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Theres reasons. One, we just sorta didn’t know. In less than 100 years we went from single shot flintlock pistols to repeating revolvers; we were still figuring a lot of things, like safety, out. Modern revolver lockwork would take a few more decades.

Even today, in a world of very high quality modern firearms, safety issues arise. The Sig 320 - now the M17 service pistol of the US Army - had a problem where if dropped just so, it could discharge. It was kind of a scandal; modern firearms are incredibly safe to handle, compared to even 30 years ago. Consider that in the 60s it was not unheard of for pistols to require the user to pull the trigger as part of operating the decocker mechanism. Insanity to modern eyes.

Anyway, firearms at that point were kinda new. We didn’t know what “safe” really meant, we didn’t do things like drop tests, we lacked the material science to make carefully heat-treated components, we lacked the manufacturing ability to make the sorts of small, high quality components we use today ... it wasn’t a design defect as much as we didn’t have the science and understanding.
The argument is not that they are a net negative: it's that they're extracting concessions disproportionate to the benefits they're providing the city.

Amazon paid $0 in federal taxes this year[1], and is extremely tight-lipped about their taxes paid at the state and local levels. There's no particular reason to believe that they'll treat NYC any better than the rest of the country.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/amazon-will-pay-0-in-federal...
I really liked Introduction to Graph Theory by Trudeau. No upper level math required, but it got rigorous and fun at times. Mostly spatial reasoning.

David Foster Wallace wrote Everything and More which included a lot of math history, while driving into transfinite numbers and set theory. Kindle typesetting is generally terrible for math, but was completely readable in this case. The forward by Neal Stephenson really sets the mood.
Iron Law of Wages:

The iron law of wages is a proposed law of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker. The theory was first named by Ferdinand Lassalle in the mid-nineteenth century. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels attribute the doctrine to Lassalle (notably in Marx's 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme), the idea to Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population, and the terminology to Goethe's "great, eternal iron laws" in Das Göttliche.[1][2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages

Law of Rent:

the rent of a land site is equal to the economic advantage obtained by using the site in its most productive use, relative to the advantage obtained by using marginal (i.e., the best rent-free) land for the same purpose, given the same inputs of labor and capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

Wages tend to subsistence. Rent tends to full surplus value.
I personally found "How to Prove It: A Structured Approach" by Daniel J. Velleman very helpful.
Why not all of the above plus increase the minimum wage? Many of the ideas you listed would actually help small businesses also, because it's not like small business owners don't have kids, face housing scarcity, etc.
Passengers win for now, not necessarily won for good.

Do you think the public markets are going to allow Uber to keep bleeding this much cash year over year?

Prices will go up on consumers just as Uber has completely dominated the market and effectively has no competition. They’ll be able to charge whatever they want.
He included "proofs from the book" which are suppose to be the most elegant proofs.
Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense.
Long Island city, which is literally 800 yards from midtown Manhattan, also known as the most successful and robust central business district in the history of world civilization, has exploded with growth over the last 10-20 years, and luxury apartment skyscrapers and employment centers have been sprouting literally as fast as construction workers can put up the scaffolding.
What will you build on .dev? A site so broken that it still has a horizontal scrollbar no matter how wide the browser window.
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Since we’re theorizing here I’ll take a stab. A 2.5X increase will hit a lot of jobs that we don’t think of as minimum wage today. That will cause more automation in many professions, which in theory should drive down costs. This could mean it becomes cheaper to do things like construct housing, making it easier for the government to build affordable housing.
Agreed. Two things can be true:

1. Regulation generally causes inefficiencies.

2. Markets tend towards market failure in the absence of regulation.
You could try transferring your domain to another registrar if you feel like you're getting gouged
The famous app engine pricing increase happened when app engine left preview. People still mention it often, but it was never meant for production usage while at the preview price.
If you're alarmed about Manifest v3, we welcome you into the Firefox fold.

Of course we've had our own issues with WebExtensions but since it's not politically motivated these issues will hopefully be resolved.
The Courant-Robbins book is good but I wouldn't actually suggest it for beginners, it's harder than necessary in many topics.

Concrete mathematics is great but not something you could suggest to, for example, a biologist or medical doctor that wants a deeper understanding of some aspect of mathematics. It's (explicitly) meant for computer science.
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'Surreal Numbers' by Donald E. Knuth is a ca. 100-page booklet that develops rules for surreal numbers with proofs. It's colorful but brief.
>If you believe that labor is not an exception to the law of supply and demand

You seem to imply that it's obvious that labor is subject to the law of supply and demand, but I think the reality is much more complicated than that - especially in rural america.

Ask the following questions:

- How many people could be making more money by working another job somewhere else, but do not, for non-money related reasons?

- How many people could be making more money by moving somewhere else, but do not, again for non-money related reasons.

I know people who have stayed in really shitty jobs, only because a side benefit of that job meant that their kid can go to college much more cheaply.

I know people who have stayed in really shitty jobs, because that's the only job they can find in their small town, and they need to stay in that town in order to care for family members.

I know people who have stayed in really shitty jobs because they have health problems and cannot risk a change to their health insurance.

I could go on and on.

Labor only works by supply and demand if workers have perfect freedom to move between jobs. That is rarely true. Wages are as likely to be mandated by the hierarchy in the organization than they are to be dictated by fair negotiation between the employer and employee.

I'm sure your theory for how this all works makes perfect sense in your head, but when looking at real world examples, I don't see it at all.
How is the small business owner that only makes $50K a year (see citation on another post) going to stay in business?
Many well-intended regulations push against the creation of small apartments. Changing the plan to have two 300 sq.ft. units instead of one 600 sq. would cost nothing in building material, but both those flats need two exits (for good fire reasons!) so you add another staircase, and both may need parking (by local law) so you add another 200 sq. ft. outside (per floor), and maybe they all need to be wheelchair accessible (ADA) so maybe you need a second lift, or extra corridors... and suddenly the small units aren't 50% the rent, but 80%, and so they don't get built.
It's not like they made any effort to make it visible, though. And "purchase" implies that the options they present are non-free.

Which is interesting, I would expect Google to promote Lets Encrypt... Or do they assume devs already know about it?
Yes and no.

I tracked down the original message in the archive of the 9fans mailing list. The fate of Mothra is discussed.

http://p9.nyx.link/netlib/9fans/9fans.0007

There's more discussion in this file between Howard Trickey (who refers to himself as an "erstwhile fool", having written Charon for Inferno), Duff and other Plan 9 enthusiasts.

The displayed level of knowledge and engagement with the requirements for building a web browser isn't exactly off the charts. I think it's fair to say that Duff didn't have a lot of patience with the project. He saw it as a moving target that probably couldn't ever be hit. For Plan 9 the classic web browser is a culturally alien type of software: complex and to some degree necessarily monolithic.

Here's what Duff said:

> how come mothra bit the dust?
I wrote it. It was not in good condition when I left
Bell Labs. Understantably, nobody else wanted anything
to do with it, so it died.

Its biggest shortcoming (other than its general
internal hidousness) was that its document imaging
model was fixed before <table> entered the picture.
Deep down it believed that documents were running text
with embedded line-breaks and indent changes, meaning
there's no good way to get tables or frames to work.

Also, if your browser doesn't closely match Netscape
and Microsoft, people will believe that it just doesn't
work, regardless of how good a job you do of meeting the
published specifications.

On the other hand, I still think its idea of how to handle
navigation (mostly the panel with an LRU list of pages
visited) was better than anything else I've seen.

Writing a web browser is a fool's errand. The
specification was changing faster than I could type, and
still is.

And here's Rob Pike:

> Surely somebody must be trying to port Mozilla to Plan 9?

While that would be better than no browser at all, Mozilla
is just the sort of stand-alone monolith that we're trying
to argue against. And of course, everyone else in the
world is trying to turn their system into a giant web
browser. I'd rather see web access be one aspect of a
system in which the pieces work in concert.

-rob

I think most people who've given the web browser platform any serious thought would agree that the way Duff and Pike are talking is indicative of not really having taken the problem seriously. The discussion continues in that speculative vein.

They had the luxury of being able to choose (effectively) to reject the web user experience and they took that option. Tom Duff probably wouldn't claim that he was speaking about the intricacies of web browser development with great authority!

There's more discussion in the 9fans archive. And see also Abaco, another attempt at a graphical browser for Plan 9: http://lab-fgb.com/abaco/
It's disheartening how one-sided you made a post that is ostensibly criticising the opposite one-sidedness of another post.
Are you under the impression that NYC is an undeveloped ghost town currently bringing in no tax revenue?
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> “One key, the public key, can only encrypt data, not decrypt it" - this is cryptographically inaccurate. One should use it that way, though.

No, one shouldn’t. To be even more pedantic, verifying a signature under PKI is, in fact, “decrypting with the public key” something (a hash, usually) that was encrypted with the private key. When considering the complete set of PKI operations (encryption + signing), both the public and private parts of a key pair are used in both their enciphering and deciphering capacities.
> "previously lucrative careers available to blue-collar workers have largely evaporated".

This is a funny way of writing "citizens should just accept any scraps they get"
1) How do you know HQ2 wasn't just a ploy to get additional tax breaks on the expansion Amazon was planning in NYC anyways? And whether Amazon expands specifically with buildings in LIC, or in multiple offices across NYC, doesn't really matter.

2) LIC is booming. Have you seen all the new construction there? The same reasons that now make it attractive for Amazon (different from 10 years ago) also make it attractive to other companies. They just don't get press.
Yes I think that's extremely normal. And that's exactly what the paper talks about - self-employed = pass-through income. If you're a lawyer or consultant and you bill your clients through your 1-person LLC (extremely common), your income is pass-through income and the paper would conclude that you are a "top earner" whose income comes from owning a business. On the doctor side, it's quite common for specialists to be technically self-employed and bill hospitals for their time rather than being a true FTE. See the issue with using the abstract comments here? Also important to note is that the paper isn't looking at individual earners, it's looking at households (it bases its information on tax filings, most of which for 1%+ people would be joint filings). If you and your wife each make $220k in total compensation (relatively easy in the Bay Area or NYC for example), congratulations, the paper says you're a 1% earner.

Back to my main point - if you want to talk about business owners in the job-creating sense vs. income, it's important to distinguish between 1% and 0.1%. The latter is composed mostly of medium-size business owners (a good thing!), but the former is not.
I don't think they stopped being teenager jobs, I think the education system across America failed to keep up with the world. Some schools can't even do 5 day school weeks anymore, and the switch to standardized testing may have been in good faith but it just led to less time for practical skills to be taught.

Imagine if every high school had the budget to run a modern, staffed programming lab, garage, chemistry lab, hell astronomy lab? If kids could get hands on, across America, at age 13? I desperately wish I had Musk levels of wealth if nothing else so I could just start plopping labs across middle America, where as a child my own craving for a hands on education was never delivered by my public schools.
And this on a site that is nearly unuseable because of ads.
I hope they fail.

Google forced me to migrate my local .dev domains to .devo because Chrome refused to connect to my localy configured domain names via /etc/hosts.
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> To my knowledge, no major GCP component has ever been deprecated. Am I missing something? This seems like it has just become a groupthink HN meme at this point.

It's not like these complainers actually read articles they're commenting on. You could see this in the Chromecast DNS rantfest - the path is "Google in title => rant about your pet peeve" not "Read article => complain about topical thing".
> Yes, it wasn't easy, but hopefully we have learned something from the last time that we can use to make it easier the next time?

You didn't notice the irony that you are the one who insists on not learning from it, did you?

> If it is not within our power to control...then how was it controlled? Did the Nazis just lose interest and give up?

You are seriously telling us that you cannot distinguish 6 million jews killed from no jews killed?

Or is "controlled" a word that you use to describe anything that at least one person survived in the end?
Why? Disabling access to /proc will disable a huge number of useful features, such as the ability of a process to monitor and manage its memory usage, to debug itself, and so forth.
Oh snap, got a blog post or anything? Would love to kick a motor on to help on the incline home.
> Supply and demand are not linearly correlated even if you do subscribe to this "law", so increasing the minimum wage may have a disproportionately small impact on overall job numbers, meaning greater total wealth held by minimum wage workers in aggregate.

The effect of not ever getting into the workforce at all is devastating to those few that don't make the cut. Meanwhile, the effect of a couple of dollars extra to those already in the workforce is comparably small.

Consider that minimum wage could be raised arbitrarily. If 10$ is too low and 15$ is better why isn't 20$ even better? Why not 30$? The argument for which cutoff to choose can't be based on some basket on what people need to live a certain standard (i.e. a one-bedroom apartment in some urban area).

> Do you really think Subway franchises are running on such razor thin margins that they'd be forced to shutter stores if they had to pay their workforce marginally more?

Some of them certainly do. Subway is in decline:

https://www.businessinsider.de/subway-closes-over-900-us-loc...

Lots of low to minimum wage employers indeed do have razor thin margins. For example, Wal-Mart only has about 4000$ of profit per employee. Companies like Amazon only lose money on their fulfillment centers.
> That was loose wording for "affect a particle a way that is meaningful", i.e. prepare it. :)

Yes, but these details matter. Preparing a particle in a quantum state is fundamentally different from making an identifying mark on a classical object.

> > If you flip a coin with enough precision you can make it come up reliably on one side or the other.

> Sure, if I know enough about the universe at some moment in time, by unitarity, I know its state at all other times.

That's not what I meant. I'm not talking about trying to measure the state of the coin and the flipping apparatus in order to predict the outcome, I'm talking about building a precision flipping apparatus that allows you to control the outcome.

> I could correlate (say) the spin of an electron with the result of the flip and read it later to tell what the flip was, but not earlier to tell what the flip will be.

Actually, you can do both, and the procedures are essentially identical: to do the former, you look at the coin and manipulate the electron state to match. To do the latter you look at the electron and manipulate the state of the coin to match. Easy-peasy.

Is that not what you wanted? If not, why? (Remember that when I suggested you would want the coin flip to be random, you denied it.)
People who hate working will always chase jobs away.
It might even be better for us in the long run. Instead of Amazon sucking up more talent in the NYC area, that talent is available to some other company (or companies) that can compete (nationally) with Amazon for it.

The land isn't either barren or occupied by Amazon crabgrass. Different things can grow there.
Every time I said "either/or" I was making use of the law of the excluded middle. But I didn't add a detailed disclaimer explicitly highlighting this fact either. Should I have? I think it's okay to just take some things for granted.

Though, I admit that I have never spent much thought on non-effective axiomatizations. So I'm open to be educated.
> The only factor stopping them from building apartments for $1000 a month is a profit motive

At least in the Bay Area the high cost of housing is partially caused by construction labor costs, that are driven by the high cost of housing. There’s also a problem where an entire region generally has the same construction costs, but certain areas can command higher rents... Of course the developers are going to build where the most profits are.

While I don’t believe deregulation is a panacea, reducing regulations to make lower cost areas more competitive with the higher profit areas could be beneficial. For example development impact fees could be reduced, smaller unit sizes could be legalized and the legal process could be streamlined to reduce legal costs and uncertainty. That could in theory make projects in cheaper areas more competive with “upscale” neighborhoods.

Of course my analysis ignores the impacts that building in cheaper areas can have on the existing residents in terms of displacement, which is why deregulation is only part of the solution. Tenant rights and subsidized housing are equally important.
OpenSSL isn't that difficult to work with.
In Japan, you go to prison, years, for having cannabis traces in your piss. Then you get deported for good. And say goodbye to your Japanese family cause you will not get a visa anymore.
You may not publish/transmit/derive/exploit any of the content? If I copy a post to my friend I'm breaking the TOS??

Maybe this sentence is supposed to just apply to content from Aether itself? If so the wording does not actually say that.
I have some experience with Bazel, the open source version of Blaze, and I noticed that it's build graph implementation appears to be very memory hungry as well. Such that a few million lines of code already use 10-30GB of memory. Like you mentioned it requires the entire build graph to fit in memory on one machine.

Do you know what sort of graph solution Blaze uses to handle 2 orders of magnitude more code, ie. manage 100's of millions of lines of code? I always assumed it was a distributed graph database, but your article seems to indicate something else.
The awkward reality is that, for nations like Germany (and Italy, and Belgium, and the Netherlands, and...), they have no land borders with unfriendly countries, and no significant overseas possessions that would be worth the effort to make a large navy to protect. Poland, the Baltic states, Turkey, etc. have more reason to be enthusiastic about NATO; western Europe simply does not.

In fact, one could argue that Germany is _safer_ to have a hapless looking military, because it causes France, Poland, etc. to all see them as incapable of being a military threat, and that keeps relations with their neighbors on a friendlier plane. It seems unfair to the U.S., because many of the wealthiest nations of NATO spend the least on their defense, but it is simply a reflection of their actual position.

Not to say that it could never change, but it's not as if the current attitude towards defense spending in Germany is entirely nonrational.
The thing about polls is that you can throw out the ones you don't like.
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Also, the navigation and some other parts aren't usable with ad blocker enabled, since there are no non-JS links/anchors. Embarrassing for an entity that once tried to position itself as a supporter of usability and user-friendly web pages.
You obviously didn't live in LIC or Williamsburg in the 1990s or early 2000s. Those places were crap for many years without real development. I didn't like the offer Amazon was given but you're wrong to simply assume that someone else will replace Amazon.
That’s true in general, but we’re talking about 25,000 jobs in a thriving metro area of 20 million people. The situation isn’t anywhere near these extremes.
What you are describing is a use case for a product that is not yet available. Opportunity there.
Isn't this just as silly as wishing Cloudflare's public DNS fails because you were using 1.1.1.1 as a development IP ?
Then you yell a lot on the internet and find out if you're on the good side of the cultural Zeitgeist.
That opens the client, not uses the browser.
Great. I’ll buy some for my old, senile mouse. Maybe.
What do Gopher pages look like, are they mostly ascii or is the format weird? Why did HTML/HTTP become the standard over Gopher? It seems like Gopher could be capable of doing similar things to the web, just nobody bothered to expand on it or the standard is frozen in time.
Just yesterday I read a post on Reddit where the OP was wondering about an online ad being mere coincidence or some deep data-collection plot.

Per the story: They had purchased ice cream at the grocery store using a credit card "never used for online purchases", and then at home they see an online ad for that very brand//flavor of ice cream. This raised alarm bells, hence the post to sanity-check.

Sometimes it's like we shouldn't fear the Terminator but the access terminal in our pocket. Other times it seems like both, or neither.