skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capital begets Capital is the literal foundation of capitalism.

IE: My capital and your time are equal; thus a person who has much more capital has the buying power of many people.

it's mildly irritating that we know that in a relative closed system with finite resources the inequality rises (the entire point of Monopoly is to show this), yet we forget it in our day to day lives because we can't relate the microeconomics to macroeconomics for some reason.
Beyond just the charging (lol), whatever happened to allowing inclement weather to slow life down for a few days? Snow days are the universe forcing you to take a break.
It's possible the University of Bedfordshire role at the top makes it look like you're a student - to a lazy recruiter who doesn't read. The first bullet point "as part of a research project" again suggests you might be back in college - again to a recruiter who doesn't read.

I may be wrong - just a suggestion.
WEll, Musk hasn't just flunked on Twitter. Each of his other companies would amount to a respectable lifetime achievement in their own.
I got an European plugin hybrid after manual car and there is one thing I very much like about it. When I take off my foot from the gas pedal then it automatically kind of behaves like a manual car depending on the situation. If there is nobody in front of me then it continues to move forward with the same "gear", if there is a slower car in front of me then it will use regenerative breaking to slowly go down in speed and when I turn on turning light and there is an intersection upcoming then it will use more aggressive regenerative braking to slow down the vehicle. It is very similar to how I would have used engine braking in such situations. I'm quite confident that the full electric version of the car would behave similarly.
Ok. I see problem.

You: ""My argument is that there does not exist a public official pushing for any sort of “zero-tolerance” of any legal immigration.""

I never said anything like that. I had to go back and re-read to figure out what argument you were talking about.

You kind of fantasized something I said, and all subsequent arguments didn't really make sense since I was never trying to prove that. I made a comment about 'sea peoples' in the bronze age. To then try and infer some stance on very specific legal standing today seems a stretch.

So to me, it seemed kind of crazy that someone is claiming the 'right' doesn't have some pretty radical views on immigration.

But yes, I do agree, the right is pretty awful. I don't need any media to tell me that, when I have my own eyes.

Get out of the bubble, I flip channels to conservative media now and then to see what they are being told, and it is full of lies. Like really blatant lies someone could debunk just by looking up the truth if they wanted to.
> War happens when one party thinks that the other party is weak enough to be attacked [..]

"in war, truth is the first casualty. It is typically accompanied by a fog of official lies. And no such fog has ever been as thick as in the Ukraine war. While many hundreds of thousands of people have fought and died in Ukraine, the propaganda machines in Brussels, Kyiv, London, Moscow and Washington have worked overtime to ensure that we take passionate sides, believe what we want to believe, and condemn anyone who questions the narrative we have internalised. The consequences for all have been dire. For Ukraine, they have been catastrophic [..]

the war was born in and has been continued due to miscalculations by all sides. The United States calculated that Russian threats to go to war over Ukrainian neutrality were bluffs that might be deterred by outlining and denigrating Russian plans. Russia assumed that the United States would prefer negotiations to war and would wish to avoid the redivision of Europe into hostile blocs. Ukrainians counted on the West protecting their country. When Russia’s performance in the first months of the war proved lacklustre, the West concluded that Ukraine could defeat it. None of these calculations has proved correct"[0]

https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-propaganda-that-damned-ukrain...
> If this money went to the U.S. government instead of Bill Gates, would it have accomplished more for humanity than from his efforts as an individual?

BillG has ~120B net worth and the US spends ~6.5 trillion/year (in 2022). So it would cover just under 2% of the US yearly budget. Doesn't seem very significant considering that would be a one-time payment.
Then invest in raising the average. Did you know there are only about 8 million PhDs in the whole world?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38999517
> PovertyFIRE/

It's like an american dream, but for poor.
People who are not working in IT but in a much less paid professions don't have enough war chest and savings to have luxury take a year off to learn new skill.

This might even apply to fresh IT students who started collage this year - they won't be happy that 10 years from now, just 5 years after graduation and still with student debt, their salaries are not above average anymore.
Thank you! Github is at the top-right but could be more prominent.

How did you manage to find non-UK companies that will hire UK people? I find most remote US roles say "remote (US only)", and similar for other countries.
This article does not provide any actual evidence for that idea though. In particular, the richest person in the world - and I think possibly also the one whose wealth grew the most - wasn't even a billionaire until fairly recently, and the basic investment thesis that's made his companies so valuable is that they'll take a big share of the global car market, wrecking the income of existing car companies and destroying the wealth invested in them. Actually, I think all five of the people this article is about became billionaires in the last 30 years or so, displacing the previous richest people in the world as they did so.

You've also got to remember that by focusing on the richest people in the world right now the article is effectively cherry-picking the people who've done the best in terms of wealth whilst ignoring those whose wealth has failed to grow so well.
Depends on whether a "side" is an "edge" of a "face" in geometry terms. An edge must be two-dimensional (so flat), a face can be three-dimensional (like a curved ribbon).
Discourse is currently working on AP federation: https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/117

I am pretty excited for the future of the open Web for the first time in a long time.
That doesn't sound like Linus Torvalds.
Yeah that's a good shout, thank you! I hadn't considered that.
Europe has rivers and canals.
Abstraction is not the same as social construct. A branch as a term is very much a part of git porcelain (which is an abstraction of the plumbing, ie: the 'git branch' command exists), it's not just some term that organically evolved and was agreed upon by convention. Furthermore, the meaning of it isn't going to further evolve into something different as people learn more about it. Unlike social constructs
Duke Energy completes first floating solar project in Florida
There's a wave of new tinkerer's that think they need a solution with an OS, USB and 8 Cores. The amount of projects I see using a full blown Rpi instead of an esp is just nuts.
What's funny? You charge with batteries. Everyone has batteries these days.
There is difference between expropriation and fair taxation. The problem as far as I can tell are tax loopholes that you can only abuse above some wealth threshold.
You need to connect the dots between your employment history, your capabilities, and your interests. I could not do this any more when I lost my job last year and had to change to something new.

In my case I was a 15 year full time JavaScript developer. After years of frustration watching children run the daycare crying about needing more frameworks, not knowing how to program, and hyper insecurity I could not go back to that kind of work. I largely made myself unemployable. If AI eliminates the need for framework junkies who cannot be bothered to write original code maybe I will give it another shot. In the meantime I am entry level data science and enterprise API management now.
> It’s around $300,000 that’s when you can get your 9% return

If you stay in good health, never have to purchase real estate or car then perhaps... but then you'll still have to live somewhere, commute somehow, and the life quality will be... of a poor person.
Every single functional state-society there has ever been has included a "claim" on private property. Usually through taxes, tariffs, tribute, or something similar.
> I totally fail to understand why this is a polarizing issue

Because for most people (especially in the US), this is emotional. As soon as you start talking about “taxing the rich” many people have a prepared inventory of feelings that get activated, and these feelings are telling them that even if I’m not rich, I could be some day, and this isn’t right.

If you want an example of the almost religious cult of personality around people with immense wealth, look no further than the people simping for Elon. The idea goes that surely these people are special, there’s a reason they have so much money, and by taking their money we'll accomplish nothing except crucifying these inventors that humankind relies upon.

Entire books (or perhaps libraries) have been written on the subject of the routines and life patterns of extremely rich people. They’re not like us.
I don't think it has a particularly snappy client, though it wouldn't be hard to beat Slack.
It's absolutely disgusting, and it may also allow a murder to go free (or someone incorrectly jailed for murder if you believe them).

Also, strange seeing my hometown mentioned on here!
Torvalds can't afford a battery? An M process can probably last for several days with an external battery.
Yeah, as pointed out in Sapiens the biggest issue now is that we can 'see' what everyone else has.
> Money can be literally destroyed in a second, without leaving any trace.

I disagree. Money (a scalar value) isn’t any more real than energy (a scalar value; see Noether’s theorem). Both money and energy are accounting devices. Money cannot disappear since it’s not physical. A specific amount of money and its corresponding form (e.g., stocks, 401k, treasury notes) represent a probability that something can be obtained in the future from someone else, conditioned on the social convention that a few numbers change across a few databases.

If you burn dollar bills or delete the private key to a Bitcoin wallet, you haven’t changed humanity’s capability to build yachts or conduct medical research; you’ve only changed who gets to influence those decisions.
I doubt that Linus would be a proponent of a musky scented solution like this.
Because of combined factors: people as a collective are stupid, elected lawmakers and political parties are incentived to keep the status quo, and you only need 50%+1, or less to be elected in democracy. The wealthiest only need to cater to politicians, then keeping 49% people slightly above the pull force even less, and it'll keep the condition like it is.

But still there's no better governments than democracy right now.
Or a battery. It's weird that everyone that replied forgot about batteries.
Similar thing here, reduced kidney function. How does it affect you, if it does, if you are not keeping up with this diet?

You mention you worked out a lot when younger, so did I and drank a lot of protein shakes, which I've read can be taxing for the kidneys. You too?
> Checkpointers do not block writers, and writers do not block checkpointers. This means that, even following the checkpoint, the wal file cannot be overwritten or deleted, and so all subsequent transactions must also be appended to the wal file. The work of the checkpointer is not wasted - SQLite remembers which parts of the wal file have already been copied into the db file so that the next checkpoint does not have to do so again

Probably because of this.

> but it does mean that the wal file may grow indefinitely if the checkpointer never gets a chance to finish without a writer appending to the wal file. There are also circumstances in which long-running readers may prevent a checkpointer from checkpointing the entire wal file - also causing the wal file to grow indefinitely in a busy system.

> Wal2 mode does not have this problem. In wal2 mode, wal files do not grow indefinitely even if the checkpointer never has a chance to finish uninterrupted.

I don't get how wal2 fixes the long-running reader problem though. Maybe they were just referring to the former problem?
there is no doubt that the situation in Gaza is tragic, no argument there

But you have to engage with a simplest of facts: two sides are fighting a war in Gaza, right now, two armies. You can't put all the blame on suffering of civilians on Israel because it's a war that Israel didn't start. Israel can't easily stop this war because Hamas has publicly vowed to repeat October 7th again and again and again, a million times if necessary. But Hamas can stop this war and suffering of civilians literally any time by surrendering.

I keep hearing the water argument. The water was turned back on first of all, but secondly it's absolutely astonishing to me that people take it as given that Israel has full responsibility to provide water to Palestininans, but Hamas, their own government, does not.
I think it's absurd to treat Palestinians and Hamas specifically as if they are children, as if they are unable to make choices and bear responsibility for those choices.
Again, it was just an anecdote. If you tag on student debt, health debt, auto debt, etc. - how many people out there are living in perpetual debt - and not the good kind of debt (mortgage)?

Say you're a person that's juggling 2-3 jobs, making $30k-$40k/year in total. No job security, of course, and you lose one of those jobs. You're always living on the edge, and one month without salary would mean crisis.

Luckily you have a credit card, and can use it to cover all your bills for that month.

Next month work picks up again, and you're back to your normal salary. But now you have to pay back the CC debt, which you'll have to do over 6-12 months - because you don't have enough savings to pay it all off at once.

Now add 2-3 other sources of debt, and it is easy to see that some people are trapped in debt. Their balance stays the same, or gets paid off very, very slow. Until the next crisis rolls around.
The idiots who designed my car put the air circulation button behind 3(!) clicks on the touch screen.
I feel like this explains a lot about modern crapitalism. How did we get to a point where designers who have very little technical understanding have more power than actual engineers who actually build the actual products? Is it just that every company, in some grand vision of world domination, transitioned their culture from "we make good stuff" to "we sell a lifestyle"? Did the marketing wonks really infect and metastasize so completely that the idea of a thing is now more important than the actual thing, even inside the literal engineering of a product? Do these people really think, "well we can sell an idea, but you can't really sell a product"? What the fuck? The actual product is the whole point!! These fucking "idea people" have all conglomerated and seized power and it's really beginning to show in modern life. It feels like most everything i own was crafted to be marketed first and actually fucking work second.
Haha! Yes, this was a mess!

I was called to help my concerned stepson with "an update error" this past weekend. I'm a software engineer but even I kind of balked at it at first, realizing how very easily an on-the-fly resizing of partitions can go wrong!

Let's take it from the beginning.

He pointed me to the "out of disk space" error code, which isn't in text form to begin with, but only something you find out by googling it. I thought that must be wrong, because the drive is like 30% full. Knowing how this particular error is sometimes thrown inaccurately, I dug deeper and ended up in a long winded forum thread about all sorts of people and skill levels having issues. Novice home users. Advanced users. SERVER ADMINS.

It soon dawned upon me that the disk space error was correct; it was only talking about it from the perspective of a tiny Windows Recovery Environment partition! Or "tiny"... It was like 300 MB large but not enough. It wanted something like another 500 MB now.

People yelled at MS for not pulling the patch and fixing it or bringing an automated post-patch fix.

BUT if this HAS to be done, MS is in a tough spot now. Because it's inadvisible to resize partitions automatically. You usually want backups as it's a high risk operation where power loss or bad input will brick the OS install. I also think how and if it can be resized depends on the layout on the partition table. For example, I had to reduce the end of a former partition to increase the start of the recovery one. Fortunately, I had free space there. I can imagine a Microsoft script wizard would have his heart sink as he'd ship an automated partition resizing script to millions of systems and all their intricacies.

So, I'm not sure how MS will end up fixing this to be honest. My only "fix" would be to rewrite the code so that it don't need a larger Windows RE partition anymore?? OR simply not installing this patch if it's too small. Otherwise, this can only really be "safely" fixed as part of a fresh Windows install with hard drive reformatting and the whole shebang.

I ended up fixing it with a free partition resize tool (MiniTool Partition Wizard). MS advised me to the command line but to hell with that and their ancient DISKPART.EXE and having to input the correct partition # for your partitions when there were like five of them on the drive. I needed something more visual as assistance to hand hold me from making mistakes.

But how on Earth could this even happen? Did MS just kind of forget that they have had previous, smaller Windows RE requirements in the past?
Pico 8 isn't trying to hide anything. It's arbitrary data encoded in an image, it's the same topic.
Depending on your area - wealth and pop density - thrift stores might be worth a shot, believe it or not. Of course it's hit or miss, you can't simply walk in and expect to buy what you're looking for, obviously it doesn't work that way.

This isn't going to work for electronics, but nearly everything else is possible. You'd be surprised, again depending on your area.

Along the same lines...free cycle .org is worth watching.
How does this fictitious gain tax interact with the non-fictitious capital gains tax? In other words, if I were a rich man, and invested my assets gaining 5% as opposed to keeping them in a Scrooge McDuck vault, would I be taxed at 30% of fictitious 6% + 30% of real 5% i.e. effectively at 66% of my capital gains, or only at the "fictitious" income, or only at the real capital gains?
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2009/10/29/fr... "Friedman space" is a short story by Viktor Pelevin describing more or less that. The gist of it is

> in a parallel to the existence of an event horizon at the perimeter of gravitational black holes, the possession of extremely large sums of money sends a person into an altered zone of consciousness where, though they appear to others to be acting normally, their own perception of the universe is completely altered and incommunicable to observers
Kind of a broken window fallacy (the bomb isn’t necessary in the first place) but also kind of not (the tech developed for military hardware does eventually get used for good).
I cannot imagine losing power for an hour, let alone a week. I grew up in rural Australia and it's completely unfathomable to me that anywhere in the first world could go without power for so long.
~2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38985273
> Can an average programmer using GPT4 as a tool solve Advent of Code faster than an equally-skilled programmer without an LLM?

I mean, yes, obviously? Any tool, even if it had near-zero marginal utility must necessarily improve performance, as you can simply elect not to use it.

The disagreement is not in the direction, it's in the magnitude. Therefore the real test is: "Can an average programmer solve AoC faster with GPT4 and without syntax coloring or with syntax coloring and without GPT4?", or "GPT4 in C versus no-GPT4 in Python", or "GPT4 on a crappy laptop vs no-GPT4 on a high-end workstation" and so on.
War happens when one party thinks that the other party is weak enough to be attacked

War is avoided if one party is so strong that an attack is futile

can you see the contradiction ? that strong party is going to attack
It is based on Flowbite[1], ShadUI[2] and Landwind[3].

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Ubuntu is still a solid distro, but Snap and Pro seem to annoy people.

The distro formerly known as Zinc, and now known as Asmi, is a good alternative.

LTS version:

https://teejeetech.com/2023/04/22/zinc-22-04-3/

More current release:

https://teejeetech.com/2023/10/14/asmi-23-10-formerly-zinc/

It's Ubuntu, with Snap removed, no Flatpak either, but built-in AppImage support and the improved Nala and Deb-get package management tools for getting and updating native .DEB-packaged software.

And it has Xfce, the least-nonsense-filled light-weight Linux desktop there is.

It's good.
I have long since believed this to be legal, though I'd like to understand if it is.

Effectively: Software mechanisms are not the litmus of legality, as if you buy a working key, it may not be legal to use since there are country restrictions.

So I would surmise the opposite stance: if you have a license sitting on a shelf and you "assign" it to a system; using a keygen at that point is fine, since you do own a license and you are not oversubscribing it.

IANAL, but one or the other must be true.
Here's a fun exercise: start at January 2022.

Massive amounts of wealth were "lost"

Of course they weren't actually lost, it's just that the fed started increasing interest rates and the stock market tanked.

Did wealth transfer to the poor? No.

So did these people "transfer wealth" from the poor from 2020 to 2022?
Piketty's r > g is pretty close to a coherent argument that capital accumulation has an "escape velocity".

It's a political topic, so, vehemently contested.
That's a problem of regulation/NIMBYsm right? Because if someone has 'captured' entire market, it means no one is living in those houses, they are just purchased and locked up. Meaning, they don't consume any resources, don't result in water, electricity networks etc. being strained, and don't result in extra congestion. Meaning, there's no problem to just build more. Unless regulations/zoning prevent it. So fight zoning, not "inequality".
Its an interesting idea and neat way to perhaps explain it but I think it misses out the important part. People don't do a good job preparing for their future. You mentioned it but I think emphasis should be put on the person, thats where most of the money is going, not inflation or taxes. The last two certainly play a role but no where near as much as the person spending the money.

Maybe I look at history with rose tinted glasses but my experience tells me people are spending more and more money. We are a consumer society on steroids. I see so many individuals driving around in $60k cars, living in massive homes, buying tons of junk on Amazon. I wonder if that has more to do with it.

As for preventing escape capital. The issue is, I am not sure how you do it. It is easy to had wave and say a tax but I believe its very hard to create new rules without unintended consequences. I am not opposed to the idea but I am not sure what other consequences will be felt.
Based on the article and other comments, it sounds like it's actually freezing. What other mechanical failure would happen and the resolve itself as it got warmer?
Vroomba
Du you have any historical examples of taxation policies resulting in a "dark Sovjet reality".

I'm actually curious here.