skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is zero-sum if you are talking about the proportions of overall wealth that go to different demographics at any given time.

People like to trot this 'not a zero-sum game' line out all the time as if it is somehow meant to make us feel better about the grave imbalance of wealth we have currently on this planet.

We already have the resources to feed and cloth everybody to a good standard, but it would require some sacrifices on the part of many wasteful developed nations, which they simply will never do.

Plus, if you want everybody to have a modern quality of life even within the confines of a developed nation, some greedy people are going to have to start paying more in wages and taxes and accept that the social contract and safety nets are the only thing between themselves and an angry mob.
It's questionable if you're going to get any profit at all when you have to pay someone to man the store at odd hours when there's almost no customers. A few people coming in during the late-night shift and buying $3 worth of stuff each is not going to pay that employee's salary.
Apart from the excellent reasons other people have given, it's important to realize that there is no entity that is optimizing all of these disparate pieces of software with some common utility function. Chrome and GMail are completely different products with very very different priorities. Just because they are owned by Google means nothing for this particular comparison.
TIL, turn off autoupdates and clock sync when doing any sort of time traveling.
The problem isn't grade inflation, it's that most of the value of a college degree is in being able to tell people that you have it. This has lead to degree inflation - jobs that used to require a high school degree are increasingly requiring a college one instead. People are spending more time in school for zero-sum positional advantages. Mucking about with the details of schooling is going to change little, we need a combination of reforms that reduce the importance of graduating from a "good" school with an earned degree. My suggestion:

1. "Don't ask, don't tell" for degree status of job applicants.

2. National exam-based standards for competency-based certificates.

3. Remove federal guarantees for student loans.

4. Expanded forgiveness programs for outstanding student loans.
> We need to make a stand somewhere and the time is now.

Why do you think it's now rather than some time in the past or future?
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Good points, but it's amusing that his solution to #1 didn't lock down the patch version, nor the distro around it. I think that also makes a decent point for Nix[0], which solves #1-#3 by default (since choosing a particular version of Nixpkgs locks down the whole environment, and considers the build as a DAG of dependencies rather than a linear history). It also supports exporting Docker images, while preserving Nix's richer build caching.[1]

[0]: https://nixos.org/nix/

[1]: https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images
[Henrik] Ibsen's ploy, although he had to do it in person.
That article is really misleading. It starts off talking about the need to recycle cadmium-based panels in order not to leech toxic cadmium into the environment, and then claims that recyling isn't economically viable - but if you click through the links, that claim is based on the economics of recycling Si-based panels that don't contain any cadmium. Indeed, the whole reason Si panels aren't economically viable to recycle is because they don't contain these kinds of exotic (and toxic) materials; recycling of the cadmium-containing panels is very much viable and commonplace.
note the "unknown probability of success". why can't the probability be calculated? because based on known assumptions, it's 0. that means for the probability to be above 0, some of our assumptions have to be wrong (ie new physics). is it possible? are genies real? could be. we'd have to rub all the lamps to check. despite the fact that genies have not been "disproven", nobody seriously considers systematically rubbing lamps because of the cost:benefit. similarly, serious physicists don't even consider exploring cold fusion. but i see no problem at all with research going on at this level and any good scientist should be equally curious and skeptical
Use the right data model and - for example - plug Agensgraph into Postgres. Plug your data in Agensgraph. Problem solved.

https://github.com/bitnine-oss/agensgraph
Actively managed funds' management fees will begin to rise?
Instead of worrying about money all the time, people should probably just be saving and investing their money. Even on minimum wage it's possible to save a little bit every month provided you are willing to sacrifice other things for it.

When I was younger I had a lot of friends that were making minimum wage as cooks or whatever in Boston. They (and me) had plenty of money to spend on alcohol, weed, bars, pizza, etc. If anyone had wanted to, they could have made sacrifices and put away over $250 a month.

Of course, things are a little different when you have a family, but then again, in my opinion, you shouldn't have a family until you're financially stable.

I know live in Tanzania and the situation is so different that I find it ridiculous when people in America complain about income inequality or the lack of a "living wage."

Even the poorest employed people in America are far better off than most of the people here, and if you told them about how the so called "poorest" in America live, they would literally kill to switch places with them.
I'm not seeking abstract philosophical purity, or trying to make the mistake of including a complete transitive concept closure in every equation [1]. I'm seeking pragmatic high-quality education that doesn't blow our student's cognitive resources on stupid shit instead of the stuff I want them to learn. By the time they get to physics, they know what multiplication and equality are. It's just the "force", "mass", and "acceleration" that they don't know yet, so we don't abbreviate them until they do.

[1]: AIUI, the actual problem the original "New Math" had. The original "New Math" tried to start students with set theory, because that was the foundations of mathematics, so obviously, the best place to start an education, right? (Hint: No.) This is why parents said they didn't understand "New Math". By comparison "Common Core" math is all-but-identical to what I learned in school 30 years ago.
> Because the GP said "I work at Google but not on YouTube"

That was a disclosure, not a credential. My reading of it was that GP was speaking of the tradeoffs in their capacity as an engineer, and said they are a Googler for fair disclosure and nothing more.
Very interesting. I got your point that full text index is not required for logs. But it’s presented as “streaming database “ and word “database “ kind of implies some indexing, isn’t it? For common use case, we might need to search some words or phrases in logs for long time back, like few months.
Metafilter https://metafilter.com still has interesting comments and occasionally unique content, besides the links which bubble up everywhere. It's pretty heavily politically left, which, along with heavy moderation has driven away a lot users over the years, but sometimes still has some nuggets you don't see on other aggregators. It is much more of a community than most of the other sites, with lots of rules and sub-sites, but I've only read the comments.

Twitter has been surprisingly useful since I started using last year. If you only follow accounts in a specific area of interest it really allows you to discover new things. The hard part is dealing with power poster/users since they can quickly dominate your feed, but they also can bring in new areas of interest. It's too bad they don't have better tagging curation tools.

Serializer https://serializer.io/ is a meta-aggregator which grabs stuff from HN, Ars, some Reddit forms and others, not sure if this counts or not.
Capitalism (free markets) is just a tool, not a silver bullet. Depending on the situation it might be the correct tool, or if may be the wrong tool. It is also fine to combine different tools. Some markets are best served by capitalism, others are better served by a monopoly, or a state organized market. Most of the world already concluded that healthcare (insurance) and a free market are not the best fit.
In my opinion, regulation is better judged on the facts and not on it's intent.

For example, draconian drug laws have great intent but horrible externalities - so much so, that even though I'm vehemently opposed to recreational drug use, I'm now sympathetic to treating it as an illness and not as a crime.
Surely a few potential snooping countries have the capabilities to tap seabed fibre by now, and we'd be better served having carriers add encryption at the link level regardless of who laid the cable.
Bike shedding in the government? But who will think of the children!
what the heck are these grid tags in the generated code?

I was thinking I was about to applaud a flex-box wizard that masterfully did ordering and more, but instead I see tags that I'm seriously not sure about. Are they compatible with the rest of my flex-box related site with Bootstrap all over the place? Are they compatible with my child elements and positioning?

Too many questions for this day and age. I don't think enough people are familiar with those particular tags that get generated, but if thats the "new way" lets revisit this in 2021
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People weren't very happy with the handling of Three Mile Island either.
I am surprised I haven't seen any news about this being exploited already.
Same with graphics/game programming, particularly as some APIs (looking at you, OpenGL) are entirely built on thread-local state.
Huh? Are you kidding? Each cable bundle can transmit petabytes of data per second. Think of all the Netflix movies being watched in Japan and Australia transmitted over that cable. Why would anyone encrypt that? Furthermore, the hardware required to encrypt, even if feasible (and that’s unclear), would be astronomical in cost.

Plus, it’s not just about access. A malicious actor could always damage or destroy the cable, cutting off a primary channel of communications.
What about if you're not in the EU?
I think your homework anecdote actually supports the argument of TFA.

in many classes, homework has devolved into another technique to inflate grades. in most of my college courses the homework was either very easy or graded for "completion". almost always a complete waste of my time, but it was usually worth too many points to skip entirely.

I had a couple professors who would "assign" difficult problem sets that weren't graded at all. it was usually a bad call to skip them, because the exams were actually hard. that's the only respectful approach, imo.
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The Gas Station's game doesn't seem to correlate well with the game suggested with the Hot Dog stand analogy.
Setting up gas stations is expensive and requires a lot of infrastructure setup and time, once set up people just can't move it around in a city. Now if I were setting a new gas station I would place it in a location where I win greater market share and is disadvantaged to the competitor. Due to the resource constraints, the competitor has to just stay where they were. Gas station locations don't lie in efficient markets where the equilibrium is achieved by being close to each other.
Besides the obvious issues of branding and gas quality (some brands overtly cut gasoline with ethanol), some states have rules limiting how frequently stations can change prices. If you can only change price once a week and the competitor can only change once a week, the prices can deviate on underlying volatility even if both stations use the same supplier etc
Tardigrades are generalized grad students.
I'm not familiar with Rust, someone can explains why they went with .await? Is await a field / method on a class / struct?
You can change email forwarding in Gmail to forward everything to the Protonmail. That's how I initially transferred. A year and still changing email addresses, I have a ton of accounts to go.
You can certainly get the it-just-works with a big fat desktop environment like KDE, but if you don’t want that (I personally don’t like it that way), OpenBSD with a plain window manager Just Works better than the equivalent with Linux.
A question for you folks: when you spend money on goods and services that you know represent conspicuous consumption, and on ones that represent luxury, and provide little practical utility, how does it make you feel?

Using a 3.5% safe withdrawal rate, I've recently crossed the threshold where I could retire indefinitely at my current spending rate. Each day I continue working is now essentially only so I can spend more on a more luxurious lifestyle in the future. I'm fairly frugal, and it's been changing my perspective on work a bit. The first place I've been loosening up on is food.
I left the `()` because in some imperative languages there's a difference between `() -> a` and `a`, which makes `a.b` and `a.b()` different. In Haskell there's `>>>` and `&` in base, which I use all the time for this sort of workflow:

find_half_square = square >>> (flip divide) 2

This creates a function which takes a value, performs `square`, then performs `(flip divide) 2`. It's written in pointfree style, which means the function's input is never written in the definition of the function, which I find to be extremely aesthetically pleasing (as it allows me to focus on the composition of functions, without thinking about passing arguments around). This is one situation where changes in syntax allow you to reason about programs quite differently.
Except that model does not have accurate predictive qualities nor does it account for the other planets in the solar system going through climate change. What about Earth before humans? Here is a model that accurately predicts that solar cycle 24 would be weaker than cycle 23. Only 2 of 150 submitted models got that right.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentina_Zharkova/publ...

Another thing to consider as that a weakening Heliosphere & weakening Magnetosphere means Earth is more exposed to cosmic radiation. Cosmic radiation seeds clouds, excites water, drives earthquakes & volcanic eruptions.
We may have an initial period of warming due to water being excited by cosmic radiation (similar to a microwave oven), but once enough volcanoes erupt, albedo will increase to offset the warming & cause cooling, as demonstrated by the Mt. Tambora eruption in 1816.
They've lost them since the very beginning. Mozilla's agent initially included Netscape and Chrome's still says Mozilla.
That makes a lot more sense, thanks. But if the metallic lattice is retaining the pressure of bringing hydrogen nuclei that close together, wouldn't the whole thing tear itself apart? Is that the instability they're talking about when they say "But at high concentrations the team was unable to create stable samples." ?
Tried those. They work, but require some work. The diapers must be washed, depending on the diaper type you might have to separate the fillings and the diaper before washing and put together again afterwards. You also need to insert a rice paper for the poop ...

It works, but it’s more work with them than with disposable diapers. We tried reusable for our two first, but the last one we have only used disposable diapers.
Time to update https://areweasyncyet.rs/ again...

Really looking forward to this once it reaches down into some of the network/web frameworks, database drivers etc.
"Encryption is so expensive!" cries the 1990s
Westminster Hall has been single purpose for a while. Since the late 11th century.

Perhaps that's the answer. If waste is stored in a warehouse next to the seat of government, I doubt there will be short-cuts, neglect and cost savings to the same degree as say putting it on the Cumbrian coast.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/pal...
The concern is less about traffic interception and more about being able to sever / significantly undermine a country's ability to communicate during, for instance, time of war. This is also largely where the 5G infra concerns come from.
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The real stinger for vegan diets, but also poor meat based ones is lack of certain known micronutrients. Mostly D, B12. Potentially also potassium, magnesium, molybdenum. Some investigational ones like boron as well.

This is because he of the food chain is deprived and in case of D and B12 these really are not available in plant sources only.
Highly recommend the HBO's new miniseries Chernobyl. One episode left. It's already at the top of IMDB TV show rankings.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/chart/toptv/
I was working on a product that did user-agent sniffing to figure out which image formats were supported (when to serve WebP). A feature-detection based approach is substantially slower because it breaks the preload scanner: https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-parse-the-user-agent
Is there any research on combating policies by artificially overwhelming them? This seems widely applicable.
They're not doing anything to "harm" them, they created both of them, and both specs basically include a caveat that says "this could be mis-used, but YOLO".
I'd love an invite.
This is not a hypothetical but a smoking gun. That plugin really does those things.
I never look at the price before I go to the pump. If there are multiple stations available then I probably made the choice based on which was easier to get to (side of the street / which direction I'm going) or which looked like it will have cleaner restrooms if I need to pee. I'm not super wealthy or anything, but none of the vehicles I drive take a ton of gas so a difference of 10¢ per gallon just isn't really worth thinking about.
Thanks! Yes, I'd love any ideas/suggestions you have!
Good point, will go fix that. My soon-to-be-ready attempt at a production-ready template (https://pythonspeed.com/products/pythoncontainer/) covers the tradeoff between point releases vs. not-point-releases, and it does pin the OS.

And yes, Nix fixes some of the problems of building a production-ready image, but only a subset.
What a Misunderstanding! ?
One possible solution is a junction table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_entity

An RDBMs within indexes is probably fine.
... you must be a front-end developer.
> if the communications across the cable are properly secured

I think the history of human communications is an ample demonstration of why this is a poor assumption.
For example, on C#, I sometimes have to do:

var value = (await (await startRequest()).GetBody()).Root;

While the Rust syntax would make this a little more clear, I do not think it is a dealbreaker.
Just consider this. Why would the drug companies have any interest in a law that severely restricts what they can and can't sell to people?
ConfigureAwait(false) may help if you want it to run "not in the current context". Has UI/library use cases [1].

https://medium.com/bynder-tech/c-why-you-should-use-configur...
Maybe this trade war will expose that China is long capable of running the show without the US.
That's not true, the market and the low are based on common culture and moral. If stuff like this is seen as immoral, companies that do it will have trouble recruiting, raising capital, maintaining social presence, etc.
I'm probably one of those, despite making well over six figures.

On introspection, I realized that I was worried about money because the system is set up as a casino. You just HAVE to gamble to save the fruits of your labor. Every investment is more speculation than production. In addition, inflation is way way over what the fed thinks it is.

To add salt to the wound, I'm actually capable of understanding these problems mathematically. My friends/relatives who don't understand all this are blissfully unaware. They live out their lives until a crisis hits and need to beg for money.

I sometimes wonder if I should really take the blue pill and live with the mantra ignorance is bliss.
Like a bunch of other people in this thread, apparently, I was also in Japan about a month ago.

From what I saw, the whole place looked middle-class, and like everyone was doing fine. I think I might have seen one homeless person the whole time I was there (and I'm not sure about that; they were just begging, and didn't have a bunch of stuff with them); I saw more poverty in Germany, and I see far more in the US.

Japan's middle class might not have as much disposable income as it did in the 1980s, but from what I saw, it wasn't doing badly at all. It certainly looks a lot healthier than the US's middle class.
I should've been more specific. Other than the search page (which obviously is meant to be fast), the actual consumer apps are all becoming slower: Gmail, Maps, Youtube, Play, etc.

This is a well-known complaint across many users with all sorts of devices and connections. I understand there are budgets and tradeoffs but the general sentiment is that Google is making the wrong decisions here.
Remember it is still a high calorie count snack. Pretty much due to nut fats.
I found it very distracting that none of the ostensibly Russian or Ukrainian characters have an even remotely slavic accent.
Why would someone not pay their bill if they could? You realize that their wages will be garnished and bank accounts frozen, right? So they will be forced to pay as much of the bill as they can. There is no distinction between "can" and "will" as the have to pay it. Outside of bankruptcy which would again take all of their available assets and apply it to the bill before releasing the remainder of the debts through bankruptcy.

You don't just get a medical bill will a statement at the bottom that says "Only pay this if you feel like it". There is no one that does not pay a medical bill that can actually pay it. You are derailing this discussion on language semantics. Why?

The question was "What's broken about the economics of ERs such that more are not being created to satisfy demand?" My response was to illustrate that ERs lose money. How are your comments in any way productive in providing any insight into that question?
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One of the important things I find to try and understand is what it means to not be in the financial situation I'm in right now. It means being stressed all the time, and therefore the stress would affect my capacity to make long term decisions. Also, lowering my current heightened stress would become a higher priority. Therefore I would assume that (due to a combination of lowered decision making and a need to reduce stress) the spending of money to consume would actually be a very reasonable decision to make- it reduces friction on decision making and also temporarily reduces stress.
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