skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sincere question about communism:

Let's say hypothetically that the distribution of stock ownership was more even across the population, and variance was largely (but not completely) due to length of time in the workforce. And further, that the stock owned by workers is a large enough block that they effectively have controlling shares at many companies. Maybe I'm talking about a different universe, but please imagine it for a moment.

Would that hypothetical world be kind of like communism in the sense that the workers own the means of production? If not, why not?
I thought there were edge cases where sum types were not fully supported, nesting[1] is the example found first, but I thought there were others.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/18758
>Obama happened

Being born in 1952 and having lived though the 1960s riots in both Newark NJ and LA, by the time Obama was elected, I believed my world (defined as 'away from the Confederacy') had radically different than the overt racism I witnessed in the 1960s. The year Obama was elected, I would have guessed less than 10 percent of my northern white America was racist.

What I learned shortly after Obama's election rocked me to my core. The reaction was relatively immediate. There was a sudden rush of racism by some family members and far too many friends. It was hushed. But it was there. In private email chains. It stunned me. I didn't understand where it was coming from. What rocks had these people been hiding under?

Then came 2015 and Trump and the racism was suddenly no longer limited to hushed email chains. And now? Now the wealthiest man in the world is using the election to unilaterally (and clearly illegally) decide how much Federal money should be spent. And on what and for whom. And while people of color are bearing the brunt of the sudden change coming their way, I have no doubt that anyone holding less than 100 million dollars in wealth will soon feel the impact too.

But you are absolutely right. It all started with Obama.
https://archive.ph/Pb6Mw
Honestly, whenever some malware like this is revealed, that just makes me wish for more sandboxing and alerting in OSes. For example, each app getting its own writable directory structure and access to anything else needing to be explicitly granted by the user.

It would require work to make the UX not be horrible, but that's a solvable problem. The fact that we don't have that in mainstream OSes in $CURRENT_YEAR given the security situation of the software out there, is insane.
Your first link doesn't show any evidence of, or even suggest that, Kaspersky has attacked Australia.

It shows only that the Australian government expresses concern over the capability, which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable and also politically motivated.

Oceania has always been at war Eastasia, and all that.
I do like diversity and I hope there's always be competing browser engines but folks, Chrome is really not a bad browser and Google engineers do an amazing job with it.

Just because currently it has a monopoly does not mean it's a bad product.
How many died that season? Dangerous work.
It’s also really hard to make things that last at least X long but hardly event more than Y. I know an engineer who spent two years of his life making sure the new water pump designs would fail at warranty + 50 percent, but only in an annoying, non catastrophic way.

Also, plastics that last very specific amounts of time are common in specific pieces of assemblies in mechanical timers for refrigerator defrosters and the little crossbars that tie the vanes in air vent directors together.
Replacement timers use all nylon gears and last “forever”.

The one I personally uncovered is a Honeywell thermostat. It is a direct replacement for a mechanical thermostat that would frequently fail about 10-15 years out due to corroded/pitted contacts. The all electronic replacement does not have this problem, but they still failed around 10 years out, but with remarkable predictability in my friends apartment complex.

I reverse engineered one. It is powered by the 16-24v signal line. It uses a simple potentiometer to set the temperature, no clock, memory or other features. It has a battery soldered on the circuit board. The battery slowly discharges while the unit is on. In about 10 years of operation, the battery voltage drops below 1v or so. The battery powers nothing, but the microcontroller senses it’s voltage and when it is too low, it changes the behaviour of the thermostat to randomise the temperature cut in/out points by about 10 degrees Fahrenheit , making the thermostat annoyingly unpredictable in a way that is very similar to the typical failure mode of the old thermostat it replaced.

One notable difference is that the electronic one will never fail (unless it is in the off position) to come on at 45F or lower, preventing the programmed random behaviour from provoking a freeze-up and damage to structures, so I guess that’s nice?
> case in point - dealing with race conditions.

100%. Case in point for case in point - I was just scratching my head over some Claude-produced lines for me, thinking if I should ask what this kind entity had in mind when using specific compiler builtins (vs. <stdatomic.h>), like, "is there logic to your madness..." :D

size_t unique_ips = __atomic_load_n(&((ip_database_t*)arg)->unique_ip_count, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST);

I think it just likes compiler builtins because I mentioned GCC at some point...
this is the least-bad state of things. consider the financial literacy (or notable lack thereof) of the average person. consider how much worse active investing would be, particularly in light of the bubble-y market regime recently prevailing where simple rules are thrown out the window, a regime somewhat exacerbated by retail hype. and consider the massively market-distorting effects of passive indexing when scaled to its current level, let alone beyond.

it's also pointless to mention this out when, if you examine returns to public versus private markets from e.g. IPOs in the past twenty years, they are so radically lower than the twenty before. that trend is by no means abating. let's not get offended that more average joes aren't playing exit liquidity to some VC/PE guy. this is somewhat to be expected given the level of hell the government has made it to be publicly listed, the response of growing private markets, and the SEC's asinine refusal to allow anyone but rich people access to those privates.
AFAIK, the issue isn't finding that $10/mo; although I'd still definitely agree that financial education is underestimated; I'd certainly love to have had a lot more! But, AFAIK -

The issue is when something goes wrong, and you have to choose between the gas bill and mom's meds. And then you need to choose between saving that $10/mo for retirement, or for emergencies; or taking what's been saved out of the retirement fund (if that's even possible) because, well, an emergency.

Had a colleague have to sell some (most?) of their BTC at $100 to make some student loan payments. As an example.
Not really. Stock value is just paper. Stocks going down just means they are valued less now relative to other stuff.

Imagine if everyones socks were suddenly valued a million bucks, except yours. Would you "stay in the same place" or would you suddenly be too poor to afford to buy the labor of all the newly minted millionaires? I'd bet on the latter.
No, EROEI for this is just bad if not negative. Also you do not produce any food.
To be clear the diff they generate is something you or I could apply manually and wouldn't notice an issue. It's things like very minor whitespace issues, or more commonly the count saying how large the sections are - nothing that affects the meat of the diff, they're fine with the hard part but then there's small counting errors.
And you are as welcome to your intelligence as I am to my wealth. Neither of us, I must assume, covets the other's position.
It’s different this time around. The sheer complexity of society makes it hard to ascertain exactly the true nature of the situation.

People who voted for trump aren’t even aware he’s part of the problem of wealth inequality. They aren’t even aware wealth inequality is the problem.

At worst we will get an angry mob stampeding the White House with no real direction or objective. Are rich people the problem or is it the government? They may have a feeling "something" is wrong, but they aren't sure what it is or who to blame, or they may think that nothing is wrong and life is just hard.
Can a restaurant scale to serve billions?
At the same time, many organisations getting work done through platforms like Mechanical Turk set their piece rate to make sure all but the worst workers will make at least minimum wage.
That seems pretty reasonable to me. The vast majority of innovations that have consistently raised everyone's standard of living over the last centuries has also come from that 10%.
“Guhuh just fununcially aducate urself”

Do they teach in school how to invest when you can barely afford food and have no disposable income? Must be easy to talk shit when sitting on your cushy white collar job.

Stop simping for billionaires, it’s pathetic.
Recently I was introduced to 10" racks, which to me, seem absolutely perfect for home use. Sadly very few manufacturers have adopted the 10" standard.

A lot of home / small business networking gear would fit perfectly into a 10" rack, but you'd have to mount most of it on shelves.
‘they irradiated their own people ! ?’

_very_ slightly edited from its original.
I almost never use pubmed, while I use Google Scholar everyday (for neuroscience/medical/computer science research). But I admit that all medical researchers I know only use pubmed.
…I’m blanking on the sourced though I know it.
You could also compare email addresses to snail mail. I think email addresses have about the same level of portability as postal addresses.

- Postal addresses are also used as a means of communication/verification (you can present a bill addressed to you when voting, etc)

- When you move, do you expect to be able to keep using your previous postal addresses? (Perhaps there could be some benefits...)

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As others commenters have pointed out, using your own domain for email seems to be the best solution. It's like using a PO box for postal mail.
Also the rich have cash flow and can continuously invest during crashes.

The top 10% aren’t losing their jobs in a crash, but the bottom 50% might.

So while the top 10% keeps investing and will maximize the recovery, the bottom 50% will cash out at the bottom and won’t return to invest for years after their emergency fund has recovered.
VPN that supports different cryptographic algorithms, post-quantum included, TCP and UDP, and being able to present its traffic as totally legitimate. For instance, one that could work over TLS 1.3 with X25519MLKEM768.
> Under the rule of digital capitalism, time itself is severed from any ‘narrative or teleological tension’, that is, from any discernible purpose or meaning, and so, like the digital paintings in an immersive show, it ‘disintegrates into points which whizz around without any sense of direction.’ In such a regime of time, there is no possibility of Erfahrung, which depends on a sense of narrative continuum and duration.

The second half of the article provides some insights into the life lived in digital capitalism from the viewpoint of an Korean-born German-based philiosopher.

> The less it relies on the threat of punitive measures to back it up, the more power maximises itself. ‘An absolute power,’ writes Han, ‘would be one that never became apparent, never pointed to itself, one that rather blended completely into what goes without saying.’ This is precisely what happens in digital capitalism’s burnout society, where the power of capital consists not in its power to oppress but in the voluntary surrender of its subjects to their own exploitation.

(italics mine)
The Iceweasel in Debian was Firefox without branding, IceCat (which was called Iceweasel before Debian created Iceweasel) is a GNU fork (and there are Thunderbird and Skymonkey equivalents).
No? I wouldn't consider the FBI to be an "unaccountable organization".

I never said all government organizations are unaccountable? Just that (practically-speaking) some organizations are unaccountable because they rarely (or never) are called to account by those who are supposed to hold them accountable. This could be due to them simply being a low-stakes organization that demands very little attention, for all I know!

Interesting that you call out a specific fallacy whilst bringing your own strawman into play!
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228029

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210138
Which is why we should be encouraging the kind of wealth generated by mutually beneficial transactions, and thanking God if such strategy lead to people generating 'hoards' of value.
Atmospheres make landing easier and require less fuel! A big problem with landing is losing your speed which is going to be extremely high to begin with. On the Moon you can only do this by basically turning around in the opposite direction of your velocity and thrusting an equal but opposite amount. It's not only quite complex but also substantially complicates landing.

This is made even true on the Moon because its low gravity means that even a hair of velocity is going to make you 'bounce' after landing. This is why things like probes and rovers landing (or at least ending up) on their side or even upside down on the Moon is a fairly frequent affair. On Mars (and other places with an atmosphere) you can use atmospheric braking which is essentially just slowing down by bumping into the atmosphere in a controlled fashion. You can even get things like parachutes involved in the process.

The dust storms in Mars are also 'fake' at least as presented in movies/books like "The Martian." Mars has an extremely low atmospheric pressure (relative to Earth) so fiercest dust storm imaginable would feel like nothing more than a slight breeze. The only issue they pose is visibility, and dust accumulating on solar panels. Andy Weir, by the way, was well aware of this when writing "The Martian" which is otherwise a phenomenally well researched hard sci-fi book. I think it's highly telling that he had to intentionally fudge reality to create a crisis on Mars!
I only launch chrome for google meets and google maps.
These comments typically come from people who are doing well in life, im guilty of that as well.

Instead we should be looking at the cups below us who can barely get by their salary
Russia is currently waging an actual war of invasian. They are constantly threatening multiple countries with invasion and nuking.
> The best bet would be using Firefox or something based on it. Firefox is free, open source, available on most platforms, and Mozilla has largely shown a commitment to both the user and the web.

Given the downward trajectory of Mozilla, including re. the commitment to the user, why would this help? How would it change anything at the Mozilla corporate to make this bet the best?
I would love to see the day when Autodesk is sold to some scumbag bigCo for peanuts.
> The US has been an unequal place all its history and it's a tremendous country to live in.

Have you.. lived in other countries? I came here from southeast Asia and yes, my BigTech salary affords me a comfortable life, but I simply don't understand why the bottom 90% aren't up in arms over here.
It has not been possible for decades in Southern Europe countries for decades, that is why most people live with their parents and only leave home when married, and then get credits that last all the way until they retire, assuming they live that long in first place.

Or eventually get the parents house from generation to generation.
not always

in the great depression, the crash did reduce inequality

in the covid19, the crash increased inequality

my opinion is that nowadays, fortune is highly financialized.

during a crisis, for most(99.99%) ordinary people who are in the market, they suffer the real lose, and they have nothing to comeback, even have to sell their assets to pay their bills, all they can get from the goverment is something like food banks, or the best situation, get a job to sell their labor

but for certain people either hold enough cash or can obtain enough cash from government relief programs, putting them in a position of advantage, this enables them to quickly reap a large amount of wealth during an economic crisis.
At the bottom the article links to this discussion, but not your other articles. Did you happen to find the discussion on Hacker news or post it yourself?

If you happened to have found it, has someone systematized linking their articles to their respective hacker news discussion?.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/77476/00011931251104...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1545158/000119312512...

https://www.mondelezinternational.com/our-brands/

https://inspirebrands.com/

Mom and pops diners and the like seemed to all fail within a half decade of each other, here recently. Weird.
Only in the US and some other countries

I’m still “waiting” for the GFC to correct the Australian housing market…
Tech isn't the world. In fact if anything tech as an industry is performing awfully for us people. Lay offs lay offs for years
Random thoughts:
- Quantifying creative output of people becomes even more difficult because of the advent of AI.

- Working on solo projects / papers could be a way to verify your thinking.

- Research (i.e. submitting for publications) might be the best way to verify
Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes
no, it means that it contributes to a worsening of the environment that it runs in - the web.

By making the product - the browser - the best that they can (without damaging their core businesses) Google achieves dominance to worsen the web as a whole.
Fish trawling is far less dangerous than crabbing. None on our boat.
Yep am aware of that.
People use different sites, so I believe it, especially "local" ones of zero interest to people in other countries.

That said, I've not used chrome on personal machines as a default browser for many years, and at work I also avoid it.

I don't remember when I last stumbled over a page that didn't work in Firefox... which then worked in any other Browser and was not broken per se. Or they didn't work with Firefox + UBlock Origin, which is fair as Chrome just blocks less.
> the rich have cash flow and can continuously invest during crashes

There are a lot of levered rich people. Musk would be screwed if he got margin called on Tesla.
I had the minimum machine to run Linux 0.95 on: a 386sx16 with 4mb of memory and a 40mb drive. I actually had only 2mb but I recall Linux installed but barely ran. I upgraded it with SIPPs so I could run Linux properly. It was incredibly fun to have a Unix box on my desk in high school. But actually, I’ve built a 30 year career on that experience. A heartfelt thanks to Linus and all the contributors who have (so far!) supported this project.
They're starbucking us, man.
Resident Evil?
I would have said the same if I discovered those scrolls charred to a crisp too, but here we are reading them like it wasn't sci-fi.

So, can we start an X Prize to read the contents of this brain?
This is an incredibly useful investigation! Did you publish it somewhere?
Historically the Golden Globes are the biggest predictor of the Oscars, so, yes, but then you have to ask how it won the Golden Globe lol
Hard to compare without looking at healthcare, social security and similar costs cutting into net income.
No, because the richer one is the more one can endure. In a market crash, the rich can just survive with their own stash of liquid money and when the time is ripe they can sweep in and buy for cheap the stocks of middle class investors trying to liquidate to make ends meet
Interesting. I have an old 80mb IDE from an ancient laptop that won't read, maybe this is happening.

Before opening it I'm going to try it in an older desktop as it may be that it just doesn't like USB IDE enclosures.
The population might not be happy, but they don't have the means to change it. Revolutions don't happen when people are mad, they happen when the ones who can afford armies and equipment sense the possibility of coming out on top. 250 years ago George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War out of his own pocket and he still would have retained two thirds of his wealth. Instead he put the losses on top of the public debt, became the leader of the new nation and enjoyed no longer having to pay taxes to the British for the economic output of his slaves. Today we can see the same thing happening again with different rich guys' names. But the poor will not benefit this time either. When things get bad for average people, it's just an opportunity for other rich guys to take the reigns.
Illuminant – ActivityPub server with NNTP interface
The Web is now ChromeOS, and everyone shipping Chrome only because it is easier, it is too complicated to do cross-browser development, yeedah yeadah..., are only repeating the IE 6 siren song.

Also take a minute to appreciate shipping Electron garbage for helping Chrome's hegemony.
No, I'm saying it's working for >99% of the users.
I don't think this is mutually-exclusive to what I'm saying?

It's equally plausible that the reason Congress has not called an organization to account is simply because that organization is beneath Congress' notice. Congress has as incredibly broad mandate, and necessarily prioritizes. This means some organizations are simply not enough of a priority to warrant any attention.

It is in this dearth of attention that waste can thrive!
Yeah but not my stock
That's an interesting juxtaposition. I think the core difference here is still that home address is somewhat bound to a physical location; you could have a central registry which maps the old address to the new and carry them that way but that seems awfully impractical. On the other hand, with digital services such as email a comparatively simple regulation could solve it.

Of course, this might be the wrong thing to think about an email as a form of identification. Perhaps we should move to a better system altogether at least what is related to addressing.
> Rather, math's power stems from the fact that it emphatically does not expect or require the symbols to have any connection to real world observations.

What exactly do you mean by "power" here, if not the ability to predict real-world phenomena? In absence of it, what exactly would make it anything more than an exotic artform?
I'm in good company with all the modern UI toolkits and css libraries that have utility classes and container components which make the code I write reusable and composable. It's way better than using classes as "hooks" to style the markup and end up with a nesting of selectors to specifically target elements. You could compare it to HTML actually, I use a <stack> the same you would a <table>, and not reinvent with some custom wrapper like <div class="basketball-scores"> just to have a name attached so I can style it.
I'm assuming sarcasm here.
The 2008 crash was immediately offset by huge rounds of QE that most of them went to bail out financial institutions and inadvertently further inflated the prices of most assets.
It may have been necessary, I don't know, but the bottom line is the stock market (and all assets generally) was inflated with huge sums of new money.
I don't know about Google Meet, as I don't use it, but why Google Maps? It's been working fine on FF for me.
Just like Electron is Chrome in disguise, but lets keep shipping those.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228029

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210138
How? I feel like I'm being trolled. None of it makes sense. There's an unexplained great flood, unexplained human ruins, weird whale-like creatures, some kind of being sucked up into heaven thing that happens to the stork-like bird. I've seen people online trying to put it into a sensible plot but it's so heavy on made up symbolism that to me it's bullshit.