skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than 10 years ago, that was true.

Not so much for quite a while, though.
> This is my new favorite name for a residential street.

There's a "Wildgoose Chase" in the Clarence Valley, Australia.. I find that one pretty good
By taxing rents.
It could be argued that the whole concept of "basic income" is very much a "rent-seeking" behavior, as receivers are not technically producing anything of their own while relying on someone's else "surplus".
> the office is usually empty by 5-6pm.

(because the bus to San Francisco leaves at 4:30pm)

At what point do you tell your employees that they live in the wrong city? Sacramento?
While I would generally agree with you, in principle, I think you're overstating the benefits of any sort of trickle down. Real median incomes have been stagnant [1] for years now. Today the median American household is earning exactly 1.64% more than it was 18 years ago. The real GDP per capita has increased by about 20% in that same time frame. If the economy even blinks, we're going to be back to doing worse than we were decades ago, in terms of the median.

And the counter point to increasing productivity is that in times where companies were no where remotely close to market saturation increasing productivity meant better wages, better jobs, and overall growth for everybody. As companies' product reach market saturation increases in productivity translate to layoffs and stagnant wages. It's this constant race between the growth in the number of products to be produced versus our increase in efficiency at producing the products that already exist. The latter seems to be accelerating much faster than the former, and that's not a good thing.

To be clear on the above imagine we have n total products being produced. And as wealth and entrepreneurship expand we see a regular increase of about 10% new products being demanded per unit time. Yet our efficiency at increasing products increases at 15% per unit time. That's going to lead to a squeeze on those that rely on production for their livelihood that can only be ended by deceleration in productivity or acceleration in demand for new products. It's debatable whether or not we're in this situation today - but it certainly does explain many otherwise bizarre economic factors quite handily.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Like the 4C nano? https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4c-...
Why do you view a "standard" or "dozens of implementations" as a good thing - what is the context of your evaluation?

Why is it not comparable, if not significantly better, to have a mostly uniform public domain code base that has been deployed to billions of devices?
For people who don't have spare micro sd cards, spare usb cables, spare 1+Amp capable usb power supplies, and who're maybe less prepared to have a bare RasPi board powered up and running sitting on their table - $100AUD is about the right expectation to set, yeah.

(I've always got all of that, and I still get grumpy when people talk about the "$5 Pi Zero" - I've never been able to get a bare Pi Zero in my hand for anything less that about $13US which is close to $20AUD...)
Investors (and lenders) put a lot of effort in carefully selecting good investments, and take a lot of risk in giving money to others. Interest and investment return is necessary, at the bare minimum, to cover the loss of failed investments and unpaid loans.

There's quite a bit of effort that goes into selecting a good place to invest. And, there's also a whole lot of risk involved. Look at Y Combinator, or other VCs and angel investors, for example. If investments count as "rent-seeking behavior", eliminating it would nearly destroy the economy.

People often fail to see the value of deferred expenditure of money / capital, while criticizing rent-seeking behavior. There's real value in a person choosing not to spend their money immediately, and instead giving it to someone else.
If you roll your own VPN on AWS or the like, don't you lose the benefit of sharing the VPN with thousands of users

I believe there is the alternate option of setting up your own VPN .

Instead of using AWS, you could set it up on an additional router or on your PC/pi wherein you'd lose the advantage of anonymity amongst other users but your information is still encrypted to be acceptably safe.
"The Market for Lemons", Akerlof.
People are keeping their cell phones a lot longer
Shitty Media Men spreadsheet
thats the best thing about stories and was the best thing about Snapchat: you weren't forced to look and this was counterweighted with the limited lifespan of the content.
Sounds like a temporary issue? (The link works for me.) You can see a copy of that page here: https://web.archive.org/web/20171102070648/https://wiki.debi...
The JSON example that it was compared to was also denormalized.
The use of "ideal world" pretty much indicates that they don't think elimination of rent-seeking is actually achievable.
Whereas inequality is traditionally easy to measure, people are more interested in equalizing forces. I think that we are less concerned about inequality if there is an assurance that our lives should regress to a comfortable mean given that we invest reasonable time in socially-useful work.
TSX ? Is that some new thing now ? Or you meant JSX ?
It depends on what your are trying to do.

Short of exporting to an image format, PDF is the best format for preserving and sharing a final rendered output. All of the things you list as drawbacks are virtues if your purpose is static presentation.
I can't help but think you might be mistaken in your interpretation of what the original commenter meant by "in an ideal world" and possibly also by how the term "rent-seeking" is being used in this conversation. I'm struggling to understand how your not seeing how you can eliminate this type of behavior in practice relates to what is, by definition, perfection, and often just the idea of it.
I ran Pi-Hole for a few weeks, and found it was more trouble than it it was worth. Because it blocks at the DNS level using (very large) DNS blacklists. It was cumbersome to temporarily whitelist domains when you hit a site that just wouldn't load properly as you had no idea which of the many domains that site was requesting were being blocked. By comparison, using an in-browser adblocker you can just disable the the adblocker and reload the page, and once done, a single click re-enables the adblocker again. Also, Pi-Hole used to be undetectable by anti-adblocker scripts, but now it isn't.

Although very good at what it does (almost too good in fact) it is a blunt instrument that may or may not suit your needs.
I only have issues with ebooks, outside them it is just perfect.

Cut/paste only fails on me, when whoever created the PDF had the brilliant idea of using images instead of actual text, e.g. scans. Something that using another format won't help.

Maybe you should use another PDF reader?
Have a big can of good brand fire extinguishing spray (it's smaller than a fire extinguisher and easier to use, not that fire extinguishers are hard to use, I used dry powder and carbon dioxide snow ones no problem during training) handy and don't leave electric lights unattended on Christmas trees I guess?

For more horror (and to become scared of windows and doors during a fire) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdraft
Having watched, I fully agree. I guess it has to be, to be heavy enough to press THE button. And the pigeon would probably prefer it?
I didn't mean "other corporate entities" as a pejorative term. I was trying to come up with a generic descriptor, and since all of the browser makers have some sort of articles of incorporation (even Mozilla, at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/documents/articles-...), that's why I came up with "other corporate entities".

The reseller analogy is interesting! But I think there is one thing missing from that, which is the exchange of value, or the contractual arrangement.

As a customer of a CA, you possibly pay some form of money, and you always agree to some form of contract (in the form of Terms & Conditions). But the CA does not may money to the browser vendors, as far as I'm aware. And looking through some of the Mozilla CA Certificate Root Program bugs, I don't see any indication of contracts/T&Cs being agreed to, except what is implicit in the fact that prople are requesting inclusion.

What makes this more confusing is that the CA's do pay money, to a third party in the form of auditors who make sure that the CA is following the various CAB Forum requirements.

So it is hard for me to see this as a reseller type of arrangement.
PiHole is a fantastic system and works really well.

The only issue I have is its installer works on a bare system. I prefer to use the Pi as a multi purpose system: for home-assistent, as unifi controller and for pi-hole. It will costs you some time to get it running with all the pi-hole features (auto update and so on) operational.
Ceres and its ocean
Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
to some extent

That's the keyword here. Maybe I'm missing critical data, but I've never perceived the reduction in defect from Clojure to Haskell. I've looked for studies on it, and they all point to either no difference or incredibly close. Never I've been shown a case where the reduction in defects would have an impact on the business I work for. Enterprise software is a domain that isn't that sensitive to defect. Anything less then 5% difference would go unnoticed, and affect in no way sales.

My conclusion, it comes down to your own enjoyment. Which one do you have more fun using and are the most productive in, that's the one you should be using.

I allow muself to change my mind if Haskell really proves to be 10% to 30% or more lower defect, maybe in a later version, with some GHC extension, maybe liquid haskell, I'm not closing my mind to it if it happens I'll be there.
Depends where your disk is. Many virtual machines, e.g. Amazon EC2, keep their persistent storage (EBS on AWS) on an external medium, so disk reads have a bit of latency and writes take forever. Keeping the database in memory is a huge benefit on these systems.
While I agree that using the SQlite format does introduce a heavy dependency on the SQLite library, I want to point out that there is at least one independent implementation, a pure java library named SqlJet [0].

It didn't work too well when I tried it a few years back, but it proves that it is possible to reimplemented support for the file format itself.

Doing it as well as the original SQLITE library, well, that's different.

[0] https://sqljet.com
My experience is exactly same. I actually ended with whitelist so huge it wasn't making sense anymore...
Yes but if you use SQLite because you value minimalism you would also choose a language that compiles the server to a statically linked binary, e.g. Go, in which case this is a trivial "optimization" to do (if you would even call it that).
A really fantastic intro to GANs which I watched only 2 days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw9r8CL98N0&t=2s
What about teachers and nurses?

Some jobs are negatives affected by increasing productivity. When a nurse can handle twice the patients through technology, the care would get worse as the amount of human interaction is the quality measure here. Same with teachers.

Although there could be improvements that reduce the time spent on other things than interaction, thus leaving more time for that.
From an academic perspective I think it is totally worth the effort. It can teach you how to write a parser, a greater understanding of pseudo-TTYs, process IDs, and UNIX file streams (eg handling EOT bytes). Plus ANSI escape sequences (for readline support), globbing, etc. There's a lot of theory that can be learnt from writing even an unsuccessful shell. Even with myself who has been a Linux administrator for 10+ years and a developer for twice that, there were lessons I've learned when writing murex.
Hey CryptoAUSTRALIA is here. We are answering questions in the next hour or so. Proof: https://twitter.com/CryptoAustralia/status/92598468889577062...
You could subscribe to the debian-devel-announce mailing list (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/).
Because the author ends up duplicating features of the zip format. Think of all the stuff that goes along with a ppt slide. Fonts, images, videos, sounds. You want to embed the original files anyway, because storing the content in your own custom format is pointless extra work. think how complicated a video file format is. It's a good fit for a file archive.
I don't disagree.

I'm just sayin' that the authors could just as easily have used quotes from Buddha, and obtained similar results. Or quotes from some paper in theoretical physics.
You cannot ever guarantee that, see N=NP.
One thing that gets missed because economists spend the last 50 years trying to burying it was that the high tax rates the US used to have were there to prevent extractive rents. Extractive mean instead of taking profits and re-investing converting profits to personal income. That's what got taxed.

So back then we had high tax _rates_, high investment, and low profits. Now were have low tax rates, low investment, and high profits. The thing economists don't want to you get is the amount of taxes collected remained mostly constant. The difference is in the amount re-invested vs the amount extracted.
Thanks, that was really helpful!

Do you have any kind of remote working allowance? Or are you expected to be in office all the time?
These are not specifically about structuring projects, but I would recommend two books for "thinking like a programmer".

The Pragmatic Programmer, by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, is a fairly slim book that aims to cover the unwritten knowledge that experienced programmers have. It came out a long time ago, but it's one of those timeless classics. If you can read this book and everything in it seems obvious, you are probably the equivalent of an intermediate-level software developer.

Similarly, Code Complete, by Steve McConnell, explains how to think like a project lead. In contrast to The Pragmatic Programmer, this is a large book: it aims to cover many concerns. Again, the less that you know, the more value that you will get from it: if you are starting with no training in programming, this book could be immensely valuable.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) – Computerphile
Yes, there are a few lists. According to Microsoft, it's the one they embed in Windows, Edge, etc. According to the Chrome team, it's the one in their store. According to Debian, it's the one in Mozilla's CA bundle, etc.
Re-launched maybe. I had the iOS apps years ago.
But doesn't the same apply for integer too, as in my example? After reloading y should refer to the NEW x?

And what should happen in your example if f were deleted?
> But still, it is less archival quality, and more inherently complex (even though that complexity is very well encapsulated).

More complex yes, but why is it less suitable for archival? It's very well documented, and the code to read it is fully open source and will run on a practically all platforms in existence.
From the article:

>"How Much Inequality Is Fair? Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society, [...] perfect inequality, which has a definite mathematical form."

Income inequality does not have a "perfect mathematical form."

Since the stoics, clever folks adept with maths have realized that 'math/stats is the best way to lie or convince people you are right.'

Why? Because people trust in the intellectual rigor of maths. But while the language of maths is fundamental to our universe, formulating an argument with maths does not necessitate correctneas. even the hugely-influential economist Keynes, and others, believed that 'human behavior cannot be reduced to mathematics.'

Economics is currently, and has been for a century, trying to formulate as much as possible in the language of math, but we're consistently in disagreement and wrong. That is because Economists are almost always without the virtue of being able to do controlled experiments.

If you wanted to know the 'definite mathematically ideal' amount of inequality, you would first need to put forward a hypothesis which also defines ideal. "X is ideal for maximizing aggregate utility" is a reasonable hypothesis. Then for your experiment you would need many planet earths, and some way to to precisely measure people's utility.

This is all impossible. And as such, we would be wise to treat the current state of economics like that of 19th century medicine: somewhere between interesting-possibly-helpful and hogwash.
Just add Kafka in between
That is less than 12MB of transfer per day. Pi should handle it fine.
Rice's theorem, actually
I've been running it at home for about a month and I find it no less cumbersome to a browser plugin. The whitelists are permanent, and if you think it's blocking something, you can look at the block list log & whitelist. As a last resort you can also disable it temporarily.
I have a lot of thoughts on this.

The closest thing I know of are DigitalOcean "Droplets" that have software pre-installed.

Using their services I have made "Snapshots" of different "Droplets" I've installed software on that I use to start new projects now, including web, database, and email servers.

I decided to keep those layers separated to avoid potential conflicts with updates and upgrades and I can use the email server for all the web servers I spin up so that's a very fast and flexible approach for getting a SaaS up and running.

Running an email server on DigitalOcean's platform is probably not the best way to go for what you're talking about. Even they don't recommend it. Having everything ready to integrate with one or more 3rd party services is easy enough though.

That, by itself, would be a hard thing to market to developers right now, but I do think there is a market for it and that it's pretty big and mostly ignored.
By the way, is it the same with high rise, glass towers? I live in a mid size (20 floors) modern-ish building (1999) with excellent acoustic insulation (as in spotless, never heard a whisper from a neighbor). But the building is made of concrete with some windows. I am comparing that to high rise towers (50-60 floors) where you only have a thin layer of concrete between floors but no concrete between apartments (probably to keep the weight down). Wouldn't you expect these towers to have structurally poor acoustic insulation?
Like one Russian friend of mine joked: "if you need your tax system hacked, let us know."

That it is published, does not necessarily mean, it is truth.

It is a long standing play: the farthest is likely an enemy. Likely, Chinese hackers could do it or anybody who wanted to interfere. But if it was hacked, shows something for the ability of each individual government to protect themselves. Same is published of other, not only U.S., governments, like Britain.

It far easier to claim a hack, than to acknowledge, that Trump was _actually_ voted for.
And nearly every living person on earth has been profiting from rent-seeking from the second they are born into a world with food, medicine, water, maths and science, etc that has been created and improved-upon by people long-dead now.
I'm curious how that's wrong.
If you are running LEDE on a modern router, it's easier to install and use simple-adblock.

https://github.com/stangri/openwrt-packages/blob/simple-adbl...
As someone living in a modern wood building I can tell you that this is really not a problem anymore. Our floors are filled with anhydrite, they are solid.

Only when the kids upstairs are _really_ wild you can hear their steps.
> BI would also benefit the economy by increasing aggregate demand.

That would require that taking something from A and giving it to B would increase aggregate demand. I don't see how that can be.

> It would stimulate investment by providing a safety net for indivisuals deciding to retrain or invest in education.

This safety net may encourage people to drive around Australia in a van who would otherwise work, reducing investment.
What’s Wrong with Soliciting Letters of Recommendation?
I bet you can say "Hey, would you mind coming to my house this weekend? I'll buy dinner after" to someone you've spoken to before (so that they know you're not a murderer)

You might make a wise old friend out of it too :)
For reading, for a small database, after the cache is warm, that's likely true. In all other cases, there is no avoiding disk access - which, on spinning rust, is slow.
I am currently in the process of the same transformation. Joining a quant desk, where unit testing, code review and code readability are top priorities really helps a lot.
Water is very incompressible, so you don't really get anything in addition to the potential energy. If you decompress water from 300 bar (equivalent to 1 kilometer height of rock above it) to 1 bar (atmospheric pressure) it only expands by 1.5%.
The diversity of mutually compatible implementations avoids a dominant implementation's critical issue being catastrophic and keeps the standard moving to the direction no single party can totally influence. SQLite does have a list of semi-standardized requirements [1] which should technically allow for alternative implementations---not having them today makes it less viable as a true standard.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/requirements.html
the reviewer seemed to indicate they could tell the ui was much smoother and snappier because of the refresh rate. not sure how noticeable it is
How useful are such measures when Intel has backdoored each and everyone of their CPUs with its "Intel Management Engine" [0] (and AMD has a similar mechanism)?

If Intel/AMD have a backdoor into every PC and server, then so does the US gov't (NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.) and of course other uninvited hackers from even hostile countries.

And how did Western society just accept all of this anti-democratic craziness?

[0] https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
If I did all my math/googling right, one acre of managed forest can produce about thirty square meters of the 20-inch-thick panels mentioned in the article per year. (A typical wood weighing 0.4 tons per square meter and a managed forest producing about 6 tons per acre per year.)

I'll guess it takes around four of those acre-year units to build one person's worth of an apartment building. (Thirty square meters is on the small side for an apartment, and apartments need walls, but they're also not going to be entirely constructed of the thickest panels.)

My home city of Seattle is growing at about 20k people per year, which (if we try to fit them all in wooden highrises) works out to 80k acres, which is roughly the size of the city itself. I feel like that'd be entirely reasonable.

It's also worth noting that this sequesters a rather appreciable amount of carbon (trees are half carbon, so about 240 kilotons per year).
I know those files. That looks like a list of files from a family computer.

Bin ladin, like many others in that region, likely had family and friends over all the time. Kids sit at the computer when their parents are being boring and drinking tea.
Energy efficiency kind of falls under the "performance" category. Just not raw MIPS performance but "performance per watt".

What I wanted to say is that the major selling point of RISC-V would be its open-ness rather than anything performance (or power) related. In that respect it has already captured the attention of interested parties, regardless of that the actual performance will be.
> Then for your experiment you would need many planet earths, and some way to to precisely measure people's utility.

Only the latter; you don't need a whole planet to study, and statistical control is real control.

OTOH, the missing bit is utterly intractable, so...