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Love that this appeared on HN! For context, this I think is Cheever’s (“the Checkhov of the suburbs”) most famous story. Another widely anthologized one is “The Enormous Radio” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enormous_Radio. Cheever’s collected stories won the Pulitzer Prize.

From https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/31/the-swimmer-by...:

“But as fun as it is to play spot-the-allusion – and as tempting as it is to view The Swimmer as a Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man – Cheever’s greatest short story transcends its influences and any autobiographical frisson to emerge as a quietly devastating journey into one man’s heart of darkness. And as a piece of prose it is as near-miraculous as the journey it describes, standing as a perfect example of Cheever’s description of fiction as ‘the telling of lies … a sort of sleight-of-hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.’ “

If you like this style you may also want to read William Trevor’s stories, for the British equivalent.
I definitely believe that wealthy people should be taxed at similar or higher levels than the average middle class employee, and I am definitely not some Elon fanatic.

With that said, I do think that there is a reason they have so much money and that they are inventors that are pushing the boundaries. I don't understand why people refuse to accept that some people are smarter, work harder, think at a grander scale.
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What's the point of these statistics without even mentioning the date of their predictions? You could write an article stating that 100% of jobs will be hit, because eventually they will be, but maybe in 200 years?
I do that (wait a bit) on macOS and iOS, but I wasn't able to explain to my Windows that I don't want to update automatically. Especially in the middle of some overnight computing task.
On Android TV there is SmartTube for example. I am not sure if adguard is doing something as well. But i am still 100% adfree on YouTube.
> As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing.

Perhaps if you captured all of someone's wealth when they died, dole out maybe a $1M to each child/spouse.
I live in rural Australia and about a decade ago we lost power for 5 days after a cyclone swept through. Some parts of the grid are pretty vulnerable. I have solar and a battery now. :-)
I guess they meant that elusive "trickle down economics" concept which always looks like Bigfoot - everybody talks about it but nobody has actually seen it.
> Why, though? You always hear people say that one person having too much wealth is a problem but rarely hear a good reason.

Historically, most societies where this happened ended up with large violent episodes as a response, so we should want to prevent that.

While it's possible to enlarge the pie for everyone, to anyone that wants to buy a house it's obviously not the case in today's economy. In some cases the economy is zero-sum, especially with things that are inherently limited such as good real-estate.
RSA is deceptively simple (and fun)
So a 3-day workweek for everyone, right? Right..?
This! I recently had to rig something up in an emergency: Did a `pacman -S rpi-imager` since that's what Google says the kids use these days (it's new to me!), selected the RPi4, selected the headless Armbian, gave it my ssh public key, entered WiFi credentials and hit go. Then realized I could not find that lovely 3A USB power supply, and couldn't get one since it was saturday night.

Next I messed around with an old OrangePi just to realize they never updated the Armbian (even though I got the device tree into the Kernel!). Downloaded the ancient image from their Google Drive, got BalenaEtcher running again (its not in my repos) and then figured the SBC must be fried anyway.

Luckily I remembered that I still had a RPi1 that was collecting dust and should work with any old USB charger. Checked `rpi-imager` and indeed, it supported that old thing! Created the SD card (config was still saved), grabbed an old USB WiFi adapter and powered the thing up. And it just worked :)

The emergency was: My 20m USB extension cord with the zigbee coordinator failed after 2y, and I could not turn on a few of our lights. Using `usbip` I now forward it to the automation server from that RPi1 (I initially didn't think about the RPi1 since I wanted to run zigbee2mqtt on the device, but eventually found out about usbip). Bonus 1: I still have the spare RPi4 that I wanted to attach to the 3D printer because I could re-use the old one :) Bonus 2: I now know that rpi-imager has a ready-made Klipper image and I don't need to set it all up by hand.

Next time I consider getting another SBC, it will be an RPi again.
Only tangentially related, but I'm enjoying this BBC Radio series Good Bad Billionaire: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0g7xj36
Because of Venture Capitalists?
I use this as a general mess about VM, for installing stuff, trying stuff out etc that I don't want to on my main machine. They expire after a while but that's OK, they still work after expiry.
We lost power for 4 days last year in Canada's second biggest city, Montreal :). The weather is pretty harsh to power infra in north America for sure
Are 3 and 4 magical? Why not 1/2 and 1/5?
You can't sell your product if there's nobody that can buy it. I suspect the lower 70% you're talking about spend their money to keep the economy going. UBI? I dunno...jury is still out on that science experiment.

Automation has made a vast majority of our jobs irrelevant, and ChatGPT looks to make a much larger component similarly irrelevant, but you can't sell your crops if people can't buy your crops.
> there's no point in having all kinds of low-added-value industry in high-income places

The point is economic and social stability. If you don't value that over short-term economic efficiency (i.e. profits), of course, I can understand why you would be resistant to this line of thought.

Also, this betrays your belief that "high income places" have significant-added-value compared to low income places! I don't believe this is true, especially over the long term. This is an illusion formed from wealth-extraction.
Wal2 mode was included in the benchmarks for the HC-tree backend research:

https://sqlite.org/hctree/doc/hctree/doc/hctree/threadtest.w...
Pierre-Loup Griffais recently re-tweeted NVK progress with enthusiasm, given that he used to work at Nvidia on the proprietary driver it's replacing I think it's a sign that Valve wouldn't particularly want Nvidia's driver even given the choice, external bureaucracy is something those within the company will avoid whenever possible.

Going open source also means their contributions can propagate through the whole Linux ecosystem. They want other vendors to use what they're making, because if they do they'll undoubtedly ship Steam.
Raymond Hill (gorhill), the creator of uBlock Origin, has done some investigation and has found that this only affects AdBlock and AdBlock Plus[0]. Both of which are owned by the same people, and share the same ad blocking engine.

uBlock Origin is not affected.

I posted this on HN earlier today[1], but it unfortunately gained no traction. I guess outrage spreads easier. Gorhill explicitly points out some websites that spread the outrage, but not the real diagnosed issue.

[0] https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38998419
Adblockers are breaking TOS. It was not a big problem so far, but Google may eventually lock down the platform.

I really hope in some sort of long-term compromise, where adblockers are slightly disadvantaged (slower speed, lower resolution), but can still access YouTube without any login or obstacles.

Look what happened to Facebook, twitter...
Take a look at this amdgpu issue tracker[1], you will find that there are lot of devices across vendors having the same issue. And even if you get s2idle to work, which people on my machine do by disabling wakeups with something like the following, it looks like the system is sleeping, but it will often still spend most of the time in userspace, which leads to heat issues if you are foolish enough to throw it in your backpack at that point:

for i in $(cat /proc/acpi/wakeup|grep enabled|awk '{print $1}'|xargs); do case $i in SLPB|XHCI);; *) echo $i|tee /proc/acpi/wakeup ; esac; done

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/?sort=create...
Really not that uncommon in rural areas.

I'm in the Scottish highlands (only an hour from Glasgow) and when the winter storms come in, we can be out of power for some hours, there's been a couple of instances in the last year, so not common, but not unheard of either.

That's not a major surprise as the power company often has to fix lines in pretty stormy conditions in thinly populated areas.

Our solution to it has been having a battery which kicks in and can run the house for 12 hours or so.
I know it's extra cost but buying Nvidia Shield TV Pro made things so much easier.
SmartTubeNext works great on Android and you can control it through your phone (Revanced).

I bought LG OLED TV and WebOS had been utter piece of shit so far. Disconnected it from the internet as soon as I got the Shield (I can also use Shield's remote to control the TV itself)
I never use youtube music, but i'm still paying for premium, because I use youtube a lot and I don't like seeing ads. Completely worth it if you spend enough time on youtube
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Same for pastas too.
Thanks for writing all that out, I'm in a similar situation I suppose and you've made me feel better. And I love the idea of your ant colony.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997636
Why just fiat money? Money as a concept is yet another vehicle of inequality.
Me not buying avocado toast won't suddenly make me rich.
Why are your tests changing multiple variables?

A simpler test would be keeping the development environment the same and then adding GPT4 to see if there is a statistically significant and meaningful speed increase (of a decent magnitude).

I'm not looking for a 1% speed improvement, I'm looking for a >50% speed improvement. Maybe I should have stated 'significant' speed improvement in the initial post.
Because we've been trained to believe that we can be one of those people one day if only we work hard enough. It's not true, but it's the American dream.
I get frustrated by articles like this that use words like "hit" or "impact" or "affect." I've learned nothing. What will be the effect?
I can't remember the last time I had a power outage, it must have been many years now. And even the few power outages I can vaguely remember were very short, so electronics restarted but you weren't without power for long enough to cause any issues. This is in Germany, and I suspect the fact that all regular power lines are buried helps a lot with reliability here.
Indeed..

Sun Tzu has the right idea, he recommends only attacking if you're 6 times the strength of the other side. Less than that and it's too risky (defenders have a lot of inherent advantages).

So if the different sides are somewhat evenly balanced, it's not in anyone's interests to to on the offensive. Offensives only happen if one side (perceives themselves to be) much stronger than their opponent.
Isn't this the same fair use argument.
Why is this app getting sued for same thing.

This seems much more like Big Guy and Little Guy.

And Little Guy just doesn't have the money/resources to fight, even thought they are right.

""The AI companies also argue what they're doing falls under the legal doctrine of fair use — probably the strongest argument they've got — because it's transformative. This argument helped Google win in court against the big book publishers when it was copying books into its massive Google Books database""
This is a reductive take that adds nothing to the discussion.

If "work[ing] all the time" was really what differentiated the wealthy from the poor, my 70 year old neighbour working 2 jobs would be a millionaire.
Will ai solve problems for the regular human or not?
Or apply increasing "drag" as wealth accumulates, i.e, wealth taxes, maybe starting at a few bps once you have $100m.

Throw in some social accolades / parades / public acclaim for people who pay the most taxes.
Corporations in a lot of ways are just diffusions of responsibility. They are also diffusions of culpability.

I like to think that the best way to determine culpability for crimes/misdeeds of a corporation is by pay scale, including total benefits. So the CEO earning 200x the common worker at a company bears 200x the culpability of a worker.

Billionaires have amassed an astounding quantity of wealth. I'd be very interested to see how much of that wealth was "earned" by actions, how much was grown based purely off capital investments, and how much in total that can trace its roots to dirty money (earned by underpaying, skirting regulations, negative externalities, other questionably legal activity). Do they have any responsibility for that?
Especially because Roger Penrose is still alive.
> if money is like potential energy

It's not. Money (as in paper or digits) has "intrinsically" no value. It's a sort of game of chairs (and accounting) that society is living with because we have no alternative. It does seem that it has potential energy because society has decided so: People will recognize your money with their potential energy. In a sense, inflation is people distrust in the system. Hyper-inflation is people refusing to work with the system.

> what is the eventual physical utility of all this stored wealth?

You can't store wealth in money or bonds. If you want to store real wealth, you should try storing useful everyday things like water. But then you'll have storage costs and redistribution issues. If you store phones, they'll quickly lose value. That's why people use money despite the government continuously debasing it.

> I would argue that there are sufficiently many inefficiencies in most governmental bureaucracies as to result in a similarly poor usage of money as a billionaire who spends some of their wealth to construct a mansion on a private island.

Exactly. A billionaire that is living in a studio and cooking his food is exerting the same tax on society of a Starbucks barista. On the other hand, a millionaire with a yacht, is very taxing on society. If you have a housing shortage, it makes more sense for people to build houses for themselves and not yachts.

> I don’t know the answer and don’t really have a strong opinion either way without further research

No one does, really. No one understands this at the micro-level as the economy is an emergent phenomena. The Fed just increase/decrease supply; and is basing its model on the idea that 2% inflation is good (and deflation is bad!).

> but sometimes I wonder if despite the problems they cause, billionaires sort of represent the “exploration” part of “exploration vs exploitation” in reinforcement learning, as they slightly destabilize a societal system that might otherwise be stuck in a rut or a local optimum.

The system will swing. People having equal wealth does not mean prosperity and growth. They might just be stuck there. In this case, it makes sense to throw money at someone (or anyone) who is willing to innovate among the herd.
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Purchase rental units, jack up the price, see what the pain threshold for your tenants is. It is expensive to relocate, especially if you're poor.

Some of these real-estate investment companies own hundreds of thousands of rental units. They purchase swaths of blocks, all over the world, and do nothing but increase the price. Usually they just purchase parts, or entire portfolios off smaller companies.

The goal is monopoly. And it has worked well of the past decades with low/zero interest rate policy.
I'm not convinced rich people are useful.
Windows already has the Windows Sandbox which is for exactly this purpose. You can spin it up in seconds, mess with it and when you close it, everything is gone.
The issue isn't the cables. It's the USB pd wall adapters, that usually use the same broad range of USBPD ICs and those rarely support 5v5a. So you are fundamentally limited to almost just some raspberry centric hardware since no one else uses that USB PD level.
> "oh but everybody has outages on the countryside".

Everybody definitely still has outages in the Romanian countryside now, my parents (who live in the countryside somewhere in South-Eastern Romania) did have one for two or three days when there was that freakish snow-storm around last November - beginning of December. Not to mention the constant light flickering, I'm wondering how come all the electrical appliances are still in one piece.

Later edit: I'm pretty sure Switzerland (and most of Western Europe, for that matter) very rarely have weather events like the one from these photos [1]

[1] https://www.dobrogeanews.ro/judetul-constanta-viscol-zapada-...
I'm discussing it in terms of mobile (I worked on Android)
I'm pretty sure that's been bred out of us. I don't see folks _successfully_ storming the gates and hanging the rich.
I working in XP for a bit and the constant pair programming aspect was simply too fatiguing for me. I enjoy pairing every now and then on certain problems, but the constant presence of another person left me utterly drained at the end of every day.
I dunno, I think billionaires are doing a pretty good job changing the world (thinking of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and OpenPhil as the best examples).

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...
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Processing? https://processing.org/

Or do you specifically mean mathematical diagrams and a DSL specifically for that?
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I confirmed the superconducting properties of the LK-99 supplemented material
I wonder if the ultrawealthy have doubly served their purpose in the last three years.

I don't disagree the ultrawealthy serve a purpose, just wondering, as most of us do — how much ultrawealth is enough?

In theory at least, the idea of taxes is to use our societies collective excess money to pay for things that we as a society would benefit from. Perhaps it's infrastructure, perhaps it's a modern high speed rail system, perhaps space exploration.

Instead though we have chosen to allow the billionaires to be the arbiter of where their excess capital goes.
We would back up double-digit GB MySQL databases by piping mysqldump into gzip as well. Like you I’m sure there’s a size limit where that doesn’t work. I never found out if it was CPU or memory constrained though.
Define rich. Not buying $10 slices of avocado toast daily and investing the money instead into an index fund will definitely create some wealth over time.
nop, corpos acquire a lot of houses in the market and rent them. They can pay more for the houses since their scope of investment (years to break even) is longer than your average mens' lifespan. rent goes up. a smaller and smaller percentage of population can buy houses because there are fewer on the market. rent keeps everyone poor.
This is happening now, in every major developed country
Speaking as a French person living in Japan, I can believe that France was #2 or #3 in the early 2000s, but it’s been degrading for so long that it’s probably way behind Korea/China/etc nowadays. Incessant delays, frequent breakdowns, extremely high prices, small stations closing down, impossible to get tickets for holidays and weekends unless you book weeks/months in advance… the lack of civility you often encounter from fellow passengers is the rotten cherry on top.

I hear from German friends that Germany’s train system has encountered a similar fate.

If only it were just the trains - but our government has gutted similarly education, healthcare, … it really is disheartening.
home is located under /var/home and symlinked as "/home" in the root filesystem. So no, home is not read-only.
AFAIK, these types of VMs have been offered for many years. They used to be for IE compatibility, but they were full Windows installs. I know they existed as far back as 2013 and maybe even earlier.
It's been a while since I've heard anyone talk about UBI, where as a couple years ago the topic was difficult to avoid.

Is the idea dead?
> private insurance is infinitely more effective and cheaper than obamacare...

Obamacare is legislation and not insurance. It did not eliminate private insurance.
YouTube certainly might be doing things on purpose, but this specific issue is not, as identified by Gorhill, the creator of uBlock Origin, and a big name in the ad blocking community.
Oh god, the "just throw it in" part. I'd have at least swam in and slowly pulled at a rope tied to the sleeper so I sank, sounds like your dad really made sure he bet his life on his device.
tbf, I was spooked by the initial "turn off your adblocker" banner stuff and I signed up for the offered 3-month YT Premium trial because it's linked to my primary Google account.

In the meantime, I set up a throwaway Google and set that YT profile to have the same subscriptions. Will I pay for YT Premium? Unlikely, but they could make me a pricing offer that's tantalizing enough. I've learned more dev stuff from YT that any Udemy-esque learning service out there.
> I don't think they'd spend it on macadamia nuts for wagyu cows, that's for sure.

I'm not sure you want to cherrypick this way. I can think of A LOT of stupid things government spends money on, and that's over senators, congresspeople, and lots of government employees.

I don't think you should play this game. Zuckerberg and facebook's personal silly spending is most likely WAY below the stupid things government spends on.
I guess on the plus side the medium acts as a good bs filter.
I have been considering the latter (accolades and/or naming things after tax-payers) as something that is severely under-utilised in most places.
Charity yields higher appraisal, while reducing taxes. Though this has the benefit of letting better decide what is done with the money.
Way less than 50% considering not everyone votes.
How could that even be a theoretical possibility? Nobody having to work is a possible outcome. Societal equality as far as I can see isn't. If nothing else, we could all start equal and then someone starts working because they are bored and accumulate more stuff.

It isn't a useful goal anyway. If you have all that you need, someone else having more than that isn't a problem.
Not sure where you're going with that analogy.

Where I live knives designed primarily for killing humans are illegal to sell, sometimes illegal to own and definitely illegal to carry in public.

That's stuff like commando, flick or spiral bladed knives.

Kitchen, pen or even bush-craft knives generally aren't designed for that but you still can't wave them about in public.

If your analogy holds then are suggesting that if you got caught speeding in a Ferrari or 911 then you'd receive an instant custodial sentence because it was obviously premeditated? That would be the case here if you got into a fight with a spiral knife in your pocket.
That naive algorithm isn't even good since it can clearly be laid out without any edge crossings.
I could do that a lifetime and still be about a billion away from a billion dollars.
Never did I think I would find a pro-cop, pro-military industrial complex 'hacker' but here we are.
Well Keynes was predicting the possibility of 15 hour weeks back in 1930 thanks to technological advancements and a preference for leisure over labour. I recently re-read his paper "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" - https://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
The 'laws of physics' are a model that change all the time through a process known as 'science'.
Same here, just the idea of forced XP is enough for me to start considering other positions.