skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large corporations simply have the ability to shop around to figure out which tax/legal jurisdiction they want to incorporate under, and which instruments they choose to represent their incomes, expenses, and holdings. If things like tariffs are implemented, then the cost/benefit situation changes and shopping around resumes. A smaller company or individual often doesn't practically have that scale of flexibility & research to pull off the same changes, though technically they do.

But even in your personal purchasing, because you might shop around and even negotiate prices with sellers to get a good deal, does that make you an adversary of the economy? No, it makes you part of the economic structure, like the various corporate implements are part of various jurisdictions' tax structures, and the governments benefit from their presence in various ways, not just directly through taxes. That's what all the negotiations are based on.

Of course, I'm speaking of options that are legal, and it gets arguable (and sometimes flagrant) how some corporate actions get interpreted in that sense.
I work in heavily optimized compute, and it does matter there. We write assembly that is supported by one architecture only (for now), and frontier Intel chips are easier to come by. So our code runs on Intel’s processor extensions a generation or two before AMD, and that represents a high switching cost.

But this is server compute stuff which this news doesn’t seem to be about.
Thanks for the rundown. That’s unfortunate. This might be another case where browsers will eventually implement yet another layout method (how many are we up to now with floats, tables, columns, flex box, grid?) as soon as these layouts are replaced by something new.
This post on Reddit explains how in 1749, a court sided with the Royal Bank of Scotland in its legal challenge to a request for such a blacklist. The RBS argument was that making money responsible for the acts of its previous holders would "render the Notes absolutely useless":

https://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1le87j/bitcoin_core_de...
Yes! :) There's a great book called the Nintendo 64 Anthology that is a fantastic read to get in-depth history of the console. It also dives into how Rare created Golden Eye and some good info about Silicon Graphic's hardware development at the time.

For websites I would check out gamasutra. They great articles like this one https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131556/postmortem_ang.... I know they have some others like on Indiana Jones and Star Wars Ep 1: Racer.
Apple has a couple moves for cornering the supply chain. Sometimes they work with manufacturers to develop specialized hardware under the terms that they will only be used to build Apple products for a certain timeframe (usually a couple years IIRC).

Apple also uses some fairly specialized, extremely high-precision equipment that only a few companies in the world have the skill to manufacture. Apple has enough purchasing power to buy up all of the capacity that those manufacturers can produce for years at a time, and in doing so they lock out competitors from using that equipment.

It's possible, but seems really unlikely to me that Tesla has the capacity or purchasing power at this point to corner the supply chain like Apple does.
Priceline hits the sky in third quarter
The only people that don't make mistakes are the people that never do anything at all.
> What's the problem with people believing the world is flat exactly? You see them for the fool they are and move on, what's the big deal?

For Starters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_controversies

https://letters2president.org/letters/18983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism

https://www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-about-the-holocaust...

I mean, really? Come on, a stupid population is so obviously a bad idea. Remember the saying: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? Guess what happens when everyone around you is stupid? Not like 23 chromosomes stupid, but 'Oh, the Earth is Flat' stupid. Good god man.
> Do we? Were? I don't see that in the essay.

Actually, I think you are correct—I misread part of it the first time. He is pretty meticulous about saying this only applies to 'external physical reality,' and the only reference to an internal part is in the excerpt I gave above about the sensation of self-awareness.

However, it's a similar kind of trick. He goes ahead and makes statements like:

> Everything in our world
is purely mathematical — including you.

—which isn't really so significant if you are implicitly ignoring any interior aspects.

Instead, it's just kind of a tautology: the 'exterior' aspects of reality (well, the selection of them which we know of/discuss anyway) are precisely the ones approachable to conceptual/linguistic/mathematical formulation. So I don't see much more being said here than "the mathematically describable parts of reality are mathematically describable."

> Do you have any links? I'd like to read more.

I've already spent far too much time on this thread, but if you look around at adherents of digital physics, computational universe, etc. you'll find a similar elision repeating itself: either subjectivity/qualia are ignored completely, or it is assumed that they would be a by-product of some kind of generative mathematical/computational process. I've seen several articles related to the idea just on HN.

Edit: also: this is just a recent manifestation of the idea, which has been around at least since Plato.
Man, writing for Jumbotrons is going to suck...
Yes, I've always found the 'YouTube gets too much video to moderate it' a particularly shit argument. Maybe they not be allowed to have as much content then.
RIBs: Uber's Cross-Platform Mobile Architecture
Rant. I consider this the frontier of impending AI-Armageddon—detached, final, zero-recourse—except it won’t be Facebook, but your home heating bill. And it will involve circular arguments with humans who are also monitored by audio NLP bots who flag workers for immediate termination for not following company policy. /rant
Google docs nuked a password table I was collecting at a job center where I helped seniors. Said it was against their policy for me to have a sheet I shared with the program director.
Apples to oranges. The two APIs aren’t comparable, and being forced to use OpenCL is a hindrance itself. But unfortunately it has “Open” in the name so it must be better than that proprietary single vendor CUDA nonsense... /s
I've owned my LG V20 for a few months now and I've dropped it more than a couple times, usually onto concrete or asphalt, from more than 3 feet, and without a case. It has no screen damage and everything is as functional as it was when I got it from the store.

Why do people waste so much money on delicate pieces of trash?
Berlin is larger and a bit more cosmopolitan.

Spain has obviously better weather, that's a thing I miss from Spain.

The salaries are better in Germany, and I would say the working conditions are also better.

That's of course all my anecdotal experience, so YMMV. All but the weather.
> between having feature A broken on iphone or having it broken every other browser, to chose to break iPhone

In principle, I agree with you. But in reality, the iPhone market is very valuable.
Figures I've seen show that things are worse for a while and then the robots are better, after a significant learning curve.

The story acknowledges that this study was done early on so it will have been affected by the learning curve.
Thanks for the long reply - you have some very valid points there, but also some that I don't believe to be correct.

> At that point, you guarantee for yourself the creation of an insular subculture who will draw the disaffected and opposition to the establishment.

Yes, and this is exactly what I want. Loads of Nazis and trolls flocked to Voat after the banning of r/fatpeoplehate and friends, and more after the recent banwave. As a result the amount of hatespeech on Reddit has massively declined and Voat is not a place that's relevant outside of Gamergate and Nazis. The casual Internet user won't ever see a tiny bit of it. Same is also true for Twitter / gab.ai, where lots of Nazis in Germany fled.

It's the same way in politics: in Germany, we have had the NPD (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschland), which was a really vile cesspool of literal and neo-Nazis and it was mainly left to fend for itself - and it kept most of the ultra-right-wing stuff out of mainstream politics. True, it changed with the rise of the AfD, but it worked for decades.

> Every progress of mankind begins with spitting in the face of the established order.

Point is, we already had the Nazis in power in history (Hitler of course, but also his friends Mussolini and Franco). They're not progress, and they cannot be.

> You are incorrect that various fringe groups would be smaller if YouTube became a bastion of censorship

As said above: look at what happened to fatpeoplehate and friends. Or into the history of our Reichsbürgers ("freemen" in US terms, IIRC): they rose with the ability to spread their "ideas" for free across the Internet, and when taken away from mainstream, they will shrink again.

> Instead, they heard about it from mothers who "just knew" that vaccines gave their kids autism.

And where do they find these mothers? On Youtube and on various Facebook groups, mostly (at least this is what a children's doctor told me, when I asked him about the problem, but well the "anecdata" principle does apply here).

> Zero of the anti-vaxxers went online to seek information about vaccines and found anti-vaccine ranting and then made a decision to not vaccinate their children

Nope. When I type into Google "vaccines", the third autocomplete suggestion is "vaccines cause autism". Not "do vaccines cause autism". When I type into Google "Ist Deutschland" (Is Germany ...), I get "ist deutschland eine gmbh" (is Germany a company), "ist deutschland souverän" / "ist deutschland ein souveräner staat" (is Germany a sovereign state) and "ist deutschland ein staat" (is germany a state). And for each of the Reichsbürger stuff I get 8/10 results being the Reichsbürger propaganda. That can and will lead people into believing this stuff.

Google keyword suggestions are dangerous, and they do influence society.
I went to a symposium on assessing the value and future investment in robotic surgery a few years ago. Figuring out if it is cheaper or not, than regular surgery is surprisingly difficult.

For simple procedures, you might ask junior staff to do it with a robot, to get them training on the robot - compared to sending staff of to seminars, this is actually cheap, even though it is more expensive than regular surgery.

You might also ask junior doctors to do a slower, more expensive job on a robot to get their performance up to the same level as expert staff.

And even experienced surgeons might opt for using the somewhat scarce resource only for difficult cases. So you might end up with the same surgeon, on the same type of procedure, having a worse track record on the robot, because the severity of each case is not recorded in the statistic!
> Fair point, I had one class called logic design. The class was mainly Boolean algebra with some flip flops thrown in at some point.

Yeah that explains it. :-) So nothing about writing Verilog, feedback pipelining, adder design, clock skew, and stuff like that? Because those are the kinds of things I'd expect in a digital logic course (if one were available) and I would be shocked if you didn't need to know those concepts for a job in ASIC design.
FYI. My attempt to use your gracious Offer Code on the payment form of the Full Edition, did not apply...
How do you view Trump?
Thoughts on Trump and predictions on where the USA will head.
In terms of classics there are for example "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman and "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug.

Hack Design is an online design course with curated resources that will give you a great overview of the various areas of design: https://hackdesign.org/lessons
> OpenCL has been such a missed opportunity.

Why? It’s really a shit api, hard to program for and hard to make efficient. I think AMDs problem is that they didn’t make their own tooling pipeline (and then hopefully make an open standard out of it). Instead they stuck with a crappy open standard with poor tooling because, well, it was the standard.
> In the end these people don't really want to know. They just have a deep discomfort with the current state of things.

This is a very succinct description of the mindset of the flat earthers I have talked with.
> I.am+’s first enterprise customer is Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE), the German telecommunications giant and parent company of T-Mobile. Since July, the company has been using Omega to power an AI customer support chatbot and it plans to add a voice phone system soon, i.am+ said.

Wow. I had no idea ChatBots needed $117 MILLION in funding to ship.

A quick search of GitHub shows several 100s of chatbots, even 1 with just 200 lines of code. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+chatbot

This has Juicero written all over it.
Also skeptical of this one. Tooling seems kind of beside the point? It's like arguing that your school taught you Python and that didn't prepare you for Java (or whatever).
Show HN: Stellar Navigator, an Elm UI for Click-Browsing the Stellar Network
That does look cool, although arbitrarily making the first three letters of section headings a different colour is really weird to me.
The "relations are what matters" perspective is a structuralist thing, which can be traced to Saussure's linguistics on the philosophical side of things. Henri Poincaré was among the first to affirm a similar view in the sciences.

The question of whether it's a workable perspective or not is way above my pay grade. Some call it differential ontology http://www.iep.utm.edu/diff-ont/

The joke about category theorists being unable to distinguish isomorphic objects seems relevant (saying that as an appreciator of category theory). Also relevant is the hoary question of the identity of indiscernibles. If every distinguishable entity must stand in a unique relation to the universe, couldn't that solve the apparent ontological problem?
I guess that's what you get for being buddy-buddy with Benioff...

There's a joke in there somewhere about how most telco customer service is indistinguishable from AI chatbots.
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...and there weren't cheaper cars than the Model T. There are cheaper cars than the Tesla Anything. Your comparison is meaningless.
I elaborated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15639863
Have you driven an electric vehicle for any significant amount of time?

Number of stations is meaningless. At any given time, a sizeable portion of them will be out of commission. Some will not be accessible outside business hours (the ones at dealerships being the biggest offenders) or will be ICE'd. Even worse, some will be listed as working, but then fail to connect and charge your car at all. This has happened to me, multiple times. In one case, leaving me stranded, as I did not have range to reach the next one, after being unable to charge at two different locations. And that was in San Jose, not in the middle of a desert.

I have not checked your numbers, but I seriously doubt 30k is the number of fast chargers. Instead, those will be the slow, L2 chargers, which take 4 hours for a full charge on a Nissan Leaf. Quick chargers are much fewer in number, break frequently and, in the US, can be on two, competing standards (CHADEMO and whatever is that Ford and other manufacturers use).

In contrast, Tesla's network is much better maintained, each location has many chargers, and they are all Tesla's proprietary fast chargers.

Not to mention, Tesla cars can use their chargers, L2, and have adapters for other quick chargers.

TL;DR- This is not an apples to apples comparison.
I was commenting on the fact that "no city in the States will ever be anything like any city in Japan", using the trains as an example of why I'd say that. I could've just as easily mentioned other aspects of that country that I found pleasant, but trains like a good focus, since that's what the whole post is about.
> Can we fix how points are handled, or do we need to go to mm or some other measurement at this point?

I'd be happy to go with the millimetre anyway. It seems to me that the cleanest way to look at the _point_ is as simply a unit of length, satisfying, in its modern "desktop publishing point" incarnation, 1 pt = 0.3528 mm = 0.01389 inches. From that perspective, any unit is as good as any other, and I would personally use the millimetre. Using anything other than the point might even be preferable, if it removes some uncertainty about how it should be interpreted.
Here's a demo of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKO36KJYxg
>Taxing the phone or the company’s margins should have the same effect, right?

Wrong

>They’re both costs on apple’s revenue.

Hardly. Make zero profit and you pay zero tax on that profit.
DronesBench calibration example
OK, but JS used to just be straight-up untested, except perhaps in end-to-end tests which even then would be extremely brittle. We didn't test, really.
The violence in the superhero video I agree (esp. with the slapstick music) is a bit disturbing. Same with the gorilla daddy finger.

So what is the immediate solution for parents? Block/uninstall YTKids?
While this comment was snarky, it gets at something very real.

The Bolt has great range and I’m sure it’s a joy to drive, but it’s an ugly, tiny subcompact.

No one outside of our tech early-adopter bubble is going to pay $35,000 for a car that looks like that. Every other car that looks like that sells for $18-20k. Most people don’t care what the propulsion is.

The reason the Model 3 has a higher ceiling than the Bolt (if Tesla can figure out their production hell) is because it has the looks and amenities expected of a $35,000 car.

We’re never going to solve emissions if only environmentalists and tech lovers like us stop driving gas cars. There have to be alternatives that are compelling to the masses - and not just that, but compelling at their price point.
That's certainly one view of the world.

Come work tech support for a company/product with a web-based form that has a password field in it (like a CRM or other administrative system). Now explain to users why we can't stop their browser filling in their password in the field that's asking for the other user's password.

I've had situations where I'm configuring a VPN connection on the web interface for a router... then spending 10 minutes head-scratching why the hell it's giving me an invalid PSK message. Oh, because Chrome filled my password into the goddamn wrong field when it wasn't asked to.
While some LaTeX templates are more unwieldy, in the case of Limecv, if you don't want the stats bars, just don't include the macro that adds them. It's not always so terrible.
This is a pure client-side app written in Elm that just fetches data from the Horizon instance run by the Stellar Development Foundation at https://horizon.stellar.org/. The provided link points to a random panel, there's nothing special in it, but it should serve as a basis for navigating (just clicking) through the network elements.

There are some data not accessible through this app yet, mainly offers and effects, but transactions, ledgers, accounts and operations are there.

I would like feedback on this panel-based navigation. Thank you very much. Please note that they work with browser history.

The source code for the app is at: https://github.com/fiatjaf/stellar-navigator
> In Markdown you are forced to do bullet points.

Uhm, no, you are not.

Anecdotally, I would say that non-ppt presentations are of higher quality. Obviously, it's possible to do a bad presentation regardless of the tool, but the really bad ones are always done with PowerPoint. I'm honestly not sure whether it's because of the program or the type of people who use it. Probably a bit of both.
Will.i.am's failures and eccentricity (for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prv5q84-Ebg) are far more well known than his successes. I'm surprised he was able to raise so much money.
But there were not extremely-reliable, well-marketed, mass-produced alternatives to the Model T available for 1/3 the cost...
Machine vision is the future of unmanned stores
https://youtu.be/xGakbjwILKs
who would give this guy $117 million?!
If you click through the links to purchase, you'll be able to see that purchasing his books are through third-party distributors which are all secure.
I just read the story of William Browder (putin's nonfriend) that's indeed what I ended up doing.

Thanks a lot for the report, I guess I misinterpreted what article said about which factory the problems were happening.
It works similarly to git. You define a project root, and then exclude subdirectory trees as needed. I believe there's a way to add additional directories outside the root if needed.
Here's a video of the product if you're as curious as I was. Siri/Alexa for enterprise users -- https://iamplus.com/enterprise/

Seems like a smart market entry point. Enterprise employee virtual assistants are probably a wide open market today because Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung focus on consumer AIs. Easy to envision a startup getting solid, near-term customer traction with a keyword-driven voice product.
Robotic surgery is not autonomous. The surgeon is in complete control and provides the only decision making input into the surgery.
Wow, I'm surprised that the voice quality is so atrocious compared to Siri, Alexa, Cortana, or Google Home. The latter sound welcoming, warm and natural, Omega sounds like an old TTS system from the late 90s.
I have an X right here, and it usually rests on my desk. It will unlock from a VERY oblique angle, way beyond what i expected it to be able to handle. The only failures i've gotten with the scanner were when a pillow was covering part of my face and i was in bed. Basically any position that i can reasonably read the display from that isn't a joke or a test will unlock the device if i'm glancing at it.

I have some complaints about the device, but this feature rocks as far as i'm concerned
Debunked/refuted where?

I admit I haven't provided much in the way of evidence. However we're talking about a complicated tax situation so it's hard to stick to the concrete.

Do you agree that the only way to "close the loophole" is to force companies to repatriate their earnings? I don't see another way to address it.

Right now the issue is that iff Apple repatriates its money, it must pay taxes. So Apple has been fulfilling their fiduciary obligations by opting not to repatriate (which would destroy 30%+ of the value, I don't know the actual number but I believe I am being conservative), instead choosing to take on cheap debt domestically to fund share repurchases.

Thus I don't see a "solution" to the "loophole" (obviously I don't believe it's a loophole because it's the law) that doesn't involve forced repatriation.

If there's something wrong with what I've said or something I haven't considered, I'm all ears.
Also worth noting that complications and major complications were apparently lower (20% lower with major complications) with the robots but the study did not get to the hurdle of statistical significance.

N.B. for people who have no clue about statistics: failure to achieve statistical significance does not show no effect. In reality this study suggests that there was a useful effect, but did not conclusively prove it.

This confusion happens so often in medical papers it is almost a meme. A meme that has killed a lot of people (see e.g. the Vioxx fiasco).
We kinda have this already: one in every 1000th JavaScript website breaks the back button.