skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, and in particular this stood out to me:

> If the U.S. had long ago allowed a couple of corporations to take over both the distribution and retailing of wine before the Napa Valley renaissance, Lynn told The Atlantic in an interview, Americans would be exclusively sipping three varieties of Gallo table wine. “The reason that didn't happen 50 years ago is because you had this system that was designed to promote deconcentration, to incentivize [retailers] to go out and find the new, the different, the alternatives,” he said. “It was effective in achieving that aim.”

This seems completely crazy to me. We’ve also seen an explosion in coffee variety availability, without any kind of convoluted legally-mandated distribution system. American tastes in drinks and food are splintering and opening new market niches; as long as it’s legal to fill those niches, someone will.
Sorry this comment is so late; ATS is also interesting because it has linear types that allow compile-time resource tracking similar to Rust's ownership and lifetime tracking. If you use linear types you can opt out of the garbage collector. That makes it very attractive for systems programming, and in particular embedded systems. I believe there is a demo of ATS running on an Arduino of some sort.

I haven't had the time to learn it yet, though I would like to.
Why is this a bad thing? I have so many more options than the cheap beer I started drinking. The Everyman beer still exists and many people still drink it.

There are plenty of non $10 or $15 dollar pours to keep me happy. You don’t have to wait for releases. I only participate in lottery systems for limited liquor releases, screw the lines.
My first programming job was perl back in '97 for the LAMP stack. There was a lot of neat things that I did with it back then... and clever too. I remember writing a neat Tie::Array that was backed by a database... and then undoing it because it was too clever and not something that was maintainable.

The last time I touched perl professionally was in '09 during the perl winter. The web stack was moving in other directions - especially that of Java (I'm a corporate back end line of business keep the gears of the company turning type). I write boring code - which is good. Boring code doesn't surprise people and when I pull it up from 10 years ago, it still works. I try to avoid clever code now - it takes too long to get back into the mindset that I had when I wrote it. I'll admit to one bit of clever code with annotations on an enum that I've written in the past half decade... and that is in place to force what would be runtime errors to be compile time errors instead.

I looked at perl 6... there's even a bug report with my name on it ( https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/8d04bec ). I really want to like the language - it makes me think about some things differently... and here's the "but". But it all feels too clever. Code needs to be reasonable - something that I can come back to later and pick up again and continue on with minimal switching of the mind. Unicode operators, Junctions (as neat as they are), redefining operators... its letting me and encouraging me to write clever code.

I pull up the docs and see things from https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators that make me wonder if its gone too far. There's more than one way to do it... but there are more of them than Java 8's list ( https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-15.htm... ). I feel that there's more than one way is "more than one approach" not "more than one way to type '+'".

The code just doesn't feel reasonable anymore.

For what its worth, after not touching perl professional since '09, this past week I was called on to fix a LAMP stack. There's the CGI with a nice 'use CGI.pm' (the last change time on the file was from 2011). I was able to open it up, read it, debug it, and fix it in under an hour. It was straight forward, sensible, and reasonable code. I shutter to think what it will be like in another decade if someone comes by and asks someone to debug some 10 year old perl6 code and they open it up to find unicode scattered through it and trying to remember what =~= or ∘ does.

For my scripting needs now... I've been a Java coder for the past decade. When I want a script I'm more likely to fire up groovy. It runs, its stable, and it doesn't try to make me write clever code.

Sorry perl... you're just not my go to language for thought to code anymore.. and thinking in perl6 just isn't something that I'll find myself easily writing once or being able to figure out when coming back to later.
One of the greats. Always Coming Home is one of my all-time favorites of hers. Required reading if you’re in California.
How do you handle browsers with javascript turned off? This invasion of privacy is exactly why it's turned off.
I do agree with it, but... Amazon is regulated. They're already not allowed to murder or enslave people - and they still come as close to wage slavery as they legally can in their warehouses. The law doesn't require them to care about the homeless, and the market doesn't seem to care about them caring about the homeless, so Amazon doesn't care about the homeless.

Their culture is legendary for its relentless focus on cutting costs and driving employees hard for the sake of the bottom line, at all levels. I cannot see them spending a dime on fighting homelessness, even as a PR move, unless they expected to make a dollar back, that's just the way they operate.
Just need some feral children chanting about Capn’ Walker.
Thanks! I use org-mode and org-babel to generate this, and hook it up into org-publish which I use to publish all of my website. Org-babel is a literate programming extension to org mode that allows you to embed code in any language in your org mode document and execute them or export to many formats.
The last line of the post states:

"The Mojave Boneyard is available for film shoots – send me an email if interested. Unfortunately, no tours are offered at this time, and the facility is strictly off-limits."
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202205
GDP shouldn't be compared to revenue. Revenue is flow through a company from customers.

It could even be for a loss. If you did 1Bn in revenue but paid 2Bn for the goods you're selling it's not really a win.

GDP is more like the value add of a country. Profit is a better comparison. However, profit is tricky as companies often use it to grow rather than pay out profit.

Amazon's profit was 4B. Even saying, reasonably that they used 20Bn than they made in profit and diverted to growth it makes them much, much smaller compared to a country.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202205
Traffic isn't being regulated, packages of services offered to customers in pure intrastate commerce, however, are.

Being the home to so many internet based companies, California is in a position to make such a law which will have a significant effect -- perhaps. How is intra-state defined? On paper, Apple Inc. is incorporated where? Is it really Cupertino? If so, then couldn't they redirect certain traffic to a subsidiary one state over? How would California fight against companies trying to get around their law using routing tables?
The Power Wheels don't put the motors in parallel or series, it switches the two 6V batteries between parallel or series. The motors are always in parallel.

See the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4639646A/en?assignee=%22...
I'm sorry for putting you off. The intention is to have all the privacy essentials in one package, and make those essentials each best in class. Over the coming months we will explain more about how we're doing so and why we think that is the case. Right now though know that it is doing more than just tracker blocking and private search: it is also upgrading encryption where possible and exposing poor privacy practices when known.

In any case though, I understand if you feel you are covered with other extensions and just want search. In that case, you don't really need a DuckDuckGo extension and can set the search via these instructions: https://duckduckgo.com/install
That sounds like your manager's problem to me, but I got laid off recently so take that as you will (not even mad cause i copped a fat severance check and got admitted to a great graduate program, and the job was sort of subpar with poor management)
I love this, but I'm curious as to how much it can grow. The neighboring town to me has 5 craft breweries on its main street. All of them are within a 1 mile of each other. It's even crazier since there are also 3 winery storefronts/bars and a craft distillery in that same radius.

The other thing I've found is that it has inspired people, including myself, to try their own hand at brewing. I just bottled my first batch and while I have no delusions that I'll start my own brewery, it's a fun activity to try one's hand at.
>> Conversely, if 1% of a thing is nothing, can I have 1% of your company's common stock?

If you bought 80% of it, yeah, 1% would not make much of a difference. But you want it for free? Well, dream on.
Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet
> So, it's pretty much useless for 95% of your traffic

This number sounds highly dubious (at least in the US). From my experience, when PayPal is offered in addition to normal credit card payments it will account for 15-25% of transactions.
If you are going straight at a constant speed and you turn the handlebars clockwise your front wheel is going to go to the right. The center of mass will want to continue forward due to the momentum of the bike. Now your bike is leaning left.
The idea that "big marijuana" will take over defies every trend we've seen over the last 20 years. It's nonsensical on it's face.

It's a desperate argument by people who don't like (or understand) marijuana and are out of other arguments.
Very neat, I've seen a few websites like this pop up over the past year.

Some feedback: it would be nice if the order details were part of the URL structure so I can easily share it with people.
>"Copy and paste screenshots directly to your clipboard"

. . .
My parents read them to me when I was seven. Etched in my memory. I've been back to read them a few times since and always found more to enjoy.
Several years back I convinced a coworker to try and install that. He had a mac and I was running FreeBSD or something and couldn't run it. He'd been running some sort of simulation for several days on that machine.

So we fired it up and within about 2-3 minutes he managed to shoot PID 1 or something like that as the machine rebooted. Boss was not happy.
HN guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Financial discussions aren't off-limits. It's on HN because someone submitted it and others voted it up.
Sorry about the experience you had with the org. DuckDuckHack is indeed in maintenance mode right now as we couldn't figure out the best contribution model that scaled with the search engine, though are still thinking about how to do that.

All of these new apps and extensions are open source though, and we'd welcome any contributions.
So what does it do when it uses all that CPU despite the lack of requests coming in? Maybe you have misconfigured some periodic job like backup?
Is being able to close off your nose not normal? How do people blow up balloons (or otherwise blow air hard out of their mouths) without doing that?
Basically, if ~~the FCC~~ Verizon and Comcast loose in court

I don't think they will loose in court. Bows and Arrows wouldn't make it through the security check. (Commanders before the invention of firearms wouldn't be saying "fire" you see.)
Because Amazon will make a point to go to the one or two defectors. Iterated Prisoners Dilema dynamics only work when you have iterated interactions. In large economies where you don’t have repeated interaction with other players there is incentive to cheat.
>It’s now German, Chinese and English, in that order.

>business and tourism

A search of the number of tourists from different countries visiting Denmark shows that the number of tourists from the UK and America still dwarf the number of visitors from China. So I'm not sure why you'd say that Chinese is more important than English for tourism.

It also looks like Germans have always been the largest group visiting Denmark--that hasn't changed.

As for business in general, China makes up about 4% of exports and 7% of Danish imports. So I'm not really sure by what metric you're putting Chinese above English.

> But if you’re looking for languages with professional application Chinese is at the top.

If that's true, it's more likely because 86% of Danes speak English so it's not really much of an advantage within Denmark.

China is a growing economy, but English is still the language of world commerce, science, and entertainment.

I think that you're mistaking growth rates with absolute values.
DuckDuckGo, you could do this client side within your browser extension, which both avoids server side costs and protects our privacy. Pretty please?
The 30-70Hz vibration of the muscle itself tensing, apparently, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle#Voluntar...
This is indeed a dupe, but I think David Woodhouse's later response is worth reading and should get more attention. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/22/598
Automating executive jobs would increase profit. Trust corporations to maximize shareholder equity, as they are legally obligated to do.
For instance, Ford still makes up something like 8% of Europe's market (http://shareholder.ford.com/~/media/Files/F/Ford-IR/events-a...) -- maybe not the unstoppable juggernaut of the continent, but a lot of vehicles. And there are a number of European Ford models not even available for sale in the US (mostly hatchbacks). That's just one maker.

Perhaps they sell better in the UK than continental Europe or something, I don't know, but tens of thousands of cars sold per month is not nothing.

Another chart shows that even the largest maker, VW, only has like 23% of the market: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263421/market-share-of-s...
For me, the missing tactile feedback from the tablet puts me off. I need to feel the edge of the papers, and one side of the book getting thinner and the other thicker as I progress. The very act of splitting the book open is satisfying.

I say that and I am a very tech-inclined person, so to speak. But books are always a different matter.
Is is still hard for US citizens to get bank accounts?
ProtonMail is not a US company.
Yep try it on Invicta. The full demo goes through our dashboard, analytics, etc but testing checkout should give you a good overview.
That's not quite true... the code (essentially) loops over itself infinitely; the only branch is a loop back to the beginning of the program. Since this branch has only one target, it can be a direct jump (as opposed to an indirect one), meaning it would not use the branch trace buffer, and would not cause speculative execution. The author used faulting for branches only to write the program in all mov instructions; if the last 'mov' is replaced with a direct jmp (which, it looks like, can be done with the --no-mov-loop flag to the compiler), no more speculative execution.
Good stuff. Definitely support!
How do they actually bring the planes to that location? Road transport or do they have at least a runway?
Here's some more details on how we make money: https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates

Short answer is we're profitable since 2014 primarily with non-tracking search ads based on the keyword (type in car and get a car ad). While we don't serve that many ads, these are still lucrative enough to pay all the bills.

The affiliate portion is quite small now, and we do not change any rankings based on them.
I shared some links with the other guy, but anyway about 8% of Europe's market is Ford and 4% GM. FCA (sort of a joint Italo-American venture) is another 7% if you want to count them. So that's almost a fifth of the market if you add all those up.
That's nothing new. Sports, acting, and music attracted a huge fraction of young Baby Boomers and GenXers.
I still feel Bloomberg LP would be the ideal buyer of Twitter.
It's BGP routing, and requests only (not responses). Radware, which is not Mossad, does not do our TLS termination--we do.
Disgraced Tech CEO Gurbaksh Chalal Exploring Run for Governor
My brother as a kid found this on Google Earth or maybe even terraserver (which was an early host of satellite imagery of earth, I think from Microsoft) and obsessed over it forever.
Well, forget about doing laundry on Sunday, which was the weirdest thing about! Sunday's were like rest days, outside of train stations almost everything was closed, and to cap it off you couldn't do your laundry either.

My apartment was nice because we could sign up for chosen slots for any unspoken for time we wanted to do laundry rather than have one inflexible time assigned to us.
There still is a 3 tier system...

And the rules didn't just change... people that wanted to make changes had to lobby for years to make it happen... and then it took the right years to make it happen.

I've been a part of this activism in New York State for wine, cideries, and to some extent homebrewing my entire life and belong to a number of organizations to help make it happen.

There's also never a coincidence on timing and the economy. Governments love an excise tax and "sin" products are heavily taxed and a lot stays at the state level to where when the economy is in the dumps... they are much more willing to listen to lobbyists on ways to boost income for the state.

It works every time. In the wake of the "Great Recession," we were able to pass the most amount of pro-winery laws in a generation in New York State, unfortunately, we still came up short for our biggest initiative: WIGS aka Wine in Grocery Stores do to illegal campaign financing from overseas and domestic liquor groups. Albany is still a very dirty space. But prior to the recession, it would cost you $20K to get a license to start a distillery... we got that down to about $600. Wineries can now have 5 outlets or mini-wineries to sell their wine. The list goes on and on and it's had a real impact on jobs in Upstate New York.

You'll notice the big rule change for homebrewing happened in 1978... you had the oil crisis... Carter... inflation... and a Congress that was willing to literally let people start making beer in a super unregulated fashion to eventually boost income for the government... and of course create jobs and all that jazz along the way.

When the economy tanks again, I expect there will be marijuana legalization at the federal level.
Never heard of it, but I have a weird one too: my left ear pops when I crack my upper back.
Was quite certain of this too. To cover something like this website is quite expensive too, and as this is a side project I highly doubt he's covered those costs.
I think this is how many franchises grow. But most highly educated people aren't interested in starting a restaurant or mini-mart.
I would love an option for a darker colour scheme. A blueprint-style white on a dark blue would be cool.
While there's no doubt they are used for money laundering, they also serve an essential privacy purpose.

Imagine if every vendor you made a purchase from with your credit card also received a copy of your entire transaction history with that card. The mafia run business, the fetish porn shop, the megacorp, the government agency.

While it wouldn't be that easy to connect a wallets previous transactions to the real world sources, the more people use it, the more incentive there would be for databases/services to grow mapping wallets to people/companies. Just like the services now where you can provide an email address and get the persons full details.

And that transaction history is out there forever, to keep re-analysing as more wallet data is discovered.
Not sure how this one got in there at number 33: "Iranian woman reported missing after waving headscarf in public without wearing a hijab". Possibly a spam comment about cryptos got parsed.
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I pay Hetzner via PayPal, and I haven't had any fees attached. Online.net however charges a card directly so my bank does charge it as a foreign transaction and adds a percentage.
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It really depends on what you are doing, though pay for grad students and post docs was definitely higher in Switzerland than in the states. Living expenses were high also, and if you think finding an apartment in San Francisco is hard, it is MUCH harder in Switzerland as a foreigner, and probably more expensive to boot.
First Cryptocurrency Freight Deal Takes Russian Wheat to Turkey
Friends don't let friends use ambiguous date formats. https://xkcd.com/1179/
If your still grinding your teeth a lot look into increasing your Magnesium intake (either through food or supliments). It completely eliminated my nightly grinding
a card game with real life trading cards and animated monsters!

like Yugioh / duel monsters but in real life

yeah!!!
That's a big quake! Thank God didn't cause a tsunami, although data from buoys showed VERY early on that probability was VERY low for such an occurrence.
Watch for sustained wave height for serious tsunami warnings, issues coming onshore. Should you see a quick rise, sustained or increasing height offshore, then a drop... Don't wait for it! Get off the beach, away from waterways & to higher ground.
I suppode those of us in California need to be on watch for the next few weeks!
DutchSinse on YouTube has been working on earthquake prediction for years, and although not 100% accurate, he's been a LOT more accurate than anyone else, and has nailed the bigger quakes.
I haven't taken the time to learn his methods insideout, but I've seen him call accurately numerous earthquakes.
I believe with more funding, and a staff, this guy could save many, many more lives.
Having worked with these buoys, and on other NOAA projects, this DutchSince guy has a method to call earthquakes early. PLEASE support him! He is the best bet to predict quakes, to tell the difference between quakes and drilling, quakes set off by drilling, etc.
He's self-taught, and is more of a scientist than many I've met that went through years of "training" of methods that simply don't work. He breathes & lives this stuff, and he is onto something, far more than ANYONE else!
He gets resistance from oil companies, which is sad, as he can save them money and lives!
So get your batteries, your earthquake kits, Ham radios & be ready!
Stay safe, always be prepared & ready for any type of disaster!
Stay safe!
> My teeth, which are already damaged by years of nightly gnashing

My dentist made me a slimfit mouthguard for teeth grinding. It cost $500 but it's the best dental investment I ever made as it prevents further expensive damage to my teeth.

The first few nights I kept dreaming I had a piece of steak in my mouth though.
Well, the compiler works!
London has very poor salaries for development, especially compared to Switzerland. Standard developers make 30-40k pounds...
Would you have a problem with an all-seeing drone flying high above that tracks your every movement and is always recording your movements?

http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/

Also, I don't want everyone knowing my name and address either. Why not post yours here? Or do you have something to hide?