skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far more likely that you'd just bankrupt your family, lose your home and your job, only to have the courts uphold that same unconstitutional law. I'd respect the hell of anyone who tried and sacrificed everything they had to force the courts to confirm that the constitution is being ignored to satisfy an oppressive and power hungry government, but I sure as hell wouldn't recommend it or be able/willing to myself.
>Imagine if Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit had been kept so pristine.

It kind of was until fairly recently with the Jackson films. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s we basically just had the books. Yes, there were animated versions of The Hobbit and LOTR in the late 1970s, but they were fairly obscure and before VCRs became common in the 1980s, it was difficult to even see them.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003728
its ok, i use Brave
> Asking police officers to enforce traffic violations is a very expensive use of their time.

Is it? Seems like heavy enforcement could pay for itself in terms of fines.
The AI-Generated Child Abuse Nightmare Is Here
The system isn't reasonable, so your denial based on what you think can "reasonably" happen is just your privilege talking.
> but it's also certainly effective at discouraging overeating

I think you should back that statement up with a citation.
AI creators' clones via text, voice, image and video
I actually think he means everything is fixed except the key, salt, nonce, etc. Not just shared as in publicly known, shared as in the same value is used by everyone.
Apply some ghee (clarified butter), drink water.
A person has the potential to do more than what a Cruise vehicle actually did in the situation.
Interviewers will just lie to you. The authors of these guides seem to forget that.

If you want to get information, as a candidate, you have to get it by asking questions that leak information in side channels, because the direct answer is usually worthless.
So inequality is so bad it makes mean numbers inaccurate to a 5x degree. That’s the real headline. Not this BS
I'd say plenty of people are thinking about wealth inequality, and the mean/median discrepancy is one of many relevant statistics.
On average, Americans have less than two hands.
People miss the point of OOP as practiced (vs what the revered ancients intended).

Alan Kay wanted biology and we got it, just the taxonomy system instead of cell biology.

OOP with classes is a way to classify and organize code.

The problem with the functional paradigm is there’s less clear patterns for code organization.

Check out the average typescript project (or just any successful long lived js project) and the code organization is all over the place.

Not saying you can’t organize a function and module system, it seems like a bigger challenge.
It is surprising to me that my comment is perceived as whataboutism and as if I am rooting for Meta (I do not see any such implication here). Far from it, as I do not like Meta and its product (I don't even have Facebook or Instagram app installed on my phone). I am merely saying that it is very tough to prove such case in the court as rigorous vetting is necessary and the onus to prove is on the plaintiff.
"mean not median" is what I believe gp meant to say
Heh, most people give me 5 minutes at the end of an hour long interview to "ask questions of the company" - there's no interest in a meaningful discussion; many people think you should be coming to the company with hat in hand.
Well, obviously the number of autonomous vehicles involved in accidents is going to be lower, but that's because barely any of them exist compared to the vast majority of people driving their cars. If you had statistics on proportions though, that might be a different story.
The political views in Calvin and Hobbes, where they exist at all, are much more in line with 60's counter-culture: anti-consumerism, distrust of authority figures, labor issues. Where there are right-leaning references (e.g. "Commies") they are mocking. Think Colonel Flag in MASH.

My reaction was not bizarre, I live in a deeply red place where at least once in every social gathering I get to hear some harp about "the media" or political correctness, so I know it when I see it. It is amusing because it is so enshrined in "modern" conservative culture (well, not so modern, it started in the early 90s...) to complain about this that it creeps into everything.
Even then, that median net worth figure includes paper gain on primary home value.

But homes are very illiquid because of mortgage rate changes and most scenarios where people can actually draw cash out of primary housing require some major change in lifestyle since both rents and replacement homes mostly track those same paper gains.

This report is mostly “see, things are great! Please please please don’t panic!” spin.
I think you read my comment too far into something I do not implicate....
The referenced book. Gardner's Logic Machines and Diagrams, is a classic.

https://archive.org/details/logicmachinesdia00mart/
Out of curiosity, what would you measure? Accidents? Injuries? The power might be too low to get good data on rare events.
Those are the kinds of cases that should be handled through jury nullification - too bad it's a crime to explain that right and how it should be used to jurors.
> Pedestrian fatalities have almost doubled over a decade.

Requiring cellphones to disable themselves in cars might be even more effective.
Go to the source and do percentiles of net worth https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...

In the 75-90th percentile of net worth, the median net worth is over a million. So that means that in the 82.5th percentile onwards, it exceeds a million dollars. There are 131 million households in the US. That's 23 million millionaires.

U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A

Of course, this does mean something quite interesting. If each American millionaire gave up $10k, that would be equal cash accumulated to buy out Elon Musk's net assets at current market price. That means, interestingly, that all the things people are upset that a multi-billionaire like him don't do, we could do if we all felt like it.

The truth is we don't feel like it. I certainly don't. I want to keep my $10k :)
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37986424

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37984838
Really tragic that you still fed the misleading nature of the title by repeating the median point. It was a really good article I thought and took the time to explain the numbers and related conclusions.
FISA and the patriot Act and NSLs did not increase the freedom did they?
The original announced release date was 2014.
And the vast majority of people who make it don't have proper chemistry training, lab equipment, PPE, or pure chemicals to make pharmaceutical grade methamphetamine with no impurities or unreacted reagents.

I'm all for medicine that helps people and amphetamines absolutely can, but methamphetamine doesn't help people. It enslaves them.
Coolio, but realistically long term, US will be still top with India next, then EU and then China.

> You look in ANY American colleges, you will find "East Asians" a lot even more so in Ivy Leagues.

Why are they in US instead of China?
I have a lot of lip chapping problems, partly because it's quite dry in Northern Colorado, but I seem to have worse problems than those around me as well.

What I've found best, after trying quite a few options, is: It's hard to beat making your own. For ~$20 you can get "lip balm container tray" (you want the tray, you need to overfill the tubes because they shrink when they cool). For around another $20-40 (but that'll make ~200-400 tubes) you can get bees wax, cocoa/shea butter, and coconut oil. Optionally add some lanolin and essential oils. Try a half cup bees wax, half cup cocoa butter, and a cup of coconut oil.

I just heat this mixture in the microwave, heat for 30 seconds, stir, heat again, until it's liquid.

Really easy, affordable over the long term, great to give out to friends and family with chapped lips, and it's been more effective than anything else I've used.

You may want to make your mix, let it cool and try it for thickness. If it's too hard, add some coconut oil or shea butter, if it's too thin add some bees wax. Do this before your final fill of the tubes to get the exact composition you like.
> Edit: for the naysayers, a new Ford truck costs $100k.

What a childish, disingenuous claim. I'm sure there are Ford trucks going for over $100k -- the market for gigantic luxury "work" vehicles has been around for quite a while now. But they are also making trucks with a US MSRP as low as $23,400.[0]

[0]: https://www.ford.com/trucks/maverick/?gnav=header-trucks-vhp
I eventually left. I hated the culture. They would literally shame people for not hitting 90% of their sprint goals, meanwhile the interruptions were constant and never ending. Also, despite all the time spent on code reviews, the code base was incredibly difficult to work with. Technical debt did not begin to describe it. 5000 line single file "modules", decade old dependencies nobody dared upgrade, not to mention Python 2.7 (in 2022), multiple ORMs, on and on.
> Plus they have a fleet of support folks and standby remote and dispatchable operators which cannot be cheap, we get no insight into the financials except that they're losing several billion dollars a year. If at the end you end up paying more than for a Uber for the service to be sustainable then what's the point.

I think they are banking on the technology continuing to improve, the number of manual interventions decreasing, and costs coming down.
932 miles is suspiciously specific.
Part of being a safe driver is knowing when it's not safe to drive and resisting pressure to drive anyway.
https://twitter.com/MisgavINS/status/1714183691574948036 Think tank of a former PM.
Are operating systems failing at their jobs if one can't run independent workloads on them anymore?

It seems like something is broken, and we are all patching things up piecemeal.
That seems so unnecessarily complex. However, I suppose it must work faster than a simple loop testing for the terminating NULL, counting as you go.
Range = this new battery’s capacity / some car’s average “MPG”

This produced an “exact” number out of consumption averages. The public doesn’t yet know what “250 kWh” means.
You don’t need to clamp for the median (unless you mean to exclude them from the dataset entirely, which is almost surely not done).
Wish it had my use case - go to website foo, copy it's CSS and apply to my framework of choice
1984' gets a new life, and a fresh perspective, in 'Julia'
Uranium is totally legal to possess.
The "average person" doesn't become a billionaire, but the average wealth becomes > $1 billion.

Both mean and median are useful (as well as many other statistics), depending on what your goals are. Median can be very misleading in some contexts.
Whoever wrote that converted 1500km to miles and rounded (= 932.057 miles)
Makes sense.

What are the consequences of default?
That's probably very US centric given how much TV comes from there. Does the UK even have a constitution or does the buck stop with the monarch?
"Almost the truth, but not" slogan, Wait till you see their now redacted page about how they were the first large opensource company.
I don't even drive that much, but I've seen this behavior twice in the past week and a few more times in the past few month: Driver stopped at non-sensor intersection in straight lane. Left turn arrow turns green, straight solid red stays red. Driver starts going and proceeds straight through intersection. I'm left wondering if this is part of the general breakdown of norms following Covid, or aging boomers not caring about tickets, or what. It could just have been a spurious pattern too, of course.
In your experience, when is this really an issue? I don’t disagree with you, but I’ve never been that inconvenienced by lack of third party libraries. Most of the time I’m just using Elixir to call a REST API anyway.
Turo is also a good "vehicle" for money laundering.

In my area there's multiple Chrysler 300Cs and others for rent. Kinda. They're listed at $600/day, and often booked for weeks on end.

Great idea if you're a drug dealer. Give your customer free product/cash/whatever, they "rent" your car (at no point do they actually get your car), and you send them the requisite odometer pictures at the start and end of each "rental", rinse and repeat.
> A bus/tram that shows up every 3 minutes (average wait time 1.5 minutes) ... is a completely reasonable level of service for most of the day in a major city

When living in London a few years ago (clearly a major city), the wait times between buses were pretty short. They might have been about 6-10 minutes for some of the more central areas (rough guess from memory).

I'd be surprised if they were "every 3 minutes (average wait time 1.5 minutes) though".

Meanwhile, in Melbourne and Sydney though (substantial cities, but not London sized) the buses are more like 1/2 hour apart.

In Brisbane (capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia) the buses are 1 hour apart, and seem to stop about 7pm each night.
Yeah but what’s the standard deviation.
WinUI3 Source Available
win+x, open Terminal

winget install mozilla.firefox

Then you don't even have to open Edge!

I usually just do that step with chocolatey as part of an ansible playbook, but winget works even better.
Dont worry kids your corporate overlords are just having an argument but they still love you
All these calculations are only true if your destination is on the road the bus runs along. Since not every road has a bus line, you also usually have to walk multiple blocks perpendicular _away_ from the bus line in addition to some of the distance between stops.
May be actually getting better over time. A lot of the screen-related car sickness goes away with the refresh rate bumped up to 120Hz. These are slowly arriving to not-completely-gaming laptops fortunately.
Wealth does not need to be liquid to be wealth. Particularly when that wealth is a claim to not to have to pay rent, the biggest single expense of nearly every non-home-owning household.

The problem isn't that the wealth is illiquid. The problem is that housing wealth incentivizes behavior to turn housing into a zero-sum problem and thereby drive up the cost of housing, to the benefit of current homeowners at the express cost of all future generations and non-owning workers right now.
> If the cynical slant you suggest is true, then we don't actually have governments any longer, and you should not use that word. In that case, we ought to figure out how we lost real government, what we have instead, and how to get rid of it.

- "we ought to figure out how we lost real government": It happened because of the inability to collectively overcome recency biases, which the State often exploits to their benefit; A tragedy happens, people want it fixed, the government gives a "fix" that grants them more power, and when its realized that too much was given away, it's by then too late to fully reverse the "fix".

- "what we have instead": What we have now is a State whose main focus is its own self-preservation, even when certain high-level agents/politicians have the goal of doing the opposite. Day-to-day-wise, the State is mainly focused on making sure that the State continues to exist, with the accomplishment of what it was meant to do in the first place being secondary.

- "how to get rid of it": Only two types of events can eliminate such a State. (1) An event so cataclysmic that not even a State (with total control over everyone & everything) can survive; (2) A ground-up total rejection of the State as a whole, even the good parts; (3) A rival State defeating the existing State & taking over.

The event that causes (1) implicitly also means the destruction of modern society & a regression to medieval ages.

(2) will be hard to drum up support for given the benefits from the good parts of the State, even if they're ephemeral.

The new State from (3) is just as likely to be as bad/good as the old state, just with different warts.

At its core, its a human hardware/software problem. The human hardware needs to be made more resilient against adversarial attacks & internal failures, so as to reduce the need for a State to begin with. Similarly, the human software also needs to be improved to mitigate cognitive biases as much as possible.
I am staring aghast with European eyes at a city of 4 million people where the commuter rail doesn't run outside peak hours. How do you get home if you go out for a couple of drinks with colleagues, or stay late for a call?

You shouldn't be asking for a couple of trains between 8pm and midnight. They should be every half hour, or more! Midnight until 6am on Saturday and Sunday could be every hour or two.

(I live in Copenhagen, half the population of Seattle. Commuter trains run every 20 minutes from 5-24h, every 10 6-18, all night on Friday and Saturday nights. Other trains also run, and the metro is 24/7.)
(not my view) What OP means is you don't bring an airforce and a navy and an army to a gang fight, unless of course you're okay with destruction of urban areas.
Are you trying to say that an equitable wealth distribution would make mean and median across the population the same? This is a very specific statistical conclusion that is hard to grok without unpacking some of the assumptions behind it.
Increasing flow often increases the number of cars on the road, particularly with dynamic routing apps, so the first assumption is invalid.
Would be amazing if it came to consoles for sure, maybe in another 10 years.
Dude, you're obsessed with Elon. Give it a break.
and there will still only be 21 million bitcoin
This report is an annual survey with published methodology and unsurprising results. Why does everything involving the Fed turn into a conspiracy theory? You can see exactly the composition of the increase in net worth, there's no secret motive to publishing this report that they always publish - it's just survey data.

The dataset is actually really interesting: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...
I mean it technically works but if you pay $1500 or whatever they want for it I’m sure you will end up disappointed unless they’ve done some serious software magic
And I believe those numbers typically don't include the value of pensions. The Net Present Value of a solid pension is well north of a million.
Step one; get overreaching, extreme powers passed into law because they'll only be used to fight "terrorism".

Step two; redefine everything as terrorism.
An interesting observation is that if 99% of the wealth is held by 1% of people, and currency/wealth is only valuable insofar as people recognize ownership, if everyone just stopped recognizing ownership and we redistribute everything equally, 99% of people would stand to double their wealth on average
What percentage of adults actually have both a house and a 401k?
Possible months, for a new experience, and perhaps the consequences aren't so catastrophic. Lots of people go to jail and live long and happy lives afterwards.

Don't live in fear, that is not worth it.
Yeah, because need to be able to use your vehicle to escape pursuers and also as a ramming weapon. I assume police would get an exception from this rule, but they don't actually have more of a legal right to use their vehicle as a weapon than anyone else, they are just less likely to be questioned on their judgement of the situation as an emergency by the DA. Probably also a second amendment violation, but the Supreme Court might be too originalist (and not textualist enough) to buy that argument, as cars did not exist in the decades surrounding the founding.
Duke Nukem Forever took 14 years. Kickstarter was in 2012, so let's see if it will be released earlier than 2026.

Enough time to graduate, start a family and have first child in school....
It would be more useful if they counted expected lifetime income. Most assets are valued at net present value of discounted future cash flows. But they don’t count personal future income for the labor class in their wealth calculation. If you do, even people on welfare are basically millionaires.
"mean person" or "mean household" is not a thing. The wording they actually use is "mean net worth of an American household" which is much more clear.
It's not. That's why the UK has had losses related with this acts in the European Court of Human Rights. See e.g. https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-191276
Ask HN: What's the best way to become an independent software developer?
I quite like software as a job but I think I'm going to end up working for myself, one way or another. I can work on a team but I prefer working alone; I also like having control over the direction of a project and being able to iterate as fast as I need to. This has led me to software consulting/contracting or just creating a "software studio." I'd love if someone who has done something similar to share their thoughts on this. Thanks!
I like it, very reminiscent of retro SDI (Reagan’s “Star Wars”) concept art.
> They have partial relationships that they don't feel the need to disclose.

Well, that's your assumption. I would preface that with "probably", since we don't know this for a fact.

> Most of them did not mention any relationship: hence the "psuedo-astroturfing"

Side note: I think you mean "quasi-", not "pseudo-". [1]

But, more to your intended point: the point I'm getting at is that that you're really stretching the definition of astroturfing here, even with the weasel wording added on it.

Astroturfing is a central campaign coordinated by a vendor in a manner as to appear decentralized. It's really an accusation against the central entity rather than as the pawns they're using in the process. So quasi-astroturfing might be a situation where (say) the vendor doesn't actually organize the campaign, but pays an advertiser who internally organizes the campaign without the knowledge of the vendor. The vendor might overlook signs that this is happening, without directly supporting it. Or they might not realize it at all. That's something that would be close to astroturfing, but not exactly it.

However, people advocating for a product due to their genuine personal opinions in a way that's clearly uncoordinated and unsupported by the vendor is not remotely "astroturfing" in any sense. It's a biased expression of opinions, with a potential conflict of interest (if they're still affiliated with that vendor).

All of which I think matters not only because words matter, but also particularly because this site's rules treat astroturfing differently from "someone is biased on the internet", and the admins very much don't want accusations of astroturfing without evidence.

[1] Pseudo- means fake, like how pseudoscience is fake science. Pseudo-astroturfing would be fake astroturfing, or the faking of fake grassroots support. Meaning you'd be accusing people of being real grassroots supporters who are pretending to be fake ones, which would make for a funny accusation.
Very relevant, and we can think of numerous additional examples. I'm fond of making American Revolution comparisons.

The only difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is which side you're on (or: which side the victors write into history).
winget is the best thing to happen to Windows in years, especially now that it's not a separate download.
Some executive probably has Edge market share in their compensation goals.
No data to back it up at the moment but I am pretty sure that home ownership has historically been a big wealth builder for the middle class. It historically has allowed people to use leverage on a fairly stable asset, while doubling as a hedge against rent. Now this is of course excluding 2008 and whatever has happened in the last 3 years(more institutional investment in residential real estate).
66% of Americans own their home. I would expect more people have a 401k than that. But it also depends how you count non-working adults, who might own a home but not have a 401k (although then their partner's 401k may be considered theirs in part, perhaps).