skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a counter-argument I’d like to try out. I don’t know how good this one is, but…

The value that you add depends on what you do.

First example: someone who manufactures useful widgets is useful to society roughly in proportion to the number of widgets they make — this is probably non-linear diminishing return of usefulness with more production, but I think in practice we can ignore that most of the time for simple manufacturing jobs.

The range here is small, perhaps only a factor of 2-10.

Second example: an inventor who makes a machine that makes it easier to make those widgets. Their value to society could be as much as “difference in number of widgets produced by everyone combined, totalled over a period which is hard to even estimate”, unless that number is so large that diminishing returns is relevant. Unlike the people who actually make the widget, it’s reasonably likely for the person who invents a widget-making-machine to reqch this point. You might even get some extra problems from technological unemployment - short term or long term, it’s still a problem - or the waste of overproduction.

It isn’t as simple as saying “Tim Berners-Lee is as valuable as the entire internet”, because of all the work of other people that built on his, but even a single invention can benefit society to the tune of billions.

Third example: an entrepreneur who recognises a problem in the world and creates a solution. A new type of widget, or whatever. In an optimistic case, they might hire people that would otherwise be unemployed.

I’m not saying this always happens - and “wealth creator” as a term seems to be used to describe people that get rich by moving money around rather than just those who get rich by doing what I describe here - but that it could happen means it’s worth keeping track of.

I would argue that creating a thousand new jobs is at least as valuable to society as the cost of a thousand unemployed people, though almost certainly not as valuable as the wages those thousand earn in the new jobs, because that would be double-counting.

This could still easily be worth millions per year.

Fourth example: Management. Most work is done by teams, and a manager who can make their team 10% more productive is worth as much to society as that productivity boost, summed over the entire team.

I will acknowledge that management can be bad as well as good, so the sort of manager which makes everyone in the team resign (a friend mine recently left such a team because of such a manager) is worth negative their combined productivity.

I can easily believe that Bezos has been an enormous force multiplier because of all the other retailers that have not grown like Amazon. I can believe that Musk is great for SpaceX and entirely average for Tesla, because of how well SpaceX is doing and how averagely Tesla is doing.

How much is SpaceX worth? How much is reducing launch costs by a factor of three worth? I’m not sure, but it’s a lot, and SpaceX succeeded where all the other launch providers — and their, I assume, equally smart engineers — failed.

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As a separate point, I totally agree with your implicit claim that productivity != income.
Why do people leave CA? Because they don't like what it's becoming. So they move somewhere else. But it's not really what they want, either. What they want is maybe 75% Texas, 25% California. So they try to move Texas, not all the way to California, but in that direction. To the people in Texas, that feels like "trying to turn Texas into California".
Wasn't the Terminator elected governor of California? I expect people to only take violence seriously when it's, you know, real.
Author here - thanks for all the comments and feedback. Lovely surprise to wake up to this on the HN homepage.

Some light additional context - this is part of my ongoing series "The Strategic Independent" which will eventually become a book sometime next year. All the posts in that series are catalogued here: https://www.are.na/tom-critchlow/the-strategic-independent

This post (and the whole series) is designed for independent consultants, free-agents and freelancers who have to navigate entering and exiting client environments often faster than full-time employees. Hopefully there's something useful in that context but many of these ideas could be applicable beyond that also.

Anyway - thanks for the love. If you have topic suggestions for future posts in this series would love to hear them! Thanks, Tom.
https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/active_trader

I don't think Robinhood can even compare to the tools offered by Schwab's brokerage accounts. It's like r/wallstreetbets vs r/investing

I do agree that Robinhood was the first to make trading accessible to the masses and pushed for zero-fee trading.
That’s wealth, not income.

And if you own a large company, you have no income (beyond a salary) unless you sell equity.

There are probably people worth $1B+ who aren’t in the top 0.01% because they’re money stays invested and they don’t pull income from selling.
I don't think that's what they're saying (they're saying slapping a CC license on a work you can't/shouldn't be able to hold a copyright on that would give you the right to attach a license to is meaningless), but the CC-NC provision is often criticized for being quite unclear and a risk.
Highly recommend this documentary and, especially, the entire episode devoted to Fidonet.

For those that don't know, the BBS Documentary is something like 6 DVDs and has hours of well produced and documented material and interviews.
Computational Thinking in Introductory Physics
You only have that if you are on the Plus plan, and only after you upgrade.
Look, I don't disagree with you. I agree that electing judges is stupid. Nonetheless, for better or worse, this is the result of democracy.

Note that you could apply the exact same principle to argue that legislators should be lawyers. After all, if you're not trained in the law, how can you possibly write a law? Or understand the many subtle ramifications of the law that someone else wrote that you're voting on? And why stop at legislators? Why not accept, say, literacy tests? How can a citizen possibly make an informed choice at the ballot box if they can't read a newspaper?

The point I'm trying to make is not that electing judges is good, only that it is, at least in the U.S., a direct consequence of democracy. You may decide that democracy is more trouble than it's worth, and cite this stupidity as evidence. But what you cannot do is say that electing judges is stupid and also that you believe in democracy, because in the U.S. the one has followed directly from the other.
This gentleman[1] has tested thermals before and after firmware updates on RPI4 with several active/passive heatsinks.

There are some clear improvements.

[1]:https://youtu.be/VJC6OpGpq0Y
I actually missed that part but now the urge to facepalm is even greater.
You only have income if you sell. The rest is unrealized gains not reported as income.
Leave to journalists to constantly dictate this so often used phrase:

“X... and that should scare you”

I would really wish the emotional appeal journalism would make its way to the door but it doesn’t look like that will ever go away.
I can't imagine someone with such a cynical outlook being happy with direct rule by the masses.
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You want to match the keyword search for the job you’re applying for one thing. I.e. if it says “We want visual studio 2017” don’t have “VS2017”. (Obviously)

Put skills at the top - be succinct. When a person is reading your resume’ they aren’t really reading it. They are just skimming it.

Set the timer for 10sec, start it, and read what you’ve written until the timer goes off. That’s what your audience sees. Maybe a little longer.
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The eleven numbers are n,n+1,..., n+10. Their sum is 11n + 55. Let the number removed be n + k, then the sum of the remaining is just 10n + 55 -k = 2012. Or 10n-k = 1957. Then it is obvious that k=3 so that n is an integer. Hence, n=196

The eleven numbers are 196,197,..., 206, out of which 199 was removed.
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Yes, that's true, because the U.S. is not a direct democracy, so a vocal and motivated minority can wield a disproportionate influence over policy. But I don't see a lot of people marching in the streets to change the way judges are chosen.
Judicial appointments in Canada are non partisan.

Take a look at the backgrounds of the judges who are appointed and tell me it’s not partisan in Canada.

Usually the liberals appoint judges with close Liberal Party ties and the same with the conservatives.
This post reminds me of my leadership at a former employer who were insisting on releasing a game console that requires customers to download all content and games, regardless of the fact that unlike gigabit internet offered in our city, many Americans don’t have access to or cannot afford broadband. That leadership team only hanged course because the negative perception spread like wildfire and made them look extremely incompetent. They didn’t care about the customer - they only even changed course to manage their own careers but I digress.

In some cases, these people are lords abusing powerless peasants. Most of America isn’t Seattle, Austin, NYC, or the Silicon Valley. People can work for WalMart in the town I grew up in or go unemployed because WalMart swallowed competition. They’re literally at the mercy of whatever WalMart wants to pay them.

Our poor have emergency healthcare but will get bankrupted in the process.

They have safe food insofar as they won’t die of typhoid or hepatitis like in the developing world, but they don’t have healthy food. They have access to various forms of packaged, refined sugars. A diet based on cheap access to these goods will only lead to longer term health problems - there’s scientific data backing that claim.

Interesting how you frame your argument - that the poor aren’t as horribly off as perhaps in another century or in the developing world, and so it’s good enough. The same argument can and should be used to call out the endless greed, especially of the 0.1%. Don’t have they have enough? Are they they some of the richest folks in human history?
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No, you're mistaken. There's a computer simulation that's been posted here, where you run a population and each element gives 'a dollar' to a randomly chosen other element every step, if possible. For no reason: no merit, no purpose, no meaning.

This produces not just 'inequality', but the power-law distribution. The only thing you can't know is which element will be the '0.01%' master of the universe, because nothing distinguishes it from the 'poor' elements as it's only a simulation.

The point this establishes experimentally is that through simple value exchange you get the same distribution people associate with meritocracy and market dynamics, without any elements of choice or distinctions of merit being applied.

Skill and value have nothing to do with it: the problem is purely mechanical, the system will substantially punish and reward elements in the system quite outside of any consideration of merit. Once you introduce merit, skill etc. you're only exacerbating the problem.

Wealth tax, even in very tiny amounts, is quite good at turning the power-law distribution into a more random-looking distribution as one might expect it should be. And usually people aren't talking about Gini 0.5, nor does anyone aspire to that unless it's as a form of rebellion against the extreme opposite. People will tolerate an enormous amount of inequality if their own lives aren't too acutely threatened.
The questions you ask are effectively asking that the markets use the Labor Theory of Value [1] to price labor (and this goods) rather than the way labor is priced currently which is a form of Supply and Demand [2].

The current form of global capitalism doesn't really have a direct corollary to the LTV pricing mechanism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
Somewhat related, IPv4 addresses can also be represented in a shorter classfull form NET.HOST, like

10.1 == 10.0.0.1
192.168.1 == 192.168.0.1

While it has practically no use in today's CIDR [1] internet, it's still a useful shortcut for home-networks, etc (I have my home network configured as 10.0/24)

$ ping 10.1
PING 10.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.181 ms

I've also recently stumbled on some software that no longer parses this address form. Can't remember where though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
Ask HN: How to Relax?
I get frustrated. I have a lot of anxiety and tension. I have tried exercise, cannabis, float tanks, meditation, prayer, and doing nothing. The underlying anxiety is there. Is this something therapy can achieve? Can a sense of relaxation come at all?

I am usually anxious about doing something I don't want to do for a living, and the thought of leaving that job for something less stable and amigious. I am anxious about the meaning of it all. I am anxious about my personal worth as a human being. I am anxious about my short comings in life. I am anxious about money. I am anxious about the state of the world.
This is not even journalism; it's just a press release from the university.
Thanks for writing and sharing this. I really wanted to read the linked essay "What do we talk about when we talk about limit", but the link is broken.
Yeah. The longer you live in SF and the Bay Area, the more apparent it becomes how much it skates on tech, history, and intrinsic advantages like the weather and beautiful geography. SF in particular has such incredible resources that it should be the most advanced city in the world.
All modern democracies are run by bureaucrats and unelected civil servants. At the very top levels, you have elected officials and their political appointees. Those people provide high level leadership and set priorities. However, almost all of the actual work of governance is done by the people below them: the career civil servents.
I agree, it just tells me how utterly broken the current state of affairs is with data privacy in the U.S.

Here we have the FBI telling us if we don't want to be spied on by TV manufacturers with cameras to just use some black tape :facepalm:
I’m not sure how to make use of your hint.

I solved the problem for n, the largest number in the sequence of eleven, and a, the number Maria erases, by the following:

n - 11 < a < n + 1

11(n + n - 10)/2 = 2012 + a

I’m interested to know what other methods may be used to solve it (apart from brute force).
Working for someone, even at a FAANG, inherently also has risks. You don’t know the manager, the org, the team, etc when you first join. You have some ideas about the culture perhaps, but we take risks in our careers all the time.

The argument that one is riskier than the other and therefore entitled to lower tax rates doesn’t make sense to me.

Sure, investing in an asset might be riskier if you’re randomly throwing darts, but I thought these folks were all about personal responsibility.

To be clear, I work at a FAANG. My total comp was is near half a million, a significant chunk of which is equity. The only risk I take is not cashing out immediately and waiting a year for the long term capital gains tax. I don’t necessarily provide more output or value than someone like a teacher. The equity I sold this year was in the hundreds of thousands and I paid less taxes on it than what most teachers probably pay. It doesn’t make any sense, and this system in my opinion isn’t sustainable. The inequality is going to lead to conflict.
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"...but only among those with low levels of omega-3 in their blood."

ADHD probably isn't a single disorder but multiple that share symptoms, similarly to how everything was Fever in the middle ages. Looks like omega-3 deficiency is one of them.
It does remind me of the Real World repository [0]. It is basically a Medium clone implemented in tons of different frontend and backend frameworks. Probably not exactly what you were looking for, since it's more related to the frameworks rather than the programming languages, but it is still interesting nonetheless.

[0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
I think the main point of contention here is how everything is divvied up at the end of the day. What you are discussing (supply & demand, and the specific outcomes that occur) I think can be fairly described as the result of pure nature itself, whereas the article is also taking into consideration ~"society's opinion" on how the fruits of what people produce should be distributed.
Paypal Still Sending Invoices from Fake Godaddy
Got a "real" invoice from Paypal, purporting to be GoDaddy saying "If you do not make a payment today, the domain will be marked for deletion."

A quick google shows these have been reported to PayPal at least 6 months, so I'm wondering why PayPal still fails to block these emails purporting to be from "GoDaddy"? Seems like thats a relatively straightforward scam to detect/stop... ANY invoice request that starts "Invoice from GoDaddy".

(Or, if GoDaddy does actually have an option to sometimes send invoices via PayPal, PayPal could at least ensure it is from the "confirmed" GoDaddy account.)

In retrospect it is surprising it took scammers this long to try this since most (non-private) domain WHOIS records include the domain name and the admin contact email.
Seattle has become an extreme. DC at its worst i only slightly worse than the constant hell that is Seattle. And friday night near pikes? Yikes.
Christina Hunger has the ability to ask her dog questions and it goes to press a button that represents the idea it wants to reply with. That button plays an English word through a speaker for Christina. She's a speech pathologist on Instagram and has a website for it. The dog learns word association in the same way babies do.

Those videos are on Instagram, not buried. I'm fairly sure any breakthroughs will make it to a Planet Earth documentary and we'll feel sad about it for a while then go buy beef from the shops anyway.
I specifically set out to find a solution that doesn’t involve any brute force (trial and error). Trial and error can waste all of your time and get you nowhere on nontrivial problems.
I have not come across a Dreamcast game with rot. I have some early games which were just pressed badly and the top player in completely pealing off but it was not rot.
The Saturn Discs on the other hand I have come across more than a few with rot.
Yes, "in most cases" was my hedge around the various ways in which property can be transferred while keeping its tax status. The majority of prop 13 is insane IMO. If I had to pick a single thing to change, I'd much rather stop applying it to commercial property than remove the inheritance provision.
Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines to Alleviate Inequity
I was responding to someone asking narrowly about taxes, not chasing moving goalposts.

> I would guess that

That's why I posted data; it works better than guessing.
The big killer among modern elderly people is the massive muscle wasting that accompanies most inpatient hospital procedures. Having a solid foundation of muscle can insulate a person from the dreaded point of no return after which it would be impossible to build one's body back after a procedure.
This was the reason I ate mud when I was a kid. I was just a young junkie. And I was invincible.
For some added perspective. Schwab already had several buildings in Westlake before building the new campus, which is still under construction. TD Ameritrade used to have a building in Westlake as well, but I think they gave that up when they built their new campus in Southlake, about 3-5 miles away, a couple years ago.

That is a huge finance footprint in one area. Consider also that one of Fidelity's largest corporate campus is also located in Westlake. Westlake is a tiny dot on the map with less than a 1000 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake%2C_Texas

New Headquarters: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9933674,-97.2120872,724m/dat...

Ameritrade campus: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9774174,-97.1618883,512m/dat...

Fidelity campus: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9828451,-97.1885764,609m/dat...

Also, the Deloitte campsus right new door is amazing. Its a 5 star hotel only available for visiting Deloitte employees under going management training and the food there is chef prepared and free to employees. I used to have a subordinate in my part-time side job that worked there as a corporate purchasing analyst.

For extreme shits and giggles look at the houses in Westlake either on a map or in something like Zillow. While I understand a $3 million house around San Fransisco is about 200sqft its quite a bit of purchasing power in Texas.
"7. Get rid of the SAT and ACT. [...] Standardized-test performance is no better a predictor of college success than high school GPA, say some admissions officers."

According to this false logic, we should use only one predictor in a model, because the other predictors will be less correlated to the target. As the College Board has demonstrated in studies, grades and test scores predict college GPA better than grades or test scores alone. The College Board has also shown that the SAT does not underpredict the GPAs of racial minorities. In fact it slightly overpredicts them, as discussed in "The Underperformance Problem" problem by Nieli: https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2010/09/02/the_underperform... .

A better WSJ article than this one was
"The Truth About the SAT and ACT
Myths abound about standardized tests, but the research is clear: They provide an invaluable measure of how students are likely to perform in college and beyond",
By Nathan Kuncel and Paul Sackett,
March 8, 2018 10:11 am ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-truth-about-the-sat-and-act...
Also - thank you Github pages & Cloudflare for keeping my site up through a HN bump.
Wikipedia pages on NT, DEC, the Alpha microprocessor and Microsoft's general legal strategies would be an excellent starting point.
Purely speculating, but perhaps this would place a positive evolutionary pressure on migraines, since they are associated with cortical spreading depression[1] which globally decreases neuronal activity for up to days at a time.
Note that our nervous system isn't instantaneous. That could be a factor in the simultaneous-touch test that was done.

I found this online, but couldn't find the original source: "The average reaction time for humans is 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus, 0.17 for an audio stimulus, and 0.15 seconds for a touch stimulus."

Our brain probably tries to compensate for this, but inaccurately?
Alkaloids in kratom bind to mu-opioid receptors, build tolerance, and cessation after chronic use will induce withdrawals.
Except those people aren’t actually doing any work. Eventually the house of cards collapses on itself. The political system in the country is this philosophy carried to its logical, and extreme end. And what do politicians do nowadays? Mostly nothing.
While that's not inaccurate, I don't think it's a problem. It makes no sense to require everything to have a globally unique name.
Hackers demand $14M in Bitcoin to unlock systems for 110 nursing homes across US
Yeah, commercial property makes no sense either, especially if you consider the original intent of the law, but it bothers me less than residences as at least those properties, in theory, are doing something productive for society.