skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, you prompted me to check, and Dinni isn't listed as having a manager, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But I certainly wouldn't deny Ruth's ability to influence Access's direction. :)
That's specifically what the AGPL does (as opposed to the GPL.) The copyleft "infection" is deliberately transmitted via network clients, not just static linking.

So you actually can't release a permissively licensed client for an AGPL server. I mean, they did, clearly, but the AGPL itself would seem to make that inconsistent.

But then none of this has ever been litigated and both the AGPL and GPL themselves are very confusingly worded so shrug.
It's disgusting to me that something like this could even be published in the NYT. Pensions are absurd financial instruments. Paying someone a percentage of their salary in perpetuity is financial nonsense, and creates all kinds of perverse incentives for the recipients. The only reason these things ever got popular in the first place is because they were a way of borrowing from the future to pay the present. Creating a massive latent risk that allows you to get cheap labor in the short term and exposes you to catastrophic failure on the backend. Corporations realized this decades ago and stopped using them.

If the problem is that 401k fees are too high, let's make 401k's more mobile. Let's create a liquid market in 401k managers so that fees get pushed towards zero - as they should be.
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Shakespeare's Globe is a fine example of globe made by craftsmen.
My thoughts as well. It could make a lot of sense to block mergers more aggressively, and perhaps even implement progressive company taxation to lessen the competitive advantage of massive corporations. I suppose this would reduce overall economical efficiency though is thus hard to imagine actually happening.
And why not use mingw gcc? Do they find somthing wrong with it?

Edit
Mingw-w64 its quite nice and includes gcc without all stuff cgwin does.
The video you linked to has nothing at all to do with the parent one. You probably meant to reply to the topic, rather than the comment you actually replied to.
So he writes Oil Shell in Python because he wants to get it done quicker than he would writing in C. And yet now he's found that the performance in Python is inadequate for a shell to compete with Bash (pretty predictable) and so he's basically writing a new Python interpreter (both bytecode compiler and VM), which (as he'll find out) is a huge task, regardless of how simplistic he makes the interpreter.

That said, I think Oil Shell the shell language looks pretty cool, so I wish he had done it in a language like C, Rust, or even OCaml (which he apparently considered).
Of course pre-study odds are low in fields querying complex systems on the basis of extremely weak theoretical frameworks.
> [...] both sides have no shortage or rich benefactors.

I think the idea of "both sides" having rich benefactors grossly oversimplifies political alignment in the US. Perhaps you mean that there are both rich Democrats and rich Republicans. True! Unfortunately, this is a problem in itself if the most of the rich benefactors of both major parties have outsize influence over the direction of their party - which candidates it backs and funds, what policies it favors, etc. It can lead to bipartisan consensus among most of the politicians in each party that is not in alignment with what is desired by the non-rich majority.
Pension funds are some the biggest investors in underperforming asset classes like VC, and have been epically fleeced in recent years by professional asset managers (pension bond debacles). Pension funds are desperate and easily manipulated because many of the big ones, especially public ones, are basically insolvent. Governments overpromised and under saved and now pension funds are counting on 8% returns that they’re not going to get.
Ray, Ali, Color Purple, Glory, Django, Cotton Club, Boyz in the Hood, Friday, Malcolm X, Bad Boys, Barbershop, and of course, New Jack City.

Each of these movies did great and reached a wide demographic. As did Black Panther. The only difference is that Black Panther's marketing propogated this ridiculous myth that it was the first black superhero movie. (Sorry, Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, and Halle Berre... you're down the memory hole.) Or, even more absurd, that it is the first all-black cast that has done well at the box office.

Just shows how powerful marketing is.

More power to them... I've lived through several iterations of "'brand-new' microfiber technology that make cleaning up spills a snap!" I suppose I can live through endless repetitions of "the very first movie with a real-live black person in it!" Whatever....
Yeah if the parallel postulate is out then this obviously doesn't stand. Starting from the North Pole, walking down the prime meridian to the equator then turning right and walking along the equator finally turning right to the north again at the right point so you walk through New Orleans creates a triangle on a sphere with three right angles...
You wouldn't want to use it as a replacement for webpack, you'd use it alongside webpack. Webpack does a ton of stuff for Javascript compilation - heavily cached and optimized recompilation, module rolling, hot reloading, etc.

Make is for performing any variety of commands, most of which don't fit into webpack - deploy scripts, git scripts, whatever. It's a unified entrypoint for scripts project-wide. It's not a great resolver for JS dependencies, but it's a great resolver for "I need freshly-compiled JS baked into a docker container and uploaded to my docker repo".

Having something like Make is especially important in large teams in my experience. Under-the-hood tooling can often change (NPM -> Yarn, needing different test suite arguments, new docker commands, whatever) and having a single expected API for developers across your teams is particularly useful when you're the person working on dev tooling. Knowing `make test` should prepare and run a test suite or `make run` should run an app no matter which repo you're working on gives devs a consistent development workflow.
We don’t know much. We have to make calls. What can I say? I’m old and I have my heuristics.
In elasticsearcch terms, vespa.ai, which claims better performance/scalability/maintanability uses c++ for lucene layer and java for the solr/elasticsearch layer.

There are blog posts speeding lucene by 2x+ by changing some stuff to c/c++. There are libraries (trinity) claiming 2x+ performance .

There is google-engineer saying "bigtable is 3x faster than hbase" that I've read.
> What I find odd is that digital ads gives you much more clarity of impact than tv/radio/print ads.

That really depends on what you are trying to sell. A SaaS? Sure. But when your job is influencing which candy bar people select in the supermarket, you stare into exactly the same informational void, until you apply the crude but tried toolkit of ad effectiveness measurements that has been developed for broadcast. The traditional answer to that kind of advertisement task has been to just use blanket media if you don't need much targeting or direct affordability. But when a sizable part of the market just does not expose themselves to broadcast anymore, that might be insufficient, no matter how much money you throw that way.
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Zero. I've never listed it on a resume and no one has ever asked.
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I feel like private annuities should be more popular than they currently are. Like a pension, an annuity pays a defined benefit until the day you die. They can also afford to pay out a slightly higher annual benefit than you could safely take from your own 401(k), because it's a statistical certainty that X% of the risk pool will die early, whereas with your own savings you can never be sure how long you'll have to make it last.

Unlike a pension, an annuity isn't tied to a specific employer, so it doesn't have career-immobilizing vesting requirements or weird payout rules tied to how much money you make in the last N years of your career. And you can select an annuity provider based on its fees and how solid its financials are, factors that aren't necessarily high on the list while selecting an employer.

So, why aren't annuities more popular as a retirement savings vehicle?
No, that would be an incremental GC working in very small time slices.

A concurrent GC spends CPU cycles on different cores to do its work, which means it will not cause latency outliers in the threads processing the requests. They are still CPU cycles you don't have to serve other requests, hence they still affect throughput.

That is a simplified explanation of course, there are a lot of caveats.

In my original post I was mostly speaking about the measurement though, since they are measuring throughput when they are concerned about latency, those are somewhat related but depending on circumstances only weakly so.
And yet that is what is mandated in the constitution.
That you didn't find it, doesn't mean they didn't do any. Maybe it wasn't worth mentioning. Maybe they wanted to keep the post short. Some team successfully did a storage engine transplant and you're saying they're doing poor engineering?

That's definitely not what I was suggesting in my comment.
I'm not sure that food is so cheap anymore.
It can be used as an argument against both. But that's irrelevant to a discussion about what the presentation of this evidence says to a jury.
Look for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_craftsmanship, there's a conference in April https://scna.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
Taxing on revenue rather than profit feels wrong.

Owing absolutely nothing in taxes despite billions in revenue also feels wrong.

This seems to be pretty clear retribution for what many believe is rampant abuse of tax law.
Black Panther earned its success, as did Wonder Woman. Alt-righters who complain about them are truly lone voices. But there were two major movies in recent memory -- Ghostbusters (2016) and Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi -- that had unusually high RT scores that they may not have gotten if they hadn't been so on message. Doubtless the critics involved were trying to reassure everyone that they weren't one of those people. Had they spoken the truth and said, for example, that Ghostbusters (2016) was ill-paced, obnoxious, and mostly unfunny, the likes of Jezebel would have raked them over the coals and you know it. That's what they did to James Rolfe, for simply saying he would not see the movie.
Stream-of-consciousness - The Investor Class hates pensions? Really? I know a lot of investors. None of them hate pensions. Quite the opposite, actually. And since when did they become a class of people?

I have some friends who are politically-involved in California and quite concerned about public sector unions and the fiscal sustainability of the pension promises that were made. This couldn't be about that, could it? On HN?

"...his relentless, well-funded attack has taken every form of political advocacy available. It ranges from campaign contributions to ballot initiatives to model legislation to lobbying to lawsuits to financing academic and judicial conferences...The justification is that these pensions are in crisis. The familiar claim is that states and municipalities face unsustainable pension obligations that will crowd out other government spending and lead to higher taxes. Therefore, traditional pensions, which guarantee retirement payments to workers — leaving states and cities on the hook — must be replaced by 401(k)s, which offer no such guarantee...Though the mainstream media has mostly taken the crisis claim at face value, economists and actuaries debate its extent and even its existence..."

Well fuck me. There it is. This isn't an analysis of pension funding. It's not a survey of financial managers. It's political cover-your-ass. Some folks think pension funds are in trouble. We're going to attack and say their claims are politically-motivated.

Everything is politics now, including, it seems, figuring out whether you have enough to retire on or not. I know plenty of people who are serious investors who are concerned about public pensions, but it's got jack squat to do with politics. All of the folks I know are huge union supporters. It has to do with the numbers not adding up.

We gotta stop this thing we do where we form up into teams and throw crap at one another. It's certainly possible that these two things are unrelated. It's also certainly possible, highly-likely even, that this essay is a desire to politicize something for the purpose of obfuscating the real issues involved. That's a shame, especially for both the citizens and workers who are not expecting a crisis.
The article seemed a bit light on details, so it is not clear to me that they mean that tax will be calculated as a percentage of revenue--just that it will be "based on" revenue.

Perhaps they will just use revenue for allocating profits, and then tax based on profits like they currently do? For example, if a company has $1 billion profits based on $2 billion revenue in France and $3 billion revenue in Germany, they could tax based on a similar profits split. The company would owe tax in Germany on $600 million profits and in France on $400 million profits.
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> benefits that are simply not available to your average hard-working chump

What smart investor seeks out "average chumps" exactly? That's an excellent way to lose money. Your setup is a rather amusing contradiction.

You think the $200,000 (Walton put in $50,000) - inflation adjusted - that his step-father put in, was unavailable to everyone else and it made all the difference in Walton's success?

I grew up in an extremely poor part of the country, financing like that was available to a lot of business people. It's typically how most new small businesses that required any meaningful capital got started: other people in the community with money would invest, as banks would never risk their capital without collateral.

$250,000 is about what it costs to open a small convenience store.

The Ben Franklin store Walton opened and operated, was a very successful venture. His father-in-law made an extraordinarily smart investment. As it turns out, Walton wasn't an average chump.
I don't understand your critique:

>unique, relevant, specialty products one may actually be actively looking to buy

This is because the number of people who buy normal lotion is 1000x the number of people who buy unique specialty lotion. Why would the advertising be different than the market?

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

The internet reached the masses - how is that a negative for advertisers? They have more people to advertise to.

>yet you still have to put an equivalent or greater effort to datamine

This isn't true. For lotion you buy lotion related keywords, for commercial equipment you need in-depth research about those products, use cases, industry terms, and the queries people use.
Speaking about math: I'm not even sure what the meaning of polynomial is. E.g. x^2+3x+1. Each component is measured in different units. Is it intuitive?
Could the problem be the UX? Would a touch interface have been a solution? The screen is divided into four contrasting squares, tap the one that describes what you are trying to do. Sign your name with your finger, etc.

I don't think we should caste problems into a grey zone that nobody is responsible for (change). I think we should approach problems from different angles until we find a solution.
I would rather distribute the spoils human progress to maximize human happiness.

Sure, some inequality might be needed to incentivize progress, and I'm not arguing for perfect equality either.

What purpose does grotesque inequality serve?
I'm also a middle-aged introvert. Outside of work, the only people I really talk to are my sisters, neither of whom live nearby. One thing that's helped me is fostering rescue dogs with a local organization. I only foster for a few days here and there, but it really makes a difference to feel some life around my apartment.
The liberation of women has basically caused a diffusion of responsibility of communal tasks...Yeah, so maybe it was actually a bad idea.

Well, heck, you could say the same thing for Capitalism, which has also benefited billions materially. Liberation is bound to cause social disruption. The problem isn't the liberation. It's how society needs to (re)organize itself around change. It's ossification in how society views itself, which may exist in the older, traditional part, as well as in newer conceptions. The problem is ideological rigidity, which can be found in both the religious right and the secular left. You shouldn't be rigid when it's time to adjust.
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>3. I’ve forgotten 95% of it.

>I majored in English Literature and minored in Communication Theory

Suddenly I’m less impressed with what he has to say...
Ok. So then what? They simply close offices and fire workers in a specific country — but that doesn’t stop people from visiting Google or clicking on ads. If you suggest governments should block websites, then that’s a dangerous path.
Elm does compile to JavaScript, but does come with it's own runtime on top of it and standard library.
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Unbroken was quite accurate. Another movie "Bridge Over River Kwai" paints a much rosier picture and is too sugar-coated for most survivors.
You definitely make a good point, but on the flip side of that is also that the MSAs are probably more overarching than GCCSAs.

For example, the Seattle MSA extends as far north as Burlington, Mt Vernon, as far east as almost Lake Chelan, and as far south as Packwood near White Pass.

No one would credibly claim that White Pass was a part of Seattle, any more than Lake Chelan.

Whereas Melbourne absolutely would consider Boronia on the east a suburb, Campbellfield on the north, and Frankson in the south all suburbs.

I do get what you are saying, and of course with that population number it is so, but I don't think that there's really a great correlation (mainly as a result of Census in the US using a non-standard definition of the internation "metropolitan area" to basically... "anywhere else".

That being said, when you look at "as a percentage of the population", Sydney and Melbourne at ~20%, the others at ~10%, there's also not the argument of "hey, these US cities are far more dense and complex than Australia's", when the complexity is far more often a result of _artificial barriers and restrictions in the market_ than anything logistical.
Google doesn't need (and shouldn't try) to do everything.

Google is much less of a "penny pincher" nowadays compared to when they were small and far too scrappy. Google R&D has increased by 233% in the last 5 years and has gone up even as a proportion of revenue (12.9% in FY13 vs 15.0% in FY17).
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"Pensions are absurd financial instruments."

I don't agree. Retirees do need money as long as they live, which is what pensions (including Social Security) provide. Pensions needed to be properly funded, as the income annuities offered by insurance companies are.
Yeah, -j just about does it, though with Snakemake you can also specify other resources (memory, I/o, etc) for each task, and it will keep all of them under quota. So if you tell snakemake that task A takes six cores, but B-K take only one each, it will solve the knapsack problem to come up with some kind of optimal order for them, and on your 8-core machine you could have A, B, and C running, or B-K.

For a while, I muddled through with Make and a custom cluster job-submitter script, but the real Snakemake killer feature for me was multiple, independent wildcards. So I can, in one rule, have dir/{databasename}/{query}.tsv and rapidly hit multiple databases at once. If you are very clever (and rule one of Make is don’t be clever), you can have a GNUMake wildcard get parsed into multiple wildcards with the wimpy pattern substitution rules, but this is not a fun way to relax.
They do: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Apron-Cookbook-Essential-Lifetim...
It's too easy to write an annuity as a scam, and there's huge counterparty risk of insolvency over 10-40 years. So we only see annuities where's there's no meaningful choice whether to opt in (Social Security and pensions)
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I'm a fan of similar, but cheesier, saying, "never compare your inside to someone else's outside"
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Jerkstate, this is one of the best DIY posts ever. You sound like a great parent.
> bias the result of a decision I was already willing to make

Literally the definition of advertising
Why? Pensions exist to serve retirees, not those retirees' former corporate masters. One of the only truly kind things an organization can do for an individual that serves them over a lifetime, and you would shit on it?

401(k) is a poor solution that requires individual initiative to deploy successfully. Those who don't contribute eventually burden those who do (even if that burden can potentially be paid for in advance, if you have the account type that taxes on deposit), and that's only if they withstood the lifetime of temptations that press people into early withdrawal.
It’s not. The IKEA example is having the business in individual countries pay “royalties” to a company that in turn sets up whatever Dutch/Irish loophole is needed to not pay much taxes.

BUT - and this isn’t irrelevant - even though IKEA might not pay much taxes on corporate profits in (say) Sweden, Selling physical goods in physical stores still produces value. They manufacture in Sweden about as much as they sell in Sweden. So overall, it’s much easier to accept the near zero tax.

The corporations whose large profits and zero taxes annoy people are the online giants.
You are not very data driven :).

Facebook in UK paid £5.1M in tax for £842.4M in revenues.
Criteo in USA paid $83M sold for $332M.
The effective tax rate of the GAFA is 8% versus 25% for traditional export companies such as Airbus.
> If you're a business, and demand your worker be there in person, pay up

Hence why wages are 3x higher on one side of the river versus the other.
> We let ourselves be charged high fees that we do not understand, we accept poor returns quarter after quarter, we never sue to enforce our rights, we never vote as shareholders and we never tell our investment managers how we think they ought to vote.

Is this satire? How is a pension better than a 401k in any of these dimensions? If my retirement is invested in overpriced, underperforming funds it's 100% my own fault. If my pension is chronically mismanaged (as they tend to be) there is literally nothing I can do about it.