skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a system where one persons gets literally all the wealth would also be difficult to enforce or sustain.

However, without getting bogged down in the details of the implementation, I think GINI-1 would result in a society where no one has incentive to work because one person gets all of the benefit of that work.

Whereas with GINI-0 everyone benefits from their work, and anyone who produces more value than most others is still incentivized to work because they will still see a marginal gain in wealth, albeit reduced from what they would normally earn in a higher inequality system since it is somehow redistributed equally to everyone.

Perhaps the goal is not GINI-0 but as close as possible to it.
Overstated.

This article assumes that:
- All online advertising is Google search
- That brand search advertising is representative of the entire industry

There are plenty of companies making double-digit ROAS (return over ad spend), especially direct response advertisers.
That effect seems highly relative to the context in which you see an ad, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was intentionally exaggerated when studied. Certain contexts increase credibility with certain people, others decrease credibility.

What it does do is actually put the product in front of your face. People won’t buy your thing if they’ve never seen or heard of it. So I agree there’s value to ads even if people don’t click on them in that moment.

That doesn’t mean their value isn’t inflated.
it's not just file systems. Take a look at the NVMe specifications and then answer this question: "Do you think it's efficient to use this as a block device?"
Not to be confused with their upcoming Kinect Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/
I can never really understand Facebook's approach to dealing with legal pressure surrounding its privacy practices.

Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of trying to make a positive impression of itself by cooperating with lawmakers (and potentially helping to shape the regulation itself in the process), it misleads and stonewalls.[0]

What's Facebook's long-term plan here? Do they think they will be able to fend off governments forever and eventually become supranational?

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-misled-parliament-on-d...
The physics of fusion are well-understood. Nuclear fusion was achieved before nuclear fission. The most common nuclear fusion reaction--the deuterium-tritium reaction--can be readily performed by research groups across the world.

As others have mentioned, funding is the main reason why energy production from nuclear fusion hasn't taken off. The better question is, what isn't being funded?

Ask yourself: how do you hold the sun in a bottle? The answer is that it's very hard, but it's doable. You just need to cool the walls fast enough and make sure the sun doesn't melt the bottle.

Based off this rough problem description, the main issues are the following:

- Materials: what do you make the bottle out of? Do you know of any materials which can withstand millions of degrees of heat? Probably not, so you should look into using magnets to suspend the sun in the middle of the bottle.

- Confinement: how do you hold the sun? The sun (that is, plasma) reacts to magnetic fields. Classical designs such as the tokamak drove the plasma around a donut to keep it confined. Problem there is that you need two magnetic fields: one to drive and one to steer. Some decades ago, people got smart and figured out you could design the road in such a way that the car will always drive straight, so great, you don't need to steer anymore. (This is the main difference between ITER and Wendelstein 7-X; personally, I think ITER will turn out poorly, but they'll learn a lot from building the thing...)

- Reactions: guess what? Your sun emits high-energy neutrons, making the bottle radioactive. You could use a different type of sun, but those are expensive and weird or would require you to go to the Moon, which is also expensive. You figure out you can line the walls of the reactor with lithium and breed fuel for your sun, which works but isn't perfect. You know other suns are out there, but no one knows how to build a bottle to hold that sun.

- Self-sustainment: you put some ingredients in your bottle, shake it up, and presto, you have a sun. For about ten milliseconds. Problem is, your bottle got too hot and your reaction creates exhaust you have to scrape out. Also, the magnets used to keep the sun in the middle of the bottle draw more energy than your sun makes! That won't do.

Self-sustaining fusion reactors are very hard problems to crack because there's so many moving parts. The fusion research community has suffered from underfunding for decades because people wrongfully associate the principles of Chernobyl with ITER. People don't want their politicians funding more Chernobyls, and Bob's your uncle. Because the funding has been so low, the problems which should be solved by now, well, haven't been.
That's really just like creating a business : get out of the building and start experimenting as soon as possible.
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but please wait until a thing actually happens before posting it here.

Otherwise we end up having to penalize the actual thing as a dupe, or have repetitive split discussion.
I heard there's quite a market still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
Building Great User Experiences with Concurrent Mode and Suspense
Okay, the title of the article uses the phrase "SJW" non-ironically, it's stupid speech by a racist speaker.
Buried deep in one article it seems that despite there being some evidence the safety driver was looking at their phone, they decided that the driver wouldn't have had time to stop anyway.
I believe that when he said "They currently hold four of the top five results", he was talking about AMD, which does hold four of the top five results in both charts.
They're called Jews.
Well, the victim in this case sure groks it now. I wonder how many more times these kind of incidents need to happen before society realizes it's not acceptable for companies to treat information about us so carelessly.
I don't agree with that assessment, but you also didn't address inheritance.
Because some people are naturally lazier than others, and, while the most lazy still deserve a bare minimum social support system, they definitely don't deserve the same amount as the least lazy.
I don't like GINI because it does not show the most important parameter. It is possible for two countries to have same GINI but one have people who can't satisfy their basic needs (food, shelter, medical care) and the other where all people are given access to basics.

I would prefer a measure that describes general level of satisfiability of peoples' basic needs, the measure of peoples' suffering. Are people suffering or not?

Having measure of envy for much wealthier class seems less concerning to me.
Estonia: Building a Digital Nation
Contabo VM with win server 2016 data center (includes sql sever 2016) costs me 16€/month.
So 16 years ago it has been shown that advertising for your own brand name is worthless?

Yet still in 2019, when I google for "Amazon" I see an Amazon ad?

Color me skeptical.

I doubt the marketing guys at the worlds biggest companies are that out of touch with reality.

Would love to know why they do it though.
> So, I use a DNS blocker to filter out ads.

If everybody used a DNS blocker to filter out ads, would online advertising exist as a business?
Right, but couldn't you just give them a fake name and use a PO box, or am I missing something?
Schiphol Airport: 'Suspicious Situation' on Air Europa Plane
This is audio of the President, Donald J. Trump, demanding a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to “take a blind eye” on January 3, 2019. Trump becomes one on January 14, 2019. Also, here is the big reason the major networks do not report any if it.

//Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. See page 63. Bribe demand at 10:18am:

3JanCh3_900-1100.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77...

//President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, rapes and kills his first boy at 6:32am. Video link below:

14JanCh3_600.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/154QvA5hwyHGYIVXtod1ZbsOHFUJNbqZW/view?usp=sharing
14JanCh2_600-700.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UkqmnMwZiWy7xxWngltqwoKLTJL-IZ_/view?usp=sharing

//On January 18, 2019 at 8:31am (see page 8) Trump acknowledges the four billion dollar bribe and says: "Let's get it done and get to fucking some kids." Video link below:

18JanCh3_725-.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4Two...

//A big reason this has not been reported by the major news networks is right here. Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 1980's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo on January 14th, 2019 at 5:00am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00am. Muir starts around 5:15am, then Holt about 5:38am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp & Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below:

14JanCh3_500-601.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX3o7UL/view?usp=sharing

14JanCh2_530-600.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1RwidV/view?usp=sharing

//This is the tip of the iceberg.
//Full 88 page PDF [updated 5Nov]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...

//This post will be censored when this account logs off, the posts are "shadow banned". They try to make it look like the post is live, but it is not. Here is an example.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJ...
We also need to capture CO2, not just stop producing it.

Nuclear fusion has a chance of being the solution to that problem.
Amazon is definitely the clear leader but both major brands and small companies could do better with a site focused to their own goods. In a lot of ways, most tech companies already do this but retail just hasn't caught on yet.
I was thinking this would be a good approach too, both within the company and outside of it.
Appliances might be a better word than applications. If you've got a single privilege level (and that itself isn't a security design flaw), yeah, the info leak isn't a problem. HPCish environments are the obvious example.
Well, you pay tax on your gains on that stock sale. The claim is you shouldn't on houses; it should be a tax-free investment.
There's lots of bad stuff in this story without making up new stuff. Those 33 times were other vehicles striking the Uber vehicle, rather than vice versa. There was one time where the Uber vehicle struck a stationary bicyle stand that was in the roadway.
> What you share from those experiences, and who you share it with, should be up to you.

They should have added this: ultimately it's up to you to trust us, you don't control Apple devices, we do :-) and we make decisions that are best for you - just give us money.
Star Trek is also almost entirely set on the decks of a warship or a military outpost, so the economics are very artificial.
If we apply this to a human, let's say I'm getting old and my eyes aren't as good any more, I don't just keep driving like nothing changed, I need to find a way to see better, because the risk of getting into an accident is higher.
If the car's system cannot tell what an object is, you don't just assume it's going to be ok, you need to either get better sensors or find some other real solution.
I think you are trying to define a taxonomy of such services based on the nominal/advertised proposition to end consumers.

I'm not sure that's the right way to quantify the startups themselves, as the business case is sometimes only tangentially related to said proposition.
> Where did you learn about modern building best-practices?

Do searches on "building science":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_science

A consulting company specifically started around the concept because the founder, Joe Lstiburek, got tired of seeing the same problems over and over:

* https://www.buildingscience.com

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lstiburek

This contractor based in Austin, TX, has a lot of good content:

* https://www.youtube.com/user/MattRisinger/videos
Another 1k millionaires looking to buy a house is horrific.
The problem with your theory is that somebody would have to buy the shares from him. At scale that's zero sum, and the money can't come from people who don't have any.

Think about it this way. Alphabet owns Google. When that happened, did it create an additional company out of whole cloth with the value of Google, on top of the value of Alphabet? No. That's double counting. The value only exists once. Moreover, unless Amazon is dissolved, the corporation controls that value (and is required to act in the interests of all the shareholders), regardless of who owns the shares at any given time.
Vienna is consistently ranked among the best cities in the world and has a high degree of social housing. And the same is true for places like Singapore and cities across the more social democratic parts of Europe.

If anything, the availability of social housing puts a downward pressure on prices and makes sure that people who perform many of the vital functions of running cities (healthcare workers, teachers, infrastructure maintenance workers) can afford to live there. Leaving something as necessary to survival as housing open to a highly financialized, global capital markets has proven time and time again to be a rolling disaster of homelessness and unaffordability.
When you ask a resident if they want to be tracked by ad companies as they organise a funeral, they might think twice.

https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/births-deaths-and-marriages/dea...
I actually wondered this as well before I used the word :). Although before reading your link, I didn't realize it was as rare of a usage as it is.
If it's having a hard time both identifying an object, as well as measuring it's movement, there's not really any reason it should understand that all those separate data points are the same object.

That is, it doesn't really matter if the object history is "deleted" or not; if it can't associate a new data point with a previous history (by identification or predicted position), the practical result is the same as if there is no object history.

This could be a result of using velocity based tracking, which I don't know that Uber uses, but is a fairly standard method, as it's what raw GPS measurements are based on.
So I work at Facebook and day in and day out use Hack (Facebook's split from PHP) and one thing that's ingrained in the programming model is the async-await model.

PHP/Hack have a model that I think is probably the best overall method for serving HTTP requests in that within the context of a single request, none of the code is multithreaded. I say this is superior because you don't have to worry about race conditions (largely), locking and all that. You might call services that do that but you're insulated from the multithreaded issues of that.

Anyway, knowing that Hack's async-await is strictly cooperative multitasking rather than being multithreaded so you get concurrency and non-blocking I/O without the mental and code cost of threads and locks.

That's why I think it's a big deal.
> You just leaped to the unfounded conclusion that every computer needs to run untrusted JavaScript.

You're right about that...

> The vast majority of computers have no such need.

You're probably wrong about that. Every, no. Majority or substantial minority? Yes. There are a ton of consumer computer devices that act as web browsers, and smartphones absolutely count here.
Sure they have. And meanwhile they are making contingency plans to leave China in the least expensive manner. The culture wars are coming.
I don't think it's that simple. Sure, money in a billionaire's possession probably isn't going to be used for consumption, but it's not like that money is chilling in a matress somewhere; it is invested. Those funds are a source of capital for public companies, seed funding for small businesses, VC investments for growing companies, charitable contributions potentially, even funds for countries through bonds etc. I'm going to stay away from making pronouncements on how this money ought to be used; I'm merely pointing out that the situation is more nuanced than how you have framed it.
You make it sound as though the economic pie is fixed and economics zero-sum. But that's clearly not the case, otherwise we'd still be living with stone age per-capita GDP (i.e., ~0).

And it's not just that "those that are better at competing will have more property". Every person is free to make a variety of choices for themselves, including how much they prioritize wealth creation. Since each one of us has only one life to live, and only one way to live it (i.e., the way each one of us choose to), and so many choices to make, there's no way we'll all make the same choices. Some will prioritize love, others family, others art, others business, or some mixture of these and other things. And that's just fine. We can't all pour ourselves into our work the way Elon Musk does, and we can't all only pick great ideas to pursue, and we don't all have the same talent or drive.

> Inequality does not mean we need to have people who can't satisfy their most basic things. It is possible for people to be allowed to compete for wealth and at the same time ensure those that don't want or can't compete have their basic needs like food, shelter and medical care satisfied.

Indeed!
Agreed. Censorship is a simple concept - it's any time expression is suppressed. Those who say that _their_ removal of content _isn't_ censorship are simply avoiding negative word associations, or any inherent suggestion that their judgement could be subjective. Even the censorship of off-topic and spam comments is a subject to a high degree variability in judgement and opinion.
That's a little bit like saying you don't like air temperature as a measure because it doesn't show humidity, which is also important. Sure, overall GDP per capita + GINI might make sense as a measure of overall/median/average/something standard of living, but GINI isn't a standard of living measure, just one component of that.

Edit: I think parent edited their post to add a few more clarifying statements, so this post makes less sense now.

Even with the new added bits I still disagree; having one class that owns everything, even if the rest of the country has their basic needs met, could describe a system of principled slaveholders. Wanting a more-or-less equal distribution of money/power doesn't necessarily boil down to envy over wealth.
Sure. The ads don't have to come from a third party.
It's an extortion racket. You need to buy Google ads to get better Google SEO.
I’ve gotten the impression that many HN commenters seem to think having a job is a form of slavery.
I get the problem you are describing, but they don't have to do it for free. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to have penalties / accumulating interest for late payment, and to sell the house if the total amount owed approaches a large % of the property value (and to charge an additional fee for selling the house).

I think what people are objecting to here is confiscating the house over a tiny tax liability, selling the house for 1000x the tax liability, and pocketing the difference. For example, having a tax liability of $8, confiscating the house and selling it for $24000, then pocketing $23992 over the $8 tax liability.

There's already a perfectly adequate way to address late property tax payments, charging interest. Either they pay and the city gets their money back (with interest), or they don't and the balance is eventually big enough to justify selling the property (so they get their money back with interest). It may be more lucrative for the city to confiscate the house immediately and make a 300000% profit on an $8 balance but it's hard to see how that's reasonable (and it seems like it will have to meet the "reasonable" threshold in order to be constitutional).
>If the system starts to brake every time it thinks it might need to, it will happen all the time. It might see false positives like this all the time and that's why it doesn't act on them right away.

if your car always sees empty space ahead as non-empty space, you probably shouldn't let the car on the road until you fix that. Once you fixed that, if the car sees that the space ahead is non-empty, even it can't classify it, it should slow down well before and warn the driver and continue with the braking if the driver is asleep/watching youtube. It is AZ, there is no rain nor snowflakes falling which would mislead the lidar. An object ahead - slow down and stop if you can't navigate it.

Presenting it as the AI-hard issue of misclassification is just an attention misdirection from and a whitewhashing/laundering of the foundational issue of knowingly letting car on the road with missing basic safety level of "don't hit objects in front of the car". Similar to the Boeing blaming 737 MAX crashes on the failed sensor.
Herman Miller Aeron, one of the better investments I've made.
Are we hearing "Quit" from people in the Bay Area and other hot tech spots where employees are in very high demand and everyone else with a more pessimistic view is in regions where there is a surplus of devs??

If you experience that type of treatment in Seattle, NYC, SF, etc you should quit immediately. That is not the norm and you don't have to put up with it. For everyone else, maybe remote gigs? People are killing each other for great devs in the biggest tech markets and most companies know they have to take care of employee happiness and culture to be competitive in hiring.
this. While it's an interesting article and thought experiment, I don't think anyone should be discouraged from trying to build the next ride-hailing, dating, or couch-surfing platform simply because others have already found success in it. Competition makes the world spin, and in the grand scheme of things, we're only just beginning.
Seems like there are still plenty of scenarios for power generation that aren’t easily amenable to wind and solar: mountainous, high latitude or small countries; at sea, underwater, or in space; on Mars; or in the event that storage technologies don’t pan out the way we hope.
"Renewables" are nuclear fusion with the actual reactor 90 million miles away, assuming wind is a product of heat. The amount of energy that can be produced is staggering, and there's no guaranteed that current "renewables" can keep up with our need.

>sounds ... environmentally preferable.

The main waste of fusion is helium, it's entirely possible that renewables and batteries are more damage to the environment.
> but I still have never clicked on an ad

Do you use Instagram and follow accounts on it? If so you're clicking on ads.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21448512.
Serious question... do we call it a "dark pattern" when the design was unintentionally flawed by incompetence?

Or is it only a dark pattern if the design intended to be deceptive by it creator?
Oh thank you for this explanation and warning, I am indeed contemplating using the React version of Ag-Grid (for the experimental rewrite of a relatively complex internal management app, written entirely in ExtJS 4, and I was wondering how well it would integrate into it (especially given that it has flavours for all the major frameworks, React being only one of them).
remember when 3dmarks presented superior performances if you changed the vendor id in a VIA chip to Genuine Intel?
Advertising isn't the big problem (IMHO), it's the tracking and surveillance. We give up too much for what we get back.
http://itsthisforthat.com (2010)

:)
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