skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pathetic until you realize what is really going on? That’s just a theory in the end.
> Judges are "meant" to be representatives of the people

Isn't that what "representatives" are for?
From what I have read in the Local News, it is just the first phase. I am assuming they will eventually move entirely but don't want to spook their existing workforce in SF.
I guess I'd have to disagree with your assessment. But I respect your opinion.

> they're contributing members of society being disproportionately rewarded for their disproportionate contributions

Are they contributing for their level of wealth being rewarded? Are they contributing 5,400+ times the average American is?

Our schools need funding (teachers are buying their own supplies), infrastructure needs funding (bridges are collapsing), and our healthcare is extremely expensive for the average person.
Yes. And now that Windows supports AF_UNIX sockets, nobody had an excuse for binding random ports on localhost for IPC.
This isn’t true if you’ve been in a situation where execs are pushing hard to meet a deadline. Corners need to be cut or dates need pushing back, you can’t do both in most cases.
Why is it so hard to be around mentally ill people?
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Because that's where they were founded in 1971, SF has a history before the most recent tech bubble.
Could you explain why you can't just do 99999988888? 100 digits in any order, what am I missing?
Can Technology Make Discussions More Fruitful?
- What was the title of your talk?

- "Blockchain and Peace", I've given it before.

- Does any of the talk mention (looks down at paper) "smart contracts".

- Probably yes. There is a slide on trusted lending circles in India.

- Can you explain to me, when someone sets up one of these (looks down at paper) "smart contracts", can they benefit from this?

- Well, yes. Or they can lose. You see --

- Thanks.

> GRIFFITHS presentation was called "Blockchain and Peace", and he discussed, among other things how a blockchain technology, including a "smart contract" could be used to benefit the DPKR.
They get a pass because it makes our rules simpler and they are so few. You'd see us quickly value their lives less if there were billions of people with Downs Syndrome, but currently they aren't a problem so it is fine.
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I don't see how any of that refutes my claim.

What's the value of the delivery guy's network? The CEO's presumably lets him achieve results that others can't. He can broker better deals, hire better talent, push for more favorable laws. That's value to the firm, to shareholders, hence better pay.
The comment was referring to 1%ers, not 0.01%ers.
So get rid of indefinite compound interest.

Generational wealth has always struck me as fundamentally unjust, for the basic reason that you don't get to pick your parents. I see the argument that a man is entitled to the sweat of his brow; we can debate just how to define what is his sweat vs. infrastructural sweat, but the underlying point seems fair enough. I do not see the argument that a man is entitled to the sweat of his father's brow.

The principle that you are entitled to what your parents or grandparents earned is behind all sorts of injustice in the world, from hereditary monarchies and wars of succession to wealth gaps between majority and minority ethnic groups long after formal discrimination has been outlawed. Even when the inheritance doesn't happen, you still have evils like abusive rich parents having leverage over their closeted college-age children because the financial aid system (in the US, at least) assumes that children have access to their parents' money.

There's a lot of possible ways to implement the system, but it is not inevitable that wealth, once concentrated, does not dissolve, and even leaving wealth inequality aside, there are good reasons to get rid of it.

I hadn't even read the abstract of the article you posted when I clicked "reply," but in fact, that article advocates for the same thing:

> We show that a tax on large inherited fortunes, applied to a small portion of the most fortunate in the population, can efficiently arrest the concentration of wealth at intermediate levels.
San Francisco is a very liberal city and conservative publications like the WSJ love to vocally shit all over the city because of its many problems, but that doesn't mean it doesn't actually have those problems. It does. San Francisco is a shitty place to live for anyone but the wealthy. I've worked in the city for 9 years now (I live in the East Bay) and if you stay here long enough like I have you'll discover that the young single people that come to work here don't stay long, they do tours for about 3 to 5 years and then cycle out to someplace they can actually raise a family.
What I miss most from those days is strict quoting code:

АN>> this was the original message

SG> first reply, text _below_ the quotation

With more levels, original initials were preserved, quotes we're kept at necessary minimum, and email correspondence was very organized. Not the mess we have now with replies at the top and the rest of all thread below
As the article notes, an increasingly common path to the 1% is through skilled labor. I think this type of earner would have more in common with a 50%er than a 0.1%er.

My family has been in the 1% for a few years and we’re just bottom-rung individual contributors at FAANGs. 50% of our net worth is in our house. We don’t run or have stakes in any private businesses. No investment properties. The only thing that sets us apart is while an upper middle class family might do a European vacation one year, buy a car the next, and redo their bathroom the next, we do in the same year. Otherwise, I imagine our lives and aspirations are similar.
.org does have value over .anything-else because .org domains already exist.

The value is, for starters: branding, people remember sites.

The value is also vendor-lock in. What you called "annoying" above. The value is not having to do that annoying thing, that is value, and it's what the registrar can now use to extract money from existing .org domains.

The value is also, that if you let your .org domain lapse, since you don't want to pay for it, now someone else can take it and pretend to be you.
To be clear, these are hard contest questions that most people, including older kids and adults, probably can't answer them without proper learning and practice.

I have not checked them out in detail, but it appears that https://artofproblemsolving.com/ is a good resource. They also have interesting online and physical book series: https://artofproblemsolving.com/store (I have no affiliation.)
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It makes reviews easier, as well as debugging with things like bisect. If you leave commits with typos or syntax errors in your master branch history, determining weather a commit is good or bad for the right reason becomes a much more arduous task. If you do a rebase + squash on merge approach, the commit history is succinct, descriptive, and healthy, which I’ve found immensely beneficial.

(Disclosure: I currently work at GitHub, but these opinions are my own)
You go from saying "people who live in actual high crime areas would like a word with you" to acknowledging that SF has the highest property crime rates in the country.

And then wave it all away as, I guess, it's only really non-violent crime.

Odd logic.
Hadoop looked to be a big part of Pivotal's overall strategy early on but didn't pan out. Labs and Cloud Foundry have contributed the lion's share of revenue for most of Pivotal's life, though data products like Greenplum, Gemfire and RabbitMQ have also contributed a lot.

Kubernetes was never really about Pivotal in any universe I can think of. It was about AWS.

Disclosure: I work at Pivotal.
Well, I wouldn't say "risk-free", but I hear what you mean - HR isn't going to pull up a print-out of your exact words at the watercooler, with certain words and phrases circled in red sharpie.

You're right - there are definitely things I've explicitly not said in Slack and saved for in-person discussions. I forgot about that aspect of it. :/
If you have a switch that activates before the key is fully depressed (i.e., keycap on board), then in a very real sense it might be the case!
My complaint wasn't detailed enough, What I really want is a way to atomically rebind a socket if nobody else is listening on that socket --- the stale process cleanup case. I want the bind to fail of a socket is live. Does that make sense? Haven't had enough coffee yet today.
The point of any medical intervention is to make the patient better. By that standard, a lobotomy is ineffective. Lobotomies "worked" by making patients deeply disabled, in a way that made them more manageable.
I keep buying books that I don't have time to read. For example, I bought 6 books yesterday on Black Friday. I will probably read one or two. It just feel too good to buy things.
Of course we all know this, so you’re preaching to the choir. However I think it would be quite demoralizing to tell a young student who is struggling with logarithms (to follow your example) that “it’s so elementary that there must be a practical use!” Indeed, middle and high school math is, to many, the most intellectually challenging thing they’ve ever had to deal with at the time these classes are taken. Considering they haven’t even taken higher order maths yet, students likely don’t have the context to realize that “elementary ≠ easy to understand”

I’ve taught at a number of “nerd camps”, generally in the fields of Gamedev and 3D modeling. I found that, more than anything else, showing young students what they can use a tool directly for triggers the imagination and inspires them to engage further with the field. These students were able to produce Google Cardboard VR content, which at the time was impressively close to the state of the art.

Anecdote: I’ve personally seen a 10-12 year old student tinker with and research the shadow settings in Unity3D [1], which is quite complicated! And she was willing and excited to put in the work because she could see with her eyes how the options affected the shadows directly. She wanted to match the shadows with a drawing she brought in.

Too bad Logarithms are not as engaging to look at as video games...

[1] https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ShadowOverview.html
I this sums up my first math experience in the US high school. Learning before moving to the US, we were not allowed any calculators. My first class the teach wrote something basic like quadratic equation to solve. To my shock, out went the TI-83 graphing calculators.

I was done with the problem before my peers even hit the right keys in their pocket computers (TI-83 is not a calculator, but a computer pretending to be a calculator).

I still think the non-calculator way of teaching math gave me better skills down the road.
I dunno, 40 years of living in other places, stuff like this only happens in Texas and the South. There are definitely assholes in NY and Boston but they won't get up in my grill for "looking gay" on the street so that's pretty neat.
I think the Operator pattern reveals a real shortcoming in Kubernetes: there's a wide gap between the core orchestration problem and the many fiddly particulars of individual pieces of software.

What we gained in homogeneity for cloud-native software we're now losing in wide heterogeneity of Operator software.
> Who can vote?

Other contributors admitted by vote.

> What happens in case of a fork?

Nothing special. The collaborative continues to be able to license the original project as a group. If the original project gave an irrevocable public license, it continues to apply.
The fact he actually travelled to North Korea to give said 'presentation' makes it likely he gave them more assistance. Helping a country evade sanctions is a crime in the US, so dunno what he thought would happen.
As others have said this is incorrect. I live in a bus and sometimes stay in places with a bad phone signal / slow internet connection. I download Youtube videos to my local file server and watch them via Roku and Plex in these cases. It works fine offline. Roku warns you before launching the Plex app but it works fine.
> Later my wife found stuff on the web about cows being given beach balls to play with and with each other. Uncomfortable truth for people who selfishly help environmentally destroy our planet with their meat addictions?

I see it like this: Every time I pay for beef I create demand for more cows, thus I help fund little calves playing in the fields. Their lives might be a little shorter than usual, but I don't see why a short life wouldn't be worth living.
Isn’t Prop 13 an enormous issue (with real estate owners not paying taxes on the true value of their property) in California?
IDK who D. R. Hip thinks agrees that rebasing is bad, but I sure as heck don't.

Rebasing is good on private branches: it lets you write clean linear history. Conversely, intra-project-branch history is of little or no interest whatsoever once pushed upstream. Rebasing published branches is not a good thing, of course, but fans of rebasing don't propose that.
beyond a security risk/mitigation analysis - we currently embed security inside our development, test and deployment process using gitlab's sast/dast and other scanning features.

in short, gitlab enables us to avoid merging vulnerable code as much as possible - see the https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/ or if you prefer more marketing jargon here https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/dev-sec-ops/
I will second Openbabel as a reliable tool in my comp-chem pipeline.
They're complaining about the invite system. Either you had to know someone or you had to get lucky that they'd be doing irc interviews that day.
I concede and won't argue with personal experience. It sucks that it is still a thing anywhere, hopefully we'll get there some day.
Why is it impossible to be both even and fair?
>Taxing the super rich is a great idea, but at the end of the day the govt just needs to spend less money on programs that don’t work or aren’t needed.

Translation:

>You could recover some of the wealth that is systemically siphoned (by inflation)/withheld (via wage suppression) from everyone, but you really should look at that whole wealth redistribution mechanism working against centralization of capital in private hands. That's the problem.

Not really buying it. The fact you're pushing these systems off as not working leads me to conclude you've not met the level of understanding to safely do away with Chesterton's fence. There is tons of room for improvement in the execution of these safety nets; but the Market doesn't want people feeling safe. Risk aversion from guaranteed stability makes exploitative employment/compensation schemes more difficult to sustain.
Schwab isn’t exactly competing for the “tech” talent pool so there isn’t anything particularly special about staying in SF vs elsewhere for them.
Outside of the recent TLD expansion (which presents its own ethical concerns similar to this one), TLDs are almost all controlled by governments. In an ideal world those that aren't should be operated as a utility and prices kept at a legal minimum to support operations, due to their critical nature for human communication and the fact they are natural monopolies. Anything that moves away from that, such as moving from a nonprofit control to a venture capital control, should be rejected due to the risk of pricing out legitimate users of the tld and other unregulated behaviors which might benefit a business but not the democratic nature of the internet (such as allowing for preferred pricing or other transaction details with certain entities, or anything else they can imagine and get away with). These concerns are compounded by the intention of the Public Interest Registry, which is to provide TLDs for nonprofits -- which should be proactively protected from predatory business practices. Further, the buyer openly plans on raising prices extremely fast and will definitely price out at least some of the most vulnerable users of the TLD, and introduce hardship on others. If you love the internet you should hate this.

On the situation of gaming the system by a State actor, obviously there has been a long standing push to get ICANN and the US GOV out of the internet infrastructure. Creating chaos, little, by little, lends credence to this push or another similar one. That vacuum would probably be filled in places like Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, etc by easier government censorship, including (they would hope) more control over their smaller neighbors' internet. The current situation is of course not perfect, but one can see why subversive action could be a chosen path by any one of several state actors.
The fewer people who are capable at something, the more lucrative it is to know that thing. The more lucrative it is to know something, the more of a pay cut it takes to teach it, assuming teacher pay at this level isn't subject dependent. The more of a pay cut it takes to teach, the fewer the skilled people willing to take a pay cut, and the fewer teachers there are with those skills. The fewer teachers there are with this skill, the worse the students turn out at it, leading to fewer people who are capable at it.

It's a vicious cycle. I'm a data scientist in SF and I'd make 5-10x less if I taught grade school.
How do you square being authentic with a world where more and more of the benefits go the people who succeed in the business world and the need for financial stability? What are your options if you are not cut out for that world and have no other talents that are financially useful? One way is to be born indecently wealthy obviously but if you haven’t accomplished that then for most of us the only way is to put on a mask every day and play the game.
Title should be adjusted to “Some South Carolina Judges..”
> Even the people that could buy ethical don't do.

Because it's exhausting, and it's made to be that way on purpose. Brands within brands within brands, shell companies within shell companies, producers selling to distributors selling to distributors selling to distributors.

Forget shopping ethically, I think most people would be hard pressed to tell you where anything they've bought, regardless of prior thought, actually came from.
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Yes, and judges are either appointed by your representatives or elected directly. Does that smell like a process which coldly sieves for legal competency, or a proxy for the will and moral style of the people?

That is why I say based on the look and feel of western law, judges are proxies for the people, and not some paragon of legal competency.
Also if you're not an uploader, building ratio to use the site is hard. Going from ten years of what.cd freeleech of buffer to nothing and facing the prospect of building it up again can be daunting.
>Over the years, their numbers have included construction workers, insurance agents, pharmacists — even an underwear distributor.

Pharmacists are hardly uneducated buffoons. And, what are we to make of 'underwear distributor'? Is there a correlation between a business person's judgment and the items they sell? I doubt it.

I can guarantee that the blueprints a construction worker uses, the policies an insurance agent sells, and the manuals a pharmacist is versed in are all much more complex than the laws governing the cases that come before these low-level courts.
Housing and taxes in CA are close to oppressive. The housing situation will not change unless CA voters agree to a change in property taxes and they won't.

I would also bet that the move will come at the expense of Texas tax payers and to the benefit of Schwabb.
> Are you defining "abuse" here as "having a good time while on drug"?

Yes, I wouldn't necessarily personally consider that "abuse", more "use"; but much of western society does (unless it's one of the few "acceptable" drugs: alcohol, nicotine, caffeine).
I had a company fly me out to interview at a startup in SF a few weeks ago. My hotel was a 20 minute walk from my interview. I almost walked. I'm glad I did not. Just about every block between my hotel and my destination was densely packed with homeless and tents. I watched a drug deal in broad daylight at a red light while just spacing out staring out the uber window, and found I accidentally made eye contact, and prayed the light would change over faster, as meanwhile a mentally ill man is literally roaming the streets screaming about the end of the world (not exaggerating).

The start up had about 20 people (maybe 2 of whom were over 30) in what was clearly an apartment at some point in the past, except the "bathroom" was what looked like a makeshift closet to me: a sliding glass shower door with a room divider behind it. For ~20 people. As the interview wraps up, one of the leads decides we should go for a walk so he can break the bad news about the job. We walked around the block about 5 or 6 times, every time passing the homeless man asleep on the sidewalk about 15 feet from their office door. No one there seemed to understand my astonishment/shock/horror about the state of that city.

The uber driver on my ride back to the airport who was native to the area sure understood though. That dude just drives around all day feeling out whether or not someone's going to report him if he speaks honestly about it. That conversation was by far the best part of the trip.

Flew back to ny and interviewed in nyc a few days later, and all I can really say is at no point in NYC did I feel physically unsafe like I did in SF. They're not even comparable in my book. I'm still unsettled by just how bad SF was, and I'm absolutely astonished that I don't hear people talk about this more.
Judging from what I see on social media, it's not only not that difficult, but politicians are making laws based on their ramblings and behavior.
Thanks a lot for the helpful data point!
I recommend The Rise of the Creative Class.
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They'll keep outside facing functions here for the local markets, clients, partners, etc.

Corporate back office operations will move entirely
being ultra-wealthy gives a person tremendous amounts of political power.

the ultra-wealthy are literally an unelected shadow ruling class.
Can I please ask you to consider the problems with the chart you have shared? The vertical axis is percent increase not actual increase. It is helpful to have that context before you load your argument on it.
Unless you're a retiree, the lack of a state income tax makes up for it. Texas' policies are pro-worker and anti-landowner.
It's going to be funny in 5-10 years when the major Texas cities become the next SF because none of them are planning for any sort of large population growth.

Austin already suffers from horrific traffic and poor infrastructure. City planning here is a joke.
Then their criticism doesn't make much sense as both Waffles and Oink had an invite system. At least What.cd was more approachable as there was an interview system which made it possible for everyone to join as long as they learned some basics about audio formats / transcoding / site rules and had an hour to spend on an interview.
If you are a broker you go to NYC, banking is London, commodities is Chicago, electronics is Shenzhen.... You come to the bay FOR tech, and for A-team tech at that. There simply isn't any other place on the planet for you to go if you want to be with, and work with the best.
Yes, want to forward your resume? Email is I my profile.

Any experience with Kubernetes?
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