skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for explaining the economics to the other user

>IMO something like Cap and Trade makes more sense than tax for most forms of pollution

Economists argue about this at length. Among those who write a lot to the public, you'll find figures like Mankiw among the most vocal supporters of a tax, and DeLong as one of the biggest supporters of cap and trade. Krugman, from what I have seen, seems to just want either one of them.

IMO the problem with Cap and Trade is that it needs to be implemented perfectly. So far it has had problematic corruption. For example, in some cases the greatest offenders (coal generators) have been handed allowances... For free... Which they can then sell on the market at their fair market value. So if anything, it has been a reward for being the first to harm others.

Not only that, then you have Wall St entering the picture, and in 2008 they proved their marketplaces dont always work so well. Bureaucrats and politicians, attorneys and accountants, endless committees, and endless meetings... It's going to be another War on Poverty all over again, where trillions are spent and the problem is not only never solved, but there has arguably never been evidence the problem has even been reduced.

Finally, how would cap and trade reward and incentivize micro and household economics? Are we going by an honor system on our tax returns to tally up our carbon allowances and deduct how many car pools, telecommutes, bike rides, stairs, cold showers, etc? This is all lunacy. Why try to do this in a heavy-handed way when this is the type of thing which markets are actually brilliant at solving. Probably because all those industry experts dont want to be obsoleted overnight.
>To me the rational conclusion given the information above is that those laws really did come from a source of knowledge higher than the totality of human knowledge at the time.

Can you clarify what you believe the source is?
Now here would be good forum post. But is pretty philosophical. What is the source of rights. If we agree that rights come from the state then we can't really complain when other countries do horrific things to their citizens. We also can't complain if our elected leaders decide that free speech, privacy, or any other pet social issue is removed. I think that we had it mostly right at the founding of this country.

Too much could be written about this argument but to me a right can't be provided by someone else's labor.

Now that I think about it, a right is also something that can't be taken away. No one should be able to prevent your free speech (1st Amendment), defend yourself (2nd Amendment), or violate your privacy (4th Amendment) without due process.

In this case no one is preventing someone from being able to care for themselves. We are just arguing over who pays for it. It is probably a bad example but everyone has the right to use the roads for transportation. We just don't have the right to the car, insurance, and gas.

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maybe I'm being naive but "buy very large cap stocks if their P/E goes below 4 and sell if it goes over 10." sounds kind of like an algorithm to me. Maybe it's just a ruleset?
> Feel free to contact me at herve76@gmail.com if you need me to write your own custom trading algorithm.

Why would you do this when you are already making $500/day ($182,500 per year)?
Unchained: A story of love, loss, and blockchain
The story is backwards, the cops acted unprofessionally and disrespectfully from the very start, which can only ever cause escalation of hostilities. Hiding your vitriol behind flowery words does not change the intention or the disrespect which is expressed to his subject. His victim is aware of his disrespect, and so are "you" so don't pretend you aren't.

When you are a witness to verbal abuse, if the abuser disguises his abusive language using strategically chosen vocabulary, you are _obligated_ as a witness to recognize the abusive treatment. If you participate in the scene by defending the abuser, pretending that you can't see the disrespect in their choice of words, then you share in their guilt for contributing to the social rot of our culture.

That's not a statement of judgement towards anyone, but rather a recognition of our basic social obligations.
I'm happy to see that MySQL is progressing, but I think that enumerating its adherence to the latest SQL standards overlooks some of its other serious flaws from the perspective of operations and reliability. Below are two of the worst operational situations I've encountered with MySQL. I've run several other databases in high-volume production environments and never encountered those kinds of problems. That MySQL's developers would have made these choices that result in those kinds of problems is truly mind-boggling to me.

* If you have pre-5.6.4 date/time columns in your table and perform any kind of ALTER TABLE statement on that table (even one that doesn't involve the date/time columns), it will TAKE A TABLE LOCK AND REWRITE YOUR ENTIRE TABLE to upgrade to the new date/time types. In other words, your carefully-crafted online DDL statement will become fully offline and blocking for the entirety of the operation. To add insult to injury, the full table upgrade was UNAVOIDABLE until 5.6.24 when an option (still defaulted to off!) was added to decline the automatic upgrade of date/time columns. If you couldn't upgrade to 5.6.24, you had two choices with any table with pre-5.6.4 types: make no DDL changes of any kind to it or accept downtime while the full table rewrite was performed. To be as fair as possible, this is documented in the MySQL docs, but it is mind-blowing to me that any database team would release this behavior into production. In other words, in what world is the upgrade of date/time types to add a bit more fractional precision so important that all online DDL operations on that table will be silently, automatically, and unavoidably converted to offline operations in order to perform the upgrade? To me, this is indicative of the same mindset that released MySQL for so many years with the unsafe and silent downgrading of data as the default mode of operation.

* Dropping a table takes a global lock that prevents the execution of ANY QUERY until the underlying files for the table are removed from the filesystem. Under many circumstances, this would go unnoticed, but I experienced a 7-minute production outage when I dropped a 700GB table that was no longer used. Apparently, this delay is due to the time it takes the underlying Linux filesystems to delete the large table file. This was an RDS instance, so I had no visibility into the filesystem used and it was probably exacerbated by the EBS backing for the RDS instance, but still, what database takes out a GLOBAL LOCK TO DROP A TABLE? After the incident, I googled for and found this description of the problem (https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/06/16/slow-drop-table/) which isn't well-documented. It's almost as if you have to anticipate every possible way in which MySQL could screw you and then google for it if you want to avoid production downtime.
> The go runtime has been shown to handle millions of goroutines,

Fair enough.

> I haven't done UI programming in Go - but in your example, I'd imagine you could simply have an event launch a goroutine...

But now you are in the "goto" mess that this article describes.

Async/await allows me to to write "goto safe" async code synchronously, for UIs.
There was a great post on HN fairly recently written by someone who used to work in HFT. He talked about how they tapped the incoming network cable to read the incoming prices on an FPGA faster than they could make it through the OS's network stack. I think they were sending out trades in response to the new prices before they would have even made it to userspace on an OS.
Great post! I especially like this idea:

> Retrain your model based on input from the crowd... [to] become an enjoyable player to be around.

Regarding this introspection:

> I [am] always thinking that I should have done that thing better. This is a dangerous propellant. It pushes me. But left unchecked, it means I’m rarely happy.

I've suffered from this, too. What's helped me most is gratitude. Every morning I think of five things I'm grateful for. I got this habit from Tal Ben-Sharar - the professor of "The Happy Class" (Harvard's most popular course ever).
$500K budget. 3-beds. Strong public schools. Condo/Townhouse are fine. I'm looking at Acton, Westford, and Andover. Any recommendations would be great.

My larger point is I used to live in the 4th largest city in the US and could afford a relatively new, relatively nice house for a pittance, a short distance from my office. I could spend more or less for a better school district, or use the savings for a private school.

Boston and SF seem happy saying "Good schools, affordable house, hellish commute - choose 2" to their residents.
I think this basically comes down to the same reason it's so hard to forecast the weather: there's way too many data points to consider to do anything other than make a well educated guess.

"Irrationality" comes down to the ability to accurately decide that we have considered all relative data points and determine what is the best decision, and then prove that this decision hasn't been made.

Consider game theory, the best example of "look how illogical all these humans are lol!" Every game is created with a very specific set of rules, most of which are very clean and specific. The pirate game doesn't consider how many children a pirate has to feed. The prisoner's dilemma doesn't account for social factors that might cause the prisoner in question to feel the system is already intentionally rigged to harm them no matter what their choice. All the "proof" of how illogical humans are in their choices has to be extrapolated away from all the life that humans have to live.

TL;DR- I agree. People are "irrational" in the sense that nobody is ever really able to consider all the factors contributing to a real human's decision tree, but we all love to tell someone else that they're doing it wrong and we know better. Look at all this proof I have that you're being irrational (read: stupid) and you should be doing it better.
I don't see what makes 'incels' uniquely psychologically challenged in a way that an ISIS suicide bomber isn't. They don't seem that different from any other kind of terrorist tbh.
I struggle to understand why people who argue for rationality, i.e., people who I know are very very smart and extremely rational, turn around and expect rationality from populations.

Oh, it's just another example of irrationality now isn't it?

I mean, rationality as system certainly is something a fair number of people can master as a series of arguments that they can have down-pat and are able to recite at a moments notice. Actually applying these to subset of a person's behaviors is a harder trick, mastered by a smaller number of people. Applying the implications of irrational behavior of the population at large to one's own world is an even harder trick.

The thing is that "rationality" isn't actually a coherent overall guide to anyone's behavior.

Specifically, if everyone was "homo-economicus", the neoclassical concept of the risk-neutral actor, society itself would collapse in fairly short order.

I'd recommend Herbert Gintis, Game Theory Evolving, for more background on this.
I've tested on Broadwell/Haswell-E, KL and SKL-X I wonder wtf is going on.

24.0Mhz is also not an integer multiplier of the standard 8254/8253 PITs....
Oakland offers a relatively short commute into SF, and it's affordable by west coast standards.
Airlines are still heavily regulated on safety-related issues. (That might be the sweet spot.)
I assume they mean price > sma30 is bullish and price < sma30 is bearish.

PSA: Don't do this
In my case, I do not have the authority to fire someone.
If it had been tracking inflation, it would have increased 55% in that time [0]

[0] http://www.in2013dollars.com/1995-dollars-in-2015?amount=100
I have one in my backpack I am parking now.
Yes, exactly this. "You can get away with all kinds of BS when you're sitting in an open fire-hydrant of money." One obvious symptom of this is that Google's internal codebase is organized like a flea market rather than a phone book.
Let's get another thing straight: remote workers can add enough value that a company will want to hire them, and it happens all the time.
How Capterra compares to g2crowd, getapp, or software advice?
> (Yes, I know that a lot of hospitals are already not-for-profits. They're still run on a model that tries to maximize revenue, though, because they need that money. If you split the unprofitable patients out, suddenly the for-profit hospital can lower its prices, while the not-for-profit is forced to lower its costs.)

Bawawahahaha. No. Non-profit is just a tax status that allows them not to pay income taxes or property taxes on enormous assets and enormous income.
Everybody wants the best of all worlds. I want 100 acres so that I can have fresh milk from my cows every morning (never mind that I wouldn't want to spend the time required to care cows every day). I want my kids to go to school next door. I want it on the ocean for swimming and fishing. I want my job to be 3 blocks away. I want to look out all my windows and now see any signs of other humans. I want ... (you should be able to add at least 20 mutually exclusive desires to this list that are all thing you would actually want in a dream house/location).

Now that we have established you can't have it all, what compromise are you willing to live with? I know people who love their horses enough that they give up everything else to get the room for their horses. I know people who like night life enough that they give up horses so they can get that.

When thinking about compromise, remember that adding density can change the personal calculation. Right now density is expensive - my horse friends pay less for their housing - including the barn - than a much smaller living space in New York would cost. (care for the horses costs more than the night life in NYC) If you can bring the cost of density down it is fair to wonder who would give up the horse lifestyle for the things you could get with density.
There isn't an easy answer for this. Large hedge funds have entire teams whose only job is to collect, process, and clean data.
> When I found myself in a similar place in my life, I found a community in WoW (as many others have), that too is unhealthy just to a lower degree.

Ditto, though mine was due to depression and my subsequent withdrawal from pretty much everything else around me. I immersed myself in EverQuest and it quickly got to the point where I feel like it "ate my life".
I'm more concerned with a more "traditional" setup - say a festival providing WiFi to many people through limited upstream. Used to be, you could provide a caching proxy locally.

With the war on mitm, it's really hard to set up something that scales traffic in this way - even if the actual data requested by clients could readily scale.

I know it's a trade-off between security and features - but it still makes me sad.
A non-profit hospital is extremely unlikely to start a for-profit venture out of principle.
> the comparison of China to Nazi Germany is perhaps a new low, even for Hacker News?

How so? Mao killed 70 million compared to Hitler's 20. And Germany doesn't hold their former leader in high regard anymore.
For those who want to skip to the conclusion of this confrontation, the commissioner was asked to resign from the port authority after an internal investigation by the port authority regarding her behaviour. She was formerly the head of the Government and Ethics committee.

Source: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/who_is_caren_turner...
[video] NIST Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things
There is a lot of hate for the trusted party set up of this, which seems reasonable.

It seems like you could create a dead man's switch using arbitrary participants. You distribute a secret to every participant and then to attempt to activate the dead man's switch they raise k to the power s mod p and pass it to the next participant. As long as you act as a participant each time and raise the passed value to some invalid s then the answer that is arrived at won't be the final secret.

As long as you participate every round the wrong answer will be arrived at, but as soon as you don't participate the right answer will be arrived at.

Any singular party refusing to cooperate would destroy the deadman's switch so malicious activation would be tough.

Designing it so it can tolerate failures would be the hard part.

EDIT: I am wrong, this isn't that great. It's really hard to hide information that can be recovered without a secret being revealed.
Is northern California that much worse in the winters? Or the less popular areas of California? Because whenever we hear about homelessness being a booming problem it's usually to do with SF or perhaps L.A.
G-d. Or possibly aliens.
I don't think that's really relevant to his point. His argument is about control flow, rather than capabilities. The library he has built is designed to provide any functionality that didn't previously exist, but rather to make code that accomplishes the same tasks as before easier to reason about and somewhat safer to write.

An implementation of this pattern could handle the spawning of functions however it wants and the language supports (as independent processes, threads, with an event loop, etc.).
I'm surprised nobody is considering a family unit consisting of three equal (adult) partners rather than the standard two-adult nuclear family. Two workers and one homemaker could cover all the bills and allow for the care of the home and children.

Given the financial circumstances many Americans are living in, I can't imagine nobody's thought of it.
> It was a bit depressing to see the solid column of Xs by SQLite

Except WITH [RECURSIVE] which is in SQLite since early 2014. Damn, I forgot to use that trivia in my MySQL bashing... ;)

Other than that, I met Richard Hipp in person some years back. He is a VERY pragmatic guy. I wrote an article about it:

https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-05/what-i-learned-a...
I'd have the same question, but note the word "can" in the $500-1000 range. And the lack of how much it can lose in a day.
What Will Happen After the Technological Singularity? [video]
Avengers: Infinity War – Putting the Trailer Views in Context
Some tests are similar to the "texas sharpshooter fallacy".
I can’t find anything on there that supports the idea that free markets are modeled on “perfect information”.

I wouldn’t think that’s the case, anyway. Because marketing/advertising/awareness is a cost with diminishing returns, meaning it’s be prohibitively expensive to inform everyone of your product in the market, much less make accessible ALL products in a category for comparison shopping for any customer at any given time (aside from a singularity event).

I do think markets require some information liquidity to be maintainable, and I generally understand free markets to be free of coercion.

This sounds more like an “transparent market” though I’m not sure that’s a defined concept.
Is there clear documentation from either CPU vendor about how "invariant" TSC is when overclocking the processor? It's certainly plausible that it still accurately reflects wall time given that they've gone through the trouble of creating a clock that is unaffected by normal CPU power management adjusting core frequencies, but the TSC frequency may still be derived from a source that's affected by some overclocking methods.
Yes, it is. This is literally an economics 101 thing. Pick up any text book and before you even get to supply and demand you will go through the "assumptions" that must be true in order for a free market to function.

They are usually listed as:

Perfect information

Perfect competition

Mobility of capital and labor

Firms maximize profits

Consumers maximize utility

A lot of people (most?) who champion free market economics have no idea what they are talking about. They could not pass the first quiz in an Econ 101 class.

In healthcare, at least in the decisions of consequence, you typically have no information and no choice.
Those aren't free market models, those are 'perfect competition' models. They're not the same thing.
Assumptions that apply to this author, but may not apply to your business:

- The pricing is $15 / user a month. This is a small purchase for businesses.

- The product is in a crowded market. Comparison shopping is the norm.

- The target is SMBs. Simplicity / ease-of-use is big for this market, vs larger businesses.

- The product is in a mature market. People have well-defined expectations of what this software should do.

- The audience is customer support, or perhaps generalists / founders.

- Testing the software in "production" is hard, because it requires you to answer support tickets through it. It may be impossible to get full value from this product without committing to a trial, which implies a certain amount of investment.

The conclusions in the post are highly dependent on the specifics of this product and market, so take them with a grain of salt. If you're making a better CI/CD tool, or a better analytics dashboard, you may find that an entirely different approach works for you.
Most American grocery stores (at least in California, which is what I know of) run by anyone give their food away for free, as it approaches expiry. Choosing to do so is a lot different than being mandated to.
A blockchain solution is unnecessary for this kind of issue. The question is did Reid author the posts or a hacker? You just need signing to prove that. If all of Reid's posts were cryptographically signed, then a post by a hacker would be mysteriously missing a signature and the debate would be trivially resolved.
Interesting insight with the Job hunting scenario. I haven't really thought about it that way.
"Q. Was Turner charged with any wrongdoing?

A. No. While the video shows her haranguing police over the traffic stop, dropping the names of elected officials she knew, and her position as a Port Authority commissioner who oversees 4,000 police officers, the Tenafly police did not charge her with obstruction. But the chief of police made a call to the Port Authority's Inspector General, which led to an internal investigation and ultimately her resignation.

Q. Is the Port Authority taking any further action?

A. Apparently not. A spokesman said the Port Authority board was preparing to form a special committee to review the findings of the Inspector General investigation and take action at this week's board meeting, before Turner submitted her resignation to Gov. Phil Murphy. 'Commissioner Turner's resignation was appropriate given her outrageous conduct,' said the Port Authority spokesman. There has been no indication that anyone else might pursue misconduct charges against her for allegedly misusing her public office."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/who_is_caren_turner...
The way MySQL was being handled as a hybrid of open-source and closed-source for tests was causing a lot of trouble for organizations like Debian that wanted to ship truly open-source software. MariaDB was, at the time, a pretty close fork with the right license model so it was a good drop-in substitute.

These situations are rare, but it's not without precedent.
Isn't this a great argument for socialized (single-payer) systems? There is no price shifting in such a system, we all just pay in according to our ability as defined by the tax code.
And because they're safe, and because they feel a sense of community with the people they've met there, and because they're able to indulge their hobbies and because they have family that live there and told them it's great, and because...

The reasoning is vast and wild. Job markets are one factor, but there's a huge pile of reasons that factor in. Sometimes that includes being trendy.