skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How realistic is it that a $5 billion fund can move a non-trivial amount of iPhone manufacturing to the US? Most of the BOM supply chain is in Asia, and assembly at FoxConn I heard amounts to 3% of the cost. It seems like Apple would have to build mostly automated assembly in the US or suffer severe margin reduction, and they'd suffer turnaround issues with the crucial components being still sourced in China.

However, given the issue with iCloud, you can see that they've now realized they have to reduce the leverage China has over time, but $5 billion seems way too small to move an entire logistics manufacturing chain, they need a moonshot for this. Apple spends way too much on stock buybacks and dividends and not enough on reinvestment.

Elsewhere in this thread, the pro-Trumpists don't seem to get why people were opposed to the tax plan:

The fear many people have is that this repatriation will mostly go to stock buybacks, dividends, and executive compensation just like the last 3 times there was a repatriation event. The last repatriation event didn't make a dent in national income growth or GDP, it barely moved the needle. The Democrats wanted the funds to be spent on infrastructure, or education as an offset.

The GOP decided to spend any increased revenue on lowering the estate tax and marginal tax rate cuts to avoid the cutoff for reconciliation. Since Democrats, backed by tech companies, had long supported repatriation. The GOP had a chance to pass a clean corporate tax bill that left everything else alone. Everyone knows the reductions for marginal rates at the high end and the estate tax changes aren't going to affect GDP much, and the net result of that was to impose double taxation on some states due to SALT deduction changes, and increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion. Apparently, double taxation is bad if it's the estate tax, but not if you're in California, New York, etc.

A practical, clean, corporate tax reform bill would have been better, especially if it was synchronized with international partners to try and close loopholes. For this reason, although the tax plan had some good aspects to it, overall, it's a very bad bill and I doubt the positives to Apple are going to offset the negatives to the rest of the economy.
Under absolutely no circumstances, Smith thought, should merchants be put in charge of politics. Their monopolistic conspiracies would be ‘destructive’ to all countries ‘which have the misfortune to fall under their government’.

Corporatism. The whole idea corporations are entities with free speech, and money being legally considered speech, in effect gives corporations a bigger voice than individuals. Humans have rights, citizens have some extra rights (mainly voting), corporations shouldn't have any political rights at all, nor does the state. Every right given to corporations or states is power taken away from individuals.
Micheladas! Though I prefer a Zing Zang michelada myself.
If only people in jail know how bad it is and it makes them more likely to commit more crimes then it's got the opposite effect. What you're talking about is the reputation which has little to do with the reality. We could for example use propaganda like movies to make prison seem worse without actually making it suck that bad.
Firefox Beta (58) macOS 10.13.2: WebAssembly.instantiate took 151.9 ms (81.5 MB/s)
You're leaving out some costs.

More airplanes doesn't increase capacity to the extent it's limited by airports. You'll need to add expanding the airports and maybe building new ones. Also, what about the stations between SF and LA?

Or, if you use cars, then you need to include widening the highways in congested areas.

Of course bus lines would be much cheaper, if we can convince people to use them. How often do you take a bus between SF and LA?
There's a button "Search with filters" right next to the search box.
Thats the joke.
I was referring to new code and code packages that are available out there.

It sounds like you are talking about providing hosting for older versions of PHP code. Which I of course understand is a necessary thing. You can't force people to upgrade their codebase. They'll just find another host.
Nope, it seems they will stop all monetization per: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851?hl=en

"The YouTube Partner Program (YPP) lets creators monetize their content on YouTube. Creators can earn money from advertisements served on their videos and from YouTube Red subscribers watching their content."

And in order to apply for YPP you just try to enable Monetization per: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857#apply

The two (YPP and Monetization) seem to be the same thing?
I moved from Project Fi to Mint Sim and could not be happier. Project Fi forces you to call over wifi if your phone supports it, and constantly is swapping cell providers to find the cheapest. Even mid call.

Probably 50% of my phone calls either dropped or had huge latency as a result.
I said memory bandwidth, not cache bandwidth.
http://hypersonics.mechmining.uq.edu.au/t4

the part called "primary diaphragm"
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Ethanol has never made much sense to me. Drill and pump petroleum, process into gasoline (for tractors), and fertilizers, grow corn, turn into ethanol., It's the equivalent of getting a crisp new $100 bill from the bank, recycling it immediately and printing a $1 bill from the "recycled" paper and calling it an environmental success.
> does not solve the voter turnout problem

Refusing to vote is a perfectly valid choice in a democracy.

Politicians like to pretend that the 40-60% of the people who don't vote are not voting because they are stupid, ill-informed, or whatever, but the much more likely explanation is that this group recognizing (rightly) that voting is a waste of time in a political system as corrupt as the U.S. or the refuse to vote as a form of conscientious objection.

In reality the winner of every election in decades has been "none of the above."
BOS? I remember it as HOS - the Hyper Operating System. Here's the splash screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0_ckVWukUo
HPO means Hyper Parameter Optimization? Because AutoML has nothing to do with it, AutoML is mostly about the architecture of the model, not about Hyper Parameter Optimization.
man, let me introduce you to the world of consulting. it's pervasive.
Sounds like they're working on a new http challenge plugin for nginx that should solve this webroot hack/workaround for the fact that the existing nginx plugin for certbot only works over tls-sni-01 which has been disabled by the letsencrypt folks.

I anxiously await it as it's easier to deal with the nginx plugin when you've already got nginx running for other reasons, rather than having to disable your existing webserver.

Not thrilled about having to temporarily allow http, but c'est la vie.

I wonder why we can't just have an https-based known-file challenge that works exactly like the http one, but over https, and just accepts whatever cert you throw at it initially.
Like adultery, for instance, right?
This is a serious question, so please don't downvote me if you consider it ridiculous.

Intuitively I would say that I were locked together in a cell with some other inmate, i would be a much worse fate than if I were locked in solitary confinement. Being locked in solitary confinement is surely not a nice fate, but as Sartre expressed it: "Hell is other people". In this sense I pretty surely would consider being locked with another inmate in a cell as the real "hell on earth".

So what is so bad about solitary confinement in comparison to non-solitary confinement? As I said: If I were to choose, I would immediately choose solitary confinement by far.
Ecto can export a .formatter.exs file that says you don't need parens for those calls.
It works and it is usable in the mobile phone! That is great.
That's a good post from Brian, can't believe I haven't see it yet. Thanks for sharing.

> seems pretty prescient given the glut of open source we find ourselves enjoying today.

Indeed, even regarding databases:

[from blog post] > Yes, there have been traditional demand-side efforts like MySQL and research efforts like PostgreSQL, but neither of these “good enough” efforts has actually been good enough to compete with Informix, Oracle,

Look at PostgreSQL today -- it's got a variety of indexing options, scalability improvements and various other things. It hasn't displaced Oracle but it's certainly not a research effort anymore.
I think it's historic and comes from a religious fear of people who commit suicide going to hell.
And why don’t you just send it in binary? REST doesn’t mean you have to use JSON for the HTTP body.
That doesn't really work though. If you earn 70k a year, $640 isn't a rounding error, that's still a significant part of your budget.
> How do we "automatically" register someone?

When they get their driver's license or state-issued ID. Don't make it an option, just do it. That would take care of most people, since they have a state-issued driver's license or ID. It's the photo ID most people in the United States use. (I didn't own a car for close to 20 years and still had a driver's license as a photo ID.)

Although I initially registered to vote by going to the county courthouse; when I recently moved (in state) and got a new driver's license, the system asked if I wanted to update my voter registration. Don't make it an option, just automatically do it.

That should take care of most people.
But you can go back to full speed at the $10/GB rate again.
What a ridiculous comment. Really. Where to start: Solitary confinement is something that can really mess up the people that you inflict it on, ideally it would not even be in the repertoire of any normal prison. We are social animals and to deprive a person of any kind of interaction is really brutal.

Having the ability to move around of your free will taken away is already pretty harsh and people commit suicide readily when faced with this possibility (which is the reason they take away your shoelaces and belt even for the shortest spans of confinement where I live), solitary confinement is several degrees above that and could very well permanently affect the psychological state of the victim (word used with great care) of such treatment.

Obviously any kind of imprisonment has risks as you note but your remedy seems much worse than the original problem.
Apparently not enough of a deterrent to keep our prisons from over crowding. It is also inhumane in my opinion. I think that it would do everyone well to spend a weekend in solitary in jail. It is torture and should be seen as such.
Neat, thanks. This is exactly the workaround I was looking for but didn't search hard enough to find.
Because savory has other meanings in cooking and umami is a essentially a pure concept in English. Umami means one and exactly one thing.
While I agree that lots of offices don't know their costs off hand, I have not had much trouble getting quotes for specific procedures.

The real problem is that I rarely have any reason to ask if my insurance is going to cover all of it.
This sounds like "world ends, poor people hardest hit". Of course, any price increase would affect poor people, but that's not how "discrimination" works - you can't just claim that anything that increases the price of any good is "discriminatory" (otherwise we couldn't have most of regulations, since many of them do increase costs, whatever are their other perceived or real benefits).

And, "poor people" are not enumerated there anyway - it's "on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex". You could of course claim that since there's more poor people among, say, blacks than whites, it's related to race, but that would extend "discrimination" way beyond point of any usability - you could then claim that producing and selling any expensive good is racist, which is insane.
I live in washington, similar system except the envelopes are not prepaid.
And Timeless: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5511582/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Missing Stephenson's The Diamond Age was a bit of an oversight as well, considering that Snow Crash is one of the canonical Cyberpunk novels, while The Diamond Age is (IMO) a defining Post-Cyberpunk novel. The Diamond Age opens with a Cyberpunk fake protagonist written with every Cyberpunk trope in mind, and then the fake protagonist is killed off before the end of the Prologue and the real protagonist, the slain punk's baby daughter, is revealed. Stephenson's intent is clear: "This is not a cyberpunk novel."

I'd also argue that Cyberpunk does not mean "everything is terrible", nor does Post-Cyberpunk have a softer and lighter view where "not everything is terrible." Rather, the difference is whether social control is rooted in 1984 or Brave New World.

From this point of view, Ghost in the Shell and Minority Report are still Cyberpunk (edit: settings); the viewer is just seeing things from a point of view other than the completely marginalized. Shadowrun is a Cyberpunk setting whether you work for a corporate power or in the streets.
Yes, but those are simulations of classical mechanics models of molecules which are known to be very limited when it comes to atom-scale objects. We have another model that was much more useful there (Schroedinger's equation) but it is only computationally tractable for systems of few atoms. We do not have the computational power to work out the consequences of the model for proteins.
mine was even a bit more of a change.

Chrome: WebAssembly.instantiate took 13692.8 ms (0.9 MB/s)

Firefox: WebAssembly.instantiate took 330.8 ms (37.4 MB/s)
This has happened more times than I care to keep count. Everything considered crossing 2GB in a month is extremely normal for me
If that were the case, you could argue that my disallowing my children access to Youtube Kids is "violent."

How is YouTube Kids a "basic need"?

If you restricted your children access to food, or water, I'd certainly say you were exerting violence on them.
It's not as bad as you think. It's measuring system length, not track-mile, so the Transbay Tube only comes out to 6 miles including approaches.

Also, it's a chokepoint: there's not a lot of alternatives to crossing the bay, so it should also be driving a much higher numerator as well. And it's not like other systems don't have geographic barriers--consider the crossings of the East River or Boston Harbor.

For the length of BART, taking out the Transbay Tube doesn't reduce track mileage by all that much, and consider that BART is ⅔ the ridership of the Washington Metro by mile. That's not a small gap. Maybe you could say it's slightly better than MARTA, but it's far from Philly or Chicago's performance, let alone NYC or international statistics.
Cellphone towers minimize the impact of density. Lower density and you can use fewer towers. The limit is one cellphone tower within 45 miles of you or 1 tower per ~6,000 square miles as they can have up to 45 mile radious ^ 2 * pi - overlapping area. Continual US is only 3 million square miles or ~500 cellphone towers. You do need significantly more towers for various reasons, but towers only run 250,000$ aka ~150 million to cover US own. However it's really spectrum and city's that are expensive not empty land.
In the UK, Three provides nationwide coverage + free roaming in 71 other nations (including USA)[0] for as little as £13/month for 4 GB of data.

[0] http://www.three.co.uk/feel-at-home

[1] http://www.three.co.uk/Store/SIM/Plans_for_phones
I agree that analogy makes more sense, but I wanted an analogy which involved my girlfriend doing something impossible -- because a process accessing memory it doesn't have permission to access is supposed to be impossible.
That is slightly inaccurate: ads are also shown to videos of non-monetized accounts if a copyright claim is made by someone for content on that video and the claimer decides to put ads in it for allowing the content.

I have no monetization enabled for my account and still get text ads because of that.
Actually, there are very few torture chambers in US prisons. So, I'm not sure "maximum pain" is an accurate assessment, or even a sane one.

It's a tiresome strawman. Really.

You know what the real point of prison is--no matter the stated goal? It's not punishment or rehabilitation or karmic realignment or the state defusing vigilantism or profiteering or any of that. (Oh, they are elements to be sure...) But the real reason for prison is sequestration. That's it. Just taking the people most likely to be dangerous, based on their own actions, and minimizing future risk. It's not cruel or righteous, but strictly practical.
BART is already at capacity and I don't think you can make it faster or more comfortable than a bus.
You're still looking for a universal criteria, and I am not going to give you one. Absolutism is a bad thing, in software and in society.

States that behave atrociously toward their citizens tend to fall victim to revolution, sooner or later. Constitutional democracies, where "consent of the governed" has some real teeth, tend to be stable and avoid violent revolutions, because the need for social change can be handled via the ballot box.

But in terms of State injustice, we're talking about matters of degree, not absolutes. If you're saying that any injustice invalidates the State, you fail, because as long as the State is working pretty well for the majority (as it usually does), then the complaints of the few will just be seen as complaining, not cause for revolution.

Hence, eminent domain. It works pretty well for most people, who see direct benefit in terms of, say, new transportation systems.
Solitary confinement isn't just getting your own room. It means that you don't get to spend any time with any other inmates.
Will robot ships be more attractive to pirates? Or can the ships autonomously use lethal force to repel pirates?

What about if they encounter another ship in distress?

Or people in the water in distress?

Who then turn out to be a pirate ruse?
I notice there's a misunderstanding, so let me clarify this. I called the
passage you quoted "intellectually dishonest", not you. And the "you" in the
phrase "you can't just stop the ball rolling" did not mean you personally, but
everyone in general.

The same goes for the sentence "how do you explain the fact". For example, if I asked the question "how do you invert a binary tree", I wouldn't be asking how a specific interlocutor would do it personally, rather, I'd want to know how it is generally done.

A more accurate way of stating the question would be "how does one invert..." etc. But that is a bit of an archaic turn of phrase that tends to make one look a bit of a twit, so one tends to avoid it. I do.
In various ways. ACH is essentially FTP. Traders execute trades programatically. There's no one standard API, but there are many programmatic ways to move money.
Sort of? Maybe? I mean, a list of people doesn't really encourage kidnapping. Someone could just use a phone book instead. Perhaps cases of witness protection or something. But those are extreme edge cases.
OK, sorry.
Also, sometimes 1-2 days completely alone sounds pretty good.

Thereby showing that it's not an effective deterrent?
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Kensington has the best trackballs(slimblade and expert). Unfortunately their wireless version sucks big time
How "unlimited" is that? Could you use 1TB/month? 10T? More?
When you switch to Fi you have the option of moving your google voice number to a different account.

When you leave Fi you have the option of moving your original number back to a traditional carrier.

Or, at least that's how it worked in 2016 when I tried Fi.
I heard Stalin was good on taxes as well. There are bigger issues than taxes, my friend.
I take it to mean you don't pay from 6-15 GB, and then pay onwards, if you want to avoid throttling.

So, you still benefit $90, while getting the same quality service if you want to pay the old prices. 15 GB/month really seems like a lot, though, coming from someone who uses 1, maybe 2 GB, with Fi.
For anyone interested in background on Datomic, these are fun and informative resources.

The talk where I realized Rich is a data head too. Introducing his design goals and life experiences with db(s). https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic

"Clojure for the Brave and True" author, Dan Higginbotham, on key themes and overview.
http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/datomic-for-...

Congrats to the Datomic team and Cognitect. I hope this move to cloud opens Datomic's design principals and ideas to a wider user base.
I can't. Having an airgapped system doesn't solve every problem; but it does solve some of them.
I profoundly don't understand how someone can seriously advocate against estate tax. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It isn't completely unrelated.

DNSCurve secures the link between resolvers and authoritative servers. DNSCrypt (based on DNSCurve) secures the link between clients and resolvers.
You can right now - but you do need to activate on a compatible phone. You can then swap in an iPhone. It'll function fine, with some features missing (MMS, Carrier Swapping) missing. I use a Project Fi data SIM in an iPhone as a secondary device.
Worthless? Classical music, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, fairy tales, mythology, wizard of Oz. Shoot even the happy birthday song (which may or not be in pd, depending on who you all)
> - If the LAX-SFO air corridor becomes too busy, that $64 billion could also be spent upgrading existing fleets by buying 147 brand new A380s at an average list price of $435 million each. [2]

Sorry but I'm super confused... 147 planes that cost $435 million each, would total 64 Billion dollars. And that appears to be 64 Billion on top of the 64 Billion you already plan on spending from above.

That cost of the project in the article has jumped to 10 Billion. Where are you getting your number from?
Most of the modern Web is unusable without a highly optimized JIT-compiling JS interpreter. Are you sure about the importance of interoperability & compatibility?
There is good evidence that long term isolation is destructive of most peoples mental wellbeing. The president of Uruguay was remarkably open about the post-release mental burden of his years in solitary (he was a marxist guerilla who was capture and imprisoned for years, before becoming elected in a democratic post-coup society). You argue from the specific (your own belief you would chose to tolerate solitary over all other forms of incarceration) over the general (the body of evidence (no, I don't have a cite) is strong to suggest across cohorts, isolation has long term detrimental effect on health)
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Perhaps you mean monetize instead? They certainly aren't the only ones who can do ML.
Calculating scale limits or resource requirements for a given scale.
BART is currently running at what could be considered its maximum theoretical capacity given conditions. What I mean is that the built environment provides only unidirectional flow of passengers: toward SF in the morning, way from SF in the evening.

With the addition of tracks to San Jose, this could change. We could start getting more flows of people where neither end is SF. That should boost ridership but of course they are adding a lot of miles.