skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How could a company break its stock up into a 'dividend stock' and a 'capital appreciation' stock?

Valuing the 'dividend stock' would be pretty easy, but what about the 'capital appreciation' stock? What value does that take on? I'm assuming that voting rights would still be split between the two - otherwise the company's board wouldn't concern itself with dividend issues.

But really - without dividends or the future promise of dividends, how would anyone value the 'capital appreciation' stock?
It would depend upon the project. Pretend your question was:

* I'm thinking of writing a book, how many words should I use?

The answer is very varied. I read a book to my son at the weekend. 20 words, at the most. The book I'm currently reading is in the region of 1500 pages. Many words.

Code is like that. Today I might have written negative 100 lines, and been productive. Tomorrow I might write a template-generation system and have a net positive of a few thousand. It all depends, so much.
Mathematicians and philosophers generate hypotheses and test them using the tools of their discipline as well, which often includes statistical reasoning to guide more rigorous analysis. The difference is that in true science there is no more rigorous analysis; it's statistics and empiricism all the way down.
Agreed, with the caveat that there are also restrictions requiring aggregation as well.
I concur.

There's a lot to be said for letting the government save face when they choose to back down, and shouting about how you defied them isn't always a great plan.
Sure, what I'm saying is that a doctor found that I met those guidelines (apparently) and prescribed me a drug. I don't think I ever needed it, I was just struggling with a transitional period in my life. It didn't really improve my life, in fact between the reduced appetite and hampered sexual performance I'd say it definitely was a negative. After reading some research about the performance of antidepressants vs placebos and the possibility of my sexual side effects becoming permanent I decided I was out. All of which is to say, are anti-depressants over prescribed? I can say yes, if only by my one case.
Sounds like a job I used to have. Coasting is good, but it is only downhill. ;) If you get laid off or the company goes under, it put you a few years behind other coders, even though that might not be the case.
If there was no difference in behavior at all between all of the people of the USA, I think you'd still see pockets of more and less progress, just due to the natural distribution of dying. I'm curious what the expected variance by zip code would be if everyone's behavior was identical.

As the article states, some countries are making more progress than the USA on modifiable risks, such as smoking. Australia is one such country. If advertising health were as profitable as advertising vices, we'd be in better shape.
Great, I can get behind an anti trust angle! Where's the link to the court case? I don't see any. Where's the link to the petition surrounding this? I don't see any. Where can I see that you, or the people pushing the anti trust angle, has developed any headway into pushing this sort of answer? I haven't seen any.

If the government brings suit, and loses, will they/you continue to point to anti trust law?

"The real problem is X" is fine and good if working on X is anywhere in sight. Yes, X may be the real problem, but generations can be born, grow old, and die while you're waiting for X to be solved.
> And 60 mbit is nothing to sneeze at.

It's substandard, especially when living in the 2nd largest city in the US. It's nealy unacceptable when the upload speeds are a paltry 5Mbps.

I want, a network that simply provides simple bandwidth and network speed while being completely neutral with regard to the services and applications the customer accesses that offers if not symmetrical, usable upload speeds.

A dumb pipe is not a stagnant pipe, upgrades to network speed doesn't make it smart.
Automation is being over-invested in because of ZIRP. It's very easy to borrow money to invest in plant and equipment. It's very hard to borrow money just to hire more workers.

The Fed has f'd over the workers with ZIRP.
It's not silly at all, it's simple; there's many ways to accomplish something and knowing a shorter more precise way to do something doesn't make the longer simple ways silly. The author didn't know about pgrep, so he used what he did know about, ps and grep, nothing remotely silly about that; it's pragmatic.
I think most answers can be summarized as "When I'm left alone I get into the flow mode, and that's enjoyable". The same way I mostly get it when working together with a colleague on a problem. Both ways may not always be the most productive, but due to producing a good feeling we prefer these.

I think it's hard to separate the questions of productivity and satisfaction. It's satisfying because you're being productive, but conversely it's easy to dodge the urge to procrastinate because the results are satisfying. So the two go hand in hand.

(And yes, I entirely recognise that for some people the satisfying+productive mode does involve intense, fine-grained collaboration, while for others it doesn't. I've seen both modes work, and don't really see why they shouldn't coexist -- although ideally with walls and doors to keep the noise of the collaborative types at bay!)
Rather than their code coverage, I'd say SQLite is known for having literally millions of test cases in their test suite. The number of lines of code in their test suite is some absurd multiple of the number of lines of code in SQLite itself.
The goal posts have been set by the original issue: whether circumcision harms the person or benefits them.

The main people who can answer that are adult males who were circumcized.

I am confident that if you asked 1000 religious Orthodox Jewish men whether they would have preferred to NOT have been circumcized at 8 days old and instead had to choose it later, an overwhelming majority would say they were glad they were circumcized that early. And they prefer that over never having been circumcized.

I would be hesitant to say the same about non-Jewish men. The reason Jewish men are happy about having been circumcized early is because (perhaps this sounds ironic) it gives them FAR GREATER CHOICE when it comes to their own community and membership in three thousand year old people, marriage and - above all for most religious people - serving God in the way spelled out in the Torah.

They can choose to leave the lifestyle or increase their observance etc. much more easily since one of the biggest challenges is already out of the way.

You can of course tell them they don't understand what real choice is, that this is stockholm syndrome and that religion is mass delusion.

But they may not agree and they collectively are ultimately the judges of what was better for them.

It is a different conception of morality and rights than the individualism that comes out of the Scottish Enlightenment

These ideas that a parent "knows better" because they - and millions of others - were in the same situation and are glad this was done, are valid.

It is a collective morality of a people. And again I would say that unless they believed that God commanded it, it could be possibly changed but as it is, when the vast majority of complaints are from the OUTSIDE of the community, perhaps the downsides far outweigh the upsides.
Comcast and Charter agree not to compete against each other in wireless
That section of law says they can sell your data with prior written or electronic permission.

47 U.S. Code § 551 (c)(1)

Except as provided in paragraph (2), a cable operator shall not disclose personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber concerned

So this section of the law, though another might, does not support your statement that "that they could sell that (which is false)".
Fun? A blank canvas? Freedom from trolls? Don't have to argue with Linus about userspace, evar?
In any non-contrived example, CPython's callback code will be slower than equivalent JIT-ed code from v8.

Please don't play the "it depends" card just to be smug. It lowers the level of discourse.
My original was already snark. Though I don't think its impossible that a small amount of non-technical people might actually be convinced to do this.
And I'd feel better about where my money is going. It'd be in the hands of someone who actually innovates and invests in the uture
SSH Tunneling Explained (2012)
Second this, it gets rid of the most toxic/addictive part of facebook (the feed) and leaves all the good stuff. Great extension!
Profession: MSc Student, Dpt. Experimental Medicine

[08:30] Alarm goes off, gussy-up, 2xPB on White Toast

[08:45] Arrive at subway, turn on my podcast queue

[09:15] Walk into work, give a quick check on human and bacteria cultures

[09:20] Pause podcasts, plan day out at desk

[09:30] Resume podcasts, throw on lab coat, gloves, begin work at bench

[09:45] Realise that todays plan overlooked some important fact and now makes zero sense

[09:50] Pause podcasts, avail self of PPE, attempt to plan day out again, dick around for a couple of minutes on HackerNews

[10:00] Resume podcasts, Throw on lab coat, gloves, begin work at bench/BSL cabinet once more

[13:30] Lunch w/ colleagues or YouTube for ~1hr, if I remember to have it

[15:00] Realise that I've planned too much, contemplate leaving early while browsing HackerNews

[15:30] One last experiment that will "take 1.5 hours, tops"

[19:00] Finish "1.5" hour experiment 3.5 hours later.

[19:15] Gawk at people in the subway

[19:30] Arrive home, supper

[20:00] Send out emails I should have sent out last week, possibly work on presentations that I need to give

[20:30] Hack on some side project while netflix/youtube plays in the background

[22:00] Hit roadblock, lay prone on bed contemplating employment options

[22:30] Back to side projects

[24:00] Code quality gets progressively worse, sudden realisation that almost every YouTube channel is cancerous in it's own special way. Make way to bed
I guess you need to clarify what you mean by hardcore, because that is the kind of flag I would have thought you were looking for.
Minor pedantic note: the *x!=NULL check is unnecessary. Calling free(NULL) is specified to do nothing.
> censorship will be effective as long as the pressure is put on the most popular nodes

Which makes IPFS a good choice, because there are no "popular nodes", or am I missing something here?
North Korea makes accidental nuclear firing against United States
I like the juxtaposition of the words "hobbyist" and "kubernetes cluster".
Building a Peer-To-Peer Mesh Network
Bed at 1830hrs and up at 0200? This is amazing! Why?
Buy Domains from the CLI
Can we really distinguish those two sources? It seems to me that the chemicals and the emotions are the same thing.
often it's just an gussied-up means of expressing a trivial bearer token, the kind that could be expressed securely with virtually no risk of implementation flaws simply by hexifying 20 bytes of urandom.

This should probably be the first thing anyone thinking of using JWT reads.
It also significantly increases the risk of Schizophrenia. Joy.

http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/2017/health-effects...
> What about support at the driver level for Java and .NET applications or heterogeneous database schemas?

I guess MariaDB JDBC driver already has two phase commit logic, because MySql has it for decade. It is enough for distributed transactions in "heterogeneous database schemas".
They're still friends, if not of mine, of other people who would like to see them there. Sometimes, for bigger events like at someone's home, their inability to RSVP properly is irrelevant (there will already be so many people, a handful of no-shows won't matter, and if they show there'll already be plenty of food or activities). I generally avoid inviting them to the smaller events where the no-shows become really annoying (I hate going to a restaurant, getting a table for 10, and having to give up 5 of the seats an hour later, it's completely unfair to the waitstaff and the business for the lost income potential).
only if you stop smoking? :)
I don't think that's true. While the term is of course loosely defined, unless you are at the top of the middle class, you can't leave the middle class by simply doubling income.
Position: Software Development Manager

Full-time, in-office, 3000 employee international software company

Workday:
07:45-09:15 - Emails/Slack, try to write code*

09:15-09:30 - Morning stand-up

09:30-12:00 - Attend various meetings (so my employees don't have to), write code* (if time allows)

12:00-13:00 - Eat some lunch

13:00-16:00 - Attend various meetings (so my employees don't have to), write code* (if time allows)

16:00-17:00 - Write code*

These days, "write code" could be anything from actually writing code, to creating tests, high-level design work, or building a POC for something I dreamt up the night before.
This may be applicable:

Scheduling for Android devices

https://lwn.net/Articles/706374/
I couldn't help but read this and think "old".
Sounds more like a symptom than a cause, and even that's guessing at best.
Finally! I can use DDT again to get rid of those pesky bald eagles around my property.
The article underplays the success of Patreon in solving this problem; almost every video creator I follow has set up one. It's a win-win for both content creators and consumers.

I'm actually surprised more programmers/engineers have not set up a Patreon. (in disclosure, I have one set up, but have zero expectation of it replacing a full-time salary.)
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This doesn't make any sense. Just because divorce rates have gone up somewhat since the 40s doesn't mean that it's structural. People get remarried. Also, if one person makes 60k and then moves in with another person making 60k, they don't magically become upper class at 120k, because they still have most of the expenses of two people minus some savings in housing (which most people wave by buying huge houses)

Edit: and 120k/yr is nowhere near "upper-class"
"But the week is man-made, arbitrary, a substance not found in nature."

One thing that occasionally makes me wonder is the universality of the day of the week. Everywhere you go - with the possible exception of the people living on either sides of the imaginary International Date Line - people are in agreement on which day of the week it is. Just imagine the white Christian colonialist coming to Africa, or some other part of the world, and finding native Muslim populations and yet both agree on what day of the week it is.
I am talking about architecture design discussions that actually, really do run at 2-3x speed when done via voice as opposed to text chat. And yes, having to schedule them to slow things down in an excessive way.
I would	argue that Islam is currently undergoing it's reformation: to Wahabism.

Its printing press is the internet.

And it's the best funded reformation imaginable, all that oil money goes towards spreading a variant of Islam that does not threaten the House of Saud.
Is it really an accident if someone slashes half your leg off or bursts your eyeball whilst you're trying to murder them? :-)
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And the float will be...5% of the company.
> Last week, the company announced a slate of new ad-supported shows on YouTube, including projects with Ellen DeGeneres and Kevin Hart.

Gotta support "well behaved" brands and cut the small man out of the picture. Insipid low brow content that'll please advertiser is all these will be.

Sadly it seems certain parts of the internet are turning into cable...

Let's not even get started on the appalling support YouTube offers content creators when things go wrong. If you are not Coca Cola I guess you basically don't exists.

Shame bandwidth is such an expensive part of the video market, because Youtube deserves to have some stiff competition thrown at it.

Things like Patreon help offer alternatives but it could help with being better integrated into the platform.
There was a large scale, long duration study which followed thousands of participants and found that the incidence of mental illness, including schizophrenia, in marijuana users was not higher than that in non-user populations. I'll see if I can dig up the study.
> resist the pressures to provide huge scale

You and I completely agree on this: huge scale is a irrational target out of the gate for most projects. The potential for huge scale preoccupies many an architect whose aspirations exceed their budget, to say nothing of their market reality. A premature preoccupation with huge scale tends to yield over-engineered systems that are needlessly complex and work against all of the goals you cite: simplicity and the ability to react quickly to changing business needs.

It seems my addition here is reduced to this: All else being equal—if your team is equally comfortable with two technology options—selecting the platform with a higher performance ceiling will further defer the architectural complexity typically associated with scale. Architectural complexity (e.g., multiple languages, lots of orchestrated or inter-dependent processes, many abstraction layers, complex deployments) tends to be the friction force against the simplicity, speed, and agility we both seek.
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To me...These do not look like traditional New York Style Pizza. The solid chunks of Mozzarella are pretty direct Naples style.

If you want a SERIOUSLY thin crust NY style pizza from a hole in the wall shop in the Bay Area, I highly recommend Arinell in the Mission. Nice big 3 dollar cheese slices, served on a piece of parchment paper. No bells and whistles...just delicious
It's not just lack of progress, in some areas it is regression.

You state this obvious factor as if it were immutable. The article addresses it, unsurprisingly, and provides examples that at least suggest progress can be made to limit it.
Well, let's just say that today we have tutorial and bootstrap projects for Javascript frameworks, back then we had tutorials and bootstrap projects for setting up email servers with spam filters :)
> For almost every use I've seen in the real world, JWT is drastic overkill; often it's just an gussied-up means of expressing a trivial bearer token.

This is certainly true for schemes that require trips to a source-of-truth database to authorize a token (c->auth, c->resource, resource->auth). It's also true for schemes where the token is associated with capabilities that are loaded from a database. Using JWT to implement RBAC is flawed.

However, there is a strong use case for the token carrying its own capabilities -- that is, a token that is more than just "20 bytes of urandom".

If a resource service can derive the capabilities associated with a token generated by a trusted authentication service without contacting that service, that has real world implications for lower latency, higher throughput applications that are simpler to compose and operate.

As far the cryptographic credibility, the idea behind capability-based security is an old one, and I'm sure you're aware of the research. This particular spec may be problematic, folks may be misunderstanding and misusing the primitives, but the underlying idea is sound.

Previous HN discussion of CapSec Wikipedia article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10684129

Google Fuscia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
Why have rates of schizophrenia stayed flat while cannabis use has increased, if cannabis is causal in schizophrenia?
If you actually read the science around this, it's been shown that cannabis use clearly does not increase the overall incidence of schizophrenia in a population. It can be a trigger for those already susceptible to developing it, but so can any other sufficiently stressful life experience. This is just another anti-drug myth.
My Internet connection contract already says that they reserve right to: Queue, Prioritize and Throttle traffic. This is used to optimize traffic. - Doesn't sound too neutral to me? It's also clearly stated that some traffic on the network get absolute priority over secondary classes.

Interestingly at one point 100 Mbit/s connection wasn't nearly fast enough to play almost any content from YouTube. - Maybe there's some kind of relation, maybe not.
I agree. Thank you for pointing that out. That is why I restricted my JWT code to only accept / use certain options. Of course I could still have chosen the wrong cipher for my specific use case and am aware that JWT will not solve this for me.

What JWT is doing is actually not that special as it is just a standardized container (akin to MKV and supported codecs) inside which existing technologies can be used. Easy to write something similar if you know what you are doing. I did that before, but still missed some extra verifications already build into JWT.

Of course, the chosen technologies allowed to be used inside a JWT can still be prone to vulnerabilities. I am not sure if that can be blamed on JWT. People should still think about which options to use.
NVLINK is GPU to GPU or GPU to CPU link, if you are using it as a GPU to CPU link you are taking to the CPU at native NVLINK speeds either through a native NVLINK bus if you are using a POWER CPU which supports it or via an Infiniband/OmniPath interconnect on Intel/AMD CPUs.

16GB/s is a bit tight but that's where prefetches based on pre-defined usage hints as well as the branch predictor in the GPU and the CUDA Compiler/Runtime that feeds the GPU without stalling as much as possible.

OFC you can I/O bound a GPU that's is actually pretty easy these days even in normal (gaming) workloads (e.g. draw call limit).

Let's say you are building a 4 GPU DB, if you are using NVLINK you each GPU can see the entire memory space of the other GPUs connected on the same NVLINK (there is also RDMA which can be done over the network but this is a complicated scenario) in this case you have 96GB of high speed VRAM + which ever amount of memory you can put on your CPU which can be upto 1.5TB or so per socket these days, you also have 64GB/s of bandwidth to feed that 96GB of memory with which means that it takes a second and a half to completely refill the memory completely (and I'm still not sure that the same lossless compression schemes that GPUs use these days for won't work for your data which would give you much higher effective bandwidth that the compression/decompression if free on the GPU side).

With these figures I can't see a reason why you can't optimize your memory residency to have the best of both worlds fast key-value/hash or index lookups for IO bound tasks and then programmatically prefetching the workload or if the branch prediction is good enough just letting it roll in processing bound tasks.

So yes it's not "perfect" but nothing ever will, the question is it much faster or even orders of magnitude faster for certain tasks / workloads / implementations than a CPU only DB and clearly it is.
How well would it compete against other contenders like Intel's Xeon Phis, programmable FPGAs and other emerging technologies that aim to solve this problem from another direction i don't know.
One possible partial explanation for this is the same reason why the Bill Gates Foundation wasted a bunch of money fostering small high schools. Smaller high schools were some of the best performing schools...but also some of the worst [0].

The answer is just that small counties have high variance. By chance some small counties will be a lot higher or lower than the national average.

I would be interested in seeing a Cox Proportional Hazards Model would show if the remaining changes are related to pollution, meth, economics, etc.

[0]http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09/the...
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