skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It scales linearly.

If you have 3 (or 10) times as much as I have, and we both invest all our money in the same interest bearing account, then after N years you will still have 3 (or 10) times as much as I have.

So, according to your model, the initial wealth distribution should not change. (Of course, you can argue that those with more wealth consume a smaller part of it, and that gives rise to inequality, but that's an issue beyond "compound interest").

EDIT to remove a typo
> even though it's the tenth or fiftieth or five hundredth time the same thing has come up

Immediate thought: merging topics is drastically different from closing or deleting them.

Slightly off-topic below:

Generally speaking, I would love a technological solution for QA redundancy. Saw way too many long forum threads that have asked same/similar questions over and over. Not politics and not from bad actors, but e.g. reviews of new devices etc, where everyone and their dogs asks about, say, battery life, every 10 pages. StackOverflow-like QA platforms provide some structure to this, but are limited to objective answers. For example, there's no SO for book plot reviews/discussions and SO format isn't really appropriate there.
Original source on the Internet Archive blog: https://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/for-the-love-of-literacy...
>The question then was there proper training and communication to the test drivers that it's never okay to look down at your phone.

I would be surprised if it involved anything more than an easily-slept-through safety video. Should have come with periodic checks for distraction.
am i missing something here? i thought that the county sent you a tax bill for the amount you owed and then you just paid the bill. that's how it's always been in numerous states that i've lived. heck... i even paid the tax on a credit card so i even got points ;) I then get an emailed receipt so i have a record, but also so i know that the payment went through. i can even refer to my credit card statement if there is ever an issue. also, if you are ever late or owe, the county has always sent numerous and i mean numerous letters saying so.
Knowing Subway's market cap now, would you invest in them as an angel investor? You'd be a billionaire right now.

They didn't become big by differentiating product. Their sandwiches aren't that special. They became big by coming into existence where people wanted sandwiches.
What's new here? I took the SAT in 2001 and checked a box saying it was ok to be contacted. Got tons and tons of junk mail from overpriced colleges I'd never heard of.
Here's an excerpt of an argument by Marcuse (by no means the only one to argue against Mill, in fact there are philosophers who question the entire justification for free speech, and I think they have a more interesting point, though they don't directly address Mill):

>Now in recalling John Stuart Mill's passage, I drew attention to the premise hidden in this assumption: free and equal discussion can fulfill the function attributed to it only if it is rational expression and development of independent thinking, free from indoctrination, manipulation, extraneous authority. The notion of pluralism and countervailing powers is no substitute for this requirement. One might in theory construct a state in which a multitude of different pressures, interests, and authorities balance each other out and result in a truly general and rational interest. However, such a construction badly fits a society in which powers are and remain unequal and even increase their unequal weight when they run their own course. It fits even worse when the variety of pressures unifies and coagulates into an overwhelming whole, integrating the particular countervailing powers by virtue of an increasing standard of living and an increasing concentration of power.

(From https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repr... published 1965.)
Imagine a world where everyone's house is supplied with free, practically limitless, cheap energy! We could start heating our homes better, finally put to the end worries about whether we left the iron turned on, power more sources of light!
Hm, but wait...
The more times someone feels the need to tell you a particular technology is inevitable, the more sceptical you should be.

Translation: "we need more money, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future".

People working on technologies which are truly "when not if" don't go around advertising it - they are too busy trying to be the one to profit off it before the next guy does.
I dunno, I heard and read so many times about CRDT that I wouldn't say it's nerdy interesting to just posting wikipedia page here.

Something more, some failure stories like [1] would be interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886883
I did not intent to praise Flutter, it's just amusing that Google's side project is in many ways more polished than Apple's main source of income.

Regarding bugs you have mentioned... I've seen worse stuff, but that's how it is with new technologies.
> tested on real-world databases
containing 500,000+ tables and 1,000,000+ indexes.

Would love to hear about this use case out of curiosity
Yeah, I think we might be talking about different things.

What I have in mind is a culture where personal boundaries are a bit relaxed, people are abnormally loud when communicating, etc. There is a sort of shallow resemblance to general sports culture.
Differentiation isn't just about the product. Marketing used to be defined as: product, price, place and promotion.

Many competitors compete and differentiate on just the latter three.
The memories come flooding back.

Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) was the most persistent in my day. They sent a 45 rpm record extolling all of their fine programs. In a moment of weakness, I put it on the turntable and was serenaded by the chance to study mortuary science on their campus.

It was a great tension release for the rest of the college cycle. Anytime an over-curious relative asked me about my college outlook, the answer was: "I'm going to Southern Illinois to study mortuary science."

That ended the conversation nice and quick.
The elephant in the room with "renewables" is batteries.

In order for renewables to be truly as convenient as grid power, there has to be a storage system of some kind at the site of use. Generally that means, in your car, in your home, etc.

The environmental cost of disposing of batteries hardly insignificant.
There many water dams which feed whole cities
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Yes, Apple.
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PyImageSearch is a fantastic resource for learning this stuff. Highly recommend it.
for sure, but you're missing the tax avoidance bit. Without tax avoidance, compound interest does nothing at most reasonable levels of r and t.
Since you're replying to me, I'll say that dichotomy doesn't exist in my mind. I don't think people who earn more should pay a higher percentage of their taxes, mainly for the reasons you list.
If course it is...it's a natural consequence of compound interest. One's ability to accumulate additional wealth scales exponentially with their level OF EFFORT.

Even a wealthy person can lose their money if they don't make an effort investing it properly. How do people build wealth from the ground up? They work hard each and every day and that effort COMPOUNDS. They get smarter, more opportunities present themselves, they get better creating value for others. When you make strangers happy, they reward you with their money- a fair exchange! This is how wealth is made - compound effort.
It's really nice on embedded systems for one. Share a single stack, but have blocking looking code. I really like the Rust model where astnc/await is mainly syntax sugar, and you can just code the state machine manually if you want.

Edit: It's also nice on servers, because even if you have memory for all of those stacks in a no astnc world, you def don't have cache for all of them. Splitting the data that needs to be saved between blocking points from the temporary data that gets you to the next block point (and reusing that memory on the next task) has benefits in a modern memory architecture.
I've been working my way through 'A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types'[0] and I've been finding them very approachable. I'm trying to implement them in Clojure as I go and that has been interesting. I've also starting looking at 'Mergeable persistent data structures'[1], and that one already has a repo with the code in Ocaml, but I have to admit that I don't understand that queue structure yet.

It does seem like a good way to dodge some of the tough problems that come up in distributed systems.

[0]https://hal.inria.fr/file/index/docid/555588/filename/techre...
[1]http://gazagnaire.org/pub/FGM15.pdf
Impressive terminal tool for working with JSON (not jq)
>Right, You find a way to get a car. If you can't or don't want to then you have to figure out yourself.

Right, because screw poor, disabled, elderly, children, international students (most of whom don't drive when they arrive here), and so on.

You know what, fine. The way pedestrians will "figure it out themselves" is by simply banning cars from cities, because, apparently, there can be no compromise.

As your response indicates, asking the drivers to go slow and look out for people in the suburbs is apparently too much. (I guess you also oppose spending money on constructing sidewalks, because why can't everyone get a car instead? – but that's beside the point of the argument).

Saying "get a car, or GTFO" is the entitlement I was talking about.
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None of us know, so why don't you pick a place and actually begin? You know, contributing constructive dialogue instead of just posting a useless, condenscending rhetorical question.
This is interesting. But can I know ahead which genes will be tested? Is it always the same set?

Basically, I'm asking: is this really true? Given a drop of your blood I can frame you today for anything plausible for under a $1000? It's kind of difficult to believe.
Right. And now that you have echoed Economics 101, it is time to look at these issues in a bit more detail. See for example John Kwak's Economism, in which he addresses this facile justification in some detail.

https://economism.net
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Yes that's the definitive use case. Usually you have to explicitly describe the wait, so you need to write the code a certain way. I think OP was referring to the fact that threading / forking processes is usually just as effective, and you don't have to rewrite all your code from the ground up.
Do you believe that that's the system we have? What did Adam Neumann "produce" that merited his $1.7B exit package?
All the mainstream ride sharing platforms seem to have more or less gravitated towards the same basic offering(s)--which is, perhaps not entirely surprisingly, essentially an app-enabled taxi.
Nobody mentioned salary amounts until you did.
There is a lot of truth to that, and that is a big part of what makes it so difficult to filter out the companies that are criticized legitimately from the ones that are criticized wrongly.

I've been around long enough to recognize that the criticisms often look virtually identical for both cases, so you really have to do a lot of the legwork yourself.

The one thing that I'm confident of with Uber is that they take in more from me as a customer than they pay the driver. Is it enough more to build a sustainable business? Considering the volumes and margin, one would hope so, and frankly I find it hard to understand how their spending is so high. But I've never tried to do the math...
Old racist laws from 1948 are hardly relevant to HOA contracts today. I know what a BATNA is, and those are also totally irrelevant to HOA dues and liens. No one is putting a gun to buyers' heads and forcing them to sign.
Can we avoid posting "1 day earlier" news? We're just going to dilute the discussions
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> Now imagine this happening under supersonic conditions.

Seems like even a big gust wouldn't make much difference at supersonic speeds in thin atmosphere.
Google, Facebook and Apple are all increasingly hated though, and can't figure out new ways to make money. The time may be coming where taking a shot at their profitable businesses becomes a possibility.
It's definitely an organized tactic among some groups. For example, there's a literal neo-Nazi handbook† that advises members of that group to disguise their sentiments in civility and/or 'jokes' in order to sneak it into mainstream discussion.

† https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/19/neo-na...
I think Automerge from Martin Kleppmann is super interesting :-)

However, as he told me a more sophisticated persistence layer is needed. Looking forward how it's emerging
Rust shines as a language that both allows threaded and async programming, especially by being able to model concurrency issues.

But async programming was always hampered by several issues, which made it's own code generation and syntax necessary. Mostly, that's borrowing over yield points.

This enables Rust to be a language about choice: you can easily mix async and threaded code, with both being supported by the language just as well. The magic is that the `async/.await` support doesn't come with a runtime, you can choose it yourself.

Want predominantly threaded stuff? Use a threadpool (and maybe `await` the result). Predominantly concurrency? Use a runtime like https://async.rs and let run your code on that.
No. Spectre does not depend on hyperthreading, only speculative execution.
Yandex has about ~1.5% revenues of Google. Baidu ~11%. It's not even a contest which rakes in the most money.
Creating a recognizable brand means answering the question about differentiation, though.

People know how KFC is different from McDonalds is different from Pizza Hut is different from Chipotle. Hell, most of the time they even know how Burger King is different from McDonalds (white meat chicken tenders and more meat in the burgers), how In'N'Out is different from McD's (simple menu, Thousand Island dressing, onion rings), and how Chick'Fil'A is different from KFC (sandwiches over buckets; Chick'Fil'A sauce; lighter frying). The extent to which these are viable as VC-backed chains is exactly the extent to which they can be differentiated in customer's minds.
That's the difference between APM vs EPM in Starcraft.
> Here in TX, they can place a lien on your house if you don't pay your dues.

It's likely that anyone can place a lien on your house by just filing the appropriate paperwork.
Note that the current implementation still needs thread local state, which is sometimes not available on embedded systems, but this is going away.
I think you'll find people on the lower end of the pay scale get the most abuse.
Id disagree here. Rarely will a $300K employee be the one on call.
>It seems there are only ever allegations

The company hired a third party to investigate, the accused person left the company of his own accord without contesting the allegations, the CEO made a public statement that he found the allegations credible. What in your opinion remains to be done in terms of "finding out the truth"?
From the same BYTE, something even today can be recognized as an absolutely amazing achievement:

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How are we defining production? They say Bezos makes $215M per day. Does he personally produce $215M in 'value' per day? Or do his employees contribute to it?
I think the author was expecting equal upvotes despite not making an effort to forward the discussion
Thanks for the correction! Is it more accurate to say that in Xi, CRDTs ended up leaking too much complexity for the purpose of synchronizing state between async components of the editor (like plugins) that run on the same machine, but not necessarily for the purpose of collaborative editing between users where there is significant latency?
You can use async network calls to handle multiple number of connections (in library code) yet use thread pool to write business logic (application code).

I'm not suggesting to just use blocking I/O API. Non-blocking API like select/epoll/etc is very useful and should be utilized whenever possible. I'm about those language features.
> It takes ~3,000 m/s of dV to slow down, and do a powered landing on the Moon.

With generous reserves, I guess. The speed on a low Moon orbit is about 1700 m/s, Apollo's LEMs had about (less than?) 2500 m/s delta-V for landing.

> It takes takes ~6.400 m/s of dV to slow down, and do a powered landing on Mars.

Seems too generous. Escape velocity for Mars is 5.027 km/s, so low orbital speed is about 3.6 km/s; more importantly, there is atmosphere - which maybe too thin to land safely on parachutes, but it definitely is going to reduce speed from orbital to some extent.
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The emergency braking system was likelt turned off because it had triggered too many false positives. (Abruptly braking too often also makes you a dangerous driver.)

So out of complete necessity, these cars need to be programmed to actually ignore pedestrians unlikely to cross into the path of the vehicle.

This is a tough problem because the AI has to identify the human (seems as if it did in this case) AND the intent. I've seen two recent videos of Teslas abruptly stopping for humans on the side of the road. One was actually a bus stop poster model and the other clearly had no intent of crossing the street and angry motioned the Tesla on.

Imagine driving by a group of joggers on the side of the road. Who can you pass safely? Who many stumble a bit into your path? Who will prepare to cross but first wait for you to pass by? Who will try to cross in front of your path? The micro-decisions and predictions made are very challenging to get right.
You should look up the no-due-process list of "terrorists" (some real, I grant) who have problems at airports. Then think about what governments like to do with lists of people in general.
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Google grew its revenue by 23% from 2017 to 2018. Sure, it's not a startup any more but still I wish I couldn't figure out new ways to make money like that.
Classic. Poor people just aren't working hard enough!
It makes sense that the essays might be different since the schools are different and are looking for different things.
You are right, if this was a code issue. But it's not a code issue. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. It's not a problem that can be solved with code. People vastly underestimate the power of brains due to lifetimes of science fiction anthropomorphizing machines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21250424
Dams are literally terrible in terms of ecological impact. The sooner they are all gone the better.
It's also pretty easy to hack in thread local state for a single threaded app.
Recognizing that it sounds bad is easy. Figuring out something that would actually be better in the long run for society is hard.

Any takers?

(Also, the "profit" part is a red herring. There's no way the county could have done all of this for less than the proceeds of the sale.)
You're assuming capitalism, which isn't listed as an assumption with the question posed.
It's a fair statement. Can HN provide a logical response instead of downvotes?
Most places have the opposite where the city would get the 8.00 and the owner get the remaining amount. Which would mean the city wouldn't bother.
Why shouldn't the coefficient be zero? I'm curious what your reasoning is.
Do we know what the number was in the 1950s? Back then housing was more affordable relative to income and CEO salaries were lower compared to the average.
Why is this approach nicer than event loops w/ async/await or goroutines? I think forcing humans to manually deal with continuations is not humane :)
Over the decades a lot of win32 code was written. You can expect that all changes from 1995 on were win32 API only
They can turn off telemetry then. Actions > words
This doesn't change the point you're making, but thankfully it was only 9/134 people according to the article's tagline. The mix of the word "nine" and the number "134" makes it hard to spot
$50 admin fee for "running" a toll on the Garden State Parkway... funny is it read my EZ pass on the toll booth before and on the exit, so not sure how or why they couldn't use common sense to find out that it was their error.

If I had run that booth, then I'd still be on the GSP right now.
Well, it was just an example, it wouldn't really work either way, would be too slow for HDDs and would still require handling of all the disk reliability and performance issues.

But if I were to do it today and store metadata in an SQLite database I would use a single database for all the shards and use its VFS API where I would add I/O scheduling, remapping of blocks with redundancy into different blocks and automatic recovery, marking of bad and slow blocks, and maybe even scrubbing. Looks like half of the storage engine already and it would still be somewhat slow.
Ok, more explicitly then:

This grab for the #1 slot analysis robs the richness of expression that businesses provide.

The trophy model implicates that everyone but a single group walks away losers. It's not a necessary model or, in my opinion, a healthy encouraging analysis. We are the most social species to ever exist, something that requires ruthless cutthroat individualistic competition leaves out the vast majority of humans who aren't like that.

In some markers, the players try to stomp on each other's heads acting like tyrants while in others they coexist peacefully. Not everyone is always trying to be a dick.
It's pretty unlikely that this is still the case. The article you link to appears to be citing a 2017 report which itself uses data from FY2015[1]. This means that it doesn't take into account the 2017 federal tax overhaul which, among other things, capped deductions for state and local taxes paid. This means high tax high income states will almost certainly be paying more in federal taxes. Unfortunately, I don't think the data is available to confirm or refute this yet.

[1]: https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2017-09-28_B...