skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Write a simulation where you have n entities with an equal amount of resources. Now choose two entities at random and let them "trade", where the outcome is random but fair. You will get a "wealth distribution" that is not a gaussian normal around the average but more like a poisson distribution. And this is even with no difference in competence of the market participants.

You can add various corrective terms to make get "equality of outcome", but to get to a gaussian distribution around the average you need really drastic/totalitarian measures.

The best system from a pure math POV would be a flat tax combined with universal basic income. But unfortunately it is naive to assume that this is politically viable.

Politics largely is selling a particular group an advantage over the general population in exchange for votes. And a flat tax / basic income system is just too simple for that.
Never mind the UI. I wanted OS/2 Warp, but it wouldn’t boot on my machine because the RAM’s parity method was not the IBM way. Or at least that was roughly the error code.
Is that a serious question? Bill Gates provided a very valuable service that runs most personal computers to this day along with productivity tools that have improved almost every business in the world. He also built one of the largest companies in the world that now employs over 100 thousand people. If there is anyone who should be disproportionately rewarded it would be Bill Gates. He now has a large fortune, which after paying the highest tax rates possible he can invest in other companies further adding to the economy or give away to improve the world altruistically.
It’s not just a matter of disagreement— take a look on here, Reddit and Twitter and you’ll find a swarm of people making it seem like the Bay Area is a dystopian hellhole. I was legitimately concerned about my move before I got here.
After I wrote that, I thought: maybe lots of people think that slack is for that. I think you are right.

But, I do also think that a crucial distinction is that most people assume water cooler talk isn't recorded. I have several co-workers who have said something in slack, then noted this is probably available to the boss, and then deleted the comment (who really knows if it is actually deleted and not available to the boss as a paid upgrade!). The point is water cooler talk is risk free, and I think at least an important part of those conversations with your coworkers should be experimental and searching, and having a surveillance layer over there prohibits (or inhibits) that.
Just click "Temporarily" or "Permanently" to bypass the block, if you don't mind the tracking.
there is nothing new on the internet since a long time, it's old ideas scaled up.
Novelty? Quite a lot of that has been driven out already.
We have been able to teach them to do trivial tricks on demand, but we can't teach them to be productive members of society. We haven't even been able to teach a single other species to do factory work, which is the simplest work imaginable for humans.
As someone in constant severe pain, I hope that this new drug is as potent and harmless as they hypothesize.

I often read about new and wondrous painkillers, and never hear about them again after that initial flurry of journalistic over excitement. They disappear in much the same way as the various cures for cancer that have been hyped over the years.

I desperately hope that one of these wonder-painkillers will make it to market within my lifetime.
You're just describing our psuedo free market society. Why stop there? It's who you know, it's luck, it's timing, it's who you're paying off, it's who you're lobbying, it's how much money you already have, etc.
And traffic out the wazoo, and few good alternatives to driving.
i mean, hellooo, we are in a nested thread
I never understood people that questioned the practical applicability of math. Surely they must realize that these things are so elementary that there is no way there was no practical use for them. Logarithms specifically allow you to multiply values quickly by looking up their logarithm in a table, add the values and do a reverse lookup in the same table. This is the foundation of slide rules, which is the way engineers did calculations before computers were common.
Its because those that control the majority of the money also control the majority of the power. Us plebs don't have the power to fix the tax code. The US tax code is a mess and its very unbalanced, where the folks in the upper middle pay all of the taxes with the outliers on either side paying very little (on a percentage basis).

I know a few folks in the top percentiles that feel like they pay the same number of dollars or more than everyone else - they see this as fair. They seem to miss the fact that they get to keep a larger percentage of their money every year. If you get to keep more of your money every year than everyone else then its easier to build your wealth at the expense of everyone else.
The purpose of these exercises is always to push the perceived issue on to some other. So if you are union tradesman in NYC pulling down $90k/year you don't want to hear about the top quintile, you'd rather talk about the top 5%. If you are software engineer making $250k you don't want to talk about the top 5% but instead point to the 1%. If you are a specialist physician making $600k/year (or the subsidized journalist child of specialist physician) then it's not really about the 1% but instead about the .1%.

And so forth and so on. This is far more about resentments and insecurities than policy.

The fact of the matter is if you want to re-adjust the economic landscape towards the poor in a meaningful way it is going to realistically require harming the economic interest of all the current winners -- from the $90k/year tradesman all the way up to Jeff Bezos. In all likelihood it will probably also mean higher prices for goods and services as well as higher unemployment. Maybe those trade-offs are totally worth it, but we should be adults about these things and not pretend there's some magic policy that's going to make everything great for everyone except some tiny cabal of not-us that's probably evil anyway.
And no state income tax.
In the US we call this engineering form.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E-notati...

I misread the question though and now realize it’s not needed.
Will never read and understand anything as complex as Humpty-Dumpty.
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The direct quote from the main paper author seems to say that indirectly: "if this proves successful and leads to a new medication, it will significantly reduce the risk of death by overdose from opioid medications such as codeine.”
It's not a dump... it's more like one giant suburb with the component cities redeveloping their cores.
I'm working on something that should be the best place to find any media... unfortunately the VidAngel vs Disney lawsuit has made things a little tougher. Fair use took a big blow there.
Even though there is not much organized crime and no longer the same level of gang activity as 10 years ago, as a matter of policy, SF tends to either not convict or give lighter sentences to your everyday crime like shoplifting and breaking car windows though. The consequence is that there is a lot of broken glass on the street.

I'm originally from a much rougher part of the US than SF. Walking on the street here at night is still a relative dream (but not at all like in Asia).

(Also, another uniquely SF policy: blatant abuse of opioids, etc. here are not considered to be criminal.)
i keep building sites that dont make any money
keenmaster's post is about Twitter's potential for growth or success, and it frames calculations one might do for nested conversations.

What do you think about keenmaster's post? If you think there's a better framing, then by all means, lead the room.
Yeah, and he stopped doing all that in 2004. Why does he deserve the profits from the hard work done by thousands of engineers to make Vista, 7, 8, and 10, which he had absolutely nothing to do with?
> Is anyone else getting bored with this kind of

People who write don't earn a great deal of money. Nor (typically) do they have the potential to do so. Other professions can at least dream that they will hit it big or earn a good steady income if that is not the case. People at the bottom can't even dream but 'they know their place'. News articles with head lines like that draw readers sure but I think it's more than that ('people who write...'). This is human nature. Very generally the middle class that are employed and not taking on credit card debt and spending over their means (which they do) don't care that there are super wealthy people.

What is to stop people in some dirt poor foreign country from talking about how it's not fair that people in the US, even our poorest, very likely have it better than they do? (Well nobody other than the writers in our country will say anything and quite frankly nobody in our country would care enough to give them anything that we have so it doesn't matter). When was the last time you heard of a tax specifically to help people in dirt poor countries? (Not talking about aid but actual 'we will take your income', well never).

You know what has changed more than anything? What we know about what others are earning and what they have that is what material goods.

As many older HN readers will probably agree when I was growing up their were the Rockefellers, Howard Hughes and maybe a few other people. There were movie stars and the Beverly Hillbillies. You didn't really care that they were wealthy it was just the way it was. There was no revolt of the masses. Sure there are more people will money today but what there is grossly more of is attention and that it's in everyone's face (and of course the people who write and broadcast about it).
The Japan difference for life expectancy could just be because Japanese men work themselves to death more often than not. Women do as well, but there's also lots of pressure to get them out of the workforce.
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> I also don't like abstract sockets at all. They're vulnerable to squatting attacks.

TCP and UDP port numbers are the same. Anybody can bind any port number >= 1024, which blocks another server from binding that port.
Friendly if you're the right political party and orientation, I hear.
Which is why taxation needs to get higher for higher incomes (no matter what kind), which would flatten that curve. Otherwise societies always end up with only token upward mobility and de-facto aristocracy.

Often taxation gets to its highest point at the basically high average household level though. In Germany for example top income tax is ~41% and already starts at about 4500EUR / month.

But actually rich people pay a maximum of 25% on interest/shares etc because they don't actually have a salary.

Basically politicians and common people are being played. The 'richer' middle level incomes are played against the lowest income levels while the really top levels in Enterprises and the Ultra-rich are never mentioned. On the contrary, companies especially play the 'jobs' card to get to pay even less taxes.
Hmm... that is interesting. Guess I will have to see if it uses native controls and is handicapped accessible. Last one is a deal breaker for a "real" UI library.
In America the top 1% control about 40% of the money, with most of that, as this article shows going to the wealthiest. In Denmark its roughly 20% of the money to the top 1% - the lowest inequality of any of the OECD nations. At the same time we have political movements dedicated to wrecking our social safety nets in an attempt to get us back to "The Jungle" style nastiness - often funded by that same fraction of a percent at the top.

So, some bitterness there. :D

Or, more simply, your country doesn't have anywhere near the same systemic and cultural issues the US does currently.
I was a huge fan of this concept. It has been invented independently by people on the right (Milton Friedman) and the left. But unfortunately that is not how politics works. Politics is selling a particular group an advantage over the majority in exchange for votes. That is true both for the left and the right, the only difference is which groups they target.

And a fair tax is just too simple. Politicians wouldn't have anything to sell anymore...
> The entire photography community begs to differ.

Also ZFS. Part of its purpose and design goals was countering bit rot (as well as device hostility to keeping data safe), as Sun had customers affected (even with ECC). Hence the end-to-end checksumming amongst other features.

scrub exists pretty much just for bit rot: you run scrub regularly, it goes over the disk, checks that every block checksums properly, and if they don't[0] it repairs the data using the non-corrupted copy (assuming you have one).

[0] and your dataset is replicated, note that even if you don't use a raid configuration you can mark important dataset as to-duplicate for this purpose (this is not equivalent to device redundancy, it's a feature which exists solely for bitrot / corruption protection)
Relative to Dallas, yes - relative to SF it's quite a bit cheaper.
Westlake's median price per square foot is $392, SF is $1068. The surroundings of SF don't get much cheaper. Dallas is $204/sf.
https://www.zillow.com/westlake-tx/home-values/
https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/

https://www.zillow.com/dallas-tx/home-values/
FWIW, I got the same answers.

1. 12 edges * 6 non-corner pieces per edge.

2. There are 111 digits there. You can't keep six nines and have enough digits left. So you keep five (from 9, 19, 29, 39, 49), and now have six digits to keep from 5051525354555657585960. It can't start with 8 (or you still won't have enough digits left), so you choose 785960.

3. First notice that 0+...+10 = 55. To make it end in 2, you have to discard the 3. In general if you have n+...+(n+10) you discard n+3. Now n+...+(n+10) = 5.5*(n+(n+10)) by Gauss' trick, and subtracting (n+3) you have 10n + 52 = 2012.

Very much doubt I could have solved them in elementary school(!) though.
It would need to be a real big exodus for property tax revenues to go down. Prop 13 limits and associated low turn property turnover means a large amount of the tax roll is assessed under current value. During the 2008 real estate crash, few of the California counties saw a decrease in property tax revenues.
I agree that there's lots of people online who make exaggerated negative claims about San Francisco, and my best guess as to why is that it's part of the coastal/inland, liberal/conservative cultural divide/war. It's easier to put others down than to fix your own mess, and frankly, California's economy and social services are the envy of almost every other state.
Do you anticipate passage of an email or domain name monopoly law? Could such a thing be passed (i.e. what government would enforce it)?
A bit OT, but does anyone have any advice on improving page relevancy quality scores?

My site is focused only on relevant content in a particular infosec niche, and is well written - yet quality scores across the site are 2-4, and have been for the entire site history, which spans almost 20 years. Which means we pay more for ads.

I've been through the usual guides, and I can't find anything actionable - they all basically boil down to "have relevant content" - but I do, dammit!

I've also taken up Google's frequent offers of free help from an expert on 2 occasions. Both times all they did was try to get me to increase my spend (e.g. enabling the search network etc), and parroted about "writing relevant content", even though both agreed that the content seemed very relevant to them.

The site has been rewritten from scratch a couple of times over the years - no change.

I even paid a copywriter a couple of years back, but the tweaked content still resulted in the same 2-4 quality scores.

I'm considering switching to a different domain, closing the AdWords account and opening a new one, but I've no idea if that would actually change anything.
Colorado City, AZ Is Another great example. It seems if you want to See some weird stuff, closed off religious communities are the place to be.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170726-the-polygamous-t...
Holy smokes - I 'ran' into this website a few weeks ago whilst cleaning up an old computer.... and chuckled (my copy that I had saved on this computer is/was old - lets just say that).

And then I chance upon it being talked about on HN. Small world and maybe the universe is telling me something ;-)
I would be curious to see the ROI for someone like Schwab for staying in the Bay Area.

Does the reduce capital costs of people, taxes, and buildings outweigh the talent pool in the area? Makes me wonder what the numbers look like.
I think it also depends on how far you've got to go. Anyone can do 18mths, but doing it for 20 years is sad.
Eh, what are you saying is mutable here, exactly?

The only way of getting a 0.5 Gini ("absolute equality") is if everyone is earning the same, which is ridiculous. As soon as you throw any randomness in there, well, all of a sudden you get inequality.

Next, there are the (totally reasonable) winner-take-all mechanics of skilled labor. Are you a better CEO (where "better" here could just mean better at pitching/selling/hiring/picking a market)? Then you can end up capturing all of the market share vs your competitors. That ends up paying nicely.

You still could have rent-seekers and people who cheat, but from the article itself, the top driver is differentiation based on skills.

Don't like winner-take-all mechanics? Introduce income pooling. But I wouldn't expect that to be the revolutionary change people are looking for, just a way to guarantee people on the same skill ladder end up in roughly the same outcome bracket. I don't think "guarantee top ivy leaguers make >$400k/yr" is what you're looking for.
That’s because it theoretically has less side effects of the repository system — the fatal part of an opioid overdose.
> Even our poor have modern conveniences, access to emergency healthcare

It'd be far nicer if even the poor had access to non-emergency medicine, too, though.

Ironically, the poor tend to contribute a disproportionate amount of their income to things like taxes and infrastructure, being without the ability to shield their "wealth".
Why surprising? If they move so slow they must have some other advantage that enables them to persist.

Humans really need to get over themselves as the only species that possesses intelligence.
> I edit emails before I hit send. Guess I should apologize for propagating massive campaigns of deception.

I'm not talking about that. But do you edit your diary to "refactor" the things you wrote a month or year earlier?

Related: people here seem to implicitly assume "never rebase published branches". I don't know how widely accepted that rule is, but in the teams I worked with, the workflow was "every now and then, rebase develop / feature branch on top of master, and then push --force".
Have you ever visited? Talked to locals? You might be surprised how friendly people are IRL.
Lots of people "work hard", and almost none of them are rich. So obviously it's not "working hard" that gives you that money.

At some point very early on, your money starts making money and you cease to do "work" to make that number grow. It seems inappropriate to equivocate capital gains with gainful employment.
The answer I think depends on where their allegiances lie. The reason why the reactionary “PMC” [0] has become something of a meme is because you’ll often encounter people at this level of affluence who defend the ultrawealthy and their predation of the poor through things like the private healthcare system in the US.

From a material perspective, it makes sense that they behave this way (the ultrawealthy are more likely to sign their paychecks and they’re less exposed to many of the harms present further down the income chain), but does allow for a politics of resentment to develop around the position they occupy in society. Most working class people are unlikely to encounter a billionaire in their lifetimes, but will come across many upper income individuals who will tell them (either directly or indirectly) that they deserve their low station or that nothing can really be done to improve their material standing.

[0] https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/on-the-origi...
I have never once in my life used logarithms in that fashion. I've used them in other ways, but why would you do it that way instead of just hitting the "*" button?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Frink

>Frink also has a tendency to over-complicate simple matters and use or invent scientific terminology while expressing various concepts, e.g. "Father and I got along like positrons and antineutrinos!" or "microcalifragilistics".
You must not live in the Bay Area and are merely reaching for talking points.

Everyone in CA knows that property tax money goes straight to the state and is divvied up there. It's collected locally, then sent straight to the state. CA gets first crack at spending it, then it goes down to the local level. The social services are paid for mostly by bond measures, which are immune to real estate prices. Other things are paid for with consumption based taxes (mostly sales).
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This could be written about essentially any school subject. Many elementary school teachers don't understand history, science, or writing either.
Judges are "meant" to be representatives of the people, not clerics of the law who must undergo institutional evaluation and approval. That is why they are elected or appointed, as opposed to merited by some competitive process which sieves for competence. Still,

> To better understand this system, The Post and Courier and ProPublica examined thousands of state records and compiled profiles of all 319 South Carolina magistrates. A reporter also visited courtrooms and interviewed legal experts, lawyers, lawmakers and defendants. Among the findings:

> Nearly three-quarters of the state’s magistrates lack a legal degree and couldn’t represent someone in a court of law.

> A loophole in state law has allowed a quarter of South Carolina’s magistrates to remain on the bench after their terms expired, letting them escape the scrutiny of a reappointment process. One controversial magistrate continues to hold court two decades after her four-year term ended.
> It will still induce euphoria and have abuse potential; perhaps even more abuse potential, as the risk of dying from respiratory depression is much lower.

Are you defining "abuse" here as "having a good time while on drug"? If not, then how would a drug with lower risks of overdose (and possibly addiction, as the article hypothesizes) be more prone to abuse?
> Isn’t it either the right metric or not?

There are many "right" metrics - this is one of them. The big picture is we want a measure/idea of how spread out the data is. One can come up with many ways to do this, and absolute value and root mean square are two of the most common. They correspond to L0 and L2 norms. There is also the L-infinity norm (just use the farthest point).

The L2 norm is the most complicated of the 3, but as people pointed out, it is one of the easiest to use analytically because of its nice mathematical properties.

Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_dispersion for other measures.
You simply haven’t lived here long enough. It’s crazy that you would dismiss a crisis that has been documented and growing for years as an online misinformation campaign because your few months here don’t align with what you’ve read.
> US targeted ads still are applicable to me.

Not necessarily applicable to the advertiser, though. If there's a US restaurant chain hoping for regular customers, they would be wasting their ad spend if you're on the receiving end of the ads.
I believe you will find the same no matter which city on reddit. /r/vancouver paints it much like the parent post and scares people coming.