skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are making the mistake of comparing Australia's "Greater Capital City Statistical Areas" [0] with United States cities, when the GCCSAs are better compared to US Metropolitan Statistical Areas [1]. The top US MSAs, labeled by key city) are

(1) New York - 20.2M
(2) Los Angeles - 13.3M
(3) Chicago - 9.5M
(4) Dallas - 7.2M
(5) Houston - 6.8M
(6) Washington, DC - 6.1M
(7) Philadelphia - 6.1M
(8) Miami - 6.1M
(9) Atlanta - 5.8M
(10) Boston - 4.8M

Only Sydney would make the top 10, coming in just above Boston.

Both the US and Australia have cities / metro areas that are significant in population as well as huge low-density areas, but the US metro areas are definitely larger. This makes sense given an overall population of 323M vs 24M.

See

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistic...
I've pretty much been smashed down to a Flatland version of Maslow's bottom levels so the deeper philosophical ideas of how to fix anything seem beyond me. I have no idea what there is left in that regard because even those closest to me who supposedly loved me and have seen what I have suffered have all worn down into that distancing/victim blaming thing that seems to common in long term suffering. Were it not for a few amazing people I have met over my lifetime, only one of which who was family and who is deceased, I would not find it easy to believe anyone really cared about others. I am aware enough to know my views aren't all knowing fact...I just don't see how this country is going to change given how emotionally deep and how ingrained in personal identity the national culture is for so many.

What brings me happiness? All sorts of things. Seeing my cat play. Seeing good people happy and healthy. Being warm and having a lower pain day. A good book. In the past I loved exploring and travel and was very active. Losing physical health was a major blow and I found the greatest happiness I have ever known in a long hike or run, or days wandering through a new city non-stop, where I was able to push myself physically and mentally to exhaustion, yet not suffer lasting pain for it...I miss that vitality so much it hurts. But perhaps what i miss most of all is the belief I had countless options before me, and no matter what life brought it would work out and I would have my loved ones around me. The innocent naivete of youth.
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All the Bermuda grass in our yard in Texas died after 3+ years of 90 days over 100 while the Saint Agustin keeps growing and growing.
Sure, but it is up to the countries to get together and change them. If companies are paying fewer taxes by following the law, don't blame it on companies, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.

I am completely in favor of designing new tax laws that close such loopholes. But taxing revenue in this way is a very, very dumb idea.
Sure, it's just I'd already used italics for quoting and didn't want to mix the two. Could we get bold as a feature as well please?
PM-turned-software-engineer here. I was in various PM roles for almost 10 years.

35 is fine. In my experience, college graduates don't often land PM roles due to the diverse set of skills required to perform the job well. They move into them after proving capable in other roles. Thus, PMs skew older where I've worked -- 23-year-old PMs are less common than 23-year-old engineers. While I think this is probably try across the board, this is probably also changing, though.

Try to switch at your current company if you can. It's easier and people at your company already know you're a valuable employee. They know you're learning but are probably worth it in the end. Try to pick up product management related tasks from a PM you work with or ask your manager for help in getting some of that experience. If your manager isn't helpful, then pick up tasks from a trusted PM colleague that you can highlight on your resume when you apply for PM jobs at another company.

Yes, lots of books to read and schools don't hurt. But product management is most often an aspirational function. Product management practically never gets executed the way it's written about and learning how to change or cope with these deviations is key (e.g. sales running the roadmap). I could write a book about this, but suffice it to say that on-the-job experience is way more valuable. So try to get some as soon as you can.
Off-topic, but it seems like posts about income inequality have been pushed down lately, farther than a natural HN rank should account for.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-e..., ranked 30th, has 100 points, 10 hours old and 12 comments.

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/, ranked 8, 5 hours old, 25 comments

this post, ranked 41st, 2 hours old, 133 comments.
And even then, their messier version of the truth is cleaned up for a lot of the stories.
Is it really relatively more straightforward with physical goods? With modern supply chains, components and raw materials are flying around the globe in a complex dance before they end up on your local store shelf or in an amazon warehouse. I believe there is decades of international tax case law which attempts to cover this with transfer pricing rules.

Often it seems tech/IT is simpler. A software engineering team in California write the code, then it's clear that nearly all of the value was created in California. It's fairly easy to price the cost of foreign datacenters for cloud hosting.
We can do even smarter than that. 0% worldwide revenue or profit tax (on both corporations and individuals).

Nations, provinces/states, and municipalities and even businesses are free to charge whatever sales tax they want at time of purchase.

The massive amount of wealth preserved, saved and created as a result will allow for an exponentially more efficient economy worldwide; one that isn't handicapped by militaries and monopolymen.
Citizens don't know about corporate taxes, so that might fly :)

Especially, since it would probably be handled by local tax authorities. So this would only be agreeing on what the corporate tax rate should be.

Most citizens (me included) don't know what corporate taxes are... or what the rate is :)
awesome project!

another feature idea I just had: put a couple of ultra sonic sensors on the front and back.

on the back: to emulate the reverse parking "beep-beep" indicators.

on the front: to prevent collisions - if you rapidly get too close to something (a wall, another child), it cuts the power to the motor.
I just finished implementing an akka system. I was tasked to build an event-driven auto-scaling self-healing and self-balancing clustered rule processing engine, and I knew intuitively something like akka was needed.

The learning curve in the beginning was frustratingly steep, and imho the only way to really grok akka is to implement something significant with it. I still feel I haven’t fully grasped its nuances, but eventually it became almost as routine to model everything as actors and messages as it was to model rest api’s with models and controllers. It’s a different way of thinking.

Akka actually uses futures, when you “ask” an actor (send a message and receive the promise of a reply).

I would say the primary benefit akka offers is changing the level of abstraction and forcing a proper modelling of the logic as message pipelines.
> or else they will hide bad outcomes.

A couple folks I've worked with over the years go out of their way to highlight some of the bad stuff, and use it as learning material for future work. But it's usually coupled with "hey, we're partway through this, but the numbers are looking pretty bad right now, we should probably stop this now and rethink things". That said, I've generally only been at the smaller-self-serve side of things - the ability to stop/start campaigns with 5 and 6 figure budgets is probably a different ballgame.
No thanks, I'll take tax shelter over all of the above :)
How is a thing which half the population doesn't have the disposable income to participate in "effective" in addressing income inequality?
I think you're missing the reason why people are excited about Black Panther. It actually has more to do with the motivation of profit than representation. Obviously there have been several decades of positive black cinema but the audience for those movies was always intended to be strictly "urban". And their small budgets reflected the assumption that studios thought only a small subsection of America would be interested in a black movie.

Black panther proved for the first time that you could put $200m behind a movie with a predominantly black cast, market it to mainstream America and still make $1b in revenue. Marvel/Disney's primary motivation was still profit. There's no way they would've green-lighted(greenlit?) that movie if they thought they would lose money on it.

So it's not about representation just for representation's sake. But rather celebrating the fact that representation is no longer held back due to a lack of profit.
Have you heard / looked into Pipedrive?

https://pipedrive.com
This links to an abstract, but I can't find the actual blog post.
You lose the simplicity of copy-pasting someone else's webpack config and then morphing it into something that works for your project.

There are tens of thousands of examples to choose from. For a makefile-based webpack, there are zero.

Unfortunately concerns like this matter.
I would say it is the opposite. Impoverished people have more need to interact with people in their immediate community in order to survive and for tribal knowledge. They also are more likely to stay within the same geographic location and less likely to be able to afford vacations away from their home (so they just chill at their neighborhood and welcome people over in their free time).

Educated, upper middle class people pay others to take care of things, buys everything online and searches the internet for information. They are more likely to move to a new city (so local relationships have less value since they may move in the future) and have expensive vacations or hobbies outside of the local neighborhood.
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Yes, I did :D
The stats I've seen are somewhere around 85% of right handed people will tie a granny-knot one way and ~85% of left handed people will tie it the other way (assuming you know where they were standing, i.e. what their starting orientation was, when they tied it). People who tie correct square knots are more likely to know about knots in general and are thus less likely to care about starting orientation so the correlation is less strong but still more than 50/50.

WRT the "knot only a butcher would know," I'm going to assume it was the surgeons knot because it is in a picture in the article and could actually be used correctly by both a butcher and binding a person. Only butchers and surgeons use that knot because it is used in cases when the rope/thread is extremely slippery as it makes it easier to keep the knot tight in those cases. No one else uses it though because it can come undone easier than a basic square knot if unbalanced as it is in the picture. So I believe that it could be an indicator that the perpetrator was the butcher.

Overall, I'd say less good than DNA evidence, better than phrenology.
> a just world should be closer to a normal distribution

That completely contradicts my subjective experience with people: 90% of them are insufferable.

> and your outcome should be based on the content of your character, not your birthright

And this goes again any parent's wish to use all his resources to help his child succeed and outcompete others.
The differentiation is probably why I wouldn't have bothered to hack it myself. Curious how you/others would tackle it? What do you mean by auto differentiation?
sales tax is really bad, won't that encourage large corporations, as transactions between corporations would be taxed?

With VAT that doesn't happen.
Outcasts and undesirables aren't invited to parties. Is that censorship or is that just how society works?
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Saw you talking about this on the Distributed Data Show

https://academy.datastax.com/content/distributed-data-show-e...
> The killer feature of snakemake for me is that it can run a workflow on a single core or as many as you give it, or in the case of a cluster it can actually submit jobs to a queue and wait for them to finish before submitting more.

Other than your cluster example isn't this the same as passing -j to make to run jobs in parallel?
At my current company we're using it for several purposes, caching layer, documented oriented data, disparate data sets that have frequent change. In our experience as well as many others the MongoDB issues of the past have largely been fixed. I'm hopeful that people's perceptions of MongoDB will change as the product continues to address the needs of the development community while continuing to build a strong database product.
Cassandra does a bunch of stuff off-heap - we keep things like Bloom Filters, our compression offsets (to seek into compressed data files), and even some of the memtable (the in-memory buffer before flushing) in direct memory, primary for the reasons you describe.

We still have "other" things on-heap. The biggest contributor to GC pain tends to be the number of objects allocated on the read path, so this patch works around that by pushing much of that logic to rocksdb.

There are certainly other things you can do in the code itself that would also help - one of the biggest contributors to garbage is the column index. CASSANDRA-9754 fixes much of that (jira is inactive, but the development work on it is ongoing).
That's what I thought reading that too. In general I don't think it's a good idea for maths people to just forget about units ("because it is for physics")
> The Connect America Fund is funded through a special tax on telcos

Is this one of the taxes that they just throw straight onto my monthly bill?
Better than the use of "porn" on sites like reddit to signify fancy photos.
I could not find price information - looks like they are just collecting emails, but someone in this thread mentioned other courses are in the 50-80 USD ballpark.
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classic hacker news comment.

this thing you built and open sourced, has gotten you real measurable results? allow me to list the many ways you’re probably wrong and doing it incorrectly
This is a valid criticism of the methodology / explanation. It's not about the results. You can agree with the positive results (and they're great! - you've done awesome work and clearly show an improvement) and still say the explanation how/why they were achieved is not great.
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Not to be self-promotional but the company I work at is tackling the problem in a way that at least helps 2 of those parties if not all 3 (unified.com). Albeit my commentary below is my own personal take.

Providing transparency to the marketers enables them to provide better targeting, more efficient spend, and in turn provide a better experience for their customers.

One other note pertaining to agencies. They'll continue to exist but the world where they can just blindly spend money is coming to an end. Previously they'd have a random ad buyer in the agency just go and spend the money. Those days are coming to an end and the free margin is going to instead go to reward those agencies that more effectively manage spend.

More transparency --> More insights --> More efficient spend --> Better overall experience.
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Why blow hundreds or thousands of dollars on damaging and replacing lenses? Photography doesn't generally pay well enough to afford that for very long.
They do, and they frequently release the numbers (often calling it non-GAAP).

The issue is that accounting is very complicated. Like really, really complicated. And that's because you're trying to make a lot of very different companies follow the same rules on how to recognize revenue, costs, investments, etc.

For example, here's a real world problem I came across once: how do you recognize the revenue of selling virtual tractors on FarmVille?

- When the sale takes place?

- Over a pre-set period of time, determined by the average lifetime of an user?

- Over a pre-set schedule that follows depreciation schedules of real tractors?

Economic is even more complicated. Economic profit takes in account the cost of opportunity, so a company might have accounting profit but no economic profit. It gets even worse when you're talking about cross-border accounting.

In other words, companies usually have managerial accounting using their own internal rules, and standards-based accounting (GAAP, IFRS, etc.), to report operations to the government and to the owners.
I guess it depends on your interests, but I'd suggest going to meetups centered around activities that necessitate or strongly encourage socializing. I go to meetups to speak a different language, and I tend to make pretty good friends at those since the meetups typically revolve around just getting a meal and talking with everybody about life.

Aside from that, maybe you could try taking up a hobby you didn't think you'd be interested in? Pretty much any reasonably sized city seems to have meetups for learning how to salsa dance, for example, which is inherently a very social scene where people all get to know each other.
The Pyra's PowerVR GPU is disappointing. I wonder how good power control will be without a free driver.
> Few things hurt the poor, in particular unskilled minorities, like minimum wage. Those people are effectively outlawed from the labor market because their marginal productivity doesn't make the cut.

Hogwash. Are you sincerely arguing that an hour of work doesn't produce $9-15 (or whatever the minimum wage is, plus other overhead) of revenue for the company they work for?
Your numbers are misleading. It's counting how many people had a month of English class through high school. They are not English speakers by any mean.

Seriously. The vast majority of Europeans do not speak English. You send them a work email in English, they can't read, they can't reply. Get over it.
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> He may not have claimed it, but when you stand in front of a jury and say something to the extent of "I'm an expert in knot analysis. This is the analytic system I employed to reach this particular conclusion" the implication to a jury of laymen is that you've employed a scientific method of some sort.

This is rather an argument against a jury of laymen.
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it is called 'build system'

so is gradle, maven, xcode, it does not matter what target is or what source is (as language, file etc)

they have tasks/recipes and dependencies/prerequistes
imho JS's stack of build system still not good at all. changing to new system every 2-3 years. (note that i am not a js-dev, just outside point of view)

which is kind of a not-stable-ecosystem feeling. I see small agencies spending days maybe weeks to port their 'themes' to new stacks (long ago jquery, then gulp, now webpack) where as haven't encountered single "porting to new makefile format" case, because, of course solid history/background of make.
> If you have a fully concurrent GC then spending 25 out of 1000 CPU cycles on memory management does not "obviously" have an impact on your 99th percentile latency.

I try to understand the meaning. Is it saying the latency caused be GC is applied to all requests, not just the ones that observe 99th percentile latency?
Maybe true, but the article is pretty much replacing what you'd call "career porn" with what I'd call "persistence porn." About the kid who walked in the snow wearing nothing but a t shirt every day to get his degree, yadda yadda.. ignore the fact that Sam Walton he had a rich stepdad who financed his businesses, that he was in a prestigious fraternity and secret society at UoM, and had a number of other benefits that are simply not available to your average hard-working chump.
It is, better to say, a sunset for the industry as such.

Digital ads had the most wow effect at the time of google's text ads and Internet yet not being a general demographics' thing.

Back then, they were able to show numbers, but not now.

First generation internet users were mostly highly technically literate, high income professionals. Now, the user ratio has reversed.

You can argue that putting efforts to find a needle in a haystack was still paying off when the majority of needles were of incomparably higher marginal value than they are now: consumer goods clicks, say, are lower value than commercial equipment sales clicks, yet you still have to put an equivalent or greater effort to datamine somebody to make them buy an accursed face lotion even if the number of face lotion buyers is 1000 times bigger.

This is a tragedy of the Internet ad industry. There is a finite amount of eyeballs, and the amount of companies with a substantial money wanting to sell you a face lotion will always eclipse the amount of companies who market unique, relevant, specialty products one may actually be actively looking to buy.
By all means name all the social media sites that are breaking the law on this scale and the EU is ignoring. I'll be sure to contact my local ombudsman.
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> it implies that the employee being hired wouldn't be willing to do it for less themselves.

I agree the person who would work for less might even be the person taking the minimum wage job.

I disagree that this decreases class mobility though. Lowered labor costs mean lower barrier of entry to starting your own business. There’s a floor to how much it costs to start a labor dependent business and it’s based on minimum wage. That means you need substantial capital to get started. Also, lower wages means lower prices which disproportionately benefits poor people.
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I always saw VAT as a sales tax that only applies to individuals.

When a company buys something it doesn't pay VAT, but it pays it when selling to end-users.

Benefit being that if companies A sells a half finished product to company B and company B sells it to a consumer then VAT is only paid once.

Where as simple sales taxes would apply to transactions between company A and company B. Thus, incentivizing the formation of a conglomerate company AB consisting of both A and B. Reducing competition and flexibility, favoring big players over small.

Am I wrong?
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