skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tl;Dr: you are extremely wealthy compared to the world's poorest
I put in $0 and got infinity for every answer.

I'm more of an undefined kind of guy.
It's not so simple. Circumcision in neonate males is a medical prophylactic. The evidence for harm is weak as well.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/10/acc-is-infant-circumci...
1) Buy a piece of land with an outcropping of hard rock. Carve it into the rock.

That's about the only thing that we know for a fact that can last for time spans in that range.

2) Convince a major manufacturer of stainless steel pans to stamp your haiku onto every pan they make.

Those should be findable in landfills for that long, and the advantage over the rock carving is redundancy.

3) If you don't care about ethics, create a highly-infectious retrovirus that encodes it in the DNA of every human it infects.

Humans might be extinct by then, but in that case there wouldn't be anyone to read it anyway, right?
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Compare it to water energy storage.

Water is 1kg/L. Concrete is 2.4kg/L. Therefore, the volume of concrete lifted is 40% the volume of water you would need to store the same amount of energy.

Here's the biggest water energy storage facility in the US: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dominion+Bath+County+Pumpe...

Cost of the water for that facility? $0/L.

Equivalent cost for concrete? $0.15/L (https://www.google.com/search?q=concrete%20cost)

That facility has 14GL of water.

Replacing that water with concrete, you get $2.1 billion dollars. Which, ya know, actually compares favorably with the $4 billion (2022 $) that the pumped hydro facility costs.

But then you have to remember that the pumped storage facility has like a half-dozen or dozen pumps, and that probably made up a big fraction of the cost.

The equivalent lifting block thing would have... like thousands or tens of thousands of the motor/generator devices. I can't imagine the cost.
It's very interesting..

i understand they have a strict approach of keeping teams entirely separate and with interaction between teams no different to interaction outside the org (API-always, bill-by-usage, ...)

This has made AWS a very good provider overall, but it probably also makes them very able to cope with being forcibly separated.

I wonder if that is a vulnerability or a planned strategy for this possibility?
I think most of this sentiment comes not because of wealth in itself but how it was achieved.

majority of billion dollar companies are associated with bad behaviour : anticompetitive practices, shady deals, government subsidies etc. amazon got billions in subsidies just for opening second headquarters.
amazon is selling ripoffs of big brands. worker rights abuses. microsoft did many things to eliminate competition. list goes on and on. and I’m not even talking about uber’s shady projects to avoid government agencies.

so when success gets achieved by scams and shady behaviour, probably it’s not much to celebrate and reward.
I think that fundamentally yes, you could.

I see myself as a relatively stable person, but there will be topics and angles that touch me more than others. Someone digging through my post history should be enough to come with a general life profile and reasonable attack vectors.

We can keep a thick skin against attacks that are vague and/or indiscriminate, but it becomes harder when it’s more focused and resonates with thoughts we already have. You are right that one or two comments might not be much, but bullying isn’t about one-off acts, and any button that yielded a different reaction will be pushed again and again…

So yes, it’s not a fully random process to look for that “secret password”, the victim is online with an identity, and it comes down to how much effort is invested in trying to hurt them. Even worse when it’s a semi-public figure, or someone that exposed part of their everyday life.

Doing it enough times/for long enough, and there will be some chance to hit the victim during a vulnerable period (professional issues, friend/couple issues etc.). If they lose their place in society (lose their job, or are ostracized in their irl community), effects will compound.
it's quite a fun thought experiment but the guy really needs some lessons in economics.

imagine billionaires cashed up all their assets, I doubt they'd get the full amount, probably 15% of their way into cashing it will crumple the rest due to market confidence etc
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I think this is intentional behavior on Google’s part, to disincentivize use of ad blockers.
For a 3 month treasury the drop will be tiny, like less than 1% tiny. It's would be easy to cover during a "bank run" given that (a) they hold some portion of deposits in cash anyway and (b) they've been earning interest on these deposits for years now. That’s my whole point..do you disagree?
> "we do not do leetcode interviews" and maybe "we only have three interviews total" would be selling points on a job posting.

It depends on the job. I have had interviews that broke the mold here and were panel discussions or more job-talk experience, and I found the interviews uniquely exhausting because they required their own set of skills to study for that were different from the “leet code” style. At the extreme end were the take home projects, which I simply didn’t have time to do for every company and were extremely unattractive to me for that reason. I actually find doing leetcode style interviews for me required the least amount of prep and was the most straightforward, especially when they were structured to leave me with time to ask and talk to real engineers at the company.
If they do, then they should be stopped & punished. What is this, the Department of PreCrime?
So I get that this is a click-baity way to get people to donate to people living in extreme poverty. But why compare yourself to billionaires? I'm not Elon Musk, and I'm cool with that. I haven't started multiple industry-changing companies. If I start the next Paypal, Tesla, AND SpaceX, I sure hope I am worth many billions - because my companies would be worth a ton.
Ah, I see what you're saying. I interpreted what you said to mean that current philosophical thinking is that the universe is deterministic, but you're saying that even though the universe is nondeterministic, the processes in the brain are completely deterministic. This feels like a purely empirical question rather than a philosophical one; I don't know whether there are processes in the brain which depend on quantum measurement outcomes. Though I would be kind of surprised if there's nothing at all; something as simple as putting a polarization filter in front of your eyes would make which exact photons are hitting your retina determined by the outcomes of quantum measurements, which seems to mean you'd be introducing truly nondeterministic noise into the system. But I'm also completely open to the idea that in general, quantum measurements don't affect the processing of the brain or sensory inputs in any way which affects decision-making, if that's what empirical investigation of the matter shows. Whether the brain is deterministic or nondeterministic doesn't really have any impact on the way I think about the concept of free will.
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Good point. I used to work on a dairy farm. Poop didn’t register after awhile.
I think I tend to fall into a bucket of "dam owners do hydro WTF" when in fact the dam operator/owner is an energy company and they do energy.

There is a western analogue to this 3 Gorges move: Snowy Hydro which is trumpeting a pumped hydro model (its rapidly going cost +++ and is looking increasingly like being late, and possibly irrelevant against battery tech, but we'll see) also invests in wind and solar. Because.. power companies do power.

I kind-of wonder where the CSP land comes from: the dam reduced land availability significantly, flooding the plain behind the dam wall. So presumably this is a strictly commercial (ok, its a planned economy: within the limits of state enterprise commercial) land acquisition, to build the CSP on, and their existing transmission infrastructure is part of the mix. Given that CSP has thermal mass, I also wonder if they are looking to park power somehow, which seems odd given they own a .. giant dam.
kinda broken in firefox, nice try though
Not on Firefox Android there isn't. Just a giant blank page after two comparisons.
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No, I don't expect to get profit share from the company I work at unless it's written in the contract. Are you serious? I don't care if the owners work 0 hours a week. It's their company and if I wasn't happy with my compensation I would look for another job.
> Voting shares don't have to have monetary value.

I would think the power to control a large company would be worth at least something even if it is decoupled from the right to get part of any money they decide to give to stockholders.
> That extension that made Oscar the grouch climb out of the trash can and sing a little ditty when you emptied the trash

This was responsible for my little sister completely erasing a 20 MB hard drive one file at a time.
Which cities restrict the hours when _warehouses_ can accept or dispatch deliveries? I've never heard of that. Don't many warehouses operate around the clock?
I don’t think the numbers are right. If you make $59,000 you are not in the global top 1%.
Sometimes people mention that it is missing something and I often find that what they mean is some sort of specific geographical scene or a very specific BBS. Less than a dozen BBSes are mentioned by name because I was trying to do justice to the over 100,000 that lived.
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https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006679 )
We don’t really know how impressive it is, a lot of founders made it huge in that golden time period even for terrible ideas that died shortly after, and network effects always crown one or two as massively disproportionate winners in each area.

If you acknowledge that timing, connections, background and network effects dominate the equation (if Bezos was 2 years late, is there any doubt there’d be a “different” one?), you realize there’s something gross about how wealth is distributed.
Some of the popular engineering/technical Unix workstations around then or shortly after also had special keys that we might still find useful today, but that didn't make it to the PC or Mac at the time.

For example, the late 1980s Sun Type-4 keyboard:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jgrove/3051883468/

A 1984 Apollo workstation:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2288724329/

My later HP workstation had a cute "delete line" key. (Which I was very happy to bind as a new Emacs user, though I soon found that Emacs could have smarter commands that meant I didn't need "delete line" much at all.)

As much as there was a time that I loved the idea of the Sun special keys, today I work exclusively from laptop-like TrackPoint keyboards, and I'd actually like to remove some special keys: the Win95 keys between Ctrl and Alt, which I've found window management uses for, but make it harder to hit the right Ctrl or Alt modifier than it used to be. And I'd get rid of the ThinkPad Fn key on that era of keyboard I still use.
For the daily cost to rent the webserver Elon Musk could hire an entire department of developers and purchase a data center to make the website actually work.
This is a neat data visualization but ultimately unpersuasive. The idea is that I am much richer than someone earning $1.90/day (I am), and that in consequence I should donate $5 of my money to help that poor person. But why ask me? Why not ask Elon Musk, the presented point of comparison, to donate $2,000,000, which as this site points out is worth less to him than $5 is to me? Not only would he be giving up less, he'd be helping 400,000x as many people as me.

It genuinely sickens me that people let billionaires walk all over the rest of humanity like this. Musk and his ilk could single-handedly transform the economic prospects of whole communities in poor countries. I can't. So why am I the bad guy for not donating the $5 I want to spend on a coffee to get me through my workday?
The main issue with OpenMP is that Apple ships a crippled version of Clang that does not support it by default. If you are developing on Mac, OpenMP should be considered an external dependency, with all the unpleasantness that means in a C++ project. If you have students writing code and the target environment is Linux, as is common in the academia, replacing OpenMP with something portable can be a good idea.

Also, a thread pool that supports the equivalent of:

#pragma omp parallel for schedule(static)

and

#pragma omp parallel for schedule(dynamic, 1)

if often good enough for scientific computing. There is surprisingly little need for all the fancy things software engineers have invented because their threads have to communicate every minute.
It takes infrastructure to move natural gas. They can find customers - but can they get that NG there? Not right now they can't. And there are material shortages everywhere - it will take a long time and it will be more costly in the long run than their European markets.

Tensions are already rising between the Saudi's and Russians, who are frustrated with Russia's drop in output since the war started. This will only exacerbate the west moving away from fossil fuels - essentially weakening oil power world wide.

On top of that, all the money they're making from oil has been pretty much paying off accumulated foreign debts. People are concerned about the export - but it doesn't matter if you export a lot if you can't import what you need for an extended war effort or for your citizens.

I think Russia has already lost this war from a geopolitical perspective. Even if they take the Ukraine, their position is worse than it was from before.
internet was created by two universities, not private companies.

and usually universities are funded by governments.

private companies ruined internet actually.
Not necessarily, for example Facebook supervoting shares were setup to convert to normal shares if transfered, making them only more valuable to the original holder.
If you can’t take this sales pitch you need to get out more.
Those who persevere succeed can tell the stories about perseverance saving their company.

Those who persevere and fail may tell how not quitting early enough continued the agony, but also can tell how just a bit more help could have led them to success, but odds were just all stacked against them.

Those who saw a failure coming and quit are likely not to tell much about it, there's no glory at it.

This all produces a kind of evolutionary / social pressure to persist and maybe win even when the chances are slim. The winner takes all. The losers persist at their (and, in a sense, everyone's) expense of "malinvestment", but they, and the price they pay, is handwaved away and forgotten. Evolution is about advancement of a species, not of a particular organism; progress is about advancement of an industry, not a particular company.

I'm with the "wind it down properly if it's not working" crowd though. One reason is that you have to fire people, and it's nicer to still be able to give them some severance pay.
Google Cloud is notably missing such a product as SES

Same for Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-prof...
I agree it sounds awful - bad enough that people would naturally avoid living there even without zoning.
I have worked from home for 12 years. But now with my wife also working from home, I don’t get the same focus / quiet I used to. I miss it.
Union is not a “mob”.

Whataboutism is the dumbest way to make a point.
Was that irony intentional?
The documentary is more about the general experience of BBSes than drilling down to specific ones. Yours may not be mentioned by name but I hope that you recognize it in some of what people say anyway.
Without jokes, build a successful religion with the haiku in focus.
But it probably won't survive in its exact form over this time. Lots of physical artifacts with the haiku engraved distributed over the world should provide error correction. You also need to keep the language of the haiku intact. Provide a superb language specification like Pāṇini did for Sanskrit. Making it a sacred language like Arabic in Islam seems to add some kind of longevity.

Or piggy-back on some similar endeavour and inject your haiku.
Orly? Satya Nadella ended the Windows/Office duopoly at Microsoft. A lot (most?) of the OG senior leadership left.

No more proprietary OS lock-ins; Windows even can run Linux in a subsystem now (WSL). VSCode is open source.

I’d say he’s been fairly successful in changing the corporate culture.

Time will tell if Azure is any worse or better than the other cloud providers wrt lock-in.
Ooof, I did not like this site. It feels like it's trying to take away from the hilariously disproportionate wealth of Elon Musk by shifting the focus to "the world", with the implied message being "see, you don't have it so bad!". Nice deflection.
Maybe you're not aware how these "unrealized" capital gains (at scale) are indirectly realized in the form of loans taken against value of the asset.

Massive wealth doesn't operate in income or even in typical capital gains advantages you're referring to. It operates at a scale where the value of the assets are so great, banks compete to give loans to them, which are not taxed like income.

It's totally absurd to argue that loans from assets isn't income. It's used to purchase more assets, to purchase tax favorable legislation, to buy media to keep us thinking this issue is about paying capital gains on your retirement portfolio.

If Bezos will "never get that money unless he sells stock" was a true statement, then where do all the yachts and houses and other assets come from? How does he buy them? If the IRS suddenly recognized loans taken against asset wealth or any exchange of assets as income, the tax rates of the super wealthy compared to the average American would suddenly look sane.
I like the Fido one best.
I dunno - I spent 20 years using the Canadian Medical System, then moved down to the United States in 1995, and spent 20 years using the system here, with 5 years in a (mostly) socialized system in Singapore.

There doesn't really seem to be much of a tragedy of the commons when it comes to healthcare - nobody is really that excited about getting an unneeded biopsy, or hip replacement, or colonoscopy....

Agreed that full-throated capitalism seems to be the best system when it comes to allocating most resources (I absolutely do not begrudge Billionaires their Yachts, big houses, islands, private jets - have at it!) - but it's pretty sad when someone who works hard their entire life has to die 10 years early because they can't afford a decent doctor.
It’s absolutely correct. You’re forgetting India, China and African nations make the majority of human beings.
Loads of people who lift (regular Joe's not athlete) don't any different. Most people who looks like they life take roids (and most of them loose all the gains after going off)
It is actually the bare minimum in many European countries (where you would also get unemployment benefits).
The comment adds a lot of valuable context to your comment, regardless of if it was responding to what you wrote or what you wrote (but with sarcasm)
> For anyone who thinks this wealth shouldn't appear, let me ask this: if someone could discover a cure for all cancers — how much should they be allowed to earn for it?

Say 50 million?

> I.E. What price would you put on the cure for all cancers?

100 billion?

You've asked two separate questions there, but you're implying that the answer to one is the same as the other.

Just because you are capable of extracting a certain amount of wealth in exchange for something, does not mean that you should be able to.
This doesn't seem to account for the cost of living; living off $100/day in San Francisco might very well result in a lower quality of life than living off of $5/day in somewhere else in the world.

The general premise still stands of course.

I'm curious; are there any organizations where donations help build regions economies? One would think that if a region relied on donations to survive then, without change, they'd continue relying on donations which isn't a great long term solution. The ideal solution seems to be helping these regions jump start and build their economies through education and financial support. If people can afford to go to school and get an education then hopefully they are able to start moving their local community and economy forward.

Tough problems to solve, anyone know if there's any good books on the subject? I know there's nothing I can do to help but I'd be interesting in learning more about the problem and potential solutions.
Mate it's a classroom of 9 year olds.

They can't be trusted to dress themselves.
I believe his original vision was to be the worlds largest book store offering. Something brick and mortar book stores couldn't do because of shelf space limitations.
Humans feel pain, yet we happily recruit and train soldiers to slaughter and be slaughtered.

There’s a moral spectrum where people set various standards based on context.
One other option is to fork all the threads too.

Since you probably don't know what all the other threads in your process are up to, your only option is to attach a debugger to all of them, halt them all, and copy all their state into brand new threads in the child process.

Do it all correctly and you end up with a multi-threaded-fork.

You still need to fix up signal handlers, interrupted syscalls, various notification API's that no longer work, memory mapped temp files used for IPC, pipes and sockets, and a bunch of other things.

But a fork of a complex process is possible. It just isn't easy.
Give me a break. A guy that turns a couple of hundred thousand (something a LOT of people qualify for in loans) into hundreds of billions is amazing.
> Voting shares don't have to have monetary value.

:facepalm:

If you control a company worth $1T, someone is going to be willing to buy your share. If you're implying that voting shares don't have to be transferable, the question becomes how do you pick the next leader? The current owner gets to appoint the next in line? That's basically monarchy. The history I was taught says that only those at the top thrive under monarchy.
Yes. And that used to be a worthwhile effort. However, given all the choices consumers have today it's saying "go away. We don't want you." The MLB can't afford to lose more top of mind market share, especially to the younger audience.
I don't think that's true.
Nicholas Cage in Con Air is pretty obviously balding, but no one would say he's bald.
Seems to be broken in Firefox on all platforms.
Oh yeah, that sounds pretty unstable. :)
we can also flip a question: how do you prevent a scenario where bezos or musk achieve so much wealth that they can purchase everything? to own all corporations and if somebody will create a competitor that competitor gets destroyed by shady practices so it gets impossible to have free market?
Agreed on all parts.
The Erlang and OTP manuals were very nicely written, and I was able to reason about most aspects of the system pretty well from reading them.

I did a bit more research after writing up my comment (my mind got a bit too focused on it to let it go) and found this great resource about handling various system load scenarios: https://ferd.ca/handling-overload.html

I'll +1 your pragmatic comment on not adopting tools just because they're there.

Again I no longer work in Erlang, but I find the systems, architecture, and problem solving particularly interest piquing.

Now I'm off to look up production use-cases where Mnesia was the most pragmatic solution.
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