skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds good in general but the problem we're encountering is that in practice some things that are really very important just don't get cheaper fast enough to keep up. In particular, health care / rent / education costs are all growing faster than wages are increasing and coming to dominate the expenses of the median American.
No he doesn't. His bullet point about not alienating conservatives is completely independent from discussion about diversity programs.
> The only explanation I've ever seen that adequately explains those curves is inflation.

Inflation the hidden Tax

" Although inflation causes generally rising prices, it should not be understood as detrimental to all parties involved. It is highly lucrative for the government and the banking industry. When new money is printed (today, created electronically), it greatly benefits the first recipient because assimilating the new money into the economic organism takes time. Those first recipients (government and banks) can purchase goods and services at the old prices. As the money slowly works its way through the economy prices are bid up. Eventually when it reaches the salaried workers, prices have mostly adjusted. This process is a hidden tax on salaried workers, or anyone who receives the money late in the cycle. It is especially detrimental to those on fixed incomes, such as pensioners. Not only does the government understate the effects of inflation in its official numbers, any price decrease that would have occurred as a result of productivity gains are denied to the consumer as well. Inflation is nothing but wealth transfer. The government prints money and buys stuff with it. Prices rise and the salaried worker can buy less stuff. All the stuff the salaried worker could have otherwise bought has accrued to the government. Simple. Politically, it is far more palatable than raising taxes because the process is badly understood and well obfuscated. "

http://austrianeco.blogspot.pt/2008/02/inflation-part-22.htm...
Finally, I can put my front-end code monkey skills to use! From looking at the source code, the graph uses "d3-chart" class names. Googling this returns:

https://d3js.org/
It would have been much more fair to call it an "anti affirmative-action memo". Framing it as an "anti-diversity screed" is a pretty biased move, not to mention how they removed his supporting content as well. Certainly there are many who hold the opinion that "anti affirmative-action === anti diversity", which is a point worth debating separately, but I still find the framing used by most of the news articles very misleading.
Great market. You should look for some help with the copy writing. I had to read some sentences twice.
Interesting. Could you provide more details? Things like cost, etc
that depends entirely on what you would call "left". She may not be an activist but her espoused policies were very similar to Obama's implemented policies, and she was on his cabinet after all. You can call her an opportunist for sure, but you couldn't reasonably call her a conservative.
Agree. In my opinion the memo author was definitely hurt by the length of the memo. There's simply not enough fair minded people in the world who have the time to read such a lengthy missive, or folks are just too lazy these days when they are used to consuming their information in 140 characters or less.
Yes, the article seems to be mostly a roundabout restatement of Kleiber's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law
Almost all prices end in .99 or .95, and are with tax included.

So you add the numbers up, pay that much, and get 0.0x back, where x is the number of articles you bought, usually.
At the restaurants I frequent you can now either pay with an app on my phone or pay at a tablet/device that sits on the table. It is super convenient and so fast.
In countries where paying by card is common, the waiter will assume this and bring the terminal.

You can make it explicit, by having a card visible when you ask for the bill.
median home values:
1970: $17,000.
1980: $47,200.
1990: $79,100.
2000: $119,600.

a lot more than 34%.
What pains me is before reading this article I was slightly biased because of previous articles.

Actually it doesn't pain me... it really pisses me off that so many journalist are fooling people... particularly me.

When I read the bloomberg article (which I submitted to HN and now I want to just bang my head on the table for doing it) I was actually slightly siding with Google. Even though I was constantly telling myself "lets see the memo before judging" I could feel myself making a biased assumption.

I'm so annoyed with myself.
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This looks very interesting!

A. It's terrific to see people really dig into some of these early technical achievements while they're still fresh in our collective memory - limitations tend to inspire creativity, and I think we all like reading about those creative solutions.

B. Modern embedded systems like Cortex-M processors can probably take some design hints from these projects which were developed on/for machines with very limited resources. I was thinking of looking into writing a simple emulator on one, maybe for the [S]NES or an early Gameboy (if anyone knows a good resource...?). It'll be super cool to get an in-depth window into how "3D" was managed without niceties like a programmable shader pipeline. The best that ARM-M chips seem to get is a dedicated memory controller for LCD interfacing, some SIMD operations, 2MB of 'bitband' memory that is rapidly addressable on a bitwise basis, and sometimes a display accelerator for single-cycle pixel operations in higher-end models.
I agree with you the reaction is insane.

But "polite memo" is not how anyone I know would describe this.

Conclusions, particularly conclusions on sensitive subjects, baldly stated without a bunch of qualifiers don't tend to be considered polite.

Sucks, but there it is.
This guy has PHD. I don't think education will solve the issues he has. Just like education would not have resolved any issues Hitler had. The ideas he espouses are hateful. I think examining his psychic would be more useful.
Some speculation - this trend would make sense if wage growth had stagnated, and the upper class earners are making more of their income from capital gains and other similar sources.
That's a bit rich. He advocated retreating from the Euro when Greece essentially had obligations that it could never repay (obligations created by a corrupt previous government that arguably were unconscionable).
All major Canadian media called the memo anti-diversity. So unprofessional and biased.

[1] https://www.google.ca/search?q=anti-diversity+canada+google
Neal Stephenson is working at Magic Leap (an augmented reality company) now. I think it actually makes a lot of sense. If a product manager's main job is to define product vision, this guy has a 25 year head start thinking about it!
Mazda is one of those companies just don't stop revolutionizing. First they got rotary to be actually usable. Now this.
four-year colleges and universities and also two-year community colleges. In 1970, the.
average yearly tuition was $358 for public four-year institutions and $1,561 for four-year.
private institutions.

The College Board predicts the average annual cost of a four-year college in 2020 will be $46,368, up 38% from current fee
For me, it's this line:

"This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading."

Sure, there are statistical differences between genders. This is a total non-sequitur from that, with no citation in sight to try allay blame. This is just the 1950s calling with its stereotypes.

Women may be more agreeable, and more less assertive. However you had better provide fairly convincing proof that we are speaking up too little, rather than merely less than men do.
I think it's important to distinguish that many (almost all) places that accept EC (a debit card, really) do not accept credit cards. Hell, even Saturn, that makes Best Buy look small, doesn't accept credit cards unless it's over 1.500€ or something.
>Compression ignition and a supercharger fitted to improve fuel economy together deliver unprecedented engine response and increase torque 10-30 percent over the current SKYACTIV-G gasoline engine.*3

Wow. I already have a 2016 Mazda 3 that gets around 40MPG (even though it's not a hybrid) and it's already pretty peppy.

Probably the best car I've owned, and I've owned several nice sports sedans. Getting 40MPG is too convenient when you make longer commutes, not to mention the thing cost ~20k at 0% APR. Blows any hybrid out of the water for total COO.
Ultra mild sexism is great, but still sexism.
Seriously? Ugh. There's no need to be like this.
> I don't understand this kind of callous judgement of writers trying to make money. We don't see judgement here for the Amazon engineers that wrote the ref system, or Amazon for, well, selling product. I find it frustrating - somehow the writer has no integrity because they want money for their work?

I don't care that they use affiliate links.

Those links need to be clearly marked as affiliate links and the article needs to disclose the use of affiliate links.
Yeah, you need to have a carefully curated, carefully boring and mainstream social media presence. As the Laundry requires of its employees.
Internationalization, exponential worldwide population growth, and technological advancement are probably all major factors in making labor, across the board, less valuable. I would imagine that it affects low/non-skilled the most, but also cuts into high-skilled labor. And when labor is cheap, value shifts from the labor itself to the holder of the goods [citation needed].

Isn't it intriguing that in all of these talks and comparisons of now to "the good ol' days", whenever you pick those days to be, it's seldom mentioned that the world population grew by multiple billions since the comparison started? There are twice as many humans on the planet as there were in 1970. What that means for income distribution isn't for me to say, but it seems a safe bet to assume it's at least _related_.
Of the factors I mentioned housing is the worst. I recently heard someone call real estate the "great Satan" of the economy.
Obama is also not a leftist. Sanders, Nina Turner or Keith Ellison are the bare minimum that one could consider a leftist.
Comments like this do not belong on HN. Please discuss constructively.
But you left out the step of having to get the cash money into your pocket to begin with. I haven't touched cash in many years, but back when I did use cash it was always a pain having to go to the bank, or an ATM, or remembering to ask for money back once debit cards became a thing.
An article that starts off the disadvantages of living back in 1916 with how hard it would be to travel across the nation and the world seems a bit suspect.

In general I find these "you're better off poor now than rich in the past" articles really highlight how thick the author's bubble is.
No, such data isn't hard to come by.
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That's an interesting point, and it's notable that every affected industry suffers from a high degree of government intervention, either in the form of regulation, or the artificial injection of cheap money.

As inflation is also a form of government intervention (insert hand-waving gestures re: the Fed not really being a government agency), I think the principle still holds, but generalizes to something I can't articulate succinctly off the top of my head.
I didn't read this as a threat at all. It was quite bluntly put, but came across clearly to me as saying that the consequences of a small minority doing very well and the vast majority being worse off, is some sort of uprising. Such as the Russian or French revolutions. I'm pretty sure we all wouldn't like something like them to happen again.

I do agree with your point on the astro turfing, your comment didn't come across as one to me, but I have been noticing myself thinking "oh, this must be a paid for comment" more and more. I'm not sure if this is healthy skepticism or not.

On topic. I largely agree with both comments. The top 20% shouldn't be asked to even pay as much tax as they currently are. I like the idea of a progressive tax system, those with the strongest shoulders carry the heaviest burden. But this is clearly, to me, too much.

Additionally this shouldn't be fixed by lowering taxes. The top 20% shouldn't be in a position that they make so much more than the remaining 80%. We need to fix a system of work not paying enough, large companies exploiting workers and poor healthcare and education systems.
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The discussion isn't shut off, it's just that users shouldn't have to scroll through a long digression about credit cards at the top of a thread about the Talos.
The use of these "technical" terms may be appropriate if it were presented in a different context. There are several examples of this document definitely being inappropriate (ones you did not refute), which exacerbates what could otherwise be benine use of technical terminology. To the reader who's already seen several remarks out of line, remarks like "nerotic" seem that much worse.

A perfectly choerent and scientific paper would include references for the points it tries to make. Many people have tried to retroactively justify his "points" with links to Wikipedia articles, but it should be proactively justified in the document with links to scholarly articles. Not doing so makes it difficult to believe that he's writing about anything other than his own cognative biases. "Real" scientists also go through peer review, when their peers might say "this makes you come across like a bit of a dick" before it's published for broader review. "Real scientists" have lots more discipline than this guy, and if he had taken a "real" scientist's approach he would have probably been a lot better off.
Also confusing when there is a vehicle in the Halo series called Mongoose. Confusing, confusing...
The vast majority of German supermarkets accepts credit cards. Aldi even has signs at the cashier telling you it's possible "from the first cent". And that's a store famous for trying to save money wherever it can.

If the fees for offering card payment for a store are still extremely high, they are getting ripped off by their acquirer for some time now. But old habits die hard and many sale clerks (and even some store owners) are not aware of the changing reality.
That's interesting. Can you give us some examples of plotlines and/or features you've requested, what you pay and the length of the end result?
Holy crap, Brendan Gregg's site went down. Proof he is human I guess?
I hope you are not alone and moderates once again claim power instead of the see-saw of tribal politics lately.
That is true, but we also get a lot of things we don't need because the provider knows that insurance will reimburse it. My wife spent some time in the hospital recently and the number of tests they performed was truly staggering. When I asked the technician performing one of the scans what it would show, his response was "probably nothing, but we just do it because we can."

I contrast that with my experience in my home country when I ruptured my ACL and required surgery. I visited the specialist who immediately diagnosed the problem after a quick exam and told me that we could do an MRI but that would be a waste of time as it wouldn't reveal anything we didn't already know. I was booked in for surgery the next day with a minimum of fuss.
The trivial case is that the data is corrupted in RAM prior to being written. If we take the simple case of a 2-disk mirror, the same wrong data is going to be written to both disks, the checksums will match, and the filesystems and underlying disks will be oblivious to the problem. ZFS can't help here, but neither can RAID-5.

The far more risky situations involve reading back data.

A properly-optimized RAID or RAID-like system will read half the blocks from one disk and half from the other when dealing with a 2-disk mirror.

With RAID-1, if the data blocks read cleanly from one disk — that is, the hard disk's ECC does its thing, as the author expects — but the data bytes are then corrupted in RAM during the DMA transfer, RAID won't detect the problem. Your application will simply have errors in those blocks, and it'll be oblivious to the problem unless there is some corruption detection ability in the data format.

With a ZFS mirror, things are different. If the blocks are cleanly read from the disk (again according to those in-drive ECC checks) but the bytes are corrupted during the DMA transfer to RAM, ZFS will detect it, because it always double-checks the hashes — cryptographycally-strong hashes, mind, not CRCs, as the author misstates — after reading the data in from disk. This will cause ZFS to attempt a second read from the corresponding block in the other side of the mirror. Assuming you don't get a second RAM corruption, the checksum will match this time, so ZFS will re-write the clean block to the first disk. ZFS is incorrectly assuming it was the drive that corrupted the block, but it doesn't matter because all that happens is a correct block is overwritten with the same correct block.

Now let's take a trickier case. What if your RAM is so flaky that it re-corrupts the clean block on its way back out to the first disk during this unnecessary re-write? ZFS will write the correct checksum along with that block's data, so that when it comes time to re-read that block, the checksum won't match the data. It doesn't matter whether the RAM corrupts the checksummed data or the checksum itself, because the odds are astronomically against both being corrupted in a way that causes the two to match. When ZFS is told to re-read that corrupted block, either by the application or by a background scrub, it will again decide it needs to overwrite the first disk's copy of the block with the copy from the second disk, which this time is in fact corrupted on-disk. Unless your RAM corrupts the data a third time, this time it will write the correct data to disk.

RAID can't do any of that. All RAID can do is say, "These two blocks don't match each other, but both have good on-disk ECC, so PANIC." Different RAID implementations do different things here. Some will just mark the array as degraded and force the operator to choose one disk to mirror back onto the other. If the operator guesses wrong, you've got two copies of the bad data now.

ZFS doesn't have to guess: it knows which copy is wrong with astronomical odds in favor of being correct.
>Now these are people like us

The top 0.01% has an income over $8m/year. I dunno about you or anyone else here, but I'm in the top 5% and that is still light years away from being "like me".

The problem is that people making that much can see their income grow without even lifting a finger while real wages remain stagnant for the bulk of the working population. Profits paid to investors are wages denied from those actually creating the value.
In efficient stores (e.g. Aldi in Germany and branches in Switzerland and Austria) the cashiers start taking the change into the hand the moment you say you pay cash. They do that up to the next bill and if you pay with a higher bill, picking up extra bills from the registry is really fast. Whereas with a credit card you put the card in, wait until the remote system decides if you should use your PIN or signature, then either put the pin in or wait until the cashier gives you the thing to sign and sign it. And if you're really unlucky the store has a system that looks you up in their customer database if you pay by card which adds another couple seconds.

The new contactless payment system is faster, unless the store does something stupid ... like wanting to do a customer database lookup before doing the actual transaction which one chain here in Austria unfortunately does.
Pretty cool guys. I can see from the play store comments that your users love the app. Best wishes.

Whats 'Halal, free, and fun'?

Whats you tech stack like?
Is disengagement per X miles really a good metric. It doesn't reflect the difference between driving in different environments, i.e dense urban areas, suburban streets, and open highways.
I found the whole swipe/insert thing really painfully slow and paid cash all the time.

Now though we have NFC tap-to-pay in Canada and it's wicked fast in comparison to everything. No signature, no PIN entry, connections seem much faster.
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One of the things that really irked me was not only their editorialization of the entire thing to paint it like he was wrong, but also reformatting it, and then having circular links back and forth to motherboard like they were both in on it to misrepresent the entire thing. It was poorly laid out and intentionally misleading.
Is history a subject treated with contempt here? Check out France at the end of the 18th century and Russia at the end of WWI for some recent examples of violent uprisings when wealth inequality gets bad.
The $$ is absolutely the higher authority. The question is whether the hierarchy is optimizing for that, or for something else. I think the difficulty for me in reading your comment is that your claim superficially is that $$ takes over and that is bad. But $$ in the organization should be something like profits or productivity. I think your claim might be that higher paid people, idiots, who are supposed to be looking out for $$ force the lower-paid thinkers to submit or quit, and the higher paid people are not really looking out for $$ (as I propose to define it).
> No, we're mostly offended by ideas that are false and actively harm people - like the entirely unproven notion that women suffer from biological weaknesses that make them less likely to be qualified as engineers.

All good, except he did not make that argument or anything similar to it. He did not state that women inherently suffer from biological weaknesses of any sort. And no, his ideas did not harm anyone (except perhaps indirectly himself). Literally nobody got hurt except him, he is the sole victim of the ordeal.

I hope that you have read the document in its original form, which is a PDF with some (admittedly weak) references.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
Stop the presses. You mean to tell me the major media organizations used a misleading headline and description for something highly politicized?! I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell ya.
Let's not forget that both inflation and unemployment were in double digits, Iran was holding Americans hostage, and gasoline rationing was barely in the rear view mirror