skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what literature is out there. My own sense though is:

1. I personally am very attuned to marginal tax rates and opportunity costs. e.g.

a. I won't pick up the extra shift because I'd rather be doing something else than earning $0.2/dollar. (This happened to me in my lower-income days as a student. Due to X hours/week of being a TA giving a tuition waiver, I would never work more than X hours due to the marginal income beyond X hours being so much lower)

b. This happens to me today where I'll take long breaks between jobs I might otherwise not take. I take longer breaks than I would if we had a flat tax, because my loss of income is (1-marginal_rate) * salary, rather than the significantly higher (1-effective_rate) * salary. Similar thing applies in windfall years (e.g. IPO generating large taxable incomes), where I'll opportunistically take months off.

2. I've generally found others to be much less in tune to marginal rates, etc. So my hunch is that marginal rates are not that disincentiving as GP might suggest.
If I understand your meaning, I think that's a problem with any kind of software tracking real-world transactions, not something limited to blockchain.
> Democracy is not as efficient at getting things done as a well oiled top down organization. That's why the military and private companies aren't democracies.

Democratic governments and countries are far wealthier, more efficient, and less corrupt than non-democracies.

> military

I don't know anyone who knows anything about militaries who thinks they are efficient. The US Dept of Defense, for example, is hardly renowned for efficiency.
> I'm responding to the Christian's glib notion that he doesn't understand why atheists worry about dying

I'm not glib.

It's an honest question. This puzzles me.

Also I'm Reitan, not "the Christian" and while you don't owe me much respect, some degree of politeness so you don't call me glib is expected here AFAIK.

It seems like I've struck a nerve though and for that I apologise, I just hoped for an answer.
May as well use a browser with native vim bindings/behaviors (i.e. qutebrowser)
There was a huge amount of interest, and an equally massive grant(billion) given to the Rochester,NY area for building up photonics research. Haven't heard much of it the past year though. Sounds like the natural progression from electrical circuits, particularly in the low thermal output.
>I disagree about the direction of cause and effect here. The distrust comes first, then people go for nutty "alternative fact" stuff.

Exactly what I tried to say above.

One can ask eg. why people trusted science (and revered scientists) more in 50s and 60s US.

It wasn't because they were less religious then, obviously.

It was because they didn't have many chances, decade after decade, to get cynical.
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Anyone who has spent any time developing anything but a tiny software system knows that the biggest impediment to productivity (feature delivery, bug fixing, etc) is the complexity of the system at hand.

In a sense, this post is simply stating the obvious.

The biggest differentiator of skilled software practitioners is the ability to construct simple systems.

To call this claim panglossian or meaningless is to hold the philistinic line that this skill set doesn't matter, that any complex system is effectively the same as any ol' simple one -- don't worry about cultivating the skill, it doesn't matter anyway...

But simplicity is the single most important thing that matters in any maintaining system other than one-off scripts, hack jobs, etc. -- It's absolute torture to collaborate on a software project with anyone who rejects this premise.
Not me. Hate him or love him, Trump news is hilarious and easily the most entertaining thing I've ever seen. I work in downtown Manhattan and despite whatever despair anyone may be feeling at whatever the latest Trump antics of the day are, we can all still share a good laugh at the absurdity of it.

I recall Dave Chappelle musing that "the news had never been so good" when the Clinton scandal was the biggest thing.

"Baby, turn the lights down...the news is coming on". How true, perhaps now more than ever.
Murder and emissions fraud are like apples to oranges. Emissions fraud are a corporate practice, while murder is a one-off event. Coming clear on the latter improves all industry.

For the record, there have been cases where criminals have come forward for crimes after statute of limitations expired. I am not sure it if was in particular to murder though.
Yeah, I also wondered How does this help? Pay per what? Cubic foot? Pound? Contiguous item? A box full of paper is much cheaper to dispose of than that same box full of mercury.

As it stands, my city (and pretty much everyone else's) averages the total cost and we already pay as we go (per curbside container).

I just don't see what problem this solves...
Yep, not hard if the input is somewhat stable...
> There's no way the industry as a whole is anywhere near 96% male.

What do you think is the correct percentage? 96% seems reasonably close to the anecdotal gender ratio (~1/35 students being female) of undergrads from when I was in university a long time ago.
Heres the study details: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Born-in-Guangzhou-...

with references.
The distance from LA to New York is bigger than 2000mph!
Apple does have a significant market share in some advanced economies though. Over 30% in the UK, Japan, Australia & USA.
Like everyone else in this thread, I'm of the belief you don't come to the conclusion that tech is 'cool' without some ideological underpinning. And, in an open forum those underpinnings will be debated.

I suspect, that by "political bickering" you really mean "ideologies I don't agree with" (much like most people clamoring for a past civility that never existed). If you want an echo chamber, plenty of sites are around from that; they'll welcome you.
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A DBMS is inherently less simple than for loops, that's entirely true.

But that's the class of problem they were trying to solve. And a DBMS represents vast amounts of energy put into trying to solve that class of problem.

So, the problem was a complex one, but one that had many aspects of it already solved, and rather than building on a good solution (the DBMS) they chose to try and reinvent queries.

> you should also be aware of the shortcomings of the simple approach

Yup, you really can't refuse to learn how databases work. Unfortunately, they didn't know what they didn't know.
It depends on how much power the provincial government has here, and how the relationship with the city government evolves.

The mayor and the new premier are both members of the Progressive Conservative party, but John Tory and Doug Ford are…they have rather different temperaments. Ford is, to risk oversimplifying, Trump-esque, and not easy to predict yet. This could either become a traditional "public-private parternships are great" pitch, or a weird populist backlash against big government and big business. (Who knows. Ford and the anti-gentrifications folks might end up both being against this. But really, who knows at this point.)
I doubt it. The market is diverse enough to enjoy both products. I like Bird (in San Antonio) and hope that it either gets acquired by Lyft or becomes strong independently.
This is a stupid comparison. It is comparing flow vs. storage. This is comparing Joules to Watts. It isn't even wrong.

The Mexican economy generates $1 trillion of value per year.

The Norway Sovereign Wealth fund has $1 trillion in capital.

Over the past 2 years, it seems that Norway's fund generated an average return of about 10% a year.

That means Norway's fund is "equivalent" to a $100 billion GDP country, about 1/10th of Mexico.
Vectordash has some : https://vectordash.com/pricing/
That does not mention that the format of 'discussions' has been stable since the telegraph.. which is what I was asking about. Not the history of the NWS.
> And yet, if someone tried to sell a server CPU today that was not pipelined, not OOO, and didn't have branch prediction, it would absolutely tank in the marketplace.

You could sell it as a niche product for high security applications, since OOO execution is a nasty side-channel.
> none of my monitors are hidpi and i plan on avoiding getting one [...] since i want to have the pixels visible

Seriously? I can't work out what possible advantage you might think this has. There is no situation where a lower DPI monitor is better than a higher DPI one, as far as I can work out, so I'm guessing you've probably never used a high resolution screen and just don't know what you're missing? Or are there many people out there who think like this?
I wished upon a star.

Joking asides, I think a better question to pursue is how to find contentment. One key for me has been learning to live for today and not worrying too much about tomorrow.

A friend just received more money than she could have ever imagined. Sadly it was an insurance payout after the untimely death of her young husband. I know what she would rather have.

Keep reading, learing and making plans but don’t get too hung up on what you think is missing and enjoy the now.
> The simplest code is an empty file

Reminds me of this: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
"Google Sidewalk abandoned; residents given $500 credit to move to Google Neighborhoods in Tampa Bay" (June, 2021)
>>> " elevators, convenience stores etc. Red light cameras are everywhere. I haven't seen a backlash."

>> Because those cameras are not used to track you, nor are you identified in those videos, nor is that data generally shared with anyone, and in most cases not the government.

> Not yet.

That an ominous-sounding, yet totally empty and meaningless response. Most of those cameras are privately owned and operated, and would be incredibly difficult integrate into a centralized state surveillance system. We're mostly talking systems you can buy yourself at Costco:

https://www.costco.com/Night-Owl-8-Channel-5MP-Extreme-HD-DV...

Furthermore, a "backlash" in the case of cameras in "elevators, convenience stores etc." would have to be a backlash against private photography.
Maybe this vandalism is done by someone with the intent of holding back any innovation, maybe some sort of conservatism or simply keeping the competition away with any means possible.. Sure, some of it may be pure vandalism...
I've been reading "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr, which outlines Objectives and Key Results, a concept heavily influenced (invented?) by Andy Grove.

Would be interesting to hear from someone who knows if Intel still uses OKRs, and if their long-term usage contributed to the current "toxic culture". I really like OKRs as a concept, just wondering what long-term usage looks like, and what the downsides are.

Or maybe it's sensationalism, and the culture isn't that toxic?
Dystopian surveillance state? Sign me up! I've wanted to rebel against one of those for years
Nissan's specs are more strict than whatever Government test, so the Government test is not really relevant.

The bigger point is that Nissan would be committing fraud on its customers by quoting false specs for the products they are selling.
How do you think our cities were built?

Especially in the US, where even the oldest is 1/10 the lifespan of some ancient buildings in my country.
yes. very interesting. it turns out that Norway is very unusual, on a per capita basis, among governments that have such funds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_...
ooooooooo yes
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I'm not sure why, but when I first opened your link, I had a view with a wheel. Then I clicked on something I don't remember, and the wheel disappeared and a tree replaced it. But now I can't go back to the wheel, even if I close the tab and reopen your link. Is that a bug?

I'm on Firefox, Android 8.1

Edit : Nevermind, I found the view on the menu, then "Info / Stats / Topology". For information, I never opened the website on a desktop, and the mobile version is a bit overwhelming at first sight. UI animations are rather laggy

Edit2 : Just registered to try to participate to that debate. A bit overwhelming at first, but after understanding the UI, that tool is awesome. Democracy Forum 2.0 right there :-)

Edit3 : I agree that "agree"/"disagree" is easier to understand than "pro"/"cons" when navigating the tree. An action verb makes it more obvious that we can participate, and it then naturally shows a text box to add our arguments. Also, I'm still not a fan of green/red colors.
News media love to do this on a personal level too. Every month CBC runs a story about how Canadians' household debt (mostly mortgages) is 170% of their disposable income.

It isn't completely meaningless to compare these, but the units need to be right: Rather than "170%" (which scares people because it's more than 100%!) we should say that household debt is equal to 20 months of disposable income.
Doesn't pass my sniff test ... sounds expensive and who will pay for it test
The cars could charge the scooters as well.
This compares stocks to flows, which is incorrect and useless. Article dismissed.
Yeah, I'm genuinely surprised and sad when I see posts like these make it to Hacker News, it just show how ignorant most people are about fundamentals of economics.
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Couldn’t one run user scripts on separate servers with non-OoO CPUs: low-end ARM or MIPS or RISCV or whatever?
We stole it from Swift.

To your parent, the RFC is pretty short and has good motivation: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0160-if-l...
That's a good point.

This is the same problem the Internet of Things had - too much sensing with too little value. Most of what they're talking about doesn't do anything. It just watches.
how much of this foul play is partially attributed to the absolutely insane 54.4 mpg fleet average?

How the hell were auto makers going to achieve this insane requirement in less than a decade?

The players like VW and Nissan and

GM played the game of plug in hybrid to change the formula of MPG by calculating in the battery daily usage into the overall mpg.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/0...

Trump rolled it back to the relief of every auto manufacturer. by the way all of the auto manufacturers invested billions into America 2017-2020.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2018/04/02/...
By that logic, "fast" goes before "correct"; you can't print the answer quickly if you don't have the answer, after all.

> if your solution is not simple, it will not be correct or fast.

The point of the article is that "simple" is a prerequisite of "correct" (and "fast").
How to read this headline:

Google -> Sidewalk Labs

building -> designing

city -> neighborhood

future -> now
Cars are at least parked in designated spots/areas. Dockless bikes and scooters don't have a designated space to park in; they have to be left on the sidewalk, and they can be dropped anywhere.
>It is now possible to grab a pretrained model and start producing state-of-the-art NLP results in a wide range of tasks with relatively little effort.

Are there any applications/websites where this can be seen in action? It's increasingly hard to judge how good state-of-the-art really is from research papers.
> You say that as if it's a completely non-trivial thing to implement.

I say that as somebody that has greatly benefited from that type of functionality in the past.
Torontonian here. I understand your concern, but my opinion is that its a worthwhile (contained) experiment in a space (urbanism) that could use some new information about approaches that work and don't work.

In the hypothetical case you describe where Google decides to drop it - a case I find unlikely to be done as suddenly as you proposed if for nothing else but bad publicity - I could see the neighbourhood becoming a normal neighbourhood of Toronto with perhaps a cool extra things added. Currently it's essentially a dead industrial land in a great location that has been underused for too long, so the opportunity cost does not seem so high.
There agriculture in Australia and Africa? Rising sea-levels and with them huge swaths of the most densely populated coastal area on the planet?

If the oceans rise 2 meters half of their coastal citys are in for severe flooding.

http://en-gb.topographic-map.com/places/Shanghai-8976316/
Having tried both Bird and Lime in San Jose, I definitely prefer Bird. Both the Bird app and the scooter itself provide a better user experience than the Lime app/scooter, plus there were way more of them around. I feel like Uber backed the wrong horse here.
It's also taking up the land in the Portlands area (used to work down there) where the Fords wanted to build a ferris wheel, megamall and.... monorail

I wouldn't be overly surprised if they ran into snags. Ford has been known to hold a grudge. But that's just speculation.

Haven't heard anything about it from the new government yet. For anyone unfamiliar with the area, it's largely undeveloped, home to warehousing, light industry, stockyards, and the Pinewood Film Studios (to the east end).

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/08/30/doug_fords_dream...
America’s values haven’t been freedom, justice or equality for quite a while.

From an outside perspective, America is a horrible country where the rich live in a world of their own and everyone else suffers.

You have the largest population percentage of jailed citizens of any country on earth. Yet one of the smallest percentages of rich people getting convicted for crimes they are indicted with - so there isn’t really justice or equality in your justice system.

Freedom for the most part is true, but you need wealth to utilize it.

Equality is a joke. You’re the only country in the world that has no maternity leave. You’re the only country in the west that has no workers rights on maximum hours, paid vacation or sick leave. You have one of the best healthcare systems in the world for the 1% who can afford it and one of the worst healthcare systems in the world for those who can’t. You have next to no social mobility, you have a terrible educational system and you truly punish unskilled langur. It’s ironic, but America isn’t even in the top 100 as far as the American dream goes because breaking out of the social casts you’re born into is so hard.

Don’t get me wrong, America is a symbol of freedom compared to China and it saddens me that you’re constantly falling behind, but the next 150 years of human history belong to China.
Missing an opportunity isn't a Toxic Culture problem, eh? I disagree with this narrative.
They're not typically "left on streets", but in designated parking spots, with specific rules and guidelines in place.
So, google is building a burbclave?
Really, is there anybody who still trust privacy violators like Google?
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I'm mostly seeking to get out of an autogenerated rut. Between Youtube and spotify I'm getting music chosen for me and I'm not sure how to escape. I feel like I can see through (hear through?) the algorithms that choose my next song.
it's not distracting... it's just... flat feeling after years.

Though I enthusiastically that the beats of synth/retrowave have a lovely driving quality that let me pretend I'm in a science fiction book while I bring thoughts into reality through code.
I'd echo from my first point, HN _never_ behaved as a "Refuge" the way you describe.

Speaking as someone who has been here from every nearly the beginning, my perception is that it was much closer to that in the past (compared to today).

I'm not one to try and sugarcoat,

I'm not talking about sugar-coating anything. I'm saying that (pretty much) no one wants to be immersed in that stuff all the time. And in years past, HN seemed to be a site where one could mostly focus on tech/business stuff, without so much of the political baggage. I'd like to see that again. I find that I can get enough political discussion on Facebook / Twitter / meatspace. But, "different strokes for different folks" I guess. The site will ultimately be what the community makes it.
> The first time I heard "serverless" I assumed it was a totally in-browser application.

So the term "serverless" made you think there was no server involved? What could have possibly made you think that?

"Serverless" is up there with "cloud" for the dumbest most overused words in technology right now.
Who is next in the emmisions scandal? Ford? GM? Tesla?
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Does WordNet know that the word "ImageNet" refers to both a database and a pretraining task? :)
That doesn't give you a nice scratch pad / clipboard though.

Plus the browser bindings are never quite right. Although this implementation is a bit buggy, it's actual Vim. So where as it might not have things like multiple buffers, just being able to edit a single buffer in a familiar environment is a really nice feature to have.

I'm certainly going to give this a shot when I next add an answer to SO.
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Hybrids, plug-ins and full electrics are not new, not expensive, are more reliable, and meet all emissions standards.
I'm not sure that it is quite that clear-cut - if you are vaguely seal-shaped, and furthermore not moving with the speed and agility of a healthy seal, you might push a big shark's 'looks like food' button.

Staying together in a big, tight group might have been key.
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Luckily cities (in this case a neighbourhood in a thriving city) are much more self-organizing than a startup. There are real residents and community leaders who could be handed over control/management of the project.
I've found that, unlike Mark Twain's profession of writing and art, in which each new work is attempting to push the bounds of thought and expression, constructing simple software is something that you can actually get better at over time, and with focussed practice. I hate to break this to us, but what we software developers do over and over again is not as novel and groundbreaking as, say, what a Mark Twain is doing with each work of art he produces.

This is certainly true for me after 20 years of focussed practice. In fact, I have to go out of my way now to introduce coupling--it takes time for me to do the wrong thing. So when I hear someone say "I don't have time to make it simple / decouple everything / design it correctly", what I really hear is "I don't have the skill set" and, often, "I don't want to do the hard work and patience it takes to require the skill set." It's a philistinic cop out, really.
I don't think heat engines would work in space generally due to the low mass of stuff around you that can absorb heat.
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I remember Microsoft did a study on Word usage after everyone complained of bloat and the huge number of unwanted features, it turned out that each user only used maybe 5% of the features, but it was a different 5% for each user. Its the same here. Sure, you only use ASCII and don't care about RTL text or screen readers, and that would be great if the vendors were writing software only for your sole use. But they're not, because they need to fund development of the software by selling as many copies as possible to many different users...
Like everyone else in this thread, I'm of the belief you don't come to the conclusion that tech is 'cool' without some ideological underpinning.

I'm pretty sure not everybody here believes that.

I suspect, that by "political bickering" you really mean "ideologies I don't agree with"

Your suspicion is incorrect.

If you want an echo chamber,

Who said anything about wanting an echo chamber?
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