skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not an excuse, it's like trying to go on a multi week hike through the back country and not knowing of the existence of topographical/trail maps. Or buying a yacht and not having a set of charts, then holing your hull on a reef and going "oops!"

In 2018 ocean kayaking can be dangerous, even with modern aids like gps, satellite phones, satellite based weather, etc. In 1991 you certainly don't just take a fully loaded kayak to kitsilano beach in Vancouver and set off westbound into the straight of Georgia without tide tables and local knowledge unless you are a complete buffoon.
If you click around on the author's publications, a theme is government pensions and government spending in general.
How a Pizza Night Can Cost More in Data Privacy Than Dollars
It should be noted that Illinois’ republican govenor ran on pension reform, then to everyone’s shagrin, attempted to break unions. He made no headway on either issue, and is now running against a billionaire Democratic challenger who is expected to win.
I guess at this point we're just arguing about etymology. The important bit is to differentiate between read/command/queries and write/commands, whatever those names may be.

Anyway, I just didn't touch queries in this post cause it would make it longer than 5 minutes. I have a follow-up draft.
At the very least, someone should crunch the numbers and find out. It's anyone's guess how the ratios will skew until you measure them.

How to approach this fairly is a whole other can of worms; there will almost inevitably be some unjust outcomes.
I'm not sure why this is so heavily down-voted. Pensions are surely a problem, but they are clearly a drop in the bucket compared to the revenue that states miss out on when they let corporations pit them against each other in race to the bottom behavior.
That's a nice set of buzzwords but nothing complicated. Babel is just a transpiler. ES versions are like any other programming language with versions, use Babel to solve. ES generators are just yield functions that have been around for decades and finally getting to JS. What about webassembly? It's just a compilation target for other languages and delivery format for the browser.

And why is configuring webpack always mentioned as a complicated thing? If you can code all the above then why cant you make a simple javascript app return an object following a schema with an input, output and list of loaders?
There’s not really a way to get those numbers outside of asking a bunch of random people. I can say that I worked at a company that wasn’t in the top 50 and the market for shares was completely liquid. Most of the time at $100m+ valuation it should pretty active.
> "why haven't scientists come up with more symbols yet?"

Take an advanced math test and try to type it out. Being in no sense historically limited by typewriters/keyboards, you might be surprised at the complexity of the symbols.
Borrowing from the future is not a good strategy.
The only way to reform pensions is to deal with the unions. The Wisconsin model works.
I was worried about this when I started using CreditKarma, too. Seven years of AMAs convinced me that unless the founder was a pathological liar playing a really long game, they probably didn't sell my information:

"Do you spam member or sell your list? No, we send less than one email per month. We never sell, share, or rent any consumer PII with third parties." https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c28od/i_started_credi...

"We make money by selling advertising on the site. We never sell or share member information" https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e0cfl/iama_entreprene...

"Also let me point out that we don't make money by selling your information. It is against our privacy policy and we hate those tactics as much as you do." https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2qq95l/i_am_the_found...

"Definitely not. We hate that model too. We do just fine by showing you offers that we believe will save you money. We think that is a win win. As a test, I always suggest people create a unique email account just for us. See if you get any spam in that account. All bets are off if you use a crappy email provider ;)" https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zh78n/im_ken_lin_fou...

"We are using Google business model. We don't sell or rent the information to anyone and we use it to help find the most useful loan or credit card for you. That simple." https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5ha7sg/im_kenneth_lin...

"We also don't sell or share your information unless you give us explicit consent. In those cases, we are generally pre-filling a form or determining if you qualify for an offer." https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/comments/69ad...
The way most pensions work, you collect a percentage of your 3-5 highest salaries ever, assuming you've been there long enough.

A good reason department heads in education shuffle every three years
12-packs:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEX_Btnpd5GWYCOIXtFpb1g/vid...
Lawmakers Call FBI's 'Going Dark' Narrative 'Highly Questionable'
Yeah like their identity suite... it is so bad
How is it possible that they can retire on 90% of their peak pay? It seems that it's based off of years of service instead of quality of service... Since the longer you work I assume the higher you get paid.
For the most part, government work does not pay poorly.[1] For example federal employees without advanced degrees earn a lot more in government than in the private sector: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...

[1] I’m willing to entertain the idea our economic system as a whole undercompensates secretaries and overcompensates executives. That’s a different issue.
If we assume that the average pension of those with a pension over $100,000/year is $200,000 a year, and cut those down to a cap of $100,000/year it would be $200,000,000/year in pension reduction. With a $2.5 billion/year spend on PERS [0], that is not an insignificant amount on the entire burden of the pension system, even if it is off by an order of magnitude.

[0] http://www.pers.ms.gov/Content/Supplemental/persfacts_figure...
I think when OP was mentioning ladas they were talking about razor blades, not cars.
Their return from Airbnb alone will probably cover the costs of investing in every other YC company. So Dropbox, Stripe, Twitch, Reddit, Cruise etc. are gravy.

Those are phenomenal returns.
Perhaps it's a sly hint to the fact that you can go online to learn the meaning of words you don't recognize:

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+gotten
Much of the world still does not have basic physical world needs being met (air, sustenance, clothing/shelter, sleep). Heck, a lot of America still doesn't have those needs met. Many of the jobs, and much of the money can still be made by tackling them. And its relativistic, so you can always make "better" versions too. Sure, automation is reducing them, but clever people can tackle how to build a better house, grow food more economically, ect... and employ people while they're doing it.

Safety / security needs (personal, financial, health). Tons of money and jobs here too. Much of America is floating in this zone and needs these services or better versions. Much of the world barely has them. The current health care system (in America) is atrocious and vastly overpriced, smart folks like Buffet are rightly pushing into that space.

Social needs (family, friendship, intimacy, esteem). Vast amounts of money / jobs, and tons of room for innovation. People need real versions of these, not virtual software things. Ways to actually meet new friends - in the physical world. To find intimacy in natural ways. To feel like they actually have a family instead of being increasingly isolated. (I say this as I type alone on a computer at a coffeeshop...)

I won't even cover actualization and transcendence. I suspect such a small percent of the world could even describe what that it means to fully realize themselves that if you can make a job out of it, you're set.

Short version - hand wringing is silly. What do people actually need? There are future jobs and money.
Huge compared to a modern camera, but probably not vhs or betamax size gargantuan. Hi8 or vhs-c format cameras existed in 1991.
Eminent domain often seems unfair, but in any situation where everyone must agree to a plan, being the last holdout gives a person power that they really didn't do anything to deserve either. I'm not sure anybody believes that getting everybody to agree on something should always be required to make progress.

Something that comes to mind are the bondholder holdouts that objected to Venezuela's debt restructuring. You may side with the people being bullied by the rich and powerful in any circumstance, but that doesn't uniformly lead to defending holdouts.

My point is, no, paying any price is not how things work in capitalist societies or anywhere, because it's not practical, regardless of how unfair this particular instance is.

Edit: Wow, fastest downvote ever. Wonder if it is automated somehow. I don't think the ability (and prevalence) of downvoting opinions you disagree with contributes to the professed goals of HN. I appreciate strict moderation for civility, but given the ability to downvote rather than engage with (or ignore) a polite comment, people tend to abuse it.
It’s not that TurboTax should be free. Obviously no one is arguing that.

The argument is that the tax code shouldn’t be so complicated that you need to pay a fee to file your taxes smoothly and with little risk of getting it wrong (and getting audited/fined).
It’s impossible to reform pensions without reducing government union power in states like California and Illinois.
the burger isn't especially unhealthy either. The burger patty itself is just beef. They don't add sugar or anything else to it. It's delivered frozen to the store so there are no preservatives. The buns are delivered a couple of times a week from the bakery so there are no preservatives in them either. A burger at McDonalds is really no worse than the burger you'd make at home, assuming you would buy typical grocery store ground beef and hamburger buns. The cheese is pretty much the same sliced American cheese you would get at the supermarket. The ketchup is from Heinz, or Hunts.

The deep fried stuff I would avoid. The french fries, fish, chicken, it's all cooked in vegetable oil. Years ago they used beef lard, until they were pressured into switching. Now we know that cooking in vegetable oil is pretty much worse in every way but they haven't changed back.
Kubrick found what he wanted by trying things out
Newton’s work on optics alone qualify him as a scientist.

And his deduction of the laws of motion, thermodynamics, and gravity establish him as one of the greatest scientists ever.
Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw
Please, if possible, make it truly easy to integrate.

All of the others tools requiere multi-steps to integrate into android/ios projects. Even if "generating a already integrate project" is available, the ideal is just import with gradle or carthage/coccoapods and that is all.
Because this is a conservative site where dissenting opinions are not tolerated.
Yes, this is an absolutely backwards way to pay people. When times are tough we end up tightening our belts on a whole host of services, but cannot adjust pensions because we have promised them. We should just pay people market rates and avoid saddling ourselves with a bunch of debt when times are good.
AI meets autoland Germany’s conservative economic model is being put to the test
>>There are some similar opportunities for US citizens in the other US territories, but PR is the best one I think, and is certainly the biggest and most developed.

Maybe it was, but Hurricane Maria fucked it hard and it is unlikely to recover anytime soon. Just the other day a tree fell on a repaired power line and 640,000 people in San Juan (the capital!) lost power. That’s just crazy to me.
> This seems like a pretty big budget item, especially since most CA government pension funds haven't achieved their expected 7.5% return consistently for years if not decades.

That seems like the big story: making plans assuming such a high average is simply malpractice. There are employee behaviors worth changing (e.g. the common problem of juicing final salary using overtime) but most of the blame should go to the people who signed off on that plan.
All of my support/repair experiences to date have been pretty underwhelming at best.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but are the options for small business support for Apple machines that don't involve either 8-10 days without a machine, or wasting time going to/waiting/from an apple store.

The contrast between business support for say, Dell, is staggering.
Ask HN: Example of resumes for first time Senior SWE position?
I'm a '14 graduate trying to get a pay bump by stepping into a Senior SWE position. Does anyone have any examples of how I can translate my experience in 'BigCorp' to something that would be compelling to the outside world?
Illinois is also a special case in that pensions are written into the state Constitution. Pension reform requires changing the Constitution.
The numbers I found:

Oregon population: 4,000,000

Pension deficit 2017: $25,000,000,000

Per-capita share: $6,250

Assuming a large portion of the pensions will get spent on goods, services, and donations in state, it doesn't seem like a huge disaster, depending on how it grows.
Man, I also listened to him a lot as a kid going to bed. Some really fond memories there. When I got older I listened to him a lot on late night drives, which were quite common. I'm a very skeptical person by nature, but his show was amazing at spurring imagination, even of a skeptic.
Do adult human brains renew their neurons?
Ok, in case you do not understand Russian: the picture I posted is the Soviet packaging of these razor blades, they are ones on top with the picture of a running man in style of ancient Greek paintings and inscription of "Ladas" (Ладас) in Russian. Fun fact - adding "s" at the end of the word makes no sense in Russian so it's not a form of "Lada" (Лада) but an entirely different word. Judging by the fact that Ladas is the name of an ancient Greek athlete, which is also spelled as Ладас in Russian and the picture of some Greek athlete on the packaging it's not a huge of leap to conclude that the blades are named, in fact, after the aforementioned athlete and not ships, cars or goddesses with different name.
CreditKarma did a pretty good job with my taxes this year, they just didn't handle premium tax credits very well. I had to get help filling out a form 8962, which strangely enough was full of (the equivalent of) null pointer exceptions. Not CreditKarma's fault, but hoo boy was that a nightmare of a form + instructions + worksheet (each with appendices).

I'm looking forward to them handling all these edge cases, too, so I can fully recommend them to my friends next year.
The experience sounds similar to my regular trips out to No-Wheres-ville central Illinois. I loved me a good ghost story episode on those nights driving through towns with double and triple digit populations.

Well, not exactly the towns, which were a block with a gas station, post office, and maybe a diner, but the dilapidated structures 1/4 mile past the towns. It was haunting to cruise down tree lined roads over rickety bridges, past rotting houses, and, my favorite, skirting places where infrastructure was easier to bypass than repair. If the road curved more than 20 degrees you could bet that it used to go straight, and if you looked off in that direction you'd see the shell of an old train station or supply store.

Art Bell and George Noory turned the most boring road trips into adventures. One night I'd be watching where my headlights hit the trees, expecting a chupacabra to leap onto the road, while others I'd have to 'play it cool' to avoid detection by the secret government testing facilities disguised as grain silos.

I think those haunting jaunts into the suspension of disbelief actually made me more tolerant of people with (harmless) strange beliefs. I got to feel the allure of bizarre, irrational beliefs for a few hours per week in an unfamiliar setting and then return to being a city-boy scientist in my everyday life.

I'd be sad, but I'm sure he's still around. He just had to go deep underground to avoid detection by the Illuminati or combat the Shadow People. Give em Hell, Art.
I also feel like browserify resonates better with me.

I use the browserify plugin "tinyify" to make the final output smaller: https://github.com/browserify/tinyify

If I'm working on a choo app I use banaki which uses browserify and my preferred bundle optimization plugins/transforms under the hood: https://github.com/choojs/bankai
HN tends to react negatively to inflammatory language, such as What a pathetic ploy.

I sometimes have mixed feelings about that, but generally agree that inflammatory language does not foster reasoned, meaty discussion.
The linguistic similarity they mention at the end is actually even closer: in Maori (and New Zealand English), the word is "kumara".

However, there seems to be some doubt as to whether the word was historically in Quechua, or whether it was introduced later, based on a Polynesian word (e.g. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525...).
Yup! The simple UPDATEs could improve the chances of the query planner working optimally--think of cases where a single, complex, setwise update might avoid using some really helpful partial indexes, etc.
We aren't talking about a datacenter to support one product. We are talking about an entire platform for building and operating any number of products on top. It isn't comparable.
> Both of those lack support for custom "sources", instead of just markdown files.

For me that's the beauty of it, just simple structured text files. If custom sources are needed for a static website then writing a transform script to generate the markdown files and yaml header is simpler than having to deal with integration apis.
March of Times: Fascism in the 21st Century
There's an incredible amount of euphoria when you conquer your fears.
These are peoples homes, land, and likely history. Demolishing that without the blessing of the owners is ridiculous.

I just can't see how that is comparable to bondholder holdouts.
I think continuing to prop up the 19th century idea of a minimum wage is foolish - it distorts the labor market, and reduces labor mobility. If we want to do something for the future, replace minimum wage with a minimum income scheme, and let the market decide. I strongly suspect you'd see higher labor participation and higher wages overall a decade after implementation.

We're looking ahead to an era where full employment may not be a possibility - we should get ahead of it, rather than waiting for doomsday. But for right now, anything that increases labor mobility would be a net economic benefit.
They’re the same people. These policies were heavily lobbied for by public unions.
Watching this now. It's great. Thanks! Not only are there some nice restatements of powerful high-level insights in to network effects in general (which I am considering with respect to physical logistics requirements in our current business), but some great historical tidbits too.

The resounding rejection of packet switching by period communications experts at https://youtu.be/8Z685OF-PS8?t=21m0s is awesome. Oh how the mighty have fallen!
I-beams would dissolve into rust very quickly.

Your best bet for metals might be gold as it is not typically reactive with water or oxygen. And as a reminder, we do sometimes find solid blobs of gold... :-)
You always borrow from the future.
Maria was honestly insignificant compared to the 2006-2017 economic problems. Maybe 10%? (It was a big short term problem, especially due to the deferred maintenance and lack of resources/capabilities, but wouldn't have been a lingering crisis without the economic problems.)

Savings from 0% tax pays for a pretty amazing generator/solar/lithium ion battery system. The electrical grid is being privatized and turned into a bunch of microgrids (already happening; upscale condo buildings have generators, and the homes of rich people have generators/solar.) The biggest problem is traffic lights, which don't work even in the areas with power, but outside of SJ and first-ring suburbs traffic volumes are fairly light.
Something like this existed when the wiki was on github, but I don't think it has been recreated. I'll mention this in the IRC channel and see what other folks think.
I'm way ahead of everyone. I'm on Diaspora, and I have 0 friends.
I'm a little face blind and a little name blind, so one trick I've used for years is to ask someone to remind me of their email address. (How do you spell your alias again?)
kuumala/kumara: in Tonga where kumala is the word used, the locals don’t know how old the word is. Same goes for their use of “delfin” for dolphin, a creature they have surely known since long before European presence. So I bet the kumala name is a recent loan word. They may have had another word in the past now forgotten.
"Eschew the Extraneous Else" (2 minutes)[0]

One of my favorite talks. Very quick, very to the point. I'm not saying I agree with this in 100% of cases, but in many cases I think it's the right call

[0]: https://youtu.be/JVVMMULwR4s?t=289
Plus those 3-5 highest years include overtime.

Bust your ass with overtime for 3 years and you can reap the benefit for the rest of your life.

I also recall the NYCFD had a problem with that and with people claiming disability right before retirement. The rate was something like 90%.

As a result a fireman who made a base of $100K per year (just a guess), might end up with a full pension at 50 that pays him/her $150k per year until death.
Please do. And let me know if it has decent surf. :)
Gar@Li.si
This is a profound comment, even if off the cuff. Consider tens of trillions of fiat in worldwide liabilities, and how the entire world is relying on people yet to be born to carry the torch through taxes to pay for the debts we’ve amassed.
It's not morally comparable, which is an essential part of my point. I think perhaps my comment is inspiring kneejerk reactions as though I was defending this instance of eminent domain, but it was a response to the direct parent, which was attacking something much broader than this instance.

Coordination problems preventing people from making collective progress are real, and mechanisms for eminent domain exist to deal with those real problems, is all I'm saying.

That is independent of whether some holdouts are righteous or not in particular circumstances.

To repeat, please interpret my comments in the context of what I am responding to, not just the article link.
The pricing seems... really weird. Many very different offerings are priced exactly the same. E.g.

VM.Standard.1.1 and VM.Standard1.16, same cost but the latter has 16 cores instead of 1 (same CPU), 112 GB memory instead of 7.

https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/iaas/pricing
Hearing about it is pretty excruciating.
The worst part is citing the clearly outrageous pensions of a handful of well-connected elites, knowing they'll be used as stand-ins for the pensions of teachers and DMV clerks.