skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Bull, guerilla street art, the girl, corporate advertising.

https://hyperallergic.com/364474/the-sculpture-of-a-fearless...

> here is the truth about “Fearless Girl”: It features a branded plaque at its base. The companies that installed it had a permit. They are advertising firm McCann New York
> and year in, year out, a large number of students ignore my calm, well-argued and perfectly rational advice

I would point out that they probably remember your advice, it's just not "connected" to the part of their brains that does the driving under stress of deadline.

I find you can make a lot of true predictions by extending the "system 1/system 2 thinking" model into a complete disjunction: that everyone is, internally, one person who listens and talks and learns social mores; and then another person who acts and reacts and learns by doing; and that—other than sharing a body—these two internal people have nothing in common and you should assume that any lesson that's been imparted "through" one of them has absolutely not been imparted to the other.

I.e., if you tell someone something, they'll be able to tell you what you said, and it will affect what side of a debate they engage in in the future, but it won't affect their behavior in the slightest, except insofar as they verbally precommit to doing something in a way that then forces doing-them to do it.

And, if you get someone to, say, play a video-game simulation of some complex system that imparts a particular lesson about that system into them, then they'll still verbally argue on the "wrong" side regarding how that system works, until someone essentially forces them to sit down and have their "social mind" go over the experience their "doing mind" just had, explaining it to themselves to convince themselves. (Some people probably do this "narrating themselves observing their doing mind" by default to some degree; these people are probably measurably better at some meta-skill like learning or teaching.)
This sounds like a surefire way to astronomically increase inequality, right?
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> HopsFS is, to the best of our knowledge, the only distributed filesystem with distributed metadata

Then you haven't done your homework, since Gluster has had that architecture for a decade. And it supports real POSIX semantics, too - not just the HDFS subset.
Ask HN: Anyone using Samsung DeX?
I will be getting my hands on a Galaxy S9 in the near future and one of the touted features is "Dex", some sort of mobile desktop. There was a big discussion about it a year ago, but I haven't exactly heard much since then. What are hners take on Dex? Is it any good? Do you use it on a regular/semi-regular basis? Is it just a charger at this point for most people?

Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743785
i'm also curious. unless i'm not understanding something, your tax writeoff could not exceed your cost basis on the purchase of the business, making the maneuver a net loss.
I think there is often a lack of distinction between situations where uncertainty is due randomness in the natural process, versus situations where uncertainty is due to your incomplete state of knowledge.

For example, a coin flip is physically deterministic but you can't take advantage of that in a normal coin flip situation. But if you have a chunk of radioactive material and two particle detectors held nearby, I don't know of any way even theoretically to determine which will trigger first -- that would be physically nondeterministic (unless I'm wrong, but other situation could be i.e. famously quantum experiments).

Then, most of the situation that are physically nondeterministic are things that we experience is a way that is aggregated over a large number of events: i.e. you aren't seeing individual particle emissions, you are just eventually getting radiation poisoning. It takes special equipment to experience the probabilistic nature of nuclear radiation, brownian motion, etc.

So there are really lots of natural processess that are probabilistic but you only experience them in aggregate which conceals it, but then you have incomplete knowledge about the world which re-introduces the uncertainty.
That strategy works in some countries, not in others. Not sure about the US. In certain countries a profitable company can acquire a company with carry forward tax losses, and by merging both you can offset profits from the profitable company with the losses of the unprofitable one.

Not exactly extreme tax avoidance I'd say. This is quite a well known mechanism.
I'm sorry, but $100M subsidy for the blind is a drop in the bucket for a nation of 300 million -- and I call BS on the rest of the `benefits`.

Let's break down your sources.

The first one simply observes that the USPS holds a debt to the US government. OK. I owe money to Citibank - does it mean that Citibank funded my degree? No.

The second source lists three factors it considers to be `benefits`:

- Tax breaks and Cheap borrowing. Color me surprised that a government-owned entity isn't expected to pay back to the government. It's a subsidy in the same way that every pirated MP3 is a `loss`: the assumption here is that every buck made by USPS could be potentially made by a private company, which would pay taxes on that. This is a claim that I would rate as wild imagination without very strong evidence, given that any system to fill USPS's shoes would have to perform the duty of delivering mail to (nearly) every resident.

- Laws that bar any other shipping service from delivering mail and packages directly to residential and business mailboxes. Well, USPS can't deliver directly into the Amazon's fulfillment center cells either. That aside, again, it's highly unclear how you can translate that to cost to the taxpayers - even if it means profits for USPS.

That is because not every taxpayer is paying anything to USPS.

Official monopolies are a tricky thing - but nobody is screaming about how utilities and telecommunication companies, which enjoy these monopolies, are not self-funded.

They say that a rose by any other name is still a rose. By the same measure, a cactus, even though prickly, isn't one -- even if you call it a rose and write a long article about it.
> Do you think the tool you use to achieve a task doesn’t matter?

I think many people do think that, with a twist; specifically, when presented with a higher level language they'd argue "it's just a tool", while a lower level language would be "the wrong tool for the job".

I.e, for a hypothetical Ruby programmer, Haskell = "just a tool", C = "the wrong tool".
Mr. Pink: “I don’t tip”
> Q. What is a Qualified Opportunity Fund
A. Qualified Opportunity Fund is an investment vehicle that is set up as either a partnership or corporation for investing in eligible property that is located in an Opportunity Zone and that utilizes the investor’s gains from a prior investment for funding the Opportunity Fund.

> Q. How does a taxpayer become certified as a Qualified Opportunity Fund?
A. To become a Qualified Opportunity Fund, an eligible taxpayer self certifies. (Thus, no approval or action by the IRS is required.) To self-certify, a taxpayer merely completes a form (which will be released in the summer of 2018) and attaches that form to the taxpayer’s federal income tax return for the taxable year. (The return must be filed timely, taking extensions into account.)

> The fund must hold at least 90 percent of its assets in Qualified Opportunity Zone Property

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/opportunity-zones-frequently-as...
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I’d be curious in this as well.
The reason I don't agree with this is how much prices move to the margins. Look at real estate, cities that have a small fraction of super wealthy workers (SF, NYC, DC) have markets where the prices are determined by what the super-wealthy can afford to pay, and effectively it's a form of wealth extraction where long-term local landowners, most of whom are already relatively wealthy, extract value from the businesses that are making some people super-wealthy by refusing to allow new development to keep up with demand.

The losers in this scheme are literally everyone else, paying a steeper and steeper cut of their income just to keep their job.

Also, no offense intended, but saying that $8000 per head would not make a difference sounds out of touch to me. If you have a family of four and your household income is $30k, $8000 could be life-changing.

I agree with your broader point though that cash redistribution is not a real solution. What I would argue is that we need to be thinking about how to systematically reduce cost of living / increase quality of life, and ideally how to do this at a cost somewhere below $8k a head :)
How does this service compare to parsec[0]? It looks good but parsec just came out with in browser streaming for its services and runs on top of aws.

[0]:parsecgaming.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_tube:

Light tube with reflective material

”Also known as a "tubular skylight" or "tubular daylighting device", this is the oldest and most widespread type of light tube used for daylighting. The concept was originally developed by the ancient Egyptians. The first commercial reflector systems were patented and marketed in the 1850s by Paul Emile Chappuis in London, utilising various forms of angled mirror designs. Chappuis Ltd's reflectors were in continuous production until the factory was destroyed in 1943. The concept was rediscovered and patented in 1986 by Solatube International of Australia. This system has been marketed for widespread residential and commercial use. Other daylighting products are on the market under various generic names, such as "SunScope", "solar pipe", "light pipe", "light tube" and "tubular skylight".”
Functional Reactive Object Oriented Programming?
Not convinced. The components simply aren't designed for replacement in most cases any more even in China when you have the necessary part. Though sure there's a lot of creative repairs and spares in Shenzen, especially for phones. That's repairs despite the best efforts of manufacturers. :)

Even the cheapest tat domestic appliance brands used to let you replace an element etc for a fraction the cost of new. When it was designed in and a screwdriver-free sub 3 minute job I'm not sure time or hassle really entered into it. A new model often used the same filters or elements. Now the time and hassle is designed in as almost nothing is intended to be replaced, opened or disassembled so it becomes an afternoon's work (eg phone battery replacement).

One example of many. Frost free fridge freezers need a small heating element to defrost the coils. That was a simple plug in component for a few pounds, and lowest callout fee from your local repairer. Now they're mostly being combined indivisibly with the coil and that becomes a replacement of a major, mostly working, module and a re-gas that costs half the cost of the damn fridge. Even on the fancy £1k Samsung fridge freezers. Actually I think Samsung were one of the first to do this. Heating elements, of course, still fail with roughly the same regularity. That's an awful lot of metal, plastic, refrigerant and climate CO2 deliberately turned into a disposable.

If we can't go back to the old view, at least partially, resolving climate change is going to remain challenging.
We assign the tasks to ourselves. I meant it more as "this is what I'm going to get done today". If I don't get it done then I'll have to bring it up tomorrow and give an explanation of why, maybe I'm having problems that someone else might have solved but I do not know that, maybe its a large project and I just need more time, I'll still have to mention it. But it gives the other members insight into what, why, and how the task I am working on is going or if someone needs additional help.

And to your next point, we certainly do NOT wait till tomorrow, we reach out in our team chat if we need something and then can discuss further in person.

The stand up is not some strict rigid meeting where its the only time we talk. It is simply an additional small amount of time for the team to discuss whatever, along with what we're working on.

Another key point I did not mention above is the standup helps with those that struggling to speak publicly or just are not familiar with doing so, I have seen noticeable differences from members when we first started to now.

I'm not saying that the stand up is totally relevant and required, I'm sure we would work continue to work just the same without it, but it serves as a small interpersonal connection between members. For my team and I, the stand up works great, for other teams it doesn't.

If you really want to know, try it, or ask your team how they feel about it.
Mutable internal state is problematic with or without inheritance.
Have a look at interpolation search.

The complexity is O(log log n), under the assumption of a uniform distribution of the data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation_search
getting pushed out of the neighborhood you grew up in because of the rising rents sounds pretty sad. getting pushed out of your family home because it got so valuable that you can't pay the property tax on it doesn't really sound as tragic. in fact, i hope that happens to every house i ever own.
Have you heard of the Sugarscape simulation? It can be used as an economic model showing interplay of wealth and taxation and inequality. I don't think I would recommend setting economic policy based on this simplistic model, but it's food for thought.

http://greenteapress.com/complexity/html/thinkcomplexity012....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarscape
I find that having even one meeting pretty much ruins my whole day. Before the meeting, I find it hard to get into a real flow state because I know the meeting is coming up and I'll have to stop. After the meeting, I feel like the day has already been destroyed so I typically spend the rest of the day surfing and reading HN.

Meetings first thing in the morning or at the end of the day are better in that regard.
What does NVMe have do to with any of this? That's hardware storage technology, and it's being compared to Python versions of deep learning frameworks?

The whole point of having a file system is that programs are abstracted from storage. What does native support even mean unless the file system somehow hooks into the running code?

This makes no sense. It seems like a post trying to push HopsFS as more performant, but comes across as inaccurate and misleading.
Tech startup A is capitalised with $1m. Burns through $1m, left with $0 in the bank, now has a million dollars in carry forward tax losses. That means you can make a million dollars without paying taxes. At a 21% corporate tax rate, that's $210,000 in taxes you'd pay on a $1m profit if you didn't have the carry forward loss.

How much are the shares of that shell worth if you can use the tax losses to offset profits of a different, profitable business? Somewhere between $0 and $210,000.
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Wow, I want one, too!
I use it as a daily driver for my laptop. It's quite performant. I also boot a linux distro sometimes on that machine, and don't notice much difference in battery life between the two.

They've been adding drivers like crazy for a while now, too, so there are many more hardware choices than there were a couple years ago.
It's more like a note, singular ;)
Short sighted / Incomplete. The odds are you'll be a service co, hence, "high" salaries. There will be up and downs in your sales, and you will find yourself in a cash crunch at some point - especially when you are "small" with just few projects at a time - and you will have to fire. If you do that by the book, you wont be allowed to hire for 2 years. It just makes it incredibly hard to manage, hence, the reluctance to hire quickly, and ... the thrive of consulting services (often more than 50% of the dev team are consultants ... ;-) ). It's a mess, for everyone.
While I agree with you generally, that you take such offense to the article is bizarre. Infuriating? Really?
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There is a whole category of systems (rule engines, BRMS) dedicated executing and more importantly managing predicate logic in a way that business user's can understand and maintain. Just one example from the Java space:

https://www.drools.org/
I'm not sure, but I bet it's the same reason why (some of) the end users of, say, Boeing and Airbus aircraft feel the need to fight so much as well.
3.3 is pretty dang fast. People sometimes complain about how fast my budget EV (hint: not a tesla) accelerates when I drive them around.

I test drove a 90D and the acceleration off the line is heart-stopping. And that is listed at 4.7s.
In the suburbs in southern california, I'm used to one of three things happening:

a) I walk up, the light is red in my direction; I push the button, and the other direction turns yellow within 10 seconds (often immediately), and shortly I get a walk sign

b) I walk up, the light is green in my direction, I push the button, and get a walk sign immediately

c) I walk up, the light is green in my direction, I push the button, and don't get a walk sign -- but soon the light turns yellow, and the other direction gets to go, then i get a walk sign.

It's not too far off in the south bay (SF bay area).

It's different in the middle of a city like Seattle, where there's always a lot of traffic, so the lights are changing frequently anyway, a lot of the lights just have the pedestrian cycle enabled almost always; and they often won't add the walk sign in the middle of a cycle, when it's already decided to change the cycle in less time than is needed for a pedestrian to cross.
I understand what you're saying, but the tax system is not as progressive at the highest ends as you might think.

Social Security Tax stops being collected once you've paid on ~$128k, so all your income above that is taxed at a much lower rate.

Most wealthy people are able to significantly reduce their tax burden via deductions that aren't that helpful to "ordinary" folks as well, and the very wealthy can arrange for most of their income to come in the form of long-term capital gains taxed at only 15-20%.

So in fact the US income tax system is relatively progressive up to the top bracket of $418k/$470k (single/joint), which just happens to be the bottom of the top 1%...
Thought it was a fun, but pointed observation of how software may still work but Goodhart's Law has killed its utility.
The ideal solution here is to get rid of tipping, but I don't see that happening in my lifetime.
Those tax breaks all sound like they benefit the middle class, even though they do mostly benefit the upper middle class.

But are you surprised that people are more willing to accept tax breaks on the middle class over the rich?
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I'm talking about the leading edge of the wings, where they meet the fuselage. How far up that is from the tip of the nose is often not based on any existing edge or fold.
You're making a huge assumption. Tesla's past behavior is that they fill their assembly line with the highest margin cars until they run low on demand for them, then add lower margin cars. That says nothing about the profitability of the $35k car. Plus, we're talking marginal profitably: the assembly line is a sunk cost now that it's fully purchased.
Why is that analogy relevant?
This. I'll also add that in the world of things like Docker and [Insert]CI you don't need to mock most external dependencies like databases.
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The article does a good job of differentiating between repairing high fixed cost items (like a bridge or house) and low fixed cost items (like electronics).
It's also worth thinking about the labor cost of repairing vs manufacturing, especially in a world where manufacturing is automated and repairing is a very labor intensive process (diagnosis, sourcing replacement parts, performing the repair, verifying functionality post-repair etc).

This is probably the reason why repairing is generally more common in low labor costs markets than in the developed world.
Musk mentioned it on his twitter, it's a long range battery with less cells in it. So a compromise really.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1053061826794016769
It's funny how people are worried about the privacy of their calendar when it's online to begin with, and in most cases Google is managing it.
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As someone from a place where you tip just about anything, it is crazy to me as well. I want flat, upfront prices.
Listen to "Class Clown."

It's an earlier recording and he was extremely mellow and funny.

His later stuff was kinda funny at the time but has not aged well at all comedy-wise IMO.
No, some logic simply isn’t cleanly decomposable, plus the main problem here is that objects lets you get away with implicit state (e.g. if (this.x == 0) doA() else doB(); ) for long enough that when you start realizing you need explicit state, it’s usually distributed quite a bit.
the engineering team
gotcha - thanks for clarifying
I haven't done erlang or haskel, but this sums up what I've been thinking / trying to get around for years.
It’s an investment trade off around commitment (in person is better for connecting and relationship building but is more expensive as a time investment). If it’s more transactional a phone call is better (eg, quick question or advice about something specific). If it’s something more potentially meaningful, in person Coffee makes more sense (eg, if I’m looking to network with someone or trying to hire them / get them to hire me).

The defaults you set could make a big difference in the user experience. Maybe every first touch is chat/phone, then move to real world? Dunno if there’s a right answer but feels like something to be thoughtful about.
As a US -> UK immigrant, I have been seriously impressed by the design of many UK government pages.
You know, we should just drop the other shoe and reduce all taxes on rich people to zero. It's what they pay anyway. It would save us the money of pretending to tax them.
I think it colors the happening with the probably inexistent emotion/intent.

Think of it in IT terms. Making and supporting a single high performance monolith is easier than taking care of a zoo of interoperable and interchangeable micro services...

Or was it supposed to be the other way round ? ;-)
speaking as an engine mechanic by trade, I agree 100%. But manufacturers have another tactic that needs to be reigned in. Namely, fabricated service bulletins and procedures.

Example: reporting a bad transfer case bearing as a service bulletin. This is normal, as customers have detected the fault and the manufacturer has identified it as a problem. What isnt normal is the manufacturer insisting the part cant be repaired, and instead of a $50 part you need to chuck the entire thing and pay $2500 for a new assembly. Sure, bearings are a hard example, but ive also encountered manufacturers who demand their brake calipers cannot be re manufactured (Porsche and BMW, im looking at you.) and instead of a $119 rebuild, you'll need to buy a one thousand dollar caliper straight from germany or the entire car will explode.
I’d like to see them banned for no other reason than because it’s annoying to have to peel them off and dispose of them all the time.
This is a common technique in designing tests of a system; if you can make a table of inputs and expected outputs, you have a roadmap on what to test.

I had a textbook that had a whole chapter about this, I will find the title and edit this post.

EDIT: A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design, Lee Copeland, Artech House (January 2004), ISBN-13: 978-1580537919.
Couldn't do that when I was using the school Chromebook.
Doesn't look like the park itself is an OZ. OTOH, the OZ west of the park seems to be reservation land, which likely brings its own set of problems when it comes to investing.

[edit] source: https://www.policymap.com/maps?i=9964345&btd=6&period=2018&l...