skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unprecedented size of these savings might not matter if investors only wanted a modest return. Unfortunately investors are greedy and there are simply not enough things to invest in that can offer the high returns they demand.

So how do investors react? For decades, they have bullied governments to release assets for sale that can then be leased back at high returns. In the UK, this is why we have privatised utilities and a swath of other safe, previously state-owned, assets in private hands.

It is not morally wrong ("greedy") for investors to seek high returns. If an investment does offer high returns, investors will flock to it, the price will increase, and it will quickly offer average returns, relative to the amount invested.

Nor do investors "demand" high returns - who would they demand them from? - they simply look for the best place to put their money. Investors are not a cartel that lobbies the government. Government services were privatised in the UK for political reasons.

Then there is the way most people, businesses and governments have accumulated their savings. Just a quick look at the $100tn total and we can see that most of it is the result of tax avoidance.

The Japanese are famous for their savings and investments. But middle-income families can only save because they don’t pay enough tax for officials in Tokyo to provide basic services. Every year the Japanese government runs a 10% budget deficit, such that its accumulated debt is worth almost 250% of GDP.

The author has expanded the meaning of "tax avoidance" to cover cases where he thinks the government should be imposing higher taxes. I agree that governments should run a balanced budget (I would prefer they do so by cutting spending), but the author implies that you could pay all the taxes you owe, and you would still be cheating the system.
You start reaching out and talking to people.

Expect some initial trepidation and the occasional epic failure. Learn from it all.

You could also try something like Toastmasters (https://www.toastmasters.org/) which some folks I know have said helped them quite a bit.

It's a skill to develop and practice, like any other, except that humans are awful.
This isn't hyper-concentration of wealth. The funds consist of the wealth of thousands or even millions of individuals.
The DMCA actually does state that they must restore the content within 10-14 days of receiving a valid counter notice. There is no clear penalty, but most service providers seem to comply.

(Edit: unless the copyright owner files an action, which may have been what happened here)
9M American men in prime working age can’t find jobs. I’m one of them
I was replying to the comment, which left out that context from the quoted statement. Context which I knew because I read the article.
So.... we introduced Promises so that we could introduce fetch() that returns a Promise, only to discover that it meant we couldn't get all the other useful behavior of XMLHttpRequest. So while a proposal to add cancelable Promises would fix the inability to abort, we'd still need yet more additions to completely get back to functionality we had previously.
Because 10k lines of D is easier to maintain than 20mb of assembler fortran mix. Plus you get all llvm niceties.
i definitely commend you on the effort you're putting into this.
I believe that one of Fortran's biggest problem is that if you want to get all the advantages that modern Fortran has to offer you have to use closed source commercial tools. If the open source tools had been closer to what PGI and Intel offers in terms of features and performance I don't doubt that Fortran would be more popular.
Or it could simply be that your kids have wrapped the imperatives in a object called cup.

All this gets me thinking back to the micros and how they booted straight into a BASIC interpreter.

In a sense while booting to a mouse (or touch) driven GUI helps with getting now common tasks done out of the box. That no mainstream OS ship with something that allows someone to sit down and instruct a computer similarly to how it was done back then seems to have turned modern personal computers into near appliances.
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The bigger problem than "Compute intensive" is "Data intensive". You can throw money at compute but money cant solve data problem. By data problem I don't mean amount of data but quality of data.
Assuming you're talking about a social insurance plan like Social Security, that's not saving for a pension and never was. It is insurance against getting too old to work productively, which is perhaps a concept that is becoming more and more quaint as technology and medicine both improve.

(Technology means that fewer and fewer people can "work productively" regardless of age, medicine means "too old to work" becomes older and older.)
Well? It's standard "By lawyers, for lawyers" boilerplate to minimize harm to them, and maximize penalty and harm to others.

Nothing in here really stands out as particularly onerous, coming from proprietary closed software viewpoint. It's certainly not "Free Software" as many of us are familiar with.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html

pay attention to [McIlroy78] in particular.
exactly why we need a change on the level of school curricula - and the lazy part of being human can't be avoided. it's that "maximal result/minimum effort YOLO" that's coded into our genes.
Leiningen uses the exact same dependency resolution model as maven and gradle.

It has many advantages over those tools imo - but its dependency resolution model isn't one of them.
Thanks! Didn't know it was from an actual tv show. I updated the quote reference.
If HR can't get rid of an underperforming employee because they're too lazy to do their homework, the company is fucked anyway. At least the dude is out of your hair.
> Assuming you're talking about a social insurance plan like Social Security

Incorrect assumption.
> But due to sustained easy credit it has become very hard to try new ideas.

If anything low interest rates and easy credit make it easier to raise capital and explore new ideas.

Unfortunately when rates are kept artificially low to avoid financial catastrophe, resources are misdirected into ventures that should never have been funded in the first place, and we kick the financial can down the road. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and right now we need necessity (resource constraints/challenges to the status quo) more than ever.
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I understand that, yes. But what I am saying is that, even with a "safety" criterion, the War on Drugs is completely prosecutable. Heck, alcohol is dangerous as hell, as evidenced by the number of deaths it precipitates. There is nearly always a safety criterion that can be thought up for "products for personal consumption" (as opposed to, say, environmental pollutants) You can have prohibition of "unsafe substances", or you can have an end to the War on Drugs. I don't think you can have both.
Came here to say your Sauna looks amazing! Nicely put together.

I'm thinking about putting one outside. May I ask you some questions?
It took you 2 books to kill 2 mice, but I'm sure with more observations it would have been obvious that your approach was actually O(logN).
It is intriguing, but with nearly every statement he makes, I feel like I need a citation to believe it, because they feel like overstatements or misleading.
flatMap isn't memory safe but switchMap is, and it's often used for the type of request/response chaining that we do with Promise.then.

With pratical experience using Observables in production for any use case people normally use Promises, I disagree with you about not being a substitute, and specially about being "broken".
> It's not a feature that demands instant performance.

Hence it's acceptable to request the document from the server when opening 'View Source'.
This is really cool. I've been working on a search engine for lectures, and I recently set it up so you can filter conference talks by the programming language.

https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&class1=Technology&category...

For the first iteration I wrote heuristics based on a list of language-specific subreddits. The technique this blog post describes is the next logical step, so I'm thrilled about this write-up.
Fair enough, I didn't think about that the isolated quote here in the comments could be misleading.
Consider your hypothetical: a browser vendor doesn't want to implement some feature. Because of your proposed process change, the feature gets rammed through into the standard over that browser vendor's objections. They probably won't implement it (their objections remain, despite the political process). The standard is now a "standard", and we're right back to the browser wars again.
To me, the intro is an 'It's not you. It's me,' breakup. It happens. For some people, the trendy downtown bar with a line out front looses it's allure over the years and one day they look for a deeper more meaningful relationship. Sure it requires a lot of work, but money can't always buy happiness.
Then you're really being cheated, if you're "saving for a pension you will never receive." What country/company is this?
Seductive Code
I'll counter with:

1) Dune - Frank Herbert

2) Mote in God's Eye - Niven & Pournelle

3) The Lord of Light - Roger Zelanzy

4) Xeelee Series - Stephen Baxter (Or the Manifold: books)

5) The Well World Saga - Jack L. Chalker (Stick with the first 5 books)
I don't know what Pharma's role was exactly, but let's not forget the vast medical academic community that created the focus on pain treatment throughout the 1990s. See JAMA. 2000;284(21):2785. doi:10.1001/jama.284.21.2785-JMS1206-3-1 (http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1843560) and http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/06/us/us-urges-doctors-to-fig...
I said push system, not push stream. Promises are a push system.
Savers? What savers? No one is saving. Americans are drowning in debt. How many studies have been done showing the average American is living Paycheck to paycheck and couldn't sustain losing their job or a medical emergency? Even those wishing to save can never ever make money chasing 0% interest or even worse negative interest in almost all financial vehicles.

Savings? That is a complete and total joke. The average American is being snuffed out and reduced to a wage slave.
not to mention they're battle tested. and C is predictable, period. no other language can come close bar ASM. even Rust has a long way to go before it matures to C11 levels - in terms of industry trust, community adoption and backtrack of delivering.

but ill have to still admit ignorance to a greater understanding of Rust.
So, the question that makes the difference should whether he writes blog for himself or for his readers?

[replace "blog" by "code"]
Found the Greek! I managed to get removed from the pension fund, because, like you, I don't think I'll see a penny. I save privately now.
Not market forces, see reserve bank interventions.
Deflation is not disastrous for economic productivity but it is a side effect of economic productivity.
Taxes on earned income vs capital is a regressive tax system on the working class and a subsidy to the upper class.
Owner-occupiers and first-time buyer subsidies are subsidies to the speculators. Increase in house prices happen the moment such policies are implemented to capture the entire benefit. The policies are only implemented after speculators have invested and drive up housing prices. This only benefits speculators (who can also be first-time buyers).
This is exactly right. My wife is a pharmacist and our state only recently implemented the database of medication history. In the past a seeker could go to any doctor, or any pharmacist and they would have no idea of this patients medical / prescription history. So even if they denied the patient their prescription, they would just go somewhere else. When WV tightened the restrictions and limits on suboxone seekers would just leave the state to get ahold of it.
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Hey HN,

I made a small app that plays ambient sounds in the background to help drown out noisy environments.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/serenity/id1185371817?ls=1&mt=12
This is not even social security. This is a private pension. Theoretically, the money is invested and you'll make a nice profit on it. In practice, the only one who's making money off it are the insurance companies.

My pension fund is actually worth less than the amount I paid into it, because all the intermediaries want a cut for their 'services' (whatever those may be). It's like being legally required to flush money down the drain.
Just learn C or C++. There are way more materials for learning them, and it's certainly different from python. You'll learn things that you would never learn while writing Python, which is the goal.

If you know C++ and Python, you can pick up most mainstream languages. If you learn a more functional language afterwards, you'll basically be able to pick up anything.
Clickable link https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/serenity/id1185371817?ls=1&m...
Julian Bigelow, chief engineer of the Institute for Advanced Studies computer project (Von Neumann's first actual computer), stayed at the IAS after Von Neumann left for the AEC (and died in 1957) and believed the architecture was the limiting factor.

"The modern high speed computer, impressive as its performance is from the point of view of absolute accomplishment, is from the point of view of getting the available logical equipment adequately engaged in the computation, very inefficient indeed." The individual components, despite being capable of operating continuously at high speed, "are interconnected in such a way that on the average almost all of them are waiting for one (or a very few of their number) to act. The average duty cycle of each cell is scandalously low."

Julian Bigelow, quoted in George Dyson, "Turing's Cathedral", pg. 276
Interest rates are all directly or indirectly based on rates set by the Federal Reserve (in the US). Market forces have no say in interest rates.
>Unfortunately when rates are kept artificially low to avoid financial catastrophe, resources are misdirected into ventures that should never have been funded in the first place, and we kick the financial can down the road.

Untrue. Rates are not kept low for an explicit purpose of "avoiding catastrophe." They are kept low to encourage borrowing.

Resources are never "misdirected," as both the lender and the borrower must agree on the venture. This system allows for experimentation and innovation. As someone sitting on the sidelines, it is easy to call many investments - usually after they fail to produce ROI - failures that should not have been funded in the first place.

However, the economy is a cyclical process. Your comment projects your thinking that it works as an equilibrium, which has never been the case. Eventually, speculation dies down, rates increase, borrowing deceases, saving increases, companies repair balance sheets... etc.

Then the cycle begins again.
I while ago I was thinking about Leonardo da Vinci and how today there really aren't any "renaissance" individuals. By "renaissance" individual I mean multidisciplinary prolific geniuses.

I sort of came to the conclusion that the paper proposes... new ideas are harder to find. To really make a breakthrough in a field seems to require intense specialization.

It is sort of sad because some of the greatest innovators have traditional started in some other field and often use the power of analogy thinking to come up with new ideas.
and tea of course
This comment sparked me to find this interesting website http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/
I like the paper, but it unfortunately does NOT go into the true underlying reasons (or proposes assumptions) - which would be the really interesting thing.
The paper only says "things are like X". It doesn't say "we think this is because of Y", or "We can solve it with Z".

I will give just one that comes to my mind:
These days, everybody seems to be studying or researching at a university and degrees are extremely easy to get. This was different 40 years ago - only the top 1 % and the most committed students were to go to a university firsthand and became researchers afterwards. Making it short, they did 24 hours per day what they truly loved, of course they had an incredible output.

We now see a lot of rather (un)motivated researchers at many many universities and chairs. Doing it just for money, getting a "PhD" or some prestige or self-esteem. None of that is what we truly need and that might be one explanation why TFP (researcher efficiency) dropped so dramatically.

/MIT grad
I say it as I wouldn't expect it to be compatible with 32-bit BeOS.
Are there any plans for SQL Server to run on MacOS?
Then rather checkout pony, which has a better type system with guaranteed no deadlocks, is modern and currently the fastest native language, and much to write than C++, Go, Nim, Erlang or ruby.
Only Elixir with its macros is easier, but ~10x slower.
Why isn't openssh.com served over https ?

You'd think it would be, given where it comes from, who those people are and what it is. (tone: I'm just surprised)
I don't understand. Flip a flag. That was the bug fix. They instead tested around it, considered it a reasonable risk, launched a rocket to Mars without flipping the flag. What could they have been thinking.
This is dodging things by all being symbolic. Which is well after the point my kids are at in these examples. I'm taking about my one year old.

It is amazing how they can understand well before they can say words. Or read and write them. Sign language can be taught really early. Not sure what data that adds here.

But, I believe that imperative makes sense because so much in life is imperative. Especially directions we give each other.

For things that can be done symbolically, declarative can be a big boon. But it does seem to be the minority.
> Investors are not a cartel that lobbies the government.

They most definitely are, especially in the UK and US. I'm actually a little unsure how you could honestly believe that investment institutions don't lobby governments.
There is already a pretty good book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem...
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If we made contact with aliens how would religions react?
PoseNet, estimate your location and orientation from a single colour image
> Investors are not a cartel that lobbies the government.

Investors as a class most certainly lobby the government.

> Government services were privatised in the UK for political reasons.

.. and this politics does not exist in a vacuum. There is a whole mythology about privatisation that is put forward by opaquely-funded think tanks. It has other functions simply than providing assets - it's also an anti-strike measure and a means of avoiding complaints.
School choice gutted Detroit's schools. The rest of the country may be next
I find myself wondering if the final result will be anything like the Xerox Alto.
This (in perhaps a slightly different syntax flavor) works on Hive/Presto/SparkSQL as well by the way. Also in Apache drill.

https://drill.apache.org/docs/sql-window-functions-introduct...
Of course I'm being cheated, isn't that the entire purpose of financial institutions ?
Agree, great point.
It's indirect, but if institutions stopped loaning the US Gov't money, it would have to raise bond rates -- wouldn't that force the Federal Reserve to raise its rates as well? That would connect the market to the rates.
Chronic pain can use a lot of pills per year. One every couple hours perhaps.

I knew WV was a bit militaristic but some google results and some division imply 10% of the population are military veterans. Its almost believable given how many WV residents I met in the Army, generally extremely nice people BTW. So if no one in WV takes pain pills but military vets, then the vets get a whopping two pills per day and everybody else gets precisely zip nada nothing.

Yeah sure most vets are not taking pain pills. But the guy with no working knees or limbs blown off in an IED, he's probably taking more than two per day, the casualties from one IED explosion could make up for a whole retired company or even battalion of people not ever taking pills. And of course the general population has its own segments of people who have permanent physical problems, or temporary, or are painfully slowly dying of cancer, etc.

Here's another interesting depressing bottom up analysis. Lets say a third of people die of cancer after a year of horrific pain taking ten pills per day and they die on average at age 50 (think of all those heavy smokers and heavy drinkers with annihilated livers, plus the numbers are simpler and to one sig fig don't matter anyway). So if it takes 3650 pain pills per cancer death and a third of the population dies of cancer, that means the average dead took 1000 or so pain pills in the year before they died, and unless we suddenly become immortal that divided by 50 year lifetime means the average person is taking 20 pills per year over the course of their life, even if they never take a pill in their lives until the last year of life before a cancer death and 2/3 of them never take a single pill in their entire lives if they die in car accidents or whatever not from cancer. Now of course not every terminal cancer diagnosis takes an entire year to die and not all medical interventions including cancer in remission take zero pills and not everyone with terminal cancer takes ten pills per day, but none of these assumptions are more than an order of magnitude off on average.

Not really the season for depressing analysis like this, but math is math and the general public is utterly innumerate, so its relevant to the discussion...

I would suspect from this bottom up analysis that dozens of pills per person-year is not too far off from other states numbers and by playing games with careful selection of subgroups you can manufacture all sorts of crazy "surprisingly high" numbers that are anything but.
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DOOM had a more sophisticated and CPU-demanding graphical engine.
> Almost every estimate was on point. There was one task estimated at 3 weeks that took two days, and one two week task that took 5. Other than that, every estimate was within a week.

Exactly, and in other cases you'd have a 5 day estimated task that took 2 weeks but given enough estimates the high and low ones should roughly balance out.

If estimates are always widely inaccurate there's a big problem somewhere.
And perl with undef vs ().
undef a special symbol such as null, and () the empty list as nil.

Neither nil, null, none or undef refer to (void*)NULL, they are usually a special symbol in the global symbol table.
Only some languages use null/nil as NULL/0 internally.
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Are you suggesting the mere display of a wallpaper from the latest Tomb Raider game is capable of deception? Of "tricking" you into buying it?
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