skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fork() and the exec system calls exist because they were easy to implement in the 70s on PDPs, and fork() was cheap enough then, but much more importantly, it got the shell developers out of having to write and evolve a more complex API in the kernel. With fork/exec a shell developer could try lots of variations for executing a pipe command w/o having to develop any more kernel code.

For example, until BSD came along, not much had to change in kernel land for any shell. Job control meant that the shell would need to put all the processes for a job in the same pgrp, and also there was a need to add `setsid()`.
I am merely proposing a ballpark ideal price for a coin, to justify it being 100k if you will, does that make sense? I think I didn't word it rightly.
They could call it... Amazonia.
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Why shouldn't they exist, exactly? I think we should want more billionaires, ten times as many, at least!
It's not creative, it's just being precise. And it's not even pro leave, it's just not as anti-leave as the inaccurate narrative.

I voted remain: not everything said about Brexit is rhetoric.
I'm pretty sure they've been doing that for years now, and it has been helping to drive inflation.
For me comments are visible, I can make comments, and the comments are below the video.

I have a 2560x1200 monitor, Firefox browser, Debian 10.
A couple of years ago, my stance was that the growth of mega-corporations would lead to economic inefficiencies which were 'as bad' as a centrally planned communist economy. But now my belief is that it will be worse because at least, in a centrally planned communist economy, there is some degree of socially beneficial collaboration between different industries... Here we have a handful of massive megacorps with distinct financial interests which are all trying to extract as much value from society by whatever means or excuses they can get away with... Won't this just lead us to China-style 'ghost cities'?

Amazon knows how to build warehouses, so they will just build ghost warehouses so long as government money printers will subsidize it; they can keep monetizing warehouses regardless of whether or not the market needs them. The entire economy is turning into some kind of Bitcoin-like mining scheme except instead of wasting electricity, Amazon will waste mostly concrete, steel and workers' time... It's incredible that while most people can't afford houses to live in, Amazon seems to be building more and more warehouses...

Megacorps are merely following the streams of currency from the money printers instead of following real consumer needs... Unfortunately, they have a lot of control over the money printers via their relationships with governments so they can make sure that they end up pointing towards wherever is convenient for them... They can turn a profit regardless of whether or not people need what they're offering.

Just look at big weapon manufacturers; they wanted some big juicy government contracts (funded straight from the money printers) and look at what they got; another war! Governments are all too happy to hand out all that free, freshly printed money to their buddies. Plenty of profits generated from destroying net economic value.

Vaccine manufacturers... Bill governments for billions of doses and then let governments worry about how to sell it to the public. Governments are systematically monetizing waste for the benefit of their corporate overlords with 0 concern for common social interests.
McDonalds is also careful to ensure all their franchises are in locations that will make the owner a ton of money (if they run the business well) and so it is a good deal. Not all companies work this way though.
Weird.

I've had a defect rate of less than 1% percent with a sample size of enough items to reduce the margin of error on that statistic to something rather negligible.

To get your configuration you need to have two items that aren't defective and five items that are.

P(!defect)^2P(defect)^5 = 0.99^20.01^5 = 9.801e-11

There are seven choose five ways you could have a particular configuration where you have five defects out of seven purchases.

7 Choose 5 = 21

So therefore the probability of what happened to you happening to me would seem to be:

9.801e-11 * 21 = 2.05821e-9

This written out in numbers is: 0.00000000205821 That number as a percentage is: 00.000000205821% For comparison the probability of being struck by lighting over the course of a person's life is 1-in-15,300 which is 0.00006535947. Many people struggle with reading really small numbers like that and so we often decide to round. If we do that the probability of what happened to you happening to me is roughly 0% if we choose to round at six decimal places. Seconding the OP claim that the general experience is shocking, because it is extremely divergent. It would be more shocking to be hearing everyone on Hacker News was regularly being hit by lightning bolts than that people are getting your defect rate.
For many of us on this site, I suspect that actually contributes to our salaries.

Either directly as VC capital or indirectly via public ownership. If billionaires suddenly couldn't own public companies, stock prices would drop and we'd likely see layoffs.
The Fed is about to raise rates by 0.75% (estimated, maybe 0.5% to 1%) this week.

What do you think will happen to the value of all those treasuries? Even short term ones will decline in value. Not only because of the actual rate increase, but also over the expectation of future rate increases to clamp down on inflation.

10% drop? Probably not. But any drop in price followed by a bankrun would end up in insolvency.
Thanks for the correction. Too late to fix it though. Yes, teaching it like this would instantly eliminate all the mystery around it.
> What happens when USA taxes billionaires out of existence?

This is a really good question.

I believe the answer is that the USA will be better able to outcompete those countries that do have them. History has shown time and again that massive inequality is a huge barrier to maximizing the productivity of all of a society's members.

It leads to cynism and corruption and breaks down cooperation. It forces a society to spend valuable resources on policing in order to keep the poor taking from the rich. It's just economically incredibly inefficient. You need some level of inequality to incentivize people but once you go beyond that, it's a net harm.
Bellingham is pure propaganda
Production helm chart link on this page leads to 404:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/oncall/open-source/#p...
I missed that interpretation :(

IMHO a fat binary written from scratch would have been a way worse choice than to use a standard stack, both in terms of bugs and time, let alone Open Source contributions or any scalability.

In terms of number of services, what do you get rid of that produce a better result? maybe RMQ and use a worse queue?, celery and write your own task manager or use another dependency?
Not outside of a small number of US tech cities and certainly not outside the US. My first coding job paid about $30k for example.

I am currently a senior engineer earning less than a SV graduate. My pay has been largely comparable to a plumber for my whole career. Not for lack of trying.

I suspect if whatever red tape os preventing US companies from remote hires world wide happening en masse, then non-MAGMA employees will see deflation in their wages.

Similarly if more people are let in on unrestricted working visas that last a while.
Governments everywhere are excited that ubiquitous digital surveillance has been normalized.

These things aren't going away. It took years to scare the populace into accepting them, there's no way governments will go back on that now that they've succeeded.
Even if that covered all the problem space (instead of replacing it with a much larger one), if your code is flawless, parsing and validating are equivalent.

Choosing one just makes a difference because code has problems.
Are you advocating against billionaires & capitalism, or against power relationships?

In theoretically egalitarian systems like communism, a committee makes decisions about how to allocate resources. Then whoever holds most sway over the committee holds sway over resource allocation. If you do it by direct democracy, then whoever owns the news media & ad platforms (or has money to do massive PR campaigns and ad buys) holds sway over resource allocation. You can't escape this: somebody is going to make the decisions, unless you just run the world by computers and have humans slot in for menial tasks.
I used to think like this. I was very anti medication, pro meditation and mindfulness, and then it happened to me. After a significant life event, a lot of things bubbled to the surface. I wasn't as in touch with myself as I used to be but, again, I was anti medication and thought I could fix things myself. It took me a scary amount of time to ask my doctor for meds, and of course they were happy to prescribe but they never pushed them on me in any way. I was worried I'd feel different, not like myself.

Now, 2+ years on SSRIs and I can honestly say I've never felt more like myself. With the meds, I feel like I've unlocked my full potential. Before, I had bouts of heightened success, but they were always weighed down by this underlying instability. I don't consider myself a "drugged" person, but rather the version of myself that I want to be.
It'd be a real shame if they didn't call it The Amazon
The claim was about testosterone levels not muscle mass.

It doesn't appear to be true that lifting has any impact on testosterone levels aside from the first hour after lifting. It goes up temporarily then returns to normal.

It appears scientists have studied such things. The biological concept of homeostasis could explain why that might be true.

So it is what it is.
> arbitrary gerrymandering, not really useful.

The fact that something is arbitrary does not make it useless or unimportant. If you're concerned about zoning, taxes, snow removal, or school districts, then administrative regions become very important.

> who cares? that's a logical fallacy.

Comparing regions by rate or density is a cheap measurement, but it's not a logical fallacy by any stretch of the imagination.
You'll be happy to see they've edited the announcement to include Linux now, likely in response to this or the other comment like it. :)
If a wealth tax isn't going to change anything, then what's the point? Do we really believe that billionaires are keeping their money in scrooge-mc-duck-esque vaults rather than investing it in diversified portfolios, and that only a wealth tax (rather than the promise of returns on investment) will force them to invest?
About 10% as much as employees at FTX, apparently

https://craft.co/ftx-exchange
Part of King Henry VIII's fight with the Catholic Church was due to the amount of rent-seeking that was going on in England. They were such a ridiculously massive land owner by that point that they threatened the Crown.
What I've heard internally (well, it's Blind rumors...) is that Dave Clark screwed up and way over estimated the need for new warehouses last year.
This is plain false. Most production-grade distribution do extensive vetting of the packages, both in terms of code and legal.

Additionally, distribution packages are tested by a significant number of users before the release.

Nothing of this sort happens around any language-specific package manager. You just get whatever happens to be around all software forges.

Unsurprisingly, there has been many serious supply chain attacks in the last 5 years. None of which affected the usual big distros.
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__main__.py clearly stands out with its underscores. index.html is a historical accident. And they're both just single files, not a glob.
I think the one-dimensional severity classification is part of the problem. If you're running a cloud provider, it's a much bigger deal. Call it "high severity" issue for those use cases. No objection to that, better safe than sorry.

Probably 90% of PCs are single-user Windows desktops, though. It's a "nonexistent severity" issue for those use cases... yet we all get to pay.
I’m suggesting that outright war can be disastrous. That if we’re to take out Putin, it would need to be in a way that would not prompt him to Nuke any part of the planet. Personally I’m in favor of internal strife within the Russian government or assassination. Anything that does not give him the chance to leave a spiteful gift.
These billionaires don’t have a billion dollars in cash. They have a huge chunk of a company shares that are currently valued at >1 billion.

So what you’re proposing is just that a company’s shares are taken away from the founders/execs as the company grows. It’s not just that you’re taking wealth away from them, but you’re fundamentally forcing them to sell off control of the company.
Couldn't agree more. I once read that, before colonialism came along, 'uncivilized' (hah) natives in most of the world spent 2 or 3 hours a day on food, shelter, clothing, defense. Plenty of time then to enjoy the world, find rocks and plants, make tools, do creative stuff, tell kids stories. (Didn't need dentists either.)

Big secret: The rest IS entirely arbitrary.
I’m wondering the same thing but I’m curious if the heterogeneous nature of modern ARM processors is essentially equivalent- if you can get the same crypto primitive to run first on a P-core and then an E-core, can you measure the difference for a similar effect?
If you have a billion dollars and you invest all of it, you're still a billionaire (unless your investments tank). No billionaire keeps all of his money in cash.
But that's basically true right now. The Democrats aren't getting anything done without the approval of Manchin and Sinema and still wouldn't post-2022.

In 2014, the Republicans held 54 Senate seats after the election. In the very worst case for 2022, we're back to 2014. However, if you actually go look at the upcoming races for this year, it seems much more likely that we'll end up closer to a 50/50 split given how weak many of the Republican candidates are.

The apocalypse scenario would be either party acquiring 67 seats in the Senate (to overrule presidential vetoes), which would obviate any need to win the presidency. However, anyone claiming that the Republicans are going to win 67 seats in 2022 is simply wrong.
Yes, so many people seem to think that billionaires are some living version of Scrooge McDuck, and their wealth is vaults full of gold coins under their houses, and they swim around in the coins before breakfast every morning.
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You do have to pay back eventually though. Why are you assuming the loan never comes due or is margin-called?
I'd personally recommend to go get checked. The evaluation I went through was like 6 hours long (I know, getting checked for ADHD and they want 6 hours of testing?! Seriously.) But it is to rule out other issues, other conditions and to ensure that the results are correct. In fact, they even adjust for "faking it" in the tests (not that someone couldn't do it, but they are looking for common patterns that would indicate someone try to sway the tests).

I'm definitely not, as you put it, the stereotypical "hyperactive", but on learning more, I realized how many little tics I have that I do but in very masked ways so as to not draw attention. But that aside, there is 3 different diagnosis for ADHD - primary hyperactive, primary-inattentive or combination (both to some level). Despite what I said about tics, my diagnosis was for the inattentive side of things. "Head in the clouds", "daydreamer", etc.

It's all relatively new for me, it wasn't something I really seriously considered until a year or two ago (and I'm in my 40s now), despite having a brother who was medicated fairly young and a father who displays many of the same traits (never diagnosed though). It's definitely helped me to know this, puts some puzzle pieces in place, so to speak, and gives me a path forward toward managing something I didn't really realize I needed to manage, but was having a significant impact on my life regardless.
Do you have numbers of that? Tires and drag cause a lot of noise.
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The Windows default can cause problems because of simple logic bugs.

The Unix default can cause unsolvable problems because of races between threads.

You should use CLOEXEC everywhere. Except you can't because you are using libraries.
The major problem with such laws is how vague they are. Exactly what constitutes an insult? Such laws open the door for it to be interpreted in such ways that it becomes a convenient tool for censorship, can be used to block justifiable criticism, or prevent legitimate critiques.

Bullying is usually more than just mere insults, but persistent targeting and harassment of a person. A lot of time politicians jump on the bandwagon of what appears to be popular versus carefully thinking through the full ramifications of what they have proposed. At least enough common sense was present to allow it to be re-examined after 3 years, but sometimes once Pandora's box is opened, there is no going back.
Yeah - team members are also stakeholders and improving dev experience by allowing refactoring is something that needs to be taken into account.

Unless company does not want to have any devs working on that project in the future. But it would be just like not wanting customers to use that project.
A distribution center generates hundreds of truck trips a day. A good sized supermarket generates ~15 a week, but may vary based on the company and methodology.
That's great feedback, thanks!
> believe the answer is that the USA will be better able to outcompete those countries that do have them

Based on what? The US already outcompetes these other countries in business success and average citizen income. What countries don’t have billionaires that are competitive?

> History has shown time and again that massive inequality is a huge barrier to maximizing the productivity of all of a society's members.

History has literally never shown this. This is the first time we’ve had massive inequality while still having a solid middle class. The jury is still out on whether the instability of the past was just because of excessive poverty and no upward mobility or because wealthy people were there.
Like the risk of something like a kinetic civil war is still roughly zero in the US.

To us people on the outside, listening to US people denigrating each other on the web, it seems to us that it's 50-50 whether the US will be involved in a Civil War or a big peer-to-peer International War first.
The most productive decades in the US correspond with its highest relative tax rates, between the fifties and the eighties. Thomas Piketty:

"if you look at the long-run evolution, we’ve seen less concentration of wealth. So the top 10 percent of the wealth distribution today would have 60 percent in Europe, 70 percent in the U.S., as compared to 90 percent before World War I in Europe. This did not destroy the economy. If anything, this decline in the share of total wealth going to top 10 percent and the corresponding increase in the share going to the next 40 percent has contributed to a much faster economic growth in the 20th century than in previous centuries.

"I think partly because it allowed more people to participate, to the economy. And also partly because it came also with the rise of education. And this was the true source of productivity in the long run, rather than the enormous level of inequality that we had before World War I. This theoretical discourse that more inequality, more concentration of wealth is always better for economic growth was made, of course, throughout history by people who had large concentration of wealth, certainly in Europe before World War I.

"And this is a discourse that, in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan tried to tell Americans, basically tried to tell them, look we’ve gone too far with the New Deal, with Roosevelt, in terms of progressive taxation or wealth redistribution. We are going to cut top tax rate by two, where they’re going to go down to 28 percent or 30 percent, as compared to the 80 percent, 90 percent top tax rate under Roosevelt. So the promise that was made by Reagan during the 1980s was that cutting top tax rate might lead to more inequality, but will also lead to so much more innovation, more economic growth. And the incomes of average Americans are going to grow much faster than they used to grow.

"Except that this is not what we’ve seen at all. So if you look at the three decades after Reagan, 1990 to 2020, the growth rate of national income per capita in the U.S. was only 1.1 — 1.2 percent as compared to 2 percent, 2.5 percent in the period of 1950 to 1980, or 1950 to 1990, which itself was not particularly exceptional. It was the same — 1910 to 1950, it was about 2 —2.5 percent. 1870 to 1910, around 2 percent. So in fact, the post-Reagan period, 1990-2020 has been particularly bad in terms of growth rate of national income per capita, which at the end of the day is the best economic measure we have of the increase in productivity and this should reflect innovation, et cetera."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
airbnb is a business model that has proven to be a great idea at one point. but I wonder if this is valid for every business idea? In other words, can every business model that has been followed for years be successful?
everyone is award apple brand cables are good quality compared to 4 dollar cables on amazon
I have had friends receive items like candles already used or paint brushes already used.

I've been duped into buying travel size bottles of mouthwash, toothpaste, soap, etc because the seller prices them at or around the same as full sized items.

I guess that's on me for not paying attention to the weight though...
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> At the end of the day, we are going to get a global recession and mass food insecurity and starvation in the global south for what?

If you are asking what the west nations got in exchange of making the economy dependent on cheap oil and gas from Russia, the answer is pretty simple. They got money. Politicians got political credits at the time from being anti-nuclear, and infrastructure wise they gained short terms budget savings by not replacing existing heating infrastructure that depend on burning gas. The cheap oil also helped keeping air traffic and shipping traffic cheaper, and the cheap artificial fertilizers created from Russian natural gas made food production cheaper.

At the end of the day we traded independence in exchange for cheaper fossil fuels, and we went into dependency without having a backup plan.
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Proposed wealth taxes have been on unrealized gains.

Without doing that it’s pointless, billionaires even today never realize gains and just rotate through loans backed by their shares.