jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The other thing is that the bottom folks aren't as "needy" as folks were in, say, the great depression.
- I.e. "no one starves in america" and most people know this: so while the distribution in wealth is extreme, the distribution in QUALITY OF LIFE is less extreme.
- This biases people's view and makes them feel that generally, for most americans, things are okay.

This is all true of course: except that the worry about an ultra-wealthy minority is not that their quality of life is too high compared to your's (it's not) but rather that their POWER is too extreme, since money is power and speech, and that since power corrupts, they MIGHT ultimately work to reduce further the strength of the lower classes to the point that poverty really does become extreme.
- Since as Marx shows this is not really in the interest of the upper classes (that is: tyranny and extreme poverty are precisely what leads to a violent reaction by the down-trodden) it may be that, through the miracle of technology's abundance, we will continue on a track where we all have a high quality of life, but only a smaller and smaller pool of people "own" the production engines.

How a world where a few own all the profits, but the masses have what they need to survive looks, we will soon see: but it certainly feels very Brave New World and is, perhaps, inevitable.
I think the headline is misleading, if not a flat out lie. Americans know who has money...almost everyone else. The average American is living paycheck to paycheck, or worse...they know that their friends are living in the same situation. We know that people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and future Mark Zuckerbergs hold billions.

I don't really know anyone that is confused or surprised when they hear that this is how the country's wealth is distributed.
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I think it matters because accumulation of capital is important. You can have people with lots of capital but more moderate income because they don't work anymore, and that's good (b/c it creates jobs and increases the productivity of labor for their employees who use their capital).
"I'd like to see that graph broken down between people who think that wealth is a zero sum thing that can be represented as a pie (as shown) vs those who know it isn't."

Given that the "ideal" distributions are more or less the same across all other demographic slices, I doubt it would be substantially different. Which is good, because that argument doesn't stand up to even casual scrutiny.

The macroeconomic pie grows so slowly that it's not particularly meaningful to individuals on scales of less than a lifetime. When you actually look at the numbers [1], it's clear that rich people are getting richer at a much higher rate than poorer people are getting richer. Moreover, the average real household net worth has dropped substantially over the last decade, while the net worth of the richest has grown. No matter how you look at them, the numbers just don't support the "pie growth" hypothesis on anything other than an extremely long time scale.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wealth_in_the...
I'm not sure if this is the right time/place for it, but I've always wanted to trot out this factoid:

Archie Comics 'parodied' Bill Nye in one of their comics as "Phil MacPherson, The Science Person".
Not given the size of the budget deficit, and especially not if you're only concerned about taxes that exclusively affect the very very wealthy.
The resistance of bad designers against codification of design is astonishing. Good designers recognize that there is a language to design, based in culture. Good design doesn't just happen in a vacuum, radiating fully-formed from betwixt the ears of the design-genius. It has to communicate with the consumer, and that communication has to be effective. It's a similar sort of attitude that we see amongst bad programmers, insisting that day-to-day programming has nothing to do with mathematics.

Example: a bad designer would say that abstract paintings can mean anything. A painting of overlapping dark blue orbs could represent anger, or frustration, or happiness. Such a statement would be not only be completely wrong, but downright troubling as to the artists' culturally insensitivity. In Occidental culture, we often use bright reds to represent anger and frustration, and light blues and pinks make happy feelings.

Another example: in Japanese culture, white is often symbolic of death. If you're designing a hero character, you will either refrain from dressing the character in white, or you will intentionally dress the character in white, knowing that you seek to make the character an anti-hero. But you cannot effectively make that decision unless you understand the visual language of that culture.

The extent to which design cannot be codified by a designer is the extent to which that designer does not understand the culture for which she or he is designing. Every element of design is communicating a piece of information. Every element. That the designer does not understand what a particular element is communicating -- either at all or only on a subconscious level -- does not change the fact that it is there.

Art and science are not mutually exclusive pursuits, they are fundamentally intertwined parts of the creation and understanding process. Even advanced quantum and particle physics requires some level of art in designing experiments. Or did you think that those folk at CERN know exactly how to prove and disprove every hypothesis they come up with?

Even Einstein knew a thing or two about design: "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.", which we often summarize by saying, "make it as simple as possible, but no simpler."
Everyone should read the comments on this article. There's posts from other in attendance that gives a different take on the events. It's very easy in events like this for people to get their details mixed up.

On the side, I hope he's well. "The earth is tilted tilted tilted" has been burned into my head so well. I will never forget what causes the seasons.
IIRC, pg said that ycombinator.com (which is where all of HN's static content is served from) was on shared hosting.
Thanks for the interest!

We're starting with just a free version for consumers and one price all for paid users. Our first paid feature is reporting, which at $200/mo makes sense for any business which currently has an employee spend hours compiling Twitter reports by hand. In our many conversations with businesses, we found this to be surprisingly common, and just as painful as you might imagine.

When we add additional paid features, we might add additional tiers of pricing depending on what makes sense for those features, grandfathering in old customers as appropriate. For now and the foreseeable future, there is just one price.
Wait, so air print won't even be able to print to a normal jetdirect or IPP printer?
The thing is, most of their stuff don't actually suck.

Take Windows Phone. It's a great OS. The only problem is that it came too late and had poor marketing (and was associated with the uncool Windows brand). Technically, it's awesome and in the same league as Android and iOS.

The same is true for Xbox, Windows 8, C#, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC/API, Azure, etc.

Google or Apple would build the exact same products, and people would probably love them.

So no, I don't believe that Ballmer's love for Microsoft (especially recently) was unjustified. He simply failed to account for the negative popular perception of Microsoft and its brands.
It appears you were being fascetious based on a misinterpretation of what I said about "fractalization of the web"

Thinking that I was proposing "cloud" as some new thing... Maybe you don't understand what I meant?
Are these sales to Californians, or does this include sales made in California and delivered to another state because of the dealership issue?
Perhaps even more true in the case of Panama.
Is anyone else tired of tesla PR and seeing 2 tesla articles here everyday? Great for you Tesla and Mr. Musk, your PR team is great.

How about posting some articles about the voltage regulation algorithm, or leak testing of lithium batteries ?

Something actually interesting would be nice.
Whether Monty opens a door or not doesn't change your probability - the door you chose has 1/3 chance. Wave your hands all you want and show off bogus math if you like.
Without modifying the rules, you could effectively reverse the game into a race to score goals in your own goal. Goal keepers would be the strikers (much more effective strikers since they can use their hands). Most players would be just trying to control the ball and move it towards their goalie/striker
I personally believe that coddling youth can potentially do more damage than good. Learning to overcome challenges and deal with defeat is part of being human and growing up and it builds a sense of confidence and self reliance.
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Does the copious prose not count?
Twitter is a platform that is taking over the ecosystem, one feature at a time.
It would turn into a game of defending your opponents goal to prevent them from scoring on themselves. Actually if you think about it, it could add a whole new element to the game and maybe even be exciting, if not more confusing...
I never thought we'd see the day when the top modded comment on HN was advocating naturopathic medicine.
This is a great talk.
Though unrelated to Lean, Kathy Sierra's philosophy is similar in that it describes a "simple" mindset that has the potential to change the way you think about your product and business process for the rest of your days.

My only complaint is that there isn't a pithy catchphrase to describe it, or a larger cult evangelizing/writing about it, like Lean has.

When attempting to encapsulate Kathy Sierra's ideas, I often use the phrase "customer-centric," but I think people misinterpret it. (That said, "Lean" has a similar problem, people often think it means "budget" or simple.)

People often take Customer-Centric as a value judgement, that it means be nice to people or something like that. (By all means, we should be nice to people, but Customer-Centric is not about something so subjective.)

Just as Lean is a How, so is Customer-Centric. It's basically about focusing on how your business transforms your customer, not your product/brand (these things get worked on of course, but in the name of results for the customer).

I also think that Lean and Customer-Centric are greatly compatible, and focus each other. Anybody into Lean should check this talk out.
Which of the above users is Matt Gaetz exactly?
There is no way one could have picked up what you meant from just saying "Design vs. growth". You realize how general those terms are, right? Something that implies to you may not imply to many others.

Still your language is imprecise. Can you give examples?

> authoritative, non-iterative mega-deployment

Like what? Who designs a team like this? What are some concrete examples?
When "let us go back to work, my family is starving and we're going to lose the house!" is characterized as "they just want to get haircuts!" it's worse than censorship. It's mockery of people's suffering.

Move down the hierarchy of needs a bit and listen to what people are discussing. It's not trade policy.
That's an interesting observation - as someone who's built a few ECS implementations, one of the things I've always taken for granted is that things like cache line size are more or less set in stone, given the ubiquity of x86, so it's interesting to consider that the rise of ARM might create additional complexities there.

I'm a bit of two minds about this: on the one hand, for a long time I've wanted a language for writing allocators which is more explicit about memory, and offers good abstractions for low-level memory operations (maybe Zig is going in this direction). In some sense, it feels like the move towards programmers thinking less about memory management has been a bit of a dead-end, and what we really want is better tools for memory management. Fragmentation in terms of how processors handle memory goes against this goal in some ways.

On the other hand, it's a bit of a "holy grail" to imagine a hardware stack which obviates the need for memory optimization, and really does treat loading from and storing to memory anywhere on the heap as the same. But I imagine that the interesting things which the M1 is doing with memory are helping a lot with the worst case performance, and maybe even average case performance, but they're probably not doing much for the best case.
They are archiving the "wrong" thing. There have been similar "archive this!" movements this year, generally focussed on online communities targetting their political opponents.

In 50 years what is going to be "hard to find" and unarchived? The things that NOBODY is talking about now! You need to be coldly unemotional and consider what your community DOES NOT CARE ABOUT. This will often be things that are politically awkward for you and your community. There will be 1000s of people archiving this event and NONE archiving events which do not suit the political narrative. Accepting this is difficult!

What is happening here is the equivalent of your parents keeping a newspaper of man first landing on the moon, which is now the most common vintage newspaper that exists.
I’m not justifying anything. I’m simply pointing out the absurd false equivalence.
Well, is it encrypted?
The M1-based macs support USB4, which is conceptually an upgrade over TB3 (supporting multiplexed streams of PCIe, DP, and USB). However Apple conspicuously does not prominently advertise that support, which I'm guessing is due to a lack of ecosystem.
My go to interview question for the last few years has been kind of similar to this one, in that it's about looking at, exploring, and modifying code that already exists. I also let people look things up, ask stupid questions, etc.

You would not believe how many times I have to tell some people that it's not a trick, I really don't mind if they google something or use `man`. That I'm not trying to trick them into having to know what the arguments of pthread_create are by heart, or that yes they can compile the program in coderpad as many times as they want.

Really unfortunate that so much of the industry thinks interview questions should be like Shyamalan movies.

(also sadly I'm changing jobs soon and I'll have to abandon this question and I don't think it'd fly in the new job's interview policies anyways)
Several (most?) brands do this. Do you know of a brand that definitely does not?
Thanks.

Yeah exactly, Django is really intended for the full range developer. They make a lot of the design (software) decisions for you, which in turn causes you to often end up in a much more manageable project (sometimes this backfires). Getting into a Django frame of mind is a bit more difficult since you have constraints but once you get it down, its generally straight forward. The other thing about Django is the packaging ecosystem. Things like advanced user perm/management, etc are baked in and very likely available in their myriad of packages (djangopackages.com). I would definitely recommend the beginner to start with django, mess it up a couple times and learn what ideal structures are like.

Flask on the other hand is extremely easy for the couple view project but requires someone quite competent in python to manage larger projects in it. You'll eventually have to create internal rules for your structure and code to keep things clean (MVC, etc) but the flexibility you'll have with it is amazing. The creator of Flask, Armin Ronacher, and it's devs are amazing at python and the languages idioms. You'll learn a lot going through the code and using its phenomenal design to create your own solutions. For example you won't be using flask packages with their own models/migrations, you'll be using pypi packages and design your models around your needs. Unless your project is really small, if you have everything in one file you're doing it wrong.

I guess the shorthand rules on flask vs django is:
- Very simple: use flask
- Novice on large api: use django
- Good at python large api: use flask
- Med/Large web project: use django
- Medium web project, good at python: use flask
- Good at python, large api: use flask

Check out https://github.com/imwilsonxu/fbone and https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/wiki/Large-app-how-to for some advise. Let me know if you have any specific questions.
I think this is a gem of an idea. Like an attack vector.
Backbone still seems to be top dog:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=angular%2C+ember%2C+backbo...
Because all the default services are preloaded during setup. iCloud and Safari both have an update script in their package installers that 'prewarms' them for your first setup.
afaik laptop webcams are usb, and mics are just two wires.. I always wanted to use the useless bluetooth switch of my laptop to turn-off my cam and mic, it seems pretty trivial
a super computing cluster spewing nop trades will kill it t scale.
"Officer Albie Esparza confirmed that a police report had been filed with the San Francisco Police Department, and was currently being stored on a floppy disk."
...yes, but what SIZE floppies? the 3 1/2 was a higher density than the 5 1/4.
Neat, but none of these really show off the advantages of 3D printing over other manufacturing processes. All of these could be injection molded for a significant fraction of the price per unit. Overhanging or concave features, enclosed voids, interleaved materials - those are things which would sell me on 3D printing for this application. I would imagine you could even do these on a CNC machine for lower cost at higher resolution with all of the customizations highlighted.
This is true, but it's a point worth making every so often too. I created a system with Erlang and Perl that punched well above its weight (in terms of resources allocated to it) because I was able to cleanly separate the "concurrency" into the Erlang and the "reusing tons of existing code and working in a language the devs are familiar with" into the Perl. It's a powerful pattern, and if you are, like I was, stuck in a language with poor speed and in the case of perl no significant concurrency story [1], it's important to hear that there are options other than "throw it all out and start over again in a Cooler Language (TM)".

[1]: Perl has plenty of event loop choices, but in terms of trying to maintain thousands of live SSL connections at scale it's a terrible, terrible choice for that connection manager. But it was just fine as a service provider.
look at older releases. as mentioned the newest is missing for some reason.
>there's nothing stopping you from composing things in Python.

In Julia you can compose a custom distribution, with a bayesian model with an ODE with a neural network with unit number types with custom Julia written CUDA kernels and multithreading.

Edit: That are not designed specifically to work with each other

Can python even hope to do a fraction of that, still be fast and differentiate through everything?
I would've assumed so too had they not mentioned both AI and algorithms. That to me strongly implies deep learning frameworks. Also, stuff like https://data-apis.github.io/array-api/latest/ exist because of how many inconsistencies are present among related libraries in the Python ecosystem.
I'd read that as the author thinks everything is in the Public Domain, but they don't want to be liable if some big work uses something from their page and some guy materializes out of the woodwoork with a billion dollar lawsuit.
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We've launched a network where teachers are responsible for results and skills of their students.
Huge swaths (40% or so?) of the US live outside of big cities. It's just inconceivable that every one of them is seriously deprived and miserable doing so. They have friends, hobbies, lives that they can do outside of dense urban areas.
Memories fade but a persistent cough and scars last forever.
Aka the "Please don't hurt me Mr Murdoch" Law
OT: one of the nice little things with MacBooks is that you have a disk cloning thing built in. It takes literally one step and half an hour to clone my internal 512gb ssd to external Samsung t5 and have it booted up. No problems whatsoever and I’ve been successfully copying the same system back and forth about 10 times last year

One thing I do recommend though: remove airpods from the Apple account before cloning and pair again once the same system is running on new hardware. Sometimes this causes problems
I noticed many Ham radio operators run their personal blogs with the name of their call sign on http.
What investment is being referred to here for the NBA? The NBA including individual players all defended China. Money being the reason.
What use-case does mining solve? There is no point in it without transactions (ok, there is in terms of an immutable ledger that can store some information, like this event have to have happened before that), so how can you measure a bitcoin transaction’s energy cost otherwise?
I'm finding your attempt to avoid dealing with the impact of bitcoin amusing. What are you, a bitcoin investor?
chroot and jails have been around for a while, i don’t know the date but since ive used bsd and linux they’ve been there. definitely during this era. selinux was launched in 2000.
Computers run mostly from RAM and network. Unless you are doing heavy disk work, nvme isn't a big deal. You can use internal disk for temporary projects (compiling, video editing) and then copy the snapshot to external at end of day.
This is a great clue. I don’t have an opinion but there is enough noise around all this stuff to keep me on the sidelines. I will go back to my ETH staking ruminations.
You say that, but they have had spies being exposed for a lot of stupid reasons. Like having their address on driving licenses be the FSB headquarters to avoid getting traffic tickets.

Also, it seems entirely possible to me that they would do that not for the purposes of spying, but to sow chaos.
I could have replied to myself the same way you did.

My point is that I have never seen any company doing agile as their founders created it.

Trying to push for agile way since 2006.
For many people, moving from WhatsApp can only happen if enough people are on the alternative.

This momentum is a good opportunity to ask friends and family to install Signal. Go for it!
I talked to a 20 year old and told him what you said about rules not really applying. He's exceptionally well qualified for the fellowship and two degrees of connection away from Thiel/Jim O'Neil and told me that he asked, and was told decisively that 20 year olds are out.
Perhaps someone can shed light on this for me, a couple years ago I had an issue where libcurl with libressl stopped working in the new year with connections to a bunch of web servers, but switching to libcurl with openssl fixed my issue, though I never found out why.
Reminds me of this quote: "I don't know of any expedition that ever went looking for [Noah's] ark and didn't find it" [1]

When the foundation of a field is taking things on faith and built up on layers and layers of motivated interpretations over the centuries, I imagine its pretty tough finding people who are truly coming at evidence with an open mind. This has always been the thing that kept me from going deep on this facet of history, despite my curiosity.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/100428-...
OLEDs are much cheaper than that. Or do you mean an Apple markup?