skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I volunteer.

$10 million is enough that you can take 2.5% every year as $250k of income, and spend 0.5% on the fiduciary wealth manager's fees, and still have investment distributions and interest on the principal that outpace inflation in the long term. A household of one or two people can live its entire lifespan on that, without ever trading hours of labor for cash again, and then pass the same privilege down to a single heir, until civilization collapses.

$250k/year is a reasonable and sufficient retirement income. $10M is a plausible sum to accumulate through labor-selling alone, for one or two people each working for 2000 hours/year over 40 years, at an average combined rate of $175/hr, all while spending $100k/year on expenses and devoting $250k/year to savings. It does not blatantly flaunt the "diligent and/or intelligent work generates wealth" story.

The temporarily embarrassed millionaires all around the US can plausibly get there, if nothing else goes wrong, and they don't even have to cut expenses down, if they get paid enough per hour.

$250k/year is about 4x the median household income in the US. It can support most lifestyles less profligate than a person addicted to luxury travel, high-stakes gambling, top-shelf companionship-for-hire, or ultra-pure cocaine. And $250k/year can still be spent wisely and effectively by one household.

The thing about the government spending the money poorly is that they are still actually spending it. Spending is better for the poor than investing. When you spend money, the person you trade it to can go on to spend all of it themselves. When you loan it to them, or invest it, they have to give it back someday; it has strings attached. So the advantage of the wealth tax is in taking money that is not being spent, and putting it back into genuine circulation.

So then I take this reasonable number, and pad it by one order of magnitude, to absorb the edge cases that are still reasonable in person, but look bad on paper. Start the tax at $100 million in accumulated wealth, and tax 2.5% of everything in excess of that. Then deduct from that tax the payer's total spending (not loans or investments) in excess of $2.5 million, which is money that will count as someone else's income. If they can spend that much, the government doesn't have to spend it for them, and that spending will get taxed at a higher rate anyway, as income.
Thank god the browser provides the text input component otherwise every designer would have their own take on that too.
How long until someone is coding up a minivan?

https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
Sort of the way white people dismiss the problems of black people. Easily.

For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.h...
Dear awesome Haskell writers. You are writing great articles but I can’t understand the code examples as Haskell is too far from the programming languages. Can you provide examples in TypeScript / Rust / Swift / Reason or another C like language? If not, I’m curious why?
Love, Iddan
This is a really bad analogy. It's not that the debate is "the tax should be 0" it's "how high should the tax go"

So what's the ceiling?
The CVE is still embargoed[1] as of the time of this comment. =/

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13720
I would love to launch from a carrier. Was in the Air Force but not flight crew. Saw a lot of great aircraft there...from the ground. :)
> they wanted to profit off the stolen data

At least Google has some incentive to keep the data for themselves (to target ads at you), rather than sell it to third parties.

Still, I’ll be looking at different brands next time my Fitbit breaks.
Yes, you're quite correct, and I don't think a nit. That is much more accurate.
...And now we've invented zeppelins again
Even if they were universally accessible, you don't want your kid to be stuck with "last year's model" so to speak.

Today's genetically improved babies could be sub-optimal by the time they hit kindergarten and just plain old obsolete before they go into high school. And the bad news is, I could see the rate of improvement increasing over time. So that material improvements are being made year to year.

Doesn't bode well for when you're going to look for a job at 29 and you have to compete with 28 year olds. Even worse if you're 29 and you have to compete with 25 year olds. And heaven help you if you're 29 and you have to compete with a 20 year old.
isn't this just a specific case of instagramification? it's all about social esteem/validation and not actually appreciating the art (or vista, architecture, culture, or anything else).

most folks wouldn't otherwise get anything more out of seeing the mona lisa in person than from a (high-res) photo. maybe there's some value in seeing it in context, but an art book is likely more informative and thought-provoking, since it can delve deeper into why one should care in the first place.
Why would they unless they are suffering at the bottom? How does it actually affect you? Or is it just envy of those who have more?

If political power is created from economic power, then you're just transfering even more power to politicians by creating wealth taxes. It is concentrating it further.
IMO the argument isn't that you have 5 generalists, but rather that you might have 1 FE engineer, 2 software engineers a DBA and a Devops engineer (or at least 5 Software engineers that are more or less 'specialists' in those domains)

This allows you to have a self-contained micro-team that can approach each value-add opportunity from the perspective of the overall solution, without any of the bureaucracy of communicating with someone outside of the team.
Wait, WHAT?

How are people going to use a DNA database to commit genocide?

How are these people going to be killed en masse? What would stop someone from using the same method without a DNA database?

This argument makes no sense...the thing stopping genocide now is not the inability to identify people based on their genetic characteristics.
Ask HN: Which thing annoyed you the most during this year's WebSummit?
Isn't the institution of the ombudsman has this purpose?
If you don’t mind, please write a longer version. It’s very interesting to hear how other countries operate. This one-minute was already intriguing.
Personal attacks are against site guidelines. A simple factual rebuttal suffices here.
$5/month/camera for Nest, vs $5/month for unlimited cameras. But of course Nest has a lot more features, 24/7 video archiving, tagging, etc.
Rails actually did turn the HEAD into a GET back when this code was written - https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/e17e25cd23e8abd45b170646...
Your assumptions are basically all wrong.

The pension administrator is not corrupt. Their current assets are 101% of what they need to be to cover their liabilities, assuming they can use returns on the assets to pay for the liabilities, given some standard set of assumptions about investment returns [1].

The "shortfall" is about a "wind-up basis", or "buy-out basis", which means assuming that the scheme sells its assets and uses the proceeds to buy annuities. Buying annuities is a really expensive way to provide a pension, so their current assets aren't enough to cover their liabilities this way. But they're not going to do this! Neither the administrator nor the members want to do this! The private people are not arguing over the private money, they're all perfectly happy with each other. But the law requires that a pension fund has enough assets to do this!

Why does the law require this? I have no idea. I'd have to dig out Hansard or white papers from the mid-'90s to find out, and that is a bridge too far. But it seems clear that the problem here is entirely derived from government regulations which don't align with what the private people involved want.

[1] https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2018-01-11a.578.5
It seems to be part of a larger framework which looks something like an in-browser OS.

Here's their paper, mentioned in the GitHub page (PDF format): https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/doppio.pdf
Okay boomers...
I'm not even remotely interested and haven't heard a word about it from anyone I know. I don't like throwing around words like evil much any more but I don't like Disney and can't see why I would want the service even if I did.
Unfortunately it looks like just another bureaucracy with opportunity to appoint friends and supporters, but no real teeth or legal authority:

"-no remedy or relief is available for failure to meet the 2050 target or an emissions budget, and the 2050 target and emissions budgets are not enforceable in a court of law, except that if the 2050 target or an emissions budget is not met, a court may make a declaration to that effect, together with an award of costs

-a person or body may, but is not require to, take the 2050 target or an emissions budget into account in the exercise or performance of a public function, power, or duty"
As of the moment, the digital version can't be used as ID
Crashpad – The Podcast for Failed Startups
I'm interested to see an example of a claim made by religion that can be experimentally reproduced.
> I also have a way to beat adblockers

You'll never beat uBlock origin.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21036260
Exactly! If we had a DNA database we could quickly clear people as innocent.

Instead we rely in inaccurate authentication measures like birthdays and names and photos...hence endless suffering.

DNA would positively or negatively identify people.

Besides, people are already voluntarily doing this at airports as part of the CLEAR program. So your horrible awful terrible nightmare scenario...literally goes on every day at major American airports.
I'm a big fan of contextual laws with expiring timelines. One size fits all laws that are used like hammers for every industry and every company size are very destructive (the positive data supporting things like minimum wage laws are almost always limited to a few industries like mega-chain fast food restaurants, while there is plenty of evidence of harm for young and temporary workers). The conditions of marketplaces also constantly change where expiring/renewal should be a function of the policy.
Really looking forward to ShapedArray. Eventually a lot of what one might do with Python may be available in Swift.
Go Modules: v2 and Beyond
beatitiful! please tweet that so I can retweet it
Similar situations crop up time after time. But because it happened so long before, most people don't even know that it has happened before, and tend to do the same things to 'fix' the problem as was done previously. Naturally they fail or succeed, just like their forebears failed or succeeded.

Hence the saying "those who refuse to learn from History are condemned to repeat it". or its cousin "there is nothing new under the sun".

For us history buffs, it's always fascinating to watch the rerunning of historical patterns: "Don't the stupid bastards know what happened last time?"

Case in point: the Thucydides Trap leading the US and China slowly but surely into war. My estimate is Spring-Summer 2020. Any later than that and the US is bound to lose.
> Okay, what about more complex cases? E.g. how do you describe type "such value doesn't exist in the db table yet"?

If that's supposed to be an error state then you just throw a different error.

If it's not supposed to be an error state, then you can have something like a function that accepts a type of "Input" and returns a type of "DBTrackedInput" and in that function you do your saving to the DB. Then things which only want to work with values that are in the DB accept types of DBTrackedInput. That prevents you from passing something which hasn't been saved in the DB to those functions.

And you can expand from there, maybe the function that saves to the DB only accepts input of type "ValidatedInput". So you first have a function that accepts an "Input", validates it, and emits a "ValidatedInput". Then you have other functions, like your DB saver, which can say "I only want validated data" and still other functions which can say "I only want data that's been saved to the DB".
If we're going the content-aware route, can't the compression scheme just be Base64-aware?
The submarine: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I just started a podcast interviewing founders and employees of startups that were crushed by the market. We just released episode #1 with the first employee of the first ride-sharing startup, Sidecar, that ended up falling to Uber and Lyft. Enjoy!
No emoji’s in code reviews? I have a hard time seeing how that helps instead of hurts things.

What was the reasoning behind it?
How is it hoarded? Becoming a billionaire requires creating massive value where millions of people willing pay you. The means of production that you leverage is due to capitalism, and the same freedom is offered to anyone else.

Nobody complains when the entrepreneur goes bankrupt from a failed business. Is society going to absorb those debts too then?

Wealth is power, but raising taxes is transferring it to politicians who already have political power. It's only being further concentrated, and that's a dangerous precedent that we can see from state-controlled economies like Russia and China.
How do you ensure the other party doesn't interpret "Why did you do it this way?" as an aggressive question?
I think it's straightforward, but it took me quite a while to do correctly in my dns project.
5 gallon bucket, kitchen 33 gal trash bags, foam swimming pool 'noodle', paper towels (for absorbtion)

It's not environmentally friendly, but cheap for a temporary portable toilet.

Note: cut the pool noodle down and it sort snaps right on to the bucket.
The Rag (Redshift Analyst Guide): What Is Redshift?
> are counting down the days until it launches

I don't understand - Disney already has a streaming service - DisneyLife. Why's everyone talking about Disney+ like you can't already stream Disney's classic movies, and Marvel, and Star Wars content, all in one place?
What if we work to make air travel less useful. Find reasons why people air travel and eliminate them. For example, conferences where a whole lot of nothing happens - and they 're usually seen as an excuse for mini vacation. Business travel is often a game of persuasion that should be done over skype. Apparently the #1 reason people travel is education & training.

The idea of a battery plane sounds too good to be true , and it 's probably decades away
IPD alignment is adjustable on most headsets nowadays. My experience is anecdotal anyway and I fully accept that some people can't handle it.

That said, being on a boat for hours is hardly something we were evolutionarily designed for either, yet no one writes scare mongering articles and posts about that. So you might be doing a disservice with all this worry you're stirring up.
> If we had a DNA database we could quickly clear people as innocent.

Only when you have a sample to compare it to that definitively came from the perpetrator (not just “was found at the scene and can indicate that whoever it came from was present”.)

That's actually not all that common.
Show HN: CloudArchitect – Freehand Multi-Cloud Architecture Diagrams for iPad
Dead iddan,

Haskell is in fact a programming language, despite what the phrasing of your comment might imply. Translation from language to language is often difficult, we don't do typically do it from English to say Spanish not because it wouldn't be valued but because we may not have the same expertise in Spanish and it would be expensive to hire a person to do it. Expertise is important, because key ideas may get lost in translation.
"an example would be increasing the minimum wage, $15 an hour gets thrown around and would provide workers with a living wage"

Not in most of California or any other 'wealthy' state, it wouldn't. I know people making $18/hr and more than half of their post-tax income is going to rent ALONE.
The same way they open-sourced Android?
Can you clarify which statements in the parent you're asserting are counter-factual?

The parent seems to assert:

1. the parties function as controlled opposition

2. the Democratic Party is pseudo-left

3. after the 1970s, the two parties have had ideological continuity

4. one example of this ideological continuity includes some (preference for? belief in? rhetorical advocation of?) austerity* "for the people"

5. another example of this ideological continuity includes largesse (i.e., generosity) "for the military, corporations, and ruling class"

6. the ideological continuity is obvious, but obfuscated in public discourse through various culture wars

* I'm not clear on what definition(s) of austerity the parent has in mind here. This could be the general pol/econ definition, but the direct contrast with largesse makes me wonder if the more general "severity" definition is also important.
Your original criticism was that a process would crash while holding a lock.

I guess we need to wait for the arxiv to come back and read the paper for the details.
I suppose it's a great time to be a creative professional in TV/film (not sure whether that distinction even matters anymore).
I can’t say I agree with this thread. Oftentimes I’ll say “It seems like <bad thing>, I would probably <different approach>.” After years of doing software development I’m well accustomed to side effects, business constraints, legacy compatibility, time, etc forcing a solution that seems overly complex at first look but is actually necessary and sufficient. I want to explain to the person where I’m coming from and give them a fair chance to refute my perspective. Rather than assume I’m correct from the get-go and start using flowery language to get them to change.

At the end of the day I feel like our goals should be aligned to create the ideal balance of software for the larger goal. They should also be able to think critically about the problem I see and the solution I might offer.

If the person seems to be doing something boneheaded over and over after I’ve spent literally days, weeks, or months explaining easier and better solutions, and I keep getting forced to deal with it, then I may well conclude there are no extenuating factors and “this code is shit” just because of the person’s ego.

If somebody starts asking me to ‘walk them through the code’, that’d be a red flag to me. If this is someone technical, then I’d expect them to be able to follow the code themselves. If this is someone non-technical, then I expect that giving them knowledge is going to be more dangerous than useful.

It’s also disingenuous and feels like it creates a sort of prisoner’s dilemma. If I’m open about the pros and cons and details of my ideas, but they’re closed and use persuasive language to advocate for their own ideas, I don’t feel like it’s really a collaborative process anymore. They’re taking a route that gives them a distinct advantage, not because their ideas are better at meeting the overall goal, but because they’re tapping into people’s subjective preferences and drives to further their own self-interests.

Lots of companies do have this culture, but the end result seems to be to create an echo chamber where a blind eye is turned to vast inefficiency. Oftentimes this seems to be things that are hard to quantify like user experience and reliability or security, where you silently lose customers without a ticket being opened, so there’s no business pushback to bad technical decisions that hurt the product.
Yes, encapsulation sometimes conflicts with the borrowing rules. After all, this is not so surprising: enforcing the borrowing rules requires to follow every concrete access to resources, while encapsulation aims to abstract them away.
Agreed. This is a corner case because Rails encourages you to route different request verbs to different endpoints via the `resource` routing scheme. The situation played out like this because of handling GET and POST via the same action which should not have been done and in general is not something Rails encourages.
Agreed... I almost looked it up before I hit "reply". I didn't start seeing the container native/GraalVM stuff in Micronaut's tweets until more recently, but that doesn't mean anything. Good info to know. Thanks!
Archived link: http://web.archive.org/web/20191107195004/https://www.nytime...
Yes - a lock can redirect people trying to acquire it, rather than queueing them. So processes need a lock to access a resource, but there are enough resources for everyone to get their own without waiting, and enough that if a process crashes holding one it doesn't cause anyone else to wait. That's not a 'simple mutex' though.
I just get a "The camera has failed to load" message, and the link to the "Please see our faq for reasons why" is just a link to the homepage, not any faq.
All CEO bios like to begin by noting how early they wake up, and how the work out every morning at 6am at the very latest. I used to think this was a form of self-aggrandizement. "I'm a powerful CEO because I have superhuman discipline and stamina that you can't even imagine!"

Now I just wonder: am I lazy?
Even if their decisions are sometimes unambiguously wrong-headed. It’s just an experience thing, but I’m trying to figure out how to tell them ‘trust me, I’ve made this mistake before, please don’t do it’, without trying to explain the 2 or 3 years of experience that prompt it.
We were told back in September that the liquidity injection then was a one-off response to a freak occurrence, nothing to worry about, won’t happen again.
LessWrong can be reasonably characterized as a recruiting ground for pyramid schemes and/or a cult of personality. It is an attempt to reframe libertarianism as apolitical and as the only rational, correct course of action. Effective altruists are urged to donate to unaccountable AI research projects controlled by LW essayists.

For many reasons, I don't believe it's responsible to link people there.

Some starting points below, but please do your own research:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
Vue.js Composition API
But only purists would do that

Perhaps the same sort of space nerds who still call Dish Network "Echostar."

/Waves hand.
>This statement is simultaneously too vague to be wrong and too contentious

We can't know if it's too vague and too wrong at the same time. </humor>
Their advertising and announcements seem to be very well executed, watching some relatives scroll through Twitter/Facebook recently showed a pretty large proportion of D+ ads.
If you don't call white a "race", what do you call it? An ethnicity?
Don't have to cancel it... All that debt is in US dollars. Just print so much money that you have 20% inflation per year for four or five years. Problem will be fixed. It's a scam you can only pull off once (after that the dollar isn't going to be the world reserve currency anymore), but it's a scam you can pull off once.
I can’t accurately estimate non-trivial software. I’ve never met anybody who can accurately estimate non-trivial software. I’ve never seen anybody claim to be able to accurately estimate non-trivial software. Yet for some reason people still insist that estimating non-trivial software is not only possible, but trivial.
DisneyLife is geo-restricted if i'm not mistaken, D+ will actually be in the US.
It isn’t cybercriminals. Cybercriminals pretty much never have top tier 0day. This one is North Korean intelligence, and they get far more value out of it than Google is willing to pay.
so basically all the common reasons why every deadline is missed. nothing new here.