skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument ultimately goes down to a belief that all children should be owned and raised by the state - parents should not have any involvement, as that gives their children an unfair advantage.

Let's pretend money had nothing to do with it. Simply by virtue of being my child, I am able to train them and pass knowledge in such a way that they have an inherent advantage to other children. Would this be unfair? Ultimately, it's the same thing! They now have an advantage over others.

Now, should we seize 100% of all wealth upon death? Otherwise, my children will get something more than others, and over time this compounds to be a significant advantage.

The average person does not want zero control over raising their children. This comes from a belief in the family unit - a private, self-organized entity that is separate from the state. Families are biologically predisposed to help their own members and exclude outsiders. This manifests itself in innumerable ways such as gifting money to family members, taking vacations with family, investing in each other's businesses, and on and on.

You will never be able to prevent people from giving their children wealth. It is biologically predisposed. Also, no one likes paying taxes - nobody! When given the opportunity, even middle class people alter their behavior to avoid even small taxes, like when people drive from one state with sales taxes over the border to another (Massachusetts residents driving to New Hampshire - extremely common) to avoid a 6.25% sales tax.

What you have is incentives - we all want to help our children, and pay the fewest taxes. The state can pass whatever laws they want, but everyone is incentivized to avoid them, and will find new and clever ways to do so.
Young hackers show us that becoming a hacker doesn't require that much time. A few years, perhaps. :)
It is true statistically. Big Media is generally Left Biased.[0]

[0] https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444
I'm very curious to hear what the biologists think about this result.

In a related vein, the post reminds me of the movie "The Informant" about Mark Whitacre, an ADM executive, who was caught up in a price fixing scandal involving lysine and citric acid. It seems like a quiet, stable corner of the food business, but maybe we should be paying more attention.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130080/plotsummary
So if your point is it’s too complex and variable for automatic processing; how does adding a human arbitrarily changing classification and location going to improve accuracy? Unless it’s the shotspotter tech put there shooting people, seems the company is very successful bullshit either technically or ethically.
I disagree. This is worth saying because:

1) time and time again, particularly in the media, I hear net worth bandied about as though it's the same as cash. Bezos is worth X billion - think what that cash would pay for!

2) billions in equity can't be translated into billions in cash. Millions, for sure. But not billions.

3) any statements that talk about taxing the rich inevitably seem to come down to transferring equity to the state over time based on a current stock market valuation.

All of the above seem misinformed and/or a bad idea, and worth trying to establish fundamental understanding in this area. If you already have that understanding then that's fantastic.
I don't think "empty" is quite the right mental model. It's an object that has at least 0 methods, which is a characteristic of every data type. An actually empty type in Go is struct{} (good for map values when the map represents a set).
> in the short term perhaps. In the long term, countries with less regulated markets have better economic outcomes

This is just a laffer-curve-style argument. Draw a graph. Point to one end, and mumble. Point to the other end and mumble something else. Say "We want to be here" while pointing somewhere on the curve.

While it remains unhappily true that lots of people are taken in by this sort of argument, it also remains true that it's an astonishingly weak sort of argument.
> this lady's

Immediately knew where this was going.
The issues with the type system and weak static analysis are the biggest gripes for me. The other features of Julia still make using it worthwhile, but it's rather frustrating to code compared to any language with good static type inference and a powerful type annotation system.
Thank you! That's exactly what I was aiming for.

That sounds like a good idea. The problem is that I just don't know enough about compilers, Julia's internals, and how the core dev team works to really forecast the future and know what's possible. How hard would it be to implement caching of native code? A fast interpreter that runs side by side with the compiler? No idea.

Maybe it would still be useful to make a post explaining how I cope with the limitations of Julia. I'll think about it.
> isn't the whole financial system also a house of cards

Yes. But importantly, it's a house of cards guaranteed by all the money and force of the government of $major_power.

> Do your own research, make your own decisions...

The vast majority of people are not capable of understanding either the economics or technology involved without investing an unreasonable amount of time. (I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't, and I certainly understand more of the tech and probably understand more of the economics than 99% of the US population...)
Many actions could have been taken to prevent people from struggling to adapt to a changing economy such as:

* Subsidies for relocation

* Subsidies for retraining

* Subsidies for drug rehabilitation

All of which could have been funded by the greater economic growth generated by trade. If you want Americans to pay more for goods to subsidize the cost of living of groups of Americans, make it a transparent tax. Don't hide the cost in greater coats for goods.

Also where was this concern when these same issues were hitting poor urban regions throughout the 80s and 90s?
Owning a home does not imply the ability to charge a car. It is common for homeowners to park cars on the street out of necessity.
> shot spotter is producing a probability distribution about the places where a shot may have been fired, but they're not showing that information, they're showing a point. That's broken.

>This is an unreliable system which police and prosecutors misrepresent as reliable.

I would argue in american policing, that broken is the point. People (cops, judges, juries, the public) don't engage with anything criminal justice related as probabilistic. If they showed the probabilities, they wouldn't have a product specifically because it would not be able presented as reliable.

It's product market fit, like the parallel citizen thread, that serves malicious and anti-social goals. But it is profitable.
That would miss all the personalized content, all the content behind authorization and so on.

At the very least, it would need to be able to get the content pushed to it by the client, the way the client has it at moment of bookmarking, making the download/scraping kindof superflous.

Indexing and doing search, however, is hard, but solved. Hard in the sense that it is not something a firefox addon could do very well. I presume a (self)hosted meilisearch would suffice, though.
I covered 6000km last month. If I didn't have a petrol car, I'd not have a car at all, possibly renting one whenever I needed one. I only use my car for leisure, and if I can't reach remote locations with ease, then I don't need it.

How many chargers do you need to equal the bandwidth of a petrol station with 6 pumps?
very much agree
Well, but that's a very different issue: the rich have an incredible amount of options to optimize their taxes that us mere mortals don't, and can shift their income so that it doesn't incur income taxes. You don't fight that with income tax hikes or by refusing to countenance any and all tax cuts.
Cost of living in Germany isn’t significantly higher than other western European countries. And for engineers, after-tax income is easily 50% higher in Germany compared to the countries I mentioned.
2011? any reason for posting this? additional input?

The techherald article/site that this post was based on doesn't even exist anymore

Here was some discussion about Palantir's plan in 2016. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13065364
When I lived in Alaska, there were villages that were hundreds of miles apart. Enough so that you had to bring extra gas with you in addition to your full tank. Until EVs can handle that range while keeping you warm at the same time, they're not going to work. For those people. And running out of charge could be deadly in -50 deg where there's little chance of people coming by to rescue you.

Unless we want to have the government build of recharge stations in the middle of nowhere, those people will be entirely left behind.

Perhaps in 5 years we'll be there. I hope so! But pretending those people don't exist won't make them disappear (I'm not suggesting that is what you are doing for the record, I'm speaking generally).
> I don't see latency or large memory footprints as being "fundamentally unsolvable".

Dunno. Look at Python. Does "never in a million years, because switching to a better language would be easier" count as "fundamentally"?
which courts could easily fix...but don't.
> I've said this so many times: But what does it doooooo???

It lets me transact value online without sacrificing my privacy.
People draw a lot of scary conclusions based on what they know about bad EV choices.

It all depends on what car you choose.

With Teslas at least, you don’t sit for an hour, since they have fast chargers all over the place. In other cars, yes.

Some of our charges are 5-10 minutes. On a road trip most are 20-30 minutes. The longest charge is if you need to get to a place that is near the edge of your range, which is
exceedingly rare, even on long road trips. In those highly unusual cases you might have to charge for 45-50 minutes for that one leg of the trip, if you didn’t arrive with half a charge already. Again this is with a supercharger. Other cars… yes, scary charge times. (You will hear about how some cars… Porsche… can charge at a faster rate, but the chargers to support this are rare, so their fast rate is often not possible and they are stuck at a slow charger for hours.)

Also with other cars you are sitting there alone often at a single plug station. With Tesla chargers you are generally not alone, you are with other Tesla owners who have your back if anything suspicious starts happening around the area.
Unfortunately, it is blocked in Canada. (I think, because in German.) Too bad.
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Good point. The hammer and sickle aren't implements of leisure, after all.

It's really all societies that require capable people to pull their own weight, not just capitalism. Even money-free communes/kibbutzes have chore rotations and expect everyone to pull their own weight regarding necessary tasks like farming, cooking, cleaning, maintenance, child-raising, etc.
Yeah, it's a really useful tool. There are a lot of gunshots in Chicago (last year there were over 4000 incidents (in Chicago) where someone was shot, and there are far more gunshots where no one is hit), and in many of those shootings, no one calls 911. If someone is hit and rendered unable to call 911 or get help, if no one calls 911, that shooting victims is likely to become a homicide victim. ShotSpotter gets someone to check the area out, and it has saved a number of people from bleeding out.

I don't think it should be used as evidence of the location of a shooting (often shootings are only discovered when the victim shows up at a hospital), as locations are triangulated based on the time different sensors detect a gunshot and the distance sound travels is impacted by building geometry and materials. But it's a very useful tool that saves lives.

Regarding the locations of ShotSpotter coverage, as the pricing model is proportional to area covered (there's a physical network that needs to be maintained and contacts with owners of buildings with sensors that need to be paid), so sensors are put in the areas with lots of shootings. If you want to know why there is such extreme racial homogeneity in the most violent, least well resourced parts of Chicago, I highly recommend the book "The Color of Law" [0] on redlining.

[0] https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten...
What makes it even harder is that chess elo is a zero sum game. You not only have to reach a certain level of skill, you have to be better than other people and beat them. Those other people have also been training for 10 years since they were four years old. There has never been a person who became a GM who started chess older than 17; other than him it's almost exclusively under 14. If you aren't top 5% (~1900 FIDE) within the first year of starting to play, you don't have the talent.

I cannot stress enough how impossible it is for anyone as a late teen or older to decide to become a GM. It has never happened. You might as well be 22 and decide you're going to start training for the olympic ice skating team. It's just not going to happen.
I'm curious if crypto enthusiasts believe crypto currencies won't be as regulated as other currencies and if not, in what way will it be more free and open in a beneficial manner?
Not being in or having interactions with the criminal justice system, but having been involved in _many_ technology post-mortems, why wouldn’t you want to collect exculpatory evidence? Without it, and in the best case an innocent individual goes free, but with a cloud of uncertainty. In the worst case an innocent individual is convicted of a crime and the perpetrator goes without consequence.

If LEOs and prosecutors are incentivized based on raw arrest or conviction counts, then the consequence for being wrong should be astronomical (say, the sentence of the wrongfully convicted times a ≥ 1x multiplier).
> And China isn't slowing down. Coal is incredibly cheap when there's no carbon tax or emission standards. One of the many reasons it's cheaper to manufacture in China and why North Americans and Europeans can't compete.

I thought that Trump was all about building more coal? Didn't it work out?
> washing hands

…without soap and without drying them after.
My comment followed from the claim about whether meritocracy and inheritance are compatible. I'm addressing the notions in theory rather than in present situational terms in any given country. From that perspective:

1. Disagree. Yes, money can be used to buy power. But it's not power in itself. A strong meritocracy would focus on giving positions of responsibility (auditing/regulating/decision-making type powers) to people who show the merit to perform them well. Money is an advantage, but it is not the power to shape social systems.

2. Rich heirs who put all their wealth into safe investments and sit on it also aren't really getting much out of it. And that money isn't sitting away in a vault, it's a part of the economy.
Rich heirs who buy yachts and mansions and hang with celebrities, but lack the merit to contribute anything useful, will burn through (most of) the wealth. It's not just common... it's the default outcome within a few generations.

3. Yes, generations are a long time. But that latency would apply to personal/family wealth rather than decision-making authority.

I'm not a pro-inheritance maximalist. I agree with various forms of taxation on inheritance. But there is value is allowing people to be motivated by their family's future. Inheritance is not inherently at odds with meritocratic assignment of political power.
You usually end up making and changing product plans. Meeting with others about changing the product plan. Code reviews.. standups.. I guess you have never ended up in meetings about meetings.

I've been there. People schedule meetings for a living. It took 9 months to add a field once.
And since the rich make policy in our techno-oligarchy either overtly or covertly, that is the problem. The rich will simply move latitudes/location rather than deal with the problem to avoid billions of poor people effectively drowning (ok they won't LITERALLY drown, they'll starve from farmland loss or when their cities become uninhabitable).

It's a bleak future if you are poor and immobile.

With the rise of totalitarian/authoritarian capitalism, the upper-middle class won't be able to move freely. So many of us in America are used to free movement in the first world.

The future points to the first world being economically submissive to China in the future, and perhaps politically, and political movements within the first world show great appetite for authoritarians and distrust of the democratic norms, and it's not just Trump. How much of that is Russian and Chinese shadow propaganda remains to be seen.

Want to see first world countries turn super-not-first-world? Send a flood of refugees. The American Authoritarian Right is built fundamentally on paranoia of illegal immigration. Look at what the Syrian immigration did to Europe.

Those refugee events are peanuts compared to the displacements projected by Global Warming. Between rising sea levels, ecosystem changes/desertification, and raw temperature spikes, there will likely be billions with a big B displaced, and that will cause everyone to close their borders.

I would not count on free mobility when you need it.
ha yes. Gas is wildly subsidized so consumers have cheap fuel prices to support the car based economy.

Same as corn, dairy, etc...
Y in year does not represent a vowel sound.
Even with an estate tax of 50% you'd still be able to bequeath massive wealth to your children.
Fair enough I guess, but parent was still to my eye misunderstanding what `x privelege` means.

s/white/male/g and the point largely still stands with mildly adjusted examples.

I'd argue overall it is on the whole easier to be a man in society than a woman for similar reasons (i.e. men have been in charge of power structures for longer and entrenched assumptions abound).

I hadn't thought about the perspective that men are more often killed by police than by women, and probably for similar reasons (i.e. subconsciously viewing men as more dangerous than women), but by and large as a man I don't fear getting shot by police on a traffic stop.

It could definitely be harder to break into a traditionally female field, as an example, though for sure.

Overall I feel the "male privilege" would be more pronounced than any "female privilege", though.

This is actually what intersectionality describes: we each have our own unique sets of advantages and disadvantages through the lenses of our race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

In the vast majority of cases a straight white male is going to have the fewest disadvantages and most advantages in western society, because it's been designed for centuries around the straight white male as the power-wielder.
Utility is subjective. If you don't find utility in something, don't use it. Compare these voluntary relationships to the coercive government solutions, like the CBDCs favored by the author.
> When in the office, someone stopping by or having me come to their desk was awkward and there was usually no paper trail to reference.

Just in general what I noticed about remote is that my engineering colleagues are much more easily reachable. I remember years ago at a place where I had to chase a colleague for months to mentor me about a certain topic - despite going to lunch together almost every other day. Ironically in the remote setting most of the people are even in for a synchronous call/quick screen share. What I also like is having to take much less notes.
I live in a city and don't have a dedicated space. I'm not sure how they're going to put in EV charging infrastructure for us. I'm not alone in this problem, so I"m not sure how an EV would work for me or a lot of us City dwellers..

I guess they could make us go to a charging station for 30 minutes every week, or put in charging stations along each street. Maybe battery swapping?

The cities seem to have the most to gain from having cleaner air.
Rust is too low level for most data scientists, the borrow checker interrupts the flow of thought and it doesn’t work well in notebooks.
The FANG I'm at offered us a whole two days per week..! I was blown away by the complete tone deaf hubris.

The WFH topic is bafflingly being met by the exact same old talking points as before (e.g. "slippery slope") -- as though the last year and a half didn't just happen.

Something'll give or, welp... time to begrudgingly start leetcoding to shake off the interview dust.
"promotion" doesn't appear in that post. My job was writing documentation. I did say that I was considering moving into evangelist/growth roles. My next job wasn't those two though, it was PM.

I guess you were trying to disparage Yehuda, then?
Cops Lie. Here's a few examples.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nypd-shake...

https://popculture.com/trending/news/target-starbucks-tampon...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/police-mcdonalds-coffe...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/1...

https://popculture.com/trending/news/nypd-called-out-falsely...

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/07/police-lieutenant-w...

https://www.foxla.com/news/deputies-arrest-kpcc-reporter-cov...

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-tay...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939zda/how-stupid-do-cops...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jmv94x/testilying-cops-ar...

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/09/25/oc-sheriffs-deputies-w...

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/officials-say-chicago-pol...

https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
This is an inherent problem with the specialization of labor. Those who run police departments have more relevant specializations to their job role than information science. This isn't a problem with statistics or science in particular -- it's an issue with every specialization. This is only going to get worse as popular opinion of the role of higher education is starting to shift from a more liberal-arts focus to a job-placement focus.
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The biggest problem with failsafes of that nature is that they get disabled, either because the users find them annoying day-to-day or because something in the system failed in the field and getting the equipment back in service was prioritized over maintaining all safety checks.

Most dump trucks have alarms that will go off if the bed is raised while moving and some modern ones can even limit speed while the bed is raised (there are plenty of legitimate uses for driving slowly with the bed up), yet it seems like we don't go a month without someone slamming one in to a bridge.
No need for security, Tesla owners watch out for each other.
I'm not familiar enough with the case to guess at strategy.

The keys seems to be:
If police have any evidence besides ShotSpotter to connect the time and place of the shooting with the video of the two of them together.
> I thought that filming crime and police was solidly legal.

Filming anything from a public space (street, sidewalk, etc) is legal, even if it's of a private space that is visible from public space. For example, if I'm on a public sidewalk next to your private residence, and you have the blinds open walking around naked - you have no reasonable expectation of privacy and can be filmed even though you're on your private property. Just like if you're driving on the public street and I have a ring doorbell camera, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy driving down the street, or walking on the sidewalk, and I can record you.