skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homelessness is only not Amazons problem because corporate charters annul the company of any moral responsibility.

Amazon had 135B revenue and 540k employees in 2016. By comparison (according to the UN) that would have made Amazon the 60th largest economy in 2016, after Hungary (138B / 9.5m people) and before Ukraine (132B / 42m, which has been dropping considerably since).

That is an insane amount of wealth to throw around to influence all manner of people for the sake of a corporate charter. Not only that, but they are only "responsible" for 540k people versus the millions other countries of comparable scale have.

I'm not saying companies should act as governments. I am saying having businesses of that scale is highly distortionary in how governments around them behave, and since the aim of a public corporation is to profit, distortions will be made in the name of profit.

The fact that Amazon is almost certainly more influential on the international stage than Hungary or Ukraine should be horrifying, because nations are at least usually responsible to their people. Amazon is in no way responsible to its employees, nations it operates in, or even its own executives. Its only responsible to the largest stakeholders that own it, and that is terrible for the rest of us.
> If you've been kicking yourself about not getting into Bitcoin early - you have a new opportunity with Lightning now.

Why not just delete the rest of your post and just leave this? This once sentence is what really drives all of the rest of your breathless hype. Naked greed. It's the only thing the entire crypto "space" has.

Lightning network is pure vaporware. It was "coming any day now" when Mt Gox collapsed. It's still coming soon. It will always be coming soon.
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Because Facebook invested billions of dollars in making the most amount of people use Facebook, even people who previously didn't use computers at all. Not everyone is digitally literate.

In practice people buy from different countries for monetary reasons. Why buy all your food from you own country? (spoiler: bc u alredy liv in it and tis hard 2 liv in many countries @ once bc it takes work)
You are lightyears ahead of most people for understanding that fact.
Neocon fake news ..
> "Quite the contrary, those types of people DO exist and have found relief visa vi standard modes of care (CBT, and medication)."

If a clinically depressed person tries both medication and exercise, and finds exercise helps them more, does that bother you? Are you suggesting that they can't have been clinically depressed?
This may sound...whacky..but has anyone ever considered some of these fuselages could be turned into homeless housing somewhere?
The main reasons Python is so popular in science (ML and before) is:

1. It's easier to get started than Java, Go, etc.

2. It's faster to write/prototype. (The IPython REPL and Jupyter notebooks are awesome.)

3. The Python community is also very open source friendly and has significant momentum in third party packages like pandas, numpy, scipy, etc.

Check out some talks from past PyCons and you will see a very strong scientific presence more so than the other languages you mentioned.
Disclaimer really doesn't come until right at the end.

You mean like every disclaimer since the invention of disclaimers? I'm fine with that, the author might know what he's talking about (though he did mention he's spent less time in court than I have) more than some random person who's experience might not map well to mine.
Probably I used the wrong word. Maybe a better word is no definitive path after getting permanent residency. It depends on the whim and fancy of the local canton. Most countries have a definitive path after getting permanent residency.
Staffing agencies are reliable sources open to all programmers, but I have never personally taken a contract from one.

The best paid work comes from a professional network. When I look for a new project I send an email to former co-workers and some past clients asking for leads. I then follow up on those leads.
it's at the top of the frontpage already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218439
If you consider the gulag an achievement, sure!

I would definitely NOT say that the USSR achieved more than Latin America. People in much of LatAm are happy and reasonably free -- very free by comparison to the USSR. But I guess you wouldn't consider freedom an achievement -- too easy, perhaps? or maybe not to your liking?
We have type annotations in python now which can be used to clarify data types in function signatures.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
Arguably not. Based on testing, they're able to handle up to 25 tx/sec without any problems now, compared to Bitcoin struggling with only 5 to 10 tx/sec. And they have only a 8MB block limit currently, but are only using a small fraction of that on most blocks. And they have plenty of room to expand, given that a 10 terabyte hard drive is only a few hundred dollars now.

I'm still incredulous that Bitcoin has resisted changing to block size limit for so long, given that it was only a security measured Satoshi implemented a year into Bitcoin's life, not only kind of fundamental design feature. I rarely use Internet acronyms, but, smh....
> Leaders can see their community dying after the former big industry left -- with lots of luck and years of a strong economy they may be able to attract some replacement industries that keep the town prosperous (but not not overly so).

That's overly hopeful. I doubt Amazon will seriously consider a dying ex-company town that needs the investment. My bet it's going to pick someplace that's already doing pretty well, overall.
Yes, it is also why when you look suddenly at a clock it appears to be stopped. This explains it in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBTLbw1_2Q
You’ll forget about it by tomorrow. It’s like when you think about your breathing you feel like you’ll be stuck remembering to breathe for the rest of your life!
The Air Force keeps theirs in Arizona at Davis-Monthan. And it looks the same, only bigger.
The fraud alerts aren't good enough - I'd recommend freezing your credit (and just sucking up the $10) on all three credit bureaus.

That'd be Equifax, Experian, and Transunion. You can also freeze your credit at Innovis to get all four.

The freeze will require them to contact you before doing anything. The alert doesn't do much in practice (from the people I know who've had it) - it's just ignored.
> But the minute you dictate my hours and where the work is done? No way.

Isn't that how US law determines if someone is actually a contractor vs an employee?
Author of that PlosCB paper here, I love these plots! This is such great work, and I've been telling everyone I know to check it out.
If the person you are criticising gives any kind of shit at all about doing a good job, they will supply their own 'feeling bad' when you demonstrate that they haven't done a good job. In this case, you adding vitriol is unnecessary.

If the person you are criticising doesn't give any kind of shit, then your vitriol will make them feel bad and dislike you, but it isn't going to improve their code quality, because they still don't care. (And if they answer to you directly, they are likely less motivated to do well next time now that you have acted like a prick)

If the person is not able to discern the difference between good and bad code, then it is useful to them if you can explain what it is that you are mad about when reviewing the code, but again in this case, vitriol without understanding just makes you seem like an arsehole to work with.
My understanding of how some of this works is that to handle jmps, the program uses nojmp to become its own signal handler and inserts a faulty mov to raise a SIGSEGV, mov addresses around, and continue as though it was a successful jmp.

And it looks like float and int math is handled with lookup tables. yikes! but impressive!
No. I'm not a BCH fan but it would be able to handle more transactions. It would still hit an upper bound, but it is higher than BTC, but lower than BTC lightning network. (It has some drawbacks too by not being on-chain).
They didn't. They made some. [0]

They just didn't succeed in marketing them.

[0] e.g., https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/30064/
Signs of Ships in the Clouds
The dangerous evolution of HIV
ding ding ding we have a winner
> Our alcohol consumption is 60% ritual, 60% social signaling, and 30% personal preference.

Also, it is affecting our math skills...
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There was a recent news article on the developing market for marijuana that addressed this (was posted on HN, too lazy to search, unfortunately).

There are some state regulations restricting grow operations to remain somewhat small, and legal uncertainty has also kept the large players out of the market so far. But the trend was definitely towards consolidation, with wholesale prices dropping something around 70% from their initial levels.

One idea mentioned in the article was indeed marijuanas' character being well-suited for commoditisation, although some growers try to stem the tide by developing high-end brands. I believe they explicitly made the comparison to craft beer, where individual taste is far more different than it is for strains, which are largely defined by their content, and relative amounts, of THC and the other thing. Processing extracted THC into edibles and other largely standardised products also points in this direction.
> It is impractical at scale because the fundamental technology, proof-of-work, is impractical at scale.

Well, it isn't just the "size of blockchain" that is the problem. The idea that people want an irreversible system to perform commerce on the open internet seems to be a fundamental issue as well. That and all the other problems like no central bank to regulate money supply, no good secure way to store them, etc.... I have yet to see any of these issues be solved in any crypto.

In short, perhaps the entire idea of a crypto currency isn't a very good one at all...
If any states had legitimate balls they would use this as an opportunity to justify funding a public fiber network that anyone can plug in to.
Yeah, what's the motivation behind this?

I hope it's not going to turn into another weapon in online political battles.
> If that was true, why did his university send him a warning letter that essentially confirms his concerns? He consulted a lawyer on the matter, he confirmed them as well.

The Canadian Bar Association which represents over 37,000 lawyers, judges, notaries, law associates, law professors and students across Canada says this is a good thing and not the freedom of speech slippery slope that its been made out to be.

https://www.cba.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=be34d5a4-8850...
Tensor calculus specifically, but Einstein was no slouch when it came to math.
In this case I was the child of my parent. But given that people over there are selling their cattle with bitcoins it seems not too far off.
Seems like it would have all the problems of housing in a shipping container, but at 10x the cost
Ask HN: What's your favorite programming language?
Thank heavens for this advancement! I imagine those using Doom to manage system processes (https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html), will appreciate the security measures implemented in this version. I can only hope these two projects can find common purpose.
And many in scientific industries came from tools like Matlab backed by heavy enterprise support contracts. Python was the first real foray into open source (FOSS) for many of them.

Some adopted R as well but it just didn't take off the same way even though it really was/is a better fit for some use cases.
I've read most of her books but The Dispossessed was the one that had the greatest influence on me from a philosophical standpoint. Such a great book!
Awesome work!! I want to order one for our new corporate HQ office we are moving to..

Wish list:
- ability to change the "home" icon,
- remove some of the headings (house rules, etc)
- less priority: upload logos (not really necessary, but would look awesome)..
New York State offers to waive all state income taxes for something like 10 years if you move there and start a new business in one of their special economic zones. There are more of these programs out there than people realize.

https://esd.ny.gov/startup-ny-program
If the International perception of gold being valuable disappeared overnight (which... yeah, won't happen unless someone discovers legit alchemy magic) the difference between losing 90% of your value or 100% if it had no use outside of the speculation shouldn't be influencing almost anyones decision in what to invest in. All the other parameters (volatility, profitability, etc) are way more important than if you are completely bankrupt or completely fucked if the market implodes.
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Heh, I misunderstood you at first and spent five minutes searching for a good, introductory article on propulsive efficiency equations.
But the whole point of the novel is that neither system really works very well! I think you're doing it a disservice to characterize it in that way.

She did her best to imagine a communist system that was nearly ideally designed and it still fails in so many ways.
The difference between 3.1B and 1300B dollars is significant and it is bizarre that you cite a source and then say "the number doesn't really matter". The number definitely does matter...

The number you initially claimed in spite of your own source contravening it would support your argument... if one was moving 1300B from a 18620B economy to a 317B economy... that is to say, providing support equal to 400% of the recipient's GDP, that would be significant.

The actual numbers given in the source you provided are insignificant and don't support your argument.
I'd rather use ns.reddit.com (old style reddit)... but yeah I can't left click or middle click those links...
Swift - Cupertino
ARKit - Cupertino
Multitouch - Cupertino
iOS - Cupertino
Android - Mountain View
Netflix and all of their innovation: Los Gatos
Haven’t touched San Jose even..

I agree with you completely, suggesting San Fran is more cutting edge than the South Bay is a bit ridiculous.
Sure I agree that there be a way to differentiate, but the only reasonable approach is that the new fork coins should be unrealized gains until when (or if) you use them (aka trade/sell). It has a 0 cost basis until proven otherwise. Seems simple; meets the requirements; stops bad actors. Only negative is IRS may only get long-term cap gains if someone holds it for a long-time.
She started blogging[1] at 81. This is an interview with her, around the time of the publication of her book which came out of that.

She will be missed.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/144719/happens-science-ficti...
So, the same as everything?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Great idea, great execution. You need more pre loaded favorites to replace the defaults. Pizza hut is an example that popped up for me.
Can Planet Earth Feed 10B People? Humanity has 30 years to find out.
To counter your hypothetical "can't be done", here's a real example of a product company that's grown a single person selling electronics kits from their college dorm room to a product company making $33 million in revenue less than 10 years later:

https://www.adafruit.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adafruit_Industries#History

A similar example being this product company, which started out in 2012 with two people and a laser cutter, growing to a product company that employs 30+ people within the space of 5 years:

https://shop.pimoroni.com/

https://shop.pimoroni.com/pages/about-us
> It's why eight out of every ten craft beers are incredibly bitter IPAs.

I always saw this is a US West Coast phenomenon. Stone, in San Diego, sort of popularized the trend and then people started rolling with it to extremes.

I have a similar issue with barrel aging. I love Victory at Sea from Ballast Point (since bought out by Constellation Brands) and similarly dark "toxic sewage" as my friends so happily classify it. Barrel aging spread around very nicely through the craft brewers and always added a mellowness. That was true up until recently, where now I find "barrel aged" seems to be imparting a cloying sweetness (which I do NOT like) to everything.

I guess it is the fate of anything that gets popular to eventually go too far.
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Their before and after graphic is not only misleading but does not provide any useful information. What exactly are they trying to convey with greyed-out form fields? More fields to less fields?
Yep. When you start digging into mental health you realize that we're at a very primitive level of understanding of it, in almost every aspect. For one there's this sort of broken model of untainted perfect neurotypicality that is the gold standard and any deviation from that is a disease or a disorder. For another there's a very poor understanding of what different classes of symptoms actually represent in underlying physiology and how they are related. Many times things are described as being "comorbid" when in reality they are just different expressions of the same underlying biology or psychology. Also there's a huge role that culture, education, and so forth play into these things. In general I'd say the best tactic is to learn as much as you can yourself (while remembering to be honest with yourself) and pursue general purpose coping strategies across the board (for example, mindfulness based cognitive therapy).
It is straight peanut oil. That was purchased in bulk though from Ben E. Keith IIRC
I'd be concerned about hazardous materials remediation.
That's nonsense. Craft breweries are businesses and they'll sell what makes money.

Also, IPAs are incredibly hard to brew, store, and distribute consistently. Hops are probably the most seasonal part of a mash bill, and high quality finishing hops are in heavy demand. And the hop acids are subject to spoilage by heat, light, or oxygen. If you want "smothering a beer's other flavors" then look no further than whiskey/rum/et al. barrel aging (and I'm not judging, whatever floats one's boat),

This isn't aimed necessarily at you, but some people taste things differently. Cilantro, infamously. But hops are another. Maybe you don't like hops (or maybe you haven't had very good ipas?)
What do you mean? I only know some people who own a Tesla, otherwise, that's it
That's right folks. Marriage in the 21st century. You can thank whoever you want to thank for this. Or you can opt out entirely. It is what it is.
That's a really nice result. A few customization options would go a long way to making it useful even beyond just airbnb rentals. I was considering buying one for a foreign exchange student who's visiting. Though, airbnb owners are probably easier to service and less price sensitive than me. Seems like you targeted that product really well.
You can do cool nested calls with them too.

>>> class A:
... def __init__(self):
... self.foo = 5
... def bar(self):
... return 'cake'
...
>>> a = A()
>>> f'{a.foo}'
'5'
>>> f'{a.bar()}'
'cake'

>>> x = {'b': 1, 'c': 2}
>>> f"{x['b']}"
'1'
Responded somewhere else; but to be fair hard forks should be unrealized gain with 0 cap gains. IF/when someone wants to cash out is when they should pay the tax. It resolves the bad actor issue with scam coins; meets the need to pay tax on gains and ultimately saves everyone in bitcoin land (or other crypto for that matter) from inadvertently not declaring income. It's a win win for everyone; including the IRS. This is the most common sense approach and it stuns me that many of the couch / tax advisers are positioning otherwise.
I now kinda want a plotter art drawing of the invisible hand of the market creating a/b testing prices for itself. The HN way!
That's what Perón said here about US air conditioners. Now it's 70 years later and look how far we've come at not tolerating US business hegemony in air conditioner manufacturing! Nearly all air conditioners sold in Argentina are Argentine. Very nearly no Argentine air conditioners are sold anywhere else in the world, even in neighboring countries. BECAUSE THEY SUCK.
Thanks for the feedback.
We are making the titles "house rules" etc... customizable. Coming soon.
What would you like to the change the home icon to? You company logo?
Some of these people cannot see the bigger picture... sigh
The PR value! People write stories about you when you accept Bitcoin!
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Are they transacting in bitcoin, or simply using bitcoin as a device to evade capital controls? There are lots of ways to get around capital controls, and bitcoin may very well be an effective way to do that, but that's not evidence of bitcoin's utility as a mainstream currency.
If you model your site after Hacker News, people are going to try to use it like Hacker News, and the expected behavior of your site is incredibly not-hacker-news-like.

1. I click on a story expecting for it to take me to the site, but nothing happens. After feeling confused, I realize it actually added some text content after the story. What? It was only after looking in the comments here that I realized I had to click the link in parentheses (which on Hacker News shows you submissions from that website, not links you to the content)

2. I see a lot of "points", so I try to understand how things are upvoted - is it accounts? No, no accounts for your site. Is it based on the links popularity (eg trending tweets, hot news, hot reddit stories, etc)? No, there are some stories with hundreds of points, but linking to a reddit post with 2 upvotes. It's only then do I realize by clicking on the title, or the link, I'm "up-voting" it, even though it might not be good content (and in fact, each time I click it adds a point).

3. I search for the ability to comment, but realize that's not there, but again since it looks like Hacker News I think there's comments and go to click on something that doesn't exist.

In general, I think your site could be really useful, and there's a lot of cool stuff you did, but I'd either change your design so people don't treat your site (interaction wise) like the site your referencing, or try to at least link up expected behavior in a more consistent way.
> "Creating [new/different] products the market actually wants" is a pretty reasonable definition of innovation.

No, it's at best cherry picking and at worst terrible redefinition of innovation. Innovation is defined as "the action or process of innovating" [1] and innovating is defined as "make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products" [2].

So, while creating new products is innovating, innovating is not necessarily creating new products. In fact, I'd argue that without new methods and ideas, you wouldn't be able to create new products. So, a new hypothesis, by definition, is absolutely innovation.

1. https://www.google.com/search?ei=ENJnWq_SO8zvzgKh8JOQAg&q=de...

2. https://www.google.com/search?ei=ENJnWq_SO8zvzgKh8JOQAg&q=de...
Eventually alcohol usage will be looked upon with great fascination of a custom of a barbarian age: "They used to actually drink poison for thousands of years but we have moved on."

It'll take time but it'll happen.
> A Sci-Fi universe where communism actually works

What about Star Trek?
Wow, wish I could comment on my experience with them, but I think there was a NDA (and I dont have the contract at my fingertips).
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Because it's rare.
Interesting. Can you teach me what is the state of the art for large scale recognition? Would like to read more about it. Thank you.
But instead they chose no only to play that game, but to then start quite a few expensive proxy wars... Korea, Vietnam

Actually the Korean War was started upon strong insistence of Kim, Il Sung of North Korea. Sure Soviets gave the approval, but only reluctantly.