jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, Apple mostly just bought off-the-shelf parts from Samsung -- from AP, to NAND storage, to DRAM, LCD displays, battery, etc, etc -- with just minor tweaks and also readily available to other OEMs. Apple's magic was mostly in their feel-good marketing.
Stanford is a perfectly fine example. I used to visit Stanford several times a week. Walking briskly, you can cross the core of campus, where most of the instructional buildings are, in about 15 minutes from one end to another. The athletic center and undergraduate dorms are located around the periphery of this core. I assume students don't typically go back to their dorms multiple times per day. The engineering campus is pretty compact. The medical complex is, yes, another brisk ten-minute walk, but I doubt many students need to go between the hospital and the rest of campus more than once a day. If your daily schedule takes you from the dorms to the core of campus, and then to the hospital, and then to the campus gym, and then to the student union or the main library, then yes, maybe you'll choose to take a shuttle. But for an able-bodied person, these are very reasonable distances to travel on foot, and certainly on a bicycle or scooter.

For comparison, I went to a university with a much smaller campus, and it was still at least a ten-minute walk from one end to another. And it was fine.
> Sustainability changes this; it means accepting that you'll have less material wealth than your parents

There is actually more wealth to be gained for the average person because green investments can be an effective domestic jobs program. Central bank money is merely increasing the relative value of wealthy people's assets. So it's a net loss for the working class. If wealth inequality grows by 2x they owe the rich twice as much.
If that money could be channeled in a way that pays the income of workers and actually gets spent it would mean that economic growth will come back and incomes will grow over time instead of stagnating.
I read somewhere that 3-5 story buildings make up the bulk of density, even in cities that are famous for their high-rises. High-rises are too expensive to live in for most people; even after adjusting for sky-high land cost.
Ad hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacies are rather pathetic. Try providing proof that expanded free speech is what led to this drop in war and conflict. I could just as easily claim that the growth of international franchised food and beverage chains is what has led to the overall drop in nation-state conflict.
The previous non-violent protests over the last few years that took place in the Capitol also had protesters present in all of the same places, including the chambers.

As such this is not a new situation, but it's interesting that devious motives are attributed when the protester has a particular set of politics, or because they were successful in breaking past security whereas previous protesters attempted and failed.
The thing is, a coal plant is a guaranteed continuous catastrophic incident.
It's obviously meant as an approximation.

Look, you can believe it or not, but that's just your opinion. Everybody gets to make up their mind for themselves.
> The hope with a real free market is that you wouldn't have to negotiate in that situation, the prices would already be reasonable.

The theoretical efficiency of a real "real free market" depends on the ability to evaluate and choose options in a competitive market for purchasing goods and services based on perfect knowledge of the costs of and utility from each purchase.

There's a whole lot of reasons that a deregulated market for "purchasing treatment for a heart attack you are currently experiencing" is not likely to have the features that theoretically create efficiency in a "real free market".
Google had an outage a couple of days ago, so did Amazon. Now this.

Interesting timing.
Well, some people live in San Francisco because they think it's wonderful and they can, but that's not a universal opinion.

Some people are annoyed by San Francisco but live there just because that's where the work is. Other people like San Francisco just fine but are ready for a change. Those people are the ones that can be lured to new places, not you.
Someone forgot to google basic stuff. http://www.nonprofitrisk.org/library/articles/How_to_Lose_Yo...
No, it's not.

When you're a non-profit, you file paperwork with the IRS (a form 990 or 990-EZ) that details your income, expenses, officers of the corporation, highest paid employees/contractors (especially ones receiving over $100k), programs (and their accomplishments), etc. You don't actually pay any taxes, but you do "file taxes with the IRS". The data in that form 990 is used to back up the fact that you are legitimately a non-profit corporation serving the public interest.

If a non-profit isn't filing their form 990 every year, they don't look legitimate at all. They probably aren't legitimate if they're not filing a form 990.

The article mentions that they hadn't done any major fundraising drivers or solicitations for donations from major corporations. If they weren't filing the form 990 for years, that's no surprise, since the form 990 is public information that any major donor would know to look at (or to look at a summary or analysis of the information via guidestar or something like that).

Look at the summary of this information and ask yourself if you'd donate $1 after you read it: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/26-4691413/xorg-found...
Would have been nice of them to tell us why it's important.
Just to add to the "anecdotal" evidence: I watch App Store rankings for my app like a hawk, and aside from the comment about rankings not changing as often, maybe once in 2-3 hours, I haven't noticed any other changes. My app is rated very highly (4.5 for most recent version), and it's ranking inside Business category is consistent with revenue as before. Haven't noticed anything different.
"There are threats our government needs to protect New Zealanders from."

Serious question; What threats does the NZ government need to protect against by comparison to that of the US? Don't get me wrong, I think many of the threats against our country (the US) are as much our fault as anyones. And I'm not saying nobody wants to attack NZ. But I also don't see any jihadists burning the NZ flag. (Or is that just another example of how much our news media sucks?)
He was expecting someone browsing Hacker News, familiar with the content of his software, to gain interest and donate. He was not expecting John Smith the Front End Guru to donate.

What else could you have possibly expected?
Fracking will end when the gas is gone, the planet is uninhabitable, and we're all dead or living underground.
> And cost AT&T an estimated $20 million...

$17.5 million.

Do we know each other?
PC applications have always been able to do it so I don't see why not, in the end it's the user that is accepting this, everything needs permissions, if the user doesn't pay attention it's partly his fault. This are features that can still be useful for legitimate uses.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26613220.
Interesting. Is this a common definition? Heredity as far as I understood referred to genetic inheritance. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heredity

Including religion and language as part of the definition seems to be overloading it.

In any case, is it really controversial that intelligence is at least partially influenced by genes?
We have at least 3 currently supported vendor apps that use Python 2.7.
I looked at the principle of claiming that "if you're innocent why hide things". And that's exactly like saying that if you're not breaking the law then you have no reason to hide your communication from authorities because "they'll only look when they suspect something and that would just prove your innocence". If anything, accusing someone and asking them to prove their innocence opens the door to false accusations meant only to force the other side to leak some information. A principle you wouldn't want applied to you isn't a very good one.
There are agri businesses that use GMO and those who don't. Naturally they would try to use what they can - real studies, fake studies, activists, etc.

Point being, there is money to be made on both sides.
And most of the time when you point it out on social media, you get downvoted and censored!
Here's a one liner:

printf("a Shell");
I found this phrasing interesting: "One explanation for these disparities centers on racial bias, i.e., white officers are more likely than Black officers to harass Black civilians. Technically, it is also possible that Black officers respond more leniently when observing crimes in progress"
Ah, thanks! So it's just "has to hold for all values of t > 0, including for t = 1"
And then a slight bit more research would demonstrate that he wrote some fascinating left-leaning stuff before he jumped off that particular cliff, and that that's the stuff Scott thought was interesting.
Irony doesn‘t come over very well online...
> I can right-click to see everything that can be done with the file, including some third party programs

Everything? Almost certainly not! That is the main problem with GUIs. The "everything" is defined by the programmer, not the user. Sometimes that works for you, sometimes it doesn't.

It's important not to confuse TUI with "console". TUIs are essentially the same as GUIs in this discussion. CLI (console) is completely different. CLIs use a language to describe what you need. To use an analogy, imagine ordering food in a restaurant. You could get away with pointing at the menu as long as you're happy with getting the default configuration. If you want to ask for no cheese, or less mayonnaise, you have to use language.
Apparently mostly to be a lightning rod for people to rant about the British monarchy and get flagged in the process. Threads like these have a certain car wreck quality in that it's hard to look away but you really shouldn't expect much of quality,
Unfortunately people are very quick to assign "generational guilt" these days. It's as if we've gone backwards, and are no longer capable of being individuals. "Oh, you're white/black/related to x/decended from y, did you know your ancestors did *that*?"
Going by this logic, why doesn't the US kneecap European, South Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese companies that are competitive with US companies in those industries?

They key difference (outside of China being more adversarial in general) is that Chinese companies like Huawei blatantly steal IP from companies in those countries to make their tech.

Also, Huawei is essentially an arm of China's intelligence apparatus, so keeping them at a far distance from other counties' infrastructure is generally a good idea.

This isn't a protectionist thing, it's a corporate espionage and national security thing.
Don't assume incompetence at the top of the most powerful military country.
> where, by the way, I probably wouldn’t be able to speak publically.

I had a look at Parler earlier.

People like you are loud and vocal there too, you can start with the parody account Breitfart for example, the difference is that others are allowed to be loud and vocal there too.

So in a way equally bad as Twitter, just a bit more "nuanced" and even more noisy.
Uncle Bob Martin coined the term "Software Craftsmanship", you can watch his talks about the topic.
I intend to follow it throughout my career.
There's a text editor being developed that edits code based on nodes of its AST representation - https://github.com/kneasle/sapling
You have to be present in the meeting. All the places I have worked - and I have worked in many over 15 years - do not allow this. You need to be in a startup to be close enough to have this kind of impact. Agile just makes this situation worse. It's incredibly frustrating to be see the value you can add, but having no ability to make it happen.
I've learned hundreds of skills on Youtube. I fixed my toilet last week for 15$, instead of the usual 150$ it would cost to get a plumber. Millions of people around the world can learn and solve things by themselves and get help with the tap of a button. That's not valuable?
"Extended Support Release (ESR): receives major updates on average every 42 weeks with minor updates such as crash fixes, security fixes and policy updates as needed, but at least every four weeks."
nice. glad to see this exists.
Honestly this stands contrary to almost every principle of fair use (transformative work of different character for the purpose of comment, parody etc.).

Google took tons of APIs from a platform and implemented them into... a platform.

If you think designing thousands of classes is not substantial that's a very different argument, different from fair use.

Fair use means yes, APIs are copyrightable, but this is transformative use. And, to anyone with a clue in software dev... no it's not.

It's basically like taking someone else's script as-is and shooting a movie from it, and the court deeming this use of a script "fair use".
In the area of caching among multiple cores, we have well-researched cache coherency protocols that can be implemented.

We can assume all the processors that are relevant are online; no processor core will try to invalidate an item while being cut off from communication, which is then re-established later. (If a processor comes online dynamically, we can assume it's coming in with a clear cache.)

Bus snooping is possible: every cache can see every memory access, and based on that, it can invalidate (or even update) entries that would be made stale due to stores. In a distributed system, no such thing is possible; you can't feasibly have 10,000 geographically distributed nodes all watching every transaction.

We can also assume that any remaining race conditions are handled by the software: that the software will use tools like memory barriers in the right places; we don't have to solve every possible concurrency problem that interacts with caching effects.
A difference is that just about everything a business spends money on is a business expense, while many of the things people spend money on aren’t treated like business expenses. Travel is an example where buying exactly the same thing can have very different tax consequences depending on whether it’s considered for business or not.

To some extent this is made up for with the standard deduction and various other deductions, but you can’t carry it forward if you made less than the standard deduction, even if you actually are spending more than you make.

The idea of carrying forward losses is unintuitive to most people because we mostly don’t get to do that.
There's anyway no requirement that they be electronically available.

If your interest is in looking at the report, 2019 is linked on https://www.cityofflint.com/what-you-should-know-about-lead/
Thomas didn't recuse himself when ruling on court cases filed by the advocacy group his wife is a leader of. It's all voluntary, if a Supreme Court justice chooses not to recuse themselves there is no higher court to force them.
Is it? I think it falls squarely on the topic of "Uber drivers breaking the law and Uber choosing to not deal with it (to the detriment of riders) 'because contractors'", that is, just what TFA is about.
Maybe it is the same as using a similar plot, but with 0.4% of code lines being the same I think the analogy doesn’t carry through to using a script word for word.
Yeah, these sorts of "arguments" are typical of either those who wish for Europe to have a common culture (like EU federalist extremists) or people who don't have a genuine common culture like Americans, but think they do. Both fail to grasp the reality of culture and end up trivializing it to great detriment for everyone (the Soviets tried the same and it all came crashing down as Soviet Man led to the return of the repressed ethnic identities of the Russian Empire). The former trivialize it, thinking they can magically manufacture some kind of common identity (What the heck is "European" identity? Common cultural features or foundations, much less the suppression of diversity, do not suffice to magically produce an ethnic or cultural identity). I suspect EU federalists think they can replicate the kind of rootless Americanism that was produced by identity theft and makes people vulnerable to manipulation (the dissolution of European ethnic neighborhoods was largely the product of social engineering that attempted to assimilate these people into a manufactured, imposed, and ultimately vacuous "white" identity and you can see this because most European immigrants weren't white until much later in American history. I mean, what the heck is "white" identity? It's ultimately meaningless and allows those in power to fill it with any content they like, like "person who drinks Coke, watches Hollywood movies, and buys tons of crap he doesn't need, oh, and accepts abuse from a usurious oligarchy that uses debt and compound interest as an instrument of power and enrichment"). This is part of the reason why Americans are so confused about such things because they have no real culture. Why would you want to inflict something like that on Europe? Besides, ethnic difference is interesting and need not be a source of hatred or conflict. You need some way to simultaneously keep your ethnicity and transcend it. Every attempt to go to the extremes, to exaggerate ethnicity or so suppress it, always lead to disaster.

All of this is not to say that TV cannot be used as a powerful tool for social engineering. It can and it is. Television and Hollywood have, in concert with the education system, caused enormous changes in society. It's just harder to accomplish without first demoralizing and robbing someone of his identity first. Solve et coagula.
"Move fast and break things" taken to the logical extreme?
I do this too. If I wanted to see, let's say a cross, it magically appears, in this phosphene glow/aura. I think this is testament to the power of our minds. We can imagine anything and the brain paints a blurry picture of it.
While iPads have NFC chips none of the released iPads have an NFC antenna.

https://9to5mac.com/2014/10/24/nfc-ipad-air-2-secure-element...
I once tried to find out on Wikipedia whether goldfish really have ten second attention spans. I learned that in Nix vs. Heddon the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
> So how the fuck would I know?

That is precisely the point of the court. To determine the truth so that the rest of us can know. In another more recent case (Oscar Pistorius) I was completely horrified that practically everyone had concluded that he was guilty before the court had come to a conclusion. I've come to realise that the majority of the human race wants answers so desperately, that they will accept the wrong ones and defend them: be it science or a court case.
Double precision is overrated :) (at least for ML)
Properly sourced news is extremely rare.
> What is it that you think happened here? Like specifically how would this fraud work?

[0]

> The ballots have all been accounted for, an investigation confirmed no boxes were added or removed, and all the ballots in Georgia were subsequently audited and then recounted twice.

Can you link to the report of this investigation? How did they determine that no ballots were added? What is the chain of custody for the ballots that were removed from under the table?

> Here is a slightly better link

>> Pick theorized that the machines in the room could have totaled “18,000 ballots.” (Biden won the state by less than 12,000 votes.) But that’s wrong, according to the state election board monitor who was in the room as they counted.

One of the guys implicated in the alleged fraud says its wouldn't have been enough to change the result. Did they attempt to verify this statement?

>> The investigation remains open.

Interesting how that works. They're confident enough that there's not anything there that they're willing to make public statements, but they're not willing to close the investigation and issue a report so people's concerns can be alleviated.

> Do you think the investigators report would contradict their own testimony?

Its possible but its more likely it would show how well (or not) the claims were investigated and present the evidence that was used to substantiate or reject the claims. The affidavit doesn't present any evidence other than the testimony of the investigator (who wasn't present at the incident) and is therefore meaningfully contradicted by the testimony of people who were there.

> Not that it should matter, but all the county and state election officials involved are Republicans too.

That's correct, it shouldn't matter and it does not matter.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_stuffing
If they only needed linux support, that would have worked too
Facebook doesn’t make $12 per user per month last time I checked. They have about 80b revenue from 2.5 billion users.

Maybe in the US they might get that per user, but not worldwide.
There are many good points in this thread, which led me to this realization: kids are indeed not very interested in national politics, but they are very attuned to the social politics of their peers, which can be pretty cliquish, isolating and devisive.

The propaganda that we are concerned with here deliberately seeks to trigger these childish responses in adults. If you go around telling people that they are entitled to something which these other people are taking from them, you will get some disciples regardless of whether there is any merit to the claim. It is like a mountainside in snow: you will get many small avalanches, but now and again a big one will let loose and sweep everything away.
This just saddens me deeply. Of all the ways this could have been done and all the package managers they could have used they picked npm.

I bet some day we'll have a Linux distro with npm as the system package manager here on HN.
This attitude seems like a way for the republic to die with a whimper.
Good timing! I've just finished Le Bon and Bernays.

> people may draw completely different conclusions from the same facts

Le Bon points out a more basic issue. He wrote about the kinds of crowds who used to storm the Bastille and so on—and appear to have returned to American history today after a long vacation. He concluded that the members of such crowds simply don't do things like considering facts or drawing conclusions. Instead, they associate chains of images and follow suggestions from prestigious leaders. TV advertisments do exactly what he suggested, and so does Donald Trump. It appears to work.

This puts me in a dilemma. As a physicist with egalitarian tendencies, I want everyone to take action that will provide the things they want and need, according to valid arguments founded on the laws of nature. But apparently, one of those laws of nature says that valid reasons have nothing in common with the reasons people do things.

Bernays resolved that dilemma by telling people like me to manipulate everyone else into doing what (we believe) is in their best interest. I'm really uncomfortable with that position, but it's hard to see an alternative.
Because there are great tools like artifactory that can handle all the arrifact types.
> if I take your position that racism in policing doesn't exist, and that the police are treating everyone equally:

Please don't do this. Its obvious OP didn't even remotely mean or say this.

They clearly said that there is some level of racism, not that it doesn't exist at all. Is it the greatest problem facing America? I'd argue its not even in the top 10.
to quote wikipedia

"Money laundering is the illegal process of concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions. "

I'm not sure how turning stolen CCs into money is fundamentally different.