skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing wrong with it in principle and I agree with your sentiment. That said, a broader issue manifests when the following perceptions occur alongside your purchase:

1. Public perceives the rich do not pay enough taxes and have continued to pay money into politics to keep it this way

2. Firefighters working for municipalities do not make enough money due to public funding shortages (see above taxes)

3. Firefighters go to work for Insurance companies / the rich instead of working for municipalities because of said pay disparities

4. There are not enough firefighters to protect my home because they are working for private companies after I paid to train them.

End result perception: That rich person is getting preference because they are rich, when it should be that all citizens should have equal access to public services like a fire engine to put out flames - at least according to our typical societal norms when there isn't an out of control blaze.

"I'm rich so I can pay for it" is totally right, but only works until an angry public burns the house down. A better long-term solution that provides public services for more citizens at a higher level of reliability is one potential outcome.
Admitting fault, and then retroactively be punished for it at the tune of X million "potentially harmed"? If this were a board meeting and it was simply to say what should be fixed, understood or analyzed going forward, then admission of failure is fine; but this is about meting out punishment, in which case you tell the cops nothing.

Anything you say can and will...
Pick an IP block via APNIC, e.g. one allocated to Indonesia, and hit everything using those IPs with certain kinds of ads in the local language.

If they hit a couple of lone gringos and other ex-pats, whatever; the point is a wide net. Targeting you specifically isn't worth the trouble until your net worth is measured in 5MM or more, me thinks.
As someone who is enjoy eating a lot of bread (part of my Balkan culture), I'm baffled to see so much hesitation toward bread when I go abroad. I'd frequently get plenty of food in restaurants, but not so much bread with it. Even if I get it, either it is something old or "too much white" for my taste (this means there is nothing in it useful for the body).

Although we have plenty of bakeries with fresh bread 24/7, I recently started to make my own with bread maker I got as present few years ago (some Moulinex). It was sitting in a box and I decided to try it before sell it or give someone.

I can say, this ended up pretty well. I always liked chemistry (mixing and weighting stuff, calculating compounds) and this happens to be essential part of bread making. After few failed attempts, my bread finally started to get desired shape and taste; my family started to like it as well.

The best part is that I know what I'm putting in (I'm not so much fond of general food industry) and as a geek, I introduced some geekish stuff as well. Although bread maker automates lot of things, I'm using Emacs and ledger-cli [1] to track compounds I'm adding, including comments about finished bread. This way I can always pull what worked the best, what not and total amount of compounds I spent in a week or month. TBH, this article [2] was inspiration for tracking with Emacs.

Still tons of stuff to learn, but "the project" ended up funny and very enjoyful.

[1] https://www.ledger-cli.org/

[2] https://bofh.org.uk/2019/02/25/baking-with-emacs/
I just don’t understand why people see this as the same thing - the value of money is always vulnerable to a myriad of factors however our moral interest towards each other seems (maybe I’m optimistic ) to be more consistent
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Usually, my download folder is quite messy. I wrote a rudimentary script to re-organize a folder using a simple cli.
It also has a config that can be updated to account for different file types or categories.
You barely even need NN for this - it's basically pathfinding.

Find the path to where you want to go, avoid the parts with negative weights.
I haven't done a lot of work in Apple ecosystems, but what I have seen from their docs are admittedly pretty bad. Recently out of curiosity, I tried to figure out how macOS drivers are written and left more confused than I was before. Microsoft iirc, used to have their docs terribly organized (it was difficult for me to find what I wanted without a Google search) but they seem to have improved that nowadays
There's a book that describes it "2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America"
More military or war?
Does any other industry have as much analysis on the workers themselves?

I worked in numerous other industries and my friends have as well and there's not near as much analysis of science lab workers or truck drivers or restaraunt workers or nurses or social workers.

It feels strange.
> That’s really all it takes.

Not quite. Those functions need established connections, so you need ConnectAttach and ConnectDetach as well. But none of that is useful unless you can identify clients so you also need ConnectClientInfo.

This isn’t a dig, having worked on a custom IPC system I found the QNX approach to be the best of all worlds.
from your link

> Exempting, zero rating, or excluding certain essential consumption goods from the tax base (e.g., foodstuffs, medicine, health care) can reduce the regressivity of a VAT.

That's what's done in Europe.
A VAT is different than a sales tax. And families at the margins would be better off with the increased social services we could provide with a European-style VAT, than the pennies we could collect by fighting to tax corporations more than they do in Europe.

It’s a middle class cop-out. The American middle class says they want to help those at the margins, but they don’t want to pay 25% VAT on MacBook Pros. They’re only in favor of increased welfare if Jeff Bezos is the one who pays for it.
Last week's ATP[1] had a segment on this, in particular a discussion of https://nooverviewavailable.com/ which has an estimated breakdown of what percent of each framework has documentation.

1: https://atp.fm/episodes/349
Correct implementations use stack probing (access one word for every page in the allocation) to guarantee that a stack overflow happens immediately rather than resulting in stack corruption.
> If someone ever asks you, don’t turn it down - it’ll be worth it.

I have enjoyed tabletop games immensely, both as a player and a DM. That said, I wouldn't feel comfortable making the above claim -- I've also had horrible experiences, including one session with a group I never returned to where the DM kept having the only female player's character get raped. Like, three times in one session. It was weird. Other times a DM can try to railroad players way too hard and turn the thing into a short novel that gets read aloud with minimal player interaction, or an overly placating DM can let one inexperienced player run the game off the rails entirely by playing a sociopathic cannibal who impulsively eats key NPCs without natural repurcussions kicking in. I'm not trying to be a downer, but if somebody has a bad first experience roleplaying they should be aware that not all sessions are created equal; I've had all of the above horrible experiences as well as many magical nights of collaborative storytelling, puzzle solving, and tactical decisions with friends. It's a social thing, you need the right mix of people to make it work, and the kind of game that one person enjoys might be horrible for another person (Robin's Laws covers this last point well and has good tips for finding the right mixture of elements for a specific social group, IMO).
> The right answer to this question is to accept that the company is extracting / harming people.

If the answer is predetermined and known it isn't a question. It is some sort of formal whipping and there is no point giving any answer.

From the peanut gallery it is plausible that Facebook is a net win or a net loss for adolescents and it is possible that the company has a staff psychologist who has actually thought about its impacts. That question is so hard to answer in the negative I seem to have 2 people answering in this comment chain as though the frame is obviously correct and Zuckerberg needs to answer yes then atone for his sins. Public hearings are not the place to engage with these sorts of questions (there might be consequences if he makes a mistake in his answers).
Kind of cheating because Kernighan literally labels it as beautiful. It's Rob Pike's implementation of Ken Thomson's regex matcher.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be...
Congratulations for having empathy. Unfortunately, for every one of you there are twenty that would not hesitate to go straight to their nearest VC and pitch their newly-founded predatory idea.
I mean to be fair the current system is "a $400T financial timebomb". I think your parent comment was trying to imagine a system for taking care of the elderly that wasn't so entwined with existing financial markets.
You conflate them again! Do you even pay attention to he point I am making?

A developed economy should be stable, not collapse in on itself, if there is a period of no growth. It is disingenuous to try and prove your point by averaging out your income and economic issues with starving kids in Somalia!

Environment is already screwed. It's impossible to counterbalance consumption damage with increase in efficiency because you obviously can't have 300% efficiency.

Electric motor and generator are >90% efficient, most relevant technologies are ~50% and having diminishing returns.
IF they're shipping F-18s to your country then, most of the time, that means big, big trouble...
Reminds me of this quote:

The Guild of Firefighters had been outlawed by the Patrician the previous year after many complaints. The point was that, if you bought a contract from the Guild, your house would be protected against fire. Unfortunately, the general Ankh-Morpork ethos quickly came to the fore and fire fighters would tend to go to prospective clients’ houses in groups, making loud comments like ‘Very inflammable looking place, this’ and ‘Probably go up like a firework with just one carelessly-dropped match, know what I mean?'
Great idea, maybe you should call Waymo.
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How about this -- suppose all the public school teachers who taught children how to succeed can't afford private fire-fighters, yet their students who benefited from their lowly remunerated services can? I think the visceral nature of fire and being protected from it by wealth (earned or unearned) is much more upsetting and visible than a jet to transport you.
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Money is time in liquid form. Forcing people how to spend their time is slavery
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Thank you very much for the thought. A quick Google Scholar results showed almost no researches about this subject. I find this subject very important, but I also don't see the impact of a such research, since these "big evil corps" done or caused much worse problems and they still exist.

Another thing is, I don't know if I can do this research by myself, or need some other professionals/academicians and where to start.

Could you please provide more info or insight, if you have?
Your logic seems to require labour to be the primary creator of value. Returning to your desert island analogy, both castaways could spend their youth planting coconut trees close to their shelter, thereby reducing the amount of work needed to gather coconuts as their mobility decreases. It seems to me that any economic system which invests in productivity and automation could similarly replace the labour required to subsidize the 'retired' population by investing in labour replacement technologies.
In my company there is a technical path but it’s really really hard to advance on it compared to the managerial path. We have one guy who is really high on the technical path but he was director before and was a bad manager so they moved him to the technical path. Otherwise I haven’t seen anybody technical promoted beyond the same pay grade of the lowest ranked managers. So it seems to me that the manager path is better just for the fact that it pays better.

In addition, a lot of of the main decisions are being made by management before engineers even get involved. Don’t know how to improve this but from what I have seen in other companies this seems fairly standard.
Had a KSR-33 wired up to a Synertek single-board 6502 kit... never did get the paper tape working, but man was it weirdly cool to be typing on a 50 pound behemoth to put numbers in the 2kB memory of a 6 ounce PC board.
People do this is Singapore and Australia with annuities and can elect to contribute more if they want but the flaw is that annuities are subject to the market and can be wiped out. It’s the same people have to hold onto these funds until they reach retirement age or meet certain criteria
Also, there is really no reason to aggregate them all as if it was one huge problem. This seems more like a series of problems that each country will have to deal in its own way at its own time.
1 seems achievable by automation. We already see that farming is done by a tiny fraction of the people that were necessary 100 years ago, and it seems feasible that most manufacturing is automated in another 50 years or so.

In your analogy, both people can redeem their coconut voucher if they've built a robot that gathers the cononuts.
He was saying ad arbitrage adds no value. As far as I can tell, this means the same ads are sold, and the free services receive the same amount of money, but companies have to pay more for ads and System1 takes a cut.
For all you Logo fans out there, you should really play "Duskers". It's Logo meets Aliens.
The population is still increasing and there is a housing shortage.

I'm not sure that really matters. If young people can't afford to keep a huge house that costs a fortune to maintain then any shortage isn't going to get people to buy that house. They can't afford it even if the old people who own it lower the price.
I dunno, WhatsApp is probably used more than SMS.
AFAIK the US got computers earlier than most places, even other First World countries. Large disposable incomes and a large, relatively homogeneous market. My family were middle class (teachers) in the UK, and moderately early adopters; we still only got our first PC in the mid-90s.
Reminds me of when I ripped the Ace Combat 4 and Ace Combat 5 soundtracks off the game DVDs. I forget the details, but basically it was possible to stick the DVD in a computer and play part it as ADPCM data and record it. The result was one big recording consisting of all the music tracks separated by short bursts of very loud static. The static was presumably the track metadata, which I didn't know how to decode, but it sure made it easy enough to find the track boundaries. In AC4, each mission's music was already looped out to the length of the mission (e.g. if the mission timer was 13 minutes, then the song was looped as many times as needed to go over 13 minutes), so I just had to find approximately where the first or second loop ended and fade it out after that to make an appropriate-length "album" version of the track.

For AC5, there were a lot more missions, so I guess they didn't have the disc space to do this and had to get creative. Instead, each track cut off exactly at the loop point, so in order to make it loop and fade, I had to find the point near the beginning that it was meant to loop back to, copy the track, and manually line up that point with the end of the track and do a short cross-fade to hide the seam. Then I could fade it out a few seconds into the second loop to complete the "album" version.

I believe at some point they released official OST albums for both games, but a few special tracks were missing from both, so my versions are slightly more complete. (Specifically, the AC4 OST was missing the version of the hangar music for the final mission that included someone giving a speech over the loudspeaker, while AC5 was missing the track of everyone singing together over the radio in the penultimate mission.)
I think I agree, but I don't see that as an indictment on the system or the folks doing supplemental hiring. Plenty of people have home security systems, or if you're rich/important enough, hire a bodyguard or private security. That doesn't mean the police isn't fit for service, it just means that the police have to care about everyone, and sometimes your personal risk profile is different than the average of everyone.

If you own a multi-million dollar house, it's almost better for everyone if you're paying your own money to protect it, and let the public fire fighters spend their resources protecting those who can't afford their own protection.
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Right, but money sitting in a bank account isn't necessarily being invested in a meaningful way. A lot of "investment" these days is in financial instruments, which don't generate value in the way that would be realise these benefits.
No one is forced but people can elect to ‘swap time’ 1 for 1. Money today can’t be swapped 1 for 1 but I guess I ask the question ? Can time ?
There's a floor, though. Social Security and Medicare ensure that pensioners don't starve and have health care. That's defined benefit.
Yeah you'd wonder why they bought iPhones , pricey cars, vacations, private school and eating out instead of saving
If anyone would actually dig one and then lay in it as a stunt, it's Boris.
In a steady state economy and accounting for compound interest, more value goes into retirement savings than get's pulled out. The delta is people dying with retirement savings.

In effect retirement increases economic activity by forcing huge numbers of people to save for benefits they don't receive.
The Secure Enclave processor on Apple devices runs a version of the L4 microkernel

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209632
Thanks! I am visiting San Francisco soon and will definitely go check the Computer History Museum.
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I am sure all the documentation this guy has ever written has been 100% perfect. /s

Calling out other people's work as 'garbage' is pretty shameful. In my experience Apple's documentation is some of the best around. They have sample projects showing you how APIs work, good integration into their IDE, and lots of talks on video about their APIs given by the very engineers that built the thing. Not even to mention their written documentation.

This blog post offers no evidence or specifics as to what makes it 'garbage'.
>> 1. They can't both do it

Yes they can. Assuming there are enough resources to sustain both their entire lives (let's say 75 years); each can work enough to accumulate those resources in 50 years so they don't have to work the final 25 years.
Anecdotally my grandfather from India used to tell my father something similar as a child (and then him me), and he was born in the 1910’s in a village and very unaware of Jobs throughout his life. So I am confident that it’s from some Indian/Hindu school of thought. Only difference was he said “work hard first 30//enjoy next 30”.
Apple's developer docs have been incomplete since the introduction of OS X. I don't expect it to get any better before hell freezes over. The article mentions that this makes it hard for newbies to learn. That's true but my guess is that by the time those chickens come home to roost, JavaScript will be called a systems programming language.

Edit: Updated wording to article's title change.
Vices absolute bottom of the barrel journalism. They do you have some funny articles though.
I didn't' see anything in the article about having your own website. Yes, there is Medium, but does it make sense for a person to have their own website and then also post to medium?
I think this was the original vision of XML: eXtensible markup language. With globally unique names XML was meant to produce a whole world of languages that could've been developed independently and mixed together in the same manner as Unix command-line tools. E.g. XSLT is a language for a XSLT processor; XSL-FO is a language for XSL-FO processor and so on. In this schema XHTML would've been a language for the browser that would co-exist with the rest of the ecosystem.
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Great article. I always feel like I'm looking for my niche, and I love it when I find people who found theirs.
This always felt weird to me given that Python does a good job with dict:

d = {}
assert(d.get("blah"), None)

I was impressed by Rust the first time I run into:

let mut last;
for i in &[1, 2, 3] {
last = i;
}
println!("{}", last);

>> borrow of possibly uninitialized variable: `last`
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