skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about material goods? My understanding is that this wealth can’t be converted into materials without running into shortages (e.g. Jeff Bezos could theoretically purchase billions of hotdogs or acres or medicine, but in practice we’d run out).

I believe we produce over 100% of the food we need to feed everyone but under 200%, and logistics / food waste is another issue. Among the housing crisis there are a lot of vacant apartments and buildings with extra space, but idk if there are enough to give everyone a furnished apartment with plumbing, electricity, proper heating/cooling, and access to community.

Also debt. Debt isn’t material so it could be paid with the excess wealth (or the government could just say “your debt is gone”). The problem is that now you have to pay the companies who are owed the debt, and what will they spend the money on? If they just save it like Jeff Bezos, good, but if they spend it on more materials we run into the same issue. And you can’t just not pay the debtors or getting a loan becomes much, much harder.

I think inequality is a serious issue, I think it’s very obvious and the website does a great job conveying it. But I also don’t think it’s as simple as “just redistribute the money”. The bigger issue which I think everyone has good reason to want to support is logistics: getting people what they need and want, as efficiently as possible, while reducing waste.
Are there any notable differences between profiles in Safari and Chrome?
Yea, we’re crazy dumb idiots for thinking it’s not great that so many people are literally starving and homeless and one dude has more wealth than Smaug.
I’m shocked at the method for picking a random page. It’s guaranteed to produce permanent biases in the randomization and lots of path dependence in how individual articles’ chances change over time. Picking a random int from 1 to N is not rocket science.

This makes me wonder if there isn’t some intentional weighting going on, e.g. certain favored pages get space in front of them cleared out so they’re more likely to pop up.
> Any sufficiently big country is very anarchic in that sense.

The reason most large countries have standardized on democracy + separation of powers + rule of law (in various flavors) is precisely because it's a decent solution to this.

China's governance struggles are because it wants two contradictory things (a) absolute authority of the CCP + (b) absolute adherence to the rule of law.

Unfortunately, explicitly placing a political party made of humans above the rule of law is a recipe for ignoring the latter. First when it's politically inconvenient. Then, once it's become culturally acceptable, whenever anyone thinks they can get away with it.

Xi smartly pushed this back a few decades, to the extent possible, by identifying and pursuing corruption vigorously (from the top) as an existential threat to the CCP. Unfortunately, absolute power... etc. ... and inevitably aspects of those corruption crusades turned into removing political enemies from power.

Authoritarian regimes' greatest weaknesses are corruption and blindness to inconvenient truths.

Democracies' are lack of unity and long term planning.
Exactly. Feel whatever way you want about the sides of any of the major wars going on right now, but there are always going to be outside actors helping finance a war effort that benefits them.

I have no love for the US, but let's not pretend that there aren't foreign actors egging on Hamas or the various factions in north west Africa as well. People who manufacture guns operate everywhere, and they are all enemies of peace.
still bloated and takes to long event for startup compare to netbeans as an IDE.
Were you silent about what Hamas did in Israel?
Yeah because Musk definitely doesn’t have any conflict of interest with China…
Can't my phone already do all this but like, way better?
Back in my youth I wanted a tattoo of different numbers swirling around my right arm and over my shoulder onto my back. Pi would have been the backbone of the tattoo.

In the different numbers would have been my birth-minute represented in decimal unix time, hex, binary, etc. Then different date systems from around the world, Islamic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Chinese Lunar, Japanese, and Mayan long count. I gave up because I couldn't find enough people that I trusted to verify that the different language date strings were correct.
The benchmark rate is no match for structural demographics. Powell can't slow housing inflation unless he can get millions of houses and apartment units built. He can't slow healthcare inflation as he can't control healthcare cost inflation. He can't control fuel inflation when businesses demand RTO (commuting in aggregate) in a world that is trying to get off of oil (and starving oil and gas of investment) and multiple conflicts are in progress.

That is not to say rates where they are at are too high. ~5% is likely a reasonable target rate. But going higher will not drive up unemployment.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/us-labor-shortage-older-wor...

https://apnews.com/article/inflation-business-pandemics-jero...

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/the-missing-workers-who-are...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/30/feds-powell-inflati...
> ...bank accounts...legal... Pictures are the least of your concerns.

Yes and no. Even the least-skilled young repair tech can ogle Hot_Bikini.jpg on impulse, with ~zero expectation of being caught, and an easy "victimless" rationalization. Vs. doing things you allude to would require a very different (and far rarer) sort of perp.

Given the CBC's limited resources, need for clicks, and (if they're sane) aversion to getting involved in serious crimes - using sexy pictures for their story was the right way to go.
"sadly, the series is unremarkable for the fact that each film is substantially worse than the one before"

Patently false! The third is better than the second.
I bet its a new plan for revenue extraction. quietly remove the feature, then upsell a "premium package" that includes exporting your own data in that format.
The romance seemed really crammed in there with a paper thin female, IIRC the director and the actress hated each other so that’s part of why she hardly has any lines/scenes.
And people who buy up companies, take them apart piece by piece, slash all spending, lay people off, sell the parts piece by piece, and pocket all the money? Are they providing value?
The video evidence of the aftermath, published by HAMAS, is sufficient to dismiss the possibility of air-burst of even smaller weapons such as GBU-39/B, because that would have resulted in much more distant blast-wave damage (e.g. broken nearby windows which were intact in the video of the scene).

The impact crater that was identified (it's clearly visible in the same HAMAS videos of the aftermath) is approx 1 meter wide and 30 cm deep - in the context of glide bombs that's "not a crater", as it's far too small for a GBU-39/B sized bomb.

While we definitely will need to wait to know the whole truth, there is already sufficient information to come to at least some conclusions (e.g. that Gaza health officials definitely lied about the casualties).

And the primary reason for "too much confusion" IMHO is people disseminating hypotheses that are already disproven by the evidence that we do already have, such as the GBU-39/B suggestion.
Anybody who bough 1 Amazon stock on IPO day could’ve taken that risk. It wasn’t that hard or expensive, come on. Most people didn’t though.

Jeff basically built that company from nothing. He deserves any wealth he has.
> He earns money by taking risks

He earns money by exploiting workers (sometimes literally to death) and destroying competition with unfair practices.

> and something that most people aren't willing to do, especially to the extremes he has

He was able to get started due to hundreds of thousands of dollars from his parents. That’s neither a risk nor something most people can do.

> which is the cornerstone of capitalism

Won’t argue with that. But it’s not a positive.
On the other hand, it completely kills the wasabi/horseradish sensation.
So CEO compensation there is excessive for sure. That said, charity care is probably better measured vs a hospital’s net income absent any such care. My understanding is these hospitals are squeezed on both sides of the healthcare system by insurance and health equipment and drug providers, so they don’t have a lot of net income to spare for charity care.
> It’s not like Israel to intentionally blow up a hospital full of civilians. It’s not unlike them to do it on accident.

Well, the notable part, which the press has not really admitted goofing, is that the hospital didn't blow up.

Something explosive landed on the parking lot outside the hospital and burned a bunch of cars and civilians without leaving a crater!
On the other hand if this oopsies its way into a codebase it could highlight a serious problem with the code review process..
Oh the Wolf wanted to join the chicken coop? Get out of here!
I'm also curious. As always for the arXiv there is latex source code for the paper available at the "Other formats" link, and I'm having a hard time telling if its been auto-generated from Nota, but I presume it has given the visual similarity.
That's literally what New York Times did though.

Nate is complaining about the headlines in the Breaking News section not some article.
We could take the HN route of keeping all wikipedia articles in memory at all times, then just take a random sample of the list. In an alternate universe where Lisp dominated, Wikipedia's random article button is in fact implemented this way.
Wealth isn't quite zero sum but it is adversarial. If someone has a lot of it they can use it against you. Use it to propagandize against your class interests, use it to manipulate the political environment to your detriment. The wealth may not be zero sum but the power it represents certainly can be.

"How many people has he '''made successful'''" is a fuzzy and already biased metric, how do you decide on that one? Why not "how many people would have had a better job if not for his company" or "how many liters of urine in soda bottles because of his policies?"

Wealth is concrete and measurable. People can differ on what exactly the consequences of wealth inequality are but I think nearly everyone will agree that it measures something worthwhile to know.
Einstein and Schroedinger have built something that is useful to that many people and they didn't earn much out of it.

It sounds as absurd to me.
This program is the one substantial BECCS deployment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_...) in the world.

https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/11/19/despite-hundreds-o...

Capturing carbon from fermentation of an ethanol plant is an ideal case because you don't need an expensive amine stripper or oxy-fuel combustion to get CO2 that is pure enough to inject underground.
It used to be much more common for there to be a separate pool of paid "sick time" that was supposed to be used for medical reasons only. The thinking was presumably that an employee shouldn't have to cancel their vacation because they had the misfortune to come down with a bad case of the flu for a week.
Neither Tesla nor Apple would be competitative without their Chinese supply lines.
How much have people earned by working for Amazon? How much have people earned by selling their goods on Amazon?

It seems like you want to find some way to prevent individuals from being wildly successful, but I think you are overlooking the fact that his wealth is a fraction of the value what he started has provided to the economy.

You are concerned that Bezos has "accrue[d] that much wealth" but his wealthy is mostly stock which is basically just an indication of how valuable people think Amazon (and his other companies) are to the US (and world) economy. He doesn't have $150 billion in cash in his basement or bank.

If you want to think in terms of "How can we keep a company from providing this much value to the world?" then yes. If we could push everyone back to living in caves, there would be less disparity, but that probably isn't something most people want.
Yeah I end up going to urgent care for just about everything, because my doctor is months out.
This can't be real ...
// Why should the majority of the tax burden be on the middle class?

I think it's a common misconception that the rich don't pay taxes. According to a quick Google (but in line with prior research):

In 2020, the bottom half of taxpayers paid 2.3 percent of all federal individual income taxes. The top 1 percent paid 42.3 percent of all federal income taxes.
Okay I’m just some dumb guy without the advantage of a college education who lives in flyover country but like, so what? Why should I care? It just strikes me as midwit intellectual class sneering at people better off than them. Especially on Hacker News, it’s mostly millionaires being upset by the existence of billionaires.

My quality of life is amazing, all of this capitalism’s working out great for me. I’m someone who doesn’t even have a high school diploma but thanks to tech I make a wage that makes my family and react in shock when I’ve revealed it to them. I get to go on vacation twice a year, I live in a great neighborhood, I love my job.

The thing is, Jeff Bezos has done far more to push up my wages indirectly by virtue of Amazon existing and hiring talent, and offering great salaries. I don’t care at all how much money Jeff Bezos makes and it strikes me as mean spirited the complaining surrounding “wealth inequality”. As long as my objective quality of life is unimaginably good compared to any of my ancestors that have ever existed, what am I supposed to be getting riled up about?

When I read a statement like “inequality is “extreme”, I feel it’s strongly implying a call to action to “tip the scales” against it. That it’s an injustice that ought to be remedied. With what, government action? Some new laws?

I feel like any attempt to mess with this good thing we’ve got going on would destroy it, either unintentionally or not.
The latest high-severity Citrix vulnerability under attack isn't easy to fix
Nobody where I work ever takes a sick day, ever.

We get 3 sick days a year that roll over and get cashed out under certain circumstances and "unlimited" PTO.
Neutrons see stress in 3D-printed parts, advancing additive manufacturing
I don't think the scripting/systems distinction matters. After all, Go dragged a lot of Python developers that create more or less the same kind of applications and banckends. They just enjoy added benefits such as easy deployment, faster execution, lower memory requirements, saner dependency management, and more. But I'm pretty sure error handling is not what they like about Go. I sure don't, I just cope with it.
Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers are currently the funniest on late night, but I think Steven Colbert still has it. He has a lot more space to work now that his persona doesn't require him to pretend to be conservative.
What most viewers didn't realize is that what made Jon Stewart's Daily Show so great - was the huge A caliber writing staff & contributors behind it.

All who have gone onto bigger things, like:

- Stephen Colbert (has his own show now)

- Jon Oliver (has his own show now)

- Samatha Bee (has her own show now)

- Larry Wilmore (has his own show now)

- Steve Carell (movies/own show)

- Hasan Minhaj (who had his own show and probably the best "Daily Show" like spin off)

... and many more
Part of being a diva is knowing what buttons to push ...
Well, I agree there are major ethical concerns about this topic. You're going to have to trust your technician with your data to some degree. If you don't, don't keep it on your personal device but on an external or have it encrypted.

If a user comes in with a virus I would expect the technician to explain in educate where the virus came from. That would involve browser history and downloads.

If a technician worked on my device I would expect them to back it up in case of data loss. That data should be held until the end user is satisfied, then securely deleted.
If you took all of Bezos' wealth, and evenly distributed it to everyone in America, it would be about $600 per person. If instead you tried to spend it on eliminating the federal deficit, it would knock out about 5% of it.

I would rather Bezos is allowed to try and invest it in something as impactful as Amazon again. He's certainly fair likelier to do it than, say, the US government, or you yourself.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but I would argue strongly that the concept is out of place politically right now.

Maybe not for much longer but since the late 90s, surely. There's also just too much info in the public about how real spies operate. It makes the Bond concept pretty nonsensical. The character has to change to overcome the audience's disbelief.
Injured Gaza baby photo proven to be AI-generated
People often talk. Jim used to date Jenny in Accounting, and he said she's really, like REALLY, into S/M, etc.

Plus you'd be surprised (or maybe not) as to the number of DNS queries we get from employee workstations that are to questionable websites. I couldn't tell you all of my coworkers that are gay, but I can tell you a few that are hitting gay porn websites from their work laptop.
"I've got a great idea for an app. Just need a coder to code the codes"
While some businesses are able to create regulatory moats that prevents (by military force, if necessary) consumers from spending their money elsewhere, I'm not sure what stops consumers from spending their money elsewhere when it comes to Amazon? I see nothing that it offers which is meaningfully unique. Anything I have ever considered buying from Amazon is also available at the 'mom & pop' store down the street.

If consumers actively choose to trade an IOU that offers future goods or services (that's what money is) to Bezos for something Bezos is offering now, and not to you for whatever it is you are offering now, I guess he "deserves" it, no? Surely people should have autonomy in who they decide to make trades with?
People will believe whatever nonsense they want to believe contrary to any evidence. It's just like the 40 beheaded babies story from a week ago, but from the other side. Both sides get to believe false narratives, so it's all quite fair I guess.
I scrolled through all of Jezz Bezos waealth. Doesn't feel like that much when you scroll through it like that. When I hear the number $185 Billion it sounds like it should be a lot larger
I thought it memorable that Stephen Hawking departed on 3.14 2018.
It is because as a person you feel nothing else can be done. So you do the thing that you can do, knowing that probably it can't change much but... what else can you do? Doing nothing like everyone else? From the outside it looks like madness, but when you are that person it seems like keeping your integrity and being able to look in the mirror.
Peertube works pretty well, just not that many users.
However, the party he was affiliated with, the social-democratic party, these days believes that this was the biggest mistake they have ever made.

This is because it turned out that punishing people for not having a job might motivate some to take on jobs that are below their qualification, but that it does not solve the actual underlying issue - having people qualified for the jobs there are, in the regions those jobs are in.

Due to this, even under the rule of the conservative christian-democratic party, things then moved into the opposite direction again, with the organization that is supposed to bring people into jobs getting reformed massively. We now have lots of excellent programs that are focused on re-training people and help fix the causes of them having lost their jobs.
> blow up a hospital

How about the fact this very hospital is still standing with walls intact? Does that change anything in your view? How do we know its still there and we arent being fed lies? Hamas, the so called "other side" uploaded videos after the fact showing this undamaged hospital building and burned cars in parking lot around small crater consistent with other Hamas rocket strike sites.

Same story with two day old news headlines about "collapsed Church", its also still standing. https://nitter.net/Osinttechnical/status/1715367751135441031
> What do you find surprising about consumers preferring to buy something from Amazon rather than their local mom and pop store?

The website. It’s been absolute shit for years. It’s full of knockoffs and scams. I can hardly find the things I want, there’s dark patterns, they actively compete with sellers on their platform… I honestly think they get away with it because mom and pop are out of business. I’d go back if I could.
> Jeff basically built that company from nothing.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars from his parents is very far from “nothing”.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/how-jeff-bezos-got-his-paren...
Most of that wealth is tied in Amazon so he’s “using” it every single day to serve us and provide jobs for all those hundred of thousands of people.
Do you mean that tingling sensation that goes up from nose to the scalp?
300+ mile range seems pretty good. Most of my car use only ends up being maybe 10 miles a day, with only maybe once every three months going anywhere close to 300 miles. With three kids, I don't really want to travel longer than that.
It's hard not to agree but this is a total loss. DevOps as a culture works, and what most organizations do doesn't.

Why is it so hard to embed these specialists in a vertical team and bring that cultural change? My guess is that they have two work streams and effectively two people to report to: The team leader, and their own manager/director.

I think this is a problem for businesses since it complicates traditional hierarchies in ways they are not prepared to deal with.

A counter example is QA, that does more often get embedded within a team and promotes a quality first mindset - why get this right and not DevOps? I'm confused.
You're creating a strawman that doesn't exist from the article. There's no ask to be fast and perfect.

The ask was that retractions happen, and that journalists own up to being wrong.

There's evidence provided to show that NYT is very reluctant to backtrack.
Speeding Up Cython with SIMD
Amazon wouldn't be worth less if someone else owned it and he only owns 10% of the company. So all of it.
If Wix or Weebly add code editing will they count then as CDEs? I guess my question is, what would they need to add to count as CDEs?