possible.
"forced savings" as opposed to "forced payment"? Hard not to laugh

Sure, sometimes renting makes more sense than owning outright. For short term needs, changing needs, etc. Or if renting is cheaper than a mortgage

But building equity is important and home ownership is one way of doing that
Bezos got three hundred thousand dollars from his parents to start Amazon. Gates only got the DOS deal because of his mother's connection to IBM. Zuckerberg's mother was a doctor, and his father a dentist. Musk's father owned an emerald mine.

How rich are your parents?
This is an extremely low quality thread. There is almost no intellectual curiosity in here. Just a lot of "No, it isn't offensive." assertions and personal opinion.

Agree with the list or not it at least tries to explain the reasoning for everything on it.
A very clever message indeed.
Looks like you're right about compute.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/how-aws-prici...
Peter thiel must be foaming at the mouth.
> This is full of misdirection and half truths.

You were referring to your next sentence, it appears:

> It is true that transit policy is a choice but it is one largely driven by economics. There is also an element of personal preference. Public transit is not pleasant or flexible.

It is driven by economics, which is driven by the policy decisions I mentioned. When private car usage is as heavily subsidized as it's been in the United States for the last century, it's not surprising that it can be cheaper for many people but that's just saying that the core principle of economics (people respond to incentives) is still true.

Similarly, your aesthetic preferences are not only not universal but in large part cultural. Sitting in traffic is not pleasant, nor is getting hefty repair bills at inconvenient times, etc. but you've been encultured to think of that as the natural order of things and having spent so much money on cars and car-centric living discourages contemplation on that point.

> Believing that the US would become eurplope or Asia if not for transportation policy is simply untrue. There are some regions that could adapt but the ones most likely to benefit from and use mass transit already have it and barely use it. The simple truth is our cities and geographies are different.

Continuing your trend, this is untrue on all counts. The United States has more land but 80% of the population is urban. In areas where transit is good, people use it heavily. The primary reason people do not use transit is that driving has been massively subsidized and transit systems are typically treated as a last resort for poor people, but that doesn't say people wouldn't use it if we made different decisions. Car centric sprawl has shaped a lot of what Americans who don't travel think of as natural but that's a choice, not a natural law.
Most of the landlords here own the real estate outright and don't have too many costs associated with it (there is no property tax, homes aren't usually insured).
How is Githun a poor implementation of Git? Because it’s centralized?
I find my best-of list better:
https://letterboxd.com/rurban/list/best-of-2022/
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
the article is talking about what decision is more financially optimal. of course, yes, if you don't care about that you could rent a mansion, for example, and be broke.
This is a good point but leaves HELOCs out of the equation, and also the possibility of downshifting to a cheaper home. Ordinary, one-home-only people treat their home as an investment because they really can use it that way, though not as easily as a landlord. For one, they can always sell the house and move to a cheaper one -- or the might be able to if their local housing market hasn't been inflating past their means since they bought their house. More directly though, if they have any equity in their house, they can walk into a bank and walk out with a HELOC and they don't have to move anywhere. My house appreciating 100k this year means, potentially, that I get to spend 100k this year.
It’s because your money isn’t enough. They want more of your money.
There was only a very slim window of time that the PPC was faster than x86 in real life besides synthetic benchmarks and even then they were hobbled by slower busses, slower graphic cards (if they had any at all) and an operating system that wasn’t fully native.
> Their state pension increases in line with inflation thanks to the penion "triple lock" in the UK (this is temporarily the "double lock" for 22/23).

In that case you have a feedback loop creating infinite inflation that goes faster than those rate adjustments goes. There is no magical wand to wish away inflation like that.
Fine, I did, even though I think it’s a little rude to just drop a link with no argument.

The link claims:

1. ONE kurzgezadt video was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
2. Bill gates is invested in big pharma
3. The Kurzgesagt video white washed big pharma’s slow response to treating tropical diseases because doing so is unprofitable

Conclusion: bill gates has a profit motive for having his charity prop up ALL Kurzgezadt videos.

There are so many weak links in this argument and the conclusion is not even justified by the supporting arguments that it seems silly to even engage — but here goes.

Let me start by saying the the link you sent also has a profit motive to attack Kurzgesagt and Bill Gates because it drives views and therefore ad revenue or at least subscribers and views. So if profit motive is disqualifying, then the link posted is equally guilty.

However, the profit motive is not equal. An extra 20 bucks probably means more to the person who made the video than an extra 20 million does to Bill Gates. He is invested in almost everything, so you could pick almost anything and say “corporate shill! Bill gates is involved!”, so personally I find this argument weak and lazy. Additionally, you seem to way overestimate billionaire greed. Do you think that hurting people and making an extra X zillion dollars is going to make said billionaire “happier”? It makes for great headlines, but it’s just standard class warfare and ignores the fact that we are all human and is ignoring basic human motivations.

A far more believable argument is that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation believes that Kurzgesagt is an effective communicator of difficult ideas and chose to fund them for this reason. And I do believe that WOULD make someone feel good — better than making a couple extra bucks.

Finally, even if you still believe that Bill Gates is Satan and everything he touches is demonic and unholy, this still ignores the fact that THIS BLACK HOLE STAR VIDEO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BILL GATES, and the linked video has failed to demonstrate ANY causal motive between Black Hole Stars, Kurzgesagt “being a corporate shill”, and billionaire profit motives.

The Kurzgesagt video on black holes stars was an entertaining and quite frankly staggering bit of astrophysics, well illustrated and well explained. Maybe this is helping line the pockets of Big Telescope?

Edit: my purpose is to attack linked the video, not the account of the person linking it, and I changed some of my tone to reflect that.
> it's very hard to make a financially logical argument against sensible home ownership.

No it isn't. Ben Felix has a great video talking about this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Golcxjpi8

We can argue which is better in a specific situation, but there's definitely an argument for renting other than "people buy too big".