jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Say it was 1000x what the poorest member of society has. That would seem to align incentives nicely. There is no limit on how much you can earn, but in order to earn it you have improve society in a way that actually impacts those who need it the most.
This is region dependent. In spanish speaking countries they pretty much never use email. Everyone - including the courier will just call you.
This particular game is very nerdy.
The question is whether politically there is a greater demand for available housing, or for ROI on already owned properties. Depending on which hypothesis you prefer, there either is a problem today or there isn't.

When one factors in that this situation is decades in the making and present across most of the Western world, I would argue the political interest is in looking out for home owners, not starters, both in sheer voter numbers and the politicians' own group membership.
It has nothing to do with population density. Other continents have fared much better than Europe, North America, and South America [1]. Many of the world's densest cities are on these continents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:COVID-19_Outbreak_World_M...
The way I've seen this play out in reality is that a lot of the "presentational logic" required by the templates gets computed in the "Django Views" layer (akin to the "controller" layer in traditional MVC). So in the end Django views both perform business/service logic and presentational logic.

I took it for granted after doing Django for several years but after doing a lot of web development in a more explicit MVC paradigm (Elixir and Phoenix in this case), my old Django code didn't really separate the web layer from the business logic layer. If I write more Django in the future I'll definitely be more aware of this but in many cases the framework (Templates, Forms, Models, Django-apps) don't really encourage this type of in-app architecture.
I'm not surprised by the level at the top but I straight-up don't believe the ~7% estimate at the bottom. Poorer people I knew always made significant (for their income) tax free money: tips, under the table, selling stuff, maybe minor dealing, etc.

OP is based on a paper[1] which uses and then corrects results from random audits which I wouldn't expect to catch these things. There is some statistical magic called Detection Controlled Estimation done by the IRS that supposedly covers it but I don't know how it works.

[1] very nice of them to provide a direct link: http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/GLRRZ2021.pdf
I think there are two main reasons to download from yt. The first one is that a lot of music is only available there. Services or torrents are not as vast as one would like when you are looking for something specific.
The second reason is that services that provide offline usage are cumbersome to use in certain escenarios; eg: old car stereo
(b) Minimum wage and safe working conditions are a thing in most developed countries.

However, enforcement is another story. While Japan's prefectural minimum wages range from ¥714 to ¥932 per hour (6.71+$) for all workers, that’s often ignored.
I've been thinking about the halo around books on and off for years.

I think whatever special value books used to represent in our society from before the internet is long gone. I remember the pre-internet times when the information world you had access to was small. You could consume silly low-information things on the tv or radio or you could read a book on the topic, which had a much higher information density and chance of being correct. There was no one you could talk with about a detailed topic unless you had maybe built up a professional circle you met with regularly, so a book was your only opportunity to "converse" with an expert. If you paid thousands of dollars, you could take a class on the topic and have an knowledgeable person take you on a basic guided tour of some of the good books on the topic. You would never have been able to get Warren Buffet's detailed thoughts on the economy without reading his book.

In the post-internet world, information is cheap and plentiful. Endless hours of talks and interviews by major thinkers are available to all. With a quick Google, you can find people discussing any topic under the sun. Micro-niche content on all topics are being produced for YouTube, the likes of which you would have never seen on the Discovery Channel. Dozens of free courses are available on all major topics and you can cherry pick just the pieces you are most interested in. Most information can be just-in-time delivered to you at just the moment you need it. Books are not obsolete in this environment, but just another one of the dozens of formats through which you could consume detailed information on a topic.

And finally, our collective societal values change slowly in comparison to the pace of technological change. Books were far and away the best way to access information for so long that it has a sticky association with class, intelligence, wealth and wit. But really, if you are getting all your information from books, you are an anachronism and definitively behind the curve. Sometimes I think of Raphael's School of Athens and think that the conversions I've been privy to for the past 10 years on HN must far surpass anything they might have said to each other.
NYTimes article discussing this book was heavily discussed here a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26221925
They can just never update their app again, like Google. Let's be real, their ADHD like update schedule isn't exactly improving anything regardless.
https://status.twilio.com/
Yup. In spite of the “lithium is the new oil” meme, lithium is actually super abundant and is often extracted from brines the same way as sea salt is. Lithium isn’t where to focus replacement efforts on.
I've found the importance of remembering a book you've read depends on why you're reading the book in the first place. If you're reading to entertain, remembering what you've read isn't nearly as important as the experience you get reading it. It's why I've reread so many of the science fiction and fantasy books I love. Reading a book again, especially long after the original reading of it, re-ignites the pleasure of the experience of the first reading.

The third and fourth levels of reading often require the reader to do exactly what you describe. I've actually started using paper index cards to do this, creating physically cataloged notes, which through the muscle memory of writing, help to embed the most important concepts and idea in my brain.

I personally read a lot of books that inform or advance important ideas casually first. Then I go back and re-read sections, taking notes more carefully to properly ingest the critical topics into memory.
Whatever you think about Microsoft, IBM is just a worse experience from an employee perspective. I did two stints at IBM as an intern, the first in Boca (!!) and the second at Hawthorne. IBM Research is almost dead, with most of the researchers having moved on to academia and Google NYC. I work for MSR(A), which is still a very good research lab and probably the last big industrial one.
C++ allows both overriding (i.e., replacing) and overloading (i.e., creating multiple versions of) operator new. When overriding, you still have to call some memory allocation routine; and you should also override operator delete, and should probably override operator new[]/operator delete[]. There are some pitfalls in doing this on some platforms ( http://pavlovdotnet.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/jemalloc-builds... ).

The tricky part, to me at least, is when overloading. It's possible to overload new in a way that "new int" calls the original new, and "new int, foo" calls your overloaded allocator (foo could be an object used for the sole purpose of knowing which new to call, or it could actually be used by that new -- maybe it's a memory pool). That's easy enough to do. The surprise comes from the fact that while you can overload operator delete, it's a real pain to call the overloaded version (plus, of course, you have to remember which memory came from which version of new). Assuming you use "foo" to specify your overloaded new and delete, "delete p, foo" is a syntax error. You need to call something like "::operator delete(p, foo)". At least that was the case with C++03; I don't know if C++11 changed anything. Personally, I just overload new, but call a destroy() function instead of an overloaded delete.
The limits of government power are whatever the society associated with that government decides they are.
White Tuna has always been Escolar. There is no such thing as a "white" tuna. Even albacore is not white until cooked. Saying that white tuna is not tuna, is the same as saying Chilean Sea Bass is not a bass. While true, there is no conspiracy.
Put it back in the box and back outside the door where it was dropped off, and the next delivery guy to come by picks it up. My apartment building already gets multiple deliveries from Amazon each day, so partial-day rentals are theoretically possible without any more visits.

It'd be a logistics nightmare, but Amazon seems to be really good at solving those.
My intent was really just to engage in a dialogue that was already going on (see e.g. Alexis Madrigal's Atlantic piece), but I can understand that perspective. Truth is, lots of people are talking about Medium, way more than would be impacted by me writing something on my personal blog. If this we're trying to be some clever PR strategy, it'd be a hell of a lot dumber than them just getting regular press. (Which I think Businessweek just did on its own anyway?)
> Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom

No it won't, even if the article showed there was harmful contamination, which it didn't.

The only thing of interest in the article is Scientific American is resorting to untrue link baiting titles.
It's useful as a demonstration. More popular databases might see this and decide to include the feature as well. The best case would be if, say, Apple included a plausibly deniable file system or database by default on their systems. Now that even your grandma has it, its presence can't signal a secret.
I look at it this way; what do actually fit people do? Not use this peloton bowflex shakeweight crap.
Some cars were delivered with missing USB ports
worst things about Black:

- doesn't respect vertical space - sure, making the code fit on screen might be valuable (though the default width should be at least 120 characters, I mean we're in 2022 after all), but Black does it by blowing up the vertical space used by the code

- spurious changes in commits - if you happen to indent a block, Black will cause lines to break

- Black fails at its most basic premise - "avoiding manual code formatting" - because a trailing comma causes a list/function call to be split over lines regardless of width
You seem to be confusing sex and gender. There's a difference.
https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html
Do you notice a pattern of state legislatures who sponsor privacy legislation not having online political support or donations from people who track patterns like this? If you're following it this closely, you should be following the political careers of the folks who work hard to pass laws that have teeth and laud them, no?
Wherever the Catholic Sun doth shine

There’s always laughter and good red wine

At least, I’ve always found it so

Benedicamis Domino!

~ Hilaire Belloc
It could potentially revolutionize the opposite application, those sites where someone manually finds and catalogs all the time points at which movies contain nudity so people can see their favorite celebs in the buff. False positives are probably worth the automation there.
No, especially not with using only camera vision AI and not going the LIDAR route.
Same, I was super confused and I was trying to find out the relation the entire time and there is none.
Really? What languages have better IDE support than Java? I guess C#?
> Average voter doesn't care about the merits of competitive advantage

Sadly, neither do people who have the opportunity to get ahead without facing competition in the first place.
From my experience, calculators in classrooms have had a few interesting and odd effects on intuition and expectation. For years, classes were separated and had "theoretical" components without calculator use and "computational" components with calculator use. The computational parts would involve gross numbers with real-ish answers --- things don't work out so nicely. But the theory parts would always have very nice answers (if some sort of computation had to be done).

It turns out that I came to expect theoretical aspects to always work out nicely; similarly, I often failed to see the light through the hairy parts of the computational parts.

This came to the fore when I took an Ordinary Differential Equations / Calculus of Variations course. There were no calculators now --- when we needed computational power, we used various CAS. I remember being very confused the first time we showed a solution existed to some ODE, and then "found it" to any degree of precision we wanted. This was partly theory, but it was very imperfect! My mathematical intuition ended up sharpening strongly during that semester.

Now I'm a number theorist. When I teach, I don't use calculators. I'm acutely aware, however, that early elementary number theory ends up being presented as a delightful and pure little topic. I think there is some need for continued computational aspects in math courses, but I haven't quite seen it done just right yet. (When I do incorporate computational aspects, it's either attached to a basic programming course or attached to an introductory sagemath CAS course).
Thanks for the reference, it looks good. What's the takeaway?
This isn't true; reporting profits is to a large extent a choice that a stable self-sufficient for-profit business can make every year. If you have some reliability in predicting your revenues, you can time investments or expenditures to offset them and run a for-profit company in a stable way without ever (or rarely) reporting profits.

And of course there are a number of stable self-sufficient businesses who never report profits; in fact they are called nonprofits. The Sierra Club was founded in 1892, for example.
oh very sad
This is a demonstration of combat in plate armour from the 15-th century. It also implicitly shows why a hammer is so effective. [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q
You, my friend, are one of the reasons why we programmers have such a bad reputation with "normal" people.

Because first, we build those things and then we shame them for using them and having expectations.
This is the paper on ECC RAM and ZFS:

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/zfs-corruption...

Basically, ZFS can survive anything except for corruption of it's data in RAM, in which case it can corrupt on disk in ways there is no recovery from.

The size of RAM required is mainly due to in-memory caching - ZFS has always been RAM hungry and it's ARC performs much better with lots of RAM. This has generally scaled well on most non-single socket systems (ie, anything Xeon E5 and above) that can take >32GB of memory.
Amazing story with beautiful photographs of a simple portable lamp that punches "a hole in the darkness" in West Africa.

After I earn my millions, God willing, I will fund projects like this.

A lack of dependable light source is a big handicap to people in developing nations. It's like living in the 18th century.
Here is a well balanced explanation why ECC-RAM. That being said, if the RAM is the weakest link it doesn't matter what underlying FS is used.

https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-...

In my experience 16GB is only needed if you want to run Deduplication.
At the moment there is not, someone should add something to the wiki. Basically it clones the target and adds the specified protocol implementations - basically instance level extend-type.
This is so amazing I'm going to switch from Atom because of it! Thank you for making this!
> my language is simple, unlike those other 1001 "simple" languages that aren't really

Okay.

In other words, it seems it's easier to make your own programming language than learn the ones that already exist.
"I've found there are two types of thoughts especially worth avoiding...

One I've already mentioned: thoughts about money.

The other is disputes. So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done."
There’s an https error. Here is the archive https://archive.is/NgXhA
I also noticed it when I play AoE: 2 DE as I only play multiplayer game. I initially thought it's just because there aren't enough players so they match us with someone else much higher. However I only notice it in Quick Play where ELO is not affected instead of Ranked games.
One of my all-time favorite artists, his work inspired a lot of my writing.
To say that Swift is "nowhere near as simple" as Javascript or Kotlin is a very strange opinion to me, and I have experience with all 3.

Simple as in syntax, memory management, or in what regard? I can't think of a single example where Swift is not equivalent or better. Do you have the same criticism of Scala?
https://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
If you actually type the website into google, it will almost certainly send you there.

But websites are free to compete with that, by offering better ways to access the content, such as emails tailored to your interests. I know CNN had that option back in the day.
Dissenting opinions don't do well here.

Completely reasonable discussion to promote yet you are pretty heavily downvoted.
whitespace sensitivity is a pretty big pain to deal with in the current toolkits available for building out a programming language, unfortunately.

The pain is compared to the absolute and total simplicity of defining a grammar when you're in a whitespace-insensitive setting (parser generators are easy to express and efficient in deterministic grammars).

We have a lot of good parsing tools out there, but we might be missing the right tools for building out good lexers
> "The $258 million is a 86% chunk of Google Ventures’ $300 million dollar a year fund, and its unclear as to whether the firm will continue to make such sizable investments."

So a towncar hire service, with an app, is worth over $3bn ? Really?!

Maybe there's one or two other metropolitan cities in the US where the taxi service isn't up to scratch, but where is the growth going to come from?

I doubt whether regulators and taxi unions in London, Tokyo or Hong Kong would sit idly by when some Silicon Valley kool-aid types come knocking.
If you couldn't find work in Houston, I'm pretty sure you weren't trying very hard.
Of course you should fight for your principles, but don't do it in a situation where you're guaranteed to lose. To pick a losing fight when there's no attention, no context, and no message, is not martyrdom. Its just dumb.

To create a Rosa Parks moment, it takes a lot of strategy, planning, and cooperation. Not spur-of-the-moment frustration.
This makes perfect sense, and if I had money to invest in this market, I would. Self-driving cars coupled with such an infrastructure means a very profitable business in the not-too-distant future.

The highest cost for taxis is not the cars, nor the gas, but the drivers. Get rid of them, and it's all gravy.

Something like this is most certainly the "mass" transit of the future. It would be lower cost, more convenient, and would actually pollute less than buses during non-peak times.
Don't worry, it will happen. Just like how we developed ABC weapons and it took the world wars for us to realize that we are insane and have to try to take our meds and calm the hell down; so will we have to go through a phase of robotic warfare, which hopefully does not end up like the Terminator story line, before we realize that we're kind of stupid and need to knock it the hell off for a while.
VISA currently has higher throughput but Bitcoin has much lower latency. 10 minutes for Bitcoin vs days for VISA to get cash you can spend.
I don't recall any problems, but I use Foxyproxy to connect to it. In the worst case, you can just toggle it off quickly for that site, then turn it on again.
Maybe the slow, error-prone autofocus and ridiculous number of UI steps required to launch many phone cameras were part of the coverup conspiracy ;-). Seriously though, I've had the same problem. Why can't my phone just give me manual focus?
I've never had an (Ad) blocker as I'm relatively happy with most sites but there are some that are not behaving well.

When I last looked (at least two years ago) there wasn't a single blocker that supports a blacklist-only mode. Meaning: Allow everything unless I block a certain domain.

Does anyone have an idea if something like this exists now?
(Flash of Unstyled Content)

But the point of having a list of questions is that you dont expect a candidate to know all of them. You should make that clear up front so that a candidate does not feel flustered if they dont know something.

If you make a test and you expect someone to answer everything then your test has to either be way too hard or way too easy. Remember in school those tests that were really hard and the highest 'uncurved' grade was a 60%? Those are awesome tests.

Why are they awesome? Because it opens up the range of a candidate to see where they are at in their career and development.
To be fair those walls were designed to take horizontal wind loads, too. 100mph wind translates to 0.17psi[0] which is ~220 lbs/square yard (of course you assume the force happens halfway up, not at the top of the wall!) If the ropes were spread out over 5 yards then that span should hold ~1500lbs against the face of the wall.

If that thing weighed 6 tons they may have made it out of the "designed to handle" range and into the "safety factor" range of inward forces on those walls. Surely those drainage ports weren't designed to handle upward loads?

I really can't believe some of them took their harnesses off while in the pool.

[0] - https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/wind-speed-100mph-to-p...
No. Snapchat has been under fire from several directions for a while for promising more privacy than was actually provided. They had a major account leak, there have been applications for a while that can save received photos, they got a pretty poor privacy review from the EFF...

Being privacy-conscious would have to include caring at least a little bit about privacy-related news (and not just Snowden-related).

sigh

Maybe we're struggling a bit here because privacy can mean so many different things in different contexts.

There's privacy from parents. That's something that I think young people have cared about for a long time, and that's not likely to change soon. So, Snapchat is popular.

There's privacy from the government. This situation is harder to read because there are a lot of nuances. You can be politically opposed to a government spying on its own citizens without necessarily caring about personal privacy; if you distrust your government, then politically you're resistant to giving it more powers, even if you don't see how those powers might be abused.

And then there's personal privacy: control over who owns information about you and what they can do with it, and that doesn't seem to be getting very much traction in younger markets. There certainly hasn't been a revolt against online services (http://www.forbes.com/sites/gyro/2014/01/09/forbes-where-are...), even post-Snowden, even after it's generally accepted that the business model for each of those services is to gather as much personal information about their users as possible.
The Fairness Doctrine wasn't ruled unconstitional, it ended because the FCC chose to end it, which does not establish a legal precedent.

A similar rule, the equal-time rule, still exists. Arguments that it violates the First Amendment have never worked in court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule