skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that such a list is probably mostly the same as the wealthiest people due to the nature of capital gains. If you have a billion dollars, you get probably 10 million a year with the most conservative investments (in reality it's probably closer to a 5-15% rate of return). On top of that, the favorable tax treatment of long term capital gains means you pay way less in taxes than the schmuck who gets paid 10 million a year as salary.
Man talk about flash from the past. My MajorBBS based BBS was on Fidonet from 1993-1994 before I switched over to being a dialup ISP.

The guy who co-ran the BBS with me leaked our serial number after we had a falling out. Was “fun” trying to get support from Galacticomm after that, despite having the original manuals with the serial number printed on it as proof I really owned it.
It kinda reminds me of this visualisation from some survey of Americans in 2011.
https://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-is-worse-than-you...

The respondents weren't opposed to an exponential distribution as such; but the images of the disparities between what they thought was ideal, what they thought the reality is, and what the surveyors say the distribution is is still striking.
It's all fun and games until the locusts run out of crops to eat.
This reminds me of the old saying “honesty is the key to a successful relationship. If you can fake that you have made it”. At least in work you have to make way too many trade offs in order to survive so you can’t be really authentic. Some people are lucky that they fit in perfectly but I don’t think that’s true for most people.

It’s also much easier to be authentic if you are driven by an urge to succeed as measured by the business world or if you have a desire to fit in wherever you are. What can you do if you are wired to be driven by things that have no commercial value or don’t fit with the mainstream?
I only learned about this application of logarithms years after learning the definition. Usually the applications are not obvious to students and this goes on even at the university level.
It should be spread to the state / country level rather than being based on districts is my point.
>"Cheap real estate"

And the highest property tax rate in the nation.
I also remember it was $50/year for a time. A 100% increase/decrease. The fees were/are arbitrary and do not correlate to administrative costs.
Then why are you here? For your own sake, please leave if you are so unhappy.
Funny to hear that when we are comparing it to San Francisco. (Not trying to start a flame, I found this to be legitimately funny.)
And no Prop 13. Takes 1 or 2 reassessments before the screeching begins.
I wasn't able to find what the value proposition of Frink is compared to Soulver, other than the more-difficult UI.
Because you did not have a * button?
I lived in Dallas and it is the only place I've lived where people would scream homophobic slurs at me in the street. I wouldn't say I'd never move back, but the situation would have to be dire for me to consider it. Definitely cut your hair if you visit.
No one's talking about reselling Disney+ content.
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As a poor I certainly didn't have access to many modern conveniences. Especially when I had to deal with rotting teeth and dental abscesses without a way of affording the fix.
The parent comment never mentioned tax brackets. I think you're actually agreeing with each other.
>>The only set people with a financial incentive to “shill” are bitcoin/cryptocurrency supporters. More Shilling == higher prices == more lambos for those on the top of the pyramid.

Strawman. I won't answer it.

>>To think there is some dark force out there shilling for big banks to scare us from adopting a technology that supports a few transactions a second and requires more energy than several small nations combined.... pretty naive.

But central banks, bankers, big time capitalists and the federal government would never do anything outside of public interests?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/shark-tanks-kevin-oleary-bitc...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/jpmorgan-...

https://www.coindesk.com/former-fed-chair-janet-yellen-is-no...

https://www.coindesk.com/us-president-donald-trump-says-hes-...

For the record I don't own any cryptocurrency and never will because I don't believe in it's merits like you, but I am not so naive to think that private interests wouldn't collude against a digital asset highly risky to their profitable margins.
They are practical only to the one using them. I don't care about fluid dynamics when I stir my coffee with my well-designed spoon.

Perhaps the problem is that there is no difference between 2x + 1 = 0 and 3x + 3 = 0, they are the same kind of question but in my school days we have to do all these similar tasks for ... whatever reasons.

Then again, practice is a really good way to solidify one's understanding of a concept so its a hard thing to balance.
No? I'm not sure what the relevance of that is though?

I mean, it would certainly be right for the government to limit the increase in the cost of .org registrations to inflation, or better to cap the profit margin, since costs are likely to decrease, but just because it's right, doesn't mean it'll happen. .org domains are an artificial scarcity that wasn't even created by a corporation. At least the telephone was invented privately, so you could argue phone numbers are fair game, but with domain names even that argument doesn't hold. There's no reason a private company should be extracting economic-rent from it.
Yes, SF does rank #1 nationally for property crimes. It stinks, but most people value life more than property. Violent crime in the Bay Area is still much lower than national averages, and that's what most people concentrate on.

Also, San Francisco isn't the entire Bay Area.
So when is using this a good idea? And when would you not use this? It looks interesting. But maybe not.
I have made some similar career limiting moves in the past, and I regret none of them. The single thing I am most grateful for is being privileged to be in a situation where I don't have to dial down the snark to survive. I've known people for whom it would have been a "roof over your head" limiting move, and that sucks.

I do try to keep the snark to a minimum on hn though, because I firmly believe that I should only be an asshole to someone if I'm also granting them the opportunity to punch me in the face.

My apologies for the few times I've not done so.
> disproportionate contributions

Do you really argue that the people in the top 0.01% are contributing to society at a rate hundreds or thousands of times higher than the rest of the people?

And in the case of heirs, such as the Walton family, are they contributing so vastly more than the guy who mows people's lawns during the day and cooks their dinners in a restaurant at night?

Or how about the Renaissance folks. They (whether fully legally or secretly illegally) reap huge rewards yearly, certainly using some advantages and situations most people do not have access to. Are they likewise contributing to society so much more than the average person?

Oh wait, let's talk nurses and schoolteachers. They pretty clearly contribute very heavily to society, and they get paid pretty poorly. Are they really contributing less, by factors of tens or hundreds, than Larry Ellison?
The majority of site ads are affiliate ads. They are being blocked. The lower income folks have been hurt tremendously already. Analytics is suffering from blocks. Math runs business decisions re spending. No math equals bad decisions. Banner ads? Ineffective but why buy when good numbers are not available. The future online belongs to big tech and gorilla business as these good intentioned decisions kill the middle and lower class online. Me? Been running biz online for nearly 3 decades. The blood online is deep and getting bigger.
> What dramatically better tooling does SQL Server has?

I don't know about Oracle but SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) are vastly better than anything I've seen for open source databases.

SSMS is just a really good visual client with an excellent table/view designer, diagram builder and query builder with GUI management features that let you manage virtually every facet of your server and databases.

SSDT lets you treat your SQL schema, database settings and deployments like code, with versioning. All of your table schemas, views, functions, procedures, settings, seed data, etc. are stored as text in your git repo. When you're creating, it has excellent intellisense/autocomplete. You can use it to diff your schema and data against a given SQL Server database to generate migration scripts. You can also do data comparisons between your seed data and your server and you can diff schemas and data between 2 different servers without even having created an SSDT schema. Another very useful feature is that you can reverse engineer a SQL Server database that was already created in order to start your SSDT project. It also has visual designers for all of the aforementioned things. It used to be a separate tool, but now it's part of the free Visual Studio community edition. Both tools are free, as are various editions of SQL Server.

Also, SQL Server itself has had features for a long time that PG is just starting to get such as real Stored Procedures, ones that can return multiple heterogeneous result-sets, run transactions and do control of flow with SQL-like statements (IF/THEN, DO, WHILE, etc.) It also has table variables, which are like in-memory tables, that you can use as a faster type of temp table for certain sets of data.

Since I moved off of Windows for my workstations, I've been running SQL Server in Docker on Linux for the past few months - it's rock solid.
https://falconipuig.com/

they are lawyers in Ecuador
Maybe sample some with plenty of slang, or maybe a different language so that it ceases to be "spoken word"?
It says he "participated in a discussion that touched on using it to evade economic sanctions."

His defense is that "his presentation contained basic concepts that could be looked up online."

Since this is all I see in the article, it really looks like a somewhat ignorant prosecutor over-reaching. Unless there's some significant part of the story being left out, I can't imagine he goes to prison over this.
I don't think crowdfunding will work with enterprise budgeting processes. That's where the sustaining money comes from for most OSS development.
The shipped 4 versions were a consequence of the project's failure.

Like almost everyone else I kept to 3.3, totally ignoring 4.

Afterwards I actually ended up using DR-DOS 5 for a while, until MS-DOS 6 came out.
For anyone interested here is the build out of their HQ on the Circle T Ranch (Hunt Brothers owned it once) then Perot Jr bought it about 25 years ago and is turning into a financial hub. Fidelity is there along with Deloitte and TD Ameritrade just built a brand new complex about 1 mile away.

https://goo.gl/maps/whA2nM9YYGka55P5A

Schwab owns the whole corner there with plenty of room to expand, the Circle T Ranch is around 2500 acres.
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Because it is disputed whether it was "wrong" (in terms of effectiveness, not in terms of morality). It did achieve what it claimed. It just happened to be a rather blunt method of doing it.
I'm from New Orleans and will take all of the broken glass and addicts over NOLA's violent crime. It's not even a close comparison.
Yes, I heard that too.

Apple and MS basically bought their current incarnations of their respective OS at some point in the past.
TD Ameritrade is headquartered in Omaha. The HQ location choice is not driven by existing Ameritrafe footprint, or by the merger itself. The FAQ is simply addressing what will be, not starting that there was a cause and effect because of the proposed merger. Also, Schwab was already reducing SF headcount for years.

Also, afaik the merger is still in the prices of regulatory review.

All this being said, the merger likely gives a tactical opportunity to move HQ out of state without triggering a governmental review of some kind by pairing it with the merger event.
Exactly - the applicability has to mean something for the person. It could require several regressions before you get to a core interest of any specific student.
Great lecture so far. Haven't had the time to watch the whole lecture, but one thing I want to mention is that there are techniques to improve the buffer manager performance as for instance described here by Goetz Graefe:
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p37-graefe.pdf

I've implemented an even simpler solution for my Open Source Data Store (https://sirix.io) in that each page stores a number of references, which are itself lightweight pointer objects (in Java) and it simply stores an in-memory reference as well as a pointer to the location to fetch it from disk/a flash drive. If the buffer manager has these Objects as keys on eviction we can simply null the reference to the in-memory page instance.
It sounds like what wildcard is targeting is early stage startups with single digit number of developers that are still pivoting heavily. Otherwise, you would already have encountered enough "structural problems" to arrive at a basic data model. In which case, why optimize prematurely with an API at all? Why not just go with an everything included MVC framework such as Django or Adonis? The only early stage startups that I know of that have to have an API are mobile first so consider adding Cordova and React Native bindings for the client.
Yeah. Also from TFA:

> Schwab says it plans to retain a “sizeable corporate footprint” in San Francisco, but the brokerage firm has slashed its workforce in the city by 90% since 2000 while expanding branches around the country.

It sounds like this is just a good opportunity to cross another bridge.
Why were they even in SF at all?

I mean unless you're in the tech scene & need the valley synergies the trade off seems straight up bad
That's not unique to Texas, just assholes. I've seen it here in San Diego while walking through Hillcrest.
Seems like a reinvention of Knockoutjs.
I'm also from the US but I've never heard the term "engineering form." FWIW, Wikipedia thinks it's something a little different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_notation.
Seriously, Texans in the cities may be redneck compared to the rest of the country, but holy fucking shit are they friendly as hell. If you suck in social situations, you will find plenty of extroverts that will gladly make you feel included in a group of strangers.
Or they think there is actually more to elementary math than meets the eye
Few agree with you, San Francisco is in a dire state. I work here and I walk past passed out people with needles in their arms, human feces littering the sidewalk, women with their toddlers on the street asking for money. BART stations smell like garbage. There is a homeless, mental health and drug crisis happening all at once condensed into a small geographical region. San Francisco still has some charm, but it's hard to appreciate these days.
Copyleft doesn't guarantee payment and developers are not paid in patches. What you're arguing for is like-for-like bartering, which is a subset of all possible market exchanges.

The GPL creates neither excludability nor rivalrousness in the sense I am describing.
> Lots of comments here come off as very resistant to accepting the ideas presented here: that success at work is as much about the quality of your work as the effort made to connect with the humans in an organization evaluating the work.

It's not just a case of making an effort to connect with the individuals evaluating the work - it's that siloing your individual contribution, however strong, actually makes you more difficult to work with and your contributions less impactful.
That's okay!
Steve Capps is the original author and very well known. He wrote many programs for the original Mac. I expect this will make its way back to him and he will chime in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Capps
Only if one thinks .org has value over .anything-else. If one isn't hung up on having a .org at the end of their URL, there is a world of alternatives.
Discussed at length yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665984
>> Sometimes I envy the embedded systems people because nobody ever looks at the innards of their designs.

True, but the flip side is that nobody understands the complexity. Some will assume it must be easy, especially if you keep quiet about the challenges and just deliver mostly good stuff.

To your point, I was working on a hybrid system and one meeting dragged on because marketing was upset that the font was changed on the inverter. It was machined into the case, and they couldn't make the sharp interior angles needed. So yeah, even when you can see it, there may be hidden complexity.
Even better would be to run them off on a dot matrix printer.
"In the bleak midwinter" is an amazing recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPZn4x3uOac

But the people who say it doesn't strike a chord with them do have a point. Here's Myrone doing something similar, with 1/10th the complexity but 10x the feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUGkqXcFV4o
Campfires are artifical as in they are not the sun, and people were exposed to their radiation for millenia. A fire obviously emits most of its electromagnetic radiation in the IR band, but it the emission goes down right into UV. This is not exactly rocket science, just point a UV/Vis spectrometer at a fire and see for yourself.

I'm not quite sure why you think I should provide data - I'm not the person postulating the effect of blue light. But anyway. You can find examples of the sun's illuminance all over the net, for example Wikipedia has a list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminance

Illuminance usually only covers the VIS part of the EM spectrum, so all of about 380-700nm. So 1/4 to 1/3 of that is the cold light part.

The radiation emmited from a heat source can be determined using Planck's law. A campfire is about 1400K. Here you can see that the higher the temperature, the more the maximum radion shifts into smaller wavelengths: https://www.spektrum.de/lexika/images/geo/f4f1653_w.jpg

So obviously the sun with about 6000k has way more UV and blue light parts, but a campfire is still hot enough that the absolute amount of blue light emitted trumps every phone screen. Yes, probably more than 95% will be IR, but than again the overall luminocity of a campfire is about 10kW.

For light therapy and winter depression I refer you to the excellent chochrane review: https://www.cochrane.org/CD011269/DEPRESSN_light-therapy-pre...

As to my criticisms regarding most studies about the effects of light: You can look them up yourself, most of them apply to the studies linked at f.lux's research links: https://justgetflux.com/research.html

For example the top two studies there:

"Exposure to Room Light before Bedtime Suppresses Melatonin Onset and Shortens Melatonin Duration in Humans" used 8h room light and didn't check for blue light at all. Neither did they look at actual sleep patterns.

"The human circadian system adapts to prior photic history" : 6.5h of exposure, no blue light specifically, only melatonin, no actual sleep measurments.

Again: I'm not the person making claims here. I would be delighted to see some proper studies showing the effects of blue light.
Change of basis is covered in section 5.3 on "similarity". See in particular the subsection "Geometry of Similar Matrices".
>> I mean & I interpreted that the common user/man thinks of what (is the purpose) after hearing these site names.
>I don't see any evidence that people in general assume the name of a site must literally describe its purpose, or that anyone is confused when it doesn't. Amazon.com seems to do fine, despite not being a site about the Amazon.

Sorry if you misunderstood me, nowhere I meant to say that a site domain needs to be descriptive of its function. I meant that if you ask a common folk about facebook, they will respond with social media, instagram-> photos, youtube->videos. The domain could be anything, I was just stating that if common people could say what is that site about after listening the name.

>>Not many people outside HN Crowd or tech knows about reddit; many of those regular fols use Facebook for reddit-related things like discussions, meme, groups, meetings etc. So, for a common user (not HN Crowd), Reddit is unknown -> ????.

>Reddit ranks as one of the top 10 most visited sites among American users, and is in the top 20 worldwide. You can find articles about it surpassing Facebook in popularity last year.

Of course, the Reddit is Front Page of Internet, its the most visited site on all of my devices. When I have nothing to click, I always go to either reddit or /r/all.

My observation group in my above comments were people around me; my siblings, relatives, friends from India in India, Qatar, USA; by no means a representative sample but just people around me.
Ah, my mistake. Yes, that does seem... well, legally complicated, to say the least.
You are really mixing up authenticity, success, and fitting in. Each is its own thing.

Authenticity is being comfortable in your own skin and being the same person no matter who is around you. Fitting in is being what you think others what you to be. Success is a subjective measure of society.

> It’s also much easier to be authentic if you are driven by an urge to succeed as measured by the business world or if you have a desire to fit in wherever you are

No, this can be why midlife or other identity crisis happens. You wake up after 15-20 years of this and don't know who you are or where you are going in life.
I'm not dismissing the crisis- it's a separate conversation that can be had for SF, LA and Seattle. My call out is for this confusing picture painted online that the Bay Area is a crime ridden wasteland that should be avoided at all costs, which simply isn't the case.
Colorado spent millions to help kids read, will find out why it’s not working
If you are simply saying that it is "possible" then I agree with you completely. However from everything I have learned including the neural nets (there is actually quite a lot of insights we can gain from how they work. The myth that they are a blackbox is just that - a myth. There are techniques to understand them and visualizations that explain a lot of what they do) is that your thesis is unlikely, certainly we shouldn't give up at this point at the very least. I simply haven't seen anything that would indicate that it would be impossible to understand consciousness in the same practical mannter as the way we understand for example cars now (ie, at least enough to build one, at which point it can take over). In fact we might not even need to fully understand it (or understand on some deep fundamental concept level that you have mentioned) to be able to reproduce and improve it.

> There exists concepts in this world that are fundamental and cannot be modularized.

Out of curiosity, what are some of these concepts that you have stumbled upon that you would put in this category (preferably at least somewhat related to building AI or new technology in general)? I am sure there are some but it would be interesting to see specific examples.
This is better both for San Francisco and Texas, from a load-balancing perspective. Unless housing can catch up, large companies shouldn't be expanding in San Francisco.
You live in the Bay Area now? I've never had any problems in NOLA short of a close call to a home invasion at a acquaintance's five years ago (who was involved in things he shouldn't have been)
Brings back memories.

My first ever email was sent via a local BBS and relayed via Fidonet to the authors of WinZIP, asking them if they plan to support creating multispan arj archives on disk first so I can copy them and FDDs and be able to copy again a single failed archive and not restart the whole process from scratch if for some reason one of the drives had an error.