skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lies, damn lies, and statistics:

> To wit, “The Stat” is that the highest-earning one percent of taxpayers pay 40 percent of all income taxes. […] The first problem with The Stat is that it makes no reference to the proportion of income the rich earn. The juxtaposition between one percent and 40 percent is meant to convey the idea that a small number of people are carrying a gigantic and disproportionate burden, but the figure lacks any context when it omits how much money they earn in the first place.

> Indeed, it turns the fact that rich people account for a massive share of the income pool into a reason to see them as mistreated. One common move for polemicists brandishing this figure is to note that the share of taxes paid by the rich is “up sharply” over the past couple decades — which it is, on account of rich people claiming a larger share of the national income. The logic implied by The Stat is that the bigger the proportion of income earned by the richest one percent, the more imperative it is to reduce their tax rates, so that they don’t pay too high a share of the tax burden.

* https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1...

> Between 2014 and 2018, the 25 wealthiest Americans collectively earned $401bn, but paid just $13.6bn – about 3.4% of that – in taxes, according to a bombshell ProPublica investigation into the finances of the wealthiest Americans released on Wednesday.

[…]

> Billionaires in tech pay the lowest tax rate, an average of 17% of their income, largely because their wealth comes from such investment income. Bill Gates, whose income from 2013 to 2018 was an average of $2.85bn a year, paid an average effective federal income tax rate of 18.4%. Lauren Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, earned an average of $1.57bn and paid an average tax rate of 14.8%. Ten of the top 15 earners on the list are billionaires who made their money in tech.

> In comparison, the average single worker earning $45,000 paid an average tax rate of 21%. A married couple with one child who earns $200,000 paid a rate of 26%. In 2018, the highest top rate on ordinary income, which excludes investments, was 37%, yet the average tax rate for the 400 wealthiest Americans was 22% from 2013 to 2018.

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/wealthiest-a...

When you grab most of the income generated in the economy (leaving little for the folks at the bottom), then of course you pay most of the income taxes.
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Yeah this is the Apple philosophy in a nutshell: it works >99% of the time, when it doesn't work you're holding it wrong
Ben McKenzie reviews the new book about Sam Bankman-Fried
I would urge HNers to watch this detailed video on the issue - https://youtu.be/UcHf0SsR790?si=pKvkc0fCR5AsU9ku

Caste discrimination is an issue in the home country, but it is pretty cut and dry here in the US.

I have the rare distinction of not being upper caste, but 'passing' as one. I get to hear the conversations of upper castes as a fly on the wall. But in some groups I am open about my caste, letting me see the other side.

Honestly, caste is total non-factor in the US. There are cliques within the Indian community, but caste is not the main favor. The main type of discrimination is between FOB immigrants vs American-Indians.Other than that, American-Indians are fully integrated, to the point of barely knowing caste, let alone discriminating based on it.

Among immigrants, IIT vs non-IITian ivy-league style snobbishness can happen. Second, those who did their undergrad in the US usually come from the rich class of india, and innocently as it may be, end up maintaining those rich-people cliques. Grad students are often less-well off and can feel left out. both groups harbor resentment towards Infosys/TCS style L1/H1bs who are seen to abuse immigration loopholes. Lastly, cliques are linguistic. It is less discriminatory, more based on feeling comfortable communicating with those who speak the same native language.

But none of these are based on caste. Yes, caste may be correlated with class given their economic differences. But people get the casual directions wrong and the correlation is much smaller then these accusations claim. Indians in the US are obsessed with merit. If you can signal merit, nothing else matters.

Note: Urban and Northern American whites are largely of English and German descent. Southern, Appalachia and flyover state whites are overwhelmingly scots-irish. Due to clear regional cultural and accent differences, it's considered acceptable to ridicule and discriminate against scots-irish Americans from 'bumfuck nowhere'. These groups don't inter-marry and the economic differences between both groups are vast. Yet, the average American doesn't understand this. They consider themselves 'woke' and happily continue discriminating on visible class signals. What they don't realize, is that even among whites, the class signals are strongly correlated with sub-racial identity & genetically distinct people.

You may not call it caste, but that's caste. At least with Indian class differences, both aspire to be better urban-white Americans. On the other hand, with whites, one group starts off an urban-white American while the other group is denied their identity despite being a so-called native of independent USA.
> I’m more surprised that 80%+ of generals feel they need to work after their discharge.

Would you be surprised if I told you that tech CEOs don't base their employment on financial need?
Absolutely insane:

> Our research discovers how the rolling shutter and movable lens structures widely found in smartphone cameras modulate structure-borne sounds onto camera images, creating a point-of-view (POV) optical-acoustic side channel for acoustic eavesdropping. The movement of smartphone camera hardware leaks acoustic information because images unwittingly modulate ambient sound as imperceptible distortions.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10056
There are two, conflicting images being painted in this thread. 1. Poor generals who can't do anything other than military need these cush jobs or else they'd be out on the streets. 2. Generals are energetic and capable and would want to try something new even with a pension.

If they have enough energy to not stay idle, then certainly they don't need these arms jobs? If they're worn out and can't do anything else, then we should give them pensions enough so they don't feel forced to work for arms manufacturers.
With tinnitus, the loudest thing can be silence.
War is too serious a matter to be left to the generals.
An absolutely oversized military industrial complex is indeed problematic if a country wants to be a full democracy.
It's not the only reason obviously, but according to the economist democracy index, the USA ranks as "flawed democracy", #30 in the world, which is better than Slovenia and Botsnawa but far from the countries from Scandinavia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
I would probably pay a thousand dollars if you could get NPG Van, Action Network, and Act Blue to never text or email me again.

I’ve aggressively replied STOP and “delete and report spam” and unsubscribing from all communication for literally years and they keep coming. I’ve emailed action network several times and they:

1) Claim they don’t have the capability of putting me on a global “do not contact” list. (Just because they refuse to build such a feature doesn’t mean it is impossible to build)

2) Claim it’s their clients that are emailing and texting me, not them (but they control the infrastructure, and allow their clients to add me to campaigns I’ve not opted into and they’ve not verified my participation)

3) Cannot give me any contact information about the people directly messaging me because that would “violate trust” (literal lol, their business model is founded on trust violation)

Anyway. I have given up all other hope. I get multiple texts a week, sometimes multiple a day. It’s very disruptive to my life and there’s nothing I can do to meaningfully stop it.

Any tips? Any advice? I’m kind of desperate. I want to donate money again, but I also want to not be constantly digitally harassed.
No they don't. The defense attorneys likely know it better actually (I know one). But if the guy who wrote it actually walks a prosecutor through it, it isn't that complicated
Macs are some of the easiest things to administer because of the rock solid MDM, nuke and block, lost item mitigation (as soon as declared lost, can wipe remotely, and even sometimes track via geolocation for filing police reports and for insurance claims). The pervasiveness and userfriendliness of filevault makes it so much easier than trying to enforce luks on linux.

If you do encounter an OS level issue that can't be solved by first or 2nd tier local support, wiping from internet recovery is the next step, followed by sending it back to Apple (if you are within applecare) for direct replacement.

The Apple Business team is incredible, and is much better than regular genius bar service at the apple store.

They are pricy on the whole, but it's worth it if you have a need for macs in your environment.
Seconded. Not upper caste, never came up in the US.

This entire bill feels so alien to the lived experience of every Indian I know in the US.
A friend of mine would do very noticeable vocal fry at the ends of some sentences, when laughingly speaking light-heartedly and enthusiastically about something.

She's also an MIT PhD, and I don't recall any vocal fry when speaking seriously about science or some other topic.

Before I learned that vocal fry was a thing, I thought she might be code-switching to a regional or socioeconomic group accent from where she grew up in the US, or a mannerism that a particular friend group evolved in a more carefree time.

Her voice sounded nice, and a little unique. And you don't want to ask, and risk making someone self-conscious about how they sound or look when they're happy or laughing. Whatever is natural is best.
The upside to all of this is that large monopolistic corporations in an industry can be utterly vanquished by much smaller competitors who focus on hiring productive, capable people who work really well with one another. And it doesn't take a lot of them, because the org. described in this post is often getting in its own way, and is unable to deliver a sustained defense on quality or efficiency. So they often try to sue - but that's often blood in the water, and equally a sign to keep striking that weak spot as it is a serious deterrence.
Surely if there's anything you don't need a 'tl;dr' for it's setting up your database backups lol.

I just had a quick skim of those docs, looks like lots of paragraphs going over all of all the things that can go wrong and how to prevent them. Good. If it takes a week to read all that and set up then it takes a week. I'll take a pass on the "docker container that just does it for me" thanks.
>The law itself thinks it's covering a hole in existing protections

I don't think that was quite the argument. Per Sen. Wahab:
>It’s largely believed that California’s civil rights law does cover caste to some degree, because some people will put it under the concept of ancestry or race. But caste is very specific; it encompasses more than just those two factors. We are just trying to clarify the law to explicitly include protection against discrimination based on a person’s caste, which we define as a system of social stratification, in which people are characterized by hereditary status, social barriers and other forms of segregation.

The intent seems to be to ensure no future confusion based upon something we all presently read in the law. Given how Gavin Newsom has recently been publicly at odds with judges over the interpretation of laws and that we've seen interpretations change radically over time (2nd amendment!), it's hardly without precedent.

>predictable second-order effect of this explicit enumeration... and those doing the accounting will find the easiest path through it.

Rather than comparing to consumer labeling laws, what about comparing to other presently enumerated forms of discrimination (and information collection requirements). Do you think we are presently harming minorities with these same second order effects from explicitly listing race and requirements to measure race in hiring? Or that non-heterosexual folk were harmed by explicitly adding sexual orientation (courts had previously inferred it based on prohibiting sex based discrimination)?
And what do you think will happen in the world without US? China and Russia would love that.
Isn’t Nobel like $1M?
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Why the Avocado Should Have Gone the Way of the Dodo
I do pay my rent in crypto
Strongly recommend watching ‘Metropolis (1927)’ if you’re into film history. It’s one of the oldest science fiction movies ever, and is still a good watch. It’s about a humanoid robot and an authoritarian government.

I saw it this week and was baffled by the insight and the scale of it.
Male vocal fry is much less common and mostly exclusive to older generations. I wouldn't say either of your examples are vocal fry.
Gboard wearable caps by Google Japan [video]
The big issue which the author mentioned, where Macs now spew logs at a rate of thousands of messages per second is the real WTF. I don’t even have a problem with verbosity per se, the Mac logs are not only informing of events that have a severity level of debug (such as “Woke from sleep due to network” or info, such as “Display #1 was disconnected” - they’re brimming with literal errors. It’s as though a few years ago they decided to simply give up on having a stable OS which at least functioned correctly, even on a clean install at idle. The logs make clear that most components are full of uncaught exceptions that apparently they don’t even care about. It’s weird that they don’t think this will eventually destabilize the whole system.

With that level of neglect among Apples system developers, the logs may as well just be piped to /dev/null anyway, because ain’t nobody got time for digging through that volume of logs to troubleshoot anything. It’s a far cry from 10 years ago, when if you were having something wonky happening, you could go right to Console and find the whole story spelled out for you.
Yes. My point was it sounds like we’ll delay it for years for testing.

But 59,000 people die of rabies each year and each case is almost certainly fatal.

So it seems we should speed up distributing this. If rabies patients start surviving then we know it works.

At that point we can test exactly how much it works. But meanwhile why wait?
I find them pretty anachronistic on the web, but I love them in a tastefully typeset book.

They really need to match the typeface though -- a Garamond asks for very old-style designs. But if you're using Times New Roman a short simple geometric line will do much better. Whereas with Bodoni, a trio of big old asterisks feels more appropriate.
Rest in peace, Vitto. You were a gentleman and a scholar. Today, the identity community lost a titan. Also, fuck cancer.
I think that is besides the point. If there is no adequate enough training in the work flow or basic tooling concepts for employees such that this is what people are doing with git, there are probably serious problems afoot with best practices and productivity.
is it correct
Can someone enumerate these problems? I’ve been on an M1 for almost 2yrs and I’m apparently missing out on what makes it a bad experience.
It was a start-up where he was a founder and major shareholder, and Quake was his own pet project, so of course he worked nearly 7 days/week. Not only was the future of the company at stake but he also enjoyed doing it.

Then AAA game studios saw this and thought that game devs just love working 7 days/week for peanuts even if it's on other people's companies and other people's projects.
If it's culling the infestation of dammed "Rock Dove" aka "city pigeons"... how do I get one in my city?
There is an ongoing attempt to legalize them through California’s initiative process. https://decrimca.org/

A previous attempt in 2022 did not get enough signatures to be on the ballot.
"Target each and every corner of the strip" implies the strip as a whole is the target. "Operate forcefully everywhere" merely implies that force will be brought everywhere in the strip against whatever the target may be (from context, Hamas).
They’ve always been this way. Eventually the OS will get noticeably shitty, then it will be embarrassing, then they’ll do a cleanup sprint and fix most of them.
> The bromate was used in the filtration process

I don’t think that is accurate. It makes it sound like they were filtering the water through or with bromate, but my understanding is that it is a unwanted side-product generated by ozon treatment.
That's the same as the link I was responding to, and that's why I wrote “relative to” — the Ads team pushing on Chrome for revenue shows Google in a poor light relative to an imagined world where Chrome never cares about Google revenue, but a good light relative to an imagined world where everything that Chrome does is for revenue or some short-term profit to Google, rather than what's good for users.
this is still false quote. i saw him speaking live. he said to get out of the locations that are known to population as hamas/etc compounds, warehouses, etc.

. כל המקומות שהחמאס מסתתר בהם ופועל בתוכם - נהפוך אותם לעיי חורבות. אני אומר לתושבי עזה, צאו משם עכשיו.
> It's about preventing very real, very tangible discriminatory effects happening to people TODAY, right now.

Draconian versions of such anti-discrimination laws exist in India. They are weaponized to settle personal scores to such an extent that the Supreme Court of India has had to step in on multiple occasions.[1][2]

This is a legitimate fear of those protesting against such laws in the US.

If you cannot handle caste discrimination cases without enacting a religion-specific law, that is a defect of existing laws that the relevant authority should fix.

[1] "Civil dispute can’t be converted to a case under SC/ST Act: SC (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/civil-dispute-cant...)

[2] "Insulting, abusing SC/ST person not an offence under SC/ST Act unless victim abused on account of caste: Supreme Court" (https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/insulting-abusin...)
I'd leave, and prioritize a functional organization in my next job requirements.
I speak Hebrew. The direct translation is "we will operate everywhere and with full force".
Isn't Norway more devoid of gold mines?
Foilen comes from the French word meaning ‘to trample’ because gold is one of the few materials that can be continuously crushed by hand until it is 100nm thick.

Ancient Egyptians were known to do this around 5000 BC or so.

Cool to think of the journey of this technology to the northern kingdoms over many generations.
"C'est la vie"
I run https://netwrck.com but couldn't read this because of the paywall.

I think with Twitter the quality and performance just dropped compared to other social networks out there. Elon's personality is not really relevant.

Hopefully one day I can read a good article about how a social netwrck succeeds... But I probably can't justify paying just to read that, lots of companies like Twitter need to think about pragmatic excellence and balancing costs for profitability, this doesn't necessarily mean firing everyone, just running the company safely having constantly to much work on so you can keep running throughout stormy weather without hiring and firing too much.
Isn't that the key differentiation, taking care not to damage artifacts?
Also caused some amish people who were/are considering leaving that had phones to get shunned by the community
I think it's mostly to handle backwards compatibility with a handful of common pre-existing fonts including Symbol and Zapf Dingbats.

Because of those fonts, these particular marks already had widespread digital usage that needed to be maintained.
By your own comment it didn't "happen" so much as it was "attempted"

Hearing the rumour of fraud, journalists from Mainichi newspaper installed hidden cameras at a dig site where Fujimura was working and caught him planting artifacts.

> As for faking carbon-dating, you only need a nuclear reactor.

"Only" .. and I think you'll find it's a lot more complicated that just that - chat with some of the scientists at a US National lab (or physicist in a nuclear field) and you'll find there's entire spectrums of isotopes that fingerprint materials pre & post Atomic age - and there's more than just carbon dating.

> Vinland Map

another example of inks and cabon not matching - as I stated in my comment it's difficult to fake artifacts.
It's easy for him since he wrote most of the code himself so he knows how it all works and fits together so short notes are all it takes to get the clue, but good luck finding your way around projects where you didn't write 90% of the code and it's constantly changing under your nose from other people's commits.
How is this related to the British? Caste is not their invention.

Indian politicians will try to maximize votes overall. Only in a district with supermajority caste-culture population would they be able to prefer their caste over others someone in campaigning, and why wouldn't they do that anyway?

As it stands now, an elected Indian official is free to appoint only same-caste officials when said officials are also Indian. Do they pr do they not do that now?
Worktrees are super useful to avoid interrupting your work in progress when you need to load another branch to help someone debug something.
The CHR ROM on NES Elite was actually RAM... allowing for something akin to "bitmap mode" on the TI-99/4A or C64 where they can use the CHR memory as a framebuffer in which to draw those vector graphics.
These profiles are provided by Apple for the explicit use of debugging... what makes you think bad faith actors wouldn't take advantage of harvesting such juicy data? Especially at the verbose rate macOS provides...