skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building new, faster roads in rural areas would be outrageously expensive per capita and would rarely be used, there is no economy to justify the expenditure. There are 2.2 million kilometers of unpaved road in the US. Even for the paved rural roads, many of them are relatively low-speed or circuitous because it is cheaper to go around myriad engineering obstacles than through them. It is difficult to justify tunneling 20 kilometers through a mountain range with a high-speed road so that 100 people can shave an hour off getting to the other side of that mountain range where there might be a fast highway.

Helicopters and similar have problems of limited range and operating ceiling, which are particularly relevant in the western US, in addition to requiring safe landing areas that may not be readily available. It is a challenging problem to solve, the US is quite large and many areas where people live are rugged and remote.
Why not? This seems arbitrary. If I earned it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
Firefox doesn't. They dropped all other audio systems except for pulse! Highly annoying.
Some very important things have become hugely expensive, while other things have become incredibly cheap.

Housing near work opportunities, education, health care, and childcare are many times more expensive today than in the past, adjusted for inflation and purchasing power parity [1].

Smartphones are not a luxury today by the very definition of what a luxury is (something scarce and hence expensive). Likewise, entertainment and other diversion options have become very cheap.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
The speed of light puts pretty hard limits on the amount of things you can meaningfully own.
What it's like to eject into a thunderstorm: https://www.damninteresting.com/rider-on-the-storm/
Using the word schizophrenic like that contributes to the stigma associated with psychotic mental illness. It is ableist to use a disability you don't have as a metaphor.
[0] https://archive.is/7cbe6
Lo Mein Loophole: How US Immigration Law Fueled a Chinese Restaurant Boom (2016)
reading the paxos-simple.pdf it seems it's very much like blockchain
Right, but can we stop saying "transpile"? :)
The value to spammers isn't in email delivered, it's the actual user engagement at the end of the process. A million messages delivered to the inbox is worth far more than a billion messages delivered to the spam folder.
While this is a commonly believed myth, it is a myth. The vast majority of millionaires and other "wealthy" people are self made, not made from inheritance.
You're dying of cancer. How much will you pay doctors / drug company to keep you alive? Is the transaction voluntary?

Think carefully what voluntary means. Many, if not most, people, in their daily lives, don't have much volition.
>My guess is you would assume that this capability exists.

>If I wanted to be really good, I would assume 10x this capability exists.

The video says that the quality was already at the limit that 2.4m mirrors can achieve. The fact that the spy satellites had 2.4m mirrors was already known (from hubble design documents).

So basically if you were the baddies and were preparing for the worst case scenario (as you should), you were covered. If you got lazy and didn't, it was a wake-up call.
India and Bangladesh have done something similar in 2015 and have remained on good terms. [0]

India received 51 Bangladeshi enclaves (covering 7,110 acres (2,880 ha)) in the Indian mainland, while Bangladesh received 111 Indian enclaves (covering 17,160 acres (6,940 ha)) in the Bangladeshi mainland

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_enc...
Not deliberate; I just write things out as I say them and didn't review.
Are we running up against a wall, famine is forcing the population down? Rather the growth is slowing because we have it pretty OK, don't you think?
A half-way solution could be progressive inheritance tax, with a rather high bend point.

When a father who back in the day bought a house in Silicon Valley for $100k passes it to his child, the child does not pay a ton (or likely anything at all) from the few million of current value of the house.

When a parent passes a $10B enterprie to children, the children have to split and sell a part of the business to pay the inheritance tax. The children still retain a successful multi-billion business, but its market share becomes smaller, increasing the competition on the market.
Of all things there’s even a Family Guy episode about just that. They abolish the town government in a tea party/libertarian bid and just end up re-implementing everything to attain some modicum of order, agreement, and convenience for everyone.
Everything happening around us indicates the opposite: that the rich prefer to invest in that which gets them richer, not that which benefits society.
> and provide more, like Posteo

Thanks for mentioning some alternatives, but I've just checked the first example and it does not support custom domains (which Fastmail does), so it does not "provide more".
Have you looked at house prices in the Bay Area recently?
So burn the houses and make everyone homeless.
Good ideas. Thank you. I'll see how can I fit those without making it enormously complex.
Haskell Disappointment
Books That Are Full of Beautiful Prefabricated Home Design Plans
Sometimes I am astonished by the life other people apparently lead. For example when they'd invest the energy to switch their bank (and all that is attached to that) over using a different browser to access a singular website.

I do not understand. It boggles my mind, in the most curious way.
Generally you get downvoted for doing so, but people still try to argue. I have a lot to say on the subject, but one thing I still need an argument for is why inequality is bad intrinsically. I'd love to hear a cogent argument that addresses that fundamental point, but what I end up seeing in the wild is camps of people who think inequality is some intrinsic evil, and those that don't think it's relevant to anything.
Is there a non govt or non politician dependent way of solving inequality?

My background is as a homeschooling mom of twice exceptional kids. I'm also twice exceptional.

I think the rise in inequality is partly due to higher survival rates of people with, for example, incurable genetic disorders and other serious problems. We also have a lot of people surviving serious health crises that would have simply killed them in a previous era, but it means they are now permanently impaired and less productive.

Personal handicaps are a significant risk factor for homelessness. Being homeless typically means you are among the poorest of the poor, so it works well as a proxy for factors impacting extreme inequality.

I run a number of websites trying to address such issues. I'm also involved to done degree with local non profits.

I think it can be done, but, like anything, "ideas are cheap, implementation is hard." (Or whatever that saying is on HN about how ideas alone don't make for successful startups.)
Magritte: A Language for Pipe-Based Programming [pdf]
Agile as a full-featured religious dogma (2016)
"If you look only within rich nations, yes inequality has increased, because the poor and blue collar middle class have lost a lot of jobs to poorer countries. But that phenomenon is actually reducing inequality as measured from a global view."

Exactly, this phenomenon is called the "Elephant Curve":
https://www.brookings.edu/research/whats-happening-to-the-wo...
If you already have SPF and/or DKIM, adding DMARC is a matter of setting one static DNS record and never changing it again. Hardly difficult.
$4B, Binance Lending, and EthHub
This is a bit dark but at a certain point I do think we’ll see assassination attempts on billionaires (not politicians) for simply being billionaires. It does feel like we’re at a point where the social fabric of rich nations is ripping due to rising wealth inequality and at a certain point the bottom will have had enough.
It may not have been speech, but Morse code. AM voice was understood in 1919, but certainly not practiced at scale.
Last time I installed a mail server was a couple of month ago. I consider mysql a pro, I feel pretty familiar on command line, working in this busines as a SysOp and Developer for a couple of decades. But one not just "set up a mail server". Saying "mail is not hard" sounds kind of cynical to me. You need to handle more than one setup, you need to consider compatibilities, you need to make it right, if you want to have a secure and reliable solution.

If your not in the busines of setting up mail servers every day: Mail is hard. As long as there is no download-and-run-solution for a mail-server: Mail is hard.
Earth's resources are limited over a given timespan, but most of these resources are not exhaustible, particularly not hydrocarbons.

Given that all human populations that have reached a certain standard of living so far have ceased to grow beyond replacement levels, overpopulation is likely not going to be a long-term concern either.

It is therefore not a problem to overshoot for a while, assuming that we eventually reach a level of technology that lets us maintain our standard of living in a sustainable fashion.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to test your architecture implementation?
What tools/techniques do you use to measure/validate your architecture implementation?
I have heard of tools like jQAssistant and ArchUnit. Do you guys have any suggestions of other tools or techniques?
See also: Bitcoin
I don’t think the second bit follows from the first. You’ve cherry picked an example of tough circumstances that most people don’t face.
Exactly who had to get killed for Social Security to be passed?
So it's OK to fuck over a large portion of your own population because it's trickling down to a poor country?

The issue is that nations have a duty to their own citizens, good luck telling an entire generation that they need to make sacrifices for others while the rich keep getting richer.
>If you look only within rich nations, yes inequality has increased, because the poor and blue collar middle class have lost a lot of jobs to poorer countries. But that phenomenon is actually reducing inequality as measured from a global view.

How is that reducing inequality worldwide situation? Those foreign workers may be closer to the middle classes in rich nations, but the rich are getting further ahead
Oh wow this is the coolest thing I’ve read in a while
There is no stipulation in the constitution that only non profit association is protected. This is something you literally just invented on the spot.

You have to comply with lots of regulations that we have decided on balance are in the public interest. The pre existing body of rules cannot by themselves serve as justification for the imposition of additional rules. The proper justification is the comparison of 2 hypothetical worlds.

Example: I believe that businesses should have to have fire doors clear of locks or obstruction because prior misadventures have shown that fire spreads fast and people may not be able to leave via a main exit. Places that have more free fire doors have shown that more people survive fires. It's worth the additional steps during inspections which we already do by employees we already have to ensure this is correct. It's also worth the small additional expense during construction.

Who are these people that are simultaneously being refused service and don't deserve such. I have NEVER been refused service at any business in my life. I have only very rarely seen people refused service outright and they were all extremely odious extremely hostile people. At risk of being discourteous is it you and under what circumstances?
Setting these things up is not the hard thing. Building reputation, not getting refused because your subnet neighbour decided to start spamming, having to deal with BIG_EMAIL_HOST not accepting your emails, bla bla bla.

Setting things up is actually the fun, easy part.
>I mean, once you hit a certain salary more money doesn’t even appreciably increase your quality of life

Not for my definitions of quality of life!
There are many essential css properties that Firefox doesn't support, e.g fit-content
Peeking in Huawei’s OpenArk Compiler That Just Released
As far as I am aware, none of the civilizations in South and Central America ever had metallurgy.

Having a civilization and keeping civilization are two different things. Once humans are capable of thinking of it, it would happen over and over again. But when it fails, the survivors might have a sort of cultural PTSD comparable to the Sodom and Gomorrah story in the Bible. People might resist trying again for generations (also, how many places could you found a civilization in a world without sanitation, metallurgy or medicine?)
Or couldn't we just dismantle the protectionist regime we've erected to enrich incumbent landowners?
>run commands

In case you didn't want to click the link.
> I only spend around half my time on tasks directly for my scrum team

That does not mean half her time is spent making tickets. This could be code writing, code reviews, testing, meetings, agendas, designing or ideating new systems or improvements, and, also, making tickets.
That would cause an even greater housing price crunch in the cities than we currently have. Much of the retirement advice out there is that once you're on a fixed income, you need to move out of a high cost area into a lower cost, typically at a minimum less dense one. Also, in practice, quite a few older folks move to be close to family members who can support them, which requires living wherever your children and grandchildren live... Even strongly encouraging the urbanization of the elderly strikes me as the wrong answer here for so many reasons, even beyond the ones I've listed above.
Is it the VC status quo that is resulting in small equity grants? From what I've observed, it's mostly founders who skimp on equity grants, not so much VCs.
Indeed, a quick search suggests that spam is automatically removed every 30 days there. The wording was "Google hid it from me", so either I have wrongly assumed that it's about the spam folder, or it is possible to disable autoremoval.

Edit: or, as the sibling comment suggests, it behaves strangely with respect to removal as well.
Frankly, the usability is what killed my use of Firefox. No pinch-to-zoom without installing an extension in 2019, really?
The problem with property taxes as they are usually implemented is that they put a very high burden on farmers and are often passed on directly to renters by their landlords.
To have a progressive property tax schedule, don't you need the progressive scale to apply to the whole portfolio of holdings? It doesn't make sense to me for it to be applied per-property as this just creates a loophole to sub-divide property titles. Why should one person be taxed less to own many small properties than someone owning a single large property of the same total value?

And if so, how does this get applied to corporations and REITs? Do they get taxed out of existence, or do their holdings get apportioned to individual shareholders and included in their personal portfolio, so that individual progressive schedules are applied to each portion?

It seems unlikely to me that you can construct a sound set of rules for this that are workable (no glaring loopholes) and appreciably different from a progressive wealth tax, which might be much easier to formulate...
In essence this is one of the principles, the thing is the emails don't need to be perfectly identical, just identical-ish with the identicalish matching implementation being not public (as this would immediately lead to spammers adding just enough randomness to whatever they are sending)
I recently checked my Trash folder in Gmail. I had emails in there that were several years old, right below the text that says Gmail deletes emails in the Trash folder older than 30 days.
I don't really understand why the commentors are just contradicting your statement with philosophical notions of ownership.

I think your comment is more about the right to self-determination and touches on the topic of what wealth itself means (i.e., having a good education is of value; whether it cost a lot of money or not).

I guess one should not take HN comments too personally or seriously...
And why does that matter, please?
Saved my life.
I would beg to differ -- the vast majority of rural roads in this country west of Pennsylvania are mile by mile grid, wide, and 55 MPH fast moving. They don't get you anywhere nearly as fast as freeways, they often slow down through tiny hamlets and they have lots of stop signs, but they're already very fast compared to a lot of places.

Edit: Which is to say that I agree with you more than the grandparent.
Seems like a problem humanity has been struggling with for millennia the way we’ve taken to burying people with their prized objects and riches.

What’s more, in many cases—like Egyptian pharaohs—the wealth was only inherited and not earned by way of creating anything except through maybe war and conquest.

The difference in perspective seems fundamental. Wonder if there’s been more vigorous research on the subject.
This. Staffing these hospitals requires paying very large cash compensation premiums compared to cities. I have a couple acquaintances that worked at these hospitals, and they all did it for the money. Even then, most of them wouldn't do it for any length of time because the sacrifice to their personal and social life is too high.
Understand Electricity Generation
It's reducing inequality by volume, as in the bottom 20-50th%iles are seeing their incomes rise closer to the 50-90%ile incomes. But yes the super rich are getting richer than ever before
Colonialism, past the initial brutal conquest, has little to do with consent. Empires could not stand very long on brutality alone; they stand also on the consent of the victims.

I do not doubt that all involved parties do consent (although some more than others).

I am more skeptical about market advantages disappearing, as I've rarely seen any exemple of this that was due solely to market equilibrium, and I therefore consider this a fantasy -- indeed, I doubt market laws but I do not doubt the laws of psychology that make popular the ideas that are needed to justify domination (oftentimes by both ends), however remote from reality.

But maybe am I myself the victim of some lesser known psychological laws that makes me too suspicious? I'd gladly accept this possibility if we agreed not to start a thread that's been too political already.
Likewise it should be understood that the more complicated the coverup and the more detailed the lies, the more likely that cover story is to fall apart.

Given the cooperation with the ESA and with the difficulties in grinding the main mirror, I find it far less likely that it was a platform gifted to NASA by an intelligence agency.
Apparently there is no (disassemble) either. :/

I am using https://github.com/samth/disassemble for now.
The only issue I had setting up a mail server was sending mail to servers using some service which blocks my domain. Places like my university and my work using Proofpoint, for example, seem to only allow mail from large, easily verifiable domains.
The inevitability of people trying to beat the system isn't a reason to abandon the principle.
We all feel this way from time to time. I’ve been writing software for ten years and I still feel like an imposter. I feel like someone will find out I don’t know what I’m doing and I don’t have all the answers.

It’s normal. You’re early in your career. The big thing to realize is that googling is your best asset. People have done this before or asked questions about how to do it on Stack Overflow.

Just keep learning. If you’re like me, you won’t have a specialty. You’ll know a little front end, a little backend, a little bit of design and photoshop, a little bit of devops. It takes time to learn and be proficient. Lean on the more senior engineers on your team. Ask them to start a weekly lunch and learn.

You’re on a journey, not a sprint. It takes time, but you’re gonna be okay. Don’t panic. Just keep learning and growing.
I watched an interesting interview with a billionaire a while ago, who said that after you reach a given net worth it actually becomes very hard (unless you're unlucky) to significantly diminish your wealth through consumption, and that in fact consuming more goods often just increases your net worth: Luxury cars, apartments, mansions, real estate, parks, yachts or resources like gold often appreciate in value with time (at least they did for the last 60 years), so the more of your money you spend on these goods, the richer you'll become. The words that the interviewee used were "if you're rich you can't destroy money by consumption", which is of course not 100 % true, but explains really well why the rich are getting richer.

In addition, many countries have much lower taxes on capital gains compared to other types of income, which is another factor that favors further concentration of money with those people that already have a lot of money.
>There's new ways today to interact with digital media than in the 80's and 90's, and it's a little short-sighted to say "some smart people tried it a while ago so leave it alone."

It's the core idea that is bad, so the passage of time won't really change much...

We might built real-world like 3D-UIs to view with Oculus-style goggles, but 3D UIs in the 2D monitor / desktop (outside of gaming and modeling) has been proven a bad idea time and again.
"When you eat home grown vegetables, the experience isn’t objectively worse. When you run your own mail server it is."

^ I both run my own mail server and use someone else's service for another purpose. My experience running my own mail server is objectively WAY BETTER than using the commercial provider (and I've been doing this for many years in multiple scenarios).

Just because your experience (even if it is repeated) with certain technology goes one way, that doesn't make it universally true.
> I'd say it starts with dialing back the "new feature/change fetish" that a lot of web developers have

I wonder whether this phenomenon is driven by HTML, CSS, and JavaScript being such lacklustre tools for building applications?

Many things that are completely reasonable to deal with in any “native” stack (animations, local storage, offline access, hardware access, accessibility just to name a few), while usually possible with a web stack, are often unnecessarily difficult or awkward.

Things are improving fairly rapidly because of the insistence that everything should be web based these days, and I could totally see that driving people to the bleeding edge.

I mean hell, I do it myself. I’m a web developer, and when reading about shiny new features I’m often eager to start using them ASAP — especially when it would replace a bunch of kludgy JavaScript I’d been relying on previously.
Great idea, please share the app here once you go public
Yak shaving refers to a task, that leads you to perform another related task and so on, and so on — all distracting you from your original goal.

Buffalo milking seems to be variously related to experience (see effortless squeezing) or Buffalo as a service ie. no buffalo on-prem or a backyard required.