skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The workers can generate ideas which would net amazon tremendous amount of wealth from which only a fraction would go back to those who generated the ideas / implemented it. It really is a case of winner take all market. Bill Gates has been retired for a while yet he can't help but keep getting richer. This is not even mentioning those who inherited vast amounts of wealth (like the waltons) and who continue to get super rich even though i doubt they do anything personally that contributes value.
Because one point of view is that the difference between the poorest and the richest is less important than ensuring that the minimum standard of living of the poorest is livable/acceptable.

In society A, let's say that the gap between the poor and the rich was high, but the poor had their basic needs being met. In society B, let's say that the gap between the poor and the rich is 0, but the standard of living of everyone is worse than the poorest in society A. In this case, most would agree that society A is better off despite having a non-zero Gini coefficient.

Obviously we want a society where everyone is equal AND their standard of living is as high as it could possibly be, but wars have been fought over figuring out how best to organize society to achieve that.
Apollo also had parachute issues, e.g. see Apollo 15.
Animals on both ends of the bell curve. Serial Killer avg. 10 deaths? Last billionaire I met killed 17 and poisoned 30,000. Silicon Valley is essential viewing at the moment on that subject.
Red light cameras don't increase safety [1]. They may shift some of the injuries from pedestrians to drivers, but overall there's no benefit.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078079
HP does have ink tank printers, but I believe they are only sold in emerging markets.

https://store.hp.com/id-en/default/printers-hp-ink-tank-syst...

In developed economies HP was/is pushing for users to use its "Ink subscription" service. I am assuming that using cartridges has higher margins for HP. The business model for HP is to make money selling supplies, and with ink tank printers it is trivial for a customer to use non-OEM refills.
> rather a handful of government.

Which are mostly democracies, or sort of. China, Russia and North Korea apart, every big population center is governed in a way or another threw a certain form of consensus.

> humanity at the moment already agrees blindly that the only way forward is reckless growth

Again you talk as if humans were a single body. You're not agreeing blindly on 'reckless growth', as far as I can tell, and you're far from being alone in that case.

Humanity speaking and thinking as one is just a dream (you're free to dream, thought!).
half a million tables...

In how many databases? Spread across how many machines? Using hardware that is how old?

It may well be a good project, but statements like that aren't inspiring of confidence.
do they need to accumulate?
> The hyperinflation following Versailles and ensuing economic dislocation led in no small part to the rise of the Nazi party.

Nonsense - it was deflation caused by austerity policies following the 1929 crash that helped the NSDAP come to power.

https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/fac/gem/nazi_a...
Taiwan does call themselves Taiwanese
I own property. It's my responsibility to inform the county about where they should mail my tax bills.

> in the county's best interest to "accidentally" send notices to the wrong address.

Yeah, that's a nice way to end up in federal prison and the county to be on the hook to pay everyone back.

PS - According to the article, the house was seized in 2014 for a delinquency on the 2011 taxes. It wasn't something that happened after a single missed notice.
Could you elaborate on "become a connection" logic? What kind of problem is that? You may need to change user interface a bit to fit into CRDTs.
> I've yet to find a single use-case for it in my projects.

This is the “concurrency vs parallelism” that (e.g.) Rob Pike goes on about[0], rightfully. I think to the uninitiated it can be tough to grasp (not commenting on whether YOU understand or not...). I use it daily, depending on circumstances, w a single-threaded network client that concurrently manages connections to perhaps hundreds of other machines. Most of the wall-time is spent waiting for something to occur on one of the remotes; “waiting in parallel” isn’t going to speed anything up, and nothing happens outside of the relatively infrequent events from the outside network to my client. I can’t forecast what is going to arrive on which socket, so I wait, and process asynchronously. GUIs will operate this way too. The pattern is suitable where you’re in a situation where: “something might happen sometime and I’ll need to do a (quick) bit of work in response”

[0] https://youtu.be/cN_DpYBzKso
This looks really really nice. Does it also work with something like Citus?
The typical Opinel knife which is cheap, handy and reliable does sorta rely on "locking", but it's a manual process.

They can be opened with one hand, but it's slow and nothing you could do while using the same hand to fight.

They have to fit the wielder's hand, however... big hands tend to require too large knives...

I'll have to agree however that the blade is brittle. You can't stab something that moves with them, unless you want it to break off.
The currently linked article is incredibly inciteful, which is to be expected of Reason whenever they cover tax and property issues.

Another way to state one of the facts in this case is that the state seized the property of an owner who was delinquent on his tax bill for over 5 years and well aware of it. Once it's the state's property I don't see why they should pay the "profits" back to him or any other prior owner. At that point, the state and the collective taxpayers are already the owners and the money enters the collective fund.

By giving away the profit to a previous owner, the argument presented is effectively that the State should be a taxpayer-funded seller's agent that works exclusively in the property owner's favor rather than working in favor of the taxpayers who actually pay their fair share.
(not op but) parents supported me through a high quality education, in the safe wealthy western country they brought me into, helped me to develop social skills, and provided a stable upbringing which—all combined—gave me the confidence, comfort and skills to navigate the labour market, secure a well-paying job, and eventually use my wages to purchase this computer.
See the sibling thread about VC-funded branded chains:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465969

They absolutely did become big by differentiating product. There's a Jersey Mike's and an Arby's near my home, as well as a Subway about a mile away. The former two chains came into existence right around the same time (and slightly before) Subway did. They struggle for business, both nationwide and locally. It wouldn't surprise me if most readers of this comment haven't heard of them, while most everyone has heard of Subway. That's despite having a similar product (sandwiches) and similar locations to Subway.

What they're missing is the brand. Subway pushed heavily on being a healthy, quick-service chain with good selection in the late 90s, right as America was waking up to the virtues of healthy food and wanting something different from burgers. (They'd actually been around since the 60s, but I never heard about them until the early 2000s.) Nobody buys a Subway for the sandwich; they buy a subway because they want something quick & easy, from a known source, and don't feel like getting a burger. There are plenty of other sandwich shops that sell sandwiches cheaper, oftentimes with better ingredients (i.e. not 49% soy protein in their chicken), but you'll never have heard of them, and most close up in a few years. Invest in them and you go broke.
It's particularly a big deal in Rust where working with the base Future primitives was pretty hairy. With async/await I can write code that looks synchronous but has all the advantages of async.
Unfit? That's why I'm using KirbyCMS atop NTFS with zero issues, right?
That’s interesting. Is this manual? Can’t dang just push it to the front page?
Since you have some experience with this why not just put a lien on the property for the taxes owed (along with interest & penalties)? As long it's a small percentage of the property value the city would be almost guaranteed to be made whole eventually (by selling the home when the tax debt reaches a threshold % of the property value).

I understand why they might want to have a different process for vacant/unmaintained properties, but in the article it looks like this is happening to occupied properties in good condition (or even actively under construction)!

I also don't understand why it's appropriate to keep the whole house value after auction, even when it's 100x (or in some examples in the article 1000x) the taxes owed and the owner is known.

There's other stuff in the article where it seems like the local governments deliberately want to avoid the owner discovering their tax liability. For example they make the current year's tax bill not mention any existing tax debt (which may be from a different owner). In one example the county treasurer calls the owner of a new home under construction only *after" the deadline, just to tell them that they've been waiting out the clock on the tax debt of a previous owner, and they plan to seize the house and refuse any payment on the balance!

I don't see the public interest in this aside from trying to turn communication issues into huge financial windfalls for local governments (due to asset confiscation), with the perverse incentive that the party responsible for notifying people gets the windfall if that process fails.
Star Trek isn't communist; capitalism and communism are both approaches to the allocation of resources. Neither really applies in a post-scarcity society.
Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious Journals
These are fascinating, I built a toy replicated K/V in go using CRDTs:

https://github.com/lonelycode/yzma
It's seemed pretty obvious for a good decade that, if a bubble were going to pop, it would probably be related to advertising. Because if online advertising falls off a cliff, that hits two of the big tech employers directly. And you can be sure there would be major secondary effects on all the companies whose plan is to more or less never make money but be acquired.
You're assuming you're not born to rich parents. How wealthy are you compared to the people living on $1 per day?
Not to be a jerk, but I feel this perspective is meaningless from the get go. Redistribution/politics is about the marginal utility of a dollar and the time-value of the application. A dollar in a billionaire's account is worthless. Using those dollars to build a universal pre-k or healthcare system will generate more wealth than a one-time $50k payout.
Compared to classifying a pedestrian with a bicycle crossing the street in the dark it is easy to track the gaze of the safety driver and stop the vehicle when they are not looking at the road.
For starters there's already the concept of garnishing wages, income and tax returns the city could easily use those for cases like this. Sure there will be some cases where an action like this is reasonable but just sending notifications through the mail isn't enough they should have to use more active services like those for serving court documents where it can be validated that the owner received notification of the action, or at least a more rigorous effort was put in than just sending a letter.
The ecological impact of dams is totally local, but the ecological impact of CO2 is global. If we were to power the entire earth with hydro, the local damage to ecosystems would be a very small price to pay indeed.
I’m so impressed that he took the route of doubling down on his “F you, you’re wrong” that made multiple generations of tasteless moviegoers irate. You don’t see enough of people standing up for their controversial opinions in the face of public backlash anymore, which made this a quite refreshing read.
Async is much easier to program than threads (even thread with Rust). You might be working very low-level where you don't have an OS and thus no threads. Rust's works on those devices too. Like you can use this to implement an OS.

I think that there's going to be a new os written in Rust. It will be much lower level than all the current OS. You don't need a lot of protection when the compiler protects you.
That part, about deleting the history, confuses me.

Why delete the history on a classification change?

Shouldn't classifications be tiered? In this case, while the system was struggling to PERFECTLY classify the object, it was clearly thinking it was something that should be avoided (oscillating between car, bike, other).

In this case, I would expect the system to keep it's motion history. IMO, this could have prevented the accident because although it didn't determine it was a bicycle/person until "too late" ... it had determined with plenty of time that it was maybe a car, maybe a bike.
You can do all those things with a knife legal to carry in the UK.
> Recognizing that it sounds bad is easy. Figuring out something that would actually be better in the long run for society is hard.

Per the article, this is only possible in Michigan, and only because of a specific, misguided law passed in 1999.

It's a solved problem.
FYI this is called a "solar chimney"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_chimney
Because "produce more" and "have more" aren't actually related. Have you produced more if you're born rich? Does Jeff Bezos actually produce billions?

It's a statement that doesn't actually represent reality.
JFYI, that was not the point.

And I'm not aware of a single city in the USSR where lack of sidewalks would be a problem, or where one would struggle to get to places without a car.

It was very hard to get a car in the USSR. The country was optimized for non-drivers.
Facebook Privacy Breach: 100 Developers Improperly Accessed Data
I agree. If a technology (especially one as significant as fusion) is viable and the production kinks need to be worked out, then VC-backers are going to dump money into it in an effort to be first-to-market. The less viable a technology currently is, the more governments will be paying for the research.
If you set out to make an omelette and a person ends up dying because of what you've done, you have exceeded your license to break a few eggs.
Providing support at the language level gives application developers more tools. If they know their own application domain, perhaps they can make better scheduling decisions than a general purpose scheduler?
I think that's fair. We had an experimental collaborative editing prototype running on Fuchsia, but that was never officially part of the scope of the project. So this is all about whether technology developed for multiuser collaboration is helpful for the single user case.

A good example is inserting indentation in response to, say, the "Enter" key. In a synchronous model, this is pretty straightforward. You calculate the indentation as essentially a function of the contents of the buffer and the delta (the insert of the newline), then any other typing gets processed after that. In a CRDT model, the additional typing can be interleaved in any order, and the merge operation has to converge to the correct results. You can think about how bad that is: the user could type a hundred lines of code, complete with complex editing operations including cut and paste, deletions, undo, and then the auto-indent plugin wakes up, calculates the diff, and sends it to the core. Meanwhile, the user has typed another hundred lines, including more cut'n'pasting of the affected lines. This is perhaps unrealistic, but the CRDT model requires it. And I think it is possible to solve it (I wrote some "rope science" articles, then there was more discussion in several issues), but it's a hugely intricate puzzle compared with just applying it synchronously, and the benefit is not worth it. It's quite practical to compute indentation for any realistic source file in under a millisecond, if you've got a nice fast language.
Their speeds look impressive. If it can do cold starts with a response time of <200ms, it might become suitable for a lot of our typical web apps. You can actually try it out at: https://wasm.fastlylabs.com/
I never click on ads either but when I see an ad often enough (even if I don’t pay attention) my mind gives that product more credibility.
Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
Like all progressive taxation, the property tax is not solely a fee for government benefits received by the taxpayer. The property tax is a tool to reduce inequality—especially when it is applied to gains in land value. If we did not have property taxes (or when we protect existing landowners regardless of land rent increases under Proposition 13), then increases in land value from increased population would be entirely a zero-sum transfer from the new renters or buyers to the old owner, resulting in greater wealth inequality, since unlike capital the supply of land at a particular location is purely inelastic (see the first 4 chapters of Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing for more https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Economics-Land-Housing-Rya...).
Most colleges waive the application fee for anyone needing financial aid, so I don't know anyone who didn't apply to a college specifically because of the application fee.
The fallacy of your argument is that you equate "requires effort" with "the level of results scales with level of effort"

If I have nothing, I have a couple of days to live - I need water, food, shelter. I cannot afford to be picky in the means of getting these. I find a manual labor task. It's hard, exhausting work, but I get paid and can buy water, food, and shelter. Through work and cleverness, I can improve my situation. And "improve" almost always means LESS work, LESS exhaustion, MORE security.

If I have $10,000, I can have at least a few months of water, food, and shelter. I can be picky in how I obtain employment. I can afford to travel distances to find better opportunities (better = LESS work, LESS exhaustion, MORE security). Should something happen (illness, transportation troubles, etc) I can arrange to work around it.

Just having that initial wealth creates an imbalance that is unrelated to my level of effort.

If I have $5 million, I can live modestly off the interest. My "effort" is finding an investment that outstrips inflation enough to let me live off the remainder. This is effort, sure, but it is not 40+ hour work weeks. It is not holding down multiple jobs. It is not skipping paying for car insurance or car inspections or oil treatments because you need one more month to make the payments.

Sure, there are millionaires spending 60+ hours/week trading and dealing. And they are successful. That's fine, but that's not the whole of existence. (it is also very selective - how many people work hard - that hard or harder - and aren't millionaires? That's not the model I want everyone striving towards. That's not success, that's just obsessive wealth.
May I add, if your manager demands you're available anytime outside of business hours and you're not compensated for that time, you should immediately be looking for your next job.

Unemployment has never been lower in 40+ years (in the US). You're likely to get a pay bump moving. Always Be Interviewing. No one is going to look out for your comp and work/life balance except you.
I bet they have/share data with Facebook and other social media so they can scan for “party” indicators. Wouldn’t even be surprised if they pull phone meta data and Credit spending patterns to run predictive algorithms.
I wrote up a "technical continuity plan" that describes how to keep my web sites and APIs in maintenance mode in the event of my untimely demise. It has a list of bare-minimum things to do in the following week, month, and year, and describes the various third-party relationships and how to go about hiring a replacement administrator. I shared the doc with a few close friends. I hope it's not needed in the future, but just writing the doc was a useful exercise for me in the present.
I think the idea of this post is contradictory.

Who suffers from government lists of potential terrorists, criminals, and their relatives? It's not a "white people" problem. That would be a problem faced primarily by dark-skinned people.

And really, what else would the government do with a database of the DNA of every person in the country, other than use it to track and profile people of color? Could you imagine being "stop-and-frisked" for your DNA to see if you were related to any known criminal, and then questioned under suspicion that you might know where they are hiding?

It seems simply crazy to say in one breath that government and police abuse their power, and then in the next say you want to give them authority to keep files on every single person with impunity.
All else being equal, that is true. However, our economic system quite disproportionately rewards the wealthy; if you are born rich, it is extremely easy to pay a financial manager to invest your money and get huge returns - returns earned passively. Most wealthy Americans are not first-generation entrepreneurs who single-handedly (if that is possible) produced millions or billions in value from a background of poverty. It’s an oversimplification to ignore the complex picture of inequality.
"legally be in control of themselves"

Never. They have no skin in the game. If they did, locking them inside a car for their life would be illegal.
We really should stop using the same word for two things with such different characteristics.

Hydro/geothermal: nice steady power but not easily available everywhere.

Wind/solar: available everywhere but variable output.

Obviously it's easy to run a city on "renewables" if you have a convenient dam, but if you only have wind/solar it's more challenging.
I've occasionally been using an exercise ball. Best part is stretching on it during breaks.

Thanks - VZfgbRX9
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They lead reliably to flamewars, which we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If your code is simple with thread pools, it will be just as simple with async/await.

The biggest problem with thread pools is that you have a limited number of threads. Either because you set an explicit size limit, or you run out of memory. It's really annoying to debug deadlocks that happen because your thread pool is out of threads. So typically applications that use thread pools just don't use parallelism as much as they would if they could use async/await.

There isn't really any advantage of thread pools. Programming in Go, for example, it's very easy to write async calls and quite awkward to explicitly manage threads. But in practice, there are never really any reasons you miss having thread pools.
You still need a one meter thick blanket of lithium to capture the neutrons from the D-T reaction (and to generate more Tritium) so you are looking at modular 500MW reactors, although locating multiple reactors on the same site makes sense for fueling and maintenance purposes.
I lost half a semester at university because of something like this. I paid my tuition in full, something like $6000, which didn't include a book store purchase I had made weeks before. I got two generic post cards reminding me to pay my tuition and nothing else until I got a letter informing me I had been unenrolled. No bill, no phone call.

I never went back.