skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The food market is more expensive if there are multiple vendors and the customer don't shop around.

Wait, what? The customer is prevented from shopping around for rides? Before Uber, you couldn't call multiple driving services and get a ride. What is your point?

> Some independent taxis in Sweden charge 10x as much as established companies. Therefor few people would hail a random cab in the street.

This makes no sense on the face of it. You could just ask before you get in how much the fare is going to be.

> Less utilization means the drivers have to charge a higher price to cover their overhead.

No, that means they have to drive more and hope they get rides which increases supply and decreases cost. By your logic, the more empty apartments there are in a certain area, the higher the prices for apartments are going to be because of "less utilization" and "covering the overhead".

How do you justify any statement you just made?
I hadn't considered the benefits for dev/local instances...

I've known about Kubernetes for some time, but my current job never deploys anything that Kubernetes could improve, so I put it aside and hoped to someday get a chance to toy with it.

I've setup vagrant images pre-loaded with our app for several non-developers to use locally but it sounds like Kubernetes would be a far better way to manage those as well as staging servers.

Unfortunately my current company is 100% against third-party hosting/involvement so I couldn't even use it for staging - our stagings servers are Windows-based, ancient, and internal...
> We will also be sending our cooks off with a transition packet, which will include their business data, customer contact info (for those who opt-in), alternative business proposals and recommendations, tool/service recommendations for replacing our platform functionality, and other general resources. We hope that these personalized packets, along with community-run versions of our cook community forums and groups, will be a stepping stone for folks who would like to continue making income through their cooking skills.

That is actually really impressive. I hope other companies have the forethought and compassion to remember that their responsibilities lie with everyone who comes to depend on them -- not just those to whom they have a legal duty.
I like the idea but I think the food safety/perishabiliy/logistics challenge is too much.

Personally I would like something like a “social buying” restaurant delivery app, where you can vote on what you’d like made in a centralized kitchen and then place an order to be delivered if whatever you voted on was chosen by popular vote.

Recipe holders could submit recipes to be voted on and make a commission from sales if their recipe is chosen.
Yet the developer is world famous for his security work, not for something like inventing Facebook for Russians. Are you sure you can handle 100% anonymous connection to servers of apps that could at any time identify you based on your IP?
They wouldn't care about that. In fact when someone volunteers to pay for everybody, and someone else asks to chip in because e.g. they drank alcohol or they ordered a more expensive dish than the others, the person volunteering to pay just dismisses them (and jokingly feigns being insulted that they'd think he'd care for such a thing).
It's certainly low relative to any reasonable comp. Whether it's low in absolute terms is pretty subjective (but if you think 18 is expensive for a company with double digit growth, 280B in cash, and a 1.5% yield, I'm curious what's left out there to buy).

P/E right now is 23.3 for the S&P, 27.8 for the Nasdaq, and 27.7 for the Dow.
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honestly an advertising bubble is terrifying to me. most of the major tech companies revenue is generated from advertising and so are many many many other tech companies and then a huge number of companies which AREN'T advertising make their money selling to advertising companies.

If the bottom drops out of advertising we will have mass death of tech companies

We will also have a massive VC funding freeze as they aren't going to want to fund companies that don't have a non advertising framework for revenue and neither I nor anyone I think really understands how to fund most b2c tech companies outside of advertising (yes there are some solutions but they are so much less effective than advertising)

So yeah I find this pretty terrifying. It will probably be way worse than the 2001 bubble because the amount of the economy that depends on tech advertising now is much much greater than the amount of money invested in tech in 2001
What do you mean? Google might not give guidance but they still certainly miss street consensus.
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I often copy first because I'm afraid me locking the database is going to interfere the app. Although, for my Apple Notes extraction, I am hitting the database directly.
The biggest risk to Apple is the overall economy tanking, and if that happens, the Fed will lower rates. This causes inflation which eats away at the debt by making the amount 'owed' less (relative to the old value of the dollar).
"I have yet to see satisfactory cryptanalysis that shows a weakness (theoretical or real) in the protocol":

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
I think it's funny I got downvoted for bring up a real problem.

New Hampshire, for example, is one of the few states that can send you the bill. And good for them, because in just two years, they had over 260 stranded people and cost the state >$400,000.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nh-bills-lost-hikers-for-cost-o...

Cost is a known issue. Additionally sometimes search and responders die trying to rescue them.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiker-rescuer-killed-at-washing...

That guy's kids don't have a father because someone decided to be an idiot while hiking.

It's like hiking is some sort of extended daycare program where people assume they'll be saved by heroes if anything happens so they don't take even the most basic of provisions. People have romanticized nature so much they don't realize "nature" loves to kill people who aren't careful.

Like that "into the wild" kid who went out with no real provisions or even a map... and died less than a couples miles from a ranger station with food, water, medicine, and radios. A simple map would have shown saved him. A 1 day seminar on basic survival techniques/facts would have saved him. Using his brain would have saved him.

But he didn't get in touch with nature. He committed suicide.

You don't play with a high voltage transformer unless you know what you're doing... and you don't hike into the middle of frozen hell unless you know what you're doing--unless you want to die.

>Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote:

>When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn't even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he [had] had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament [...] Essentially, Chris McCandless committed suicide.[31]

Daredevils and other "risk takers" are not only getting themselves killed, but they're also getting search-and-rescue volunteers killed, and costing the state money that could be going to anything else.
Same, but there is the benefit that you can stay in places where there are no hotels. The city I just returned from in Belgium has no hotels in the historic district, but a few hostels and a number of whole-apartment airbnbs. I'm past the point in my life where I want to sleep in a room with 10 strangers who may steal my stuff, so airbnb it is.
Samsung S8 64GB - 499 GBP -> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XYMCMHD

iPhone X 64GB - 897 GBP -> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076GQZRR9 (there is one seller for 800 GBP, but it has 0% positive ratings and looks like a scam)

1.8x for the same size
1. Are you suggesting that Google doesn't have a SPOF? All of their other businesses, which cost hundreds of billions investment to create, generate just ~$15 billion/year in revenue. They will never be ROI positive and if they lost 76% of revenue the company would likely collapse.

2. What other central companies have at-risk anti-technology SPOF business models? Google/Facebook will likely take down the entire internet advertising industry when they fail. What else is like this?
Same observation here ... seems to be a bit nebulous ...
Correct, but that doesn't mean they are brining the overseas cash ($200B+) back into the U.S. (which I don't care either way)
Do we know the split between iPhone X and iPhone 8? It was a risky strategy to launch both but it looks like they made a good transition. Next year, they will take the notch out, increase the size and sell it as an upgrade.
I have to just say I have enjoyed your posts in this thread immensely. Cheers.
Telegram is exactly as secure as email. SSL where third party email servers can see your traffic.
It's a rumor you thought had more credence than average, but it was still a rumor. A rumor which turned out to be false, as this annual spate of rumors always does. So far.

One day they might be right. Apple can't hit and exceed expectations forever, probably. But so far it's the same old bad rumors every year.
> What uses cases involve running new untrusted code on legacy unsupported systems?

Well yes, you shouldn't be doing that (particularly the 'unsupported' bit). The thinking here, I suppose, is that Meltdown makes privilege escalation straightforward once a malicious party has access to the system via another vector.

In my company, we run self-hosted physical servers (i.e. we're the only user on the systems) and debated whether to disable the page table isolation fix since we were seeing about a 30% performance hit.

The decision we took was that we would accept the performance hit since Meltdown means that any unauthorized entry into the system has a privilege escalation path since kernel memory is essentially readable by any process. (Quite an easy and quick decision, really.)
“Always gone through booms and busts” as in they started in the late 70s, grew really fast, stalled out in the 90s, and then have been on one unprecedented 15-year “boom” since about 2000 which made them the most profitable company in the world?

Otherwise, I don’t quite get which cycles you are referring to.
It also says this though:

American advertising revenues will rise from 1% of GDP today, to as much as 1.8% of GDP by 2027—a massive jump. Since 1980 the average has been 1.3%

So here we are at 1%.. and the historical average is 1.3%... Can you be in a bubble, if it's currently below the historical average?

If anything, I would say this is evidence that we are NOT in a bubble.

The rest of that article is just speculation, based on growth that we may or may not see.
1. Internet advertising is 20 years old, which is the business model that is at risk.

2. It doesn't make sense to suggest that the future will be like the past, particularly in the modern world of rapidly accelerating technological progress.
Not practically, no, since the approach is the same as setting the Referrer-Policy header to strict-origin-when-cross-origin. In most cases it can't be reliably deduced whether a visitor legitimately came from https://reddit.com/ (from the root origin) or some path on https://reddit.com/.
Sorry to hear that. We have a public API roadmap and a plan. What were you building previously?
I absolutely love Notes. I switched over from Evernote so compared to Evernote, Notes.app is a godsend.
There's nothing low-quality about the touchbar on my mac. It works as expected with the added benefit of flexibility.

People just like to knock on the #1 guy. It's easy and gets clicks.
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I'm always wondering about these claims of population: how would we know all the structures were active at once? Perhaps its a century of building, with structures abandoned as they decayed and new ones built. Then the population at any one time could have been at most a percentage of the estimates.
Cash exceeds debt so they're fine.
And that is the Amazon model in a nutshell right there - they will spend over $6 Billion dollars in 2018 to win you over to their Prime subscription with either free shipping, movies and tv shows, games, audible, dash, twitch, music, or discounts. Once they have you in Prime, the convenience as using Amazon as the source for all your purchases via web, mobile, or voice becomes the norm.

More Americans now have an Amazon Prime subscription than go to church.
Only ~$1.00 per API call...
Origin policy is a client thing. Referrer is accessible to the server. It's like using robots.txt vs. HTTP Auth to protect your content.
Ideally a company would have an open source code base and very clear issues with tags. With this, any sufficiently good pull request would automatically get you the job (a pull request to an appropriately difficult issue).
This is completely incorrect. I have had a tooth implant since 2001 and it has not 'worn away my jaw', quite the opposite. Teeth implants preserve jaw bone.
If its MOD related, then maybe not.
I thought so, too. But after using Telegram for 3 years as my main messenger: No, it really is very convenient.
That is precisely what they are doing. Read my comment below about repatriation.
>The standard desktop design paradigms were built by programmers for programmers - a lazy way to approach things leading to clunky to use software. The dog eat dog world of the web and rise of touch has forced us to turn to designers to play a huge role in simplifying interfaces and flows.

UI design and HCI has been a thing for 4+ decades.

The web is a very poor example of those things -- not to mention it has forgotten decades of research and best practices.

What it has is just ubiquity and easy access.
Media backslash and legal action is probably at some point cheaper than keeping a clinically dead person alive. Heck, even than cynical strong PR campaign to shut the controversy up.
While nobody wants to do it, like layoffs, it sometimes has to be done...
Why do you say things that are wrong?
Looked at another way, it could be that Apple is much worse at finding things to reinvest its large amount of profit in to boost company growth.
>This is the success sequence stuff? Look it's just not very true. Almost the entirety of various 'success sequence' poverty figures can be explained by one thing: maintaining full-time work

This isn't true, and a random blog post where the author has difficulty replicating the studies results does not prove it so. There is a mile high pile of literature that shows marriage and high school graduation to be vitally important. It would not surprise me in the least that these two are strongly correlated with full-time employment. The "Success Sequence" has lifted more people from poverty than any social welfare program has to date.

Here is some compiled literature:

https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/marri...

http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IFS-Millennial...

>You didn't need a social scientist or sociologist to declare that class distinctions are natural and helpful. Why the trepidation on race?

I genuinely still have absolutely no idea what you are asking me to clarify, and I'm taking offense at your insinuation that I'm being coy about some matter regarding race. I will gladly answer your question, but what is it that you are asking or need clarification on? Are you asking me if racial distinctions are natural? Yes, race is hereditary, is this not self-evident?

> Are many mobile in an effortful sense though?

I don't know what you mean by effortful, so the best I can answer you is to say that socially mobility is a very real and recognized phenomena in the United States of America.

>This society would demonstrate perfect intergenerational mobility yet there would be no way to exert effort and change your circumstance

As far as I understand you, your underlying premise here is that social mobility is, like a dice roll, pure luck. I think this premise is completely baseless.

>'luck' component to mobility? It's the same deal

It absolutely isn't the same deal. I don't doubt that race makes it more difficult for some people to succeed, but this is completely tangential and I'm finding it difficult to see what, if anything, this has to do with my original statement.
That's an interesting viewpoint, I appreciate you sharing your opinion on this.
Sometimes, I'm just told there is a problem, here's a bit of code. Can I fix it? About 30 minutes later, I have a solution or I cry uncle.

If I don't have a solution, I have no work from the company.
> Phillip Hallam-Baker

Funny how the misspelling of a double consonant comes from someone who has a misspelt given name with an extra double consonant!
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That header that comes up every time one scrolls up is an absolute impediment to reading this.
Premium searches cost about $1 per query: https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing/search-fullarchive
Javascript Spectre/Meltdown attacks are already effectively defeated through browser updates that reduce timer accuracy.
It's actually how corporations work in nearly all developed nations today (with a few exceptions such as France and Japan).

Sweden has a 20% corporate income tax rate. Finland is at 22%. Denmark is at 24.5%. The UK is at 17.5%. The average rate in Europe is 18%, in Asia it's 20%.
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Quoting Moxie: THere's nothing to be broken because there's no end-to-end encryption to begin with. Do you think nation state hackers publish their finding about the trove of private messages telegram's vast server complex holds indefinitely? hahahahaha
C++ templates also aren't general purpose macros. For example, in Rust you can write a macro that takes an expression `e` and replaces it with `e + 1`.

However, I believe you can't do that with C++ templates. C++ template parameters can be types or primitive values, but not expressions. And the body of a template has to be some sort of declaration, e.g. a function definition or struct definition, but not an expression or statement.
Too late. They killed their own platform not providing good API services. When everybody was interested in connecting with Twitter they didn't provide options, now Twitter is falling and it would be very difficult to attract interest.
I thought this was bad enough: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/07/tech-firms-draw-flak-...

If we want to get past the perception that this industry is of, by, and for misogynistic manchildren, maybe we should start by not being misogynistic manchildren.
Apple gets attention because they are the biggest or second biggest company in the world and has been very profitable, but their tax-avoidance strategies have been less aggressive than other major US companies.
'Results' and 'side-effects' are useful modifiers of 'modifies observable state', and the long-overlooked fact that the latter falls into the category is an important insight. I think you would find it very difficult to explain the problem or discuss possible solutions without making additional distinctions, beyond 'modifies observable state', with regard to what speculative execution does.
> That would be upper middle class.

My father poured molten metal in a foundry as a married 19 year old.
Not just the registration requirement, but if I understand, when you register they also notify the landlord/building/HoA/whatever, when applicable.

In a lot of cities, most condos have minimum rental length in the bylaws, and rental properties have restrictions on subleasing, so the majority of airbnbs break the rules of those contracts. The people in charge of enforcing the rules historically have trouble proving its happening (even if they know). This makes it a lot easier.
Feel free to elaborate on why it's wrong. I don't mean spending less than you make at all times, and I don't mean "make" as in "earn at a wage-earning job", there are many more ways to make money than that. In the long term, your wealth is the money you've made (including capital gains), minus what you've spent.

You might say that's completely obvious, but it helps some people to be reminded of it.
> Additionally I was surprised to learn I sleep with my mouth closed, since I've always gone to sleep with it open.

Do you grind your teeth or clench your jaw when you sleep? If you grind your teeth your dentist will be able to tell. If you clench your jaw you will wake up with muscle soreness.

When I was a trader I had a lot of stress and would slam my jaw shut with enough speed to wake myself up, and in one case, break a dental appliance.
Apple never said they were bringing that cash back. They still have never said that. I've read every PR piece they've put out about this, and everything Cook has said about it - not once have they said they're bringing that pile of cash back.

They said they would invest $N hundred billion in the US over N years. That almost entirely consists of payments to US suppliers / manufacturers, which comes out of operational cash flow; along with employee base expansion.

Who knows how much of the cash they'll repatriate, or when. They might not have even decided on that yet, the ink is still fresh on the tax changes.
Yonatan and I no longer see eye to eye on a lot of things, but this is a really good introductory post to how AI works and certain ethical questions around it. It's a long, but extremely enjoyable read.