skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - "Your" money and everyone else's money is lumped into a single pool. If previous retirees were given too much money because of poor planning, "your" money will evaporate

There are more benefits to this than you might think. In particular, its easier to spread death statistics across larger populations than against individuals.

We can reasonably expect 50% of men to die before they're 78.74 (life expectancy in the USA). A Pension Fund (since it is pooled across many individuals) can plan for this very well. True, life-expectancy changes from year to year, but this slow-moving change can be corrected over time.

An individual 401k however, has no real way of planning for the event. Realistically, individuals need to have a plan for death at age 60 and death at age 100. On the one hand, you may die before you have a chance to even crack your retirement fund, but on the other, you may die in extreme poverty, with all your money wasted away years before you die.

Planning for your age of death is damn near impossible on an individual basis. A 401k would be innately less efficient than a pension fund as we all have to plan far more conservatively. IE: A Pension Fund can plan for an age-of-death at ~80 years old (for males), while an individual male may need to plan for 85 or maybe 90 years old.
iOS 11 introduced the ability to allow apps to only access your location while you're actively using the app. Using this method should be a good mitigation.
IIRC, some devs have done that in the past and been partly banned because of that, because HN doesn't consider itself a general comment system.
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Well Amazon actually has low profits so they barly pay taxes, because they use all their money in expanding their business.
This is actually something which you can do as a german in germany anyways.

And since ~2016 or earlier? amazon pays taxes in every country they operate.
In germany they even changed the invoice address to be german ~2016-2017. a long time they used luxemburg as their invoice address which was really clever, until it broke out a scandal. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3701_en.htm
It contains a good picture, which explained it. And now all sales are recorded in the operating countries. and amazon now needs to provide certain tax related information on a per country basis.
Out of curiosity I checked my admittedly-boring hometown's financials for 2017, and found their pension spend to be less than 10% of overall budget for the year (though they note a pending crisis and potential doubling of pension expenses over the next few years).

Not knowing what other entities' books look like, and also knowing that one town is hardly representative, pension spend looks large (large enough that I'd guess many different types would like to optimize out of the equation) but not that large. How big of a crisis are we looking at -- 50% of total budgets? 30%? 20%?

You're right- mismanagement needs to be addressed. And I have no idea how to bring these firms to heel -- I just think that a market-based solution ("let them have 401(k)s!") is not the right answer here.
They prioritized sound quality, yes, and that likely means they won’t sell to those valuing smartness over audio quality, but whether that’s a mistake, IMO, is still an open question.

There may be plenty of money in the “somewhat smart” market, or this may be a better strategy than a frontal attack on Amazon and Google.
Also Facebook seems to be doing well against Twitter, though I've heard Twitter is also finally making money.
> Moreover how can our government condemn commercial data mining while at the same time expanding domestic surveillance?

The same way they can condemn kidnapping for hire while maintaining prisons?
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Haha, the Stigler diet leaves out a couple of important items. Salt and yeast turn flour into bread, which is damn tasty. They're cheap, but not free, and should have been accounted for.
That's the struggle. Virtually unlimited movie tickets each month for the price of one movie ticket a month sounds too good to be true because it is. There's no way for this to work without some other source of revenue. If you would like the option to pay more and NOT be tracked, we just call that buying movie tickets and you've been able to do it all along.
> because it tends to favor companies that have their cost base in the country.

Which is just the opposite of the current situation where the non-EU/offshore company has an advantage. My UK based company pays taxes in the UK on its profits, but a US company could come in and undercut us with the mechanisms already discussed.

Why shouldn’t the EU have the unfairness stacked against the non-EU organisations? It seems that’s what they should be doing.

If there’s a way to make the situation into a level playing field then that’s even better.

But you can’t play the ‘trade war’ argument when it’s already being abused to the detriment of EU companies and tax payers.
There were people online who recommended using dorco blades as they were cheaper than other shaving brands (blades have been overpriced). DSC took advantage of that idea and used good marketing to build their very profitable business.
Yeah, I don't like that much either. :-)

Thankfully, that usage seems to be petering out?
Here in Australia, Superannuation (essentially 401k) is compulsory and the process to get the money out before you retire is quite arduous. It is contributed by your employer and often isn't included in the advertised income. The compulsory contribution is about 9% of your income (exact value eludes me).
What do you recommend? Without a criterion for trusting some previous work this would make science impossible.
you clearly didn't read the post very closely. They said 2.5% of CPU cycles were spent on stop-the-world young generation collections, not on the sum total of all memory mangement. That means that 2.5% of the time the app is entirely stalled on just these collections. Given that stop-the-world pauses are never evenly distributed throughout time, it should be very much expected that this much GC stalling would affect p99 latencies.

It's pretty much accepted everywhere that GCs perform terribly for databases. Modern GCs are great at handling small, very short-lived memory allocations, and that's about it. Just about any other workload and manual memory management ends up being a much better use of your time than GC tuning.
Right? Anyone who gains power or wealth can utilize that power to accumalate more and/or prevent others from also gaining power and wealth. It doesn't matter if it is centralized or decentralized.

However, by being decentralized it prevents any mechanism of checking the power gained. Yes, centralization can be used as a means of maintaining power, but it can also be used as a way of checking power. Decentralization has no way of checking power.
Yes, you are completely wrong. This is rather how sales tax works.

With VAT, you do pay it on every link of the chain, but then businesses are allowed to recoup it on their purchases, while end-users are not. For example, if you are making and selling chairs, you pay VAT on the wood you are buying, and your buyer is also paying VAT on the chairs they buy from you. However, you are allowed to deduct the VAT you paid for wood from the VAT owed to the government by selling chairs.

To make it concrete, suppose you buy wood for $1000, and sell chairs for $2000. Suppose VAT rate is 22%. Then you actually pay $1022 to wood wholesalers, and sell your chairs for $3066. Your sale of the chairs makes you owe $66 to government, but the invoice you got from wood wholesalers allows you to deduct from your tax bill the $22 you already paid when you bought wood, and in the end you only owe $44, which is exactly the 22% of the value you added ($3000-$1000 = $2000).
They are only actually losing investor's money if the stock price drops...
It doesn’t make much sense to apply a value-added tax to the sale of a security or the distribution of dividends. And other taxes are already applied anyway.
Major luxury watchmakers are in such desperate need of not only service technicians but also full-blown watchmakers to the point that tuition is free (via private scholarship/subsidy) at all American watchmaking programs. I am surprised more people don't go into this industry - the pay isn't great by software standards, but it's reasonable by trade standards and the working conditions are better than in many other trades.
Is he rich?
Well, I live in the suburbs and ride my bike to and from work. Though my work is just 2 miles from my house. However, the vast majority of time I see nobody (other than people in cars) while riding my bike, so I'm not exactly sure what OP means by bike riding being a way to not be lonely.
Annuities and life insurance is how an individual gains
access to the risk pool you are describing.
Monthly cap is 200 GB. I typically use 50 GB/month, so it's effectively unlimited.
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If there was a link to the project in the blog I missed it. Here it is:

https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
OpenBSD user here.

A lot of people in Spain hang out by appearance, to show. Even a lot of people do this at bars to drink or have fake talks about soccer so they are not seed as nerds/freaks.

There is a lot of hypocrisy in society.

I would like to be more North-European: just hang out by pleasure, not from habit doing it meaningless.
This can be used to excuse the worst kind of behaviour. Maybe if MoviePass can't operate profitably without violating people's privacy, it's just not a good startup idea.
I'm a metal fabricator by trade, twenty years next year! I've owned a couple of $2000+ inverter TIG / Stick welders, but not any more. My work place still buys the name brand units for reliability and serviceability.

The DC TIG / Stick inverter unit I have at home is a AU$280 one off eBay. It even has high-frequency start for the TIG.

I rent a tiny bottle of argon from one of the industrial gas supply places in town for $5 a month, just to have argon at hand if I suddenly want to TIG weld something, and can get a larger bottle delivered next day if I need it.

This is the unit I bought about 18 months ago, they're currently selling for less than when I got mine: https://tinyurl.com/ebay-dc-tig-au
Copy-and-pasted the abstract:
"Expedited virtual currency transactions are provided by identifying a first user primary wallet associated with a virtual currency and including a first user primary wallet private key. First user secondary wallets are created that each include a respective first user secondary wallet private key, and a respective virtual currency transaction is performed using the first user primary wallet private key to transfer predefined amounts of the virtual currency from the first user primary wallet to each of the first user secondary wallets such that first user secondary wallets are provided with different predefined amounts of the virtual currency. Subsequently, an instruction is received to transfer a payment amount to a second user, and the second user is allocated a subset of the first user secondary wallet private keys included in respective first user secondary wallets that are associated with predefined amounts of the virtual currency that equal the payment amount."

It sounds like a way of PayPal holding in escrow. This doesn't solve transaction speed except for example repeat transactions (known amount long beforehand). You need a new wallet per every transaction, also?
Unfortunately apps don’t care. Waze lingers up to 40 minute after traveling in the background and that’s with supposed in app only mode.
It seems like the "investor class" should love pensions. I'm not expert on accounting or law, but pensions sound a lot like a free loan and a borderline scam:

A young company wants to hire 100 people, but from the market rate of salaries, they can only afford to pay hire 80 people. They also don't want to dilute their stock holdings so they opt for pensions instead. The extra 20 employees increase company profits and stock prices explode. The company's balance sheet looks good because they don't have to pay any pensions yet. The original investors can sell their stock long before pensions get paid out, and don't suffer any negative consequences.
My guess (and it's only a guess) would be that the crop residue left behind by no-till harbors more pests than the ground that's been tilled.
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Sounds like "Social Security" in the USA.

Social Security is only a little bit of money however. It taxes 12.4%, half of which is employer contribution, and the other half is an individual tax. Most people only see 6.2% individually. (Self-employed get taxed at the full 12.4%)

No one actually expects to live on Social Security alone in the USA. Supplemental savings (such as Pension Plans or 401k plans) are needed for a real retirement.
Blue Apron needs to sell itself to a large supermarket chain. They can use the markets as a base of operation. Their business model is impossible to maintain. Marketing and delivery costs are killing them. I suspect a year from now we won't see them as an independent concern. They might even go out of business. Walmart will win this fight, no question.
A more precise, unit-respecting result is to plot the ratio of the unit sphere's volume to the unit cube's volume. This is a dimensionless quantity, so it makes sense to compare them, but happily the numeric values are unchanged because the unit cube always has volume 1 m^N in dimension N.
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Has anyone done the math on how much losing ~100% of their Ebay business will cost them?
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> Should the government also ban the possibility of ad-supported websites?

No, but perhaps the government should ban the possibility of surveillance-supported websites.
Performance of the resulting binary, if I was to guess.
This was definitely aimed at specialists and advocates of new urbanism. The writer is correct to a degree--post war urban planning (sprawl building) in the US has been a disaster and the paradigm is on the verge of changing (and it will be a generational shift). In some areas it has already changed--this is one issue the author talks about when referring to 'retreat' to urban districts that predate sprawl. I think that bit was referring to the recent tendency for 'walkable' pre-war urban districts to experience rapid gentrification, while post-war sprawl areas (in some cases inner ring suburbs) lag behind and decay. This model doesn't apply everywhere, but it is emerging in some places nonetheless. Right now you can easily find examples of new sprawl construction and rapidly rising property values in pockets of pre-modernist neighborhoods in a single city.
My favorite part of the article:

After half an hour of this, my inquiries really did start to fall apart, so I didn't expect much when I resorted to asking, in so many words, whether he thinks consciously about innovation.

''No,'' he said, peevishly. ''We consciously think about making great products. We don't think, 'Let's be innovative!''' He waved his hands for effect. '''Let's take a class! Here are the five rules of innovation, let's put them up all over the company!'''

Well, I said defensively, there are people who do just that.

''Of course they do.'' I felt his annoyance shift elsewhere. ''And it's like . . . somebody who's not cool trying to be cool. It's painful to watch. You know what I mean?'' He looked at me for a while, and I started to think he was trying to tell me something. Then he said, ''It's like . . . watching Michael Dell try to dance.'' The P.R. minder guffawed. ''Painful,'' Jobs summarized.
Why not put the tax on global_profit * local_revenue / global_revenue?
There's a guy in the UK who eats nothing but beans on toast... Apparently, not super healthy, but not too bad either. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3089167/Could-surv...
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> While you can theoretically use it on windows, nobody does.

What do you use instead?

I think a lot of people use make on Windows. I've had several jobs with a Windows dev environment, and they've all used make. My current dev env is cmake on Windows, so I don't touch the makefiles, but it's still using make on Windows.

There aren't that many options for cross-platform projects. A lot of people use cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux with make and/or cmake native.

I also go directly to make on either cygwin or unix for one-off builds all the time, in non-C/C++ projects. make is super handy for resizing images or running a batch of tests on a program generating graphs. Anything where you need to generate files that only update when another file is touched is a good job for make.

make -j is extra handy on windows for some situations since it's hard to get gnu parallel to run in cygwin and the parallel perf wasn't very good last time I checked.
Or pension plans. Which essentially combine an Annuity with a Retirement Fund.

Life Insurance is weirder. Its more about leaving money left over for your family, especially if you die earlier than expected and your family will need a source of money to sustain themselves after losing you.
Clang 7 documentation has a section on MSVC compatibility, https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html

From that document:

Asynchronous Exceptions (SEH): Partial. Structured exceptions (__try / __except / __finally) mostly work on x86 and x64. LLVM does not model asynchronous exceptions, so it is currently impossible to catch an asynchronous exception generated in the same frame as the catching __try.
Fair. Would you agree that age is relevant context in an experience-based field? The OP's relatively young age puts an upper bound on how many years of experience he has doing this sort of work. And he's clearly mastered an impressive range of techniques.
Most of ADHD's clinical symptoms are hilariously identical to having bad habits. Of course a dopaminergic pill is going to alter reward mechanisms in the brain and help a shitty snotnosed kid do things they would normally not do. But discipline and wisdom can also impart behavioral changes, and is much more lasting and real.

Amphetamines are performance enhancing drugs for air force pilots to do 16 hour sorties.

They are too hard a drug to give to a kid to bandaid over his impulsivity.
Actually I did find it a couple months ago! Someone asked me about it yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/81wkg...

I didn't know about it when I did the initial work for OPy in 2017 though.

I find the "expression-based" style quite interesting and I suspect it will help me understand the "compiler2" code better. I plan to look at it in more detail as I'm optimizing Oil.

This post links to a few posts that mention "byterun". These two pieces of work are probably what pushed me over the edge to apply to Recurse Center! I'm going from May-August this year. I'd love to connect with anyone interested in this kind of thing (e-mail in my profile)

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And if you have any advice on how to compile Python to more optimized code, I'm interested. I assume this will involve creating some new VM instructions (i.e. it can't just be done with the bytecode compiler)

This is a very concrete task -- the OSH parser is around 5,000 lines of code that would be very annoying to port to another language. Essentially, it's 3 interleaved recursive descent parsers and a Pratt parser.

I already have benchmarks that show it's 40-50x too slow:

http://www.oilshell.org/release/0.5.alpha2/benchmarks.wwz/os...

Leaving aside the rest of the shell (which is not big either), I think it's an interesting question if you can recover that factor of 40-50 without rewriting the code. It's written in a pretty "static" style without much dynamism. You don't need any special language features in a recursive descent parser.

I already did something like this. I wrote a whole bunch of Python regular expressions for the lexer, then compiled it to C code via re2c:

When are Lexer Modes Useful? http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/12/17.html

re2c code: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/12/files/osh-lex.re2c.h.ht...

(And to anticipate a question from passers by: it does not make sense to use a parser generator here -- I wrote about this extensively on the blog, e.g. http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=parsing#parsing)
Your perspective has really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing. I know it might have felt vulnerable at times, but you have added to the way I see and think about the world, and I hope the change in perspective amounts to me being more true to myself and others.

The world would be a better place if we all slowed down and invested in the community instead of the individual.
If Ireland was offering access to their own market of 5m they should be able to set whatever corporate tax they like. When they are offering access to a market of 550m they shouldn't be able to undercut everyone else.
> But when your job is influencing which candy bar people select in the supermarket, you stare into exactly the same informational void

Is that necessarily true? Most supermarkets have a 'loyalty card' program which requires the shopper to provide her name, address and date of birth. The supermarket could sell all their data to Facebook, which would then have the fine-grained information needed to allow the candy-bar company to very effectively target their ads.

It might not even require a loyalty card - the shopper's credit card info or security camera picture might be enough to accurately link her to her Facebook account.
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> pay where you generate income.

This doesn't make sense & defeats the point of European Single Market.
Sales tax is paid on & goes to the country the item was purchased in.

What does make sense is revenue being realized in the country of the company that sold* the product/service.
*this being a whole other can of worms.

The issues some countries(France/Germany) have are:

a) that their country wasn't chosen to be the entrypoint to the EU market

b) firms are realizing the revenue in a country which technically owns the product/service IP but is not(in all likelihood) the company's main base.

So, let's pretend b) is a legit issue & we change that. The revenue from the sale is not going to go to some other EU country(why would it?). It's going back to the "main" country of the host company.

So, let's say $US-multinational didn't pay tax in Ireland or Luxembourg. That money would just flow direct to $caribbean-country(which now would hold all the relevant IP etc.) and held there - similar to what happens now.
Because, even if Europe changes it's laws, $US-multinational still gets to game the US tax system cos it's 'better' than paying more in taxes than you legally have to.

The next logical choice is for the EU to just bang an import tariff on all US goods/services and let the consuming country collect it.
Let's see how that plays out...
I was a little surprised at that, too, but more so, doesn’t an offline mode make it potentially reverse-engineerable?
Yes.

(To the extent possible. There are some edge cases left, but they're very rare. Essentially all the real-world code we've seen works now.)
some vaugely worded crap that would take a lawyer to figure out buried in a 40 page TOS isn't informed consent, sorry.
Yeah, a scheme like that would avoid killing low profit high volume businesses with long supply chains (which is otherwise favored by VAT).
You know, maybe I'll just pay for the ticket.
Why should this be patentable?
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I think we’re not really disagreeing about anything. In a pure math context, x would be, as you say, a quantity in which dimensions play no role.
So your argument now is Republicans are "Leftists"?