skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should ALWAYS put your smartest/best developers on the least important project. This means your second best developers can grow to become your best developers, and nobody feels bad about interrupting the best developers. It also means if an urgent must do now project comes up your best developer is free to drop everything to do it - who cares that you just made the least important project late, while if they were on an important project management would have to think about priorities. (most do it now projects are things that can be done in days or weeks, if they are more than that it needs to go through the budget process)

Any large project will have plenty of technical debt that isn't important to clean up now but should be done. There are always new tools to try and see if they add value to your project. There are new frameworks to try that might or might not be worth telling everyone to start using for the next story.

The above does work for a tiny company of course. However for larger companies it is important.
FWIW, there IS a river that passes through Reno, not to mention a couple tiny lakes, so it could be possible to have waterfront property.
It's not nitpicking, it's central to the issue. One could consider that, as far as Western civilization is concerned, colonialism was an exercise in "land creation" - and the various wars of the 20th century, temporarily in the case of bombings and permanently in the case of mine-setting, a type of "land destruction".

Picketty doesn't miss.
I did the same thing, but in Common Lisp.

I'm guessing you're talking about something more C#-specific like LINQ?
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This is a deeply uninformed comment. I don’t even know where to start. Nearly every sentence is wrong.

You can absolutely get hauled in front of a judge for fraud and abuse in the use of NIH grants. You can be required to pay all of the money back, among other punishments. Google will reveal a variety of cases.

It is in fact rare for retired federal bureaucrats to become professors. It is much more common for people at the Secretary level to get teaching positions at schools of public policy. I am not aware of any former CIA directors holding those roles but I invite you to look.

These schools are not “hotbeds of spies” - truly that it is a completely uninformed statement.

By the way, very few law professors work via grants and even fewer via NIH grants.
I challenge myself to do it in bash one liners. I came up with a clever and shockingly simple solution to part2 using expansion and substitution.

cat 1.txt | sed -E 's/(one)/\11\1/g; s/(two)/\12\1/g; s/(three)/\13\1/g; s/(four)/\14\1/g; s/(five)/\15\1/g; s/(six)/\16\1/g; s/(seven)/\17\1/g; s/(eight)/\18\1/g; s/(nine)/\19\1/g;' | sed -e 's/[^0-9]//g' | awk '{print substr($0,1,1) substr($0,length,1)}' | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/\(.*\)+/\1\n/' | bc
Love that 3rd button to get a preview.
Yandex is my go-to for harder to find items, and other than that I use DDG. Google never gives good results.
> ~80% of current billionaires in the U.S. are self-made first generation.

I see conflicting evidence to the claim[0,1,2]

I'd argue that you also got to be really careful with these studies. Defining "self-made" is not a straight forward issue. In some sense, no person is self made as we're all products of our environments and the opportunities presented to us. If it were consistent you wouldn't see these numbers swing between studies, so don't just pick the highest one. Metrics are deceptive because their subtleties and you need to carefully consider their alignment.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/79-millionaires-self-made-les...

[1] https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2871-how-most-millionaires...

[2] https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/st...
1 / 9 / 90 rule suggests that 90 people will see this -- and most of them will never read the article, read past the first paragraph, or search for anything to prove or disprove it.

throw a bunch of surface level BS out there and it will stick with more people than you'd think. even with the HN literati who don't think marketing works on them.
Thanks. Yeah I played with your app early on and just fired it up again to see the progress. Frankly I find the interface pretty intimidating but it is cool that you can easily stitch generations together.

Unsolicited UX recs:

- strongly recommend a default model. The list you give is crazy long. It kind of recommends SD 1.5 in the UI text below the picker but has the last one selected by default. Many of them are called the same thing (ironically the name is "Generic" lol).

- have the panel on the left closed by default or show a simplified view that I can expand to an "advanced" view. Consider sorting the left panel controls by how often I would want to edit them (personally I'm not going to touch the model but it is the first thing).

You are doing great work but I wouldn't underestimate the value of simplifying the interface for a first-time user. It seems to have a ton of features but I don't know what I should actually be paying attention to / adjusting.

Is there a business model attached to this or do you have a hypothesis for what one might look like?
This is not always possible and a little short-sighted, especially when you are on a large, complex, established project with many contributors, where "just refactor 1.5 million lines of code, spanning 1500 files that have evolved over a 10 year period" is just something not open for debate.

In those cases, and in the cases where a single large file just makes more sense or is unavoidable (IaC/build scripts, shell/sql/migration scripts, config files, etc.), the author's methods are absolutely valuable.
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ElectricSQL has made massive strides towards solving this fwiw. Write sqllite in client, guarantee sync to postgres.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37584049
Will quantum computers break your passkeys?
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> Every dollar in a billionaire's bank account is a dollar that could be in someone else's instead.

This is true, but billionaires don't just have a billion dollars sitting in bank accounts. The billions in wealth comes from ownership of property and companies. Some of this may be considered "zero sum" in the way you describe (e.g. a billionaire that owns and rents out single family homes).

However, I would guess the majority of that wealth is not "zero sum" in the way you describe, such as a warehouse robot (or the warehouse itself). What are you going to do with a warehouse robot? It has no value to you, or almost anyone else.
>You should at least accept less by the amount of your commuting costs,

If that's the case then we should also demand more by the same amount that the employer pays in office leases, right? If the employer gets money that I save, then I get money that the employer saves too, or is this a one-way thing?

I'm thinking it'll be a substantial salary increase, but I expect some opprobrium if I pitch the idea ;-)

More seriously, I have no doubt that any honest knowledge worker with a decent WFH setup delivers more value to their employer from home than they did from the office.
This increased productivity is increased value that the employers get for free. A good thing!

Before the pandemic it was almost universally accepted that open offices were detrimental to knowledge work, but it was defended by the financials. You could fit more people in smaller offices, which saved money.

Now that the offices can be eliminated almost entirely, suddenly it's no longer about the money.

The real reason is of course that managers often can't measure productivity from office workers and use butts-in-seats as a substitute. I think it is a very poor substitute.
The people we replaced were both mid-career. Just not good at taking initiative or anticipating future needs.
No. Scary big numbers don't matter by themselves without a context.

1.8 billion rides per year for a 8-million city works out to less than 0.7 rides per day per capita. I can guarantee that Houston has more road trips.

> Scale matters, and mass transit is the definition of scale.

Yes, and multi-dozen billion dollar corruption on public projects is also the definition of scale.

> I genuinely don’t believe that Houston carries “about the same number of commuters” as the NYC subway. It has a quarter as many people; you should cite a source. I can’t find one for that.

I'm using the data for the Greater Houston Area (pop: 7.2 million), which matches what people think when they say "Houston".
Many times the thought “what if we just shipped the database to the client” has crossed my mind in large multi tenant apps where individual datasets were relatively small. I’ve never gone far with it as it seems sufficiently outside the norm to be a cursed architectural pattern. Would be nice to find out I was wrong.
I totally agree. And some long/complex files are simply unavoidable (shell/build scripts, config files, etc).
Kind of, Accents are typically derived from the intersection of natural languages, specifically which ones you learned the phonetics of first. (With the exception of the Mid-Atlantic accent...)

This would be something quite novel as the speech irregularities would not have their origin in people

I don't know what you would call it but it needs at least some adjective before accent to differentiate it IMO
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For the typical reader of HN, phylogenetic trees would be far easier to figure out in a few days than how neurons work, especially as "how neurons work" isn't even established.
A normal fan in your home PC yes. Not the 40mm jet engines you only find in data centers.
> Choose your parents wisely.

Or accept that your parents are your parents and they decided to have you.

From the point of view of the parents, suddenly things change: I fully knew I'd have the money to all least raise my kid well. Do all parents even think about that?

Mike Judge's Idiocracy movie is always a good watch.
I see people joking about this all up and down this thread, but rich peoples wealth is not sting around in gold bars waiting to be stolen by poor people.

All that will happen in a violent uprising is a lot of people will die, and peoples houses will burn down, but nothing will happen to those numbers in a spreadsheet.
The original claim that’s being supported is:

> the well-known fact that junior employees and productivity both take a hit with full-time remote work

Not “some people were less productive, others were more productive,” which is obviously the actual truth.
> The point is I wish we could just ask the computer to sort things out for us, show different views, etc.

I agree. I'm usually opinionated about a related subject: code formatting. But I'm not too opinionated in one case, where we're using Prettier. The project is autoformatted and expects everyone else to do the same. It's so refreshing to let the computer take over sometimes, even if the end result isn't exactly what I would have typed out myself. If a piece of software could so something similar with the folders, files, and code that would be pretty great. Maybe. It seems like a much harder problem to solve than simple formatting, without introducing a bunch of bugs.

But you seem to be suggesting a different way of viewing the code, which I guess might be the way. But still underneath you'd have the spaghetti code, just sitting there not being dealt with, like a complicated Microsoft Word document.
> I could live off the interest alone in a savings account with $1b.

I mean, you could live off the interest alone in a savings account with $5m (you can easily get 2.5% at the moment.)
> You put it into a getters file and import it into the parent class. Almost every language has features for this

Wait, what?

So you can do this in C/C++ for sure. #include is not just for imports. But Java? C#? How!
This may be an intentional decision given that there are several ways to say "what the fuck" in Spanish, such as "qué mierda" or "qué carajos". And that's not including regional expressions like "qué coño" or "qué chingados". So, saying "qué diablos" may be the most common expression across dialects conveying the same meaning.
Finally Esperanto has a use case!
Yeah, all the talk of replacement seems like people masively overthinking or abstracting a day one problem. My C++ solution was a simple search using the <algorithm> header. It's a little less neatly abstracted out as yours, and could be cleaned up a fair bit, as I wasn't bothered to deduplicate the code after getting it working (and I will if this turns out to be useful tomorrow), but the essence is the same:

https://gist.github.com/joedavis/3d6f2b87bae4809ef8a062caff7...

C++'s .rbegin() / .rend() reverse iterators made the search fairly trivial.
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The USA tax code potentiates this. First $12m tax free, step up basis allow tremendous wealth to be bequeathed without financial penalty.

Trusts, when set up correctly, can do so as well.

Once inherited, the first $90,000 (married couple) of qualified dividend income is tax free. Plus, standard $29,000 (married couple) deduction means that the first $119,000 of investment income can be tax free. You will see the wealthy either try and start a company or not work. Why work a job where about 30% of your income is taxed when you can stay home and not work. If you inherit your parents' home, you can easily live without working.

Current safe dividend yields are about 6% so all it takes is inheriting $1.5m. There are 24 million millionaires in the USA so there may be quite a few that take advantage of this. When the wealthy start giving their children their inheritance while they are still alive ........

Currently, you can give your children up to a total of $12m combined in your lifetime, before taxes have to be taken out.
most (useful) containers are out, what else are left in STL for embedded systems, algorithms?
Those 3 years would different enough in important ways so you cannot look at numbers to compare before/after.
I get the spirit of this change but… why? The whole point of traffic symbols is to ubiquity and consistency. Now there’s two different symbols for pedestrian road crossing, and the article seems to indicate there’s some subtle implication about them (eg, they’re placed near tube stations that have more accessible entrances). Except traffic crossing would be a terrible place to put this information, it better belongs at the actual entrances or signage related to the tube station, which I assume they already have in place.
OK, so... remote work isn't suitable for companies/startups with incompetent managers? But then... what kind of work really is
>> wealth will continue to concentrate to the point to inheritors, to the extent that individuals become increasingly unable through labor to achieve parity to the inheritors

Adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller had 340 billion dollars of wealth in 1918. What has that fortune grown to? It hasn't. It is gone. He gave it away.

Adjusted for inflation, Andrew Carnegie had 370 billion dollars of wealth in 1901. What has that fortune grown to? It hasn't. It is gone. He gave it away.

John Jacob Astor's fortune? Gone. Vanderbilt's? Gone.

Looking at a few different lists, those are the 4 wealthiest people in US history. They either gave the money away or their heirs spent it all.

If wealth was going to automatically concentrate, it would have. It didn't. Rockefeller's 340 billion invested in the stock market from 1918 to today would roughly equal the entire net wealth of the US. That didn't happen for the Rockefellers and it didn't happen for any of the other many fortunes in the past.

What Picketty "concludes empirically" does not in fact happen. If it did in fact happen, all the wealth of the US would be in the hands of one person.

To figure out if wealth will concentrate in the hands of inheritors, you need to know many different things.

Will people give their wealth to their children or will they give it away? Zuckerberg, Gates, Buffet, Ellison, all giving their money away.

Will people give their wealth to a single child? Elon Musk has 10 kids. If he gave away money to each child, his wealth would not be concentrated. (Oops, 11 children. Even less concentrated.) If those children went on to have multiple children, the inheritance gets diluted even more.

Some rich people, believe it or not, actually spend money. People who inherit wealth rather than earning it seem to be particularly good at spending wealth faster than it grows.
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There are still high-paying jobs for those maintaining this infrastructure as well as income for law and accounting firms serving them. Cashflow is always good even without taxes to collect.
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Sometimes, you really are just holding it wrong.

Should the OP have written a manuscript to make you feel better? In your mind, should a long, drawn out article only be refuted by something of similar length?
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As would I, but I think there's some pretty straight forward logic in favor of it. The richest of the rich tend to have a healthy number of children, both in the past and in the present. Bezos has 4, Musk has 11, Sam Walton had 4, Vanderbilt had 13, and so on. When people die they are going to be distributing their wealth not only to their children, but also their grand children, and perhaps even further along. And then this happens over and over again, each generation. If your children fail to have children, the fortune is gone. If your children don't grow the fortune, it's gone. If your children spend the fortune, it's gone.

Another issue is that I think we take living modestly for granted. Somebody born to the super-rich probably has a very different perspective on money and costs. It has to be quite the lesson to try to teach somebody the value of something when they have what likely seems like a practically unlimited amount of it, and but one life to live. So I think we can add another one to the above - if your values don't successfully transfer, it's gone.
If there are 20 projects like this that make you sad every day, you must be terribly depressed. But you just seem entitled, and feeling sorry for yourself. You don't seem very serious about pursuing and paying for your own self education or even amusement.

You are aware that the University of Michigan is not a startup whose mission is to make an SaaS with a free tier for you to play with funded by their investors, right? Maybe if you enrolled as a grad student they'd let you use their resources for free (once your tuition check cleared). But your chances of being accepted into their PhD program would be higher if you showed more than $10/month in enthusiasm and initiative.
“Automakers have been making hybrids long enough that they’ve gotten really good at it. Plus, many hybrids are also made by manufacturers that tend to produce reliable vehicles overall, such as Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia.”

It's anti-intuitive that hybrids would be more reliable than pure ICE cars. But it would be explained by this if hybrids are somewhat less reliable than the ICE cars from these three makers. Presumably Consumer Reports has that data ...

For the big picture you need to compare the relative reliability of components after X million have been built. I would be surprised if the reliability of EV tech hasn't improved faster just because it has developed more recently.
Can this do speech to text English -> English? Get strange results if I do a translation to the same language would be an interesting alternative to Whisper if it could.
Yea, this turned out to be the simplest explanation… try to undermine board, get fired, win anyway (lol)

Lesson here is… the next time a startup CEO gets fired they should try the social media spam gambit…? Depends on how much $ is on the line but worked at least once!
So do you never look at a program and try to figure out everything that it does? You always just read one function at a time?