jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Great article. Regarding the wealth accumulation, there is an interesting parallel with black holes: a single blob of wealth absorbs other wealth at the exponential rate: dw/dt=k*w, where k is the population growth dp/dt. The same blob of wealth has a Hawking radiation that evaporates this wealth, but at a constant rate: dw/dt=-e, where e is expenses to support ones lifestyle. Big blobs of wealth have about the same rate of evaporation, but absorb surrounding wealth much faster. Add to that the constraint: the total wealth is fixed and generally grows with the population size. In practice, all the small wealth bubbles (workers) evaporate quickly and the radiation gets absorbed by the big black holes. Eventually they become too big for this planet and collide: US vs China. This boom cycle of the wealth bubbles universe is always followed by the bust cycle: a war. The big bubbles explode and firm many small bubbles, that evaporate and so on. Nothing new here. In the black holes world, the force distributing the matter is gravity. In our world of wealth bubbles, this force is called greed. It is the driving force of the boom and bust cycle. Greed is one the few fundamental imperfections of the human mind and it takes eons fir the human mind to change. The previous driving force was cruelty, and it still is in some places. The next driving force will be
Avoidance has bad connotations, tax optimization is a better term.
Looks like part of that might be attempting to craft a bilingual email address? This kind of thing is tough to get right— in many cases the easiest thing is to just make up a word that's understandable in both languages but isn't obviously preferential to either, like how the transit agency in Ottawa is called "OC Transpo".

On the other hand, for email addresses in particular, it should be easy to just have one in each language, which also makes sense in terms of the person replying knowing upfront which language you'd like to use based on which address your query came in on.
how is this even a question in 2021
it’s okay to not see the potential.

blockchain is more than a distributed database. in a distributed database someone is still in charge and can make decisions unilaterally about how the data is altered.

in blockchain you have a bunch of entities that can transact with each other with zero trust and without the need of a central authority. that is the truly innovative aspect of the blockchain and what sets it apart.
> Eg. for randomised algorithms you need a fast source of randomness.

Though normal random() implementations are LCGs which have poor distributions when you either only look at the least significant bits or project them into multiple dimensions.

As a result they may make some randomized algorithms perform poorly!
I thought Rust didn't have a spec so everything in Rust was essentially undefined behaviour.

Has this changed or is the "defined" part still the compiler source code? In that case taking the source code of any C compiler as the _blessed_ one should get rid of any undefined behaviour problems as well.
Not sure exactly what you mean here, is it the idea of using NFT sales as a way of laundering money or such? (I'm making the same distinction as the article of talking just about NFTs vs crypto in general.)

Seems like any sort of physical collectible would be great for under-the-radar transactions - claim you found them in the attic or something when it's time to turn them into cash, nobody's going to expect original receipts. Anything on a blockchain seems far riskier. Using Beanie Babies would've worked better before the bubble burst and people would still pay crazy prices for common ones compared to now, of course...
I find this argument very strange:

> But it is, because in the long run, assets without cash flows cannot increase in value more than the economy as a whole. If something appreciates faster than the whole economy in the long run, it eventually eclipses the whole economy, which is impossible.

No one is operating on an infinite time horizon in their investments, so this argument seems moot. You can certainly find collectibles that have grown faster than the economy as a whole over a period of O(decades), which is all any human needs.

e.g. a Black Lotus card from magic was about $15 in 1994 and about $11,000 (or more, depending on age and condition) in mid-2021. [0] In that same time period, the S&P 500 has gone up only about 10x.

[0]: https://infinite.tcgplayer.com/article/A-History-of-the-Pric...
Well no, the representation of game state and input have to remain the same ^1. I guess in lisp you could more easily write a function that maps the previous representation into the new one.

Here is an example of what kind of interactive code reloading I have in mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrUSrVvB21c

Admittedly it is more of a hack than in a Common Lisp system, but still.

1) EDIT: At least in the most simple design. Nothing prevents you from optionally stopping the simulation, serialize a snapshot of the sate to disk, change the representation of complex numbers or whatever, together with the data serialization routines and continue.
That makes it sounds like a certain fashionable system that sits on top of the Linux kernel is monolithic...
Great, sent!
There's some historical truth in here but the overall thrust of your comment is wrong. The realignment between the Democrats and Republicans was not primarily economic, and was in fact driven by civil rights: opponents of civil rights legislation switched from the Democratic to Republican parties, leaders in the Republican party capitalized on that to realign the Solid South, which as a side effect canted the GOP more rural and the Democratic party more urban, which reinforced the Democratic racial coalition and also further shifted more conservative rural voters into the GOP.

The process was already in motion in the early 1960s, and was a key part of Goldwater's strategy in '64. Perlstein's "Before The Storm" is a good book on this.

The notion that Nixon was an advocate for anti-segregation reform in the south is especially risible. Nixon did, in fact, appeal to the pre-'64 anti-civil-rights agenda of the southern states. Last time we talked about this, I put the Nixon campaign on the record, in a contemporaneous source pursuing this strategy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25742135

You responded with a revisionist Claremont Review article, which is approximately the same thing as me responding to one of your comments with a Robin DiAngelo article. Amusingly, one of the Claremont article's sources is... Kevin Phillips, the subject of the contemporaneous news story I cited to you.

I can make it simpler for you. Here, from the article I posted, is a direct quote from Phillips, a primary source of your Claremont article on the "Myth of the Racist Republican":

All the talk of the Republicans making inroads into the Negro vote is persiflage. Even ‘Jake the Snake’ [Senator Jacob k. Javits] only gets 20 percent. From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 precent of the Negro vote and they don’t need any more than that . . . but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.

Here I pause to request that you "wait for it", and note that if we weren't buried deep in a random thread that the good play here would have been to stop before the ellipsis, wait for someone to point out the VRA thing, and then unveil the rest of the quote, Simpsons "How To Cook Forty Humans" style, but, anyways:

The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That’s where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide in their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

Persiflage, this revisionist history of ideological sorting. Persiflage, I say.
No it isn't. My gaming PC has a 2TB SATA SSD that I store all my games on and it's more than fine.

Many people still use HDDs for game storage.
Oh I know ... it's scary. I live in the west and have seen first hand what it's done to Denver / Boulder / Boise.

I really liked your analogy, too. "Let's screw things up and see what happens. No worries I have unicorn stock and can move to somewhere better and bring my wreck with me."

I read a comment one time that said "Denver used to be the Kansas City of the West, now it's the SF." It saddens me how true that is now.
And it's actually only half a page. The first bit is an acknowledgement, and the second half is notes including another few acknowledgements.
It's a real shame, Ubuntu used to be my go-to distro, but for me this is the last straw in the history of shady things Canonical has done.

One of the things I liked most about Ubuntu is that the installation process is incredibly easy and everything "just works". Does anyone know a good alternative?

I'd love to go all in on Alpine, but using it on the desktop doesn't exactly spark joy.
I'm glad to see new approaches to this problem being discussed, because even after researching about lipids for quite awhile, I was unable to come to a full conclusion on them myself. There's so many confounding variables, and attempting to control for all of them just isn't really feasible in an RCT (not to mention most studies are correlational and nowhere near an RCT to begin with).

I think it's likely the case that sometimes high LDL is good, and sometimes it is bad, and this may depend on many other factors related to yourself and your diet. But disentangling these cases is very difficult, and the food supply of nations has changed so much that we keep seeing very misleading correlations. These misleading correlations are why we sometimes hop onto bandwagons like 'fat is bad for you', 'high salt is bad for you', or 'animal products/red meat are bad for you', and then after more research and RCTs, we realize that this is not the case (if the press would stop reporting correlations to everyone as important research that you need to act on right now, that would certainly be nice).

I'm looking forward to more progress here, but until then I don't mind eating saturated fats myself, although I do avoid certain sources of them, such as in fried oils high in linoleic acid. I also don't focus a ton on LDL precisely, but rather some other related measures (different types of cholesterol, low inflammation, and coronary calcium scans if possible)
> So the officers just claim they always listen to music?

> Or that they were simply trying to send a message that they were done with the conversation with someone who is following them around on the job? Which seems to be the case here, honestly.

> Or that they didn’t know that a random person with a phone had a massive YouTube following combined with intent to post this video online?

They can claim those things, sure. But liability (especially civil liability, which is need only be established by preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt like criminal liability) doesn't go away just because you can present a narrative which is possibly true which would provide an innocent explanation.

Moreover, if a department pays the cost of litigating a couple cases where officers actions in this regard are challenged, they'll have a strong incentive to adopt policies which prevent the dispute from occurring.
I'm in a similar situation (granted, I do eat meat 5-6 days a week). And I have no idea what to do about it except go vegan.

I suppose there's a genetic component, as no man in my known family lineage has made it past 60.
Right, and if all the officer wants to do is play music, he just has to take off his gun, uniform, and badge. Seems like it’s fair to me. He could even dress like the teenager if he likes.
One other bit about the mechanics of it-

If the two trailer hitches are not exactly level with eachother, whichever truck has the higher hitch has a big advantage.
No, if you want to do that kind of trainee stuff you would just use L1 visas, H3 visas or even the B1 visa if it's a short period. Since H1Bs are on a lottery, and you have to tell people to wait until October anyway, hiring someone in your remote office, having them work on projects and then bringing them over 1 year later on an L1 is pretty close in costs anyway. And you guarantee that the person can come over, vs the 'chance' that H1Bs give you.

Wipro & co are general outsourcing firms themselves that american companies hire. I don't know why they use the h1b vs the L1 visa although.
The article doesn't mention virtual/augmented reality (besides a passing comment about Oculus), which I think is a viable contender for the next epoch.
Part of being a good scientist is knowing the areas you are an expert in and asking for help in those areas that you are not. If you don't know how to write code then you need to collaborate with someone who does.

In my experience these sort of bad outcome occurs when a senior supervisor gives a student or junior post doc a project that involves programming, but is not able to provide adequate supervision. Instead of finding a collaborator that can help they just let the junior scientist thrash around on their own.
I think your criteria sound very fair. I would be curious to know how many generalists - which is what you seem to be describing - are able to produce the kind of 1000x returns that PG was describing though. Perhaps your definition of a great programmer is simply more reasonable and accessible?
It's simple, yes we might have less violence and your stats seem to make sense.
However, the reason you are right is because we are being more controlled by, I don't know world bank, countries, laws.
Today in Turkey they want to give the president the power to turn off the internet at will for 24 hours. There is news like this every day, ways to get more control and power over people.
There are 1 million camels in Australia, the government thinks that that is to much and they pay people to shoot them. So, one milion camels is too much for a whole continent but there is nothing wrong with having 8 billion people on earth, destroying just about everything, that is ok?
We have no choice in what is happening around us, most people I know would want their country to stop importing oil and find a greener alternative. This day an age that wouldn't be too hard. So why aren't we?
That is not in your equation!
We are destroying our oceans, atmosphere, finally the republicans are willing to talk about climate change, but all is still weight around money and cost.
The monetary system is broken and it is global. One little change effects one way or the other the entire globe.
If you ask me it all is hanging in a balance that is controlled by a few wealthy. And it is hanging on very thin strings these days.
An example (somewhat) from the business world: integrated vs modular.
For example, Apple (ios) is integrated and they have complete freedom to design their hardware and software stack from the ground up. This allows them full expressiveness.
In contrast, Google (android) is modular, and they integrate/source components from commodity vendors. It's less expressive, perhaps a degraded experience compared to apple, but much more modular.

The interesting bit is that the traditional wisdom in business is "in the end modular approaches to technology always defeat integrated approaches", although how this will play out in Apple's case is hard to predict, because I suppose Apple is kind of special.
However if we apply the traditional business wisdom to the software domain here, I wonder the same holds: that the expressive/integrated approach is more powerful initially (where may the modular woudln't be able to get "off the ground"), but over time it looses ground to the constrained/modular approach as the modular benefits are allowed to scale to their full potential.

http://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/
We actually have a surplus of lawyers right now, at this very moment. Large numbers of people with law degrees are unable to find work in the field.

So fewer people are going to law school. And this is true even at the top end. The most talented people are going into law in lesser numbers.

It's not a theory, it's actual fact.
I agree but GWT is such a well-known project that it's almost OK in this case.
It's creepy in Taiwan too. Maybe necessary in the short term, but how do you get the government to willingly relinquish this kind of control once the need has passed? They will just keep making up reasons to keep it going, and eventually it will just become normalized and nobody will care that the government is literally tracking them 24/7 like Big Brother.
Israel's ministry of health has released a similar app [1] (open source [2]).
Location is stored locally, and cross checked with confirmed covid-19 patients location history.
You get a notification if you were close to a patient

(1) https://medium.com/@oleiba/hamagen-fight-coronavirus-and-pre...

(2) https://github.com/MohGovIL/hamagen-react-native
From experience that kind of slowdown for pure numeric algorithms happens when your numpy/scipy code is structured in a way that it makes extra unnecessary copies.
Probably not as much as they loved an interesting story about YouTube on prominent websites.
I think you can differentiate your product from the sea of competitors in the same way Apple succeeded with the iPod when there were dozens of MP3 players already on the market. Rather than competing on features (GB, bitrate, etc), they appealed to the masses with "1000 songs in your pocket".

I'm a developer, so I know what ping, DNS, TCP, and UDP mean, but for the average Joe with a Wordpress blog, maybe a more compelling sell is:

Check the following:
Is my site up?
Are my ads showing?
Has my site been hacked?
Is my site slow?
Is Google Analytics showing?
Is my email up?

Marketing to this audience might run counter to the "charge more and eliminate needy customers" market, but you might find other ways to generate revenue. For example, you can run analytics on different hosting companies and see which ones are consistently slower than average, and market the fastest ones to your clients (at $100 a piece affiliate revenue).
I'd argue that jQuery embraces a lot of ideas that new JS programmers often overlook - functions as objects for example. jQuery also gives you primitives to perform functional/set based operations.

For me, approaching JS as a functional language has been the key to writing good clean JS. jQuery helped me with this by allowing me to ignore all the psuedo OO stuff in JS and concentrate on the functional features.
I really hope you're kidding...I would venture a guess that there are no more than a handful of people in the world making more than $100/month in adsense, even with a lot of content sites
I was thinking the same. Technically, they didn't take VC, they took angel investment. They are different, but I completely agree on your point as I wrote in my comment on SVN blog.

I don't get how they can claim to be a bootstrapped company when they did indeed take angel investment. I would love for someone to shed some insight.
I'd agree with that, certainly.
I found this link that gives you the full article for some reason: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116863379291775523-_E...
I experienced directly some uncivility recently on an oil disaster thread. While not pleasant, I expect it when you have a large group of mostly strangers, of varying degrees of maturity, together in an online forum. There will probably always be a few rude juvenile assholes who unleash. It would be nice to see a consistent ban rule in such cases, but I don't expect it either. As with many things in life, the world would be better if each individual would follow something like the Golden Rule.
They don't give much details, but it sounds like a very superficial need that could be accommodated by Redis, Memcached, AppFabric, and on and on. Kind of surprised that they chose MongaDB as it's far from the fastest competitor.
"she just happened to be completely ignorant about there being a way that she could avoid the obvious legal issues"

I think she has known all along that she's been running her business illegally by stealing other people's work without permission, and because she was never confronted about it until now she became emboldened to continue to expand her illegal practices.

I think she's acting ignorant, and it does not feel genuine to me at all. Anyone who claims to have been employed as an editor for 3 decades certainly knows what is legal and illegal. She just figured that she could get away with it -- and when confronted she decided that "the best defense is a strong offense" so she attacked the author verbally and tried to belittle her -- thinking perhaps that the author would simply back away and 'disappear' rather than assert her rights.
I sat near him at HoHoCon (I'm thinking it was '92).

Apparently someone smelled like cigarette smoke and he really didn't like that. He stopped the conference in the middle of a talk, proclaimed fairly loudly that if we wanted him present, we would eliminate the odor at once; if not, he would leave. Then he sat back down and we all just kinda shrugged.
I wanna say that it's 17 billion per gram. I'm looking for a citation though. though I think thats for anti-protons.

... so slightly less than saffron.

EDIT: eh wikipedia say 25gigabucks per gram, 62 trillion for antihydrogen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter#Cost
I have a couple of climbing friends, link sent.
For better or worse, the word "radiation" carries a negative connotation. It bugs me when people who know better throw the word around knowing that they exploit people's ignorance.

Of course people not understanding that all EM is radiation is a problem but the statement that "it is a problem because people don't understand x" is true for almost every value of x.
Creative writing? I'd settle for plain old English composition. This is no "those darn kids" gripe - I get emails from people in their 30s and 40s that are excruciating to read and require a follow-up call just to find out what they were trying to say.
Core statement of the article:

Comsumers who are deeply religious are less likely to display an explicit preference for a particular brand, while more secular populations are more prone to define their self-worth through loyalty to corporate brands instead of religious denominations

This whole thing is based on the faulty premise that a non-religious person desperately needs a religion-like source of self worth and that this can be provided by joining some kind of economic cult.

One might just as easily shout out a hypothesis that non-religious people are more likely to make informed decisions based on actual data and hence stick to products that have been verified to work, whereas non-religious people categorize everything simply by whatever it says on label regardless of reality and are more likely to put blind faith in everyday decisions.

I'm not saying "my" hypothesis is any better, but at least I'm not presenting it as fact.
I defined my meaning in technical, policy neutral terms, which is apparently getting downvoted for...well, I don't know why, unless someone thinks that inefficiency, inconsistency and red tape are highly desirable.

You can stand by your statement all you want, because I am not going to get drawn into a policy debate with you. Your first remarks in the thread were arguing with a position I never expressed to begin with.
I understand. It's a good point. There aren't really any evil people. Just stupid decisions.