skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's worth asking why compensation is the way it is. If we assume that people's compensation is based on the value they generate for an organization, then what you are asking is basically "can a million warehouse workers together in a collective be as effective as Jeff Bezos at producing value for Amazon?" Alternatively, you could ask "can a given warehouse worker given one million times his current compensation add as much value to Amazon as Jeff Bezos can?" It's quite possible that the answer to both of those questions is no, and if Jeff Bezos is generating a million times more value than the average warehouse worker for Amazon with his decision making and actions then it is not an issue that he is being paid a million times more than a warehouse worker.

I'm not saying that what warehouse workers are being paid now is "fair" or "reasonable", but I do think that trying to establish some fixed ratio between what a warehouse worker makes and what Jeff Bezos makes is sort of a silly exercise. Additionally, if you think that comp shouldn't reflect value added to an organization, then I would be interested in hearing what you think it should be based on.
Does that change anything in my argument? Who else but someone who's seen it work could tell you about the other side of it?
It is still a proposal, but it's one of the proposals most worked on atm, there's a lot of activity.
> "... I'm rather likeable, I get along fairly well with most people I meet. I'm friendly, agreeable, and try my best to positive."

What would happen if you tried the opposite? I've been trying that lately. Not the opposite exactly, but I've been trying to not mask my real thoughts / feelings. This is often difficult because I've been so trained to be conscientious.

But, with this new scheme, I feel that I turn off about 10% of people, 89% don't get me, and 1% end up really liking me. Those few people who I connect with make me feel really good.
We’ve been using it for 4+ Years for a backend web service and a few other libraries at my current company. I had a chance to document our experience back in 2017[1].

I can’t speak to the approaches to concurrency, but from a day-to-day writing code perspective, it still feels miles ahead of Java in terms of cutting down boiler plate and null safety. Additionally, the support for it in IntelliJ gets better release after release. It’s worth _trying_ to move over from Java, because it’s such a cheap experiment. Add the standard lib, and you get complete interoperability out of the box.

The one caveat to our experience: we did find ourselves switching to Java when we were trying to squeeze as much performance out of something as we could. This was I think Kotlin 1.1 or 1.2, and perhaps the byte code generated now is better, but we did experience some performance hits with the syntactic sugar provided around list comprehension. Overall, however, I much rather prefer Kotlin today if my application is greenfield, and I’ve got a say in how it’s built.

[1] https://medium.com/rocket-travel/kotlin-on-the-backend-at-ro...
The state that voted for Trump with a 5.5% margin?
Dems will lose the entire midwest before Texas flips.
You might know more about this than I do. Regardless, it does sound like the Stadia version is running well, which is probably a result of it running on hardware that is actually capable of running it, unlike the previous gen consoles. The current gen consoles are also having better luck running it.
/Personally I disagree with the whole idea of wealth taxes, you should be taxed when you do things, not taxed just because you own something worth money./

I figure if we allow passive income, we should allow passive taxes...
Facebook is the most unconscionably bad company in tech, and it's a shame Zuck and friends try to pretend they are on this grand mission to make the world better. Come on, just admit it's all about the money and we'd have a little more respect for you. All FB does is lead to time-wasting, fake news, bigotry, envy etc. I'm glad I've signed out from desktop
In theory if you get kidnapped by terrorists or something then the US government might try to rescue you.
Exactly. How else would it get to his bank account? If he didn't create it, why people sent it to him? He stole it?
Boeing is practically giving them away. I'm sure that fed into Ryan Air's decision.
I thought strains were debunked at the beginning of the pandemic.
Same. I'd also love to know. Especially for those among us that don't live in places with compassionate assisted suicide.
You apparently missed the whole point of newsletters automatically unsubscribing users on a 5xx error from the previous discussion

There was no previous discussion / topmost thread, as I replied directly to the topmost comment, and this thread forks from that. No mention was made of newsletter unsubscribes thread upwards. Further, I made it quite clear I was discussing SMTP response codes, and not the article directly.

Ergo, your stated context, isn't the context of this whole thread/discussion. Further, from what I see, everyone in this thread is discussing MTAs, SMTP, SMTP return codes.

that the topmost comment was referring to. Not that you are to blame for missing that because it wasn't restated here, but that's the context of the whole discussion.

No, it isn't the context of this thread/discussion, as per above.

If I have sent emails successfully to a certain email address before it is not wise to assume a permanent error on a single response that the RFC specifies as permanent. Email/SMTP is in it's core a stateless protocol, but as a mailing list service I can keep state and provide additional context to errors that can improve my service.

In the context of the RFC, mailing list software should be viewed the same as a 'human being'. Of course it's fine to it to re-send, if the software wishes. Just like it is fine for you to send a mail with your mail client, get a 5xx, and re-try by clicking 'send' once again.

(5xx errors can happen during auth/etc stages too)

However, during this entire thread I've have been peppering the words 'MTA', "smtp server', 'bounce' and more.

Note that the mailing list software you're describing, is receiving a bounce. Bounces only happen from the MTA side. EG, mailing list software doesn't "bounce" anything, ever. Only an MTA does. Without that bounce, most mailing list software won't even know there is an issue.

Others upthread were advocating that MTAs don't bounce on an initial 5xx failure, regardless of my assertions that the client/end user should receive an immediate 5xx perm failure message.

Whether a human, or some automated software, as per my upstream statements, the proper thing to do is bounce back to the sender. 5xx, bounce, return. In 99.9999999% of cases, this is what is needed. This is the majority case.

Then, the mailing list software, the end user, can do as they wish. Including trying a resend. I don't see the conflict here, except it's apparent that a lot of people don't have much in the way of MTA experience. That's not even a knock on them, but it is a bit disheartening to see people suggesting massive MTA behaviour/RFC alteration for no reason.

To speak to mailing list behaviour, as a separate issue from above, repeated hits to 5xx targets will get you blacklisted faster than you can imagine. It's the equivalent of knocking on someone's door, them answering and saying "Sorry, Bob moved out", but you come back all day and night, banging on the door "HEY IS BOB THERE?!"

Yeah. That'll work out well. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you even remotely should.
The base model is $32,190. That is close enough to $30,000 that you're being pedantic.
Their global ad revenue is a public figure right? It should be easy to estimate an average. If they have a billion users, do they actually have $100B in monthly revenue?

I highly suspect the distribution is not flat in any way though (some users are much much more valuable than others and it's why advertisers pay FB and Google to target the ads for them).
Two words: Overpromised, Underdelivered
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Any GitHub/GitLab/etc. employees here? I think you might be able to help mitigate some of these kinds of attacks:

> To have some minimal form of obfuscation from prying eyes, the strings in the backdoor are compressed and encoded in Base64, or their hashes are used instead.

There needs to be a quick tool that flags strings that appear to represent binary data before a merge, maybe even decoding them when possible and providing hints of what they might represent, especially inside source-code files. These shouldn't be common in checked code. And we should figure out a way to whitelist them in the repo that's both safe and convenient (I'm not sure how).

Is this a feature code-hosting sites like GitHub can add?
I was one of those international students. It was 50/50 Americans/Internationals when I went to grad school 20 years ago, I am not sure if that has changed. Perhaps for some of the internationals you reasoning applied, though it did not to me, but for the Americans I think only an extreme love of research would keep you in grad school, when you can make 10x more money elsewhere, working fewer hours, under less pressure.
Dang. Bad luck indeed. Sporadic CJD must feel like you've been struck by lightning.
And when those countries do the same and desperate people follow them for vengeance the world over, where will they go then?
This is a long shot but some claim that vitamin K-2 can regenerate teeth to some degree. It might get your teeth in good enough condition to remove.

I had started taking K-2 (Jarrow MK-7 menaquinone-7 FWIW) for other reasons but when my semiannual dental checkup came due, both the technician and dentist kept marveling about how pristine and healthy my teeth were. They credited it to my brushing and flossing habits, which had not changed. I took the praise but was puzzled until I remembered that the K-2 might be helping my teeth.
How real are those billion dollar valuations? Seems to me like it’s primarily a bunch of VCs in a term sheet circle jerk.
No billionaire is just sitting on their money. It’s certainly tied up in assets or being actively managed.

I don’t see in what universe a wealth tax could be effective, given that people can simply move. Wouldn’t it just cause large-scale capital flight, as it did in France?
I'm pretty certain that that's a misunderstanding, and rollouts at Google still happen faster than at most other companies incl small & mid size. It's just that Google won't rollout to the whole world in one instant step, instead, it depends: can be hours, days or weeks. Or sometimes a first small step during less than a minute, and then a more large scale deployment — e.g. if there's an urgent security bugfix. It's in the SRE book (well as far as I remember), I think you'll find it if you search for "seconds" or "minutes"

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//st...

But yes definitely there are other things that slow down big companies.
Love this article. Applies to many domains, not just programming. Take cooking for example: I've been learning about when to apply certain elements such as herbs, spices, salt, and fats. By trying it everywhere, I learn where certain elements do and do not work.
Profits are just unpaid wages. He bought labor for less than it was worth and pocketed the excess.
The bias is the part where you don't know what an 'MBA' is.
I really think it's mostly the issues with having advertized it for last gen consoles and then not actually delivered a playable experience on them. It sounds like there are indeed a lot of other bugs, but those seem like issues they would have been permitted to patch their way out of over time.

COD Cold War is another big title this year and is quite buggy, but it is playable in spite of those bugs on all the systems it was advertised to work on.
I don't think you need an effect system. You just need to take care to correctly fiddle with some reference counts when an exception traverses your stack frame. You already need to do that in other reference counted systems. After all, if an exception traverses your stack frame you need to decrement the reference counts of local variables. Whether or not you have checked exceptions or checked effects seems orthogonal to me. What matters is the implementation of those effects.
Not big fan of taxes in general but I find the whole 'wealth' tax to be especially odious. Why not call it what it is, a pre-death estate tax? If the government is to tariff/tax, it should be done at the time of use or income generation/realization one time. Unfortunately double jeopardy laws seem not to apply to capital.
Why would Sony pull the game and offer refunds if this is an AAA release 'just like any other'?

Plus, I played a number of AAA games unpatched recently and none of them were as bad as this game. This really is quite something else.
The chunk of code that unzips the Base64 encoded strings looks super dodgy and should jump right out even at a casual reviewer.
Unfortunately, as proven by every area that has the "privilege" of receiving new Californian transplants, you are in the extreme minority.
He lives in Portugal, where the rules are different especially for those restoring farm houses and villas that have fallen into disrepair, but even in the UK people get rid of amazing Victorian features in houses there aren't listed.

As he likes to make things properly, he rarely takes the 'fitting' jobs - and keeps and restores anything he removes. Someone else usually wants it.

The sad fact is that a bespoke wardrobe costs good money, as do hand made window friends, but they should last for years, centuries even.
Last-gen Xbox owner here. Lots of us were hyped about this game, and expected it to be the last major must-have game of the generation, because that's what CDPR has implied all along for the last half-decade.

Now, it seems to end up in the same category as Dragon Age: Inquisition on the Xbox 360; possibly playable after a few patches, but nowhere near a state which makes the game justice.
While this proposed California law is unlikely to be Constitutional, there are federal laws that prevent people from simply leaving the country and taking all their money with them to avoid taxes. You can try, and with good lawyers and accountants, you can certainly shelter a lot of it, but in the end you can't avoid tax liability just by leaving. Plenty of uberrich get away with it, but it's still not legal. You can't even completely avoid it by renouncing your citizenship if you're a dual national; there's still a liability.

I know that the uberrich get away with dodging taxes all the time, but there are potentially high costs, like having your assets confiscated, or having to hide out in your island fortress and never return to the US lest you end up in prison.
My comment was really in the context of the upthread Brunswick to Augusta discussion that would go through at least the outskirts of a small city. In that context, if you decide to put a railroad back in safety and other concerns probably would preclude a rail trail in the same location--but maybe not. The issue with rail trails in very remote areas is probably more about low utilization than right of ways. (Which is why you see that this trail isn't actually planned in a big chunk of the West.) No one is building new rail routes in Wyoming in any case.
This is a false equivalence with the argument GP made. It’s not healthy for society to have Bezos level wealth in one person. It will never be no matter the political system in place.
"The rise and emphasis on hiring practices that suggest or even mandate equality in terms of absolute numbers of people in specific subgroups is counter-productive if it results in discrimination against the most meritorious candidates."

This criticism seems entirely reasonable to me. I find it appalling that this is not only controversial but controversial enough to warrant censorship.

I also think it's telling that none of the critiques of this essay actually address this specific point; rather, they hand wave about historic injustice as if that has anything to do with what he's saying.

I think it's likely that the people pushing these mandated group quotas in the name of diversity were the racists of yesteryear, whose opinions seemingly change with the winds of what's popular, rather than having ideologically sound footing.
> Spotify and Youtube

Spotify contains the Facebook SDK which is basically spyware and pings Facebook with your device fingerprint and a unique ID generated on first run every time you open the app.

YouTube comes from an advertising company so it's safe to assume they've got their own equivalent of the above that's equally malicious.
Don't Buy the Fucking Domain
> A croc is still a croc, but the dinosaurs are hummingbirds and seagulls.

Slightly off-topic, but I went to Wikipedia to remind myself of the specific category of dinosaur that birds are descended from, and the 'Today's featured article' was about Achelousaurus, a ceratopsid dinosaur! I think this is the first time I've had such a close match to the thing I was interested in. From there, it was just three clicks to the article I needed [0], which, incidentally, stated that "The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs that originated during the Mesozoic Era".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds
I don't have the answer, but I'm really curious what you're building.
That means the workers will have absolutely no problem founding their own business and there is no need to tax Bezos.
> funky stuff in the ground to bypass a lot of the usual install friction. Once it was discovered, Zoom's installation process became a little bit slower.

Why couldn't they keep it even after it was discovered?
I think it is why they have gone with AssemblyScript as the main supported language. Since it is similar to Typescript, Web developers will likely have a easier time learning it.
So this is why tech companies do so much open source work?
No - the Dutch tax is a fixed amount based on your total holding on January 1st.

Your taxable amount on €100,000,000 is (approximately) 1.6% of the total, not of the gain. You would pay €1,600,000.

This does replace capital gains (I'm not sure to what extent): it is presented as an assumption that you will gain a fixed amount of [edited: 5.28%].
> But if I am to make something of my life before I die and am forgotten, I need dedication.

You'll be thanked online. That'll maybe fire up the dopamine. So, you'll do it again.

You might be missing out on oxytocin, though.

If you can't get outside and walk and just wave at people or say hi, then you might start with a short Yoga video before you start work. Each thing you do, you only need to do it once, there's no commitment, and no one's forcing you to do it.

The Beatles used transcendental meditation, which involves just saying some mantra word aloud or in your head and you sit normally in a comfortable chair for 20 minutes in the morning and evening. You could just do that once also, if you want.

If you want a friend, sometimes having a pet can help. If they distract you and you're not getting things done, maybe you need some of that, unless your job is to ensure our planet isn't destroyed, in which case you could maybe keep them in a different area.

And if someone talks to you, maybe hold the button to turn the phone off and shut the lid on laptop and listen to them.

If none of that makes sense, then you might explore whether you have overfocused ADD or have an anxiety or autism spectrum-related condition. Very successful and productive people have had both, but Tesla still had friends and relationships, even if some were with birds.

Worst case, if you're thoroughly stuck in some belief that you must make something of yourself to the point of sacrificing all others, the red pill which you probably shouldn't take but it might be applicable is Hume: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4705/4705-h/4705-h.htm

You are you, though. Be whatever you must.
Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax plan claims it will be bring in 3.75 trillion over 10 years.[1]:

>That’s why we need a tax on wealth. The Ultra-Millionaire Tax taxes the wealth of the richest Americans. It applies only to households with a net worth of $50 million or more—roughly the wealthiest 75,000 households, or the top 0.1%. Households would pay an annual 2% tax on every dollar of net worth above $50 million and a 6% tax on every dollar of net worth above $1 billion. Because wealth is so concentrated, this small tax on roughly 75,000 households will bring in $3.75 trillion in revenue over a ten-year period.

Are you saying this is wrong if I 'pull out my calculator' and run the numbers? The reality is it is not. Wealth is massively concentrated at the top in this country, and from a purely numbers perspective, if it were 'redistributed' it could cover a lot of basic costs that occur in this country.

[1]https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultra-millionaire-tax
What I regret about the debate of “wealth” is how it is created. Is it obtained by a zero sum game or by benefiting everyone. I think taxes should reflect this
If anything applies it probably would be the commerce clause
One I didn’t see listed there but is maybe if interest:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2515-2#ref-CR3

The original paper used games played by humans to produce new optimization algorithms. But actually their implementation of standard algorithms had bugs, so they wrongly thought the new ones were better.

Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Moves
All taxes go into general revenues. Governments don’t operate by taxing one thing and spending it specifically on another.

Gas tax is the most cited counterexample, but even there roads get money from general revenues.
But consummation of a marriage does not mean a cannibal feast.
You're already taxed on passive income.
We expect it because it happens enough that to believe there will come a time it won't happen is foolish.

Tolerating, however isn't something that should happen. Though as people are discussing, maybe in this case turn it from corruption where it'll pad some people's pockets to a legitimate way to fund initiatives to help the less fortunate can be beneficial.

Is it right? No, but humanity rarely follows what's right when its more beneficial to certain people to follow the wrong paths.
When testing solutions to algorithmic problems, it's often useful to use randomized property checking to verify that the solution's expected properties hold for approximately all inputs. The QuickCheck family of testing tools is probably the best known application of this approach. It's also pretty easy to roll your own. Some hand-rolled examples in Python:

https://github.com/tmoertel/practice/blob/master/dailycoding...

https://github.com/tmoertel/practice/blob/master/dailycoding...

https://github.com/tmoertel/practice/blob/master/dailycoding...
Social Security is not tied to US citizenship. A foreigner who has worked in the US enough years (and paid into Social Security during those years) can move back home and receive Social Security benefits upon retirement.
Steve Jobs explains privacy to Mark Zuckerberg
> There were Christmas gifts that made no sense

Not an early onset case, of course, but I remember receiving the exact same Christmas gift from my grandmother two times in a row. Each time she seemed delighted about the gift idea. Everybody just joked that she bought too much of it initially and was now slowly clearing her storage. After another 3 years without any obvious symptoms (she took care of the house, drove her car, went shopping, used her bank card, managed all correspondence with banks and insurances), my grandfather mentioned to her something that implied that her mother was dead (she had been for over 15 years). She didn't remember and had a complete breakdown.

Being affected by this when you are 40 is just heartbreaking.
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