skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UBI is probably a bit too far in one direction to be a palatable solution. However Healthcare not being a financial concern for an individual or family is a very compelling idea.

But can a universal healthcare system resolve many of the emerging rent-seeking behavior costs peripheral to the actual hospital costs? Things like medical supplies that, in the U.S. are significantly more expensive than elsewhere. Would a universal healthcare system only further subsidize that kind of exploitative pricing?
Can you mark the PDF? It crashed my browser.
Any financial analyst would tell you their ad revenue, or even their market position would be at serious risk without each of the products you mentioned. Building and maintaining product suite is the cost on the ad revenue.
The trillion dollar mark is an artificial one for sure. But the market capitalization is a good proxy for the financial power of a company.

It's basically what the market values the entire company to be worth. If an alien has $1 trillion dollars, it can theoretically buy Apple (if the shareholders are willing to sell, and if the US regulatory agencies would approve the acquisition.)
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is (or was?) worth over $1 trillion
Or because it's a new feature release instead of just bugfixes. At least in e.g. Ubuntu, SRUs aren't accepted unless they're security or bug fixes, which makes it impossible to get newer features back to stable releases. Snaps provide a way out of this by removing the ability to break other applications with an update (since there are no dependencies).
“But an android tablet costs £100! Apple tax is too high!”
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I came across that number a couple of years ago when I was doing research for a presentation. It may have been from a book but I'll see if I can dig up the source.
PetroChina did it in 2007: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/petrochina-soars-to-1-tril...

*edited to include link
The big features for me are:

Threads are cheap enough that it makes sense to spawn a thread for a task, and write the task in a straight forward way -- you don't have to interact with the event loop, you don't have to do awkward continuations, you can often just do one thing at a time, and it's all straight forward. If you need to parallelize sub requests, that's not too bad either.

Asynchronous message passing is a super useful primitive.

"No shared state" means you need to think about problems in terms of getting requests to the right worker that has the state, instead of locking the right thing; that turns locking problems into queueing problems, and queuing problems are easier. There are ways to share state (ets), and if you're not careful, you can get into the same locking problems that are easy to get into with traditional shared memory threading environments.

Hot code loading is lovely. It's theoretically possible to do something similar in Java, but nobody (to my knowledge) actually does. It's so much more convenient to update the code than to drain servers and restart them. There's certainly an abundance of ways to ruin your day with hot loading, but it's magic when it works.
This is a great comment.

the lack of burden of worrying about how I would pay for X, Y, or Z

I had the same experience of once worrying about that, and now not really having to. It's incredible. Imagine what it's like raising a family while having to worry every time you buy diapers or milk.

And 57% of American adults have less than $1,000 and are in that category of worry. Wealth inequality is the central problem of our time.
This is off-topic, but I really wonder what happened to adverbs in English, and why. When I was a boy — not that long ago — it would have been 'blazingly fast.'

The project itself looks pretty cool, though. It's neat to see WebAssembly starting to take off. I'm eager to begin programming browser applications in a decent language …
Here’s one overview: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-gates-educat...

Common Core specific:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulle...
Android: 1 security weakness per 4000 lines of code in C++
Are you including getting a return on your investments (with the assumption that Buffet wouldn't get a return on his investments)?
Fundamentally, the size involved. Your amplifier's capacitors were extremely large for the power the amplifier was using, as their purpose was to reduce the ripple voltage from the power supply.

One of those "1 Farad" car stereo caps (not the classiest example) can store 72 joules (watt-seconds). So to handle a 1kW excursion for 5 seconds, would take over 70 of them. Possible, yes. But probably not worthwhile.

The frustrating thing about this article is that it keeps conflating fundamental physical problems (like needing to store energy to deal with peaks), with the limitations of currently-productized circuit topologies. It's not hard to imagine an inverter that would do something similar to MPPT without needing to pull/dump the maximum power possible, would manage a small bit of local storage (a combination of caps and abused batteries), and could intelligently load shed (with "kind" brownouts) on multiple outlets.

It's also not hard to imagine an inverter (brushless motor) air conditioner that would be a lot kinder of a load, and could even operate at variable power.

But of course with the current state of homebuilding, these are bespoke ideas better filed as "off the grid". Which is the entire larger point - an "off the grid" system fundamentally costs more in materials and also presently application engineering time, than the on-grid systems being sold to homeowners.

(Although I do have to wonder about adding a piece to the current puzzle that would generate/manage a local grid frequency, and shed excess power using off-the-shelf electric heaters.)
I can totally relate. When I was in my early 20s, I was debt free, but was not earning a super high income. I could go for coffee whenever I wanted, ate at restaurants once in a while, but generally didn't stress about money because I was living simply. Those were happy times.

Later, I earned much more, but invested to start my business and had to carry a far heavier burden financially - the kind of burden that would wipe me out quickly if I stumbled. It ate away at me and was probably unhealthy.

I think economic policy should aim to maximize the number of people who can live in the stress-free bracket. Not super wealthy and able to go to Hawaii every winter; just able to make ends meet and have a bit of reserve for a rainy day.

Most western economies are not geared in this way at the moment, and I think that's a huge shame.
Here's what a trillion dollars looks like: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
yeah - I sold Amazon @ $120 and was a genius for a short period.
My issue is that since all hobbies are time-killing activities that time ceases to be a useful measure. The majority of people who spend 10,000 hours doing something eventually become skilled or knowledgeable at that thing - but not always. If you remain poorly skilled and not very knowledgeable on a thing after 10,000 hours I'm going to assume those hours were spent "casually" and not with a lot of focus to learn and improve. In my view, if you only casually spend your time doing something that makes you a casual by definition.

We use all sorts of labels that have an implied threshold before people will apply the label to another person. In your own words, what are the differences between a master pianist, a pianist, and someone who can play the Hot Cross Buns melody? Where do you draw the line between "translator" and "can translate a few sentences between two languages"? Is anyone capable of swinging a tennis racket a tennis player? Is an advocate for homeopathic treatments the same as a doctor? If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, if I said I handle high-frequency financial transactions for a well-known, international, multi-million dollar company is your first thought a cashier at a McDonalds?

For some reason gaming is somehow exempt in some people's minds. They apply the label so broadly that it may as well be meaningless.
- the VM is written in Go and can execute wasm binaries

- the next version of the Go toolchain (Go-1.11) will have a wasm target
Yes because the signs people put around the "native ads" literally stating that it's an "ad" or "sponsored content" are easily ignorable. Get real. People pay for a newspaper with ads in it. You still have to sift through it. Ignore it? You literally have to turn the page or spend 5 minutes pulling the ads out of the newspaper if you don't want them and in some cases there isn't a way to escape the ad with print because part of the article is there with the ad. Ad block won't save you then.
A thoughtful point.
>rejecting that there is any knowable basis for morality or truth.

Which is correct. There is no such thing as The Morality or The Truth or The Good.
They are but figments of our imagination, byproducts of a mind that's evolved to generate
patterns and see order in the chaos that is reality. Blame Plato's witchcraft.
>That's tax they might generate,

It's tax that would not have been paid if Apple did not exist.

>and duties go right into the price of the products,

And if the government said "Apple must now pay 50% on every dollar they make" guess what would go right into the price of the products...

>employees pay income tax.

Business owners must pay the federal government 6.2% of every dollar their worker makes until that annual salary reaches $113,700.

Then 1.45% of all pay regardless of how high it goes for medicare.

And unemployment insurance in whatever state.
We'd like that too; it's likely to fall out of const generics, which are looking likely to hit stable sometime early next year.
Are you sure your price sensitivity is rational then?
Note that this research was conducted on people with no prior experience of flying drones. An intuitive interface is not necessarily the best interface for skilled users. Do we really want to reduce the (already very low) barrier to entry to flying a drone?
Snail Market in Nigeria: A Must Read for Every Snail Farmer
I get that it is a protest-buy, but it's not in relation to the company in any manner. It's in relation to an anonymous internet stranger. You can base your decisions on anything you like, it's a free country, but this is kind of like making investment predictions by staring at the clouds.
As this article touches on the solar panels are the cheap part of a solar setup. If you want to run off grid the costs skyrocket.

I live in an off grid bus. My whole electrical system cost in the US$9-10000 range with only 810W of solar. The other components cost a lot more:

* ~$900 for 3x 270W Renogy solar panels

* $1500 for 3.6kWh of LiFePO4 batteries (12 100A 3.6V cells)

* $1600 for a Victron 3kW inverter / charger

* $2000 for a Honda EU3000is generator to run my AC

The rest was the Victron solar controller, color control panel (that runs Linux!), breakers, relays, transfer switch, fuses, cable, and all the other stuff you need to hook it together.

This isn't at house scale either. The cost would go up significantly to support a house scale system.
I mean, implementing a WebAssembly VM inside e.g. JVM is both possible and practical, but it's a very different approach from implementing it in native code, let alone any JIT approaches.
Yes. This was assuming the light was shining (or equiv, that it showed 230V) before work starts of course.
Sure, but the corollary to that is that security is complicated. Do you really expect the average user to have a more secure system than what they would otherwise have. In other words, is a Gmail account more or less secure than what you would have otherwise.

I think the answer depends, but it certainly isn't always "less". There's some information that you have to store somewhere, and is having a world class security team who works to actively mitigate things like phishing better than storing it yourself?
And this was how my definitely in the Tenderlion apartment showed up as SOMA in all searches.
The person youre responding to isnt saying CNN is “left of Marx”, they’re saying a reader to the left of Marx politically could tell that CMN is biased
Don't get your causation mixed up though. Most of those people are actually crazy, wild and broke.
shrug Canada. Outside of promos, 2% flat seems to be the best of the bunch.

https://www.greedyrates.ca/blog/best-cash-back-credit-card-c...
...reading the fulltext now. They were selected from among middle-aged civil servants in London in the late 80s/early 90s so the sample is way more homogeneous than the total population, certainly if the U.S. is what you're thinking of.
They're not free. They just don't cost money. Arguably they're very expensive.

This is a distinction most people don't grasp. I didn't, myself, until recently when a briefing from the legal department resulted in scouring the word "free" from eight web sites and replacing the word with "at no cost."
I'm curious how some unions devolve into this sort of behavior. The incentive is obvious, but I wonder if there's an organizational solution that would counter these outcomes.

On the bright side, at least you know your electricians weren't being exploited :)
I think about such a large number this is and I really am not surprised. Apple has created a product that I use all throughout the day. I won’t leave home without it and I’ll drive back if I forget it. It’s so addictive that I have to take active steps against using it too often around my wife or kids.
Aren't these systems usually just raising costs for employer, who then lowers paycheck of the employee as the end result?
And most of the trades are fake buy and sell records in some scam artist database. The whole thing is such a sham.
> somewhat outlandishly

Hotels run up the scale to 67,000+$ a night. That's the tipping point for not caring about travel costs not simply bounding your costs by a hidden 'within my price range' scale. Interest on 1 billion will cover a 70k / night hotel room for the rest of your life it's simply not important.
I worked in Windows Mobile at the time.

He was just quoting what the best market researchers had told him. We were given a LOT of market research papers with in-depth customer surveys where lots of people said, repeatedly, that they would "never pay money for a phone". If you think back to then, phones were "free" with a 2 year contract.

The idea of getting someone who was used to free to switch over to $600 overnight was, by any reasonable accounts, not going to happen. The market researchers did the safe thing and said that the status quo would continue.

Of course they were horribly wrong, but again, in the moment, trusting literally every expert in the field is not the worst position to take.

After all that I learned to be wary of market researchers.
The 30% fee is not baseless.

Steam charges 30% to be on its store. Same with PlayStation and Microsoft Store.

Seems like it’s the standard distribution fee.
Cisco is essentially composed of nothing but acquisitions. That is what Cisco does.

The reputation of Cisco's internal engineering culture used to be pretty grim. I never understood why any PM or lead would actually build something from a Cisco internal MRD, rather than jumping ship, building it privately, and selling it back to Cisco. I know of more than one person that did literally exactly that, successfully.

But post-Sourcefire I think it's a different scene there; they have some very large, long-lived teams with coherent cultures now. I assume in the post-Sourcefire Cisco game plan, Duo stays Duo.
In 2002 there was an attempt to fork the Spanish Wikipedia. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-spanish-fork. There was a lot of internal pushback to the forking, but they did it. But the technical and economic issues of keeping a fork of Wikipedia up and running was one of the biggest obstacles. Wikipedia requires huge amounts of infrastructure (both technical and human maintained).
Equity is not a measure of actual worth, it's a product of accounting conventions (which are increasingly incorrect)

A company's value is the free cash flow available to owners from now to kingdom come discounted back to the present.
If a patent claim is made against a large company they are likely to fight back legally. If multiple claims are made against small sellers, they are likely to either stop selling, or settle. Settling means money and possibly some legal precedent (IANAL).

I've heard of practices like this in several different industries. It seems to be a tactic that has little to do with the actual purpose (intent) of the patent system.
Let's take an enum, like Option:

enum Option<T> {
Some(T),
None,
}

Under the hood, this is a "tagged union"; Rust has to have enough space for the T, but also for a tag, to say which variant is the current one.

If T is a NonZero type, then we know that zero is never a valid value. That means that instead, Rust can use the zero value to mean the None case, and any other value to be the Some case, completely eliminating the extra tag, and reducing the size of the Option.

This is a good example of a "zero-cost abstraction"; an Option in this case has absolutely no extra associated overhead at runtime.

Note that these optimizations aren't specialized for Option; they apply to anything that has this kind of shape.
> GCC made code with zero iterations, it unrolled the complete inner loop and produced 16 scalar add instructions.

It doesn't matter really. It is amount of work that needed for experiment.

> I can’t. When I try, the compiler says “Command line warning D9002: ignoring unknown option '/arch:IA32'”

I have zero experience with msvc, but I believe you are doing it wrong. You need not to change arch, you need to control over optimizations. For example, gcc has options -ftree-vectorize, -ftree-loop-vectorize, and -fno-tree-vectorize and so on. You need to find docs on compiler optimization techniques and on options that allow to control them.

> MS compiler doesn’t support scalar code anymore.

Strange, but ok. If we return to the starting question "why the author didn't write the code portably", than we now know the answer. There are no way to write scalar code with MSVC. MSVC doesn't allow make this kind of experiments, so there are no reasons to make such tests portable to msvc.
I strongly disagree with the proposition that the final level is "you don't care how much your vacations cost"-- in fact I think it's downright ridiculous and a person would only stop there for lack of imagination or for modesty.

Because beyond those 3 levels is the world of "I can spend money to improve the lives of people around me, or to improve the world in general" e.g. starting foundations, making donations, seeing things created like hospitals or homes or new companies....all of these are things some people would like to do, and which require a level of wealth far beyond "I don't care what my vacation costs."
I haven't used them but strongly considered for a while. They offer weather sealing on some cameras and lenses which is obviously great for outdoors. Apart from that they have some great primes but not cheap as their market is smaller, and as such the overall range of lenses isn't as broad. Also the tech isn't quite as advanced as Canikon. Overall though still a fine system, and likely to exceed the skills of most users.

That's from a couple years ago, not sure how much has changed with Ricoh takeover.
Pilots have the ability to manually disengage airplane autopilots, and more importantly the time to do so (on the order of minutes). It's very different in a car, where the difference between life and death can be a split-second reaction.
> Most of it's products could be replaced in less than 5 years by a competitor.

I wish this was true, but I think you’re severely overestimating Apple’s competitors... In the last 5 years, noone has even approached them, neither in hardware nor in software, even though the formula is painfully obvious (high quality hardware that keeps working/updating, and non-annoying easy-to-use software that’s friendly to powerusers).
I agree with your comment about back feeding and shorting lines that are supposed to be de-energized, but linemen also sometimes have to work on hot lines. They have all kinds of neat tools and techniques for doing this. Seeing a lineman with a cheater stick (fiberglass pole) or insulated gloves working on a live line is pretty neat.
This is so amazing. Please write a tutorial!
And that security threshold is much different for everyone.

For example I'm not happy unless I have at least 12 months of runway to survive in my current state without dipping into long term savings investments.

It just puts my mind at ease to know I don't have to think about rent, food, basic entertainment, etc. for a year at a time. Depending on what you do this could let you experiment without having financial motives. This is coming from someone who is a freelance developer for context.
Megan McArdle has an agenda. I've never found she generates much insight for that reason. I apply the Two Papers Rule to her, and to B Stephens:

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1017590957984735232

There are some worth reading, like Will Wilkinson, J Rubin, and T Nichols. But they're few and far between.
Is "finding roads between two arbitrary cities" the hard part of self-driving?
When your "existential crisis killer sentient ai" becomes as smart as this meatbag I'll listen to Elon musk. Till then he and you are out of touch with what computers are capable of
It depends; for example, on Windows, we already do not use jemalloc, so you won't see any change there. I don't have a Linux box handy to find the exact size of the binary there, but it will be smaller, yes.
If you charge the Bitcoin miners more, they will just leave - they go wherever they can find the cheapest electricity. I have no objection to charging the miners more, but your proposal seems to be a needlessly complex administrative option.
Well, I think it accomplishes that. You need USA to put aside 5% of what it can make in a year to buy Apple. That’s a ton of money!
Are the model 3 hardware modular? For example, is it possible they’ll have you bring it to the dealer in a few years and get outfitted with these new chips?
Come on, he had to say something in public. Behind the closed doors he gave hell to the Windows Mobile team just as soon as he got his hands on that iPhone.
A share is fractional ownership of the underlying company and all it's assets - that is what gives it value.

A "cryptocurrency" is merely worth what someone else is willing to pay (hence speculative).
My wife and I are about 30. We still have ~50k in student loan debt. We make enough that her entire paycheck goes towards our student loans and we should have it paid off in a year and a half or so.

However, we want to have children and we don't want our debt to impact their lives. How sad is it that American workers can't afford to have children because of how expensive our education is? Imagine if one of us had medical debt...

College education and healthcare /should/ be free for all in this country(USA). They are fundamental to the social mobility and freedom that our founding principles were created for.
I wish I'd bought Apple stock in December instead of Bitcoin.
Ok, but if that's really the definition we're using, there's a pretty enormous gap between "not price sensitive about food* and "not price sensitive about travel", so much so that most very rich people are in the middle; after all, even very reach people occasionally fly commercial, or fractional-ownership a private jet.
Practically speaking, the people in your level 0 category would respond to a financial setback by accumulating debt, generally via credit cards. This puts them below level 1 by definition. Being at level 1 means being wealthy, though obviously not level 2 or level 3 wealthy. I think this is clear from the article, especially the "no longer" in the level 1 definition.
The article is 10 years old, and the company it focuses on had 45 million in revenue 12 years ago.